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WWII Airman lost in Pacific brought home to Montana after 70 year wait
By John Turner, 341st Missile Wing Public Affairs Seven decades after his aircraft was shot down during a mission in World War II, an Army Air Forces aviator finally came home to Augusta, Montana. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. William D. Bernier was buried with full military honors Sept. 19 at the veteran’s section of […]
POW/MIA: Daughter of missing Vietnam-era pilot shares story of loss
By Master Sgt. Veronica Aceveda, 512th Airlift Wing Public Affairs The name, rank and service of Col. Kelly Cook are imprinted on prisoner-of-war/missing-in-action bracelets to this day — he is still missing. The pilot’s name is also engraved on a memorial marker on the grounds of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado. […]
Grueling 38-hour struggle in jungle leads to Medal of Honor
By David Vergun The hot steam rising from the jungle in the A Shau Valley melted with the clouds, obscuring the steep hills bordering the valley. Through this remote valley in northeast Vietnam, near the Laos border, ran the Ho Chi Minh trail — a logistics route used by North Vietnamese troops to move men, […]
Look past 1947 for Air Force roots
By Chief Master Sgt. Matt Proietti, Air Force Public Affairs Agency The Air Force officially turns 67 this month, but my uncle Gino thinks it’s older. He’s 90, and the lone surviving brother of my father. Both of them served in World War II, as did two of their siblings. My father was in the […]
Jack the Ripper DNA Hoax?
By Peter Fotis Kapnistos, Special Contributor, GovernmentSecrets.com In Russell Edwards’ new book, “Naming Jack the Ripper” (2014), Dr Jari Louhelainen said the killer’s DNA on a shawl was from the Polish-Jewish barber Aaron Kosminski. “However, scientists and scholars of the Ripper case have already cast doubt on Edwards and Louhelainen’s specific claims, alleging that the […]
The First Photo Taken From Space
by GovernmentSecrets.com Staff This is considered the first photograph taken from space. It was taken by a camera mounted to a V-2 rocket, that was launched October 24, 1946, from White Sands, New Mexico. Before this photo was taken in 1946, the highest picture ever taken of the Earth’s surface were from the Explorer II balloon, […]
Air Force uses lasers to preserve space history
By Jennifer Schneider, Air Force Civil Engineering Center Public Affairs The site of one of America’s proudest achievements is now little more than a weed-riddled concrete pad, surrounded by twisted, rusting metal. Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 is best known as the launch site for NASA’s “Friendship 7,” the flight that brought John Glenn fame […]
Soviet Autopsy: Hitler Died But His Double Escaped
By Peter Fotis Kapnistos, Special Contributor, GovernmentSecrets.com First published in 1968, “The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives,” by journalist Lev Bezymenski was the means by which the Soviet Union chose to inform the world of the findings of the Russian medical team that performed the autopsy on Hitler’s corpse in 1945. […]
C-130 celebrates 60 years, still going strong
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) — In 1954, the song “Rock Around the Clock” was playing on the radio, Oprah Winfrey was born and the first issue of Sports Illustrated appeared on newsstands. The same year, on August 23, the YC-130 Hercules made its maiden flight at the Lockheed Martin plant in Burbank, California, and […]
U.S. Navy Works with Indonesian Partners in Protecting, Preserving Sunken Gravesite
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) — U.S. Navy underwater archeologists, in conjunction with Indonesian Navy divers, have assessed in an interim report that the wrecked vessel surveyed in the Java Sea in June is “consistent with the identification” of the World War II wreck of the cruiser USS Houston (CA 30), and that divers documented conclusive […]
5th Bomb Wing turns 95
Today marks the 95th Anniversary of the 5th Bomb Wing. Originally activated August 15, 1919 as the 2nd Observation Group at Luke Field in the Territory of Hawaii, the men and women of the 5th BW have seen action in WWII and Operations Desert Fox, Allied Force, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, to name a […]
The 10 Inventions of Nikola Tesla That Changed The World
Note from GovernmentSecrets.com: There are many theories about the government’s involvement in the disappearance of Tesla’s papers. We feel it is important to know the background to his work, the man, and his accomplishments which may have led to his death. Be sure to check out The Black Vault, to download Tesla’s full FBI file. […]
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