Tragedy Over France: The 1918 Meuse-Argonne offensive was the biggest U.S. armed campaign ever to that point. Among 26,277 American dead was 1st Lt. John Buckley of Longmont, Colo., who met a truly tragic end.
History
The post-World War II drawdown left the Air Force ill-prepared for conflict. The parallels with today are enlightening.
The Air Force is built on technology. These are some of the most important aircraft in its 75-year history.
As part of Air Force Magazine’s commemoration of the Air Force’s 75th anniversary, Sept. 18, 2022, we set out to interview all of the living former Chiefs of Staff, ultimately interviewing seven of the eight former Chiefs from 1990 to the present. In this first ...
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J.—The KC-46 Pegasus tankers here all fly with the callsign "Pudgy" in honor of the second-highest-scoring American ace of World War II, Thomas B. McGuire. "Pudgy 01” and “Pudgy 02” arrived Nov. 9, 2021, as part of an elaborate welcoming ceremony. Pudgies ...
A compendium of facts and figures about the Air Force Association.
Seventy-five years ago today, President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which, among a range of defense and intelligence reorganizations, was the law that created the U.S. Air Force. The service began operating as an independent branch of the military in September of ...
The installation of a new monument in Washington, D.C., recognizing Gulf War veterans begins July 14 with the formal groundbreaking of the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial. Situated on the National Mall to the north of the Lincoln Memorial, the new park-style monument ...
President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Wilma Vaught at a White House ceremony. Vaught is only the eighth distinguished Airman to earn the honor. Over the course of a 28-year Air Force career, Vaught, 92, was "the ...