Air Aces
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The 56th Fighter Group based in England already had a trio of aces, and competition was fierce to get the highest kill count.
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Air Aces
Gabreski Becomes an Ace
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Ten weeks after joining the 61st Squadron Gabby Gabreski gets his first taste of combat over Holland.
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Air Aces
Gabby's First Combat Hit
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Canadian George Beurling broke every rule in the book yet became one of the greatest fighter pilots of World War II. A loner and a social misfit, Beurling's disdain for protocol branded him an outcast.
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Air Aces
Maverick George Beurling
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During one of the final battles over Malta, George Beurling might have been in his last dog fight.
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Air Aces
Death in the Air Over Malta
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Tuskegee Airman Alex Jefferson has to bail out over enemy territory and his flight companions assume he is KIA.
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Air Aces
Tuskegee Bail Out Over Enemy Territory
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Despite engine failure and no radio from being shot up over Berlin the crew of this Lancaster bomber defy the odds and make it back home to England.
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Air Aces
Rough Lancaster Landing
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Through personal accounts and real footage members of crews from British Lancaster bombers describe their payloads and what it was like to come under heavy fire while dropping bombs over Germany.
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Air Aces
Bombs Away!
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Only a few years earlier some questioned whether or not they could fly a fighter, but by 1944 the Tuskegee Airmen were providing protection for crucial long distance bombing missions against targets in Nazi Germany.
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Tuskegee Airmen Escort Long-Range Bombers
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SAS Raid on Al Qaeda
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Operation Certain Death
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Captured in Sierra Leone
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The SAS Surveillance Team
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A Trove of Plundered Nazi Gold is Discovered
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