1944: MEDAL OF HONOR. Lt Col Leon R. Vance Jr. receives the medal for his courage and valor. Citation: http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/3033/vance-leon-r-jr.php Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma (Vance’s hometown) is named in his honor.
1942: BATTLE OF MIDWAY. The battle rages through 7 June. Three US carriers destroy four Japanese carriers, losing one. The Japanese also lose a heavy cruiser, 322 aircraft, and 5,000 men, including a host of
1965: GEMINI IV. Through 7 June, USAF Astronauts Edward H. White II and James A. McDivitt complete a 97-hour, 58-minute space flight with two firsts: White makes a 23-minute spacewalk, and Houston’s Manned Spaceflight Center
1995: Through 8 June, after a surface-to-air missile strike forces him to eject from his F-16 over Bosnia, Capt Scott O’Grady evades capture by hostile forces for six days until Marine helicopters successfully rescue
Flown from Miami to Boston on the first day of emergency Army Air Mail service, February 19, 1934 1934: Army Air Corps airmail operations end. The official record for the brief enterprise reflects 57 crashes
1980: The United States Air Force Academy graduates its first female cadets. Ninety-seven women are commissioned as Second Lieutenants.
1966: The ARRS observes its 20th anniversary. In this period, the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service rescued more than 12,000 people throughout the world.
1958: Gen Otto P. Weyland accepts TAC’s first production F-105B Thunderchief from Republic at its Farmingdale plant in Long Island. (Third production model shown in photo)
1973: SKYLAB 2 launches from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn IB with Astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Paul Weitz, and Dr. Joseph Kerwin aboard. On 26 May, the astronauts meet with Skylab 1 during
1985: A MAC C-141 flies the body of the Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam War from Travis AFB to Andrews AFB prior to its interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
