WWII US Army Serial Numbers: Meaning in the First Digits The U.S. Army began issuing serial numbers to help avoid mixing the records of people with the same name. (A genealogist’s dream come true!) When we dig a little deeper into the number itself, we can learn a bit about the pe...
Not all the aircraft which served with the US Army Air Force were issued USAAF serial numbers. The best-known examples are those aircraft acquired abroad by the US Army during the Second World War. In most cases, they operated under their foreign designations and serials. For example, the S...
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Nearly all of the aircraft that were transferred to the Coast Guard from the US Navy or from the US Air Force served with the Coast Guard under their original serial numbers, not being allocated a separate USCG serial number. However, the system was not always consistent, and sometimes aircra...
The theoretical foundations of this strategy had been set in the interwar era and were initially seen as a means to expand the Army Air Corps into a force with greater autonomy. Many early interwar theorists, such as Maj. Harold George, would describe a vague ‘economic web’ that could be...
The US Air Force (USAF) is hoping for Congressional approval later this decade to procure additional Lockheed Martin F/A-22 multirole stealth fighter aircraft, according to the service's senior acquisition official. However, he noted, even these additional aircraft will leave the service more than...
told Arab News: “The exhibition provided an opportunity to access the best practices in the hotel and restaurant sectors, as it brought together a select group of people specialized in this field in Makkah, a pioneer in the hotel sector field attracting large numbers of visitors from around th...
The Air Force and Navy are the services that will carry the brunt. The Army will have nothing to do, as we’re not going to land troops in Asia. Drones will play a part, but they’ll more likely be swarming over ships, or acting as “loyal wingmen” to — you guessed it — mann...
The Internet Research Agency, perhaps an acronymic pun on the Irish Republican Army, worked to foment what seemed a similar faith-based war by manipulating styled prejudices to “spread distrust” to online communities they had infiltrated, warning of misleading “hype and hatred . . . forcing ...
SERIAL DECEIVER REWARDED What about all those pictures on Twitter of Uyghurs being horrible harmed or mistreated? To answer that question for one’s self, consider the case of Arslan Hidayat. This Australia-based anti-China campaigner’s standard technique was to take pictures of people in misery...