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Memorial Day, a time to honor the men and women who went into harm’s way who did not make it home to embrace their loved ones. They were Black, white, Native American, Asian, Hispanic, and others, all of different creeds who became one in the foxholes, one the high seas and in the skies above us. Memorial Day, a time to pause and reflect on those lives that were lost at Bunker Hill, Chalmette Plantation, Gettysburg, the trenches in France, Iowa. ....
UpdatedTue, May 25, 2021 at 7:52 pm ET Reply A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place to celebrate the opening on Thursday, May 27. (Shutterstock) STRATFORD, CT The Connecticut Air & Space Center announced Tuesday that a ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place to celebrate the opening of its annex for the public display of historic military and civilian aircraft restored by the Center. The ceremony will take place at 12 noon on Thursday, May 27, at 225B Main St. in Stratford. Stratford Mayor Laura R. Hoydick will be among those addressing the audience. Subscribe The opening of this annex will be yet another milestone for the Center regarding public awareness of the history in aviation accomplishments during the past century, said Mark Corvino, president of the Center. He noted the restoration of these historic aircraft will help keep alive the spirit and bravery of the pilots who flew them into harm s way. ....
In 1971, after her journey from San Salvador to the USA, FG-1D Corsair Bu.92460 experienced the indignity of major parts removal, as part of a weight reduction effort to enable her new duty as a pole-mounted gate guard at the Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The monument team gutted her cockpit, then removed her landing gear, flaps, gun-bay doors, ammo cans, and dive brakes, fairing the openings over with simple sheetmetal structures. After repainting the airframe, the team bolted her into her position atop a concrete plinth beside the airport terminal, where she endured the coastal salt marsh air on the shores of Long Island Sound for the next several decades. ....