REMEMBERING BLUIE WEST ONE - warbirdforum.com
warbird home > danfordbooks.com > bluie PBY Catalina amphibious patrol bomber on the steel-mat runway at Bluie West One, with Quonset huts in the background, in 1943 or 1944. BW-1 was a U.S. Army airfield from 1941 to 1947, then a U.S. Air Force installation until 1958, when it was turned over to the Danish government of Greenland.
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From the blog: Why are these men laughing?. A Flying Tiger's diary. I didn't pay attention to this book when it was self-published in 2010, because I'd just completed a thorough-going revision of my history of the Flying Tigers.
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From the blog: Putin's "high tech duel" hits an unexpected target. December 21: The embassies of Albania, Argentina, North Macedonia, Portugal, Montenegro, and Palestine(!) were blasted yesterday morning in Kyiv.
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2023年10月7日 · From the blog: 434 days and nights in the tunnels. December 14: On October 7, 2023, Romi Gonen was one of the hundreds of young Israelis enjoying the Nova music festival near the border with Gaza.
R.T. Smith's photo of the Flying Tiger P-40 Tomahawks
HOME. > TIGERS > R.T.'S PHOTO. R.T. Smith's photo of the AVG Tomahawks. This is probably the most famous photograph of the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers, taken by R.T. Smith of the 3rd Squadron Hell's Angels.
Mingaladon airport, Rangoon
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AVG status report, 2 Dec 1941 - warbirdforum.com
HOME. > TIGERS > 2 DEC 41. AVG status report, 2 Dec 1941 Six days before the outbreak of war, the AVG had 82 pilots and 79 planes, but not all of them were ready to fight.
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From the blog: Joy to the world .... December 28: What a Christmas season Russia is giving the world! In the early morning of December 25, to celebrate the birth of the Christ child and the first day of Hannukah, Putin's jolly elves launched 184 missiles and drones against Ukraine with a special focus on hitting power plants and depriving civilians of heat and light as the winter …
The man who didn't shoot down Pappy Boyington
HOME. > JAPAN > KAWATO. The man who didn't shoot down Pappy Boyington The following is adapted from Henry Sakaida's Pacific Air Combat WWII--Voices From the Past which alas is out of print, though used copies may be available from Amazo.com. Henry was a Californian who learned Japanese so that he could research the "winged samurai" of the Pacific War.
ANNALS OF THE BREWSTER BUFFALO - warbirdforum.com
2023年1月17日 · ANNALS OF THE BREWSTER BUFFALO The recovery of Brewster 372: Marya Lampi's film on YouTube My goodness, it was nearly a quarter-century ago that the small world of Brewster Buffalo buffs learned that an actual Brewster fighter had been raised from the chill waters of Big Kolejärvi Lake, just below the 64th parallel of longitude and 60 miles east of the …