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February 6, 2024 | View in browser
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As the USAT Dorchester sank in 1943, 4 chaplains offered comfort, prayer — and their own life vests
Wreaths Across America will pay tribute to “The Four Chaplains,” who gave their lives offering aid and comfort to survivors of the sinking of the USAT Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943.
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From the archives, 2004: Tuskegee Airman, visiting Yongsan, talks about integration of military
The day President Truman signed the order desegregating the military in 1948, now-retired Lt. Col. Herbert E. Carter remembers a mix of emotions among his fellow black aviators.
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The incredible story of Alameda’s USS Hornet, the aircraft carrier that assisted Apollo 11
The Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Hornet, which saw combat in WWII and Vietnam, was the recovery vessel for the Apollo 11 and 12 missions. It is now the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda, Calif.
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Who was Lt. Frank Stuart Patterson? Meet the namesake for half of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Most people probably recognize the “Wright” part of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was named after Orville and Wilbur Wright. But who is the person behind the second half of the base’s name?
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How the US and Iran escaped a broader conflict in 2020
President Joe Biden said he will respond to an attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. troops. President Donald Trump faced a similar decision in 2020.
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‘France has not forgotten’: Consul general awards Legion of Honor to 103-year-old D-Day veteran
Yannick Tagand, France’s general counsel to the Midwest, presented France’s highest honor to D-Day veteran Dick Grout for his part in France’s liberation in World War II.
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Nuclear missile parts found in garage after call to museum, Washington cops say
A phone call to a museum about a potential donation led police to part of a former nuclear missile in a Bellevue, Wash., garage.
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Her brilliant photos of the Depression made history. Did they twist it?
Even a passing glance at documentary materials from the 1930s — the bread lines, the work camps, the images of chains of misery as migrants fled the Dust Bowl to find employment in the West — ought to throw cold water on this theory. One photographer, Dorothea Lange, was responsible for the gravest of those images, bridging the gap between individual experience and national story.
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Deep-sea exploration company thinks it has found Amelia Earhart’s plane
Tony Romeo, a pilot and former intelligence officer with the U.S. Air Force, is convinced that the image captured in December by his company, Deep Sea Vision, shows the remains of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.
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