The name of SSgt. Andrew Brunn, an Air National Guardsman and New York City firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was emblazoned with honor on the entryway of the Air Force’s Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar. The commemorization took place on Dec. 22. Brunn was a member of one of the first ladder companies to reach the World Trade Center. He and his team was trying to evacuate injured civilians when the building collapsed.
Denys Overholser, the Lockheed Martin engineer whose insights on the mathematics of radar cross section led directly to the first operational stealth attack airplane and permanently reshaped combat aircraft design and tactics, died April 28 at the age of 86.