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DAR teams with Henderson students to break record for letters to the military

In May, members of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Las Vegas enlisted students from various schools to help collect letters to send to soldiers. The goal was to collect enough letters to break the Guinness World Record for most letters to military personnel collected in one month.

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Clark County Museum exhibit details history behind air field that became Nellis Air Force Base

During World War II, Clark County created the Las Vegas Army Air Field to help train pilots how to use machine guns on bombers. In the 75 years since, it was renamed Nellis Air Force Base, which still has portions of the gunnery school air field. The county is honoring that history with its latest exhibit, “Training the Gunners: America’s First Flexible Gunnery School and the Las Vegas Army Air Field.”

WWII planes fly in to Henderson as part of traveling museum tour

The B-29 Superfortress bomber is one of several World War II planes stationed at the Henderson Executive Airport on Wednesday through Sunday for the public to tour as part of the third Commemorative Air Force Airpower History tour.

 
Korean War veteran presented with Purple Heart in Henderson

A good thing happened after a Veterans Affairs doctor rejected Warren Sessler’s disability claim because his Army records didn’t show he had been wounded: He finally received a Purple Heart medal officially from a general.

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