It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
Major Erich Hartmann would fly 1,404 operational sorties during WW2, engaging the enemy over ... a result of being shot down!). He is the greatest fighter ace of all time, bettered by none!
A World War II fighter pilot is inviting the Summit County community to join a potluck party to celebrate his 101st birthday.
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered ... survivor of the “few,” nearly 3,000 pilots and crew who saved Britain in the early stages of World War II. Mr. Hemingway, who was known as Paddy ...
The Corsair performed well during World War II, claiming 2,140 air combat victories against 189 losses—an overall kill ratio ...
she had already trained forty-five pilots! “Partly out of need, partly out of a sense of Communist egalitarianism, the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to f ...
The last surviving Royal Air Force fighter pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain in 1940 during World War II has died. He was 105 years old.
Group Captain John 'Paddy' Hemingway, who has died aged 105, was the last of 'The Few' who fought in the Battle of Britain during the Second World War.