Air Force

On May 15, 1942, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) was established.

Scientist and mathematician Dr. Theodore von Kármán was born on May 11, 1881, in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. 

President Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884.

On April 18, 1942, Jimmy Doolittle led a daring raid against the Japanese in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

On April 1, 1945, the Battle of Okinawa began.

Medal of Honor Day has been celebrated on this day since 1991 to commemorate the awarding of the first six Medals of Honor for the Great Locomotive Chase.

Writer and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats was born on March 11, 1916, in Brooklyn, New York.

Marine Corps Commandant John Archer Lejeune was born on January 10, 1867, in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. 

Richard Evelyn Byrd was born on October 25, 1888, in Winchester, Virginia.