Posts Tagged: Author: John Lerit

How U.S. Wildcats Used the “Matchstick Trick” to Take Down Japanese Zeros in WWII

How U.S. Wildcats Used the “Matchstick Trick” to Take…

The TBM Avenger Pilot Who Defied Orders and Kept Attacking the IJN Yamato at the Battle off Samar

The TBM Avenger Pilot Who Defied Orders and Kept Attacking…

The Fastest Piston Fighter of WW2 That Allied Pilots Couldn’t Catch

The Fastest Piston Fighter of WW2 That Allied Pilots…

Lockheed’s Overlooked Workhorse of World War II

Lockheed’s Overlooked Workhorse of World War II

How the World’s Largest Boneyard Stores 3,100 Abandoned Planes

How the World’s Largest Boneyard Stores 3,100 Abandoned…

How A Cargo Plane Won WWII

How A Cargo Plane Won WWII

U.S. Pilots Hated This Plane Until Its 37mm Nose Cannon Devastated Japanese Ships

U.S. Pilots Hated This Plane Until Its 37mm Nose Cannon…

The British Test Pilot Who Pulled a 12G Inverted Dive to Save the Spitfire

The British Test Pilot Who Pulled a 12G Inverted Dive to…

80 Years After WWII, One Allied Air Force Still Operates a Unit of WWII-Era Warplanes

80 Years After WWII, One Allied Air Force Still Operates a…

Everts DC-6 Starts Her Massive P&W R-2800 Engines In The Cold

Everts DC-6 Starts Her Massive P&W R-2800 Engines In…

THE LAST BATTLE of F-51D Mustangs In Korea

THE LAST BATTLE of F-51D Mustangs In Korea

When the Sabre Met the MiG: The Jet Dogfights That Changed Air Combat Forever

When the Sabre Met the MiG: The Jet Dogfights That Changed…

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