Consider taking in two displays that have just opened at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. “The Winged Angels: US Army Air Forces Flight Nurses in World War II” opened Wednesday in the museum’s Air Power Gallery. It tells the story of the 500 Army flight nurses who served as members of medical air evacuation transport squadrons during the war. “These flight nurses were really part of a revolution in military medical care,” said Terry Aitken, the museum’s senior curator. The second new offering, “The Mexican Air Force,” debuted Feb. 26 in the “Airmen in a World at War” exhibit. It is dedicated to the Mexican airmen of Escuadron 201, the Aztec Eagles, who fought alongside US forces in World War II (Dayton report on flight nurses by Sarah Swan; Dayton report on Aztec Eagles by Bryan D. Carnes) (Museum Web site)
The Space Force should take bold, decisive steps—and soon—to develop the capabilities and architecture needed to support more flexible, dynamic operations in orbit and counter Chinese aggression and technological progress, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
