A rare Spitfire Mark 1 that was shot down over Dunkirk 75 years ago is going under the hammer at Christie’s ‘Exceptional Sale’ this July.
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Category: Heritage
Participants of Operation Babylift are reunited 40 years later
Twenty Vietnamese orphans airlifted to the United States 40-years ago under Operation Babylift were reunited with the soldiers who took part in their rescue at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Apr. 25.
Viet Cong commando recalls his mission that sank an American aircraft carrier
Former Viet Cong frogman Lam Son Nao recalls his mission on the night of May 2, 1964 that sank former escort carrier USNS Card in the port of Saigon.
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Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for project on remaining American aces
Author Peter Collier and documentary photographer Nick Del Calzo have started a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for their coffee-table book on America’s remaining fighter aces.
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Prince Harry flies a Spitfire to promote scholorship
Boultbee Flight Academy has released a video in which Prince Harry was flying in one of the academy’s Spitfire to help promote the Spitfire Scholarship.