NAVY PHOTOGRAPHS OF AIRCRAFT CARRIERS Jets Shoot Down Crippled B-29 in China Sea after Crew Jumps All activity stopped to watch a crippled B-29 over Okinawa. The crew was forced to jump and jets shot down the crewless plane. Courtesy of William F.(Bill) Welch Aircraft Commander of Command...
Navy EC-121 surveillance plane, killing all 31 crew.The latest incident happened on Sunday morning, Korean time, and there was no hostile fire, Lt Cmdr Davis said.The most recent crisis involving US reconnaissance aircraft was in April 2001, when a Chinese fighter jet collided with a Navy ...
In this war the SAAF received its baptism of fire from Russian MiG jets and moved from a piston-engined air force into the jet age from flying P-51 Mustangs to F-86 Sabres. In operations using the Mustangs, the SAAF carried out 10 373 sorties, and lost 74 of its 95 aircraft. During...
He said he couldn’t hear anything, but was told by the Army Sergeant that the Navy was well off the coast and was shelling the trail to keep the enemy back. The Sergeant said he was a stupid son-of-bitch thinking it was a storm and he took dads gun and pierced the sand bags ...
Soon after the United States entered World War II, John Glenn enlisted in the United States Navy as a Naval Aviation Cadet, 28 March 1942. He transferred to the Marine Corps while still in flight training, and after qualifying as a Naval Aviator, was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant, U...
and strategic MUAV under flight test and tilt rotor UAV. The successful completion of the Navy P-3C maritime patrol aircraft upgrade program which is the core power of the anti-submarine operation of the Republic of Korea and the Air Force's SIGINT aircraft system...
carrier aircraft and sustained about six times the losses of jets. To meet that requirement, the sub-arctic operating environment forced the Navy to modify Corsairs and Skyraiders for extreme winter conditions.In fairness to the jets, Grumman’s F9F Panther series recorded more carrier sorties ...
A native of Roselle, N.J., Phillips was sworn into the Navy for flight training in April 1944. He received his pilot wings of gold at Pensacola in July 1947, and then completed operational training in the TBM Avenger torpedo bomber. ...
KOREA: Korean War: Allied troops fire bomb attack on Chinese Red supply lines Allied jets fire bomb attack on Chinese red supply lines on their drive to Seoul. NORTH AFRICA / DEFENCE: World War 2: Desert supplies under fire near front line ...