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To All,

Good Sunday Morning May 10

I hope that you all are enjoying Mother's Day today

Regards,

skip



This day in Naval History May 10, 2019

1775 American forces under Gen. Benedict Arnold and Ethan Allen cross Lake Champlain and capture the British fort at Ticonderoga, New York. The US Navy has honored this action by naming five ships after the battle.

1862 The Norfolk Navy Yard is burned before being evacuated by Confederate forces in a general withdrawal up the peninsula to defend Richmond. Also on this date, Pensacola is re-occupied by Union Army and Navy forces. Confederate forces destroyed the Navy Yard the day before.

1944 USS Cod (SS 224) attacks a large Japanese convoy and destroyer off the west coast of Luzon. USS Silversides (SS 236) attacks a Japanese convoy about 120 miles south-southwest of Guam.

1945 During the Okinawa Campaign, Pharmacists Mate Second Class William D. Halyburton aids a fallen Marine, shields his body, and is mortally wounded. He is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. USS Halyburton (FFG-40) is named in his honor.

1952 During the Korean War, USS Maddox (DD 731) and USS Laffey (DD 724) fire on railroad targets at Wonson.

1960 USS Triton (SSRN 586), commanded by Capt. Edward L. Beach, completes a submerged circumnavigation of the world in 84 days following many of the routes taken by Magellan.

1993 USS Lake Erie (CG 70) is commissioned at Bath Iron Works in Maine. Two days later, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser sets sail for her homeport at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.







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Today in History May 10



1285

Philip III of Spain is succeeded by Philip IV ("the Fair").


1503

Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands.


1676

Bacon's Rebellion begins in the New World.


1773

To keep the troubled East India Company afloat, Parliament passes the Tea Act, taxing all tea in the American colonies.


1774

Louis XVI succeeds his father Louis XV as King of France.


1775

American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.


1794

Elizabeth, the sister of King Louis XVI, is beheaded.


1796

Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy.


1840

Mormon leader Joseph Smith moves his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they experienced in Missouri.


1857

The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British.


1863

General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson succumbs to illness and wounds received during the Battle of Chancellorsville.


1865

Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia.


1869

The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads meet in Promontory, Utah.


1859

French emperor Napoleon III leaves Paris to join his troops preparing to battle the Austrian army in Northern Italy.


1872

Victoria Woodhull becomes first the woman nominated for U.S. president.


1917

Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.


1924

J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


1928

WGY-TV in Schenectady, New York, begins regular television programming.


1933

Nazis begin burning books by "unGerman" writers such as Heinrich Mann and Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front.


1940

German forces begin a blitzkrieg of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, skirting France's "impenetrable" Maginot Line.


1940

Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.


1940



The Battle of France begins. It ends six weeks later as the British Expeditionary Forces are evacuated at Dunkirk


1941

England's House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz: 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.


1960

The USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of the globe underwater.


1994

Nelson Mandela is sworn in as South Africa's first black president.




1869 Transcontinental railroad completed



1934 Dust storm sweeps from Great Plains across Eastern states



Thanks, Skip, for finding the dust storm day in History. I was 2 weeks old, in a farm house in Nebraska, and survived because my folks could seal the leaky window sills with wet towels. Most of our livestock choked to death. Incidentally, please encourage all your readers to write their own "ego-bios". Just finished mine . . Most fun I had in a long time. Can't find my car keys, but can go back 70 years like it was yesterday. V/R. Brown Bear





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1972 LT Randy Cunningham and LTJG Willie Driscoll shot down three North

Vietnamese MiGs in one engagement to become the United States' first "aces"

of the Vietnam War.

What the write up missed about Cunningham's 3-MiG kills on that mission was (1) his squadron mate, Matt Connolly & Tom Blonski, shot 2-MiG's off his 6 o'clock; & 2) Cunningham got shot down, ejected, and got picked up and returned to the Connie. All 4 got Navy Cross'.

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Hot Dog sends

Steve Shoemaker and Kieth Crenshaw also got one in that gaggle. Booger sends



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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS

FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR MAY 5

THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY



May 10



1911: Lt George E. M. Kelly became the first Army pilot to die in an airplane, when he crashed his Curtiss pusher at San Antonio to avoid striking encamped soldiers. However, he was the second Army officer to die in a crash. Lt Thomas E. Selfridge, flying as an observer with Orville Wright, died on 17 September 1908. (4) (11)



1913: FIRST AERIAL BOMBING. Didier Masson and Thomas Dean, flying for Mexican General Alvarado Obregon, conducted the first aerial bombing in an American war by bombing Mexican Federal gunboats in Guaymas Bay, Gulf of California. (21)



1942: The carrier USS Ranger, off the African Gold Coast, launched 60 US AAF P-40s to Accra. From there, they were flown in stages to the 10th Air Force in India. (24)



1944: CHENGTU PROJECT. Using primitive construction methods, 400,000 laborers completed this project to build five very heavy bomber bases and six fighter fields in China to support B-29 operations. The work started in January. (21) (24)



1953: KOREAN WAR. Flying through intense flak Col Victor E. Warford, 58 FBW Commander, led 8 F-84 ThunderJets to attack the hydroelectric generating facilities at Sui-ho near the Yalu River. Through 11 May, 39 B-29 Superfortresses raided the 375-acre Yangsi troop concentration area twelve miles southeast of Sinuiju City, achieving 63 percent destruction of one of the last large lucrative targets remaining in N. Korea. (28)



1955: The USAF issued a requirement for a surface-launched, turbojet subsonic decoy missile for the B-47 or B-52. It became the Goose missile. (6) General Electric's XJ79 turbojet engine made its first flight in the NB-45 test aircraft over Schenectady, N.Y. This engine later powered the Convair B-58, the Lockheed F-104, and the McDonnell Douglas F-4. (8: May 90)



1961: Maj Elmer E. Murphy flew a B-58 from Carswell AFB (43 BMW) on a 30-minute, 45-second flight at 1,302 MPH over a 669.4-mile closed-course. This gave the USAF permanent possession of the Bleriot Cup given by the Aero Club of France. (1) (24)



1962: After a 3-year testing program, a USAF BOMARC-A launched from Eglin AFB intercepted an F-104 Starfighter drone 150 miles away. (16) (24)



1964: At Rosemount, Minn, Tracy Barnes rode a Barnes 14A Balloon to an FAI altitude record of 38,650 feet for balloons in subclasses A-3 through A-9 (400 to 4000 cubic meters). (9)



1965: Lt Col James W. Wood became the first pilot to fly the variable, swept-wing F-111 at Edwards AFB. (3) Tactical control of aircraft in battle areas assigned to the Air Force by the JCS. (16) (26)



1972: The Fairchild-Republic A-10A prototype, an entry in the USAF's A-X competition to select a close-air-support fighter, completed its first flight at Edwards AFB. (3) LINEBACKER I: Through 11 May, 8 TFW F-4 Phantoms dropped precision-guided munitions on the Paul Doumer Bridge in Hanoi, North Vietnam, and closed the bridge to traffic. The attacks began a campaign against logistics and industrial targets in North Vietnam, including the mining of North Vietnames harbors. (17) (21) After several months of dropping bombs against the invading North Vietnamese, Navy fighter squadrons spent the day engaging MiGs in the heaviest aerial action of the war. VF96 from the USS Constellation (CVA64) destroyed six of eight MiGs. In their F-4J, Lt Randy Cunningham and his backseater, Lt (JG) Willie Driscoll, of VF96 downed three MiG-17s. When combined with their two earlier kills on 19 January and 8 May, they became the first American aces of the Vietnam War, the first all-missile aces, and the first U.S. aces since the Korean War. After their third kill, a SAM hit forced both men to eject from their F-4 south of Hanoi. The effort required to rescue the Navy's two newest aces was hectic and dangerous as the rescuers faced fire from two North Vietnamese PT boats and heavy fire from communist shore positions. (http://www.aerosphere.com/html/randy_cunningham.shtml)



1995: A C-141 Starlifter from the 349th Air Mobility Wing (AMW) carried a ton of medical supplies to Zaire after an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Central Africa. A C-5 Galaxy delivered another ton of supplies to Kinshasa, Zaire, later in the month. (16)



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Big Brother is here



thanks to GM and Dutch





https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/big_tech_is_strangling_us.html

May 7, 2020

Big Tech is Strangling Us

By Eileen F. Toplansky

How ironic that the 1984 iconic advertisement that Apple used to introduce the Macintosh computer "played on imagery from George Orwell's 1984 novella [sic] presenting Apple as rebels fighting a technocratic elite. The spot certainly was a lot gloomier than the company's previous commercials, that used Apple celebrity spokesman Dick Cavett." In truth, "there was nothing cuddly about the new Macintosh ad, which was firmly rooted in the burgeoning dystopian cyberpunk aesthetic."

Ostensibly the advertisement's intention was "to remove people's fears of technology [.]" In fact, Apple claimed that they "wanted to democratize technology, telling people that the power was now literally in their hands."

How things have changed as the tech giants have morphed into near-totalitarian giants controlling far too much of our lives. Like serfs, we bend to their will or are punished. Thus, Candace Owens is suspended from Twitter for challenging Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer while Facebook flags the Declaration of Independence as '"hate speech."

In 2016, Aaron Renn reported that both conservative and leftwing groups are pulled down at Twitter. In 2019 "YouTube blocked some British history teachers from its service for uploading archive material related to Adolf Hitler, saying they [were] breaching new guidelines banning the promotion of hate speech. The video-sharing website announced that it would remove material glorifying the Nazis from its platform in an attempt to stop people being radicalised. In the process however, it also deleted videos uploaded to help educate future generations about the risks of fascism."

Peter J. Hasson 's The Manipulators highlights how tech giants relish their coercive power against conservatives.

In 2018, Michael Cutler noted that Twitter has "now morphed into a means of thought control through the control of language." Thus, any discussion about immigration that does not pass the politically correct litmus test is censored and controlled.

Today our cell phones and other devices that apparently eavesdrop on us, are far more intrusive than Orwell could have envisioned.

Most recently, YouTube, a subsidiary of the technology giant Google, abused its power by censoring opinions criticizing the continuation of strict stay-at-home government mandates in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2017 Roger McNamee highlighted the fact that "the big Internet companies know more about you than you know about yourself, which gives them huge power to influence you, to persuade you to do things that serve their economic interests." Thus, in 2013 "a study found that average consumers check their smartphones 150 times a day. And that number has probably grown. People spend 50 minutes a day on Facebook. Other social apps such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter combine to take up still more time. Those companies maintain a profile on every user, which grows every time you like, share, search, shop or post a photo. Google also is analyzing credit card records of millions of people."

In academia, many colleges now mandate that instructors use a security system in order to log in to their classes, i.e. Okta, Duo. They use identity verification with multifactor authorizations. These cloud-based platforms are supposed to "protect users, data and applications from malicious hackers and data breaches." But with that vast array of information, who is watching the watchdogs?

Moreover, state and federal governments are now preparing to hire "contact tracers." Also known as "disease detectives," contact tracers notify people by phone, e-mail, or social media platforms [my emphasis] that they may have had "sustained contact" to someone who has the coronavirus. Senator Kristin Gillibrand introduced a $55 billion bill to cover the salaries of contact tracers and Michael Bloomberg is donating $10 million to get the tracing off the ground. Thus, "[a]n army of pandemic detectives will have to be recruited, trained and deployed in short order." Teachers are being recruited. AFT President Randi Weingarten asserts that the Trump administration has engaged in "conflicting guidance, bluster and lies" re: the pandemic. Given those who sponsor this program, is it prudent to inquire whether this information can eventually be used against Americans?



While many households use Amazon's Alexa, do they realize that it stores "query history meaning [it] knows everything from a consumer's shopping history, travel patterns and musical preferences?" Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders could never have imagined the power that technological giants now possess. Moreover, "[t]housands of Amazon workers are already listening to some Echoes in order to improve Alexa's comprehension of human speech."

In fact, "in modern life, privacy is no longer a given -- people are being tracked on their daily commute, at work, online, and when they're shopping. That's because data is valuable. In 2018, American companies spent an estimated $19 billion attaining and interpreting consumer data." The data is an "invisible supply chain that creates marketplaces out of behavioral data." Thus, "[w]hen someone has a digital conversation or makes a purchase, that's recorded. That record is shared with a third party, which can sell the data to another organization."

Incrementally our privacy is invaded. In fact, "[t]he day of losing privacy begins at night, because even in our sleep, we're likely to be providing data." Furthermore, with facial recognition devices, we are heading into a world where businesses and government know "potentially everywhere you've been, who you were with and what you were doing all of the time."

In addition, "operating within your own email inbox is no longer private. If you're applying for college, your email etiquette could be monitored. Universities in the US are using data, such as the length of time an email is open and whether links are clicked, to work out the level of 'demonstrated interest' from a possible new student."

Ever wonder why Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are free -- you are paying with your information. According to Forbes, "Facebook has 2 billion active users. Every minute, users upload 50,000 photos to Instagram, and send 500,000 tweets on Twitter. Everything you post could help build a more cohesive data profile of you."

Moreover, carrying a smartphone [is] like carrying a tracking device because Google Maps can remember where you go and save it to a Google Timeline.

Workplaces monitor employees' movements, their work rate on computers and their calendar data.

Gordon Chang has long been concerned with the '"digital totalitarianism in China which assigns every person a constantly updated score on observable behaviors." The score "is designed to control conduct by permitting the Communist Party the ability to administer punishments and hand out rewards." Lest one scoff that this could never happen here, consider that

corporations and governments are using technology to influence our behavior. Total tech is a term that describes devices and algorithms by which individuals forfeit their privacy and autonomy for the benefit of either themselves or some third party.

In 2019 Betsy McCaughey wrote that "Facebook was "imposing its own Silicon Valley brand of political correctness." Daniel Greenfield maintains that "[a] digital iron curtain descends over the internet" and the only way "to stop the rise of Big Brother is to break up Big Data." Otherwise, he predicts, "free speech on the web -- as we once knew it -- will be over within a decade."

Scott McKay asserts that "When Facebook and YouTube start restricting speech, they are taking an editorial position. They are not policing speech in order to provide a safe environment for their users; they are asserting that their point of view is the only valid one."

That makes them publishers and if they want to be publishers, they can be sued as one. It isn't acceptable for monopolistic Big Tech actors to arbitrarily ban content they don't like while acting to drive competitors from the scene, and whether that's punished by the courts, antitrust laws, or federal regulation before the market can do its work, something has to give. If not, then we will find ourselves just like China before long, where only one opinion is allowed.



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And if the article above is not enough check this one out



Thanks to Cal



(A VERY important article! If privacy issues do not get you attention, read the section about election influence! READ "The Creepy Line" section and look at the recommendations at the end!)



https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/10/google-and-your-privacy.aspx?cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2HL&cid=20200510Z1&et_cid=DM534044&et_rid=868793918



Google — A Dictator Unlike Anything the World Has Ever Known



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Thanks to Mud



The Future of the U.S. Marine Corps | The National Interest



I am well aware of the structure alterations that GEN Burger is putting in place. I think Jack is too, as it has been widely disseminated in military and naval publications. It has been said that if the Marine Corps is ever come to be thought of as just another Army, it will be the end of the Marine Corps as we know it. Inasmuch as no one is contemplating mass amphibious assaults ashore these days, the bottom line here is that the Marine Corps is looking for a raison d'etre. By snuggling up to the Navy GEN Burger just may have found one.

Thanks Jon for sending the article. I enjoyed reading that.

All comments are welcome.



S/F & VR,



- Mud



https://nationalinterest.org/feature/future-us-marine-corps-152606





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A repeat from the Bear. 'When men choose to go in harm's way to save their brothers in arms



ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED … 10 MAY 1968… THE BATTLE OF KHAM DUC… DUTY DONE BY THE AIRLIFTERS AND GLORY GAINED…

May 10, 2018 Bear Taylor

RIPPLE SALVO… #796… BEATEN AT KHE SANH THE NORTH VIETNAMESE PULLED BACK IN TO THE LAOTIAN MOUNTAINS TO REGROUP, LICK THEIR WOUNDS, AND LOOK FOR A MORE VULNERABLE OBJECTIVE. The North Vietnamese 2nd Division disappeared off the scopes of American intelligence for more than a month as they closed on the last of the American Special Forces camps at Kham Duc, located close to the Ho Chi Minh trail about 50 miles west of Chu Lai. In April Westmoreland decided to reinforce the outpost with Americal Division troops. A major engagement at the site was assured. The battle is great military reading as a "small engagement" lasting three days, May 10-12, 1968.

Wikipedia: "From the very first day of the struggle at Kham Duc, it was clear that ground units were not prepared for an emergency evacuation, due to the lack of experience in terms of integrating the numbers and types of aircraft in such a small geographical area. U.S. aircrews had to improvise by establishing their own procedures in order to extract both military and civilian personnel from the besieged camp. Despite having lost two C-130 aircraft, U.S. pilots were undeterred from completing their missions, indeed, their bravery was exemplified by LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOE M. JACKSON, USAF, who received the MEDAL OF HONOR for the rescue of the three-man Combat Control Team.

"The U.S. Army lost one killed in action and 71 wounded at Kham Duc and the U.S. Marines lost 12 killed and 21 wounded at Ngok Tavak, a part of the outpost. The combined services reported the highest number of missing in battle in Vietnam with 31 U.S. military personnel reported missing –left behind–in action. Of the 31 missing, 19 were from the 2/1st Infantry: of these, 3 were rescued within 5 days. One was captured and kept as a POW until March 1973, and 15 listed as killed-in-action (9 remains recovered, 6 not recovered). The U.S. lost 9 aircraft: 7 within the vicinity of Kham Duc and 2 helicopters in Ngok Tavak. The PAVA, however, claimed to have killed 300 American soldiers and captured 104 enemy troops, including two American advisors, as well as capturing vast quantities of weapons and ammunition that were left behind. For South Vietnam, several hundred Special Forces and indigenous CIDG soldiers were believed to have been killed, as well as about 150 civilians who perished in the crash of the C-130 airlifter piloted by MAJOR BERNARD BUCHER, who would be awarded the AIR FORCE CROSS, posthumously. The total number of PAVN/VC casualties is unknown, but the U.S. military claimed to have killed roughly 345 soldiers." (Wikipedia source)…

Humble Host veers from Rolling Thunder to honor the brave men of Kham Duc and the Air Force "Troop Carrier" warriors who defied the odds to lift as many of the 1,800 friendlies at Kham Duc out of the hell that the camp became by 12 May, Mother's Day 1968 as was humanly possible. Readers are encouraged to absorb the whole story of a battle that the Americans did not win in Vietnam. Kham Duc was a bloody bad experience made tolerable only by the valor and heroics of the survivors FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK… For more, link to…

(1) BATTLE OF KHAM DUC …Wikipedia…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kham_Duc

(2) COMBAT CONTROLLERS, First in, Last out…

http://www.sgtmacsbar.com/Articles/KhamDuc/KhamDuc.html

(3) MAP OF AREA CHU LAI WEST TO KHAM DUC… (Vietnam '70-'71-riverrun pictures)

http:www.174ahc.org/images/khamduc2.jpg.



GOOD MORNING… Day SEVEN HUNDRED NINETY-SIX of an old warrior's remembrance of a page of American history 50 years in the past…



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Thanks to Dutch R. for forwarding

Thanks to KenP


Aviation History this week -

Before listing more events under this week's Aviation History, I'd like to remember the May 10 passing of Evelyn Stone Bryan Johnson in 2012. Known as "Mama Bird", between her first solo flight on 8 November 1944 and her retirement from flying in the mid-1990s, she had logged 57,635.4 hours (about 6½ years) in the air, flying about 5,500,000 miles (8,856,683 km) and was the oldest flight instructor in the world. She trained more pilots and gave more FAA exams than any other pilot. Wow! Born in Corbin, KY, on November 4, 1909, "Mama Bird" died at 102 and would have been 110 later this year. http://www.silverwings.org/evelyn-bryan-johnson-mama-bird-flew-west-at-age-102/



May 10

10 May 1911 – First U.S. Army pilot casualty, 2nd Lt. George Edward Maurice Kelly (1878–1911), London-born, and a naturalized United States citizen in 1902, is killed when he banks his Curtiss Type IV (or Curtiss Model D), Army Signal Corps serial number 2, sharply to avoid plowing into an infantry encampment near the present site of Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The Aviation Camp (aka Remount Station) at Fort Sam Houston is renamed Camp Kelly, 11 June 1917, then Kelly Field on 30 July 1917, and finally Kelly AFB on 29 January 1948. Airframe rebuilt, finally grounded in February 1914, refurbished, and placed on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Due to this crash, the commanding officer of Fort Sam Houston bans further training flights at the base, the flying facilities being moved to College Park Airport, College Park, Maryland in June–July 1911. A replica of this airframe is preserved at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

10 May 1913 – First flight of the Sikorsky Russky Vityaz, or Russian Knight, also called Le Grand, first four-engine aircraft in the world piloted by Igor Sikorsky, first man to fly a four engine powered aircraft.

10 May 1918 – Birth of George Welch (pilot), World War II flying ace, a Medal of Honor nominee, and an experimental aircraft pilot after the war. Welch is best known both for being one of over 17 United States Army Air Forces fighter pilots able to get airborne to engage Japanese forces in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

10 May 1919 — The recently formed Avro Transport Company in Manchester opens Britain's first scheduled air service. A fare of four guineas (£4.20) is being charged for the journey of 50 miles. The company is using four of Avro 504K aircraft, modified to carry two passengers.

10 May 1928 — Air Corps T. C. airship lands on deck of S.S. American Trader near Ambrose Light, New York, transfers cargo and takes off again.

10 May 1935 — Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd returns to the United States from Second Antarctic Expedition.

10 May 1941 – At 2305 hrs. Messerschmitt Bf 110D, Werknr 3868, 'VJ+OQ', appears over Eaglesham, Renfrewshire. Pilot bails out and when challenged by David McLean, Head Ploughman of a local farm, as to whether he is German, the man replies in good English; "Yes, I am Hauptmann Alfred Horn. I have an important message for the Duke of Hamilton". Horn is taken to McLean's cottage where McLean's wife makes a pot of tea, but the German requests only a glass of water. Horn has hurt his back and help is summoned. Local Home Guard soldiers arrive and Horn is taken to their headquarters at the Drill Hall, Busby, near Glasgow. Upon questioning by a visiting Royal Observer Corps officer, Major Graham Donald, Horn repeats his request to see the Duke. Donald recognises "Hauptmann Horn" to be none other than Rudolph Hess. The remains of Hess' Messerschmitt Bf 110 are now in the Imperial War Museum.

10 May 1945 – Sighting a Japanese Kawasaki Ki-45 (Allied reporting name "Nick" fighter flying high over Okinawa, U. S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Robert R, Klingman in a Vought F4U Corsair gives chase for over 185 miles and intercepts the Ki-45 at 38,000 feet (12,000 m). Finding his guns frozen, he climbs well above the Corsair's service ceiling of 41,600 feet (12,700 m) and cuts off the Kawasaki Ki-45′s tail with his propeller in several passes, causing it to crash. He then belly lands safely at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa. He receives the Navy Cross for the action.

10 May 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.

10 May 1961 — A Convair B-58A "Hustler" cruises at a speed of 1,302 mph (2,095 kph) and wins the Blériot trophy, created 30 years ago for the first airplane to maintain a speed of more than 2,000 kph (1200 mph) for more than 30 minutes in a closed circuit.

Note: This may have been John Denver's father who set most of the records in the B-58…skip

10 May 1972 – First flight of the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, an American single-seat, twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft designed for close air support. The A-10 is a tank killer built around a 30mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type cannon that uses depleted uranium bullets fired at a rate of 4,200 rounds per minute. It's designed to continue flying after sustaining substantial battle damage and is affectionately known as the "Warthog" for its outstanding looks. The A-10 was built in Hagerstown, Maryland.

10 May 1972 — "LineBacker I" offensive of Vietnam War begins.

10 May 1986 – The U. S. Navy selects the F/A-18 Hornet as the official airplane of the Blue Angels. It replaces the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.



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The forgotten realities of World War II

Without the U.S. contribution, fascism would have won

By Victor Davis Hanson - - Wednesday, May 13, 2015

May 8 marked the end of World War II in Europe 70 years ago — a horrific conflict that is still fought over by historians.

More than 60 million people perished — some 50 million of them in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and China.

The prewar Soviet state in the 1920s and 1930s had killed perhaps 20 million of its own citizens in purges, exiles, collectivizations, forced famines and show trials. Then it lost an estimated 25 million soldiers and civilians to the German army on the Eastern Front. Hitler's Germany by late 1942 had occupied almost 1 million square miles of Soviet ground.

The Soviet Red Army would eventually be responsible for three-quarters of Germany's World War II casualties, but at a cost of approximately 9 million dead of its own combatants. Nevertheless, the Allied defeat of the Axis powers is more complicated than just the monumental and heroic sacrifice of the Soviet soldier.

World War II started largely because the Soviet Union had assured Hitler that the two powers could partner up to divide Poland. With his eastern rear thus secure, Hitler then would be free to fight a one-front war in the West against the European democracies.

The Soviet Union only entered the war after it was double-crossed by Hitler in June 1941. Before the surprise German invasion, the Soviets had supplied Germany with substantial fuel, food and metals to help it bomb Great Britain into submission. For all practical purposes, Russia had been Nazi Germany's most useful ally.

Duplicitous Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at one time or another both fought against and followed non-aggression arrangements with every Axis power — Germany, Italy and Japan. In contrast, the United States was the only major power of the war that did not start fighting until it was directly attacked.

The war in Europe was not just won with Soviet blood. When World War II started, America was isolationist and the Soviet Union collaborationist. After the fall of France in June 1940, Great Britain until June 1941 alone faced down the huge Nazi Empire that ranged from the Arctic Circle to the Sahara desert. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's steadfast leadership, Britain's superb air force and its indomitable Royal Navy ensured that even when outnumbered, isolated and bombed, England would be unconquerable.

Once the United States entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Axis cause was largely doomed. America mobilized 12 million soldiers — about the same number as did the Soviet Union, despite having a population of about 40 million fewer citizens.

American war production proved astonishing. At the huge Willow Run plant in Michigan, the greatest generation turned out a B-24 heavy bomber every hour. A single shipyard could mass-produce an ocean-going Liberty merchant ship from scratch in a week.

In just four years, the United States would produce more airplanes than all of the major war powers combined. Germany, Japan, Italy and the Soviet Union could not build a successful four-engine heavy bomber. America, in contrast, produced 34,000 excellent B-17s, B-24s and B-29s.

By 1944, the new U.S. Navy had become the largest in the history of civilization at more than 6,000 ships. Its B-29 heavy bomber program and Manhattan Project efforts together cost more $50 billion in today's dollars.

America sent troops throughout the Pacific islands, and to North Africa, Italy and Western Europe. The United States staged two simultaneous bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan while conducting surface and submarine campaigns against all of the Axis powers.

At the same time, the United States supplied the Soviet Union with 400,000 heavy trucks, 2,000 locomotives, 11,000 railcars and billions of dollars worth of planes, tanks, food, clothing and strategic resources. By 1943-44, the U.S. also supplied about 20 percent of Britain's munitions.

If the measure of wartime success is defined by quickly defeating and humiliating enemies at the least cost in blood and treasure, then America waged a brilliant war.

Of the major powers, only America's homeland was not systematically bombed. It was never invaded. While its 400,000 fatalities were a terrible cost of victory, the United States lost the smallest percentage of its population of any major power.

By late 1944, the American M1 rifle, B-29 heavy bomber, P-51 Mustang fighter, Gato-class submarines, Essex-class aircraft carriers and Iowa-class battleships were the best weapons of their class.

America did not win World War II alone. But without the United States, the war against Axis fascism would have been lost.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

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This was a group of P-38 pilots in WWII… a Great Story



Thanks to Old Bandit. We have had earlier versions of this before in the list and it is still inspiring

Where do we get such men?

Well worth the time.



From Moon, a good friend.



Before you <click> on the link below, know it's about 13 minutes long, an eternity in today's sound-bite world!!! I found it to be a very moving video honoring the 88,000 American airmen killed in WWII…it is truly a superbly done tribute to pilots who died in the war. The gentleman who did the sculpture was the "last man standing" in the group he flew with … he began the project at the age of 90 … where do we get such men!!!

mOOn out!!!



https://lestweforgetsculpture.org/



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The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis." -- Grossadmiral Karl Donitz, Kriegsmarine





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About 75 years ago, Patton's 3rd Army found the Concentration Camps



thanks to Hal





They don't teach this in schools anymore, so if you have a child or an adult that knows nothing of the purposeful extermination of a people and those who tried to save them, let me suggest a few movies as a tutorial for them. When the soldiers discovered these death camps, and there were lots of them across Europe, General Eisenhower ordered that lots of photographs be taken because there are many who will not believe it, and in time, it will be denied that it even happened. And if you wonder how tens of millions of people can be cowed into submission, just think about it. First of all they must be disarmed, then terrorized by heinous acts of violence which they hope will not happen to them.

Adolph Hitler came to power because a German nation felt they were being too harshly punished by the Treaty of Versailles. After all, the Germans started World War I and millions of soldiers and civilians died because of them. No one gained anything from it, but most every country lost their wealth and people. World War I was siad to be the war that ended all wars. That worked for only twenty years.

So Hitler came to power. He drew violent men to surround him. The German economy was in tatters. It would take a bushel of Marks to buy a loaf of bread. Hitler was a veteran of World War I, a Corporal, and I believe he was awarded the Iron Cross for Valor. He was a fiery speaker and he soon drew crowds. Huge crowds. His promises were just what the German people needed. So they secretly began to build a new Army. The Powers-That-Be knew this, but were not able to do much about it, it would seem.

So on September 1, 1939 Hitler's Army and Air Force were ready to wage war and they attacked Poland from the West. Two weeks later, the Russian Army invaded Poland from the East. The Poles were still using horse cavalry. they were slaughtered. Hitler and Josef Stalin of Russia had made a neutrality pact and had divided up all the countries they would control with this war.

Hitler hated the Jews and in time convinced all too many that the Jews were the root cause of all their problems.Watch CONSPIRACY. The movie tells how in January, 1942, a conference was called by SS General Heydrich and LtColonel Eichman at Wannsee, Germany to plan the removal and extermination of all the Jews and other undesirables from Europe.

THE PIANIST will show how the Jews were humiliated and terrorized and taken away to Concentration Camps to be executed . It will also show you how Jewish collaborators, Capos, volunteered to assist the Germans in order to save their own lives. They herded the Jews into boxcars and pushed them into the death chambers to be gassed.

THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK tells of a young Jewish girl in Amsterdam who is hidden by a Dutch family for years only to be betrayed and captured. She was executed. This happened all over Europe as many people knew what was happening to the Jews and while they couldn't stop it, they did what they could to save those they could hide.

THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS tells of how the extermination camps were run as the Jews were herded into chambers to be gassed . When they were pushed into the chambers, a cannister of Zyklon B, which was hydrogen cyanide was dropped into a chute to kill everyone. The German chemical company Farben made it for Hitler.

In 1945 the war in Europe ended and many of the high ranking staff were captured. Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. So did hundreds of other war criminals who feared being captured by the Russians.

Hitler broke the neutrality pact that he made with Josef Stalin and invaded the USSR, That was Operation Barbarossa. Stalin wanted to invade Berlin. General Eisenhower agreed to it. He had a grudge to settle with Hitler and hoped to capture him alive. So the Russian Army was allowed to take Berlin. Seventy thousand Russian soldiers were Killed in Action doing it.

The Allies moved in and started rounding up the big-wigs. In the meantime thousands of Nazi war criminals were escaping to South America. President Juan Peron of Argentina who so admired Hitler that he patterned his own army after the Wehrmacht. In the closing days of the war, he shipped trunks of blank Argentine passports to the German High Command inviting them to come to Buenos Aires to live. Fact is, the International Red Cross, Bishop Hudal of the Vatican and our 1st LT James Jesus Angleton, Army Counter Intelligence Corps, helped them escape. Angleton who would years later be the Deputy Director of the CIA ran the 'Ratline' t o South America.

Of the many scientists who escaped to South America was Todesengle ( Angel of Death) Doctor Josef Mengele whose research of twins was his field. The movie THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL tells his story. He was never captured and died of a stroke while swimming on the beach in Brazil.

Obersturmbannfuhrer (LtColonel) Adolph Eichmann lived in plain sight in Germany for eleven years before a warrant for his arrest was issued. With the help of the Catholic Church he was smuggled to Genoa and then onward to Argentina. Now you may ask why the International Red Cross, the Vatican and the US Army helped war criminals escape and the only answer is that looming Communism and the Russians were being seen as a larger threat.

The leaders of Israel wanted to find and capture Adolph Eichmann and bring him to trial. The Mossad found him living and working in Buenos Aires. He had taken one of the Argentine passports, inserted his photo, and changed his name to Ricardo Klement How this operations was carried out is told in the book and the movie, THE HOUSE ON GARIBALDI STREET. There is another movie about his interrogation. It's title is EICHMANN.

Many of the top leaders were captured and tried at Nuremberg, Germany. In 2019, YouTube made a documentary called THE NUREMBERG TRIAL. Many were found guilty of war crimes, some were hanged, others sentenced to terms in prison. Some who escaped this fate were scientists found by us, the British and the Russians to bring their knowledge and expertise to work for us. One for us was Werner von Braun who sent the V-1 and V-2 missiles into London killing thousands of civilians. The head of our space program, Dr. Goddard had just died and so Von Braun came to work for us and made our space program a success.





Hal





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Comments from a Marine on Greg Boyington. This seemed to sum up the other comments as well



Below is copied from "The List", and I am sharing it in the event that you haven't seen it. I found it to be of extreme interest particularly the part about Greg Boyington. If you don't want to read all of this, just scroll down about 2/3ds of the way to see the comments about him.

I've read a lot about Boyington and heard some of him from old time Marines who knew him when I was a 2dLt. Actually I read a lot about him in a book I just finished yesterday, The Flying Tigers, by Sam Kleiner, damn good history. No time in the past almost 60 years did I hear or read of anyone who had something decent to say about the man. The book described him often as a boor, an ill tempered drunk, and unliked by everyone. He was never able to hold a job after the war and survived by from to time refereeing wrestling matches until a TV producer paid him to make an awful short lived series called Ba Ba Black Sheep. The veterans of VMF-214 asked Boyington why he sold them all down the tube by a agreeing to allow such a terrible stupid depiction of their squadron. He told them he needed the money.



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