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War’s Ultimate Weapon
THERE’S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ELITISM attached to what we do here at Flight Journal: all of our focus is on aircraft and their pilots. In fact, as you worked your way through the preceding articles to this final page, you probably couldn’t help but glo
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Foto Joes
From the very onset when the airplane was thrust into the combat role, military commanders on the ground quickly realized they needed hard-copy evidence of future targets, troop buildups and battle damage assessment from previous bombing raids. The b
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Keeping ’Em Flying
THE GROUND CREW CHIEF, his mechanics and armorers are true unsung heroes of the aerial D-Day invasion. The complexity of their job—and the battle environment in which they had to perform to keep the aircraft airborne—were immensely challenging. Keepi

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