U.S. Navy Squadron Shirts & Naval Aviation Apparel

• 30 August 1995: US Naval aircraft begin strikes against Bosnian Serb sites as part of Operation Deliberate Force. Aircraft from the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) and USS America (CVA-66), in the Adriatic Sea, conduct 3,515 combat sorties over the next three weeks.
• 2 September 1944: US Navy aircraft attack Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima, Japan. A TBM Avenger from VT-51 is hit by anti-aircraft fire, but able to drop its four 500-pound bombs on target and then bail out. The Avenger pilot was a 20-year-old LTJG George H. W. Bush. He would be rescued by the submarine USS Finback (SS-230) and ultimately become the 41st President of the United States.
• 3 September 1953: The AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile is first fired at Naval Air Station China Lake, then known as the Naval Ordnance Test Station.

FLY NAVY!