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  • Shot down on D-Day

    Editor's note: The following narrative is the first-person account of Jack Prince's crash after being shot down in Normandy on D-Day. "As we went on in and got close to the drop zone I was starting to get a lot of ground fire, you know antiaircraft fire. "Just about the time I was ready to drop the

  • D-Day remembered: 442nd Troop Carrier Group members describe "longest day"

    The 442nd Fighter Wing flag is adorned with battle streamers reflecting the unit's accomplishments through its history. One streamer, a simple blue ribbon with two words embroidered in white on it, reads "Normandy Invasion." Sixty-five years ago, in the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 442nd Troop

  • Policy helps reservists keep per diem, avoid paperwork

    About 3,000 Air Force reservists will not have to submit a waiver this summer to keep getting per diem. The Air Force has authorized reservists on active-duty orders for more than 180 days at one location supporting Operations Noble Eagle, Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom to continue to get per

  • Budget request calls for more people, money for AFRC

    President Barack Obama recommended more people and more funding for Air Force Reserve Command in his fiscal 2010 defense budget request. Under the proposal released May 7, the command's military personnel account would increase by 7.4 percent. The account represents about a third of the command's

  • 442nd Fighter Wing reservist saves life

    Imagine gasping for air in the middle of the street; it's broad daylight on a Saturday afternoon in downtown Warrensburg, Mo., with a wedding reception taking place across the street, cars passing by--and nobody cares. Psychologists refer to this phenomenon as, the "bystander effect." This occurs

  • Whiteman's namesake honored at wreath-laying ceremony

    "It could have happened anytime, anywhere." Those were the words of 2nd Lt. George A. Whiteman's mother, Mrs. Earlie Whiteman, who resided in Sedalia, Mo., after hearing the news of her son's death. In honor of Mrs. Whiteman's spirit, those words later became the motto of the 340th Bombardment Wing,

  • Commentary: Force protection is everyone's business

    Contrary to popular belief, terrorism is by no means a new concept. Traditionally a tactic of the weak, it can be dated to 1st Century A.D. with the use of assassinations. However the word "terrorism" derived from the French Revolution in the 1790s in which the government instilled a systematic