President Richard M. Nixon dedicates the new U.S. Air Force Museum building at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio. A drive to raise private funds for the new museum building began in 1960. Now called the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, it is the world’s largest and oldest military aviation museum.
The U.S. homeland is vulnerable to air and missile attack across the Arctic because the network of ground, air, and space-based defenses guarding those approaches have atrophied over time, according to a new paper from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
