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Boeing and Airbus Prepare (Again) for Tanker Battle

Jun. 16, 2009
Boeing said it was prepared to go head to head with EADS to win a bitterly contested $35 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force by converting its 777 passenger plane into a refueling tanker.
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic