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In June of 1943 fifty Allied bombers were dispatched to bomb a Nazi controlled airfield near Brussles Belgium. The lead bombardier used a park in the city to calibrate his sights then accidentally released his bomb load. The disaster turned to victory as the Nazis had commandeered the houses surrounding the park for their soldiers.

This is the story of James Howell Howard 's solo engagement of approximately thirty Nazi fighters which were attacking a group of B-17 Flying Fortresses.

Jean Michel de Selys Longchamps, a Belgian flying with the Royal Air Force, received condemnation then commendation for single handedly conducting a strafing attack on the Gestopo Headquarters in Brussels where they had tortured his father to death.

During World War Two the Allies began to realize that their aircraft losses in their strategic bombing campaign were unsustainable and began looking for ways to make the bombers more resistant to antiaircraft fire. Armed with data where planes were being hit from maintenance records they approached a team at the Columbia University. Abraham Wald prepared an analysis recommending introducing more armor to areas of the plane that did NOT show damage in maintenance records.

During a B-29 raid on Japan a phosphorus targeting bomb detonated in one of the aircraft. Henry Erwin managed to oust the bomb from the plane while burning from the white phosphorus.

An account of P-38 pilot Dick Bong's solo encounter with nine Japanese Zeros.

By bombing the aircraft carriers Akagi and Hiryu in the Battle of Miday Richard Halsey Best is like the only pilot in history to strike two aircraft carriers in one day.

Here are a few of the obscure historical moments involving the iconic P-51 fighter.

An account of the legendary day when the Death Rattlers squadron shot down seventeen kamikaze with Jeremiah O'Keefe alone dispatching five.

Like most aircraft Boeing's Flying Fortress had some curious birthing problems. But on combat missions it proved to be a tough beast. Here's are the stories of how it almost didn't make into the air and why the Luftwaffe struggled to bring it down.

Beoing's B-29 Superfortress, the most advanced bomber of World War Two, was already in development before the war but still suffered from start up issues in the rush to push it into production. Production was low so it was limited to the Pacific theater where its long range was critical.