• 17 June 1965: Two Navy F-4 Phantom II aircraft of VF-21 shoot down two North Vietnamese MiG-17s with AIM-9 Sidewinders. These are the first confirmed air-to-air kills of the Vietnam War.
• 19-20 June 1944: The Battle of the Philippine Sea. The US Navy would achieve a decisive victory destroying three Japanese aircraft carriers. The battle marked the near-total collapse of Japanese carrier-based air power. It became known as “The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot” with Naval Aviators shooting down nearly 300 Japanese aircraft with many pilots achieving multiple kills.

FLY NAVY!