The annual Blackened Canteen ceremony took place on Dec. 6 at the USS Arizona Memorial, Hawaii.
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal
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Category: Heritage
Archaeologists survey PBY-5 sunk during Pearl Harbor attack
Archaeologists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Hawaii archaeologists were recently able to conduct a detailed archaeological survey of a U.S. Navy PBY-5 Catalina airplane sunk during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Photo Credit: UH Marine Option Program
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Argentine Air Force retired its Mirage fighters
The Argentine Air Force retired all its remaining Mirage fighters at VI Air Brigade in Tandil on Nov. 29. Active and retired airmen gathered to bid the jets a final farewell.
DC-3 painted in IAF colors will soon head home to India
A DC-3 that was restored in the U.K. will soon depart for India where it will join the Indian Air Force vintage squadron. The service will now have to decide whether it will dismantle the aircraft and ferry it home or to make the long distance trip home.
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Figuring out the specs of Cold War Soviet airplanes
Bill Sweetman described how he would use graph paper and a Sinclair Cambridge calculator to try figure out the specifications of Soviet warplanes during the Cold War.
By Richard J. Terry [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons