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O-2

1970's -- Side view of a U.S. Air Force O-2 of the 9th Special Operations Squadron dropping Chieu Hoi leaflets over the Republic of Vietnam. July 1970 Photo by Sgt. Wiliam F. Diebold, USAF

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O-38

One of the best-known Air Corps observation planes of the 1930s was the O-38. Between 1931 and 1934, Douglas built 156 O-38s for the Air Corps, eight of which were O-38Fs. Some were still in service at the time of the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941.

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Octave Chanute

Octave Chanute was born in Paris Feb. 18, 1832, and came to the United States as a child. He became a respected civil engineer and spent most of his adult life as an engineer in the railroad industry, but later gained international fame in the study of aeronautics.

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Octave Chanute

Octave Chanute came to the United States as a child. He spent most of his adult life as an engineer in the railroad industry, but later gained international fame in the study of aeronautics.

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Office of Special Investigations exhibit opens at Air Force museum

DAYTON, Ohio -- A new exhibit featuring the Air Force Office of Special Investigations opened at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force here April 20. The exhibit highlights notable OSI tasks such as counterintelligence, responding to espionage and investigating terrorist attacks. A disguise kit, surveillance cameras, electronic listening devices and a wristwatch modified to act as a radio transmitter are some of the items used by OSI agents that are featured in the display. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jeff Fisher)

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Office of Special Investigations exhibit opens at Air Force museum

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Old Glory Dec. 7, 1941

Old Glory waves over Hickam Field, bearing silent witness to the brutality of the Japanese attack Dec. 7, 1941. This same flag later flew above the United Nations charter meeting in San Francisco, over the Big Three conference at Potsdam, and above the White House Aug. 14, 1945 when the Japanese accepted terms of surrender. It was part of a historical display at the Air Force Academy until returned for permanent display at Hickam Air Force Base in 1980. (Air Force Photo)

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Operation Crossroads

Operations Crossroads history spotlight, photo from the Naval Historical Research Center. (Photo illustration/Mike Carabajal)

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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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Operation Homecoming

Operation Homecoming, history spotlight graphic, U.S. Air Force graphic

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Operation Provide Comfort

1990's -- Airmen and Kurdish refugees unload food supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq.

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Operation Southern Watch

An F-15 Eagle takes off during Operation Southern Watch, which was a major operation in Southwest Asia from 1992-2002. U.S. officials ended an era with the inactivation of the 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sergeant Sean M. Worrell)

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OPERATION VITTLES, and children

"OPERATION VITTLES" (Berlin Airlift) -- Berlin youngsters who live near the Tempelhof Air Force Base, where the U.S. Air Force transport planes unload their airlift supplies, play at a game called "Luftbrucke" (air bridge). They use model American planes which are sold in German toy shops throughout the western sector of Berlin. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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