Sierra Hotel Blog
August 16th, 1905, Little Mariya Oktyabrskaya was born into a poor Ukrainian family on the Crimean Peninsula. Mariya, one of ten children, once old enough, tried to help support her family by working in a cannery, and then as a...
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On the night before Christmas my ship was at sea, A big flat-top "bird farm" from the land of the free.Cruising the ocean at "the tip of the spear",So everyone home could sleep sound with no fear.Flight ops had...
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Lovingly and most innocently written by 10 year old TJ, Ben and Daniel.
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December 4th, 1959; Ensign Albert Joe Hickman of Fighter Squadron 121 was returning from carrier practice off the coast of California. After a successful training flight, Hickman was guiding his McDonnell F3H-2N Demon swept-wing all-weather interceptor through 1500 feet onto final...
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July 4th, 1989, Colonel Nikolai Skuridin departed Bagicz airbase located near Kolobrzeg, Poland, on a MiG-23M, an aircraft simply known to the West as "The Flogger," a nuclear-capable variable-geometry single-engine Soviet 3rd generation Fighter. During takeoff for a routine training...
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