Tag Archives: MS-344

Flying Boats, Part I: “The Spruce Goose”

Posted on June 16, 2017 by scastudent

By Kyle Thede, former SC&A intern and recent graduate of the WSU Public History program Seventy years ago this fall, on November 2, 1947, the residents of Long Beach, California who cared to glance out over the harbor were witness … Continue reading →

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“First Time for Everything”

Posted on March 12, 2017 by scastudent

Story by Kyle Thede, SC&A intern and Public History graduate student Lieutenant Fairchild was still humming the familiar refrain of “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” though the constant howl of the wind rushing past his open cockpit drowned out any … Continue reading →

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Flying Blind: The Army’s First Night Fighters of World War II

Posted on March 3, 2017 by scastudent

By Kyle Thede, SC&A intern and Public History graduate student In the spring of 1942, only months into the United States’ involvement in World War II, the Army Air Forces were taking steps into uncharted territory. While Britain’s Royal Air … Continue reading →

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