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World War II Magazine
Like so many others in Britain’s far-flung empire, at the tender age of 15, Basil Gerald Stapleton was sent from his home to attend school in England. As he sailed away from South Africa’s sunny shores, he expected to come back to the...
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World War II Magazine
Rather than escorting the mighty bomber formations that were pummeling the Third Reich in the last year of the war, Canadian Harry Hardy flew nearly 100 ground-attack missions on a combat tour that took him from Falaise to the Rhine....
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Aviation History Magazine
The Douglas AD Skyraider wasn't pretty, but its pilots and maintenance crews dubbed it the Able Dog because of its handling and dependability. Some still regard it as "the best airplane ever made for close-in attack."...
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Aviation History Magazine
Before computer-generated images, aviation films had real airplanes and real aviators at the controls....
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Homepage Featured Top Stories
Aviation History's Top 10 Best Aviation Movies include Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines, Hell's Angels, The Dam Busters, and The Bridges at Toko-Ri; the Top 10 Worst include Top Gun, Snakes on a Plane, and Pearl Harbor....
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Aviation History Magazine, HistoryNet, Homepage Featured Top Stories, Homepage Hero, Mag: Aviation History Aircraft, Mag: Aviation History Hero
From inauspicious biplane beginnings to near mastery of the skies above combat zones, UAVs have a rich history....
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MHQ Magazine
Although a number of American citizens flew for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, the United States learned little from their experience. The heavens were threatening rain, but the mission was deemed sufficiently critical to...
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Military History, MH Interviews
Cole was co-pilot to famed USAAF Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle in the lead plane of 16 B-25B bombers that boldly raided targets in Japan on April 18, 1942...
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World War II Magazine
A conversation with Dick Cole who copiloted the lead B-25 with Doolittle in the famous 1942 raid......
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Aviation History Magazine
The interesting question today is not whether the Mustang was fast, but why...
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American History Magazine
Amelia Earhart, Ruth Nichols, Louise Thaden, Ruth Elder, and Florence Klingensmith made aviation history a decade after the 19th Amendment lifted American women from second-class citizenship....
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Aviation History Magazine
A former Topgun instructor describes a typical combat training mission during his time at the Navy Fighter Weapons School. In September 1982 I was one of eight students being briefed in a classroom at the Navy Fighter Weapons School at...
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Aviation History Magazine
Beaufighter Aces of World War 2 by Andrew Thomas, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, England, $19.95. Looking like a pug-nosed Bristol Blenheim with an attitude, the Bristol Beaufighter seemed every inch the hybrid bomber-turnedfighter that it...
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Aviation History Magazine
Quiet, shy and introverted on the ground; aggressive, hostile and fearless in the air. Major General George C. Kenney had had enough. Ever since a certain pilot arrived at Hamilton Field for combat training on May 6, 1942, he had been...
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Aviation History Magazine
During a 36-year career, ‘Red’ Carmody went from flying dive bombers in World War II to commanding an aircraft carrier off Vietnam. The contact report on October 26, 1942, came from Lieutenant Commander James R.“Bucky” Lee,...
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Aviation History Magazine
August 31, 1940, proved to be Lieutenant Wilhelm “Willy” Fronhofer’s unlucky day. During a cross-Channel raid, a British fighter got on his tail and blasted away with its eight .303 Browning machine guns at his Messerschmitt Me-109....
