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This was the first body-blow to the seemingly invincible German war machine
Why holding the line during the Battle of Britain proved so important... and helped deter an invasion of Great Britain in ...
I was shot down, escaped PoW camp & fought for Russians… I’d do it all again, says pilot, 100, teaching kids about WW2
FIGHTER pilot Joe Peterburs had to wait 80 years to complete his 50th wartime mission. His first attempt was in April 1945 ...
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Carrots Can’t Help You See in the Dark. Here’s How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth
The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the ...
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303 Squadron: These Polish Fighter Pilots Won the Battle of Britain
fighter pilots’ heroic performance in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940 and thus dealing Nazi Germany its first major defeat in World War II: “Never in the field of human conflict was so ...
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Ronnie Scott, World War II Spitfire Pilot, Dies at 107
Ronnie Scott didn’t see frontline combat but still contributed to the war effort as an instructor pilot. World War II pilots ...
US WW2 fighter pilot returns to skies in Mustang
A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he ...
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A US Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII. Here’s why
This image provided by the U.S. National Archives shows a scan of a photo of a Japanese Zero fighter plane hitting the USS Missouri ... marking one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of ...