Sadly, I’ve run out of aviation paintings, so after a year this series will end… But the last one is a real goody! h/t Gerry for this one of a kind painting! And the ‘rest of the story’, as they … Continue reading
Category Archives: honoring our military
1944 – The Anglo-Argentine pilot Dick ‘Lucky’ Lindsell in his Hurricane MkIIC leads the attack on a bridge in Burma. They were actually part of the RAF’s Third Tactical Air Force, based in SE Asia a little known footnote during … Continue reading
Christmas Day, 1941. American Volunteer Group Flight Leader Parker Dupouy finds his guns jammed during combat high over the Gulf of Martaban. Determined to bring down his adversary, he rams the Hayabusa Oscar of Lt. Hiroshi Okuyama of the JAAF … Continue reading
One of the ‘oddities’ if you will, was the Brits stayed low on launch, assuming the Germans had radar that was as good as theirs, hoping the low altitude would prevent the Germans from having enough time to recall strikes … Continue reading
The mil email chain has been full of airplane stories this week… The first two are about the F-4 “Hey, Grandpa,” the young lad said to me; “Tell me a war story. What did you do in the war?” “I … Continue reading
Today is the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. There are few living veterans of that fateful day and even less that are capable of making that trip one more time. Having said that, there are reports that four of the … Continue reading
Since Dec 7th is this week, a little different one. There were actually TWO battles on the same day, Pearl Harbor, which is the one everyone remembers, but there was another… Some American pilots managed to counterattack, two such heroes, … Continue reading
An escort P47, over Utah Beach, on the background “La pointe du Hoc” (6th June 1944). The ‘special’ refers to the additional tasking missions that were added to support the landings. One of the ‘tales’ told was that all possible … Continue reading
Here is a video from Discovery Channel of the Komet in action. Various accounts give them credit for 9 or 10 shootdowns, against the loss of 16 Komets in combat. … Continue reading