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Navy may strip Black war hero's name from carrier for Trump: Sources Naval historian David Winkler discusses Doris Miller, who was a cook aboard the USS West Virginia when the Pearl Harbor attacks happened, and if a …

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The stakes turn on whether readers accept that The United States Navy once operated an iconic twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep-wing fighter known as the F-14 Tomcat. That point shapes the political meaning of the story.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: The United States Navy once operated an iconic twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep-wing fighter known as the F-14 Tomcat.

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Claim 1: “The United States Navy once operated an iconic twin-engine, two-seat, variable-sweep-wing fighter known as the F-14 Tomcat.”

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Wikipedia explicitly describes the F-14 Tomcat as a twin-engine, tandem two-seat, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft operated by the United States Navy.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Grumman F-14 Tomcat has served with the United States Navy and the Imperial Iranian Air Force, then the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force after 1979. It operated aboard U.S. aircraft carriers fro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-14_Tomcat_operational_histor…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, tandem two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the U…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — LANTIRN (Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night) is a combined navigation and targeting pod system for use on the United States Air Force fighter aircraft—the F-15E Strike Eagle and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LANTIRN

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Claim 2: “Doris Miller, who was a cook aboard the USS West Virginia when the Pearl Harbor attacks happened”

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Wikipedia and multiple web search results confirm Doris Miller was a mess attendant (cook) aboard the USS West Virginia during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Doris "Dorie" Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a U.S. Navy sailor who was the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal of Honor. As a mess attendant second …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Miller

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United Sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_News_Shipbuilding

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — USS West Virginia (hull number BB-48) was the fourth dreadnought battleship of the Colorado class, though because Washington was cancelled, she was the third and final member of the class to be comple…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_West_Virginia_(BB-48)

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Claim 3: “Ethel Caterham of Surrey, England, turned 117 years old this year”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm Ethel Caterham of Surrey, England, reached the age of 117 in 2026 (based on her birth date of August 21, 1909).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Surrey Heath is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Camberley. Much of the area is within the Metropolitan Green Belt. The neighbouring district…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ethel May Caterham (née Collins; born 21 August 1909) is an English supercentenarian who, at the age of 117 years, 34 days, has been the world's oldest verified living person since the death of Inah C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Caterham

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Surrey ( SUH-ree) is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to t…
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Claim 4: “a team of Egyptologists discovered six chambers beyond the walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb”

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Two independent web search results report the discovery of six chambers beyond the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb, with one mentioning the possibility they contain Nefertiti's sepulchre.

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web search NEUTRAL — The tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by excavators led by the Egyptologist Howard Carter, more than 3,300 years after Tutankhamun's death and burial.The tomb of Tu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_tomb_of_Tutan…

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web search NEUTRAL — Using cutting-edge scanning techniques, a team of Egyptologists discovered six chambers beyond the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb that may contain the hidden sepulchre of Nefertiti, who experts believe w…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/nefertiti-long-l…

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web search NEUTRAL — British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves suggested in 2015 that KV62 could originally have formed part of a much larger royal tomb. His theory was based partly on lines and cracks in the north wall of Tut…
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/huge-egypt-breakthrough-hidde…

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