On this day in history

[f1rebrand]

Originally Posted by Balderz002

My home, was also home to the 2nd Air Div. of the Mighty 8th.

Cool. Are you from Norwich? Thorpe St Andrew here.

[winny]

2nd July 1940: Tuesday

Luftwaffe operational order issued with 2 objectives. Close the Channel to British shipping and clear the air of British fighters (simple enough!?).

German operations will begin tomorrow.

[Gilly]

1916
Hans Ulrich Rudel born

[dkwookie]

1900
First Zeppelin flight took place near Berlin, Germany

[olife]

COURAGEOUS AUSTRALIANS

july 22nd 1942, 8 a6m zeros attacked 1 loockeed hudson of the raaf over buna...an easy prey think the zeros pilots...not sure:instead of try to escape the pilot of the hudson(plt/officer warren f.cowan)return to the fight and do a front attack against the leader of the zeros squadron (the famous japanese ace saburo sakai),totaly surprised,all the zeros break in the sky ,this crazy australian is a nerve!!!finally sakai shoot down the hudson all the australians were killed.
in 1997 sakai write to the australian governement and ask that the autralian crew receive a medal at posthumous status but it was refused...

[Gilly]

July 5th 1943
The Battle of Kursk( normally noted for the largest tank battle) commences signalling the single costliest day in ariel combat.
By July 31st some 1536 Russian and 778 German aircraft have been destroyed

[f1rebrand]

July 5th 1985

In 'Back to the Future', Doc sets clock in the DeLorean to a day 25 years in the future. Today is that day.