A member of the Reading-based Civil Air Patrol unit has been posthumously awarded the CAP Congressional Gold Medal for his service during World War II. Paul I. Reed, a member of Reading Squadron ...

Joan "Johnnie" Pantanelli, who served in the Civil Air Patrol during World War II, became a pilot and passed on her love of flying to scores of young people, died on Jan. 14. The 1943 Scarsdale ...

During the war, its pilots patrolled waters off the Atlantic coast and beyond, thwarting submarine attacks and monitoring shipping lanes. In the decades since, the Civil Air Patrol has carried out ...

The drill was staged during the early years of the Cold War. Civil Defense efforts ... State and federal officials watched from a Civil Air Patrol plane circling the city. But when the sirens ...

The Civil Reserve ... commercial air power when the U.S. military's cargo jets just aren't enough. Created in 1951 under the Defense Production Act around the beginning of the Cold War, the ...

During the war, its pilots patrolled the waters off the Atlantic coast and beyond, thwarting submarine attacks and monitoring shipping lanes. In the decades since, the Civil Air Patrol has carried ...