The late Eastern Airlines pilot William Piechota trained Army Air Corps pilots for combat missions during World War II, after learning to fly on Long Island. His sons have donated a portrait painted by their late mother of her husband in uniform to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Credit: Barry Sloan

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