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F or more than a decade Fagen Fighters WWII Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, has been bringing award-winning World War Two fi ...

WARBIRDS B-25 MITCHELL 62 FLYPAST 62 FLYPAST May 2015May 2015 in Canada as a trainer and bomber, it served for a decade before b ...

Anyone appreciative of warbirds owes themselves a trip to Fagen Fighters WWII Museum. The collection ranges from trainers such a ...

WARBIRDS B-25 MITCHELL 64 FLYPAST 64 FLYPAST May 2015May 2015 As an airworthy machine rather than a ‘rough’ airframe, work was a ...

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North American B-25N Mitchell ‘Paper Doll’ (N325N) in close formation with North American P-51D Mustang ‘Twilight Tear’ N251L. R ...

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Spotlight 70 Origin and history 72 Men Behind the Lightning 80 Artwork - Milestone P-38 82 Inside the Lightning 84 In Combat - t ...

70 FLYPAST May 2015 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Spotlight The Lockheed Scrutinizes the history of... O ne of the least likely aircra ...

Origin & history May 2015 FLYPAST 71 Japanese  ghters were downed in two days by P-38 ace Maj Thomas McGuire SPOT FACT It w ...

72 FLYPAST May 2015 Spotlight Lockheed P-38 Lightning Right Place, Right Time Warren E Thompson relates the exploits of two P-38 ...

May 2015 May 2015 May 2015 FLYPAST 73 SPOT FACT The initial production model  ew in June 1941 Men Behind the Lightning Japanese ...

74 FLYPAST May 2015 SPOT FACT The  rst aircraft shot down by a P-38 was a Japanese Kawanishi H6K  ying boat them we dropped ou ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 75 Men Behind the Lightning were operated by the Chinese Air Force “I was diving so fast that when I tried to p ...

76 FLYPAST May 2015 SPOT FACT F-4 photo-reconnaissance versions were the  rst Lightnings to see action in the Paci c “In the m ...

May 2015 FLYPAST 77 Men Behind the Lightning Lightnings were built in 1942 Mitchell stressed the importance of shooting down the ...

Hawker Typhoon 78 FLYPAST May 2015 SPOT FACT It was originally named ‘Atalanta’ approaching Bougainville. Seconds later, Lt Doug ...

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Artwork Lockheed P-38J-20 Lightning 44-23296 ‘YIPPEE’ in May PETE WEST-2015 80 FLYPAST May 2015 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Spotli ...