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7 Locations, 176 Aircraft, 45 Hours: US' "Air Armada" Rescue Ops In Iran
The American rescue fleet included bombers, fighters, refuelling tankers, helicopters, and unmanned systems. Among the few designated by the US were the A-10 Warthog, the H-60 Jolly Green II, and the HC-130 Combat King II.
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Half A Billion Dollars: The Likely Cost Of F-15 Crash And Daring Rescue Op
The operation to extract downed pilots involved an array of advanced military assets, including A-10 Thunderbolt II jets, MC-130J Commando II planes, Black Hawk helicopters, and MQ-9 Reaper drones, many of which were destroyed during the mission.
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When US Army Carried Out Its First Helicopter Rescue Mission In World War II
The US military carried out its very first helicopter rescue in combat during World War II.
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Old, Ugly 'Flying Tank' US Wanted To Scrap Shines In Hormuz Missions
The A-10 'Warthog' earned its reputation not in the air, but close to the ground, in the chaos of close air support (CAS) where troops in contact with the enemy needed urgent help
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Mystery Of Missing World War II Bomber Attacked By Nazis Solved After 82 Years
Baltimore FW282, operated by RAAF's No 454 Squadron, was returning from a mission over the Aegean Sea when it was ambushed.
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British Pilots To Make History, Fly Around The World In A WWII Spitfire
A little over two weeks from now, two British pilots -- Steve Boultbee Brooks and Matt Jones -- will embark on an epic mission straight out of a Jules Verne book in a fighter from the glory days of World War II. They will fly a newly restored Silver Spitfire 43,452 km around the world over a period of five months in the first attempt of its kind so...
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This Fighter Pilot Flew The Last Mission Over Japan In WWII. Then He Learned To Love His Enemy.
It was Aug. 13, 1945, four days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan had suffered unimaginable destruction, but Emperor Hirohito refused to surrender.
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Two World War II Aircraft Missing For 70 Years Found Under Water
During World War II, some 10,000 B-25 bombers were deployed to conduct a variety of missions such as bombing, submarine patrols, and even the historic raid over Tokyo in April 1942. Many of them went down in the oceans across the world. Present-day Papua New Guinea was the site of military action in the Pacific Ocean from January 1942 to the end of...
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Inside One Of World War II's Most Daring Spy Missions: The Men Who Made OSS Operations Possible
In February 1945, a small group of personnel assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime spy agency, scrambled to prepare for a particularly risky mission: inserting a team of agents deep behind Nazi lines with the goal of gleaning crucial enemy information.
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US Veterans Who Firebombed Japan During World War II Meet Survivor
Five American veterans who took part in firebombing Japan during World War II saw photos of stacks of charred bodies and leveled homes at a museum dedicated to the victims, and said the outcome on the ground of their missions was awful.
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7 Locations, 176 Aircraft, 45 Hours: US' "Air Armada" Rescue Ops In Iran
The American rescue fleet included bombers, fighters, refuelling tankers, helicopters, and unmanned systems. Among the few designated by the US were the A-10 Warthog, the H-60 Jolly Green II, and the HC-130 Combat King II.
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Half A Billion Dollars: The Likely Cost Of F-15 Crash And Daring Rescue Op
The operation to extract downed pilots involved an array of advanced military assets, including A-10 Thunderbolt II jets, MC-130J Commando II planes, Black Hawk helicopters, and MQ-9 Reaper drones, many of which were destroyed during the mission.
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When US Army Carried Out Its First Helicopter Rescue Mission In World War II
The US military carried out its very first helicopter rescue in combat during World War II.
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Old, Ugly 'Flying Tank' US Wanted To Scrap Shines In Hormuz Missions
The A-10 'Warthog' earned its reputation not in the air, but close to the ground, in the chaos of close air support (CAS) where troops in contact with the enemy needed urgent help
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Mystery Of Missing World War II Bomber Attacked By Nazis Solved After 82 Years
Baltimore FW282, operated by RAAF's No 454 Squadron, was returning from a mission over the Aegean Sea when it was ambushed.
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British Pilots To Make History, Fly Around The World In A WWII Spitfire
A little over two weeks from now, two British pilots -- Steve Boultbee Brooks and Matt Jones -- will embark on an epic mission straight out of a Jules Verne book in a fighter from the glory days of World War II. They will fly a newly restored Silver Spitfire 43,452 km around the world over a period of five months in the first attempt of its kind so...
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This Fighter Pilot Flew The Last Mission Over Japan In WWII. Then He Learned To Love His Enemy.
It was Aug. 13, 1945, four days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan had suffered unimaginable destruction, but Emperor Hirohito refused to surrender.
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Two World War II Aircraft Missing For 70 Years Found Under Water
During World War II, some 10,000 B-25 bombers were deployed to conduct a variety of missions such as bombing, submarine patrols, and even the historic raid over Tokyo in April 1942. Many of them went down in the oceans across the world. Present-day Papua New Guinea was the site of military action in the Pacific Ocean from January 1942 to the end of...
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Inside One Of World War II's Most Daring Spy Missions: The Men Who Made OSS Operations Possible
In February 1945, a small group of personnel assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime spy agency, scrambled to prepare for a particularly risky mission: inserting a team of agents deep behind Nazi lines with the goal of gleaning crucial enemy information.
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US Veterans Who Firebombed Japan During World War II Meet Survivor
Five American veterans who took part in firebombing Japan during World War II saw photos of stacks of charred bodies and leveled homes at a museum dedicated to the victims, and said the outcome on the ground of their missions was awful.
