WWII-era squadron reactivated as MQ-9 Reaper drone unit
The 431st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron will be a tenant unit of the 8th Fighter Wing based at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
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Lt. Col. George E. Hardy, youngest Tuskegee Airman, dies at 100
Hardy was the last surviving combat pilot of the Tuskegee Airmen who served overseas.
A bullet struck his heart at Pearl Harbor. His widow just returned it.
After 84 years, the Japanese bullet that was once lodged in the heart of sailor Dean Darrow was returned to the Pearl Harbor National Memorial Museum.
How Hitler’s fear-inducing ‘flying bomb’ ushered in drone warfare
The V-1 "flying bomb" could accurately be described in today’s nomenclature as an unmanned aerial vehicle — moreover, as the first suicide drone.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
Maryland loses last A-10s, becomes the only Air Guard without planes
The divestment of the Maryland National Guard's fleet of A-10s left it as the only Air Guard in the country without a flying mission.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
One man’s memory sparks search for US soldiers he saw executed in WWII
Retired firefighter Benjamin Broadwell Hagans, 96, has emerged as an eyewitness to the savage executions of three soldiers in 1942, The War Horse reports.
By Ken McLaughlin, The War Horse