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P-38 Lightning: The Backbone of America’s World War II Air Force
Before the arrival of the vaunted North American P-51D Mustang, towards the end of World War II, U.S. forces relied on other ... as tensions were building abroad, and as the U.S. Army Air Corps (USAAC ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
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End of a mystery: U.S. Army Air Force pilot identified nearly 80 years after WWII crash
A U.S. pilot who was long considered missing in action after a failed World War II mission has been found. U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt ... an unknown enemy force shot down the plane and it ...