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Flashback Friday: FDR takes first ever Presidential flight from Miami
This week in 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt became the first US President to take a plane flight, flying overseas to the wartime Casablanca Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. FDR flew from Miami’s Dinner Key Airport, then the world’s busiest international airport. Operation Torch, an amphibious invasion of North Africa had just been completed, […]




