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One Pilot Noticed Birds Flying in Formation — And Rewrote the EntireCombatDoctrine
August 12th, 1917. The skies above the western front, 15,000 ft over the S Valley. Major Oswald Belelka’s protege, Litnet Verer Voss, pulls his Albatross…
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They Mocked His “Homemade” Gunsight — Until His B-24 Destroyed 22 FightersIn8Missions
March 16th, 1944, 22,000 ft above the Adriatic Sea, Staff Sergeant Michael Aruth crouched behind the twin 50 caliber Browning machine guns in the tail…
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Why Allied Pilots Started Using “Enemy” Ammunition — And Shot Down 300 Axis Planesin10Days
January 1st, 1945. 0920 hours, Y29 Ash Airfield, Belgium. Major George Prey Jr. sprints toward his P-51 Mustang as German fighters strafe the runway. Explosions…
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Japanese Pilots Couldn’t Believe America’s Corsair Fighters in thePacificWar
The tropical dawn breaks over Henderson Field, Guadal Canal, February 12th, 1943. Steam rises from the Coral Runway as 24 strangelooking aircraft sit in the…
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Why One American Squadron Ambushed 40 German Fighters
March 6th, 1,944. 23,000 ft above the snow dusted fields of Brandenburgg, Germany. The sun is a cold disc behind sheets of cirrus clouds, and…
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USSR’S ‘LOANER’ FIGHTER NO ONE WANTED—UNTIL IT MADE TOP ACES.
May 1943, over the Kuban River, the air shimmerred with spring heat and cordite. A Soviet fighter came up from below the cloud base, dark…
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SOVIET PILOTS LAUGHED AT THIS “FLYING COW” – FINLAND TURNED IT INTO AN ACE MAKER
The Soviet bombers had already crossed the dark line of the Curelian forests when the first warning crackled over the Finnish radio net. High above…
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HOW ONE MECHANIC’S ‘WELDING ERROR’ MADE P-51S OUTCLIMB EVERY GERMAN FIGHTER IN EUROPE
August 1944, a forward airfield in East Anglia, England. Staff Sergeant Tommy Chin stood in front of a damaged P-51 Mustang, staring at a crumpled…
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THEY MOCKED THIS “USELESS DENTIST” — UNTIL HE KILLED 98 JAPANESE WITH A MACHINE GUN
At 5:00 in the morning on July 7th, 1944, Captain Benjamin Solomon crouched inside a medical tent on Saipan as 3,000 Japanese soldiers charged toward…
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THEY LAUGHED AT HIS ‘WATER INJECTION’ TRICK — UNTIL HIS CORSAIR OUTRAN 8 ZEROS AT SEA LEVEL
August 30th, 1943, and Marine Corps Lieutenant Ken Walsh was alone over the Solomon Islands with eight Japanese zeros diving on him from above. Their…
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Two siblings from a small harbor town in Massachusetts vanished in 1985 while playing outside… Read more: Sisters Vanished Playing Outside in 1985 — 15 Years Later Fisherman Pulls This From Sea… - Daughter Vanished With Her Horse in the Woods, 8 Years Later at a Contest Mom Sees…
Her young daughter vanished during a simple horseback ride in the woods, disappearing without a… Read more: Daughter Vanished With Her Horse in the Woods, 8 Years Later at a Contest Mom Sees… - Retired Doctor Vanished from Mount Rainier, 4 Years Later They Find This in a Beaver Dam…
A newly retired doctor from Washington told his wife he needed a solo hike to… Read more: Retired Doctor Vanished from Mount Rainier, 4 Years Later They Find This in a Beaver Dam… - Girl Vanished In Colorado Mountains — 2 Months Later Found in A Cave, Staring in SilenceA 22 year-old girl walked into the mountains one winter morning and simply vanished. No… Read more: Girl Vanished In Colorado Mountains — 2 Months Later Found in A Cave, Staring in Silence
- Mom and Daughter Vanished During Amazon Jungle Trip, 9 Weeks Later Husband Finds This…
A mother and her daughter vanished during what was meant to be a simple Amazon… Read more: Mom and Daughter Vanished During Amazon Jungle Trip, 9 Weeks Later Husband Finds This… - Couple Vanished on Red Rock Canyon Hike, 4 Years Later a Jogger Makes a Shocking Discovery
A couple went for a hike in Red Rock Canyon to enjoy one last adventure… Read more: Couple Vanished on Red Rock Canyon Hike, 4 Years Later a Jogger Makes a Shocking Discovery