Honor Flight Kern County’s 50th flight lifted off early Tuesday morning from Meadows Field in Bakersfield, carrying more than 100 military veterans on a whirlwind trip to Washington, D.C.
The milestone comes more than a dozen years after the local nonprofit’s maiden flight in 2012. Tuesday’s flight held a broad mix of veterans who served during World War II in the 1940s and the Korean War in the 1950s. The charter flight also carried Vietnam veterans who served in the 1960s and 1970s, and Cold War warriors who served between the Korean and Vietnam conflicts…