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Photo Above: Cornelia Fort (U.S. Air Force photo) Nov. 17, 2021 – Early on Dec. 7, 1941 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Cornelia Fort, 22, was doing what she loved to do. She was in the air instructing a student pilot how to fly a bright blue and yellow Interstate Cadet, a training aircraft. As they were…
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She was in the air instructing a student pilot how to fly a bright blue and yellow Interstate Cadet, a training aircraft. As they were preparing to land, she suddenly grabbed control of the airplane from her student to avoid being hit by a Japanese military plane. The U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor was under a surprise attack.
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