JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. –
Nov. 14, 1938 - In a meeting with his military leaders, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for an Air Corps with 20,000 airplanes.
Nov. 15, 1961 - The U.S. Air Force activated the 2nd Advanced Echelon, 13th Air Force, in Saigon, Vietnam. This event signaled the official entry of the U.S. Air Force into the Vietnam War.
Nov. 16, 2006 - Air Force Special Operations Command received its first CV-22 Osprey at Hurlburt Field, Fla. U.S. Special Operations Command Commander Gen. Doug Brown flew the Osprey to the arrival ceremony.
Nov. 17, 1961 - The U.S. Air Force successfully launched the first Minuteman intercontinental missile from an underground silo at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It flew 3,000 miles down the Atlantic Missile Range.
Nov. 18, 1949 - An Air Force C-74 Globemaster, "The Champ," flew from Mobile, Ala., across the Atlantic in 23 hours and landed at Marham, England, with a record 103 passengers. It was the first aircraft to carry more than 100 passengers across the Atlantic.
Nov. 19, 1950 - During the Korean War, in the first massed light bomber attack, 50 B-26s from Japan dropped incendiary bombs on Musan, North Korea, on the Tumen River border with China. The attack destroyed 75 percent of the town's barracks area.
Nov. 20, 1962 - President John F. Kennedy announced the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis after the Soviets removed all Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles from Cuba.