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Video: Flags at Half-Staff for Neil Armstrong Today from Spaceports | Neil Armstrong's funeral is today in Ohio. The President of the United States has placed all American flags at half-staff today in his honor and the cosmic calendar has provided a "Blue Moon!"

Our View: Armstrong was an American hero - Norwich Bulletin | The Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio — the town where he was born — paid tribute to their native son Wednesday with a program called “Wink at the Moon.” That title came from the family's suggestion of how best we can pay our respects ...

World War II veterans gather at Mighty 8th Air Force Museum in Pooler - Savannah Morning News | WWII Veteran Donald Scott talks about being punched by a German civilian while he was being held as a prisoner of war in September of 1944 after being shot down in a B-17 following a bombing run. Scott was visiting the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum ...

WWII pilot takes to the sky again in B-25 bomber - KPAX-TV | It's a first-time sighting for many Montanans, but it's a blast from the past for Ralph Wilcox, a World War II veteran and pilot of the B-25 bomber. He recalls what time was like while up in the air, being shot at by the enemy: "The fragments go every ...

WWII vets fly on B-17 Bomber - Suburban Life Publications | Several area World War II vets were treated to a ride on a B-17 Bomber at Lewis University Airport in Romeoville on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. The plane, "Aluminum Overcast," is one of less than a dozen fully restored B-17s left ...

Taking flight: What it's like to fly in the Flying Fortress - Suburban Life Publications | World War II veteran Lt. Charlie Mueller, of Plainfield, looks out the window of the "Aluminum Overcast" B-17 Bomber during a flight on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. To honor World War II veterans, the Warbirds of America Squadron 4 is offering rides on the ...

Veterans recall WWII during flight - Joliet Herald News | ROMEOVILLE — Joseph Belman returned to the wild blue yonder in a B-17 Flying Fortress. He observed the .50-caliber machine gun in the waist gunner's position, and he recalled his first mission over Europe in World War II. He remembered looking down at ...

‘Leggy Lady’ was a bomber like no other from War Tales by Don Moore | Ret. Staff Sgt. Linwood Brown of Punta Gorda, Fla. was tail gunner in “Leggy Lady,” a B-25 Mitchell medium attack bomber, part of the 10th Air Force flying bombing raids in the CBI Theater in Burma, China and Thailand in late 1944 and almost until the end of World War II in ’45. He flew [...]