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  • Wall of Achievers adds a new member

    Brig. Gen. Donna M. Prigmore, Oregon Air National Guard commander, received the honor, increasing the number of inductees to 180.“I am so incredibly proud of my enlisted time,” Prigmore said during her acceptance speech, “and I’m still in [the Air Force] because I love it.”

  • Air University Library celebrates 75 years

    The celebration on April 1, 2021, kicked off with the opening of a new exhibit in the Fairchild Research Center lobby showcasing photographs and documents from over the decades and welcoming remarks from library director Alisha Miles and Brig. Gen. Maurice McKinney, AU acting vice commander.

  • The ‘Transportation Plan’: Preparing for the Normandy invasion

    By early January 1944, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, or SHAEF, had begun planning for the greatest seaborne invasion in history, Operation Overlord, the invasion of “Fortress Europe,” scheduled for early June. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, was reasonably

  • Cradle of Airpower: 100 Years of Maxwell

    Maxwell was established over a 100 years ago and has since played an integral role in the Air Force mission and in the Montgomery community. As part of the celebration, Air University historians have compiled a century worth of archives into Cradle of Airpower: An Illustrated History at Maxwell Air

  • Operation Tidal Wave: heroic but ineffective

    One of the most heroic air raids occurred 75 years ago during World War II on Aug. 1, 1943.   On that date, 178 B-24 Liberators from five Army Air Forces bomber groups near Benghazi, Libya, conducted a heroic but relatively ineffective low-level raid against the oil refineries around Ploesti,

  • Air University historians receive 2018 AETC Heritage Award

    Lt. Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, Air University commander and president, presents the 2018 Air Education and Training Command Heritage Award to Dr. Silvano Wueschner and Dr. Robert Kane, Air University Historians, Aug. 1, 2018, on Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The AETC Heritage Award recognizes the