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Clark College event honors those who served in Vietnam

March 29, 2023, 6:48pm Clark County News

Patrick Locke knows the horrors of war. The Army veteran served two tours in Vietnam, during which he was shot three times. On Wednesday morning, he had one message for… Read story

Clark County History: Crashes into Vancouver Lake

March 26, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

Like its deeper, bigger cousin, the Pacific Ocean, shallow Vancouver Lake doesn’t give up dead airplanes easily. The depth of the Pacific embraces them, but the lake’s muck entombs them.… Read story

This week in Clark County history

March 31, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story

This Week in Clark County History

March 24, 2023, 5:55am Clark County Life

100 years ago Read story

Event at Clark College to commemorate 50 years since Vietnam

March 22, 2023, 6:02am Clark County News

The Community Military Appreciation Committee is hosting an event on March 29 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Read story

Lt. Louis Barin (1890-1920) sports his Naval officer's uniform. Barin built his airplanes. One lifted 20 feet skyward, then nose-dived into the earth. He chopped it into kindling and stored it in the basement of his Portland home. In 1919, he piloted a flying boat attempting the first crossing of the Atlantic.

Clark County History: Louis Barin, heavy aviator

Lt. Louis Barin (1890-1920) sports his Naval officer's uniform. Barin built his airplanes. One lifted 20 feet skyward, then nose-dived into the earth. He chopped it into kindling and stored it in the basement of his Portland home. In 1919, he piloted a flying boat attempting the first crossing of the Atlantic.

March 19, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life

Louis Barin was a big man, overflowing the cockpit of his airplane. At 250 pounds, he was nearly twice the weight of other youthful aviators at the Vancouver Barracks polo grounds aviation camp. But he was there every evening. Later, Barin would make his mark in aviation by becoming one… Read story

The Soviet ANT-25 transpolar flight crew, navigator Alexander Belyakov, left, pilot Valery Chkalov and co-pilot Georgi Baidukov, wait in the White House with an unknown man in 1937. Portland’s Meier & Frank department store owner exchanged three new suits with them, gaining a fur-lined flying suit for his window display. However, the Soviets declined to part with their long underwear.

Clark County History: Second Russian landing

The Soviet ANT-25 transpolar flight crew, navigator Alexander Belyakov, left, pilot Valery Chkalov and co-pilot Georgi Baidukov, wait in the White House with an unknown man in 1937. Portland’s Meier & Frank department store owner exchanged three new suits with them, gaining a fur-lined flying suit for his window display. However, the Soviets declined to part with their long underwear.

March 12, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life

The morning of June 20, 1937, the roar of an airplane engine woke 12-year-old Don Carpenter, who could recall the sound of every airplane he’d ever heard. This one, he hadn’t. Popping from between his sheets, he saw a red-winged plane banking, so he pulled on his clothes, grabbed his… Read story

This week in Clark County history

March 10, 2023, 5:52am Clark County Life

100 years ago Read story

The Soviet ANT-4 airplane was examined by a crowd at Pearson Field in Vancouver on Oct. 18 or 19, 1929. The transport bomber, "Land of the Soviets," developed engine trouble shortly after reaching Portland during a trans-Siberian flight from Moscow to New York.

Clark County history: Soviet aviators

The Soviet ANT-4 airplane was examined by a crowd at Pearson Field in Vancouver on Oct. 18 or 19, 1929. The transport bomber, "Land of the Soviets," developed engine trouble shortly after reaching Portland during a trans-Siberian flight from Moscow to New York.

March 5, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life

Word came from Seattle that Soviet aviators were landing at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 18, 1929. The long-distance flight was headed to New York City. Its quick Portland stop was to refuel and liftoff again. Read story

This week in Clark County history

March 3, 2023, 5:43am Clark County Life

100 years ago Read story