MONTGOMERY, Ala.
Report challenges Tuskegee history
At least 25 bombers being escorted by the Tuskegee Airmen over Europe during World War II were shot down by enemy aircraft, according to a new Air Force report.
The report contradicts the legend that the famed black aviators never lost a plane to fire from enemy aircraft.
Wednesday’s report was based on after-mission reports filed by the bomber units and Tuskegee fighter groups and other records, said Daniel Haul man, an Air Force historian.
The tally includes only cases where planes were shot down by enemy aircraft, Haulman said. No one disputed that the airmen lost some planes to ground fire.
WASHINGTON
Census Bureau ID’d Japanese-Americans
The Census Bureau turned over confidential information, including names and addresses, to help the U.S. government identify individual Japanese-Americans during World War II, according to government documents released by two scholars Friday.
Friday’s disclosure represented the first confirmation that the bureau shared individuals’ information with federal officials in helping relocate Japanese-Americans to inland camps after Japan’s 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.
WASHINGTON
Attendant says she toted pistol on flight
A uniformed flight attendant was arrested at Dulles International Airport after she turned herself in for allegedly carrying a concealed handgun aboard a flight from Atlanta, authorities said Saturday.
The Transportation Security Administration, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies were investigating whether the woman had gone through security and whether the gun passed through a checkpoint unnoticed in Atlanta, TSA spokesman Barry Phelps said.
Janet Tucker, 45, of Lithonia, Ga., was not part of the duty crew at the time, he said.
SAN FRANCISCO
Logging, mining forest rules nixed
A federal judge on Friday tossed out new Bush administration rules that gave national forest managers more discretion to approve logging and other commercial projects without lengthy environmental reviews.
U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled that the government failed to adequately consider the effects the rules would have on the environment and neglected to gather public comment on the issue.
ADRIAN, Mich.
Vacuum collector, 12, tapes pilot for show
A 12-year-old boy who has collected more than 150 vacuum cleaners says he is learning to identify them by sound.
Kyle Krichbaum has been in Hollywood taping a game- show pilot where he had to compete against other contestants blindfolded and identify vacuum models, the Detroit Free Press said Saturday.
Randy and MaryLynn Krichbaum said their son played with a toy vacuum constantly as a toddler.
