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A VETERAN’S STORY: Mister Incorrigible

July 30, 2020 WarbirdsNews 1

Job description from a WWII B-17 training manual, “The inflight Armorer-Gunner inspects, repairs, maintains machine guns, cannons, bomb release mechanisms, bomb racks, aerial gun sites, the auxiliary equipment and chemical carrying release mechanisms, and flare […]

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Coming Home – Part II

July 7, 2020 WarbirdsNews 1

Shot down in enemy-held territory while on a bombing run in Vietnam near An Loc, 1st Lt. Michael Blassie was listed as MIA (Missing in Action) and the body said to be unrecoverable. In reality, […]

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Coming Home – Part I

July 7, 2020 WarbirdsNews 0

Mike was a spitting image of what most people believe a young Air Force officer should look like: tall, handsome, with a hospitable grin and approachable demeanor.  A 1970 graduate of the Air Force Academy, […]

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A VETERAN’S STORY: Dustoff in Burma?

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By Pete Mecca A ‘dustoff’ in Burma? Pete, you mean Vietnam, right? Yes and no. It’s true that I’ve been home bound for a few weeks, but no, the Corona quarantine has not warped my […]

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A Veteran’s Story: Caribou to Santabou

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By Pete Mecca Born and raised in Cajun country, Alan Gravel received a degree in Civil Engineering from Louisiana Tech before obtaining a Master’s Degree in Environmental Health Engineering at the University of Texas.February of […]

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A VETERAN’S STORY: The Invaders Finally Come Home

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By Pete Mecca An airfield in northeast Thailand designated as NKP (Nakhon Phanom) during the Vietnam War is actually a Royal Thai Naval Base. The Thais utilize NKP as a home base for river patrols […]

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A VETERAN’S STORY: The Story of One Huey

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By Pete Mecca In the year 1427, celebrated Vietnamese patriot Le Loi defeated the occupying Chinese soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Considered God-like by the Vietnamese, Le Loi’s birthplace village of Lam Son is regarded […]

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A VETERAN’S STORY: “Hitting The Silk” Over Burma

January 24, 2018 WarbirdsNews 1

By Pete Mecca From a special article in the New York Times on December 15, 1944: “Big strike on railroad marshaling yards in Rangoon by B-29 bombers cause devastating results. No B-29s were lost.” The […]

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You Can Go Home Again…. Sort Of

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It’s rare for anyone to find… and then fly… the aircraft they made their first military flight in as a pilot a half century or so after the event, let alone on the anniversary of […]

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Legendary Pilot Inspires New generation of Air Warriors

December 17, 2017 WarbirdsNews 0

In March of 1967, a flight of F-4 Phantom IIs from the 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron based out of Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, flew through clear skies for a bombing run on […]

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The sky over Tucson will be filled with Mustangs this week as the 2021 Heritage Flight Training Course kicks off. What is Heritage Flight? Why do they do it every year? This video describes the […]

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