Robert Anderson “Bob” Hoover piloted more than 300 different planes during a lifetime dedicated to aviation, but perhaps his most unusual flight took place in a German Focke-Wulf Fw190 airplane in the waning days of World War II in 1945. On Feb. 9, 1944, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Air Forces pilot was flying a SpitfireContinue reading “Celebrated pilot Bob Hoover’s famous World War II flight tells only part of his story”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
