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Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War honored Lloyd Hawks, who earned the Medal of Honor, with a special ceremony.
A CH-53E Super Stallion from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma’s 1st Marine Aircraft Wing made an emergency landing Wednesday at a remote island airport off the Okinawa coast, Marine Corps and Japanese officials said.
By having F-35B stealth fighter jets successfully flying from a modified helicopter destroyer in a recent test, Japan now in de facto has an aircraft carrier in its arsenal, the first since the country brought disaster to the world in World War II, was defeated and vowed not to have aggressive weapons.
A pair of Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II stealth aircraft became the first fighters to fly from a Japanese carrier since World War II after landing and taking off from the JS Izumo on Sunday.
Plans to land and launch the short-takeoff, vertical-landing F-35s from the Izumo were announced Thursday by the Defense Ministry, although they’d been signaled by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger during a security dialogue last month.