How a World War II fighter pilot from Mojave — with the eyes of an eagle — avenged his wingman’s death

Among the survivors of the relentless, high-altitude peril during World War II was a 23-year-old Army Air Force captain, R.C. Franklin of Mojave.
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Germany’s most feared ace - Allied pilots try to survive

During World War I in 1917, German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, led deadly air patrols against ...
Texarkana Gazette

John H. Luckadoo, last pilot from a storied bomber group, dies at 103

John H. Luckadoo, the last surviving pilot from the storied 100th Bombardment Group, a war-battered unit of B-17 heavy bombers that flew missions deep over German-held territory during World War II, ...
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German fighter pilot spared enemy bomber in WWII -- and it proves empathy critics dead wrong

Empathy is under attack lately. The all-important ability to see the world through another person’s eyes is now being recast as something corrosive. The argument goes like this: if you’re empathetic, ...
The Journal Times

German, American veterans forge friendship after war

Of the 61 missions that Racine native Robert Goebel flew over Italy and southern Europe during World War II, one of them left a particularly vivid memory in the P-51 Mustang fighter pilot's mind. As ...