Air Force Still Seeks Lost F111 Pilot and Plane
Lt. Col. Bruce Stocks and Maj. Billy Gentry vanished after a routine flight in an FB111A from Carswell to Mobile. Search teams logged thousands of hours across five states, while officials note the aircraft’s high tech gear and a history of grounding and tests.
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Air Force
Grand Isle
Mobile
Ala
Houston
Stocks
Maj
Billy C. Gentry
Civil Air Patrol
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Alabama
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Gentry
Cuba
Defense
Robert McNamara
General Dynamics of
Fort Worth
General Dynamics
Air Forces
Carswell Air Force Base
Waco
Matagorda
Sabine Pass
Lafayete
Lufkin
Gulf of Mexico
Burley
Idaho
Port Worth
Vietnam
Filis
Grapeland
Fills
John D. Ryan
Air Force Chief of Staff
First Negro to command a U S naval ship and enter Congress
Daybook of America recalls Robert Smalls born 1835 who escaped slavery to pilot a Union ship and later served in the South Carolina House and Senate, and in Congress. The piece notes his 1871 political ascent and other early Black officeholders, including Revels, Rainey, De Large, Ellison, Walls, Turner, Long, and Pinckback.
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United States
Robert Smalls
South Carolina
House of Representatives
State Senate
Smalls
Congress
Charleston
Lincoln
U.S. Navy
Oken Edet Uga
Oxford University Press
Nigeria
University of Wisconsin
Small
U.S.S. Planter
Naval Service
Hiram Revels
U.S
Jefferson Davis
Mississippi
Joseph Rainey
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Fort Worth, Tex
Bruce D. Stocks
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Daybook of America
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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S.C
Victoria
Vicki Rocconti
Lucite
Terior Enami
Adickes
E. Prairie
Tues
Parkay
Oleo
Yoakum and Eddy Packing Companies
Assory Cc
E . Owel's
Maxwell House
Crisco
Aron
Aurora