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Profile: Barbara Erickson London, WWII Pilot

Barbara Erickson London was in the vanguard of female pilots during WWII and by the age of 21 she was flying fighter planes as a squadron commander. Barbara was the first woman to fly a P-47 and she...

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Profile: Hans Skalagard

Hans Skalagard is a world renowned marine painter. He has been described as a "living legend" by art critics. Hans is a descendant of Vikings and was born in the Faeroe Islands of Denmark in 1924. He...

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Profile: Dr. Masako Miura

Profile on Dr. Masako Miura an internee and physician at Manzanar Relocation Camp in 1942. Born and raised in California, Dr. Miura graduated from USC Medical School shortly before the attack on Pearl...

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Place: Moffett Field

This Is Us visits Moffett Field and explores the history of the ex-base including Cold War spy planes and blimps used during WWII.

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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Special

December 7, 2011, marks the 70th anniversary of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, an unprecedented event that drew the United States into World War II. There are less than 1,400 veterans of that...

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