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** The escort aircraft carrier is fatally damaged by a Japanese kamikaze in the Sulu Sea and scuttled later in the day.
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** A car bomb placed by mafia with collaboration of Italian intelligence kills judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
** 27th Fighter-Escort Wing ( November-December 1950 ) Flew F-84E Thunderjets on armed reconnaissance, interdiction, fighter escort, and close air support missions.
** In the North Atlantic Ocean, the first U. S. Navy antisubmarine hunter-killer group begins combat operations, centered around the escort aircraft carrier and the aircraft of Composite Squadron 9 ( VC-9 ) embarked aboard her.
** A U. S. Navy antisubmarine hunter-killer group scores a kill of an enemy submarine for the first time, when TBM Avengers of Composite Squadron 9 ( VC-9 ) from the escort aircraft carrier sink the German submarine U-569 in the North Atlantic Ocean.
** The British escort carriers Attacker, Battler, Hunter, and Stalker fly off 26 Supermarine Seafires to operate from Paestum airfield in the Salerno beachhead, then withdraw to Palermo, Sicily, to refuel.
** The Japanese submarine I-175 torpedoes and sinks the U. S. Navy escort aircraft carrier 20 nautical miles ( 37 km ) southwest of Butaritari with the loss of 644 lives, including that of Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix ; there are 272 survivors.
** The U. S. Army Air Forces in the United Kingdom and the Royal Air Force agree to place most available P-51 Mustang fighters in the USAAF Eighth Air Force for long-range bomber escort duty ; American P-51s in the United Kingdom previously had operated in the Ninth Air Force.
** The German submarine U-1172 torpedoes the British escort aircraft carrier HMS Thane in the Irish Sea near the Clyde Lightvessel.
** U. S. Navy escort carrier support to the Lingayen Gulf landings ends.
** Accompanying B-29 Superfortresses, P-51 Mustangs of the U. S. Army Air Forces 15th, 21st, and 506th Fighter Groups based on Iwo Jima become the first Allied fighters to escort bombers all the way to Tokyo, Japan, and back.
** The United Kingdom transfers the escort aircraft carrier to France, which immediately commissions her into the French Navy as Dixmude.
** Canada Adult Fun an escort review board based in westen canada.
** The destroyer escort, commissioned 1943, decommissioned 1946
** The destroyer escort USS W. S. Sims ( DE-1059 ) ( later FF-1059 ), commissioned 1970, decommissioned 1991
** Troop transit is proposed in Swedish waters along the Swedish coast with Swedish escort.
** USS Nautilus II ( SP-559 ), a 66-foot patrol / escort ( 1917 – 1919 )
** 3. to escort deliveries of humanitarian supplies from there to distribution centers in and around Mogadishu
** Eric Bischoff came to the ring after Savage interfered, ordered Doug Dillinger to escort Savage out of the building, and then told referee Nick Patrick to restart the match as a no-disqualification match.
** Lake Fortress: Appears in episode 25 to escort Mecha Osumi Oni.
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** Atlas Cheetah, a fighter aircraft of the South African Air Force
** anti-aircraft artillery: weapons, usually mobile, designed for attacking aircraft from the ground.
** Flight dynamics, the science of aircraft and spacecraft design
** ( 1936 ) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated US Navy ship
** ( 1961 ), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier
** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class
** EP-3A / B Orion, a reconnaissance version of the aircraft
** Ground track, the path on the surface of the Earth directly below an aircraft or satellite
** Ocean track, in flight planning, the path of an aircraft as determined by heading, slip, and wind effects
** The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U. S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.
** Maurice Farman, French aircraft designer ( b. 1877 )
** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones.
** South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.
** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi military escorts on board an UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.
** The " Big Week " begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
** WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.
** WWII: " Black Friday ": A force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffers heavy casualties in an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels sheltering in Førde Fjord, Norway.
** Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.
** Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.
** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.
** The first British jet aircraft, the Gloster E. 28 / 39, is flown.
** Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer ( d. 1982 )
** Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer ( d. 1984 )
** Giuseppe Bellanca, Italian-American aircraft designer and company founder ( b. 1886 )
** A fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen.
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