Month: November 2018

November 30, 1908
  1908:   At Hammondsport, the Curtiss Motor Vehicle Company becomes the first airplane company formed in the US.
November 29, 1951
1951:   USAF announces the production of the first all-jet heavy bomber, the Boeing XB-52.
November 28, 2001
  2001:   Operation SWIFT FREEDOM. C-17s land in Afghanistan on an airstrip about 80 miles south of Kandahar to deliver Navy Seabees.
December 11, 1941
  1941:   Germany and Italy declare war on the United States; Congress responds in kind with a similar declarations against them.
November 27, 1933
1933:   The Army accepts Martin’s first production-model B-10 bomber. It was the first all-metal monoplane bomber with an internal bomb bay, retractable gear, rotating gun ...
November 26, 1968
  1968:   MEDAL OF HONOR. While flying a UH-1F helicopter, 1Lt James P. Fleming twice exposes his aircraft to intense hostile fire while rescuing a ...
November 23, 1983
1983:   The West German Parliament approves Ground Launch Cruise Missile and Pershing II missile deployments in West Germany.
November 22, 1988
    1988:   At Palmdale, Northrop unveils the B-2 Stealth Bomber.
November 21, 1970
  1970:   SON TAY RAID. A special USAF and Army task force of volunteers tries to rescue US servicemen from the Son Tay POW camp ...
November 20, 1962
1962:   CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. President John F. Kennedy announces the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis after the Soviets remove all IRBMs from Cuba. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfjnfbw4rI4