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Engines Not Required
“Commandos on Wings” ran the headline of the article in Washington’s Evening Star on November 1, 1942. The sub-head read, “They are Uncle Sam’s glider troops, who drop silently out of the sky, seize airfields, blow up bridges and ammunition dumps.” T
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Remembering Jack
I was glad to see the article on the late Jack Broughton’s run-in with the brass (“The Turkestan Incident,” Winter 2024). The story should be a cautionary tale for policymakers and senior military officers, though I believe the lessons have been regr
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Baseball Remembers The C-119
When baseball returns to Hagerstown, Maryland, in 2024, it will have an aviation theme. The Flying Boxcars, the city’s new team of the independent Atlantic League, were named after the Fairchild C-119 military cargo airplane. The moniker was chosen t

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