A US Air Force C-141 from the 438th Military Airlift Wing transports 39 passengers released from Trans World Airlines flight 847, which was hijacked on June 30 by two Shiite Muslims. At Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, Vice President George H.W. Bush greets the survivors upon their arrival from Damascus, Syria.
In the final few hours before the Senate adjourned for its Memorial Day recess on May 26, lawmakers approved a raft of some 3,400 pending military nominations, including a number of high-profile Air Force and Space Force generals to assignments that will significantly reshape some of the upper echelons of…