Something suddenly clicked in Barry Koch’s brain and a long-buried memory made its way to the surface. “I just remembered the movie “Skyward,”‘ the Allentown resident said. “I knew something about ...
South Plains Army Air Field was a temporary military home for most of the nation's glider pilots during World War II. "It was busy," Otto Lyons remembers. He came to Lubbock in June 1943 and graduated ...
In the early years of World War II, a handful of remote airstrips in the Mojave Desert were transformed into training facilities for America’s first military stealth aircraft. The new airfields at ...
Stunning color photos from the Second World War capture US Marines training to fly in lightweight gliders designed to help them gain the upper hand in the brutal Pacific War - but which were never ...
Years before Marines first waged large-scale combat exercises on the sprawling grounds of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, the area served as a training base for U.S.
SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Civil Air Patrol Cadet Cadet Senior Master Sergeant Nils Jobe of Barrington, NH, has completed glider flight training at the historic Hartness State Airport in Springfield, Vt.