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BYMilitary Health System Communications Office

Jun 6, 2022

This D-Day vet hit the beach strapped to a barrage balloon

As World War II raged overseas, men and women responded to the call of duty in the fight for what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called the “four freedoms” – freedom of speech and worship, and freedom from want and fear. By the time the United …

BYMilitary Health System Communications Office

Jun 6, 2022

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Dec 1, 2020

‘Shoot it down!’: The tragic tale of two American balloonists over Belarus

It was the fourth day of the 1995 Gordon Bennett Cup, one of the world’s most prestigious balloon races and…

BYRadio Free Europe Radio Liberty

Dec 1, 2020

BYToday I Found Out

Feb 5, 2020

This was the Union Army’s air force during the Civil War

If you thought that air warfare was reserved for a time after airplanes were invented, you thought wrong. During the American Civil War, the Union troops used hot air balloons to spy on Confederate troops. The idea to use balloons was the brai…

BYToday I Found Out

Feb 5, 2020