Category: Heritage

Squadron Leader Les Munro, the last pilot from the Dambusters Raid, has passed away in New Zealand. He was 96 years-old.

By Royal Air Force official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Residents living in the town of Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan are split over a plan by the Aichi prefectural government to display a Mitsubishi Zero fighter as part of an aviation industry exhibit.

By USAF [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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French actor Gerard Depardieu is planning to make a movie about the Normandie-Nieman fighter squadron, a French unit which fought over the Eastern Front during the Second World War.

By unkrown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Two Americans and two Russians are helping to recreate a secret World War 2 mission that delivered thousands of warplanes from the United States to the former Soviet Union.

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A U.S.-born pilot who lead the first Israeli Air Force attack against an Egyptian armored column during the war in 1948 has passed away.

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