Month: February 2020

The last time anyone saw these military aircraft, US forces were pummeling Japanese targets in the western Pacific during World War II.”Operation Hailstone” in February 1944 was a decisive victory for the US. But it came at a cost to American forces — 40 service members were killed and more than 20 aircraft were lost. Many families had no answers on their loved ones’ exact whereabouts for generations. Now Project Recover, a nonprofit that searches for those missing in action since World War II, has found three of the missing aircraft.

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Britain’s departure from the European Union is finally upon us, but after all the warnings of chaos for inbound tourists and problems for UK travelers heading to the continent, what will situations will travelers actually face after January 31? The arrival of Brexit comes three and a half years after the country held a referendum that set it in motion and follows a series of missed deadlines, each one carrying the threat of the UK leaving with “no deal” — a scenario that raised the prospect of a shortage of medical supplies and food, as well as long border queues.