Left to right: State Sen. Gary Wilken, R-Fairbanks, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Governor Frank Murkowski, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, former Alaskan senator John Binkley, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov joined other dignitaries, not seen, as they cut the ribbon dedicating a memorial to the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease program in Fairbanks, Alaska, Sunday Aug. 27, 2006. The memorial commemorates Russian and American aviators and support troops responsible for ferrying more than 5,000 American-built warplanes from the Midwest through Canada to Fairbanks, where Russian pilots th

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Left to right: State Sen. Gary Wilken, R-Fairbanks, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, Governor Frank Murkowski, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, former Alaskan senator John Binkley, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov joined other dignitaries, not seen, as they cut the ribbon dedicating a memorial to the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease program in Fairbanks, Alaska, Sunday Aug. 27, 2006. The memorial commemorates Russian and American aviators and support troops responsible for ferrying more than 5,000 American-built warplanes from the Midwest through Canada to Fairbanks, where Russian pilots then flew the planes to Siberia during World War II. Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen (released)

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