• 27 July 1917: Congress authorizes the Army and Navy to take command of North Island in San Diego, CA. Naval Air Station - North Island is widely recognized as the birthplace of naval aviation and to this day is one of the Navy’s most important air stations on the West Coast.
• 29 July 1967: A Zuni rocket ignites and shoots across the carrier flight deck of the USS Forrestal (CVA-59). This caused a bomb beneath an aircraft to explode followed by a series of explosions. This resulted in fire engulfing the aft end of the flight deck. The ship was saved thanks to the bravery of its crew, but it lost 134 sailors and 21 aircraft destroyed.

FLY NAVY!