Aviation History
Jesse L. Brown: The U.S. Navy’s First Black Aviator
The son of a sharecropper, Mississippi-born Jesse Leeroy Brown would do whatever it took to become a pilot and break the navy's color barrier.
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God’s Pilot
Son of the South Bob Scott was a rebel with a cause: helping the United States defeat the Japanese
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The Bad Boy Commander of Operation Bolo
In January 1967 a World War II ace taught the U.S. Air Force how to dogfight—and the North Vietnamese learned a lesson too
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An Air Force Pilot Flies Navy
Ron Williams remembers his temporary duty assignment flying douglas A-3B “Whales” from a carrier as the most challenging two years of his career
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Mitsubishi A6M2
The Japanese Zero was the first carrier-based fighter capable of besting land-based opponents