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Pearl Harbor survivor retraces steps, pays tribute to Airmen from Air Force Link Top Stories | A U.S. Army Air Corps veteran, who survived the Dec. 7, 1941, attacks on then Hickam Field and Pearl Harbor, returned to the Hawaiian island of Oahu to see the place he was forced to become a man so early in his life.  Nearly 70 years after the infamous day, Durward Swanson, a 90-year-old native of Georgia, returned to the island as a guest to be the grand marshal in the Waikiki Holiday Parade. Before the parade, he visited Joint Base Hickam-Pearl Harbor to remember the events that brought the U.S. to the forefront of World War II; to remember those men and women at Hickam Field who gave their lives to their country; and to pay tribute to the friends and family he lost....

Remembering Pearl Harbor 70th Anniversary from AF.mil Photos

Pilot's wife, on Japanese attacks: 'I never thought it would happen where I was' from Air Force Link Top Stories | Nineteen-year-old Bea Sullivan hid under the bed when Japanese airplanes attacked Hickam Field Dec. 7, 1941. Her newlywed husband, 2nd Lt. Robert Sullivan, a B-18 Bolo pilot, was off island in Sacramento, Calif., with two flying squadrons from Hickam Field, and she was scared....

Dec. 7th - Pearl Harbor - Little Chicago Review | Although the US had been supporting Great Britain through the Lend-Lease Act, the US had not actually been directly involved with the exception of the “Flying Tigers” who were fighting for China. The “Flying Tigers” were a group of about 300 American ...

The Museum’s Pearl Harbor Survivor from AirSpace by The National Air and Space Museum | ...On Ford Island, just across from battleship row, ten Sikorsky JRS-1 Flying Boats (Amphibians) had escaped any serious damage from the multi-wave attack. Early the following morning, around 3:00 am Pearl Harbor time on December 8, Navy JRS-1 crews took to the air in search of the Japanese fleet. The Sikorsky JRS-1, a utility and ...

Air Force Thunderbirds to perform in Maine at a former Brunswick Naval Air Station - The Republic | The civilian authority that's in charge of the former Brunswick Naval Air Station is going to hold another air show this coming summer. The Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority said Wednesday the Great State of Maine Air ...

RNAS Yeovilton Air Day picks up Event of the Year Award by Flightline UK | Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton has been selected as one of the winners in the ‘Tourism Event of the Year’ category by the South West Tourism Alliance.  The annual Air Day which took place in July this year attracted nearly 30,000 visitors who experienced one of the best Air Days in recent years....

DVD Review: Royal International Air Tattoo 2011 by Flightline UK | Produced by Adrenalin Television; available from airtattoo.com priced £16.95 DVD, £24.95 Blu-Ray | The Royal International Air Tattoo is the UK’s biggest military airshow and this year celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the NATO Tiger Association as well as it’s own 40th anniversary. In forty years the show has grown from relative modest beginning to one of the most important dates on the military aviation and defence calendar....

F-35B and Blue Angels C-130 from Flight Image of the Day by Dominic Perry | This little gem from Lockheed Martin shows an F-35B parked at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base with a C-130 of the US Navy's Blue Angels coming in to land in the background....
   
Doolittle's raid recalled almost 70 years later - Watertown Daily Times | Jimmy Doolittle's B-25 bombers takes off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet for the initial air raid on Tokyo. Coming just four months after the Imperial Japanese Navy savaged the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the Doolittle raid on Japan's home ...

Flight To The Wall - FB | Our documentary has just been given 'The Award of Merit' by the Accolade competition in California. We are one of a handful to receive this award.  | 'Flight To The Wall' is a feature length documentary that tells the heartfelt story of some veterans that flew from the West Coast to the Wall and back in Vietnam era Huey helicopters and a Kiowa to honor and listen to stories of our Vietnam vets.

International Civil Aviation Day 2011 from Wayne Farley's Aviation Blog | Today, we celebrate a very special birthday. On this day 67 years ago, a group of visionaries, meeting at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago, signed a document that would forever change our...

"Bravo Honkin 'Bravo' UCAP # 264 from Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast | Popped breakers... Impressive chopper flying... Unusual field repairs...

Stealth fighter marks important anniversary from Black Horizon by Steve Douglass | Alamogordo Daily News By Arlan Ponder, For the Daily News | "Have Blue," is the predecessor of the Air Force's famed F-117A Nighthawk ... (U.S. Air Force photo) | To many people, Dec. 1 marked a realization that there were only 24 more shopping days to Christmas. But to people who are involved with stealth fighters, an event happened on this date that forever changed the world of aviation....

Requirements to be a space taxi for NASA - Boing Boing | Air & Space Magazine asked NASA's Commercial Crew Program head Ed Mango about the safety requirements private companies must guarantee to land a contract to taxi future NASA astronauts between Earth and ...

Philatelic Cover Reveals the secret names of second Taikonaut team from NASASpaceFlight.com by Chris Bergin | The names of the military pilots selected in 2010 to form China’s second group of taikonauts - which have been a closely guarded secret for the last 18 months - appear to have been released to the space community, due to a possible philatelic blunder....

Voyager 1 Has Entered 'Cosmic Purgatory,' Where No Probe Has Gone Before - PopSci | More than three decades after launching from Earth, Voyager 1 is about to leave the solar system. The probe, which was originally launched along with companion spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1977, has entered a new and uncharted region of space between our solar system and the interstellar space beyond that NASA is calling a kind of “cosmic purgatory,” the Telegraph reports....