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72Yamamoto's Second Pearl Harbor Attack Plan: The Panama Canal, 1945
Although General Yamamoto had been killed before the Japanese were ready to execute it, his daring plan, like his Pearl Harbor success in 1941, was now aimed at the Panama Canal sometime in 1943-45....
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79Clock of Assumptions
Forty years ago, I made an assumption. I assumed the clock would arrive from Frankfurt, Germany and gracefully take a place of prominence in my living room. I assumed it would be the granddaddy of all...
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64Sargodha Girls Next Door
Sargodha belongs to a triumphrat of "planned cities"in Pakistan(the other two are *Faisalabad and slamabad). In Sargodha, one-hundred years ago, there existed a well whcih was owned by a Hindi by the...
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82Top 10 Hot Jobs on Treasure Island
Treasure Island began as a man made island (1936 - 1939) for the US Navy inside the city limits of San Francisco. It was, indeed, named after the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name. It was the site...
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79Who are the Top Filipino Fighter Pilots of World War II
Jesus Antonio Villamor did not plan to be a hero. One of seven children, he studied commerce at De La Salle College in Manila, hoping to pursue a business career. In 1936, he joined the Philippine Army Air...
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72The Journey of the fallen heros
As we drove down our major highway towards our well needed vacation we were distracted by people standing on the highway overpass waving a Canadian flag. At first we were really not sure why they would be...
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67Who are the first B-29 Super Fortress fliers who completed 25 missions during World War II
January 11, 1944 - US P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt long-range fighters flying over Germany are joined for the first time by the P-51 Mustang. January 12, 1944 - First Allied attacks on Monte Cassino....
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72The first international air show in Greece
The first international air show in Greece "Archangel 2005’’, was the first international air show in Greece. The air display in September 2005 was unanimously hailed as a great success and it...
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67Honduras: Lush Flora and Fauna, Humble People, and in Need of Tourist Income
A Fortnight Spent Within a Mountain Bowl They flew us into Honduras on a luxury Boeing 737 commercial airliner, shortly before the region’s rain season was scheduled to begin. The skies were baby blue...
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66European Travels through Postcards to Mom
Welcome to the Netherlands When I was about 10 years old, my father was transfered first to Hahn Air Base in Germany and later to Toul Rosieres Air Base in France. Whenever he had time off, we traveled the...
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