{"slug": "united-states-air-force", "label": "United States Air Force", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11223", "qid": "Q11223", "description": "air service branch of the United States Armed Forces", "entries": 14, "years": 12, "span": [1928, 1990], "span_label": ["1928 CE", "1990 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "vietnam-war", "label": "Vietnam War", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "philippines", "label": "Philippines", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-congress", "label": "United States Congress", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-navy", "label": "United States Navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "north-vietnam", "label": "North Vietnam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "central-intelligence-agency", "label": "Central Intelligence Agency", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ronald-reagan", "label": "Ronald Reagan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 27", "text": "July 27 – Joseph Kittinger, American colonel, U.S. Air Force pilot (d. 2022)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#July", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Births › July"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – United States Air Force test pilot Captain Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 rocket plane faster than the speed of sound, the first time it has been accomplished.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#October", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September", "text": "The National Security Act of 1947 becomes effective on this day, creating the United States Air Force, National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#September", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – The United States Congress passes Public Law 557 which permanently establishes the Civil Air Patrol as the auxiliary of the United States Air Force.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#May", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – Korean War: While in an F-80, United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown intercepts 2 North Korean MiG-15s near the Yalu River and shoots them down, in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#November", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 20", "text": "December 20 – The crash of a United States Air Force C-124 Globemaster at Moses Lake, WA kills 86 servicemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373187098#November–December", "title": "1952", "revid": 1373187098, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 23", "text": "August 23 – A United States Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules makes its first flight at Burbank, California, manufactured by Lockheed Martin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369212684#August", "title": "1954", "revid": 1369212684, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1957, "year_label": "1957 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – A United States Air Force Boeing C-97 disappears somewhere over the Pacific Ocean near the coast of Japan. All 67 people and the aircraft remain missing to this day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371361971#March", "title": "1957", "revid": 1371361971, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 2", "text": "March 2 – Vietnam War: Operation Rolling Thunder – The United States Air Force 2nd Air Division, United States Navy and South Vietnamese air force begin a 3-year aerial bombardment campaign against North Vietnam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#March–April", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › March–April"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 20", "text": "September 20 – Vietnam War: An USAF F-104 Starfighter piloted by Captain Philip Eldon Smith is shot down by a Chinese MiG-19 Farmer. The pilot is held until March 15, 1973.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#September–October", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the 4Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#November", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – 1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash: Four Northrop T-38 aircraft of the United States Air Force crash at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada, killing all 4 pilots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373279023#January", "title": "1982", "revid": 1373279023, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater–Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#October", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 13", "text": "May 13 – In the Philippines, gunmen kill two United States Air Force airmen near Clark Air Base on the eve of talks between the Philippines and the United States over the future of American military bases in the Philippines.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#May", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › May"}}]}