Major General William Pendleton Thompson Hill was recently posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Military Hall of Fame ...
Norman is a ... just before World War II. When the war arrived, Norman became home to a U.S. Naval Air Station, now Max Westheimer Airport. The Navy also built a base to the south, and both ...
How did Norman grow from a sleepy college town of less than 25,000 residents in 1940 with less than 13 square miles to the 130,000 neighbors and 178 square miles ...
Every time, the skill of Flak-Bait's crew meant it successfully returned to base and lived to fight another day. Major John Egan and Captain Norman Schloesser ... of restoring WWII military planes.
Dangerous Santa Ana winds are expected to return to the Los Angeles area this week, potentially fueling the growth of new and ...
Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...
It might seem hard to imagine now, with duty-free shops and modern passenger jets on the tarmac, but the airport's original use was as an RAF base in WW2 ... then run by the Air Ministry, with ...
It might seem hard to imagine now, with duty-free shops and modern passenger jets on the tarmac, but the airport's original use was as an RAF base in WW2. It was built in August ... It was then run by ...
While fighter planes, bombers, and their pilots were instrumental in WW2, there were hundreds ... The station also housed the Air Defence of Great Britain’s (ADGB) Emergency Operations Room (EOR) in ...