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1968: Gen Carl Spaatz (USAF retired) receives the Thomas D. White National Defense Award for 1968. The above book is published by the Air Force Historical Foundation.

1903: Orville Wright makes the first sustained, controlled power airplane flight in the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk. In the fourth and longest flight of the day, flown by Wilbur, the Wright Flyer flies

  1956: MACKAY TROPHY. At Edwards AFB, Capt Iven C. Kincheloe sets an altitude record for manned flight by flying the Bell X-2 rocket-powered aircraft to 126,000 feet. He later receives the Mackay Trophy.

1964: North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. On 7 August, Congress authorizes President Johnson to use all measures to assist South Vietnam. That decision leads to a buildup of

1968:   Gen Carl Spaatz (USAF retired) receives the Thomas D. White National Defense Award for 1968.

  1960:    Soviet air defenses shoot down a U-2 flying from Pakistan to Norway, capturing CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers.

1979:     THREE-MILE ISLAND DISASTER. Through 15 April, after the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant fails near Harrisburg, Pa., MAC flies 15 support missions (two C-5s, one C-130, and 12 C-141s). The aircraft deliver a 40,000-pound

  2004: NASA’s X-43A unmanned scramjet aircraft becomes the first jet to break Maj William J. Knight’s X-15 record of 4,520 MPH. While the X-1, Skyrocket, X-2, and X-15 were rocket-powered, the X-43 featured an

  1945:    BATTLE OF THE BULGE: American and British forces counterattack the Germans under the protection of Allied airpower.

1903:    Orville Wright makes the first sustained, controlled power airplane flight in the Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk. In the fourth, and longest flight of the day, flown by Wilbur, the Wright Flyer flies