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17 September 1944. The Netherlands, operation Market Garden began. Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in WWII. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time.
18 March 1916. 16 victory French ace, Lieutenant Jean Chaput in a Nieuport 11 on patrol over Eparges, downed an enemy LVG C two-seater for his econd combat success of the war. Art by Paul Lengelle.
15 September 1940. During the largest and most concentrated attack against London, Raymond Towers "Ray" Holmes of 504 Squadron RAF rammed his Hawker Hurricane into a Dornier 17Z he believed was going to bomb Buckingham Palace.
14 September 1940. 23 year old Sergeant John Brimble, 73 Squadron, was posted missing. His Hurricane was shot down over Maidstone, Kent at 16:05hrs.
10 September 1952. The only F4U-4B Corsair fighter-bomber victory over a MiG-15 during the Korean War. USMC Captain Jesse G. Folmar of VMA-312 shot down a MiG-15 before being shot down himself. He survived and was rescued.
9 September 1943. Italian battleship Roma was sunk by two Ruhrstahl/Kramer Fritz X1 radio controlled glide bombs dropped from 6 Dornier Do217K-2's from III Kampfgeschwader 100.
7 September 1965. First, 12 minute flight of the prototype Bell Model 209 N209J Huey Cobra attack helicopter flown by test pilot William Thomas Quinlan. It combined the drive system, rotors and tail boom of the UH-1C gunship with a streamlined fuselage and two pilots in tandem.
7 September 1956. USAF Captain Iven C. Kincheloe flew the Bell X-2, 46-674, to a world altitude record of 126,200 feet and a maximum speed of Mach 1.7. He was the first pilot to fly above 100,000 feet.
20 May 1917 Feldwebel Karl Kaszala (foreground) and Hautpmann Godwin Brumowski (background), attacked a SPAD XI over the Monte Santo and shot it down.