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The MiG-21 falls into U.S. hands In 1966, at the height of the Cold War, Capt. Munir Redfa—an Assyrian Christian in the Iraqi Air Force—defected to the West with one of the most sought-after aircraft of the era: a brand-new,...
Operation Neptune Spear On May 1, 2011 the compound where Bin Ladin was living was silently invaded by two highly modified stealth Blackhawk helicopters. One crashed and was destroyed but the mission was accomplished. A stealth helicopter was also used...
Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr., was the only American killed by enemy fire during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Flying a U-2 spy plane at 70,000 feet, his aircraft was struck by a Soviet missile. Shrapnel punctured his pressure suit, causing...
Shot down a Japanese fighter with his 1911 Happy Independence Day!! And what is more American than celebrating an American hero who used an all American gun: John Browning's 1911. In 1943 while flying a mission in his B-24 Liberator,...
F-5 Lightning Reconnaissance Plane Discovered in Thailand In 1944, 21-year-old 1st Lt. Franklin McKinney, a member of the Flying Tigers, climbed into his F-5 Lightning (the reconnaissance variant of the P-38) for a daring spy mission over Japanese forces in...
One man American Army, killed over 100 Japanese When a football star from South Dakoda was drafted into WW2 and sent to the Phillipines, the Japanese had no idea that their worst nightmare had just arrived. In charge of a...
