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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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Final Approach
In 1956 the Cold War was cold indeed. Although the Soviet Union’s Communist Party leader, Nikita Khrushchev, had secretly denounced the late Joseph Stalin in February, tensions with the United States remained high and only increased in October when t
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Carded
Henri Farman’s American adventure did not end as the aviator had intended (see the feature starting on page 60), but the Frenchman at least had the satisfaction of being portrayed on a cigarette card. Issued in 1912, four years after Farman’s trip to

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