Colonel William C Oates leads his regiment up the slopes of Little Round Top to attack the left flank of the Union army on the second day of fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg
and senior Japanese naval officers realized that the Yamato would need to be sacrificed in the defense of Okinawa
By the end of the war these two tank commanders had destroyed 103 and 106 enemy tanks respectively
Doolittle spotted a hole in the clouds
Vulcan B.2, 50 Sqn, Waddington by Ivan Berryman. BAT224 Colonel William C Oates leadsDHM1338. Vulcan B. 2, 50 Sqn, Waddington by Ivan Berryman. The Vulcan B2 of 50 Squadron heads to Ascension Island from its base at Waddington, where it had been completely overhauled, including the fitting of a refuelling probe, which had to be found from various stores at Catterick, Goosebay in Labrador, Canada, and Wright Patterson Airfield in Ohio, USA. The Vulcan would take part in the seven planned bombing missions during the Falklands campaign