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Lt. George “Skin” Bush became a naval aviator, commissioned as an ensign in the United States Naval Reserve at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on June 9, 1943 (just three days before his 19th birthday), which made him the youngest...
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In April 1975, South Vietnamese Air Force Major Buang-Ly loaded his wife, and five children, into a two-seat Cessna O-1 Bird Dog, and took off from Con Son Island in an attempt to save his family as South Vietnam...
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STS 119 Space Shuttle Discovery was being prepared for launch on the 15th, of March, 2009, from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center on the Florida coast.The mission parameters were to deliver and assemble the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment, and the...
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October 28th, 1991, the crew of the schooner Anne Kristine were rescued by Lieutenant Paul Lange and his crew in a USCG HH-60 Jayhawk during what came to be more famously known as the "Perfect Storm" Lieutenant Paul Lange was...
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Brig. Gen. James Robinson "Robbie" Risner (January 16, 1925 – October 22, 2013)Robbie enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet in April 1943, attended flight training at Williams Field, Arizona, where he was awarded...
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