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Today in Air Force History 9/5/2010
1941 - Nine B-17D Flying Fortresses began a mass transpacific flight from Hawaii to the Philippines. After flying through Midway, Wake, Port Moresby, and Darwin, Australia, the bombers landed at Clark Field, Philippines near Manila on Sept. 12.
1944 - Capt. William H. Allen of the 55th Fighter Group, Eighth Air Force, became an ace in one P-51 mission by scoring five aerial victories in just a few minutes. Flying with another ace, Capt. William H. Lewis, Capt. Allen's flight encountered and shot down 1
1951 - The U.S. Air Force awarded a contract to Consolidated Vultee for the world's first atomic-powered plane. General Electric built the engine.
1953 - In a Piasecki YH-21 Workhorse, Capt. Russell M. Dobyns set a three-kilometer speed record of 146.743 mph for helicopters at Dayton, Ohio.
1983 - Capt. Robert J. Goodman and his KC-135 crewmembers Capt. Michael R. Clover, Lt. Karol R. Wojckoski and Staff Sgt. Douglas D. Simmons from Loring AFB, Maine, refueled a group of F-4E's crossing the North Atlantic. When an F-4 lost power in an engine and di
1984 - The Discovery Space Shuttle completed its first flight with a landing at Edwards AFB, Calif.
1986 - A U.S. Air Forces in Europe C-141 Starlifter flew Americans injured during a hijacking at Karachi Airport, Pakistan, to Frankfurt, Germany, for medical treatment.
1996 - C-130s from the 145th Airlift Wing airlifted engineers, security police, generators, mobile kitchens and showers to the Raleigh and Wilmington areas of North Carolina.
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