Rebecca Gratz of Philadelphia pioneered this.
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Daily Quiz for July 11, 2012
Charles Herbert Lightoller, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and a bar to add to it during WWI, also served in WWII but is most remembered for his heroic efforts during this event.
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President Launches Commemoration and Lauds Vietnam Vets at The Wall on Memorial Day
This year’s Memorial Day observance at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was highlighted by President […]
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Broadway Play Plots Pro-War Columnist’s Joe Alsop’s Fall
A new production on Broadway, The Columnist, which ran April through June 2012, examines […]
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Van’s Homebuilt RVs
Paul Dye has restored the original RV-1, progenitor of the world’s most successful line of homebuilt planes.
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Virgorous Viggen
The Swedish Air Force Historic Flight has certified a Saab Viggen, adding it to its team of airworthy former SAF jet fighters.
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Desert Kittyhawk Discovered
Polish oil men recently discovered a remarkably intact Curtiss Kittyhawk in the Sahara Desert inside Egypt.
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My War – Prof. Charles R. Carr
On his first helicopter assault, he jumped and ran the wrong way; his company was 30 ft. away, facing the other direction
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The HH-43 Huskie: The First US Air Force Search-and-Rescue Helicopter
The last HH-43 Huskie left Indochina on Sept. 20, 1975, making it the first U.S. Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter to conduct a combat search-and-rescue mission and the last to leave the theater.
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Review – Armed With Abundance: Consumerism & Soldiering in the Vietnam War
Shows that the majority of those who served in the U.S. military in the Vietnam War were actually support troops