Charles McGee achieved one of the highest mission tallies of any American, but he also played a part in fundamentally changing society.

Charles McGee achieved one of the highest mission tallies of any American, but he also played a part in fundamentally changing society.
The RAF shot down a hostile drone last week. But when was the last time they shot down another aircraft in an air-to-air action?
It isn’t well remembered that the USAF once attacked a Soviet airbase. But though both sides quickly moved on, questions still remain.
Now legend on internet forums, this article explores the time a biplane is said to have shot down a state-of-the-art jet fighter.
A certain claim led me to wonder – just what did the Germans capture and reuse from the British Expeditionary Force after the fall of France?
What with the imminent release of a book I co-authored on the subject, thought it would be worth giving a brief oversight of the subject.
A video/article on the “Football War” – primarily about why that name is wrong, but also some further explanation of the conflict.
With the end of the Age of Sail, the days of storming a ship and taken it for service in your own fleet seemed to have past. But not quite…
The last dogfights between piston engine fighters occurred in 1969. Remarkably, it entailed the shooting down of 3 aircraft by a single pilot
In 1953 a tragedy occurred that saw the only recorded loss of an RAF aircraft to a Soviet attack. So what happened and why?
Real military history stories that make you look twice.
The Vietnamese pilot who joined enemy forces to bomb them with their own plane? Prop aircraft vs. modern fighter jet, Venezuela 1992? Renegade SOE in Burma?
It’s all in here, along with biographies of warriors, commentary on Burma’s long-running civil war, and more.