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  • WWII vets fly on 'Spirit of Go For Broke'

    03/21/2008 3:10:20 PM PDT · by SandRat · 5 replies · 1,217+ views
    Air Force Link ^ | Tech. Sgt. Tom Czerwinski, USAF
    3/21/2008 - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AFPN) -- After waiting for more than a year and a half from the christening of the seventh C-17 Globemaster III added to Hickam Air Force Base's fleet of eight, the men for whom it was named finally got their ride March 13 here. A group of 40 surviving veterans from the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion shuffled onboard to the "Spirit of Go For Broke" and took to the sky for a 45-minute tour around some of the Hawaiian Islands. Not only was the flight a historic...