USS Gridley DLG-21 (1970)
#otd USS Gridley DLG-21 underway off Bath Maine, 23 January 1970. This is prior to being redesignated as a cruiser. #ussgridley #dlg21...


The End
#otd USS Makassar Strait CVE-91 breaking up on San Nicholas Island, California, where she had gone ashore while used as a Pacific Missile...


Anzio Landing (1944)
#otd Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, U.S. Army, Commanding General of Fifth Army, looks toward the shoreline from the PT boat carrying...


Apollo 5 liftoff
#otd The Saturn IB launch vehicle (SA204) for the Apollo 5 mission lifted off on January 22, 1968. #saturnib #apollo5 #liftoff #nasa...


Lift off of Big Joe (1960)
#otd The launch of the Little Joe booster for the LJ1B mission on the launch pad from the wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island,...


War Hoover
#otd was the first flight of the YS-3A 157992 Viking, here is a look at her launching a AGM-84 Harpoon in 1983. #s3 #s3viking #warhoover...


Departing Mir
#otd 20 Jan 1997 Following the separation of the Orbiter Atlantis OV-104 and Russia’s Mir Space Station is backdropped against a...


Big John underway
#otd USS John F. Kennedy CV-67 and USS Peterson DD-969 refueling from USS Kalamazoo AOR-6 in the Atlantic, 17 January 1978....


A look back
#otd CTV-N-2 No. 23 (Gorgon) missile under the wing of a PB4Y-2 aircraft, at the Naval Air Materiel Test Center, Point Mugu, California,...


Orbiter Endeavour liftoff (1993)
#otd STS-54 Orbiter Endeavour, OV-105, lifting off from KSC, January 13, 1993. #nasa #spaceshuttle #spaceshuttleendeavour #ov105 #sts54...