#WWII

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Oct 8, 201910 min read

Flying Boats – The Giants of the Skies

This history of world traveller will by no means be accurate if the giant flying boats were not mentioned prominently, before the Second...

Sep 11, 20199 min read

Lydia Litvyak – First Female Fighter Ace

Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, affectionately known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians...

Aug 6, 20198 min read

The B-29 Superfortress - Devastation from the Air

On August 6, 1945, 74 years ago today, an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of...

May 21, 20193 min read

Frederick Wendall Glover- Unsung Fighter Ace of WWII

Freddie “Needle Nose” Glover was born on 4 December1915, a native of Asheville, North Carolina. Shortly after his high school graduation...

Nov 27, 20185 min read

A Higher Calling the story of -Ye Olde Pub

A pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at...

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