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The Pilot Who Flew Again After Losing Both Legs in War
Most people would consider losing both legs a career-ending catastrophe, especially if that career involved flying fighter ...
The UK Defense Secretary said the Russian ship pointed lasers at a RAF P-8 Poseidon while on the edge of UK waters off Scotland. The Russian intelligence ship Yantar is currently sailing on the edge ...
Defence secretary John Healey issued a stern warning to Vladimir Putin, after he said the Russian spy ship Yantar, operating on the edge of UK waters, directed lasers at pilots of surveillance RAF ...
In December 1941, RAF Brewster Buffalo pilots launched into the skies over Malaya, only to be overwhelmed by waves of Japanese fighters. What began with early victories quickly spiraled into a ...
First used by the 1st Air Commando in World War II, the Sikorsky R-4 often fell short of its role in rescuing airmen downed in the mountains and rainforests of the China-Burma-India front but as the ...
It all started when Richard Tado received a call from his friend, 105-year-old World War II U.S. Army Air Corps pilot Edward “Bud” Berthold, that his bathroom had flooded. Tado, a U.S. Coast Guard ...
It’s hard to make history in Virginia these days, if only because the commonwealth has been at the center of so much of it. The first English settlers arrived on these shores more than 400 years ago, ...
Medal of Honor recipient, Steven Bennett. (U.S. Air force) In the spring of 1972, the communist People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched an offensive into South Vietnam that dropped all pretense ...
I’ve now seen Twenty One Pilots in Charlotte three times in the past six years, and yet ... ... as someone who’s not a card-carrying member of the Skeleton Clique ...
NORFOLK — It wasn’t the longest, the prettiest or the most difficult of his career, but Colton Joseph’s quick pop-up pass to Ke’Travion Hargrove in the second quarter Saturday might’ve been his most ...
The early history of the LDS Church is one of persecution and violence. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), commonly known as the Mormons, was killed by ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — It’s safe to say not many people outside of the Portland Pilots men’s soccer program saw the team coming this season. In the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 preseason poll, the ...
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