Reading between the lines of, ‘Thank God it was the Americans’

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Jared Sichel

September 12, 2014

As reported by Bloomberg, five Black Hawk U.S. army helicopters and one Chinook chopper descended on a Polish farm in the town of Gruta on Wednesday in an emergency landing that was precipitated by thick fog. (Great photos available

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Reading between the lines of, ‘Thank God it was the Americans’

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