Sierra Hotel Blog
On the morning of December 22nd, 1986, in Fargo, North Dakota, a four-month-old named Michael McCann passed away. His parents, Steven and Karen McCann, overwhelmed by their loss, made the remarkably courageous decision to pass a gift of life to...
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On August 18th, 1941, based at No. 53 OTU. John Gillespie Magee had launched on his seventh flight in a Spitfire Mk I, and climbed to an altitude of 33,000 feet. There, as he orbited high above the clouds, he...
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Lt. Col. Jacqueline Cochran, born May 11, 1906, Pensacola, Fla.In the 1930s, Cochran accepted an offer from a friend to go up for an airplane ride, and it seems that was all it took. Soon afterward, Jackie began taking flying...
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Richard Ira Bong was a United States Army Air Forces Major and Medal of Honor recipient and one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and top flying ace during the second world war. Bong was credited with shooting down...
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August 6th, 1945 - The 393d Bombardment Squadron B-29 Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, took off from North Field airbase on Tinian for the primary target, Hiroshima and with Kokura and Nagasaki as mission alternatives. The Enola...
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