Dakota Datebook: Vietnam casualty, NPL 50th anniversary

Vietnam casualty

Grand Forks was like any other Midwestern city in 1965. It was a thriving, bustling community, rapidly expanding south along the river and the economy was good. The Grand Forks Air Base had been established in the late 1950's and sorties of B52's flew from the newly established Strategic Air Command which, only two years earlier, had also begun installing the Minuteman II Missile...