Interception of the Rex
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interception-of-the-rex-188-14315674
title:
Interception of the Rex
text:
The interception of the Rex was a training exercise and military aviation achievement of the United States Army Air Corps prior to World War II. The tracking and location of an ocean-going vessel by B-17 Flying Fortresses on 12 May 1938 was a major event in the development of a doctrine that led to a United States Air Force independent of the Army. The mission was ostensibly a training exercise for coastal defense of the United States, but was conceived by planners to be a well-publicized demons
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1930s United States Army exercise
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interception_of_the_Rex
date created:
2008-12-17T09:09:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T23:23:53Z
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