This presentation starts with a brief history of the Caroline islands including the Japanese who acquired the islands at the end of WWI. During WWII over a two-day period US carrier planes sank over 40 ships at anchor in Truk Lagoon and destroyed over 100 aircraft on the ground and in the air.  In the […]

A simple, personal and very engaging story that describes in detail the combat career of one of naval aviation's deadliest fighter pilots. Although he objected to being called such, Hamilton McWhorter III's service to family and country made him a standout among America's Greatest Generation. From mid-1943, Hamilton McWhorter was constantly engaged in the unforgiving […]

In 1910 a commercial zeppelin became the world’s first airliner. Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German count, pioneered rigid airship development beginning in the late 19th century. Historian Edward E. Gordon will reveal how the United States and many European nations developed giant airships. By mid-1914 German Zeppelins had carried over 10,000 fee-paying passengers on over […]

The A-7D is a single-seat, tactical close air support aircraft derived from the U.S. Navy’s A-7. The first A-7D made its initial flight in April 1968, and deliveries of production models began in December 1968. When A-7D production ended in 1976, LTV had delivered 459 to the U.S. Air Force (USAF). The SLUF (Short, Little, […]