The planes had been used to spray millions of gallons of the chemical herbicide during the Vietnam War. “It’s great news,” said retired Tech. Sgt. Ed Kienle, 73, of Wilmington, Ohio, who worked on a C-123 plane as a flight mechanic from 1972 to 1980. Kienle, who developed skin...
1983 US Invasion of Grenada United States of America vs Grenada Grenada, the southernmost island nation in the Grenadines in the Caribbean, is a tropic island known as the spice island thanks to the harvesting of nutmeg. It had been a British colony since 1763, but in 1967, it was granted...
The UN forces flew a bewildering variety of propeller and jet aircraft, especially when compared to Communist forces, who by the middle of the war were flying little else than MiG-15s and light ground attack planes into combat. Once their forces were better established in the theater, American...
- Marine Corps strength: 154,909 (0.05% of U.S. population) Marines reached another major integration milestone in 2019: For the first time, the Corps integrated a small platoon of female recruits into larger training exercises with their male counterparts. ...
asdescribed in this week’s Warship Wednesday, fought through the heart of Typhoon Cobra and survived, albeit having two of her escorts demasted and a third of the planes in her air group damaged or swept overboard. Still, her crew swept up the flight deck and resumed flying operations as...
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus. aircraft carrier aircraft carrier, ship designed to carry aircraft and to permit takeoff and landing of planes. The carrier's distinctive features are a upper deck (flight deck) that is flat and sometimes sloped to function as a takeoff and landing field...
Aiming to upgrade its fleet and expand its operations, Tata-owned Air India on 14 February confirmed it will buy a total of 470 wide-body and narrow-body planes from Airbus and Boeing. On February 10th, reports stated that Air India signed agreements with Airbus SE and Boeing Co. for abou...
One of the most popular WWII planes, the Enola Gay, was stored at Pyote. The Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The base was scheduled for deactivation in December 1953 with the last plane leaving the facility in 1955. ...
the pivotal moments, resulting in the escalations of the war in Vietnam and the gradual morphing of a racial struggle into a class struggle in the USA, making it now perhaps more of a class ridden society than the European societies it had so rightly denounced in its fight for independence...
in its slow, low-flying turboprop AC-130 along with the lightning-quick, high-flying jets.It marks a major intensification of the assault on Taliban bases and leadership.The AC-130 gunship can fly day or night and in all weather conditions.It is one of the most heavily armed war planes ...