Divers and salvage crews have successfully raised a WW2 SB2C Helldiver dive bomber from the bottom of a California lake where it crashed in 1945. Now that the plane is free from the mud on the lake bottom, the salvage team will next move the Helldiver to shore. The warplane is expected to [...]
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Britain honored the Royal Air Force on the anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a flyover of London by WWII Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft. The flyover marked 70 years since the critical aerial Battle of Britain when the badly outnumbered British planes fought off the German Luftwaffe. The actor Robert Hardy read [...] A WWII bomb exploded in the German city of Göttingen while being disarmed by a bomb disposal team, killing three and seriously injuring two other members of the bomb disposal team. Göttingen experienced a number of Allied bombing attacks during WWII, but the majority of the town was not heavily damaged.
John W. Finn with his wife Alice Finn after formal presentation of the Medal of Honor. (U.S. Navy Photograph.) Navy Lt. John W. Finn, who received the Medal of Honor for bravery during the raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 died May 27 in Chula Vista, Calif. Lt. Finn at age 100 was [...] |
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