April 3, 1965
1965: The first nuclear power system to be tested in space, the SNAP 10A, is successfully launched into orbit aboard an Atlas-Agena spacecraft. SNAP 10A functions for 43 days until a electrical component fails.
March 26, 1999
1999: Operation ALLIED FORCE. An F-15 shoots down two MiG-29s in aerial combat over Yugoslavia on the third day of the operation.
March 25, 1945
1944: Fifteenth Air Force makes its first operational delivery of a VB-1 Azon radio-controlled bomb against the Avisio Viaduct, attempting to cut the Brenner Pass between Italy and greater Germany.
March 24, 1945
1945: Operation VARSITY. An Allied airborne and amphibious assault crosses the Rhine River. More than 2,000 transports and gliders from the IX Troop Carrier Command drop two airborne divisions near Wesel, Germany, in daylight.
March 23, 1951
1951: Operation TOMAHAWK. In the Korean War’s second airborne operation, and the largest to date in one day, 120 USAF transports drop more than 3,400 troops and 220 tons of materiel behind enemy lines
March 20, 2006
2006: The C-17 Globemaster III fleet surpasses its millionth flight hour during a mission to evacuate injured US troops from Iraq to Germany.
March 19, 2003
2003: Operation IRAQI FREEDOM. c. 9:30 p. m. EST, US forces begin the air war against Iraq with Tomahawk cruise missile strikes.
March 18, 1942
1942: The US and Panama sign an agreement for defense sites and air bases in Panama to defend the canal.
March 17, 1961
1961: Northrop delivers the first T-38 Talon supersonic jet trainer to Air Training Command at Randolph AFB.
March 16, 1944
(X-1A #46-062) 1944: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) recommends development of a jet-propelled transonic research aircraft. This suggestion leads to the Bell X-1.