Today in 1943, the Kasserine Pass was the site of the United States’ first major battle defeat of World War II.

The Vickers EFB1, aka the Destroyer, was unsuccessful, but it was the world’s first fighter aircraft with the gun in the extreme nose of the aircraft.

Today in 1935, the crash of the USS Macon (ZRS-5) near Big Sur would be the death knell of the Navy’s dirigible program.

Today in 1939, First Lieutenant Benjamin Scovill (“Ben”) Kelsey took the prototype Lockheed XP-38 on a record-breaking transcontinental flight and crashes.

Major George Davis, Jr. piloting an F-86 Sabre Jet near the Korean border attacks 12 enemy MIGs speeding toward US fighter-bombers.