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. Finally, a bombing mission that will leave you feeling fuzzy all over…A massive unprecedented multi-aircraft bombing campaign has been launched in New South Wales that will affect millions. The mission began with public donations used to charter small aircraft...
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The only known photo of the original Colditz Cock, by US war correspondent Lee Carson shortly after Colditz Castle was liberated in April 1945. It was a glider built by British prisoners of war for an escape attempt from Oflag...
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On the morning of 4 January 1989, the Kennedy battle group was operating some 130 km north of Libya, with a group of A-6 Intruders on exercise south of Crete, escorted by two pairs of F-14As from VF-14 and...
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A few days before Christmas, on the morning of December 20th, 1978, a lone Cessna was making its way across the Pacific Ocean. Piloted by Jay Prochnow, a retired US Navy pilot. The long trans-Pacific flight was Initially planned as...
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December 22nd, 1964, Lockheed's Skunk Works and the brainchild of Kelly Johnson, the ultra-secret Strategic Reconnaissance SR-71, first took to the skies! She was designed with a minimal radar cross section, loaded with electronic countermeasures, and a deep black paint...
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