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Saturday, May 18, 2013 | 10:01 a.m.

Local Military

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Twenty vintage B-25 bombers line up for take off at Grimes Field in Urbana Tuesday morning as they depart for Wright Patterson Air Force Base for the Doolittle Raiders Reunion. The planes have been staging in Urbana throughout the weekend so they could all fly into the reunion together. It is the largest gathering of the planes since WWII.

Doolittle Raider 70th anniversary celebration

The 70th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid was commemorated at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday. Four of the five surviving crew members attended the ceremony.

Calcutta highway dedicated to local fallen hero

Honor and sorrow filled the air at Saturday's memorial dedication of a state highway to a fallen soldier in Calcutta. State Route 170 is being renamed Cpl. Kenneth Tyler Butler Memorial highway, after his death while serving with the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2007. "I'm glad that they're keeping ...

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