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Wingman: A Korean War aviator's final mission for a lost comrade

Edit Stars and Stripes 29 May 2016
Earlier this year, 91-year-old Thomas Hudner made a request to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus in a letter imbued with a sense of finality ... Hudner requested a ship be named after fellow flyer Jesse Brown, the Navy’s first African-American aviator and among the first blacks to fly in the newly integrated armed forces ... The Navy destroyed the Corsairs with bombs several days later ... Hudner spent almost 30 years in the Navy, retiring in 1973....

Heavy lifters hone in on helicopter dock (Royal Australian Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 29 May 2016
Royal Australian Navy) ... 'The trial was conducted by the Royal Australian Navy's Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Trials Unit,' Major Lewis said ... Medium Lift Helicopter Cell Commander, Major Trevor Campbell, from Army's Aviation Test and Evaluation Section has been seconded to Navy's trials unit for the duration ... Royal Australian Navy published this content on 28 May 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....

Naval ship by France joins black box search operations

Edit Topix 29 May 2016
PARIS, France - French air accident investigators have said that the country's navy have sent its Laplace survey ship to the Mediterranean, to join in the search operation for the missing EgyptAir Flight 804. The Navy reportedly said that the naval vessel was specially equipped and had departed to the southeastern Mediterranean region, leaving the Corsican town of Porto Vecchio ... ....

News of the Day From Around the World

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 29 May 2016
Italian coast guard and navy ships, aided by an Irish naval vessel, saved at least 660 refugees from several smugglers’ boats in the Mediterranean off Libya on Saturday, officials said....

More than 2,000 boat migrants rescued off Italy, 45 dead

Edit Topix 29 May 2016
At least 45 migrants died in a shipwreck and more than 2,000 were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday, the coastguard said, as the number of immigrants coming to Europe via Italy soared again. Coffins containing dead migrants removed from Italian navy ships "Bettica" are seen in the Sicilian harbour of Porto Empedocle, Italy, May 26, 2016 ... ....

North Korea threatens South's ships after sea border chase

Edit Topix 29 May 2016
North Korea on Saturday threatened to fire at South Korean warships if they cross into its waters, a day after the South's navy fired warning shots to chase away two North Korean ships that briefly crossed a disputed western sea boundary ... ....

Navy waits for subs, Parrikar opens yard

Edit The Telegraph India 29 May 2016
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar today opened a new yard in Mumbai to build submarines but official sloth, charges of corruption and a revision of policy continue to make the navy desperate for boats that are being lost faster than they can be made ... ....

Pak naval vessels detected near western coast

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
KOLKATA ... While sailing in international waters close to a fleet of Pakistani warships and was asked to back off," a source in the Navy said. Bookmark or read stories offline - Download the TOI app....

Justin Gatlin wins 100 at Prefontaine Classic

Edit Springfield News-Sun 29 May 2016
The 34-year-old American sprinter had no time goal coming into 100 meters Saturday in the Prefontaine Classic and came away with the victory in 9.88 seconds at Hayward Field. Jamaica's Asafa Powell was second in 9.94, and American Tyson Gay third in 9.98 ... Olympic Trials, with hopes of qualifying for the American team that will compete in Rio de Janeiro ... Emma Coburn set an American record, taking third in 9.10.76....

Two American records highlight hot Nike Pre Classic (USATF - USA Track & Field)

Edit Public Technologies 29 May 2016
A crowd of 13,223 fans saw two American records fall, eight world-leading marks set, clashes of titans in several marquee events, and two high school boys dip under 4.00 for the mile in two separate races ... It was the second-fastest time in history and the fastest ever on American soil ... Jenny (Barringer) Simpson's 9.12.50 at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships in Berlin stood as the official American record until Saturday....

Horton Earns All-American Honors with Eighth Place Finish in Pole Vault (IUP Crimson Hawks)

Edit Public Technologies 29 May 2016
- IUP freshman earned All-American honors in the pole vault, finishing eighth overall in the event as he competed in the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships at the IMG Academy on Saturday ... Horton becomes the first IUP men's outdoor All-American since Nafee Harris (long jump) and Leander Toney (high jump) in 2011 ... The freshman capped a successful opening year with his first career All-American nod....

America’s ‘recovery’ is baloney — we’re actually broke

Edit New York Post 29 May 2016
The Federal Reserve last week confirmed what most Americans already know ... In its latest report on the state of the US economy, the central bank said 46 percent of Americans would “struggle to meet emergency expenses of $400.”. “The new survey findings shed important light on the economic and financial security of American families seven years into the recovery,” said Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard....

Making sense of an Indian American dream project ahead of PM Modi's US visit

Edit The Times of India 29 May 2016
Americans is to be as powerful as the Jewish American lobby and to have the political muscle to influence US policy in favour of the mother country. In this dream, the bid daddies of the Indian American community stride purposefully through the corridors of power — and doors open instantly ... It is a dream that successive Indian governments have also dreamt, hoping it turns into reality as Indian Americans continue to prosper....
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