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Flight Journal, 1 Dec 2026

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ArticleDouble Threat!

Fly­ing the P-47 and P-51 in com­bat BY LT. COLONEL HUIE LAMB JR. AS TOLD TO AND WRITTEN BY JAMES P. BUSHA I WAS BORN IN CAREY, TEXAS. My dad had a small ranch out at the edge of Abi­lene there and we always rode horses. My dream was to ride horses...

Double Threat!

ArticleFive Hun­dred Mis­sions

The com­bat career of Luftwaffe ace Rudolf Nielinger Many books and art­icles have been writ­ten about Luftwaffe aces and their high vic­tory scores. However, as with most other air forces, air­men simply doing their duty car­ried out the major­ity of...

Five Hun­dred Mis­sions

ArticleSpit­fire Spies

Unarmed, alone and deep behind enemy lines THE WAR RECORD of the iconic Supermar­ine Spit­fire and its many exploits in com­bat are well known, but its suc­cess throughout WW II as a long-range, high-speed pho­to­graphic recon­nais­sance (photo-recce...

Spit­fire Spies

ArticleNo Fear!

Joseph Joiner at war in the P-51D “The Rebel” “I HAD NO FEAR EVER, NO FEAR IN AERIAL COMBAT,” Joseph Joiner remembered in an inter­view filmed shortly before his passing at the age of 102 in Janu­ary, 2024. “I looked at it as kind of like a sport­ing...

No Fear!