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    Flight Journal
    Editorial Director Louis DeFrancesco Executive Editor Debra Cleghorn Bud Anderson, James P. Busha, Ted Carlson, Eddie J. Creek, Doug DeCaster, Robert S. DeGroat, John Dibbs, Robert F. Dorr, Jim Farmer, Paul Gillcrist, Phil Haun, Randy Jolly, Frederic
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    The Luftwaffe On D-day
    By 1944, the Luftwaffe had been driven from North Africa and the Mediterranean but still fought in Russia, Italy, and Western Europe. Spread thin and sustaining horrific losses (as much as 25 percent of fighter pilots per month), Goering’s forces had
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    PILOT’S VIEW D-Day From The Cockpit
    Since the 25th of May, the group had been informed that it was on a six-hour alert status, and it had been assigned two officers from General Patton’s Third Army to stay with us and set up liaison procedures. Our flying hadn’t changed much except tha
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    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
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    The Longest Day
    EIGHTY YEARS AGO on June 6, 1944, D-Day Operation Overlord, history’s largest amphibious invasion, commenced and began the liberation of continental Europe. Despite the massive Allied buildup and numerical superiority, the planners knew it would be a
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    Silent MISSIONS The Glider Gang Behind The Lines
    Flight Officer George L. Williams flew seven glider missions during World War II. Fresh out of high school when he enlisted, he was excited to be a part of the war. He had the opportunity to fly both the large British Airspeed Horsa glider and the re
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    War’s Ultimate Weapon
    THERE’S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ELITISM attached to what we do here at Flight Journal: all of our focus is on aircraft and their pilots. In fact, as you worked your way through the preceding articles to this final page, you probably couldn’t help but glo
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    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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    Keeping ’Em Flying
    THE GROUND CREW CHIEF, his mechanics and armorers are true unsung heroes of the aerial D-Day invasion. The complexity of their job—and the battle environment in which they had to perform to keep the aircraft airborne—were immensely challenging. Keepi
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    LITTLE FRIENDS Over the Beach
    THEY MUST HAVE BEEN A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES to the soldiers on the beach as wave after wave of fighters, bombers, and paratrooper-stuffed transports, some towing gliders, passed overhead, all of them adorned with black and white painted stripes. The in
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    Flight Gear
    Wear the sunglasses that saved the Free World! The men and women who fought in the Second World War were real heroes of our greatest generation. And, although the style was originally designed for the military and then adapted for American WW II figh
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    The Glorious Gooney
    THE BACKBONE OF THE INITIAL ALLIED ASSAULT against Erwin Rommel’s Atlantic Wall was the unsung heroes of the AAF’s Troop Carrier Command. Evolving from the pre-war Air Service & Ferrying Command, a specific need for the Army’s expanding parachute uni
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    AERIAL ASSAULT The day Fortress Europe fell
    In June 1944, the European War had dramatically reversed from four years previously. When Adolf Hitler’s Wehrmacht conquered Western Europe in 10 weeks, Nazi Germany seemed unstoppable. But since the Battle of Britain in 1940 and the growing Allied b
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    56th FG Jugs: War Paint
    AS THE LONG-LIVED THUNDERBOLT group in the ETO, the 56th FG certainly sported some of the most varied camouflage plus squadron and individual markings in England. Upon arrival at Kings Cliffe in January 1943, its first combat-ready P-47C models bore
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    Foto Joes
    From the very onset when the airplane was thrust into the combat role, military commanders on the ground quickly realized they needed hard-copy evidence of future targets, troop buildups and battle damage assessment from previous bombing raids. The b
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    Are You Ready to Fly?
    SAVE $20 Flight Journal covers the whole spectrum of aviation and places you right in the cockpit with those who were there making history. We want to make sure you aren’t missing out on all the ways you can enjoy the content you are passionate about
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    “Fatal Fang” Flies Again
    WHEN WARBIRD PILOT Mark Todd pulled back on the stick and left the runway at Chino Airport on November 30, 2023, it was the first time that “Fatal Fang,” the P-63A-7 acquired by Yanks Air Museum founder Charles Nichols in 1977, had flown in 40 years.
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    THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY
    You had to be better than just a good stick as an Army aviator to be selected to fly the Mohawk in Vietnam. The enemy on the ground was bad enough to contend with, but the ever changing weather, mountainous terrain and political infighting between mi
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    BRISTOL BULLDOG Flies Again
    Developed in the late 1920s, the Royal Air Force’s Bristol Bulldog entered service in May 1929. The single engine, single seat biplane fighter was the RAF’s frontline fighter through most of the 1930s. Bulldogs were exported to Denmark, Estonia, Finl
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    An Icon Aloft
    THE YEAR WAS 1928 and the concept of the airplane was changing radically. While barnstormers still landed rickety surplus biplanes in pastures to hop passengers, those days were waning fast. Utility was driving designs to be faster and sleeker. But,
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    Bulldog 2.0
    SO MANY OF THE AIRCRAFT featured in Flight Journal over the years are the result of herculean efforts by a select number of talented individuals who rescued these aircraft from what would have been their final resting places: A Battle of Britain Supe
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    The Mission, The Honor, And The Thrill
    Major Joshua “Cabo” Gunderson, who served as the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 Demonstration Pilot until the end of 2022, described the first time he flew the Raptor in formation with a P-51 Mustang as a part of the USAF Heritage Flight as “surreal.” “You pi
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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
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    Double Ace!
    The tropic air thrummed with the pulsing drone of Pratt & Whitney radials as 34 Grumman F4F-4s descended into the traffic pattern of Guadalcanal’s grass field known as Fighter One. It was April 26, 1943, and the Wildcats of Navy Fighter Squadron 11 l
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    Killer Cameras
    I was faced with a dilemma back in 1940. I wanted to become a fighter pilot, but the Army Air Corps wanted me to get a college education first. Thankfully, a rather simple situation presented itself to me in June 1941. The Royal Canadian Air Force (R
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    Flight Journal
    Editorial Director Louis DeFrancesco Executive Editor Debra Cleghorn Bud Anderson, James P. Busha, Ted Carlson, Eddie J. Creek, Doug DeCaster, Robert S. DeGroat, John Dibbs, Robert F. Dorr, Jim Farmer, Paul Gillcrist, Phil Haun, Randy Jolly, Frederic
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    Deciphering The Mig
    During its 32-month debut in the Korean War, the MiG-15 remained a mystery. Due to superior training and effective tactics, the F-86 pilots were however very successful in combat against it. During the war, the U.S. offered a $100,000 reward for any
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    Sole Survivor
    AS A SOLDIER DURING WORLD WAR I, Don Luscombe became fascinated with aviation. It wasn’t until 1927 that Don produced his first airplane: a side by side, high-wing Monocoupe. Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, Luscombe developed a series of Monocoupes th
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    Big Bossman
    Previously owned by Mike Brown, “Big Bossman” is one of three flyable Tigercats in the world and about only 10 or so remain in existence. “Big Bossman,” now known as the silver-painted “La Patrona,” was the first F7F ever to race at the National Cham
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    Knockout Punch!
    DESIGNED TO BE A LAND-BASED, medium altitude bomber, the B-25 was tasked with one of the War’s most spectacular missions. On April 18, 1942, 16 heavily laden B-25s took off from the USS Hornet’s pitching deck and headed towards Japan. Led by Lt. Col.

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