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Fiends on Mindoro
80 years ago today. 20 December 1944. Lockheed P-38 Lightnings of the “The Flying Fiends” of the 36th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group, parked along the runway on the Hill Fighter Strip near San...
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2025 SOF Fact Book
The new 40-page 2025 SOF Fact Book is available online. “Learn about the mission, priorities, and Joint Forces that make up your U.S. Special Operations Command.” You can view and download the (free)...
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Black Widow On Deck
80 years ago this week, a USAAF 421st Night Fighter Squadron Northrop P-61B-20-NO Black Widow (SN 43-8317) seen landing at recently liberated and expanded Puerto Princesa Airfield, Tacloban, Leyte, 8...
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B-ONE Vibe Check
19 February 1985. 40 years ago this week. Official caption: “Airman First Class Peter Warner, 3902nd Air Base Wing, Security Police Squadron, Wheaton, Illinois, provides security for a B-1B bomber...
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Marianas Lightning Storm
Exercise Cope North 2025 has seen at least four different F-35 fifth-gen fighter operators conducting combined operations from Guam. These include U.S. Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force No. 75...
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Bear Patrol
The old turboprop-powered Tu-95 Bear, first flown in 1952, is still poking around, spotted this time over the Bearing and Chukchi Sea, and a whole new generation of interceptors are now rising to meet...
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Already Cold F-16s and CF-18s Have a Chance to Get Colder in Greenland
As part of NORAD’s recently completed Operation Noble Defender, Canadian CF-18s and USAF F-16s saw an expeditionary deployment from their bases in Quebec and Alaska across the Artic Circle to Pituffik...
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Diorama worthy Phantom
I though this was a very well done scale model scene until I found the original photo in the NARA and zoomed in enough to see expressions on faces. It was taken 40 years ago today in the coldest...
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All Aces, No Jokers
Check out this great shot of some F-16Cs Block 50s of the Gamblers of the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron out of Shaw AFB in South Carolina, on deployment for trilateral training during Cope25 at...
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Red Stars over Niagara
Just call it Operation Honeymoon. The curious, but very normal 1944-45, sight of Lend-Leased Bell P-63 Kingcobras flying over Niagara Falls, clad in the Red Stars and tactical dark green livery of the...
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