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HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii -- Veterans of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion climb on board the “Spirit of Go for Broke”. Waiting for more than a year and a half after the June, 14 2006 christening of Hickam’s seventh C-17, Globemaster III, added to Hickam’s fleet of eight –the men for whom it was named after finally get their ride on the aircraft. They took to the skies for a 45-minute flight around some of the Hawaiian Islands. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Tom Czerwinski)


WWII vets fly on "Spirit of Go For Broke"

HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii -- Veterans of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion climb on board the “Spirit of Go for Broke”. Waiting for more than a year and a half after the June, 14 2006 christening of Hickam’s seventh C-17, Globemaster III, added to Hickam’s fleet of eight –the men for whom it was named after finally get their ride on the aircraft. They took to the skies for a 45-minute flight around some of the Hawaiian Islands. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Tom Czerwinski)

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