2002: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM/ANACONDA. The US and its coalition partners launch Operation ANACONDA in eastern Afghanistan. Using B-52s, B-1s, AC-130s, A-10s, and F-15s for air support, the coalition ground operation tries to surround and kill […]
2002: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM/ANACONDA. The US and its coalition partners launch Operation ANACONDA in eastern Afghanistan. Using B-52s, B-1s, AC-130s, A-10s, and F-15s for air support, the coalition ground operation tries to surround and kill
1990: Rockwell rolls out the X-31A Enhanced Fighter Maneuverability (EFM) Demonstrator at Palmdale, Calif. The X-31A developed out of a cooperative venture between Rockwell International and Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm that made it the first multinational experimental aircraft.
1945: 334 B-29s drop 1,667 tons of firebombs and destroy 15 square miles of Tokyo beginning a campaign of incendiary raids, the most famous thereof being Operation Meetinghouse on 9-10 March. (Photo shown is for
(Wilbanks above, Levitow below) 1967 and 1969: MEDAL OF HONOR. Two are awarded on this day in separate years. 1967: Capt Hilliard A. Wilbanks: http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/3443/wilbanks-hilliard-a.php A1C John L. Levitow: http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/3343/levitow-john-l.php
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1955: The Army selects Bell Helicopter from among 20 competing companies to build the first turbine-powered helicopter. Bell’s design, the XH-40, later becomes the HU-1 Iroquois (later still UH-1), the famous “Huey” from Vietnam.
1967: Operation JUNCTION CITY. 23 USAF C-130s carry 700 troops from the 173d Airborne Brigade on the first U.S. parachute personnel drop in the Vietnam War. Heavy drops of equipment and supplies follow the personnel
1961: Final training for the first Mercury flights begins with the naming of Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, and John H. Glenn, Jr., as candidates for an early ballistic flight.
1913: The Army tests Lawrence Sperry’s Gyrostabilizer, or automatic pilot, for the first time.
1945: On the Japanese-held island of Corregidor in Manila Bay, C-47s drop 2,065 paratroopers to support an American amphibious landing aimed at capturing the harbor of Manila.
