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| Date of establishment of the 1st Aeronautical Division. |
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| First use of aerial devices for military purposes |
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| American Civil War, started by President Lincoln (1.1) |
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| Growth of the 1st Aero Squadron from August 1914 to the end of 1915 |
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| 12-44 officers, 54-224 enlisted, 6-23 airplanes (1.2) |
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| Number of aero squadrons formed by the beginning of World War 1, 6 April 1917 |
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| 24, fewer than 250 planes (1.2) |
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| 2 Largest technical institutions for training mechanics etc. at the end of 1917 |
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| St. Paul MN and Kelly Field TX (1.2) |
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| Year of the first peacetime conscription law and its effects |
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| 1940, by March 1944 manpower reached 2.1 million men and woman (1.3) |
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| Ratio of men to planes in the Army Air Corps during WWII |
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| 70 people to 1 plane (1.3) |
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| Date of creation of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps |
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| Date and Policy designator of the act abolishing segregation in the Air Force |
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| 11 May 1949, Air Force Letter 35.3 (1.3) |
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| Month and Year Germany surrendered in WWII |
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| Names of planes and dates the two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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| Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, Bock's Car dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki 9 August 1945 (1.3.2.7) |
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| Dates and cause of the Cold War |
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| 1948-1991, Soviet Union vetoed Nuclear disarmament plan put forward by the new U.N. (1.4) |
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| Dates and details on the Berlin Airlift |
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| 1948-1949, Soviets blockaded Berlin, Major General William Tunner headed up the analysis and execution of the airlift, lasted 15 months, 2.3 million tons of supplies, 277,569 sorties. 1.5 |
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| Date the Korean War started |
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| Dates of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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| Vietnam War Dates (The War in Southeast Asia) |
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| Date that Rolling Thunder went into effect and it's purpose |
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| 2 March 1965, sustained bombing campaign lasting through 1968 1.9.1 |
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| Presidents during the Vietnam war |
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| Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon 1.9-1.10 |
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| Date of assassination of Kennedy |
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| Date and name of 11 day operation of intensive bombing of Vietnamese cities |
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| 18-29 December 1972, Linebacker II 1.10.3 |
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| Date of Cease Fire Agreement between North and South Vietnam |
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| Date of unification of North and South Vietnam |
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| Operation Provide Comfort details |
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| 1991, 7,000 tons of blankets, tents etc. to displaced kurds after Saddam Hussein attacked northern Iraq 1.11.5 |
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| Operation Sea Angel details |
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| 1991, 3,000 tons of supplies to Bangladesh following a Typhoon 1.11.5 |
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| Operation Provide Hope details |
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| 1992-1993, 6,000 tons of food/supplies to republics of the former Soviet Union 1.11.5 |
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| Operation Urgent Fury details |
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| 1983, Military Coup took over Grenada |
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| Operation Just Cause details |
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| 1989, involved more than 250 aircraft, largest nighttime operation since WWII 1.12.4 |
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