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The only known photo of the original Colditz Cock, by US war correspondent Lee Carson shortly after Colditz Castle was liberated in April 1945. It was a glider built by British prisoners of war for an escape attempt from Oflag...
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On the morning of 4 January 1989, the Kennedy battle group was operating some 130 km north of Libya, with a group of A-6 Intruders on exercise south of Crete, escorted by two pairs of F-14As from VF-14 and...
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A few days before Christmas, on the morning of December 20th, 1978, a lone Cessna was making its way across the Pacific Ocean. Piloted by Jay Prochnow, a retired US Navy pilot. The long trans-Pacific flight was Initially planned as...
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December 22nd, 1964, Lockheed's Skunk Works and the brainchild of Kelly Johnson, the ultra-secret Strategic Reconnaissance SR-71, first took to the skies! She was designed with a minimal radar cross section, loaded with electronic countermeasures, and a deep black paint...
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Apollo 17 (Mission Event: December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, and remains the last time humans have travelled beyond the confines of low Earth orbit..The Apollo 17 crew consisted of Commander Eugene Cernan, Lunar Module...
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