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Venus Ramey, the first red-headed Miss Ms. America when she was crowned in 1944, graced bombers as nose art, helped sell war bonds, and once stopped a group of scrap thieves with a snub-nosed .38.

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FullMag and a group of wingsuiters and skydivers took a ride on a historic B-17G but released themselves on their own recognizance.

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The ribbon cutting ceremony also revealed the aircraft’s new paint job, which included new nose art.

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A pair of sealed shipping containers recently donated to the Texas-based Commemorative Air Force were cracked open in a ceremony in Dallas this week and found to contain some high-tech WWII bomb sights.

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The B-17 “The Movie Memphis Belle” flew over the Atlanta skies Monday with several WWII aviators on board. Aboard the aircraft was former B-17 crew members Henry Hughey, 89, Albert McMahan, 93, and Lt. Col. Hap Chanderl, 92. “The Movie Memphis Belle” is famous not only because she completed her 25-mission tour without being shot […]

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