Salute the Greatest Generation and celebrate all things 1940s during the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing 15th Annual “WWII Heritage Days”, April 21-22, 2018. Recall the music of Glenn Miller, ration cards, Spam and […]
By Liz Gilmore Williams I flew into Honolulu in late March 2013, filled with excitement. The GPS device I’d brought from home refused to work as I drove my rental car out of the airport […]
On this day, the 75th anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, we at WarbirdsNews thought our readers would be interested in learning more about a largely forgotten target of the Japanese forces that infamous […]
PRESS RELEASE – Salute the Greatest Generation and celebrate all things 1940s during the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing 14th annual “WWII Heritage Days”, April 22-23, 2017. The festivities will take place at the […]
The history of Britain’s tactical air power development during the Second World War has largely neglected the work done by Army Co-operation Command. The Command was influential in developing the theoretical air support system used […]
This past Thursday marked the 64th anniversary of the tragic accident which claimed the life of legendary WWII fighter ace, Don Gentile. WarbirdsNews contributor, David Cohen, has investigated the causes behind Gentile’s crash, which also took […]
From an original of Story by Tech. Sgt. Brandon Shapiro (DVIDS) – For the millions of people who marveled over the Mel Gibson movie “We Were Soldiers,” none can forget Basil Plumley … the highly decorated […]
PRESS RELEASE – The Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family […]
PRESS RELEASE – SPRING, TEXAS – Celebrating 70 years of flying service in 2015, the vintage WWII B-17 Flying Fortress, Texas Raiders, and her crew will reunite one of the few remaining B-17 pilots from […]
WarbirdsNews has recently received some fascinating wartime accounts written up by a former B-17 radio operator named Tom Creekmore. We thought our readers would enjoy reading them and decided we would start first with this dramatic story […]
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