Douglas Bader, the Tin-Legged Ace Who Flew the Battle of Britain on Two Artificial Legs
How RAF ace Douglas Bader lost both legs in a 1931 crash and still flew the Battle of Britain on two artificial legs.
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Glacier Girl and the Lost Squadron - The P Thirty-Eight Pulled From Two Hundred Sixty-Eight Feet of Greenland Ice
How a P-38 Lightning buried under 268 feet of Greenland ice for 50 years was recovered and flew again as Glacier Girl.
TaildraggerThe Night Witches - How the Soviet 588th Flew Canvas Biplanes to War in the Dark
How the Soviet 588th Night Bomber Regiment - the 'Night Witches' - flew obsolete canvas biplanes on 23,000+ night raids in WWII.
TaildraggerBazooka Charlie - The History Teacher Who Strapped Rockets to a Piper Cub and Went Tank Hunting
Charles Carpenter, an Illinois schoolteacher turned Army aviator, bolted six bazookas to a Piper Cub and hunted German tanks across France in 1944.
TaildraggerThe C-forty-seven armada that launched into the dark on June fifth, nineteen forty-four, carrying the airborne to Normandy
On June 5, 1944, over 800 C-47 crews flew paratroopers into Normandy through flak and cloud, launching the D-Day invasion.
TaildraggerThe Battle of the Coral Sea and the carrier duel where warships never saw each other
The Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 was the first naval battle fought entirely by aircraft, where opposing fleets never saw each other.
TaildraggerThe Doolittle Raid and sixteen B twenty-fives that changed the course of the Pacific War
The Doolittle Raid of April 1942 launched sixteen B-25 bombers from a carrier deck to strike Tokyo and alter the course of the Pacific War.
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