On the evening of 17 July 1944, an explosion at Port Chicago, California, killed 320 people, two thirds of whom were African American U.S. Navy personnel, and injured 250 more.
Commander Rosemary B. Mariner became the first woman to command an operational aviation squadron, Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 34 (VAQ 34), on 12 July 1990.
The Navy’s First Aerobatics Team, 1928–29.
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