April 19, 1967
1967: MEDAL OF HONOR. Maj Leo K. Thorsness receives his medal by protecting a mission to rescue downed airmen in North Vietnam. He is shot ...
April 16, 2004
2004: MACKAY TROPHY. Near Kharbut, Iraq, in near-zero visibility, two USAF HH-60Gs assigned to Moody AFB rescue a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter crew that ...
April 15, 1969
1969: North Korean MiGs shoot down a US Navy EC-121 reconnaissance aircraft with 31 crewmen during its routine mission some 100 miles off the North ...
April 14, 1986
1986: Operation EL DORADO CANYON. The US retaliates against Libya for its involvement in terrorism with an airstrike using 24 F-111s from RAF Lakenheath, five ...
April 13, 1999
1999: Operation ALLIED FORCE. US Army General Wesley Clark, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, asks for 300 more U.S. aircraft in addition to the 82 ...
April 12, 1966
1966: SAC B-52s hit targets in North Vietnam for the first time when they attack a supply route in the Mu Gia Pass, 85 ...
April 9, 1997
1997: Lockheed-Martin and Boeing roll out their F-22 air superiority fighter at the LM Marietta plant.
April 8, 1942
1942: Using aircraft acquired from Pan American Airlines, the Army begins the largest airlift in World War II. Two DC-3s airlift gasoline and lubricating oil ...
April 7, 1955
1955: The first production-model Lockheed C-130A Hercules (53-3129), shown here in assembly, flies at the company’s facility in Marietta GA.
April 6, 1924
1924: 1ST AROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT/MACKAY TROPHY. Four Army Douglas Biplanes take off from Seattle on the first global flight. Only two crews complete the 26,345-mile flight ...