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Boeing’s P-26 Peashooter Fighter Plane was Far Deadlier Than It LookedWhen I first learned about the P-26 as a mere five-year-old lad via the 1958 book Fighter Planes That Made History, I thought ...
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An Icon Of The US Army Air Corps | Boeing P-26 'Peashooter'America’s first all-metal fighter, arrived too late for WWII but left a lasting impression with its stunning paint schemes. A ...
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...
Belly tanks were supplemental gas tanks strapped to World War II fighter planes to help boost their notoriously poor range. However, after the war, racers found another use for them. America's ...
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The USAAF 49th Fighter Group Are Australia’s Forgotten WWII Heroes“The USAAF 49th Fighter Group provided Darwin with its only fighter defence from March to September 1942 against fast and well-armed Mitsubishi G4M ‘Betty’ bombers escorted by Mitsubishi A6M ‘Zero’ ...
The German Luftwaffe entered World War II in September 1939 employing as its main day fighter the Messerschmitt Bf109 one of the classic fighter aircraft designs of all time When war broke out it ...
The Spitfire is the most famous plane of World War Two ... and many were adapted to be fighter-bombers to carry out attacks on German ground forces. WW2: What was the secret to winning the ...
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