The Flying Tiger Association plans to hold a special memorial service May 24th at Arlington Cemetery for James B. McGovern Jr., according to an association release. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command identified remains found in northern Laos as those of McGovern, who was nicknamed “Earthquake McGoon” after a 1940s cartoon character. McGovern, as a first lieutenant served with the Flying Tigers during World War II, and flew a C-119 for the CIA sponsored CAT airlines in Southeast Asia, where his aircraft crashed on May 6, 1954.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…