January 16, 1991
1991: Operation Secret Squirrel. The 2d Bomb Wing at Barksdale sends B-52Gs at 0636 local time to Iraq; they launch 35 cruise missiles on 17 January at the start of Desert Storm.
January 15, 1950
1950: General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold dies of a heart ailment at Sonoma, CA.
January 14, 1943
1 1943: The Casablanca Conference opens. Plans for a combined bomber offensive against Germany are established. Lt Gen Ira C. Eaker promotes a daylight-bombing offensive for U. S. forces.
January 11, 1944
1944: MEDAL OF HONOR. For valorous service this date, Lt Col James H. Howard receives the medal. Citation: http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/2795/howard-james-h.php
January 10, 2002
2002: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. A C-17 departs Kandahar with the first 20 Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners on a trip to Guantanamo Bay. The C-17 stops briefly at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, where the prisoners were
January 8, 1973
1973: LAST AERIAL VICTORY. In their F-4D Phantom 65-0796, Capt Paul D. Howman and 1Lt Lawrence W. Kullman shoot down a MiG southwest of Hanoi with a radar-guided AIM-7 missile. This shootdown was the last
January 7, 1995
1995: Operation UNITAF/UNISOM II. Through 24 March, Air Mobility Command supports the withdrawal of United Nations forces from Somalia. Altogether, Air Mobility Command’s airlifters and contracted commercial flights fly 59 missions to carry over 1,400
January 4, 1996
1996: Operation Provide Promise, regarded as the longest sustained humanitarian airlift in history, ends. USAF flies 4,597 of the 12,895 sorties to Bosnia and Herzegovina. A commemorative flight takes place on Jan 9.
January 3, 1993
1993: President George H. W. Bush and Soviet President Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START II).