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After an Air Force plane crashed east of
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Operation White Tower 1947. Operation White Tower was sponsored by RKO Radio Pictures and served two purposes: to get snow pictures while testing high altitude photography and to conduct
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In 1952, Capt. Hackett agreed to carry several nuclear plates to the Denali Pass to help Brad
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