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In this issue, historian Don Baucom concludes his two-part series, "Wakes of War: Contrails and the Rise of Air Power, 1918-1945," with "Part II: The Air War over Europe, 1939-1945." Here, he demonstrates the importance of the science of contrails and how airmen on opposing sides of the war exploited contrails to their advantage. By war's end the advent of radar had begun to eclipse the significance of the phenomenon.
Based on newly declassified sources, Major Bill Cahill's article sweeps away some of the decades-long mystery surrounding the EC-121 aircraft called Rivet Top that flew during the War in Southeast... |
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