Under cover of secrecy, the “training” mission turned to “advice in combat” and then into “combat training sorties.”
History
On April 26, the first KC-10 produced for the Air Force, tail number 79-0433, touched down at Dover Air Force Base, Del., for its final flight before being transferred to the Air Mobility Command Museum. For one of the men on board the tanker, that ...
The first chief of the air arm was a pilot—but not an airplane pilot.
The British and the Americans disagreed on almost everything about the Combined Bomber Offensive.
From pilot training to fighter combat, Benjamin O. Davis was the mainspring of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Newly remastered images of NASA’s Apollo 16 moon mission recall the Air Force's historic contributions.
Air Force leaders honored the Doolittle Raiders on the 80th anniversary of their historic mission, performing the last "goblet ceremony" for Lt. Col. Dick Cole, who was the last surviving participant in the mission.
Rare is the USAF base that bears the name of a naval officer. There have been only three.
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