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Apr
6
2015
Surrender Flight to Ie Shima
Posted by HW on 06 Apr 2015 /
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Published on April 7, 2015 By Thomas Van Hare Most people, even most historians, would say that Japan surrendered to the United States at the end of World War II in a large ceremony aboard the US Navy battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor. They would be right in many ways, but there is more to [...]
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Apr
6
2015
Not a NASA Project
Posted by HW on 06 Apr 2015 /
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This Week’s Hints to help you along: Another wartime design, this one meant to press supersonic speeds. Flight tested as a glider successfully before the end of World War II. The designer would go on to producing one of the USAF’s fastest bombers. Looks like a NASA X-Plane, but it is not, though it was [...]
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