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Website. www.alphaindustries.com. Alpha Industries is an American clothing manufacturer founded in 1959 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Alpha Industries specializes in American military style and fashion apparel items such as flight jackets. It has produced the M65 Jacket for the US military for over half a century. [ 1][ 2]
It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022. [ 6 ][ 7 ] The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as "Blue Ribbon Sports", by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971.
Nike opens its world headquarters in unincorporated Washington County, just west of Portland, on 74 acres (0.3 km 2) of land. 1993. Nike introduces Reuse-A-Shoe, which collects athletic shoes, Nike wins Advertiser of the Year at the Cannes Advertising Festival. Nike enters the ice hockey market after acquiring Canstar, the parent company of ...
Tiger Force. Tiger Force was the name of a long-range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) unit [ 1] of the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 327th Infantry, 1st Brigade (Separate), 101st Airborne Division, which fought in the Vietnam War from November 1965 to November 1967. [ 2]: 22–3 The unit gained notoriety after investigations during the course of the ...
Added to NRHP. January 21, 2000. Nike Missile Site C-47 is a former missile site near Portage, Indiana. The Nike defense system was a Cold War -era missile system in the United States. Nike missiles were radar guided, supersonic antiaircraft missiles. The planners hoped that Nike would make a direct attack on the U.S. so costly as to be futile.
The Valentin submarine factory was a protective bunker on the Weser River at the Bremen suburb of Farge-Rekum, built to protect German U-boats during World War II. The factory was under construction from 1943 to March 1945 using forced labour. It was the largest fortified U-boat facility in Germany, and was second only to those built at Brest ...
9,450 (Dec 2022) [ 3] Website. www.columbia.com. Columbia Sportswear retail store in Hong Kong. The Columbia Sportswear Company is an American company that manufactures and distributes outerwear, sportswear, and footwear, as well as headgear, camping equipment, ski apparel, and outerwear accessories . It was founded in 1938 by Paul Lamfrom, the ...
Marine veteran Charles Cook Jr., left, who served in the Vietnam War, salutes during the singing of the National Anthem at a ceremony to rename a Compton post office in honor of Pfc. James ...