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History and heritage
history and heritage
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02/22/2015

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Where is The Enlisted Heritage Research Institute located?
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Maxwell-Gunter AFB in Montgomery, Alabama.
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The guy that flew the ballons in the army signal corp
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Ward
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The first enlisted pilot
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Vernon Burge
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How many enlisted pilots flew in WW2?
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3000
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Air lift that delivered food to occupied Berlin
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Operation Vittles
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How long did operation vittles (Berlin air lift) last?
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24hrs a day for 15 months
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Delivered the first strike on Japanese soil in 1942
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Doolittle's raiders
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What type of plan was flown by Doolittle's raiders?
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modified B25s
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The first woman to join the air force
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Esther Blake
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A combat controller, he attacked an entrenched machine gun nest in Afghanistan at Roberts Ridge, saving his entire team.
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TSGt Charles Chapman
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Single handedly defended a hill in PUsan South Korea for over 24 hrs. Killed a staggering number of Korean troops; was later taken as POW. Was recommended for the medal of honor four times by the comrades he'd saved.
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Corporal Tibor Rubin
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Plan went down in Vietnam; became POW;
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Capt William Robinson
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The only graduating officer in his Tuskegee training class-44G.
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Claude Davis
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