Featured in bombBYMiguel OrtizMar 15, 2024Share‘Masters of the Air’ Part Nine: Unreal, impossible, unimaginableThe finale of the incredible “Masters of the Air” didn’t disappoint. BYMiguel OrtizMar 15, 2024ShareBYMiguel OrtizFeb 16, 2024Share‘Masters of the Air’ Part Five: The ChantThe fifth episode of Masters of the Air provides the audience with some relief from the trauma of Part Four. BYMiguel OrtizFeb 16, 2024ShareBYMiguel OrtizFeb 2, 2024Share‘Masters of the Air’ Part Three: A genius planDid you know Eighth Air Force airmen had a 75% chance of being wounded, captured or killed? Don’t miss Episode 3 of Masters of the Air. BYMiguel OrtizFeb 2, 2024ShareBYMiguel OrtizDec 25, 2023ShareLt. Col. John Pardo of ‘Pardo’s Push’ fame dies at 89Legendary aviator Lt. Col. John Pardo was best known for using his aircraft to push his wingman’s damaged F-4 out of enemy territory in Vietnam. BYMiguel OrtizDec 25, 2023ShareBYLogan NyeDec 22, 2023ShareUkraine claims stunning hat trick – three kills of Su-34sThe Ukrainian air force claims three kills of Russian Su-34 medium bombers over the frontlines in southern Ukraine on December 22. BYLogan NyeDec 22, 2023ShareBYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareThis British attack was the blueprint for Pearl HarborPlanning for the attack on Pearl Harbor was spearheaded by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto starting in 1941. However, his inspiration came from British Navy Admiral Andrew Cunningham the year before. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareBYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareThe one vote against war with Japan after Pearl HarborAnswering Roosevelt’s request to avenge Pearl Harbor, Congress voted to declare war with 82-0 in the Senate but 388-1 in the House. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareBYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share7 other Japanese attacks on December 7, 1941While we’ve all heard of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, there were other coordinated attacks across the world that day. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareBYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share15 Medals of Honor awarded at Pearl HarborPearl Harbor was certainly a date which will live in infamy. Here are 15 heroes recognized with the Medal of Honor for their uncommon valor on that day. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareBYJessica ManfreDec 2, 2023ShareThat time we almost launched the atomic bomb on North KoreaThe United States double downed on its promise to use any means necessary. BYJessica ManfreDec 2, 2023ShareBYTeam MightyNov 28, 2023ShareA fighter pilot rammed a German bomber to save Buckingham PalaceSir Winston Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few.” He was referring to the Royal Air Force. BYTeam MightyNov 28, 2023ShareBYLogan NyeNov 27, 2023ShareDon’t call it a stalemate: Ukraine making strategic gainsThe lines on the map haven’t moved much. But wars aren’t won on maps. Ukraine has done some brilliant work on the ground to set conditions for next year. BYLogan NyeNov 27, 2023ShareBYLogan NyeNov 24, 2023ShareUkraine shows how to do more damage with less dronesUkrainian drone operators model the future of warfare. Since drones went mainstream in the Russo-Ukraine War, hundreds of thousands of… BYLogan NyeNov 24, 2023ShareBYMiguel OrtizNov 21, 2023ShareWhy Walter Cronkite and 7 other journalists attended aerial gunnery schoolTo give war correspondents a first-hand look at the air war, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 8th Air Force permitted eight journalists to fly bomber missions over Germany in 1943. Walter Cronkite was one of them. BYMiguel OrtizNov 21, 2023ShareBYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023ShareThis was one of the worst assignments in World War IIThe static divisions were the lowest of the low when it came to resource requests. BYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023ShareBYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023ShareUkraine building schools as hardened bunkersNew Ukrainian schools are built to withstand S-300 missile strikes. As insane as it sounds, Ukraine actually needs these hardened schools. BYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023Share12
BYMiguel OrtizMar 15, 2024Share‘Masters of the Air’ Part Nine: Unreal, impossible, unimaginableThe finale of the incredible “Masters of the Air” didn’t disappoint. BYMiguel OrtizMar 15, 2024Share
BYMiguel OrtizFeb 16, 2024Share‘Masters of the Air’ Part Five: The ChantThe fifth episode of Masters of the Air provides the audience with some relief from the trauma of Part Four. BYMiguel OrtizFeb 16, 2024Share
BYMiguel OrtizFeb 2, 2024Share‘Masters of the Air’ Part Three: A genius planDid you know Eighth Air Force airmen had a 75% chance of being wounded, captured or killed? Don’t miss Episode 3 of Masters of the Air. BYMiguel OrtizFeb 2, 2024Share
BYMiguel OrtizDec 25, 2023ShareLt. Col. John Pardo of ‘Pardo’s Push’ fame dies at 89Legendary aviator Lt. Col. John Pardo was best known for using his aircraft to push his wingman’s damaged F-4 out of enemy territory in Vietnam. BYMiguel OrtizDec 25, 2023Share
BYLogan NyeDec 22, 2023ShareUkraine claims stunning hat trick – three kills of Su-34sThe Ukrainian air force claims three kills of Russian Su-34 medium bombers over the frontlines in southern Ukraine on December 22. BYLogan NyeDec 22, 2023Share
BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareThis British attack was the blueprint for Pearl HarborPlanning for the attack on Pearl Harbor was spearheaded by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto starting in 1941. However, his inspiration came from British Navy Admiral Andrew Cunningham the year before. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share
BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023ShareThe one vote against war with Japan after Pearl HarborAnswering Roosevelt’s request to avenge Pearl Harbor, Congress voted to declare war with 82-0 in the Senate but 388-1 in the House. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share
BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share7 other Japanese attacks on December 7, 1941While we’ve all heard of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, there were other coordinated attacks across the world that day. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share
BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share15 Medals of Honor awarded at Pearl HarborPearl Harbor was certainly a date which will live in infamy. Here are 15 heroes recognized with the Medal of Honor for their uncommon valor on that day. BYMiguel OrtizDec 6, 2023Share
BYJessica ManfreDec 2, 2023ShareThat time we almost launched the atomic bomb on North KoreaThe United States double downed on its promise to use any means necessary. BYJessica ManfreDec 2, 2023Share
BYTeam MightyNov 28, 2023ShareA fighter pilot rammed a German bomber to save Buckingham PalaceSir Winston Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few.” He was referring to the Royal Air Force. BYTeam MightyNov 28, 2023Share
BYLogan NyeNov 27, 2023ShareDon’t call it a stalemate: Ukraine making strategic gainsThe lines on the map haven’t moved much. But wars aren’t won on maps. Ukraine has done some brilliant work on the ground to set conditions for next year. BYLogan NyeNov 27, 2023Share
BYLogan NyeNov 24, 2023ShareUkraine shows how to do more damage with less dronesUkrainian drone operators model the future of warfare. Since drones went mainstream in the Russo-Ukraine War, hundreds of thousands of… BYLogan NyeNov 24, 2023Share
BYMiguel OrtizNov 21, 2023ShareWhy Walter Cronkite and 7 other journalists attended aerial gunnery schoolTo give war correspondents a first-hand look at the air war, the U.S. Army Air Forces’ 8th Air Force permitted eight journalists to fly bomber missions over Germany in 1943. Walter Cronkite was one of them. BYMiguel OrtizNov 21, 2023Share
BYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023ShareThis was one of the worst assignments in World War IIThe static divisions were the lowest of the low when it came to resource requests. BYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023Share
BYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023ShareUkraine building schools as hardened bunkersNew Ukrainian schools are built to withstand S-300 missile strikes. As insane as it sounds, Ukraine actually needs these hardened schools. BYLogan NyeNov 20, 2023Share