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FINAL SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION IN 2011

Shuttle Atlantis coming in for one final landing

This Week in NASA History: Final Space Shuttle Mission Launches - July 8,  2011 - NASA

On July 21, 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completed
its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis landed
at Kennedy Space Center in
Florida.

During the program’s 30-year history, its five orbiters—
Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour—
carried more than 350 people into space and flew more than
500 million miles, and shuttle crews conducted important
research, serviced the Hubble Space Telescope and helped
in the construction of the International Space Station, among
other activities.

NASA retired the shuttles to focus on a deep-space exploration
program that could one day send astronauts to asteroids and
Mars.

Space Shuttle Atlantis By the Numbers: A 25-Year Legacy | Space

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PRESIDENTIAL CHOPPER DECOMMISSIONED

Flying Marine One: A Q&A with Colonel Ray L'Heureux - The History Reader :  The History Reader

(FOX NEWS) – The newly decommissioned Marine One helicopter
found a new home with the
U.S. Secret Service.

Agents will train on same copter that transported every president
for the last 50 years.

Donald Trump's flying beast: 7 things about the world's most powerful  helicopter - World's most advanced & secure helicopter | The Economic Times

Marine One being transported to the Secret Service training facility.

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U.S. BEGAN BIRLIN AIRRLIFT ON THIS DAY

Berlin Children Cheering Airlift Plane

On June 26, 1948, U.S. and British pilots began delivering food
and
supplies by airplane to Berlin
after the city was isolated by
a
Soviet Union blockade.

As a result, beginning on June 24 the western section of Berlin
and its 2 million people were deprived of food, heating fuel and
other crucial supplies.

Though some in U.S. President Harry S. Truman’s administration
called for a direct military response to this aggressive Soviet
move, Truman worried such a response would trigger another
world war. Instead, he authorized a massive airlift operation.

The first planes took off from England and western Germany on
June 26, loaded with food, clothing, water, medicine and fuel.

Berlin Airlift, Cold War, Soviet blockade, West Berlin, U.S. military,  humanitarian aid, 1948, Allied powers

Harry S. Truman | The White House
Harry S. Truman (1884 – 1972). The 33rd
president of the United States, serving
from 1945 to 1953.          
      
      
     

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BATTLE CAME TO AN END ON THIS DAY

June 8, 1942, newspaper headlines declare "Midway battle ends in great U.S.  victory" - Newspapers.comâ„¢

On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most
decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan—came to
an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered
U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese
aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the
Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously
invincible Japanese navy.

At the Battle of Midway, Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser,
and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties.

The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann,
145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.

Allies Win Battle of Midway | Mystic Stamp Discovery Center

Today In History على X: "4 June 1942: During World War II, the main part of  the Battle of Midway begins. It is often referred to as the turning point  of the

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BATTLE BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1942

The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific - YouTube

On June 4, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most
decisive U.S. victories against Japan during
World War II
—
began.

During the four-day sea-and-air battle, the outnumbered
U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese
aircraft carriers while losing only one of its own, the
Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy.

BATTLE OF MIDWAY BEGAN ON THIS DAY | PDX RETRO

Midway / The Pacific War | The Second World War

Battle of Midway begins | June 4, 1942 | HISTORY

The Chicago Tribune's June 7, 1942, front page was led by a report on the Battle of Midway that made evident the U.S. had cracked the Japanese naval code.

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