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Navajo Code Talker William Tully Brown

  On Wednesday, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer signed a proclamation ordering all flags on the Navajo Nation to be flown at half-staff on June 6, [2019] in honor and remembrance of Navajo Code Talker William Tully Brown, who passed...

Lt. Col. Richard Cole (Ret.)

Retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, the last survivor of the Doolittle Raid, the first U.S. strike on the Japanese islands during World War II, died Tuesday (April 9, 2019) in Texas. He was 103. Cole was one of 80 men sent to target factory areas and military installations...

WASP Lucile Doll Wise

Lucile Doll Wise, Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) of World War II and beloved mother and grandmother, died peacefully August 2, 2018 at her residence in Arvada, Colorado, one day after her 98th birthday.  She was born August 1, 1920 in Larned, Kansas, the...

WASP Betty Jo Streff Reed

June 22, 2013, just two days after her ninetieth  birthday, WASP Betty Jo Streff Reed slipped away and took her final flight. Betty Jo was born June 20, 1923 in Sherman, Texas to John Nicholas Streff and Nellie Ruth Dilworth Streff.  Her father was a general...

WASP Betty Pfister

Betty started flying while a freshman at Bennington College in Vermont. She graduated with a degree in Marine Biology and immediately went to Texas to enter Class 43?4. While there, her brother, a Navy pilot, was killed due to a catapult failure on take?off. She went...