Able Dog: Was the AD Skyraider the Best Attack Bomber Ever Built?
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."
July 2019 Readers’ Letters
Readers sound off about the Korean DMZ and the sinking, 37 years apart, of the cruisers Indianapolis and Belgrano
Saberjet Secrets
Inadequate technical information concerning modifications to the fabled F-86 led to a series of major takeoff accidents
Merkava Mk II
With the enhanced Merkava Mk II, Israel properly lays claim to one of the world's most formidable battle tanks
The Korean War That Almost Was
In the late 1960s North Korean incursions along the DMZ threatened to reignite the long dormant Korean War
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
Hallowed Ground Bayonet Hill, South Korea
Fix bayonets and follow me!” shouted Captain Lewis Millett as he led Company E, 2nd Battalion, 27th U.S. Infantry Regiment, in a Feb. 7, 1951, charge against entrenched Chinese positions atop Hill 180 during the Korean War
