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Edward Sanders, 87, of Jackson recently received his diploma from Jackson High School.

87-year-old Korean War veteran graduates high school

A Korean War veteran who dropped out of high school during his junior year in 1952 to join the U.S. Air Force and became a pilot during the war has finally received his high school diploma at age 87.

3 years ago

Walter Boyne — bomber pilot, historian, novelist and Air and Space Museum director — dies at 90

Among his many accomplishments, Boyne was an aviation hall of famer and a key player in the creation of the massive Udvar-Hazy expansion to the Air and Space Museum.

By Stephen Losey

3 years ago

The atomic bomb that faded into South Carolina history

Sixty years ago, on March 11, 1958, an Air Force bomber dropped a nuclear weapon on a farm in the rural Mars Bluff community outside Florence. The radioactive payload either wasn’t loaded in the warhead or didn’t detonate — the stories differ.

By Bo Petersen, The Post and Courier of Charleston (S.C.) via AP

5 years ago

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