The Chief of Staff of the Florida Air National Guard, Brigadier Gen. Jim Demarest, is starting a campaign to award the Medal of Honor to the late Capt. Stephen Phillis.
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Category: Heritage
Untold story of how CIA stole SA-2 guidance pod in Indonesia
A new book by Daniel Cameron, a CIA agent based in Indonesia, has revealed how the agency was able to steal manuals and guidance pod of the SA-2 surface-to-air missile during the 1960s.
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Riga air museum faces closure
A private aviation museum in Latvia’s Riga airport is facing closure due to an expansion of the airport.
U.S. Air Force Radiation Assessment Team’s contributions during Operation Tomadachi
The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command History Office has published a photographic essay from the archives of the Air Force Radiation Assessment Team personnel who were deployed to Japan during the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami.
On this day 85 years ago, the Spitfire made its maiden flight
Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054 made its first flight on this day 85 years ago from Eastleigh Aerodrome (now Southampton Airport).
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