1996: The Air Mobility Command completes a year of coordinating 161 airlift missions for nearly 27,000 Cuban migrants from Guantanamo Bay to Homestead AFB, FL where the Immigration and Naturalization Service processes their legal entry […]
1957: The Lockheed YC121F # 53-8158 special Super Constellation sets a transcontinental speed record for propeller-driven aircraft by flying from Long Beach, CA, to Andrews AFB, MD, in 4 hours 43 minutes. (Photo courtesy
1944: Twelfth Air Force provides air cover for Allied units landing on Anzio beach in Italy. US control of the air plays a major role in defending the beachhead.
1991: Operation DESERT STORM/AIR FORCE CROSS. Capt Paul T. Johnson in his A-10 Thunderbolt II finds a downed Navy fighter pilot, who had ejected in Iraqi territory. Johnson destroys a threatening Iraqi truck, allowing an
2001: Texas Governor and former Texas Air National Guardsman George W. Bush is inaugurated as President of the US. He is the first former Air Guardsman to become President.
1957: Operation POWER FLITE/MACKAY TROPHY. Maj Gen Archie J. Old, Jr. leads three B-52s from the 93rd BW at Castle AFB CA on a 24,325-mile, around-the-world nonstop flight. When the bombers reach March AFB, CA
1991: Operation DESERT SHIELD/STORM. The Gulf War begins. In the first 14 hours of operations, coalition aircraft fly 1,200 combat sorties, while 106 cruise missiles hit targets in Iraq and Kuwait. F-117A Stealth Fighters attack
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.
1975: Dr. John L. McLucas, Secretary of the Air Force, selects the General Dynamics’ YF-16 Fighting Falcon over Northrop’s YF-17 as the USAF’s lightweight air combat fighter. The U. S. Navy later develops the
