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    Straight-wing Heroes
    The increasing numbers of MiG-15s based just north of the Yalu River in the fall of 1950 caused great concern with the Far East Air Forces (FEAF), and when these sweptwing fighters started coming south of the river in November 1950, air superiority a
    Flight Journal10 min read
    Impossible Target
    ON THE AIRFIELD at Barkston-Heath (USAAF Station AAF-483) near the city of Grantham in Lincolnshire, 72 Douglas C-47 Skytrain transports from the 61st Troop Carrier Group sat waiting. Soon they would carry 1,230 paratroopers from the 2nd and 3rd Batt
    Flight Journal8 min read
    SHOT DOWN OVER NORMANDY! RAF Spitfire pilot survives D-Day invasion
    On D-Day, June 6, 1944, a total of 57 Royal Air Force Spitfire squadrons were available to No 2 Tactical Air Force (2 TAF) and Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB)—the new and temporary title allocated to RAF Fighter Command—for offensive operations i

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