A Greenville WWII captain was shot down, taken prisoner by Nazis. A memorial is planned in Germany.
Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...
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Surplus German P-3C Orions set to boost Portuguese maritime patrol fleet
The Portuguese air force's ability to conduct maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare duties is to be significantly ...
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The P-51 Mustang and the man who won the World War II air war with it
It was thanks to former WWI pilot Tommy Hitchcock that the P-51 entered U.S service — and changed the skies over Europe ...
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Last Surviving Pilot from the Battle of Britain, John 'Paddy' Hemingway, Dies at Age 105
LONDON — The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that ...
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John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain. By Richard ...
Hero pilot from NKY to be laid to rest 81 years after death in Germany during WWII
De Jarnette was killed on April 8, 1944, while serving as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber with the 732nd Bombardment ...
Last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, dies at 105
The last surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain has died, severing the last living link to the few thousand young men who fought the Nazi air force to a standstill amid fears that Britain might be ...
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German Eurofighter Typhoons Escort Away Russian Spyplane Off Baltic Coast
According to the German Air Force (GAF, or Luftwaffe), a Russian surveillance aircraft approached northeastern Germany on Thursday before it was escorted away by fighter aircraft. The Luftwaffe said ...
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Last surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain dies at 105
Hemingway was just 20 years old when he and his comrades in the Royal Air Force took to the skies to fight off wave after wave of Nazi aircraft that sought to pound Britain into submission during ...