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U.s. Destroyer Found Off Okinawa
THE USS MANNERT L. ABELE was already reeling from a kamikaze attack on April 12, 1945, when a strange new threat, with a large fuselage and stubby wings, came skimming across the waters off Okinawa. The incoming craft was a piloted suicide rocket the
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Strangers On A Plane
AT DUSK ON FEBRUA RY 22, 1943, Pan American Airways’ Yankee Clipper began its long descent to the Tagus River in Lisbon, Portugal. A few moments later, as raindrops pelted the windscreen and lightning lit up the sky, the tip of the left wing caught t
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Moving On Up
Norman Lear was in his third semester at Boston’s Emerson College when he heard about the Pearl Harbor attack. He decided to enlist, but his parents talked him out of it. Finally he joined the Army Air Forces without telling them. He wanted to be a p

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