The US Army Once Deployed Bombers and 2,500 Troops to Crush 10,000 Armed Coal Miners in West Virginia
Ten thousand armed coal miners held Blair Mountain in late August 1921. They faced machine gun nests, private planes dropping bombs, and a growing force of deputies backed by coal company money. Then President Warren Harding made a decision that would end the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War. He sent in the U.S. […]
The Army Bombers That Attacked the Japanese Fleet and Helped Turn the Tide at Midway
During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew believed it was a suicide attack — years before Japan’s own “kamikaze” missions began. U.S. Army B-26 Bombers at Midway On the morning of June 4, 1942, four U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauders […]
US Bombers Fly over Bosnia in Sign of Support Amid Continued Secessionist Threats
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A pair of U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew low over Sarajevo and several other Bosnian cities on Tuesday as a sign of support amid continued secessionist threats by the staunchly pro-Russia Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik. In addition, the aircraft also participated in a joint military event in the northeastern […]