February 22, 1967
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 […]
February 21,1961
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.
February 18, 1913
1913: The Army tests Lawrence Sperry’s Gyrostabilizer, or automatic pilot, for the first time.
February 17, 1945
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.
February 16, 1945
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.
February 15, 1944
1944: Twelfth Air Force sends 254 B-17 and B-25 bombers to attack and destroy the Abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy. The US Fifth Army took the ruins on 18 May, allowing the US Fifth and
February 14, 1989
1989: In its first launch, the McDonnell-Douglas Delta II space booster lifts the first operational NAVSTAR Block II GPS satellite into orbit.
February 11, 1977
1977: Jimmy Carter becomes the first President to fly in the E-4A National Emergency Airborne Command Post in a flight from Andrews AFB, MD to Robins AFB, GA.
February 10, 1952
1952: KOREAN WAR/MEDAL OF HONOR. While leading a flight of 3 F-86s, Maj George A. Davis, Jr., engages 12 enemy MiG-15s, shooting down two. He is shot down and killed by a Mig-15. For engaging
