They spent tense hours at night, seated in their aircraft and ready for catapult launch with nuke bombs, before the mission was ultimately called off… The Douglas A-1 Skyraider, also known as ...
Lingering stubbornly, an anachronism that refused to die, the Douglas A-1 Skyraider was the U.S.’s last-ever prop-driven fighter/attack aircraft. The A-1 first flew while Hitler still ruled ...