The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.

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Ann Baumgartner was a WASP during World War II. She was the only WASP to fly as an experimental test pilot and, on October 14, 1944, the first woman to pilot a jet aircraft, the X-59A.

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Today's shero is Capt Mary Klinker, a USAF nurse who was killed on April 4, 1975 in the crash of a C-5 after takeoff from Tan Son Nhut Air Base, South Vietnam. Capt Klinker and the C-5 were taking part in Operation Babylift, the evacuation of orphans during the fall of Saigon.

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Continuing the theme of the DoD-less Women's History Month, today's shero is my great-aunt PFC Florence Eighmy who proudly served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. She operated a flight simulator to train Army Air Corps pilots.

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Since DoD is no longer celebrating Women’s History Month, us retired folks will do it for them. Jeanne Holm was the USAF’s first female Brig Gen. She advocated strongly for opening more roles to women, including pilots & combat. She lived long enough to see women fly in combat.

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