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The first significant Japanese combatant ship sunk during WWII was submarine I-70, sunk by two SBD Dauntless aircraft from USS Enterprise

Enterprise had shed her first blood in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor On the evening of December 8, 1941, the USS Enterprise...

Over the Keys, two USMC F-4 Phantoms almost shot down two Cuban MiG-17s.

“The two MiG-17s went into a 60-degree port turn. I immediately thought they saw us and I slid to the outside of their turn,...

How US Navy aircraft sank Imperial Japanese Navy’s Oite Kamikaze during Operation Hailstone

The Oite Kamikaze-class destroyer was unique in that, it was sunk entering Truk Lagoon rather than exiting it Early in 1944, the island base of...

Germans mounted a DB 605A engine to a Spitfire during WWII and was superior to the Merlin version

Compared to the Merlin version, Spitfire's performance with the DB 605 was excellent Among British aircraft, the Supermarine Spitfire is arguably the most well-known. The...

The USS Austin, an amphibious transport ship being towed by a CH-53 heavy-lift helicopter

The USS Austin LPD-4 is being towed by a CH-53 heavy-lift helicopter in Long Island Sound in the picture in this post The striking image in this post shows a CH-53 heavy-lift helicopter pulling the USS Austin LPD-4 in Long Island Sound in January 1968. According to...

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The US Navy F-8 pilots that instructed USAF F-4 crews in ACM and beat them during every engagement

The Navy pilots destroyed their USAF brethren, to the...

An XB-70 Valkyrie Mach 3 bomber doing an emergency landing

Bailing out and losing the XB-70 was quickly becoming...

China used the Soviet copy of the B-29 to intercept CIA B-17 and P-2 spy flights

The Tupolev Tu-4 was the Soviet copy of the...

Soviet pilot explains why captured F-5 beat MiG-21 and MiG-23

‘Every flight ended with the same result: MiG-21 lost,...

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