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What Does a Two-Headed, Venom-Spitting Snake Have to Do With WWII?

by World War II3/15/20233/15/2023

Photo of Operation Linebacker was the title of a U. S. Seventh Air Force and U. S. Navy Task Force 77 aerial interdiction campaign conducted against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 9 May to 23 October 1972, during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to halt or slow the transportation of supplies and materials for the Nguyen Hue Offensive (known in the West as the Easter Offensive), an invasion of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), that had been launched on 30 March. Linebacker was the first continuous bombing effort conducted against North Vietnam since the bombing halt instituted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in November 1968.

Army and Navy Pilots Joined Together in a Day of Duels Over Vietnam

by Jon Guttman3/15/20234/14/2023

Leon Delagrange in Bleriot XI 16 at the Reims Meeting

This French Aviation Pioneer Pushed the Boundaries of Flight… Before it Killed Him

by W. M. Tarrant3/15/20233/14/2023

What Happened to the Two Canadian Aviators of Lancaster L7576?

by Gavin Mortimer3/14/20233/14/2023

See the Real Rosie the Riveters at Work

by Tom Huntington3/8/20233/19/2023

This WWII Veteran’s Memoir Is Slated to Be Part of the Next ‘Band of Brothers’

by Claire Barrett3/7/20233/13/2023

Few Red Tails Remain: Tuskegee Airman Dies at 96

by Claire Barrett3/2/20233/2/2023

Photo of defused UXO outside a house in Xieng Khouang. Over 30% of the bombs dropped on Laos by the US failed to explode - leaving literally millions of items of ordinance (many of them tiny mine bomblets from cluster bombs) sitting in villages, buried in rice padddies, and scattered over the hillsides. Casualties from UXO are estimated at 12,000 since 1973. A substantial industry in scrap metal has arisen from the abundance of recoverable (but still fused) bombs, both due to its relative lucrativeness (compared with growning rice), and also out of desperation, as thousands of hectares of land has been rendered unfarmable until cleared of UXO. Once defused, much of this war scrap is also put to practical use; cluster bomb casings are used as planters and house stilts, bomb cases for fencing and jettisoned fuel tanks converted into fishing boats.

A Look at the Damage from the ‘Secret’ War in Laos

by Zita Ballinger Fletcher3/2/20233/2/2023

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What made the Hellcat Such an Effective Zero Buster?

by Larry Porges2/24/20232/24/2023

Meet America’s Highest Scoring Living Fighter Ace

by Jon Guttman2/17/20232/22/2023