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The remarkable career of Chuck Yeager – the first pilot to fly supersonic
The remarkable flying career of Charles ‘Chuck’ Yeager - the first pilot to break the sound barrier and fly at supersonic ...
One of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen remembers struggle for recognition amid Trump's DEI purge
James H. Harvey III was among four Tuskegee Airmen pilots who won the first U.S. Air Force Gunnery Meet in 1949, a forerunner ...
People1y
Remains of Missing Tuskegee Pilot Identified Nearly 79 Years After World War II Mission
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency The remains of a Tuskegee pilot have been identified nearly 79 years after he went missing during World War II. "U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr ...
Military Times10d
The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
Winant, according to Olson, suggested that the polo player-turned-fighter pilot ... USAAF declared, “came close to representing the costliest mistake made by the Army Air Forces in World War II.” ...
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War Heroes And Military Firsts Are Among 26,000 Images Flagged For Removal In Pentagon's DEI Purge
In addition, some photos of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first Black military pilots who served in a segregated WWII unit, were listed on the database, but those may likely be protected due to ...
Journal-News11d
Newly renovated exhibit at U.S. Air Force museum showcases history of women in flight
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force recently finished renovations on its exhibit that showcases the history of the ...
USA Today16d
Enola Gay pilot's granddaughter decries 'shameful' Trump Defense Department DEI word purge
The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the ...