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Great Raids
Flight Journal • MAY/JUNE 2023 | VOLUME 30, NO. 3
RISE OF THE PHANTOM • Evolution of the Legendary F-4
PHANTOM VARIANTS
“DAMS RAID” • John “Hoppy” Hopgood, heroic “Dambuster”
THE UPKEEP BOUNCING BOMB
DAMS RAID LOSSES
617 Squadron: the “Dambusters”
“America” Flies Again • Restoring the Curtiss Seaplane
Building the Curtiss Seaplanes—again
MUSTANGS over Normandy • P-51s search and destroy targets of opportunity
A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING • Major Charles “Bazooka Charlie” Carpenter and his gun-toting L-4 Cub
WAR BUGS
Howard DGA GH-2 • The “Big Blue Freeloader” earns its keep
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