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B-17 ‘Texas Raiders’ Honors Veterans At Bluebonnet Airshow

April 3, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 2

PRESS RELEASE – SPRING, TEXAS – Celebrating 70 years of flying service in 2015, the vintage WWII B-17 Flying Fortress, Texas Raiders, and her crew will reunite one of the few remaining B-17 pilots from […]

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Wartime B-17 Near-Miss With the Washington Monument in December, 1944

April 1, 2015 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 0

WarbirdsNews has recently received some fascinating wartime accounts written up by a former B-17 radio operator named Tom Creekmore. We thought our readers would enjoy reading them and decided we would start first with this dramatic story […]

Hangar Dance Re-Lives the 1940s Decade

March 3, 2015 Moreno Aguiari 1

PRESS RELEASE – On Saturday, April 18, 2015 the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) Dixie Wing will host “Keep ‘em Flying”, a World War II-theme hangar dance and dinner, complete with big-band performances and 1940s Hollywood […]

The ‘Roseland’ Spitfire – Restoration Update

November 26, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 6

On Tuesday, November 11th, Vintage Wings of Canada in Gatineau, Quebec attached the freshly restored starboard wing to the newly arrived fuselage of their Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX. This was a significant step forwards in the […]

WWII Portrait Journey

August 22, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Friday Feature: We promise this story will bring a lump to your throat… so please read to the end… Chris Demarest is an author and illustrator of over one hundred titles. The New York Times […]

Event Exit exit.. Paratroopers exit a Douglas DC 3 C 47 Dakota Skytrain for a commorative jump over the D day invasion landing zones in Normandy France

Jumps Schedule For the Dakotas Over Normandy Is Set

March 22, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Jumps schedule for the much anticipated “Daks over Normandy” event is slowly materializing. For the first time since 1944 the skies over Normandy will be filled with Dakotas to drop paratroopers. Throughout Europe about […]

The Luftwaffe in 1961 by Howard “Scrappy” Johnson, Part 1

September 30, 2013 Moreno Aguiari 4

Few days ago we have published an introductory article about Howard “Scrappy” Johnson. Scrappy an article about the Luftwaffe in 1961 when he was an advisor to the West German Air Force, Scrappy wrote this […]

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B-17 ‘Texas Raiders’ Honors Veterans At Bluebonnet Airshow

Wartime B-17 Near-Miss With the Washington Monument in December, 1944

Hangar Dance Re-Lives the 1940s Decade

The ‘Roseland’ Spitfire – Restoration Update

WWII Portrait Journey

Jumps Schedule For the Dakotas Over Normandy Is Set

The Luftwaffe in 1961 by Howard “Scrappy” Johnson, Part 1

A Caproni Ca.310 Libeccio Takes Shape in Norway

Hawker Typhoon Preservation Group Achieves Major Milestone

AirCorps Aviation’s Piper L-4H Restoration Report – Fall 2024 Update

Mid America Flight Museum Releases Update on B-17G ‘Thunderbird’