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BUDAPEST, Hungary - President Bush, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hungary's bloody revolt against communist rule in this Eastern Europe nation, was urged Thursday to make sure the U.S. fight against terrorism doesn't stomp on human rights.
I knew a lot about B-17 Flying Fortresses - or thought I did. I spent much of the 1970s assembling models of them in my basement. I once knew the B-17's battle history, armaments, bomb load, flight range and every stat my glue-addled brain could hold.
BIG GAME: Jim Martin coached a championship U.S. Air Force football team in 1956 as part of a fundraiser to help rebuild a church in London. To learn about a commemorative booklet he wrote called “A Game That Mattered,” visit http://wwiis1st
Four restored World War II bombers and 80 silver goblets stopped Wednesday at Mesa’s Falcon Field Airport before flying in formation to a reunion for the surviving Doolittle Tokyo Bombers.
K-12 schools in the Peoria Unified School District will remember that fateful day, 10 years ago when the nation was under attack, with 9/11 commemoration events throughout the district.
K-12 schools in the Peoria Unified School District will remember that fateful day, 10 years ago when the nation was under attack, with 9/11 commemoration events throughout the district.
Our military protects and defends us, but it’s a lesser known fact that they also entertain us. The United States Air Force Concert Band and the Singing Sergeants do just that with a free community performance October 25 at ASU Gammage.
A Scottsdale man who played an integral part in a football game 51 years ago in London to raise funds for the first- and least-known World War II memorial hopes to increase awareness of the remembrance.
Passengers gather to board Fifi the world's only flying B-29 Superfortress Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts look over a B-25 Friday, March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Fifi the world's only flying B-29 Superfortress prepares to to take off Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts look over a B-25 Friday, March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts wait to climb inside Sentimental Journey, a B-17, Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Fifi the world's only flying B-29 Superfortress prepares to take off Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts look over WWII planes Friday, March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts look on as a B-29 Superfortress prepares to take off Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Sentimental Journey, a B-17, arrives Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts wait to climb inside Sentimental Journey, a B-17, Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts look over a B-25 Friday, March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
Aviation enthusiasts look over vintage war planes Friday,March 1, 2013, at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport during the Commemorative Air Force's AirPower History Tour. [Tim Hacker/Tribune]
TOUR: Commemorative Air Force Aircraft Museum docent Tom Nicoud points out some of the information about B-17 bombers that will be displayed at the museum on Veterans Day.
TRAINER: A Vultee BT-13 Valiant World War II-era fighter trainer used by the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Navy is displayed by the Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air Force at its museum at Falcon Field in Mesa.
DOOLITTLE RAIDER: A B-25 Mitchell bomber undergoes renovation in the hangar of the Arizona wing of the Commemorative Air Force. B-25s flew Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s 1942 air raid on Japan, launched from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet. PHOTOS BY JEREMY THOMAS, CRONKITE NEWS SERVICE
On Aug. 8, 1944, German forces hit an American B-17 bomber with rounds of heavy artillery in the skies over France, tearing the plane in half and killing the crew of nine airmen.
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