U.S. Air Force
Womens History Month: Womens Airforce Service Pilots
Adapted and updated from “Memorial Day 2009″ which first appeared simultaneously at GeneaBlogie and The Peripatetic Graveyard Rabbit on May 25, 2009. If you haven’t been to Arlington, Virginia in the last several years, you may not recognize the two memorials shown above. The top one is the “Women in Military Service for America” memorial and it stands near the …
March 17, 2010 Wednesday at 6:34 pm
Armed Forces Day
Today is Armed Forces Day. Curiously, Armed Forces Day seems over the years to have diminished in importance. There may be several reasons for that. It’s on a Saturday, not a Monday, so people aren’t as aware of it as they used to be. Then as security has gotten tighter, many military installations which formerly opened their doors to the …
May 17, 2008 Saturday at 8:51 pm
The Wild Blue Yonder . . .
Today is the 60th Anniversary of the United States Air Force!
September 18, 2007 Tuesday at 4:46 pm
Babies Buried in Libya?
The U.S. Air Force is trying to find the relatives of seventy-two U.S. citizens whose bodies were recently disinterred from an Italian cemetery in Libya. The deceased Americans are believed to be family members of U.S. military personnel once stationed at the former Wheelus Air Base outside Tripoli. Seventy of the persons were infants. Wheelus was originally an Italian airfield, …
June 16, 2007 Saturday at 8:18 pm
