Audio by Terry Turner | Defense.gov | 05.24.2013
2013 - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel orders DoD to implement President Obama's national security directive and Soldiers place flags on 220,000 graves at Arlington National Cemetery....
Courtesy Audio | II Marine Expeditionary Force | 05.24.2013
Marine SSgt. Andrew Hewett, from Newark, OH., talks to a Fox Sports Game Time React radio host about his duties and responsibilities while deployed to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, the Cleveland Browns, why he joined the Marine Corps and sends a message home to his family....
Audio by NMUSAF PA | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 05.23.2013
After being brought back from the Pacific Theater, this George went to a children’s playground in San Diego, California. The museum received it in 1959 and in 2000 the museum began an extensive, eight-year restoration. They found serial numbers from four different aircraft during the disassembly. This beautiful restoration either came from several different aircraft brought back to the U.S.......
Audio by NMUSAF PA | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 05.23.2013
The B-29’s photo-reconnaissance capabilities yielded what Major General Haywood Hansell called, “probably the greatest…single contribution…in the air war with Japan.” The Superfortress’ photo-reconnaissance configuration was the F-13A. On 1 November 1944, one of the two F-13A aircraft that arrived from the U.S. just two days before flew from Saipan to Tokyo. Captain John......
Audio by NMUSAF PA | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 05.23.2013
The Catalina performed some of the most critical surveillance missions of World War II. An RAF Catalina located the German battleship Bismarck, enabling the Royal Navy to destroy it in May 1941. A Canadian Catalina warned the Royal Navy’s Indian Ocean fleet of the approach of a Japanese carrier group in April 1942 before being shot down by a Zero. A Catalina also spotted the Japanese carrier......
Courtesy Audio | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 05.23.2013
The world’s first operational jet fighter was the Me 262A-1. On 16 May 1945, technical intelligence personnel found this aircraft at Munich-Riem airfield where fighter ace Adolph Galland’s Jagdverband (JV) 44 left it behind as the unit fled to Austria. Personnel of the 54th Air Disarmament Squadron named it Beverly Anne and it became one of 10 Watson’s Whizzers aircraft returned to the......
Audio by NMUSAF PA | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 05.23.2013
The FW 190D-9 on display surrendered to the Royal Air Force at Flensburg, Germany, up near the Danish border. It served with JG3 during the war. The American technical intelligence troops acquired it from the British and loaded it on board the H.M.S. Reaper for the trip back to the United States. As FE-120, the aircraft participated in six hours of flight testing here at Wright Field, before......
Audio by NMUSAF PA | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force | 05.23.2013
American forces captured this Bf 109G-10 at an airfield near Munich at the end of the war. It originally belonged to Jagdgeschwader (JG) 52, the same unit the highest scoring aces of all time belonged to. American technical intelligence personnel trucked the aircraft to Cherbourg, France, where it went on board the H.M.S. Reaper, along with the museum’s FW 190D- 9 and Me 262. After arriving......
