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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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World War II Magazine
Jack Maas took to the skies with the ‘Cactus Air Force’ during some of the most desperate days of the Guadalcanal campaign. He went on to fight his way across the Pacific…and beyond. For some fighter aces, fame rests primarily or...
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World War II Magazine
From the icy shoreline where he stood, a tall gaunt man took off his goggles and stared out into the rough seas. It was nearly impossible to see anything through the descending fog, and he was alone except for his dogs. He was on the...
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World War II Magazine
DESIGNATION: 18th Netherlands East Indies Squadron ACTIVATION: April 4, 1942 CAMPAIGNS: New Guinea, New Britain, Dutch East Indies Most members of the 18th Netherlands East Indies Squadron were airmen who had escaped from Dutch possessions...
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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
Spanish-built versions of the Me-109 lend an air of authenticity to World War II feature films....
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Homepage Featured Top Stories
The amazing Rocketdyne F-1 powered Apollo astronauts to the moon...
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Aviation History Magazine
In 1897 three Swedish aeronauts set out for the North Pole in a balloon, only to disappear in the vast Arctic. Their fate would remain a mystery for 33 years...
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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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World War II Magazine
The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West by Karl-Heinz Frieser, with John T. Greenwood; Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 2005, $47.50. Case Yellow, the victorious German campaign in Western Europe in 1940, continues to...
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World War II Magazine
Flying their B-24 Liberators in the flak-filled skies over Europe late in World War II, the men of the 445th Bombardment Group knew they were renowned among the Eighth Air Force for two primary reasons—one, their ranks included Hollywood...
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World War II Magazine
The thousands of young men who flew in the terror-filled skies over Nazi-occupied Europe laid the foundation for American air power well into the 21st century, all while confronting some of the most timeless questions in the history of...
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Aviation History
A C-47 pilot gives his son a firsthand look at the dangerous missions he flew in flak-filled skies on D-Day and beyond....
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Aviation History Magazine
The course of World War II would have been very different without Rolls-Royce’s immortal Merlin engine....
