The B-24 That Vanished Into the Sahara: The Lost Crew of Lady Be Good
In April 1943, the B-24D Lady Be Good disappeared after a mission to Naples. Sixteen years later, its remarkably...
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The P-38 Buried Beneath 268 Feet of Ice: The Recovery of Glacier Girl
In 1942, six P-38 fighters and two B-17 bombers landed on Greenland’s ice. Fifty years later, one P-38 was recov...
How the Seabees Turned Tinian Into a B-29 Superbase
In 1944, U.S. Navy Seabees began transforming a small Pacific island into an immense B-29 base. Their runways, r...
The F-15 That Landed With One Wing
After a midair collision tore away nearly the entire right wing of an Israeli F-15, its crew faced an aircraft t...
The B-17 That Returned From Cologne Without Its Nose
A direct flak hit destroyed the nose of B-17G “Lovely Julie” over Cologne. With most instruments, oxygen and nav...