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January 23, 2024 | View in browser
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Ghost Army veterans set to receive Congressional Gold Medal in March ceremony
Congress will bestow its highest honor to the Ghost Army on March 21 in recognition of the unique role the unit played in helping defeat Nazi Germany by misleading German forces about the size and location of Allied troops.
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The F-16 Fighting Falcon flew for the 1st time 50 years ago
Test pilot Phil Oestricher flew the prototype YF-16 for the first time Jan. 20, 1974, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
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Remains of WWII tank commander to be interred at national cemetery in San Diego
The remains of U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Gene F. Walker, an M4 Sherman Tank commander killed during World War II, will be interred Jan. 26 at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.
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Miniseries spotlights the heroics of Georgia-born Mighty Eighth Air Force
The docudrama “Masters of the Air” chronicles the Mighty Eighth’s contributions through the airmen of the 100th Bomb Group, or “Bloody Hundredth”, one of 40 Eighth Air Force bomber groups that battled the Nazis in the skies above Western Europe.
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From the archives, 2003: Pilots tell of harrowing drop of 173rd
About 1,000 soldiers from the Army’s 173rd Airborne Brigade, based at Vicenza, Italy, parachuted onto Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, giving the U.S.-led war in Iraq is largest troop presence in that region.
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Why Jan. 6 insurrectionists sent a letter to the Folger Shakespeare Library
The letter, warning of the protest, is now in the library’s collection. It’s the latest evidence of the long history of white nationalists’ embrace of Shakespeare.
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NASA’s Ames Research Center, a former US Navy lab, builds the future
Make American airplanes the best and fastest in the world. That was the mission of Ames Aeronautical Laboratory at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Moffett Field. Now a new 40,000-square-foot research facility called the Biosciences Collaborative Laboratory has taken its place, exploring fields such as human survival in outer space.
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France gets ready to say ‘merci’ to World War II veterans for D-Day’s 80th anniversary this year
France is getting ready to show its gratitude toward World War II veterans who will return, many for the last time, to Normandy beaches this year for 80th anniversary commemorations of D-Day to mark the defeat of the Nazis.
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In small-town Wisconsin, looking for the roots of the modern American conspiracy theory
Long before QAnon, Pizzagate and the modern crop of politicians who will happily repeat apocalyptic talking points, there was the John Birch Society. And outside its cramped offices in Wisconsin is a national political landscape that the Society helped shape.
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