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Even before Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, airports began popping up across Arizona to prepare a nation for war.
The Commemorative Air Force’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, FIFI — the only remaining flight ready example of the aircraft in the world — will visit Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Thursday, Feb. 28 through Sunday, March 3.
When Lyla Kenyon and her husband, Kenneth, saw a column in the Tribune last week about a traveling World War I exhibit arriving at Mesa's Falcon Field, they were excited and had to go see it.
My Mesa Takes Flight sub-committee assignment is to write a narrative about events that took place 70 years ago - events that changed everything in what we now know as the East Valley.
A rare part of history soon will be rolling into the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Aviation Museum at Mesa's Falcon Field for one day and one day only.
ASU CARILLON TRIBUTE: Arizona State University’s Symphonic Carillon is a memorial to those in the ASU community who gave their lives in service to their country. Their names will be read at noon Wednesday in front of the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. administrators announced a $25 million reward Thursday for information leading to the capture of Saddam Hussein or confirmation of his death - an effort to resolve the fate of the ousted Iraqi leader and help end the violence blamed on his supporters.
WASHINGTON - President Bush says "some evidence" exists that U.S. air strikes on the first night of the Iraq war may have killed or severely wounded Saddam Hussein.
Another top aide to Saddam Hussein on the U.S. most-wanted list has been taken into custody, the U.S. Central Command said Friday.
The East Valley is observing Veterans Day and honoring its armed forces veterans through a variety of activities and events taking place this week.
MAINZ, Germany - President Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder insisted Wednesday that Iran not develop nuclear weapons, and the two discussed tactics on how to coax Tehran into giving up its nuclear ambitions.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his Republican vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan that would remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Mitt Romney introduced Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his Republican vice presidential running mate on Saturday, turning to the architect of a deeply conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan that would remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.
BAD AROLSEN, Germany - In the locked attic of a German archive is a dusty file that harks back to a long forgotten chapter of the Cold War — a humanitarian endeavor that, it now emerges, also had a covert side.
HANOI, Vietnam - President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.
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