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The Early Bird, December 30, 1998. The Early Bird was a newsletter collated daily by public affairs officials from the United States Department of Defense and released early every morning from 1963 until 2013. [1] It contained approximately three dozen stories taken from publications ranging from major newspapers to niche defence journals.
Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, [ 1] was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic ...
Mutsuhiro Watanabe ( Japanese: 渡邊睦裕, 18 January 1918 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed " the Bird " by his prisoners was a Imperial Japanese Army soldier in World War II who served in multiple military internment camps. After Japan's defeat, the US Occupation authorities classified Watanabe as a criminal for his mistreatment of prisoners of ...
Those early years of TIGHAR were focused on searching for the White Bird. But in 1988, when two members—both retired military aerial navigators—suggested to Gillespie that Earhart died a ...
Operation Mockingbird. Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate domestic American news media organizations for propaganda purposes. According to author Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited ...
Pilot major George D. Hulsey ejected safely and was picked up by an oil-rig supply vessel. Aircraft crashed into the North Sea, 9 miles off Spurn Point, Humberside, United Kingdom. 30 April. An Avro Shackleton, of No. 8 Squadron RAF crashes into a hill on the Isle of Harris, in Scotland.
The aviator Matilde Moisant wearing a swastika square medallion in 1912. The symbol was popular as a good luck charm with early aviators. The discovery of the Indo-European language group in the 1790s led to a great effort by European archaeologists to link the pre-history of European people to the hypothesised ancient "Aryans" (variously referring to the Indo-Iranians or the Proto-Indo ...
The Winnebago War, also known as the Winnebago Uprising, [ 1] was a brief conflict that took place in 1827 in the Upper Mississippi River region of the United States, primarily in what is now the state of Wisconsin. Not quite a war, [ 2] the hostilities were limited to a few attacks on American civilians by a portion of the Winnebago (or Ho ...