Tag: A veteran’s Story
A VETERAN’S STORY: The Invaders Finally Come Home
By Pete Mecca An airfield in northeast Thailand designated as NKP (Nakhon Phanom) during the…
A VETERAN’S STORY: The Story of One Huey
By Pete Mecca In the year 1427, celebrated Vietnamese patriot Le Loi defeated the occupying…
A VETERAN’S STORY: “Hitting The Silk” Over Burma
By Pete Mecca From a special article in the New York Times on December 15,…
You Can Go Home Again…. Sort Of
It's rare for anyone to find... and then fly... the aircraft they made their first…
Legendary Pilot Inspires New generation of Air Warriors
In March of 1967, a flight of F-4 Phantom IIs from the 433rd Tactical Fighter…
A VETERAN’S STORY: Targeting the Big Apple
According to legend, in the year 1307 the bailiff/agent of the Hapsburg Duke of Austria…
A VETERAN’S STORY: Avoiding Cobras and Flying Cobras
Carl “Skip” Bell was born at Emory Hospital on August 6, 1945, the same day…
A VETERAN’S STORY: Battle of the Heavyweights
By Pete Mecca Analogous to Mohammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Richard Ira “Dick” Bong and…
Finding Loren: The Life, Death and Discovery of a P-47 Fighter Pilot
Regular WarbirdsNews readers will remember a short piece we ran exactly a year ago, which described…
A VETERAN’S STORY: The Men of Evans
By Pete Mecca Evans Tool and Die has set a new standard for honoring veterans…
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