C-141 “Hanoi Taxi” retires to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio. The aircraft, famed for its role in Operation Homecoming in the return of American POWs from Vietnam, was the last C-141 on active duty.
The U.S. began extensive air and artillery strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria on Dec. 19 in retaliation for the killing of three Americans on Dec. 13 by a gunman affiliated with ISIS, U.S. officials said.

