Major Erich Hartmann would fly 1,404 operational sorties during WW2, engaging the enemy over 850 times and scoring 352 ...

They were legends in the skies - fighter aces with unmatched skill and kill counts. But their deaths? Shockingly ordinary, ...

The nose dropped. McGuire ended up inverted for a split second, then his fighter plunged straight into the ground and exploded. The race of aces was over.

Fellow ace Flight Lieutenant David Crooks recalled ... His citation reads: 'An outstanding fighter pilot who has now destroyed 8 enemy aircraft (confirmed) and 3 others probably, besides damaging ...

The Folgore’s lightweight construction (weighing around 5,500 pounds) and responsive handling earned it praise from its pilots and avowed respect from its adversaries.

He was a West Point graduate flying F-86 Sabres in Korea 63 years ago. Last May, as president of the American Fighter Aces Association, retired Lieutenant General Charles Cleveland received a ...

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"I had to do it. I owed it to them." Flight leader and fighter ace Robert ‘R.T.’ Smith stands next to his P-40 fighter at Kunming, China. The ‘Flying Tiger’ insignia was created by the ...

He provided an overview of a meticulously researched book, “Badger Aces: Wisconsin Fighter Aces 1917-1972,” in which he writes of the more than 40 fighter aces who became aces by shooting down ...

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