Their Flying Fortress, theSusan Ruth, was one of many 8th Air Force bombers shot down over occupied Europe and Germany during WW II. Most of her crew successfully bailed out though not all. Many were captured but Snyder the senior was taken in by the Belgian Resistance. The author colorful...
Five Avenger torpedo bombers took off from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale in the afternoon on Dec. 5, 1945. It was a routine exercise, in which they were to fly 150 miles (241 kilometers) due east, then north for 40 miles (64 kilometers), and then return to the ...
The Yankees have three more games at night vs the A's this week and are currently in a battle in the AL East. It is by far and away the best division in all of Major League Baseball. Top to bottom the competition is elite, so the Bronx Bombers need Judge to start hitting and Boon...
No one has built a shield over America. If climate were so bad in so many regions, we’d also already be starving, or at least having serious trouble growing anything. Even cows on scrub oak. So, you know? All of this is nonsense. They view the world through a half formed network ...
Ford built more than 1.1 million cars for 1930 -- almost twice as many as Chevrolet and more than 14 times as many as Plymouth. The 1930 Ford Model A received a number of changes that seem minor now but were major at the time. All models retained the "little Lincoln" styling crafted ...
Five Avenger torpedo bombers took off from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale in the afternoon on Dec. 5, 1945. It was a routine exercise, in which they were to fly 150 miles (241 kilometers) due east, then north for 40 miles (64 kilometers), and then return to the ...
which for many years was identified as the birthplace of the B-52. According to the third story, the B-52 was created in the late 1970s at the Maxwell’s Plum, by bartender Adam Honigman. Maxwell’s Plum was an iconic New York City restaurant and bar that was famous in the 1960s,...
and the U.S. Air Force liked supersonic fighters and jet bombers, not poky trash-hauling gliders. Chase fitted it with two engines, producing the C-122, a handful of which were built for the Air Force. Like a dinosaur with feathers, the C-122 was a link between gliders and airplanes...
Five Avenger torpedo bombers took off from the U.S. Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale in the afternoon on Dec. 5, 1945. It was a routine exercise, in which they were to fly 150 miles (241 kilometers) due east, then north for 40 miles (64 kilometers), and then return to the ...