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National Airborne Day » Commemorates the first official U.S. Army parachute jump, which took place on this date at Fort Benning, Georgia. ... Aug 17 1968 – Vietnam: Defense Department figures put the number of combat missions flown over North Vietnam since February 1965 to 117,000, dropping over 2.5 million tons of bombs and rockets. ... ................
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