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The George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument, also known as Sighting the Enemy, [4] [5] is an equestrian statue of General George Armstrong Custer located in Monroe, Michigan. The statue, sculpted by Edward Clark Potter , was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on June 15, 1992 [ 3 ] and soon after listed on the National Register of ...
Custer Monument: 1879 Dedicated in 1879 in honor of George Armstrong Custer, this monument once stood near the site of present-day Taylor Hall. The pedestal once had a statue of Custer atop of it, but after objections to the statue design by Custer's wife, the statue was replaced by an obelisk.
Carmi Air Force Station, Carmi, Illinois (closed in 1957; now site of Carmi Municipal Airport) Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois (closed in 1993) Hanna City Air Force Station, Hanna City, Illinois (closed in 1968; now site of an FAA Long Range Radar) Scott Air Force Base, Shiloh, Illinois
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Washington is seated astride Haseltine's 1934 statue of the racehorse Man o' War. General Simón Bolívar, by Felix de Weldon, 18th Street at Virginia Avenue, 1959. General Bernardo de Gálvez, by Juan de Ávalos, near the State Department, 1976. Colonel Michael Kovats de Fabriczy, by Paul Takacs, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, 2003.
O'Hare remained the world's busiest airport until it was eclipsed by Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in 1998. O'Hare had four runways in 1955; [36] 8,000 foot (2,400 m) runway 14R/32L opened in 1956 and was extended to 11,600 feet (3,500 m) a few years later, allowing nonstops to Europe. Runway 9R/27L (now 10L/28R) opened in ...
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"The Human U.S. Shield," 30,000 officers and men, at Camp Custer, Michigan, World War I, (1918). Camp Custer was built in 1917 for military training during World War I.Named after Civil War cavalry officer General George Armstrong Custer, the facility trained or demobilized more than 100,000 troops during World War I, including 5,000 for Polar Bear Expedition as part of the Allied intervention ...