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19
Oct
PAST EVENTS THAT MADE HISTORY
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14
Oct
THE SOUND BARRIER WAS BROKEN IN 1947
U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager became the first person to
fly faster than the speed of sound.
Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter
during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe.
He shot down 13 German planes and was himself shot down over
France, but he escaped capture with the assistance of the French Underground.
After the war, he was among several volunteers chosen to test-fly
the experimental X-1 rocket plane, built by the Bell Aircraft
Company to explore the possibility of supersonic flight.
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager (1923 – 2020)
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28
Sep
PAST EVENTS THAT MADE HISTORY
CAMILLE BOHANNON
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09
Sep
FIRST BOMBING ON THE U.S. MAINLAND
Launching from the Japanese sub I-25 (like below) Nobuo
Fujita piloted his light aircraft over the state of Oregon near
Brookings and firebombed Mount Emily, starting a forest fire.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt immediately called for a news
blackout for the sake of morale. No long-term damage was
done, and Fujita eventually went home to train navy pilots for
the rest of the war.
It was the first-ever aerial bombing on the US mainland.
Nobuo Fujita standing by his Yokosuka E14Y "Glen"
seaplane.
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26
Aug
AVIATOR DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1974
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
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