Author: Staff

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 will serve as a living tribute to one of the most pivotal moments in modern military aviation history. As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, the upcoming July fly-in will commemorate the rapid transition from World War II piston-powered aircraft to the dawn of the jet age, a technological shift that shaped decades of global airpower. Headlining that tribute is the return of the Douglas AD-4 Skyraider, one of the most versatile attack aircraft of the Korean War, brought by the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia....

Seventy-five years ago, in the summer of 1950, South Korea, the United States, and their allies faced the prospect of total defeat on the Korean Peninsula. North Korean forces had surged south in a lightning offensive that began on June 25, crushing South Korean and U.S. defenses and capturing Seoul within days. What followed was one of the most critical and often overlooked battles in American military history, the defense of the Pusan Perimeter. Surrounded on three sides by the Sea of Japan and the enemy’s advance, the Pusan Perimeter was a shrinking foothold around the southern port city...

For more than half a century, Nick Ut’s searing image of a young girl fleeing a napalm attack has stood as one of the most iconic testaments to war’s human toll. Taken on June 8, 1972, the photo captured 9-year-old Kim Phuc, naked and screaming, after a South Vietnamese airstrike engulfed her village in fire. The photograph shocked the world, shifted public sentiment on the Vietnam War, and won Ut the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. It was a moment where photojournalism did what it was supposed to do: bear witness and force accountability. Now, five decades later, that legacy...