The B-17G bomber being restored at Barksdale AFB, La., in honor of 8th Air Force icon Maj. Gen. Lewis Lyle, on May 18 got its nose art, “Miss Liberty.” A team of airmen, volunteers, and contractors are fixing up this B-17 to replicate “Miss Liberty,” the aircraft that Lyle flew on a raid against Berlin on March 22, 1944. The B-17 will reside in the Eighth Air Force museum. (Barksdale photo caption by SSgt. John Gordinier)
The Space Force and NRO will build a large number of targeting satellites to go in low-Earth orbit, the USSF’s top intelligence officer said May 2—keeping with the service’s emphasis on proliferating its assets. For months now, the two organizations have been working on a program to develop satellites that will…