The Gloster Meteor: The RAF's 1st Fighter Jet
The aircraft would be modified after the conflict as the Gloster Meteor F.4, which would become the first jet aircraft to be ...
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Tuskegee Airman and Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot Harry Stewart Dies at 100
Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...
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World War II RAF sergeant celebrates 103rd birthday with party in Salisbury
Ruth Dicksee, who served in World War Two as a Sergeant in the Women’s Royal Air Force, was naturally the centre of attention ... February 1952 and the Coronation parade for Queen Elizabeth II the ...
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RAF aircraft to be named 'Guernsey's Reply' in WW2 pilot's honour
A Royal Air Force aircraft is set to be named in honour of a Guernsey World War Two fighter pilot to mark the 76th anniversary of the island's Liberation. A Poseidon MRA1 will be named Guernsey's ...
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James Stagg, the Meteorological Officer Who Determined the D-Day Date with His Accurate Weather Forecast
All history enthusiasts—or at least those particularly interested in military history—remember a date that marked a before and after in World War II: June 6, 1944. That day is usually referred to by ...
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303 Squadron: These Polish Fighter Pilots Won the Battle of Britain
Many a history buff is familiar with Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill’s famous quote about the Royal Air Force (RAF ... its first major defeat in World War II: “Never in the field ...
'This will not stand': Air Force resumes teaching on first Black pilots after DEI review
The move is a complete reversal of the Air Force's decision to no longer teach the history of the first Black and women pilots of WWII ...