Aviation History - January 2016
january 2016 AH 39 AIRCRAFT QUICKLY BECAME WEAPONS OF WAR, BUT LESS EXPECTED WAS THEIR ROLE AS RESCUERS. Today it seems inevitab ...
40 AH January 2016 A mid the wreckage of one of the U.S. Army’s worst defeats in Vietnam—the Battle of Kham Duc— acts of heroism ...
january 2016 AH 41 PREVIOUS PAGES: ©1980 KEITH FERRIS; OPPOSITE: U.S. AIR FORCE; TOP: U.S. COAST GUARD; BOTTOM: IMPERIAL WAR MUS ...
42 AH January 2016 T o land a PBY-5 Catalina in 16- to 18-foot Pacific seas is a feat of rare air- and seamanship. To do it four ...
january 2016 AH 43 OPPOSITE: (ABOVE) U.S. NAVY; (BELOW) U.S. AIR FORCE; ABOVE & RIGHT: SWISS FEDERAL ARCHIVES O n November 1 ...
44 AH January 2016 OPERATION HALYARD T he biggest behind- enemy-lines aerial extrac- tion ever attempted— and pulled off—took pl ...
january 2016 AH 45 OPPOSITE: (ABOVE) NATIONAL ARCHIVES; (BELOW) U.S. AIR FORCE; ABOVE: U.S. COAST GUARD; RIGHT: MAURIZIO FOLINI ...
FIERY SACRIFICE The carrier Bunker Hill burns after being hit by two kamikazes on May 11, 1945, killing nearly 400 Americans and ...
january 2016 AH 47 IN THE FINAL MONTHS OF WORLD WAR II, JAPANESE AVIATORS RESORTED TO A LAST-DITCH TACTIC: THE SUICIDE DIVE BY D ...
48 AH January 2016 A fter the mid-1944 Battle of the Philip- pine Sea—the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot”—the U.S. military consid ...
PHOTOS: XXX XXXXXXX january 2016 AH 49 to launch torpedo bombers when at 0740 hours an A6M Zero, plunging so swiftly that the sh ...
50 AH January 2016 Commander (later Admiral) John S. “Jimmy” Thach, the kamikaze was “a weapon, for all prac- tical purposes, fa ...
january 2016 AH 51 OPPOSITE: NATIONAL ARCHIVES; ABOVE: U.S. NAVY Point, knocking the venerable Saratoga practically out of the w ...
52 AH January 2016 dead and more than 250 wounded, the bloodiest suicide strike of the war. Three days later Enterprise, which h ...
january 2016 AH 53 OPPOSITE: U.S. NAVY; ABOVE PHOTOS: NATIONAL ARCHIVES; ILLUSTRATION: STEVE KARP S o obsessed were the Japanese ...
54 AH January 2016 AVERTING ARMAGEDDON HOW THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE ELIMINATED THE IRAQI NUCLEAR MENACE IN 1981 BY PHILIP HANDLEMAN ...
january 2016 AH 55 operation babylon On June 7, 1981, Israeli Air Force F-16As bomb Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor, in a painting ...
56 AH January 2016 A [\PMWQTMUJIZOWWN!_MV\QV\WMٺMK\IL^MZ[MTa QUXIK\QVO\PMMKWVWUQM[WNUIVaLM^MTWXMLVI\QWV[ 1 ...
january 2016 AH 57 PREVIOUS PAGES: ©2005 JACK FELLOWS, ASAA; OPPOSITE: XINHUA/LANDOV; TOP: ISRAELI AIR FORCE; BOTTOM: ZEEV RAZ/L ...
58 AH January 2016 attack ers would pop up one by one to dive-bombing altitude. :Ib_MV\ÅZ[\0M[PW^MLPQ[\PZW\\TMNWZ_IZL_Q ...
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