A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he was shot down. Joe Peterburs was escorting United States Air Force ...

Dean “Diz” Laird, the only known Navy ace to shoot down both German and Japanese planes during World War II ... fighter pilot.” Born February 7, 1921, in Loomis, California, Laird joined the ...

He was a World War II fighter pilot, an author of a memoir ... to have these parents to take care of us,” Capra said. In 2016, Mr. Faikus published his book, “The Ride,” a chronicle of ...

This year marks not only the 80th anniversary of Johnson’s death, but the end of World War II. Germany surrendered to the ...

The United States wasn’t the first country to develop a jet-powered fighter aircraft, but it was definitely the first in which a pilot flew ... in the middle of World War II.