To the Army, its newest branch was both a trial and a source of strength.
Air Force 75
Frank Luke shot down 18 enemy aircraft in his 18-day run in World War I.
On the eve of the end of one war, a World War II bombardier relived a little of the final day of his own conflict leading up to its anniversary Sept. 2. Jack Klotz, 96, who served in the U.S. Army Air Forces from 1943 ...
Unless you were too young—or perhaps not yet even born—we all remember 9/11: Where we were, what we were doing, what we did next. Two decades hence we are still recollecting, still coming to grips with what happened that day and what has transpired since. ...
Under cover of secrecy, the “training” mission turned to “advice in combat” and then into “combat training sorties.”
Barnstormers, wing walkers, and air racers lit the spark to enchantment with aviation.
On April 26, the first KC-10 produced for the Air Force, tail number 79-0433, touched down at Dover Air Force Base, Del., for its final flight before being transferred to the Air Mobility Command Museum. For one of the men on board the tanker, that ...
The first chief of the air arm was a pilot—but not an airplane pilot.
The British and the Americans disagreed on almost everything about the Combined Bomber Offensive.