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Vultee A-31 – Warbird Wednesday Episode #255

Welcome to another episode of Warbird Wednesday! The Vultee A-31 Vengeance is an American dive bomber of World War II that was built by Vultee Aircraft. A modified version was […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Charles Pettit

Charles Pettit was born in June 1925 to Charles and Gertrude Pettit in his grandmother’s house on a farm in Illinois, which he grew up working on. His interest in […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Roger Krakow

Roger Krakow was born October 3, 1923, in Davenport, IA, and grew up there. He joined Army ROTC while enrolled at Iowa State because it offered a three-year deferment from […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Peter D. Behenna

Pete Behenna was born on July 22, 1926, in Somerville, MA, as the second-to-last of 13 children. He became interested in airplanes at age 6 after seeing a biplane fly. […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Joe Peterburs

Colonel Joseph “Joe” Anthony Peterburs was born on November 25, 1924, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Joe enlisted in the Army Air Corps on November 30, 1942, at the age of […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Jack Jacobs

Jack Jacobs had the desire to become an attorney. So, he came up with a plan: join the Army, sign up for airborne and do a three-year stint to earn […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Gary Sinise

“While we can never do enough for our defenders and their loved ones, we can always do a little more.” – Gary Sinise   Gary Alan Sinise is an American […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Colin S. Bell

Colin S Bell (Distinguished Flying Cross – AE), born in 1921, joined the Royal Air Force towards the end of 1940 and received flying training in the United States prior […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Arthur “Mick” Dawson

Born in the County of Norfolk, England, in 1928, Mick Dawson left Litcham Secondary Modern School at the age of 14 in December 1942. A wartime airfield for the American […]

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Loire-Nieuport LN. 401 – Warbird Wednesday Episode #254

Welcome to another episode of Warbird Wednesday! The Loire-Nieuport LN.40 aircraft were a family of French naval dive-bombers for the Aeronavale in the late 1930s, which saw service during World […]

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2025 Gala Honoree – Lydia van Vogt

Lydia van Vogt, maiden name “Bereginsky,” was born in Crimea in 1927. Linda and her family escaped from Crimea during the Russian Civil War, living in Romania and Poland and […]

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Henschel Hs 132 – Warbird Wednesday Episode #253

The Henschel Hs 132 was a jet-powered dive bomber and interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Henschel Flugzeugwerke AG. It was developed during the latter portion […]

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