#aircraft museum

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NEUBERG AIR BASE Museum GERMAN Air force Base

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Fortresses Under Fire🎨 Keith Ferris🖌️ Thunderbirds🛩️

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1944 Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain on display at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Pennsylvania

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On this day in 1943, the Museum’s P-38 Lightning was accepted by the Army Air Forces. Days later, Lockheed got permission to convert it into a two-seat trainer, to accommodate an instructor to train civilian pilots. Once trained, they evaluated P-38s fresh off the assembly line.

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B-25 Mitchell bombers flying over the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. (Photos by Greg Morehead, 2017)

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The Yellow Rose by Jeff Hooten Via Flickr: Part of the Central Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force, the B-25 "Yellow Rose" recently returned to the air after a much needed engine change. According to the CAF's webpage, "Central Texas Wing volunteers spent hundreds of hours to remove the engine, prepare it for overhaul and then re-install the newly rebuilt engine." _DSC6542_HDR

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Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules flyovers Taken: 8/13/24 (Loud volume warning for the video)

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1944 Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain on display at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Pennsylvania

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Navy Birthday

On October 13th, the United States Navy observes its birthday every year.

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is currently the largest, most powerful navy in the world, with the highest combined battle fleet tonnage. The service has over 340,000 personnel on active duty and more than 71,000 in the Navy Reserve.

With only two ships and a crew of eighty men, the Continental Army was born on October 13, 1775. The decision of the Continental Congress set the Continental Navy on course to carry arms to the British army, not to defend against it. However, these two ships and crew represent the birth of the United States Navy.

Throughout the Revolutionary War, their importance grew. Today, the United States maintains 40 naval bases across the country, including the world’s largest Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia.

Below the sea, submarines became a part of the Navy during World War II. While experiments began in the late 1800s and during the Civil War, they did not become a large part of the Navy inventory until World War II. At that point, subs became necessary for surveillance and rescue, even though they were also armed.

With the advent of the airplane, the Navy became vital stations for the Airforce as well. As a result, the Navy modified ships into floating landing strips. Today, joint Naval and Airbases such as Pearl Harbor-Hickam provided necessary fleets of sea and air defense.

NAVY BIRTHDAY HISTORY

On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress authorized the first American naval force.  Thus began the long and prestigious heritage of the United States Navy. Between 1922 and 1972, the Navy celebrated its birthday on October 27th, the date of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth. The Navy League of the United States designated the date due to Roosevelt’s foresight and vision in elevating the U.S. Navy into a premier force. Regardless of when the Navy observed its birth, the celebration has always been one of pride.  

The change to October 13 was seen as a more relevant date in line with the first official action legislating a navy.  Since 1972, the Navy has officially recognized October 13th as the official date of its birth.

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The United States’ Continental Congress orders the establishment of the Continental Navy (later renamed the United States Navy) on October 13, 1775.

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The Blue Hour by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: The Yorkshire Air Museum's Dassault Mirage III lit up against the trees as dusk falls during a Centre of Aviation Photography night shoot. Aircraft: Armée de l'air/French Air Force Dassault Mirage IIIE 3-QH/538. Location: Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, York.

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Boeing 307 Stratoliner at the Pima County Air Museum, later Pima Air & Space Museum, in Tucson, Arizona.

Date: February 1970

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Riding off into the sunset.

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Johnson Monoplane (1911) NASM 🛩️

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Fairchild A-10A Cockpit -The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Dayton, Ohio

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Our Education Division offers a variety of resources that you can print before you visit, or do at home including scavenger hunts, coloring pages and word searches! Check out the Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II!

nationalmuseum.af.mil/Education/

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