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Moskitoschreck: How the de Havilland Mosquito Drove German Night Fighters to Crash Without Firing a Shot
Opening: A Phantom in the Dark
Sometime in the winter of 1943–44, a Luftwaffe night fighter pilot picked up a contact on his Lichtenstein radar...
The Evolution of German Night Fighting: January-June 1941
How the Luftwaffe's Nachtjagd transformed from struggling operations to a formidable defensive force with the creation of the Kammhuber Line
Winter 1941 brought a lull...
Mission to Lorient: Early B-17 Combat Operations
A harrowing account of unescorted bomber missions over Nazi-occupied France in 1943, when survival odds were fifty-fifty
The First Mission—May 17, 1943
The 92nd Bomb Group...
Richard R. Ayesh’s journey as a B-17 Flying Fortress bombardier
From Wichita factory worker to B-17 Flying Fortress bombardier—Richard R. Ayesh's transformation during WWII, from enlistment struggles to combat training.
WWII aircrew sanitation at operational altitude
Military Aviation Museum tackles aviation's most human problem in groundbreaking exhibit
Every military aviator knows that combat operations don't pause for basic human needs. But...