Quick FactsNationalityIsraeli 🇮🇱Aerial Victories17 (highest Western jet ace)Aircraft FlownF-4 Phantom II, Mirage IIIWarsSix-Day War, War of Attrition, Yom Kippur WarBorn29 Oct 1938Unit101 Squadron “First Fighter Squadron” Giora Epstein — via Wikimedia...
Quick FactsNationalityAmerican 🇺🇸Aerial Victories11.5 (WWII ace); also 1st pilot to break sound barrierAircraft FlownP-51 Mustang, Bell X-1, F-86 SabreWarsWorld War II, Korean War (advisor)Born / Died13 Feb 1923 – 7 Dec 2020 (age 97)Unit357th Fighter Group (WWII)...
Quick FactsNationalitySoviet 🇷🇺Aerial Victories22 (highest jet ace in history, Korean War)Aircraft FlownMiG-15bisWarsKorean WarBorn / Died5 May 1923 – 9 Nov 1986 (age 63)Unit17th IAP (Fighter Aviation Regiment) MiG-15 is shot down by US Navy planes over Korea c1952 —...
On 1 May 1960, the Eisenhower administration told the world that a NASA weather research aircraft had gone missing over Turkey. It was a carefully constructed lie — and it lasted exactly four days. On 5 May, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev revealed that they had shot...
Quick FactsNationalityFinnish 🇫🇮Aerial Victories94 (highest non-German ace of WWII)Aircraft FlownBrewster Buffalo, Bf 109GWarsWinter War, Continuation WarBorn / Died21 Feb 1914 – 21 Feb 1999 (age 85 — died on his birthday)UnitLLv 24, HLeLv 34 Eino Ilmari Juutilainen —...
For 462 days, Western aircraft landed at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport every three minutes around the clock. They brought coal. They brought flour. They brought powdered milk and dried eggs and medicines. At the peak of the operation, a fully loaded transport...
He painted his aeroplane red so the enemy would know exactly who was coming. By the time Manfred von Richthofen fell from the sky on 21 April 1918, he had destroyed 80 enemy aircraft — a record that stood as the highest confirmed tally of any fighter pilot in the...
Quick FactsNationalityBritish 🇬🇧Aerial Victories38 (highest confirmed British ace of WWII)Aircraft FlownSpitfire Mk.II through Mk.XIVWarsWorld War IIBorn / Died9 Mar 1915 – 30 Jan 2001 (age 85)Unit616 Sqn RAF, No. 144 Wing RCAF Supermarine Spitfire Mk. IX in the Air...
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