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Former Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Youst, age 92, from Pottsville Pa., and one of 11 surviving Airmen interned at Camp Wauwilermoos, poses with POW medal and letter from the Secretary of the Air Force, Deborah Lee James, at the POW medal presentation Jan. 27, 2014, at the Schuylkill Center Nursing Home, Pottsville, Pa. The POW medal was presented to Youst seven decades later after his internment in a Swiss prison during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Pascual Flores)
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140130-F-OL753-001

Air Force Col. James C. Hodges, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and 87th Air Base Wing commander, displays former Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth E. Yousts’ (center) uniform during a Prisoner of War Medal presentation Jan. 27, 2014, at the Schuylkill Center Nursing Home, Pottsville, Pa. The POW medal was presented to Youst seven decades later after his internment in a Swiss prison during World War II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Pascual Flores)
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The U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band plays during a Veteran’s Day Ceremony at the Lafayette Escadrille memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France Nov. 11, 2013. Lafayette Escadrille was a French Air Service squadron during World War I comprised largely of volunteer American fighter pilots.
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People listen to the closing remarks of a Veteran’s Day ceremony at the Lafayette Escadrille memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France Nov. 11, 2013. Lafayette Escadrille was a French Air Service squadron during World War I comprised largely of volunteer American fighter pilots.
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131111-F-NI989-056

Members of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band tune up their instruments before playing at a Veteran’s Day Ceremony at the Lafayette Escadrille memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France Nov. 11, 2013. Lafayette Escadrille was a French Air Service squadron during World War I comprised largely of volunteer American fighter pilots
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131111-F-NI989-069

A Veterans Day Ceremony was held at the Lafayette Escadrille memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France, Nov. 11, 2013. Lafayette Escadrille was a French Air Service squadron during World War I comprised largely of volunteer American fighter pilots.
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In honor of a father

Col. Billye Hutchison (left) poses for a photo with 2nd Lt. Jon Koritz, Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 13-13 graduate, and his mother Julianne Koritz Aug. 3, 2013, outside of the Koritz Clinic at Seymore Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. The Koritz Clinic was renamed in 2008 in honor of Maj. Thomas Koritz after he was killed in action during the second night of combat in Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Hutchinson is the 14th Medical Group commander.
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60 years of Air Superiority

An F-4G Wild Weasel fighter (foreground) and an F-16 Fighting Falcon are serviced on the flight line prior to departing for Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Fernando Serna)
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60 years of Air Superiority

469th TFS pilots Capts. Bruce Holmes, (left to right) Will Koenitzer and William "Bart" Barthelmas. Barthelmas was killed in action on July 27, 1965, on the first Air Force airstrike against North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile sites. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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60 years of Air Superiority

F-16A, F-15C and F-15E flying during Desert Storm. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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60 years of Air Superiority

An F-35 Lightning II, from the 461th Flight Test Squadron, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., receives fuel from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, from the 151st Air Fueling Wing, Utah Air National Guard, Feb. 22, 2012. The 151st Air Refueling Wing routinely supports air operations across the western United States. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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60 years of Air Superiority

An Air Force F-80 Shooting Star fighter-bomber involved in an air strike over Suan, North Korea, in the largest air strike of the Korean Conflict on May 8, 1952 (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)
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60 years of Air Superiority

A North Vietnamese Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 is hit by 20 mm shells from a U.S. Air Force Republic F-105D Thunderchief piloted by Major Ralph Kuster Jr. from the 469th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 388th Tactical Figther Wing, on 3 June 1967. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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60 years of Air Superiority

Air view of bombs dropped by U.S. Air Force, exploding on three parallel railroad bridges across Han River, southwest of Seoul, capital of the Republic of Korea. Bridges were bombed early in war to delay advance of invading North Korean troops. (DoD/National Air and Space Museum, #50-9025-306-PS)
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Capt. Klinker was 27-years-old when she died April 4, 1975

Capt. Klinker was 27-years-old when she died April 4, 1975 when the first aircraft supporting Operation Babylife crashed. Klinker was the last nurse and the only member of the Air Force Nurse Corps to be killed in Vietnam. Capt. Mary T. Klinker was posthumously awarded the Airman’s Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious Service Medal.
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Operation Homecoming

Air Tech. Sgt. James R. Cook, who was captured after bailing out of his stricken aircraft over North Vietnam, salutes the colors from his stretcher as he is carried aboard a C-141A aircraft during Operation Homecoming, Feb. 12, 1973. U.S. Air Force photo
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Operation Homecoming

Newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming. The mission included 54 C-141 flights between Feb. 12 and April 4, 1973, returning 591 POWs to American soil. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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66 percent of Pacific air force assets destroyed in hours

A burned U.S. B -17C after the Empire of Japan attacked Wheeler Air Field Dec. 7, 1941. The attack well known for crippling the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet also left approximately 700 U.S Airmen killed or wounded and 66 percent of the Air Force strength in Hawaii decimated. The Japanese lost only 29 pilots from more than 350 planes launched from aircraft carriers north of Hawaii. (Courtesy Photo/Tai Sing Loo, Pearl Harbor's main cameraman 1918 to 1948)
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Wheeler, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941

Resourceful aircrews remove parts from a P-40 destroyed in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Wheeler Air Base for us on other repairable aircraft.
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Wheeler, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941

Wrecked planes on Wheeler Air Field flight line, with Hangar 2 in background and (on the right) tent quarters where many enlisted men were killed Dec. 7, 1941.
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