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American Air Museum celebrates US-UK special relationship

As Britons ponder their place in Europe ahead of a vote on European Union membership, a newly reopened museum serves as a reminder that the U.K. has often looked west — to a “special relationship” with the United States that has survived revolution and been cemented by war.

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American Air Museum celebrates US-UK special relationship
Bill Toombs, aged 91 from Little Rock, Arkansas in the U.S. who was a flight engineer on B-24 and B-27 aircraft in World War II, poses for photographs next to a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress during a media event to mark the reopening of the American Air Museum after it underwent a major redevelopment, at the Imperial War Museum of aviation in Duxford, England, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. The transformed American Air Museum opens to the public from Saturday March 19 and tells the story of Anglo-American collaboration in 20th and 21st century conflict as seen through the eyes of the people linked with the aircraft and objects on display. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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