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Chairwoman Dr. Dawn Buckingham on April 4 introduced the next installment of the series highlighting the VLB's Voices of Veterans oral history program. This week, they highlight the service of ...
Saudi Arabia, 1990: An Air Force mechanic services a C-5 Galaxy aircraft ... as well as several of our WWII editions and made them available online through https ...
Clemens High School. During World War II, she worked as an airplane mechanic’s assistant and packed parachutes at Selfridge Air Force Base in Mt. Clemens, Mich., near Detroit. Maxine was retired ...
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...
(2nd Lt. Ebony Bryant/Air Force) Some Air Force webpages on pioneering female pilots — from World War II to the modern era — have been taken offline, as the Trump administration continues its ...
A World War Two American fighter pilot has been surprised with a flight in a Mustang aeroplane 80 years to the day after he ...
(A1C Philip Bryant/Air Force) For the Allied forces ... according to the National World War II Museum. Carnage on Oct. 8 over the German U-boat yards at Bremen and aircraft factories at Vegesack ...
The Air Force's Military Tuition Assistance (TA) program pays for up to 100% of college courses that members of the service take while on active duty. Air Force TA will cover up to 100% of your ...
Vice presidents started traveling by plane via Air Force Two in 1959. Vice President JD Vance flies in a C-32, a custom military version of a commercial jetliner. It features a communications ...
The president claimed in a 2024 speech that the general he has now nominated to serve as his chief military advisor once told ...
The Royal Air Force (RAF) also repelled the German fighters with the aid of a new, secret radar technology. First used by the RAF in 1940, the onboard aircraft interception radar (also known as A ...