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Aviation History Magazine
A dozen battered B-17s served as armed transports in the Pacific, dropping supplies and strafing Japanese positions. In 1943, when hundreds of B-17s routinely sortied over Europe, a B-17 mission in the Southwest Pacific theater never...
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World war II Magazine
Past seems present in Peleliu, one of the Palau islands, where American and Japanese forces clashed in a bloody fight on a picturesque landscape...
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Aviation History Magazine
Legendary Zero pilot Saburo Sakai was Japan’s most recognized ace, but few knew the man behind the legend Saburo Sakai is probably Japan’s best-known pilot of World War II, with the possible exception of Captain Mitsuo...
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Aviation History Magazine
Flying mainly over North Africa and in defense of his home island, Australian ace of aces Clive Caldwell shot down a mixed bag of Axis airmen, including Germans, Italians and Japanese. As with other members of the Commonwealth, Australia...
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Aviation History Magazine
Against seemingly overwhelming odds, the diminutive Fourteenth Air Force held the line against the Japanese in China during World War II. After almost six months of continuous combat duty in China with the Fourteenth Air Force, Sergeant...
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Aviation History magazine
Aviation historians generally agree that if it had not been for the Consolidated PBY Catalina, the Martin PBM-5 Mariner would have been considered the most famous flying boat of World War II. Model kits of Mariners are rare birds, mostly...
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Aviation History Magazine
Ordnance specialist Jack Christopher helped turn the stately Martin PBM-5 flying boat into an aggressive attacker of Japanese shipping. Throughout World War II, fighters, bombers and reconnaissance planes dominated headlines around the...
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Military History Magazine
Near an abandoned French farm in 1918 field telephones crackled with orders in a language that baffled German eavesdroppers—and the code talkers were born...
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MHQ Magazine
Who blew the secret behind the U.S. Navy’s victory at Midway—and why?...
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World War II Magazine
World War II's resident gamer Chris Ketcherside reviews Compass Games' highly detailed, fun strategic game, Absolute Victory...
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World War II Magazine
Using simple observation, a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor collected crucial information. His full story, however, remains hidden ...
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World War II Magazine
In August 1945, Seaman First Class Louis C. Reynolds collected this Japanese garment off the surrendered sub I-14. Does its insignia reveal the name of the original owner?...
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World War II Magazine
In his wartime memoirs, Norman Jack Kleiss outlines his incredible military career, his skill making a huge impact in the infamous Battle of Midway...
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World War II Magazine
There was much more to the surrender ceremony on Tokyo Bay than its spectacular surface indicated...
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World War II Magazine
Travel writer Jessica Wambach Brown explores the once-bustling wartime shipyard at Bremerton, Washington...
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World War II Magazine
During World War II, Germany's tanks were deemed superior. But Japan was the first leading nation in armored warfare before the war. What changed?...
