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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

25 AUGUST 1947, Major Eugene Carl flew the Douglas D-558/I Skystreak to record-setting speed. He was recorded at 651 miles

The potato chip is an American invention. Its exact origins are cloudy; the most famous story suggests it was born

22 August 1902, during the second year of his tenure as President of the United States, Roosevelt traveled through Connecticut

21 AUGUST 1831 – Nat Turner launches a bloody slave insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner, a slave and educated

From our collection – A reproduction MP40 PFC by Nakata, Tokyo, Japan in 1968. They are considered to be the