Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The first two sets are Wings of War - Famous Aces (Nexus Editrice 2004) and Wings of War - Watch your back! (Nexus Editrice 2005). Famous Aces includes a selection of single seater fighters with personal colors of the most renowned aces of World War I. Watch your back! adds other fighters and some two-seaters allowing bombings, reconnaissance ...
Richard Ira "Dick" Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
Ace of aces is a title accorded to the top active ace within a branch of service in a nation's military in time of war. The term ace was used for highly successfull military professional that have accumulated multiple kills on enemy aircraft shot down, tanks destroyed, ships sunk, by number or tonnage. [ 1 ]
The 2004 board game Wings of War: Famous Aces features Rickenbacker's Spad XIII. [139] In the 2004 novel The Godfather Returns, Nick Geraci is reading Eddie Rickenbacker's autobiography. His father quotes from the sleeve of the book. [140] Rickenbacker is an instructor in the World War I simulation game Rise of Flight, released in 2009. [141]
George Frederick "Buzz" Beurling, DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar (6 December 1921 – 20 May 1948) was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. Beurling was recognized as "Canada's most famous hero of the Second World War", as "The Falcon of Malta" and the "Knight of Malta", [ 1 ] having been credited with ...
Andrea Angiolino at Lucca Comics and Games 2015. Andrea Angiolino (born April 27, 1966, in Rome, Italy) is a game designer.Among his last boardgames, Dragon Ball - Alla ricerca delle sette sfere (Nexus Editrice 1998), Ulysses (Winning Moves 2001), Wings of War (Nexus Editrice 2004, then NG International, now published as Wings of Glory by Ares Games), Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles ...
Top Canadian and British Empire ace VC, CB, DSO*, MC, DFC. Ernst Udet German Empire: Luftstreitkräfte: 62 [5] PLM, HOH, IC Mick Mannock † United Kingdom: Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force: 61 [9] Top British ace VC DSO & Two Bars MC & Bar. Raymond Collishaw Canada: Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force: 60 [10] Top Royal Naval Air ...
Aces, warriors and wingmen: the firsthand accounts of Canada's fighter pilots in the Second World War. John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.. ISBN 0-470-83590-7. Tate, Robert. Hans-Joachim Marseille: An Illustrated Tribute to the Luftwaffe's "Star of Africa". Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7643-2940-1.