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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

He was 22 years old, a small town kid from Graham, Texas, who traded his drum major uniform at Harden Simmons University for an officer’s…

Only one man in history has shot down an enemy fighter plane with a pistol. March 31st, 1943. Second Lieutenant Owen Bagot is falling through…

The De Havlin mosquito shouldn’t have worked. By every measure of conventional military thinking, in 1938, Jeffrey De Havlin’s proposal was absurd. A bomber built…