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By Don Hollway
Seventy years ago, Germany launched Operation
Bodenplatte,
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Britain’s “Wooden Wonder” became the world’s most
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Luftwaffe’s Last Blow!
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The Miraculous Mosquito
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The Iron Eagle’s Last Flight
‘Daughter of the Skies’
Winged Warhorse
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Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Nazi Germany’s most decorated
soldier, ended his war with a defiant surrender flight.
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New Zealand’s glamorous Jean Batten blazed a
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Though far from pretty, the Breguet 14 is remembered
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By Eileen A. Bjorkman
Today’s expeditionary forces learned their trade beginning
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Keith Skilling and Warren
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A U.S.–Israeli program sought to modify
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Aviators
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American Bobby Sweeny flew Liberators
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attack the American airfield near Asch, Belgium,
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in an illustration by Jack Fellows (story, P. 22).
Cover: ©2014 Jack Fellows, ASAA
Above: Gavin Conroy
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“Consummate Warrior” Adolf Galland
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Filling Stations in the Sky
The aerial ballet that is modern inflight refu-
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174 victories
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