 
Air Force authorizes Berlin Airlift streamers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Retired Col. Gail Halvorsen holds the newly authorized Berlin Airlift streamer after Gen. Duncan J. McNabb presented it to him Oct. 29 here at the Airlift Tanker Association convention. Units that participated in the 1948-1949 humanitarian airlift can include the streamer on their units' guidons. Colonel Halvorsen is known as the "Candy Bomber" for dropping candy from his aircraft to German children during the airlift. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Posted: 11/2/2005
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Not-so-common POW: Grandmother tells of imprisonment
MANILA, Philippines -- Liz Lautzenhiser (third from right) and two other former women prisoners of war talk with Army Soldiers in 1945 three weeks after they were liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp here. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 9/16/2004
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Honoring the past
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Col. Mark Schissler (left) returns a Japanese flag to Manshichi Saeki during a ceremony here Aug. 6. The flag belonged to Mr. Saeki's older brother who died fighting against American forces during World War II. Colonel Schissler is commander of the 374th Airlift Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Val Gempis)
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Posted: 8/10/2004
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Purple Heart presentation
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Retired Lt. Col. Wayne Ehlers wears the Purple Heart that was presented to him July 26 for being wounded in combat nearly 60 years ago while flying over his target in Germany during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo by: Airman 1st Class Bernice Suarez)
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Posted: 7/30/2004
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Museum receives 11,000-pound stone roller from China
DAYTON, Ohio -- U.S. Air Force Museum technician Roberta Carothers measures a recently donated stone roller before its display in the museum's air power gallery. The stone roller was used to compress gravel for runways as long as 8,500 feet in Kunming, China. The runways were used by the Flying Tigers and other aircraft during World War II. (U.S Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Gailyn F. Whitman)
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Posted: 6/29/2004
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Flight nurses remembered
WORLD WAR II -- Although the role of the flight surgeon was developed in World War I, it was not until November 1942, when the School of Air Evacuation opened at Bowman Field, Ky., that the flight surgeon's counterpart -- the flight nurse -- became a member of the medical flight team. Before World War II, no care was provided to wounded Soldiers during evacuation flights. (Courtesy photo)
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Posted: 6/8/2004
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Memphis Belle crew
1940's -- The crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" is shown at an air base in England after completing 25 missions over enemy territory on June 7, 1943. They are, left to right: Tech. Sgt. Harold P. Loch of Green Bay, Wis., top turret gunner; Staff Sgt. Cecil H. Scott of Altoona, Penn., ball turret gunner; Tech. Sgt. Robert J, Hanson of Walla Walla, Wash., radio operator; Capt. James A. Verinis, New Haven, Conn., co-pilot; Capt. Robert K. Morgan of Ashville, N. C., pilot; Capt. Charles B. Leighton of Lansing, Mich., navigator; Staff Sgt. John P. Quinlan of Yonkers, N. Y., tail gunner; Staff Sgt. Casimer A. Nastal of Detroit, Mich., waist gunner; Capt. Vincent B. Evans of Henderson, Texas, bombardier and Staff Sgt. Clarence E. Wichell of Oak Park, Ill., waist gunner.
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Posted: 5/28/2004
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Charles Yeager
Col. Charles S. Yeager, Commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, Calif., poses with a model of the North American X-15 high speed, high-altitude research aircraft. He holds a photograph of the Bell X-1 aircraft in which he became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound on Oct. 14, 1947.
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Posted: 5/27/2004
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Capt. Yeager transfers to X-1
1940's -- Capt. Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager transfers from a B-29 to the Bell X-1A. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Posted: 4/13/2004
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Capt. Yeager, Bell X-1A
Capt. Charles E. Yeager (shown standing in front of the Air Force's Bell-built X-1 supersonic research aircraft) became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight on Oct. 14, 1947. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Posted: 4/13/2004
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