Many months of rigorous training and years of dedicated service to the Air Force positioned William Gornik well for a SR-71 Blackbird “special project”.

Missing her husband fighting in Africa, Grace Pankow received comfort knowing that she was helping end the war with every airplane brake line she attached.

On this 75th anniversary of the ending of WWII, the Warhawk presents a few headlines and photos that captured the world’s attention on May 7 & 8, 1945.

It takes a certain kind of man to fly over and (purposely) crash-land into Nazi-occupied Europe. That man was David Haggard, US Army Air Corps glider pilot.