120 years of Powered Flight
#otd Orville Wright pilots the Wright Flyer in the first manned powered flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 17 December 1903. Wilbur...
USS Illinois (1891)?
#otd, we love finding unique stories in the archives. Here is mock/replica battleship – USS Illinois, December 16, 1891 at the 1893...
SH-60B 161169 First Flight (1979)
#otd Sikorsky SH-60B 161169 Seahawk ASW Helicopter "LAMPS III" Makes its maiden flight, near West Palm Beach, Florida, 13 December 1979....
USS Dubuque LPD-8 (1978)
#otd USS Dubuque LPD-8 underway in the Pacific, 13 December 1978. #ussdubuque #lpd8 #flynavy #navalsafari #aviationsafari...
F6F-5 94443 (1949)
#otd Grumman F6F-5 94443 being used for tests at NATC Patuxent River, Maryland 13 December 1949. Produced in 1944-1945, the F6F-5...
Sinking of U-172
#otd Sinking of German submarine U-172, 13 December 1943. U-172 can be seen fighting it out in the surface, after a long series of...
Lunching of USS Forrestal CVA-59
#otd USS Forrestal CVA-59 shortly after her launching off Newport News, Virginia on 12 December 1954. So began the age of the Super...
USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 returning to port (2006)
#otd Sailors man the rails of the USS Kitty Hawk CV-63 as she steamed into Truman Bay, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on Dec....
Pearl Harbor Dec. 10 1941
#otd a view of the drydock area, 10 December 1941, showing damage from the 7 December 1941 Japanese raid. In the left drydock are the...
P-40 at Bellows Field (1941)
#otd Damaged U.S. Army P-40 at Bellows Field, Oahu, on 9 December 1941, two days after the Japanese air raid. This plane is reportedly...
