March 5, 1944
1944: Operation THURSDAY. Through 11 March, allied aircraft and gliders airlift British Army Brig Gen Orde C. Wingate’s Special Force (Chindits) with 9,000 personnel and ...
March 2, 1965
1965: North Vietnam shoots down Lt Hayden J. Lockhart’s F-100; a week later, he became the first USAF pilot POW in the Vietnam conflict. He ...
March 1, 1991
1991: Thru 30 June, C-5s and C-141s move fire-fighting men and equipment to Kuwait to battle more than 500 burning oil wells set by ...