The North American P-51 Mustang: The Fighter That Saved the Eighth Air Force
How the P-51 Mustang's Merlin engine and 1,100-mile range broke the Luftwaffe and rescued Allied strategic bombing from catastrophic failure in 1944.
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Six Warbirds, Six Questions, and What the Quiz Does Not Tell You
Six iconic WWII warbirds explained on America's 250th anniversary - from the Mustang's Merlin swap to the Dauntless strikes that turned the Pacific War.
TowerThe Memphis Belle Restoration: Four Decades of Rain and the Team That Brought Her Home
The Memphis Belle B-17 survived 25 combat missions over Europe, then 40 years of outdoor neglect, before a 12-year restoration returned her to museum condition in 2018.
TaildraggerYe Olde Pub, Franz Stigler, and the enemy who refused to fire over Germany in December nineteen forty-three
The true story of Franz Stigler, the German ace who escorted a crippled B-17 to safety instead of shooting it down in December 1943.
TaildraggerWatson's Whizzers and the American test pilots who stole Hitler's jet fleet before the ink on VE Day was dry
How a band of American test pilots raced across defeated Germany to seize Hitler's secret jets before the Soviets could claim them.
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