A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
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Lost German Pilot Found 60 Years Later? (Still in His Cockpit)
This is the story of Friedrich Beckh, German fighter ace and the leader of the Luftwaffe's JG-52 at the time of his death. This video covers his disappearance and how he was eventually found ...
Sole surviving Battle of Britain hero John ‘Paddy’ Hemingway who was shot down four times dies aged 105
THE last of The Few has died, age 105. Group Captain John “Paddy” Hemingway had been the sole surviving pilot from the Battle ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...
'End of an era': Last surviving Battle of Britain pilot dies
At 21, he was a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain, a three-month period when air force personnel defended the skies against a large-scale assault by the German air force, the ...
One of last surviving Tuskegee Airmen criticizes Trump’s DEI purge
I’ll tell him, ‘You’re a racist,’" Tuskegee Airman Col. James H. Harvey III said of the president's efforts to purge federal ...
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Books: A Borderline Bismarck
Count Heinrich von Einsledel—Yale University ($4). “Name and rank?” For a moment the young German fighter pilot, shot down near Stalingrad, wondered if it was safe to admit to the Russian ...
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The Initial Aerial Victories of the Axis and Allies in World War II
rammed the German fighter with his P.11 and safely parachuted. Several Polish aircraft would be shot down during the opening days of the war, with many Polish pilots having German aircraft shoot ...