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Vale, Major Wycoff
Titan I missile emerges from its silo at Vandenberg Operational System Test Facility in 1960. In June 1960, the first flight of armed and operational silo-based SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I ICBMs, part of...
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Solo Before Solo was Cool
Happy first day of winter! Dig these great 1960 Cold War (see what I did there?) Kodachromes from the LIFE Archive of the SAC Alert strip for the 436th BS (Heavy), 4238th Strategic Wing, at Barksdale...
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Putting the ‘Fortress’ into the B-17: A Look at the Guns
It is no understatement to say that the B-17 bomber is one of the most famous airplanes to fly a mission. Today we look at the hardware that lived up to its well-deserved “Flying Fortress” name. When...
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Skull Island Tomahawk
A 45th Fighter Squadron Curtiss P-40N Tomahawk, “Lackanocki,” is seen refueling from an F-2 type servicing truck pulled by a Cletrac M2 high-speed tractor while at Funafuti Airfield, Nanumea, Gilbert...
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‘I weighed 125 lbs. and never would have survived the rations in a POW Camp…’
What a couple of great period Kodachromes that really put you in the head of an 8th Air Force bombardier in 1944. First, a window view inside the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bomber “Times A-Wastin'”...
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Thomas Patten Stafford was a tall Oklahoman who, born too late for WWII, nonetheless served in the Oklahoma National Guard during high school and college. Starting his undergrad career at the...
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Douglas World Cruisers at 100
This month marks the centennial of the first successful aerial circumnavigation of the globe. Kicked off on 6 April 1924 when four pairs of U.S. Army Air Service pilots and mechanics, using modified...
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When next in Destin…
When bopping around the West Florida panhandle and looking to scratch a military history stuff itch, besides the extensive coastal fortifications around Pensacola (Forts Pickens and Barrancas along...
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Jamming out with your Westinghouse out…
Saw this great image passed around the interwebs without much detailed explanation and had to nerd out on it. After some digging, I am fairly certain it is a USAF F-4E-44-M Phantom II, SN 69-7298,...
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Mosel Weasle Stack
How about this great Cold War (circa late summer 1985) image showing two F-4E Phantoms flanking an F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel aircraft (center) from the 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing, Spangdahlem Air Base...
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