The first class graduates from the Air Force Academy, four years after swearing in in 1955.
Misawa Air Base welcomed its first permanently assigned F-35A fighters March 28, marking the first time the Air Force has based F-35s in Japan.
U.S. Air Force aircraft spanning 75 years. Read "This Day In Airpower." Illustration by Mike Tsukamoto/staff
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