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Sep 20 2007, AP

The Marines have deployed to Iraq the first combat squadron of V-22 Ospreys, the tilt-rotor aircraft that spent decades in development due in part to a series of mechanical failures and fatal crashes.The Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 and 10...

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