The Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST), the first variant of the DC-3 series, had its first flight on December 17, 1935, the 32nd anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight. Military versions of ...
The Placid Lassie flew in from its homebase in Poughkeepsie, New York, for the Wings N' Wheels event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Claire Barrett) In 1943, the Placid Lassie took to the skies for ...
The angels rose slowly in the dead of night, thousands of them in low formation across the English Channel. From British shores the American troopers were a prayer sent, and in French skies, one ...