<div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3mUbWt_0umasg0b00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3mUbWt_0umasg0b00" width="1200" height="630" ><p>John Fisher was a U.S. Air Force pilot who died after his plane nosedived into the ground in 1944. His remains were never found. Now, more than 100 British and American service members are volunteering their time hoping to find his remains as the 80th anniversary of the crash approaches.</p><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate></div>

The Hill

The Osprey aircraft crash that killed all eight service members on board last November off the coast of Japan was caused by “catastrophic failure” of a rotor gearbox and the pilot’s decision to keep flying after multiple warnings to land, an Air Force investigation released Thursday revealed.

Cracks in a gear, pilot’s decision to keep flying caused Japan Osprey crash: Air Force

Eglin Air Force Base, FL

An Air Force colonel was fired from his post at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, just days before he was scheduled to depart via a July 18 change-of-command ceremony, Air Force officials confirmed. Col. Jeremiah Hammill was relieved of his duties as commander of the 96th Test Wing Civil Engineer...

Air Force colonel fired days before handing off command duties

Twentynine Palms, CA

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is looking into the circumstances surrounding the death of a retired major general whose body was discovered at a Marine base on Saturday. Maj. Gen. William Mullen, age 59, was found deceased at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, the San...

Retired Marine 2-star general found dead at sprawling California base

War History Online

In July 1986, a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk crashed in California's Sequoia National Forest - two years before it was announced to the public.

The US Air Force Scrambled To Cover Up The Crash of One of Its Top-Secret Stealth Fighters

CBS News

Two Austrian mountaineers have died while attempting to summit a 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) peak in Italy's Julian Alps, the mountain rescue service of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region bordering Austria said Thursday.Missing since Wednesday, the two men were both Alpine rescuers from the southern Austrian city of Villach close to the Slovenian and Austrian borders, the rescue service said on Facebook. Family members awaiting their return tried to reach them by phone but their calls went unanswered.They were scaling the "Cima di Riofreddo," whose peak culminates at more than 2,500 meters, when they fell either because of a mistake or a possible...

Bodies of mountaineers found dangling from climbing ropes near peak

Savannah, GA

A mid-air collision between two aircraft caused the emergency drop of a Mk 15 nuclear bomb near Tybee Island, but where exactly did it land?

Where Did the Nuke That The US Air Force Accidentally Dropped On Georgia In the 1950s Go?

Pennsylvania State

Luzerne County, PA

Hazleton, PA

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The body of a homicide victim was found behind a high school in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Police Tips said in a Facebook post that troopers from the Hazleton Barracks are investigating the homicide from July 24. After receiving several tips, state police searched the wooded...

Body of homicide victim found behind Pennsylvania high school

The mummy of an ancient Egyptian woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an anguished shriek may have died "screaming from agony," researchers say.The unnamed woman mummy, discovered in a 1935 archeological expedition in Deir el-Bahari near Luxor, was kept in The Cairo Egyptian Museum and referred to as "Screaming Woman Mummy of the store of Kasr al Ainy."In an article in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, scientists said they used CT scans and other testing to examine whether the mummy had any pathological abnormalities and assess potential causes of death.They found that the woman, who was...

Mummy with shrieking expression may have "died screaming from agony"

Capt. Taylor Bye showed her skills as a US Air Force pilot by safely belly landing her malfunctioning A-10 Warthog.

USAF Pilot Taylor Bye Pulled Off an Insane Landing In Her A-10 Warthog After Its Landing Gear Failed

San Bernardino County, CA

A 26-year-old U.S. Marine sergeant died after a vehicle rollover crash this week at a Marine Corps base in San Bernardino County, authorities said. U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Jerry L. Betzold suffered severe wounds in the crash involving a high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle — or Humvee — at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms. The site is just 20 miles east of Joshua Tree and is the largest Marine Corps training base in the world.

U.S. Marine sergeant, 26, killed in training exercise at San Bernardino County base

Los Angeles, CA

USA TODAY

Fort Irwin National Training Center officials said U.S. Army PFC Alejandro Espinola of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment failed to report for duty.

Army searching for missing soldier who did not report to Southern California base

Palm Springs, CA

A U.S. Marine died on Sunday due to injuries sustained in a vehicle rollover accident over the weekend that occurred at the Twentynine Palms training center in California. A press release shared by the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Training Command and Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at 29 Palms on Facebook stated, “A Marine assigned to Tactical Training Exercise Control Group died today, July 28, 2024. He was involved in a vehicle rollover with a high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle on July 27, 2024, at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center.”

US Marine killed in Calif. training accident

Three Americans who were wrongfully imprisoned in Russia, Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan and Alsu Kurmasheva, are back on U.S. soil. They made a brief stop at Joint Base Andrews, before arriving in San Antonio to undergo medical assessments. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes has more.

Paul Whelan describes journey home as Americans freed from Russia return to U.S. soil

Boston, MA

An inmate has been sentenced for his role in the deadly bludgeoning of infamous Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in a West Virginia federal prison in 2018. The inmate, Paul J. DeCologero, was sentenced to more than four years imprisonment after pleading guilty to an assault charge. DeCologero faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.Prosecutors initially had said DeCologero and inmate Fotios "Freddy" Geas used a lock attached to a belt to repeatedly hit the 89-year-old Bulger in the head hours after he arrived at troubled USP Hazelton from another lockup in Florida, while another man, Sean McKinnon, served as...

Inmate sentenced in prison killing of infamous gangster "Whitey" Bulger

Florida State

CBS Miami

WEST PALM BEACH —  The U.S. Coast Guard said it has ended its search for a Florida boater who went missing two days ago after rescue crews recovered a body matching his description on Saturday.On Friday morning, the Coast Guard shared on X a news bulletin about Rick Ferozi, 57, who launched from Lake Worth Inlet around 2 p.m. Thursday to go fishing. He was last heard from at 5 p.m. and was expected to return to Murrelle Marine around 6 p.m. that evening.His vessel, a 32-foot center console boat, was located 12 miles east of Hobe Sound, which is...

Missing Florida boater found dead, U.S. Coast Guard says

Stunning new details emerged Friday on the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War, with the Kremlin acknowledging for the first time that some of the Russians held in the West belonged to its security services — and the children of a Russian couple posing as spies only learned their true nationality on the flight to Moscow.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that a detained couple released in Slovenia —Artem and Anna Dultsev— were undercover intelligence officers commonly known as "illegals." Posing as Argentine expats, they used Ljubljana as their base since 2017 to relay Moscow's orders to other sleeper agents...

Spies' children found out they were Russian on flight to Moscow

The SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft was the world’s fastest jet-propelled aircraft and the most advanced member of the Blackbird family developed by Lockheed Aircraft Corporation’s clandestine “Skunk Works” division. The Blackbird was in a different category from anything that had come before. “Everything had to be invented....

SR-71 pilot recalls when his RSO Flipped Off a French Air Force Mirage III Pilot (Then They lit their Blackbird’s Afterburners and Outran him)

The Air Force has relieved the 28th Operations Group Commander for loss of confidence after losing a B-1B Lancer worth nearly half a billion dollars in a January crash at at Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D. Col. Mark Kimball was relieved of command by Col. Derek C. Oakley, commander of...

Air Force Relieves Group Commander for Loss of Confidence After B-1 Crash

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L.A. TACO

L.A. TACO has identified the police officer seen in a viral video sucker-punching a detained man named Alexander Mitchell in Watts over the weekend as Los Angeles Police Department Officer (LAPD) Joshua Sportiello.

LAPD Officer Identified After Punching Detained Man In Face In Watts On Video

The U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) awarded Boeing a $115 million contract to produce two more MH-47G Block II Chinook aircraft and begin advanced procurement on future helicopters. Including the new order, the Army has contracted for a total of 46 MH-47G Block II aircraft. “Whether it’s operating...

U.S. Army Orders Another 2 Chinook Helicopters from Boeing

John Fisher was a U.S. Air Force pilot who died after his plane nosedived into the ground in 1944. His remains were never found. Now, more than 100 British and American service members are volunteering their time hoping to find his remains as the 80th anniversary of the crash approaches.

How the search continues for an Air Force pilot's remains

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