World War II-era Philippine Mars makes historic flight to SF Bay before retiring in Arizona
History was made over the weekend in San Francisco Bay. The Philippine Mars water bomber touched down near Alameda on Sunday, in an 800-mile journey from British Columbia. "To see a sea plane land ...
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Remembering Terence Alberigi: He witnessed one of WWII’s oddest moments, and he shared it with a Press Democrat reporter
Alberigi was 14 when a Japanese balloon bomb landed in his family’s apple orchard near Forestville in 1945. He cracked the ...
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‘Masters of the Air:’ The Real 100th Bomb Group
The U.S. Air Force unit and its deadly missions in World War II are also the subject of a new Apple TV+ documentary.
The Cold War nuclear test that turned the sky crimson
The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.