RANDY CUNNINGHAM Vietnam 1972 3 wins in one mission May 10, 1972. After a period of three years of respite, the Americans resumed their air operations over North Vietnam. For a few days, the North Vietnamese have launched a vast offensive in the direction of the south. The aircraft carrier Constel
Victory 8 Biography Frank G. Tinker Jr. was born in De Witt, Arkansas, in 1909. He attended the Annapolis Naval Academy and the Army Flying School, Randolph Field, passed his pilots license in Pensacola with the Navy. Burning with the desire to fight and to experience adventure, he proposed his ca
Victory ? Biography John Smith Thach born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on April 19, 1905. Graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1927, he served 2 years on ships of the line (USS Mississippi and USS California) before joining Pensacola flight training in 1929. Promoted to naval aviator in 1930, he
Victory 18 Biography The name of Alex Vraciu is closely linked to the events of June 19, 1944, which went down in the annals of the US Navy as pigeon shooting day. That day, which opened the first battle in the Philippine Sea, Admiral Ozawas Japanese fleet launched its planes on Task Force 58, com
The Marine Attack Squadron 214 (VMA-214) is a fighter unit of the United States Marine Corps, equipped today (2009) with AV-8B Harrier. His baptismal name was originally Baa Baa Black Sheep, it becomes over time Black Sheep (black sheep). It originated during the Second World War, when one of its co
(December 4, 1912 – January 11, 1988) Victory 28 Biography One of the most famous Marine units was VMF-214, The Black Sheep, thanks to the personality of their commanding officer, Major Gregory pappy Boyington. The feats of arms of the 214 were the subject of a television series broadcast in 1
Victory 62 Biography Historians generally agree that Ivan Nikolayevich Kozhedoub, with a total of sixty-two victories, was the best pilot of the Red Air Force during the Great Patriotic War. Indeed, Kozhedoubs score made him the undisputed ace of aces among all Allied fighter pilots of World War I
Victory 27 Biography Robert Roland Stanford Tuck Born in Catford, London, he joined the RAF in 1935. At the end of his period of instruction, he went to swell the ranks of Sqn 65, then equipped with Gloster Gladiator models; the first Spitfires arrived at the very beginning of 1939. In May 1940, T
Peter Townsend Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC and Helm, RAF (November 22, 1914 - June 19, 1995) was equerry to King George VI 1944-1952 and held the same position for Queen Elizabeth II 1952-1953. He was born in 1914 in Rangoon, Burma and was educated at Haileybury School. He joi
James Thomas Byford McCudden was an ace in the Royal Air Force, born March 28, 1895 in Gillingham, Kent, died in an accident on July 9, 1918. Pre-war In 1908, he joined his father in the Royal Engineers Regiment as a Trumpet. On May 13, 1913 his request for incorporation as a volunteer in the Royal
Victory 31 Biography Born in 1921 in Montreal, Canada, George Beurling came to the United Kingdom and joined the RAF in September 1940. After his pilot training, he was posted in the spring of 1942 to 41 Sqn, equipped with Spitfire V, as Sgt. Within this unit, he obtained in May his first two vic
Victory 27 Biography Born in Wellington, South Africa, Adolf Malan became involved in the RAF in 1936. At the end of his period of instruction, he was designated to join Sqn 74, where he piloted at the beginning of the Hawker Demon, then of the Gloster Gauntlets. At the beginning of 1939, the uni
Victory 13 Biography Jan Zumbach who, although born in Warsaw, inherited the citizenship Swiss by his father. In 1936, he fabricated documents allowing him to pose as a Pole and join the Polish armed forces. Cadet Zumbach of the S.P.L of Deblin, became an officer in 1938 (at the same time as Sta
Victory 17(+2 prob.) Biography Born in 1918 in Warsaw, Boleslaw Gladych was expelled from different schools, during his formative years, before finally choosing a military career and joining the Deblin school in 1938. He was commissioned on September 1, 1939. He did not take part in the Polish ca
Victory 9 Biography Alam then dives to the aid of his wingman, in difficulty with the second Indian fighter. fl fires a first missile which strays, then a second which hits the Hunter at the root of the right wing. Alam sees his victim smoking copiously, but he hardly lingers, being then a few
Victory +60 Biography The most famous Japanese ace on Zero fighter, Saburo Sakai, proclaims that his greatest success during the war was not to have shot down more than 60 planes, but to have never retreated in more than 200 dogfights. Born in the countryside in 1916, into a poor family in the Sa
Victory ? Biography Junichi Sasai won the title of Richthofen from Rabaul despite not took part in the fighting for only a short time. He left the memory, still alive today, of a great leader of the hunt. Born on February 13, 1918 in Tokyo, the son of a Navy captain, the young Junichi had always
Victory 42 Biography lyozoh Fujita was one of only two Navy pilots with at least, in one day, ten aerial victories. The son of a doctor and a midwife, he was born in 1917 in Shandong Province, China. he began to take an interest in a naval career while attending secondary school. His school resul
Victory 9 Biography Born in 1891, Aristide Moraitinis is one of the great pioneers of Greek military aviation. In 1910, he finished his studies at the naval school and graduated with the rank of ensign. When the Balkan War broke out on October 5, 1912, Moraitinis was second in command of a torpedo
René Mouchotte, born August 21, 1914 in Saint-Mandé and died August 27, 1943 above the Channel, French aviator of the Second World War. One of the first airmen to join England in 1940 from Oran via Gibraltar, Mouchotte is one of the great pilots of the Free French Air Force. Assigned to No. 245 Sq
The Itamar Franco government it was the result of the impeachment of Fernando Collor de Mello, president of Brazil between 1990 and 1992. Itamar ended up governing Brazil for the remainder of Collors term. He assumed the presidency on December 29, 1992 and left on January 1, 1995.This government was
In the east of Serbia in the province of Vojvodina, between the Danube river and the southwestern slope of the Carpathians, there is a large sandy area called Deliblatska peščara (literally Arenal de Deliblato, after the nearby town of that name), which is the largest sandy area in Europe. It is th
The Minoan civilization , located in the Bronze Age, is considered the first in Europe. It flourished in Crete in the Aegean Sea and is the source of many myths and legends of Greek antiquity. She knows how to write, develops a refined fresco art, where a unique sweetness of life appears, and builds
By Rainer Sousa From the 1870s onwards, Imperial Brazil began to suffer different types of opposition to its regime and the defense of the installation of a Republic in its place. At first, we can think that this situation demonstrated the crisis of the system that consolidated the independence and