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2 SEPTEMBER 1944 – With the wings of his plane on fire and smoke pouring into the cockpit, future President […]

1 SEPTEMBER 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets the record for flying from New York to London in the time

31 AUGUST 1803 – Captain Meriwether Lewis leves Pittsburgh to meet up with Captain William Clark and begin their trek

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29 AUGUST 1863 – Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley sank in Charleston harbor for the first time. After making several practice

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28 AUGUST 1972 – Richard Stephen Ritchie becomes the 1st Air Force Ace in Vietnam with 5 kills. In May

27 AUGUST 1942 – USS Iowa BB-61 is launched. She was 887 ft 3 in length and a beam of

26 AUGUST 1944 – Norman Rogers and his crew of the B-24 “Wham! Bam! Thank You, Mam” had been on

Paris fell to Nazi Germany on June 14, 1940, one month after the German Wehrmacht stormed into France. Eight days