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GERMANY LAUGHED AT THE MUSTANG — UNTIL IT WAS TOO FAST”
October 14th, 1943. 24,000 ft over Schwinfoot, Germany. The air isn’t just cold here. It’s a crystallin flesh biting void. At -40° F, exposed skin…
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GERMAN PILOTS STUNNED WHEN AMERICAN P-51 MUSTANG APPEARS
The German Luftvafa ruled European skies until a strange new American fighter appeared seemingly overnight. It was called the P-51 Mustang, a machine built in…
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HOW ONE MECHANIC’S “ILLEGAL” IDEA CREATED AMERICA’S DEADLIEST FIGHTER
April 24th, 1944, 24,000 ft above Brandenburgg, the oxygen mask fogged with each labored breath as Major Ga Ral pressed himself back into the seat…
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HOW ONE MECHANIC’S “ILLEGAL” IDEA CREATED AMERICA’S DEADLIEST FIGHTER
October 14th, 1943, 27,000 ft above Schwinford, Germany, Captain Don Blakesley, commanding the fourth fighter group, leveled his P47 Thunderbolt and scanned the sky ahead.…
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JAPANESE PILOTS MOCKED HIS “FLYING COFFIN” CORSAIR — UNTIL IT KILLED 2,140 ZEROS IN PACIFIC
Those pilots are rejects. They won’t last a week in combat. That was headquarters verdict on the squadron Major Gregory Boington was assembling in August…
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THE JAPANESE DOMINATED THE SKIES — UNTIL AMERICA DEPLOYED THIS NIGHTMARE
April 6th, 1945, north of Okinawa, 15,000 ft above the Pacific Ocean. You are a lieutenant flying a Hellcat off the deck of the USS…
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WHEN 60 JAPANESE PLANES ATTACKED ONE F4F WILDCAT — HIS RESPONSE SHOCKED THE PACIFIC
Lieutenant Colonel Tadashi Nakajima sat in the briefing room at Naramasu Airfield on February 16th, 1945 and laughed at the intelligence report. American fighters escorting…
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WHEN 60 JAPANESE PLANES ATTACKED ONE F4F WILDCAT — HIS RESPONSE SHOCKED THE PACIFIC
60 Japanese bombers, one American fighter. No backup, no escape. February 20th, 1942. The USS Lexington floats 400 m into enemy waters. When the radar…
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“AMERICAN AMATEURS!” — GERMAN ACES LAUGHED UNTIL THOSE ‘AMATEURS’ KILLED 1,016 OF THEM
Late 1942, RAF Debbdon, England. The fourth fighter group arrives wearing American uniforms for the first time. Luftvafa intelligence briefs its pilots. American amateurs, no…
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THEY MOCKED THE “DRUNK PILOT” — UNTIL HE BECAME THE DEADLIEST ACE IN THE PACIFIC
In the summer of 1942, a 30-year-old man sat in a cramped office at Marine Corps headquarters, watching younger pilots receive orders for the Pacific.…
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