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Feb. 25,
1975: Brig.
On this date ...
Gen. Chuck
Yeager flew
his final Air
Force sortie
at Edwards
Air Force
Base, Calif.,
in an F-4C
Phantom II
(s/n 63-
7264) before
retiring from
the service
on March 1.
Yeager was
conducting
a safety
Feb. 23, 1945: U.S. Marines raised the U.S. Flag atop Mount inspection of
Feb. 19, 1944: At the request of the Bombardment Branch of Suribachi on Iwo Jima during World War II. The iconic AP Edwards at
the Wright Test Center, flight testing began on a Consolidated photograph of the flag raising was later used as inspiration for the time.
Vultee XB-32 Dominator. The XB-32 was twin-tail heavy construction of the Marine Corps War Memorial in Washington,
bombardment aircraft. D.C., in 1954.

Feb. 20, 1962: Less than a year Feb. 25, 1929: The world’s first major air
after Yuri Gagarin became the evacuation comes to an end when Britain’s
first man to orbit the Earth, John Royal Air Force flies out the last of 586
Glenn became the first American civilians from Kabul to the safety to India.
to do so, completing three orbits The airlift involves nationals of about 20
around the planet aboard the countries. The Kabul Airlift is notable as the
Friendship 7 capsule. Glenn first large-scale air evacuation in history.
was already a military hero by Considering the limitations of aircraft at the
the time he was chosen to be an time, operating amidst a civil war, bitter cold,
astronaut for Project Mercury. and mountainous terrain, the Kabul Airlift was
After he completed his mission, a remarkable feat of endurance for both the
he went on to a successful airmen and the civilians involved.
political career as senator from
Ohio. He made history again
at the age of 77 in 1998, by
becoming the oldest person to
fly into space when he flew on
the space shuttle.

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