Fighter Pilots: A Warrior Clan

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Take a hard look at the two young men in these photos. Do they look as if they were bent on killing one another? On the left we have a young, unknown enlisted Japanese pilot standing in front of a Nakajima Ki-27 “Nate,” one of Japan’s earliest monoplanes that led to the much vaunted Zero. On the right we have Capt. Kenneth Taylor standing in front of the 15,000th Curtiss fighter delivered. The year is...

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