• 9 August 1949: LT J. L. Fruin of VF-171 ejects from his F2H Banshee over South Carolina after an inflight emergency. This is the first operational use of an ejection seat in the U.S.. Fruin would fracture both shoulders and break a leg but survive.
• 11 August 1965: The first loss of a Navy aircraft to a surface-to-air-missile occurs when an A-4 Skyhawk from VA-23 is shot down over North Vietnam.
• 14 August 1917: LT Edward McDonnell, in a seaplane, conducts the first experimental launches of a torpedo from an aircraft. The air-dropped torpedo would see extensive use in World War II and remains part of the Naval Aviation munitions inventory to this day.

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