On this day in history

[bobbysocks]

lmao....i gather norfolking way are you in the navy huh? i didnt say you were a sailor. just figured you were from our east coast.

[Balderz002]

My home, was also home to the 2nd Air Div. of the Mighty 8th.

[f1rebrand]

Originally Posted by Balderz002

My home, was also home to the 2nd Air Div. of the Mighty 8th.

Cool. Are you from Norwich? Thorpe St Andrew here.

[winny]

2nd July 1940: Tuesday

Luftwaffe operational order issued with 2 objectives. Close the Channel to British shipping and clear the air of British fighters (simple enough!?).

German operations will begin tomorrow.

[Gilly]

1916
Hans Ulrich Rudel born

[dkwookie]

1900
First Zeppelin flight took place near Berlin, Germany

[olife]

COURAGEOUS AUSTRALIANS

july 22nd 1942, 8 a6m zeros attacked 1 loockeed hudson of the raaf over buna...an easy prey think the zeros pilots...not sure:instead of try to escape the pilot of the hudson(plt/officer warren f.cowan)return to the fight and do a front attack against the leader of the zeros squadron (the famous japanese ace saburo sakai),totaly surprised,all the zeros break in the sky ,this crazy australian is a nerve!!!finally sakai shoot down the hudson all the australians were killed.
in 1997 sakai write to the australian governement and ask that the autralian crew receive a medal at posthumous status but it was refused...