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'The will to live and be happy': State’s oldest resident celebrates 107th birthday
38+ min ago (794+ words) Virginia Cadd celebrates her 107th birthday party at Harmony at Southridge, in Charleston, on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. Virginia Cadd, right, celebrates her 107th birthday party at Charleston's Harmony at Southridge on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. CHARLESTON — When she was born, World War I had been…...
Remains of two Wehrmacht soldiers from Danube: one served in Waffen-SS - AOL
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (1114+ words) For more than eight decades, the mortal remains of two German soldiers lay in the mud of the Danube. Only the exceptionally low water level of the Danube in Budapest has brought their story back to light. Complete German identity…...
P-59 Airacomet: America's First Jet Fighter
59+ min ago (438+ words) by Connor Kerr | Aug 12, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments In the autumn of 1942, the strangest fighter in America sat on a dry lakebed in the Mojave wearing a lie. Whenever the aircraft was parked in the open, ground crews bolted…...
Convair XP-81: Turboprop Escort Fighter
45+ min ago (383+ words) by Max Grünwald | Aug 12, 2026 | Military Aviation | 0 comments From the front it looks like a Mustang that ate a bigger meal. A four-bladed propeller, a long slim nose, a bubble canopy. Then you notice the jet exhaust at the tail, and…...
The First Blackhawk Was a Record-Breaking Gunship | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
1+ hour, 8+ min ago (431+ words) by Fortuné Leroy | Aug 12, 2026 | Military Aviation | 0 comments Before the UH-60 wore the name, there was another Blackhawk, and it was a snarling gunship. The Sikorsky S-67 first flew on 20 August 1970, a sleek, low-slung attack helicopter built entirely on Sikorsky's own…...
Loveland WWII dioramas to open to public one last time
13+ hour, 51+ min ago (670+ words) After more than 40 years of helping collect, haul, assemble and care for Frank Ward’s sprawling collection of military memorabilia, Mel Neal is watching that long chapter come to a close. On Sept. 1, Ward’s family plans to retire the collection, which…...
Scimitar: Royal Navy's Swept-Wing Bruiser | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (341+ words) by Fortuné Leroy | Aug 12, 2026 | Military Aviation | 0 comments When the Supermarine Scimitar first crashed onto a carrier deck in 1958, it arrived as the biggest, heaviest and most powerful aircraft the Fleet Air Arm had ever tried to operate from a ship....
F9F Panther: Grumman's Korean War Jet Cat | Afterburner - MiGFlug's Magazine
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (356+ words) by Tamika Johnson | Aug 12, 2026 | History & Legends, Military Aviation | 0 comments On 3 July 1950, barely a week into the Korean War, Lieutenant JG Leonard Plog rolled his straight-winged jet onto the tail of a propeller-driven Yak-9 and squeezed the trigger. It was the…...
The Last Known Living WASP Of WWII Is 105
5+ hour ago (358+ words) Wed, Aug 12, 2026 Nell Stevenson Bright, the last surviving female pilot of World War II, celebrated her 105th birthday June 20. She talks easily about her long ago days as a pilot, how in 1929 her dad paid a dollar for her to ride…...
Love That Lasts: Commitment, family at heart of 65-year marriage for East Dubuque couple
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (163+ words) Denny and Janet Gansemer, of East Dubuque, Ill., sit on their porch. Janet and Denny Gansemer were married on Oct. 7, 1961. EAST DUBUQUE, Ill. — Decades of marriage all started for Denny Gansemer, now 85, and Janet Polfer, 84, in the heart of what some may…...