Capt. F. Gary Powers, CIA U-2 Pilot, Awarded the Silver Star
Capt. Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane that was shot down over the …
Military History
Falklands War l Photos
June 14, 2012, marks the 30th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Falklands War. Although June 20, 1982, …
Bullets by the Billions: Chrysler Switches World War II Production from Cars to Cartridges
“Charley, in war you can’t say no. If they want 12,500,000 rounds a day, we’ll have to give it to …
The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler’s Hangman
“I am telling you that acceptance of this mission is almost certainly acceptance of death…” – Gen. Frantisek Moravec to …
10th Special Forces Group
“We had no precedent, no manuals. Herb Brucker and I developed our own program – the Army left us alone.”…
An Interview With Col. Walter J. Boyne, USAF (Ret.)
The classic melody “Ode to Joy” from the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony welled up in the mind of …
The Battle of Midway: The Sole Survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8
Then-Ensign George Gay, U.S. Navy Reserve, was the pilot of one of the 15 Douglas TBD-1 Devastators of Torpedo Squadron …
Battle of Midway: Black Shoe Admirals in a Brown Shoe Battle
One of the great ironies of the Battle of Midway is that the most pivotal naval air battle in history …
XF-11 Was Howard Hughes’ “Might Have Been” Reconnaissance Aircraft
On July 7, 1946, a young Marine on leave, Sgt. William Lloyd Durkin, was relaxing next door to an unoccupied …
Chuck Gumm, the First Mustang Ace in the War Against Germany
First Lt. Charles F. Gumm, Jr. looked out from his cockpit, scanned the sky and scanned again.
He was called …