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March 8, 1965:
First U.S. combat
On this date ...
forces arrive in
March 6, 1985: The Rockwell Vietnam. Marines
International-built Space Shuttle of the 9th Marine
Atlantis (OV-104) is rolled out in Expeditionary
Palmdale, Calif. It would later Brigade were
be transported, overland, to deployed to Da
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Nang to protect
for delivery to the Kennedy the U.S. airbase
Space Center in Florida. After from Viet Cong
flying 33 missions, it was attacks.
decommissioned and is now
on display at Kennedy.
March 10, 1959: The
first of four captive-carry
flights of the X-15 mated
to its Boeing NB-52A
Stratofortress “mother
ship” (s/n 52-003A) took
place. North American
Aviation test pilot A. Scott
Crossfield was in the
cockpit of the X-15.

March 11,
1974: Lt. Hiroo
Onoda, a
March 8, 1979: Space Shuttle Columbia arrived Japanese officer,
at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., on a trailer surrendered,
after a 38-mile journey from the Rockwell after hiding out
International plant in Palmdale, Calif., through in the Philippine
Lancaster, the first step in its travels toward jungle for 29
space was taken at 5 to 10 mph. The orbital years. Onoda is
vehicle was delivered to NASA’s Dryden Flight seen handing
March 7, 1942: The first Tuskegee Airmen graduated from advanced Research Facility to be mated with its Boeing his military
pilot training at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Ala. The Tuskegee Airmen 747 carrier aircraft. samurai sword
were the first African American U.S. military pilots. “No standards to Philippine
were lowered for the pilots or any of the others who trained in President
operations, meteorology, intelligence, engineering, medicine or any Ferdinand
of the other officer fields,” The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Marcos.
Museum writes.

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