On This Day in History

  1970:    SON TAY RAID. A special USAF and Army task force of volunteers try to rescue US servicemen from the Son Tay POW camp 20 miles west of Hanoi, but the prisoners had been […]

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

  1932:    The national monument to Wilbur and Orville Wright is dedicated near Kitty Hawk.  

  1949:    An Air Force C-74 Globemaster “The Champ” flies from Mobile, AL  to  Marham, England in 23 hours with a record 103 passengers. It was the 1st aircraft to carry 100 passengers across the

  1942:    The first women enter US AAF flight training at the Houston Municipal Airport; the unit is designated the 319th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment.

    1969:    APOLLO XII: The second manned lunar landing mission launches from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V.

  1961:    At Malmstrom AFB, a Site Activation Task Force accepts the first Minuteman I (Model A) operational silo.

1949:    An Air Force C-74 Globemaster “The Champ” flies from Mobile, AL across the Atlantic in 23 hours and lands at Marham, England, carrying a record 103 passengers. It was the 1st aircraft to carry

    1921:    FIRST AIR-TO-AIR REFUELING. Wesley May, with a 5-gallon can of gasoline strapped to his back, steps from the wing of a Lincoln Standard to the wing skid of a JN-4 and climbs