They were among the gutsiest pilots ever to strap on an airplane
-- the UK airmen who flew the de Havelland Mosquito. Sunday, they
met for the last time at Britain's Royal Air Force Museum in
London. What the Germans and Japanese couldn't do during the war,
time is doing to them now. The veterans are succumbing to age and
the Mosquito Aircrew Association says there just aren't enough left
to make the reunions viable.
Forty-nine Berlin Airlift veterans visited Rhein-Main Air Base,
Germany Oct. 13 to recognize the 55th anniversary of one of the end
of the largest humanitarian airlift missions in the history of the
US Air Force.
While some middle-school students spend their free time playing
video games or watching television, a recently chartered
organization at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, is giving future
Airmen the opportunity to experience crossing into the blue as
Civil Air Patrol cadets.
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