• 6 April 1972: President Nixon reinstitutes the bombing campaign against North Vietnam leading to some of the most intense air combat of the Vietnam War.  Over the course of the following week, Navy aircraft from four carriers averaged 191 combat sorties
  per day.    
• 7 April 1945: 386 carrier-based aircraft sank the Japanese battleship Yamato, the light cruiser Yahagi and four destroyers that were enroute to engage US forces at Okinawa. 
  The Yamato was the largest and most heavily armored battleship ever built and was designed to be unsinkable.  Navy aircraft included F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs, TBF Avengers and SB2C Helldivers.   Naval Aviators delivered at least 11 torpedoes and 6 bomb hits to the Yamato before sinking.
• 8 April 1950:  Soviet fighters shoot down a PF4Y-2 Privateer of VP-26.  The Privateer was unarmed and flying a reconnaissance mission in the Baltic Sea. The 10-man crew was never found and is presumed killed in action. 

FLY NAVY!