Saburo Sakai, the Wounded Zero, and the Five-Hour Flight Home from Guadalcanal
On August 7, 1942, Japanese ace Saburo Sakai flew 560 miles home from Guadalcanal alone - one eye destroyed, barely conscious, no radio.
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Frank Luke, the Arizona Balloon Buster, and the Seventeen Days That Made America's Most Lethal Ace of the Great War
Frank Luke Jr. became America's most lethal WWI ace by destroying 14 observation balloons and 4 aircraft in just 17 days during September 1918.
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How 16 P-38 Lightnings flew 435 miles at wave-top height to intercept and kill Admiral Yamamoto in April 1943.
TaildraggerThe death of the Red Baron on April twenty-first, nineteen eighteen
The Red Baron died on April 21, 1918, after breaking his own combat rules - and over a century later, his killer remains disputed.
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