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History

From Memphis Belle to The Cold Blue: The B-17 and the Treasure of WWII Archival Footage

Jay Stowe
February 14, 2020
The Second World War can claim a number of firsts—the vast majority of which live in infamy to this day. But being the first major war documented exhaustively on film has an occasional upside. Case in point: 15 hours of raw color footage revealing what it was really like to be a crewman on a B-17 Flying Fortress in the skies over Europe.
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D-Day

Team Effort: D-Day Victory Came As Many Focused on One Goal

Tomas Kellner
Brendan Coffey
June 04, 2019

The defeat of the Nazi terror that had taken hold of Europe started with women like Marie Kappa, a government inspector based at a GE factory in Erie, Ohio, who inspected GE-produced military equipment. Her efforts carried on through the supply chain all the way to Pvt. Grant Crego, a 19-year-old who landed on the beach at Normandy in 1944, less than a year removed from resigning his job at GE’s Schenectady, New York, plant to enlist in the war effort.

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Aerospace

The Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys: Joseph Sorota, Who Helped Build The First U.S. Jet Engine, Dies At 96

Tomas Kellner
January 10, 2017

Joseph Sorota, likely the last member of the World War II-era top-secret team that designed the first U.S. jet engine, died Saturday at his home in Singer Island, Florida. He was 96.

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History

The Home Front: Victory In Europe Was Won On The Beaches Of Normandy As Well As The Shores Of Lake Erie

Tomas Kellner
May 05, 2016
Airplane designed Larry Bell is climbing into the cockpit of the XP-59, the first U.S.-made jet. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Don’t Chase Unicorns

Greg Satell
July 30, 2014
The unicorn is perhaps unique among myths in that the creature doesn’t appear in the mythology of any culture. The ancient Greeks, for all of their centaurs, hydras and medusas, never had any stories of unicorns, they simply believed that some existed somewhere.
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