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June 26th, 1981; The EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle APC is first utilized in a secret extraction operation inside Czechoslovakian borders. The crisis began to unfold when several American military personnel inadvertently crossed through the Czech border, and in a desperate...
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Bruce W. Carr was born on January 28th, 1924, in Union Springs, New York. Bruce got an early start in his flight training at the young age of 15, then a few years later, he enlisted into the United States...
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. On Monday, April 8th, 1968; BOAC Flight 712 (callsign Speedbird 712) a Boeing 707-465 was scheduled to depart from Heathrow's Terminal 3 at 15:15 GMT (16:15 BST) for the Whiskey Echo long-haul to Sydney, Australia, via Zurich, Tel Aviv,...
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Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper Jr. was born on March 6th, 1927, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, the only child of Leroy Gordon Cooper Sr. and his wife Hattie. Cooper’s exposure to aviation began early as his parents were owners of a Command-Aire...
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January 27th is designated by the United Nations General Assembly as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD). Since 2005, commemoration ceremonies around the world have been held to mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and to honour the six...
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