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Ukraine Confusion
“The Ukraine IS part of Russia!
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Uvalde
Update - the attorney for the teacher was alleged to have left the door propped open says - and a video confirms - that she kicked the rock she had…
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Spitfire!
In the annals of World War II, one of the most famous airplanes was the British-developed Supermarine Spitfire, an agile, elliptical wing fighter that…
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A Hero to the End
Ed Dyess was a REAL hero
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Kham Duc!
Heroic Evacuation of the camp at Kham Duc.
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Little Friends
US Fighters in World War II
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The Murder of Little Mary Phagan and Subsequent Beatification of Her Murderer, Leo Frank
The Murder of Little Mary Phagan and Subsequent Beatification of Her Murderer, Leo Frank
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Vietnam and Me
Thanks for reading Tennessee Flyboy!
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My Guess is a Heart Attack
In another life, I was a pilot, one of those superhumans who has the ability to leave the ground and fly around the sky, then return to earth to fly…
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Air Taxi, Air Transport Command and the Bamboo Fleet
During the dark early days of 1942, air transport kept the defenders of the Philippines supplied. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough of it.
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Mactan
Almost Paradise
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My View
Is my perspective unique? I don’t know, maybe it is. For one thing, unlike the large percentage of those who claim to be American, my roots in North…
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