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Gemini 5 Splashes Down 1965
Posted: Aug 29, 2011Gemini 5 splashed down in the Atlantic just 90 miles off her intended target on 29 August 1965. The USS Lake Champlain was the recovery ship for the astronaut crew […]
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Cold War Shootdown 1955
Posted: Jun 22, 2011On 22 June 1955 a P2V Neptune from Navy Patrol Squadron Nine (VP-9) was flying a routine maritime patrol in the Bering Strait. The aircraft was at 8000 feet altitude […]
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American aircraft carriers and the Suez Crisis 1956
Posted: Oct 29, 2010Whenever a crisis happens in the world, ever since World War II, our Presidents have probably asked as one of their first questions, “Where are our carriers?” On 29 October […]