1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 yr lease)
1944 World War II: Top Ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Zero.
1945 British Premier Winston Churchill visits France.
1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.
1945 Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan.
2020 US drone strike kills top Iranian security and intelligence commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani outside Baghdad airport in Iraq.
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