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Presidents, battles and fictional Shangri-La: Where Navy aircraft carriers get their names
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhat's in a name? When it comes to the 100 years of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, answering this...
The National Naval Aviation Museum that opened humbly 60 years ago continues to evolve
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe newspaper report noting between 500 and 600 people in line to get into the museum could have...
Why the Doolittle Raid required a handmade bombsight
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoPhoto courtesy National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The Norden bombsight was the primary bombsight used by American bombers during WWII. Before the...
How a Sacramento airfield aided in the Doolittle Raid
KTXL via Yahoo News· 3 days ago(FOX40.COM) — On a spring day in March 1942, a convoy of 22 Army Air Corps B-25s completed their...
80 years ago, he survived sinking of USS Hornet. Fresno-area vet shares his WWII story
Fresno Bee McClatchy via AOL· 2 years agoEighty years ago, Bob Cole was a sailor on the aircraft carrier USS Hornet in the South Pacific. It...
How Alameda’s USS Hornet can help prevent climate change
KRON via Yahoo News· 4 weeks ago(KRON) — The USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum in Alameda became the hub for a group of researchers...
Sarasota man helped track Apollo 11 back to earth
Herald-Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year ago[Editor's note: A reference to the USS Hornet CVS-12 being involved in the Doolittle Raid was removed. The USS Hornet CVS-8 was involved in the surprise...
Bay Area Memorial Day events
KRON via Yahoo News· 5 days agoSAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Monday is Memorial Day, the day we honor those who have died in American wars. Across the Bay Area, communities will be coming...
San Francisco is hosting the fourth annual ‘World Goth Day’
KRON via Yahoo News· 3 months ago(KRON)– The Menagerie Oddities, a California-based event organizer dubbing themselves as a “Jolly...
A trial of cloud-brightening technology sparks controversy in a California city
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 week agoAlameda, California, has been thrust into a debate about geoengineering, after scientists began to...