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Remembering the Fallen: Discovering a Hometown Hero on Memorial Day.

May 31, 2021 Tom Demerly

Memorials Across the U.S. Remember Our Fallen, And All Too Often We Miss Them. There are so many military memorials and monuments in the United States that Google doesn’t serve a single index to them […]

Aviation Safety / Air Crashes

Following F-35B, KC-130J Collision Former USMC F-4 Pilot Tells Us About the Risks of Midair Refueling

October 2, 2020 Tom Demerly

We Talk to Retired U.S. Marine Corps Pilot John Trotti About Midair Refueling. “I’m not sure I’d characterize Air-to-Air refueling (AAR) itself as risky. Rather, I always thought of it as requiring strict attention to […]

Military Aviation

Remembering Three of the Fallen F-105 Thunderchief Heroes of the Vietnam Era

May 28, 2018 Tom Demerly

The Remarkable Exploits of Three Thunderchief Pilots Are a Must-Read on Memorial Day. It’s Memorial Day in the United States, part of a long three-day weekend where people in the U.S. reflect on the high […]

Military Aviation

The Historic Thanh Hóa Bridge Raid: A Historic Lesson in Adaptive Air Combat and The Cost of Getting It Wrong.

April 9, 2018 Tom Demerly

4 April, 1965. Above Thanh Hóa, (then) North Vietnam. It was like trying to hit a needle in a haystack, kill a fly with a sledgehammer, or whatever analogy you prefer for using brute force […]

Military History

On This Day In 1970 An F-4J Shot Down A North Vietnamese MiG-21. It Was The First Kill Scored By A Top Gun Graduate

March 28, 2018 David Cenciotti

The first time a Topgun graduate shot down a MiG. On Mar. 28, 1970, an F-4J Phantom II (BuNo 155875) belonging to VF-142 off the USS Constellation (CVA 64) aircraft carrier shot down a North […]

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