A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
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Medals of WWII fighter ace who survived terrifying 25,000ft death plunge but then was killed in Las Vegas pleasure flight crash 20 years later could sell for £30,000
But it made him rather over-confident, and for the next few days he regarded the German Air Force rather ... His citation reads: 'An outstanding fighter pilot who has now destroyed 8 enemy ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
John Hemingway, last airman from WWII’s Battle of Britain, dies at 105
In terse notations, the logbook kept by Royal Air Force fighter pilot John “Paddy” Hemingway in the summer of 1940 records ...
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The Initial Aerial Victories of the Axis and Allies in World War II
In the opening hours of World War II, in the early morning skies over ... A large amount of German bombers and fighter escorts (mostly Messerschmitt Bf 110s) were amassed for these strikes ...
Last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, dies at 105
John "Paddy" Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105.
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WORLD WAR II
For some soldiers confined in German POW camps during World War II, ‘Monopoly’ was so much ... history and became the world’s first Black fighter pilot—all before the age of 30.