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“99 Steeljaws” – Reunion News

I’ll be there — how about you? VAW 122 Alumni [...]

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This Date in Naval Aviaiton History: Sept 18, 1962 – Changing Designators

Quick – F4H or F-110? Depending on the markings and the date, it could have been either – or none.  Despite the fact that 15 years earlier, the Department of Defense (and departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force) were created by the National Security Act of 1947, the three Services continued with their [...] [...]

Reflections

Remembering When the Sky Turned Black – 11 September 2001

I remember, a sky so blue it burned your eyes to look up . . .and smoke that scarred your lungs; I remember shipmates  . . . and a piece of notebook paper listing for whom the bell had tolled; We remember that for one brief moment it wasn’t New Yorkers, or Washingtonians, or businessmen [...] [...]

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POW/MIA: Of “Thuds,” ROLLING THUNDER and an Airman From Red Wing – 1965

By 1965, the US participation in Vietnam was reaching a juncture where it could choose to disengage (and thus concede the loss of South Vietnam to the Communist juggernaut – which then would then sweep across the rest of the SE Asia landscape).  It could “stay the course,” with a limited ground role using advisers [...] [...]