Douglas Bader and the legless fighter ace who escaped from prison camps as often as he shot down Messerschmitts
Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash, then became one of the RAF's deadliest fighter aces in World War II.
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Rudolf Hess and the solo Messerschmitt flight to Scotland that nobody ordered on May tenth, nineteen forty-one
On May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess flew a Messerschmitt Bf 110 solo from Germany to Scotland in one of aviation's most bizarre unauthorized missions.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl and the P-38 Lightning pulled from two hundred sixty-eight feet of Greenland ice
How a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice was recovered and restored to flying condition after 60 years.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches and the Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes that terrorized the Eastern Front
The Night Witches flew obsolete wood-and-canvas biplanes on 23,000+ combat missions, terrorizing German forces with silent glide-bombing attacks.
TaildraggerJust Jane the Avro Lancaster and the two brothers who bought an airfield to honor the one who never came home
The story of Just Jane, the Avro Lancaster that two Lincolnshire brothers spent decades restoring to honor their brother lost over Nuremberg in 1944.
TaildraggerThe Focke-Wulf Fw one ninety pulled from a Russian forest and restored to flight after sixty years in the dirt
How a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 crashed in a Russian forest in 1943 was recovered six decades later and restored to flying condition.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat and the airplane designed from day one to kill the Zero
The Grumman F6F Hellcat was purpose-built to defeat the Zero and accounted for 75% of all Navy air-to-air kills in the Pacific.
TaildraggerThe Phantom Fortress and the B-seventeen that landed itself with nobody on board
A crewless B-17 Flying Fortress landed itself in a Belgian field in 1944 after all nine crew members bailed out.
TaildraggerThe Eighth Air Force's last bombing mission over Europe on April twenty-fifth, nineteen forty-five
On April 25, 1945, the Eighth Air Force flew its final bombing mission over Europe, striking the Skoda works at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia.
TaildraggerPappy Boyington and the Black Sheep who owned the skies over the Solomon Islands
The story of Pappy Boyington, the Marine Corps' top ace of WWII who turned a squadron of misfits into legends over the Solomon Islands.
TaildraggerRichard Bong, America's Ace of Aces and the forty victories that changed the Pacific War
Richard Bong scored 40 aerial victories in the Pacific, making him the highest-scoring American fighter ace in history.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches and the Soviet women who bombed the Eastern Front in plywood biplanes
The Night Witches of the 588th Regiment flew plywood biplanes with dead engines through enemy fire, completing over 23,000 combat sorties on the Eastern Front.
TaildraggerWhiskey Seven and the C forty-seven that flew back to Normandy seventy-five years later
The story of Whiskey Seven, a D-Day C-47 restored by volunteers and flown back to Normandy 70 and 75 years later.
TaildraggerLady Be Good, the ghost bomber of the Sahara that waited sixteen years to be found
The B-24 Lady Be Good vanished over the Sahara in 1943 and was found intact sixteen years later, four hundred miles past its base.
TaildraggerGlacier Girl and the P-38 Lightning pulled from under the ice
The story of Glacier Girl, a P-38 Lightning recovered from 268 feet of Greenland ice and restored to flight after 60 years.
TaildraggerThe Pan Am Pacific Clipper's secret flight around the world after Pearl Harbor
After Pearl Harbor, Pan Am's Pacific Clipper flew 31,500 miles around the world because its Pacific route home no longer existed.
TaildraggerThe Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
The Grumman F6F Hellcat achieved a 19-to-1 kill ratio and destroyed Japanese naval aviation at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
TaildraggerWomen Airforce Service Pilots of World War Two
The Women Airforce Service Pilots flew 77 military aircraft types in WWII, yet waited 33 years for veterans' status.
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