Warbirds - Tales From Above

Frank Speer is making a strafing run inches above the ground. This one run will make his next several months very challenging.

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The Morning Call - "I Could Feel the Bullets Hitting my Plane"

American Air Museum - Frank E. Speer

Wikipedia - Li'l Abner

Book Review - The Debden Warbirds: The Fourth Fighter Group in World War Two - By Frank E. Speer

Eino Alve and his mighty crew of Shack Rabbits plow through 35 missions. How they did it, of course, is their own unique and nail-biting story.

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The Airway Beacon - Wikipedia

Remembrances of the Shack Rabbit - By Eino V. Alve

Weather Underground - Lincoln, NE

One of the best dogfighters we ever saw. Regarding Mustang drivers, some might even say he was THE best.

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Preddy Memorial Foundation

Wings God Gave My Soul - By Joseph W. Noah

George Preddy - Top Mustang Ace - By Joseph Noah and Samuel L. Sox, Jr.

O'Henry Magazine - An Ordinary American Boy - By Ross Howell, Jr.

Synopsis of George Preddy - Top Mustang Ace - By Joe Noah

The Hall of Valor Project - George Earl Preddy - Sightline Media Group

The real story of The All American..... without all the embellishments. We don't need it dressed up with comic book characters and unicorns. The real story is heroic enough on its own.

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The Hour Has Come - By Thomas F. Gulley

Warbird Digest - WWII's B-17 "All American", Separating Fact from Fiction - By Anthony Adams

Airscape Magazine - "Down in One Pieces"

B-17 Flying Fortress - All American - 41-24406

B-17 "All American" (414th Squadron, 97BG) - Site maintained by Doug Cook

American Air Museum in Britain - Mellville G Boyd, Jr.

B-17 Flying Fortress - Joan of Arc/Flaming Mayme - 41-24477

American Air Museum in Britain - 42-30051 - "Nevada Wildcat"

Turns out our family has ANOTHER bird out there that escaped the chopping block over 75 years ago. It's hidden. But we found it.

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AAIR - Aviation Archeology - PBY Aircraft Airframe History List - 59763 -

Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives - Crash of a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer Near Safford: 2 Killed -

The accident board determined the absolute cause of the crash. But we dig deep on this one, and pose a long-shot theory that there COULD have been another cause.

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Hutchison News - February 17th, 1950 - Loren Grover Obituary

Vintage Wings of Canada

Vapor Trails - Robert Jaques - Naval Aviation News - December 1997

They were the first, and everyone forgot them.....

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The Sad Fate of a Remarkable B-24 - Joseph Connor

American Air Museum in Britain - 4123728

The Forgotten Bomber that Broke the Memphis Belle's Record First - Morgan Deane

Memphis Belle vs. Hot Stuff - Scott Orr

Hell's Angels vs. Memphis Belle

American Air Museum in Britain - George Anthony Eisel

Military Wikia - Memphis Belle

They don't build them like they used to.... and I'm not talking about airplanes.

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The Story of Maloney's Pony - First Fighter Wing Association

Paying Tribute to a Legend - Vic Johnson

Strafing, The Most Perilous Game - Earl Mazo

Ditching Tests of a 1/9 size Model of the Army P-38 - George A. Jarvis and Gibson A. Cederborg

The Camargue - A Short Guide

Liberation of Paris - Wikipedia

The unselfish act of P-51 pilot, Billie Harris, finally gains recognition 62 years after giving his life in occupied France.

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Joyce Ann Ashley - 354th Fighter Group Tribute - Billie D. Harris

354th Fighter Group - Wikipedia

On The Road: The Longest Wait - CBS News

Join me as we go on an English pub crawl with the WW2 Airmen of RAF Biggin Hill.

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Biggin on the Bump - Bob Ogley

Spitfire Crash - Kings Arms - Aviation Safety Network

The Queen's Head - Four Square City Guide

Bombs, Bees, and Bravery - BBLHS

Biggin Hill - Wikipedia

Seeking RAF Biggin Hill - Biggin Hill Memorial Museum