By the time WWI and WWII rolled around, the ace of spades was used as a sign of luck, before taking a dark turn during the ...

Colonel Tomb was supposedly a double ace of the VPAF who scored anywhere from twelve to fourteen air-to-air kills against American warplanes. As the saying goes, “The first casualty of war is truth.” ...

As I noted in my recent story on the passing of Col. Perry Dahl (USAF, ret.) at the ripe old age of 101, American fighter aces—i.e., combat aviators who destroyed five or more enemy aircraft in aerial ...