To All
Good Sunday 31 May 2020
Thanks to Cowboy and Katy for getting the list out. Not only was my computer and IPhone not able to transmit but my Body had a major glitch that put me in the local emergency room for a few hours. The usual tests and blood draws and IV were done and then then more blood for cultures. So another shot of antibiotics and some horse pills to take two each day for the next ten days and I have begun to feel a bit better. I am traveling on Tuesday and will start the list up again later in the week after I get home.
Regards,
Skip
Today in Naval History
Today in Naval History
May 31
1900 Sailors and Marines from USS Newark (C 1) and USS Oregon (BB 3) arrive at Peking (now known as Beijing), China, to protect U.S. and foreign diplomatic legations during the Boxer Rebellion.
1918 USS President Lincoln is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine, (U 90). Twenty-six lives are lost.
1919 Curtiss flying boat NC 4 lands at Plymouth, England, concluding the first transatlantic flight.
1944 USS England (DE 635), assisted by six destroyers and destroyer escorts, sinks sixth Japanese submarine in less than two weeks.
1944 USS Barb (SS 220) and USS Herring (SS 233) attack Japanese shipping in the Sea of Okhotsk about 150 miles west of Matsuwa Island, Kuril Islands, sinking several ships.
Today in Naval History
June 1
1813 HMS Shannon, commanded by Capt. Philip Broke, captures USS Chesapeake, commanded by Capt. James Lawrence off the coast of Boston, Mass. During the battle, Capt. Lawrence is mortally wounded, but as he is carried below deck, he orders the iconic phrase: "Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship!"
1871 Two ships under the squadron command of Commodore John Rodgers, on USS Colorado, are attacked from Korean forts and batteries. The squadron is carrying Frederick Low, U.S. foreign minister to China, who was sent to negotiate trade with Korea. A Marine Corps expedition destroys the forts and inflicts heavy casualties on the Koreans on June 10-11.
1939 Capt. Hollis M. Cooley, director of the Naval Research Laboratory, proposes research in atomic energy for future use in nuclear powered submarine.
1943 USS Trigger (SS 237) sinks Japanese merchant collier Noborikawa Maru off Kominato, southern Honshu.
1944 Blimp Squadron Fourteen (ZP 14) Airships, (K 123) and (K 130), complete the first crossing of the Atlantic by non-rigid, lighter-than-air aircraft. The journey takes 50 hours after leaving Naval Air Station, South Weymouth, Mass., and arriving at Gibraltar.
1991 USS Rushmore (LSD 47) is commissioned at River Walk in New Orleans, La., the seventh of eight Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships. Its homeport is Naval Base San Diego.
Today in Naval History
June 2
1814 During the War of 1812, the sloop of war Wasp, commanded by Capt. Johnston Blakely, captures and burns the British merchant barque Neptune, southwest of Ireland.
1865 Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith signs the Terms of Surrender for the Confederate forces onboard USS Fort Jackson in Galveston Bay, Texas.
1941 The first aircraft escort vessel, USS Long Island (CVE 1), is commissioned. Following World War II, she participates in Operation "Magic Carpet."
1943 USS PC 565 sinks German submarine U 521 off the Virginia capes. The German sub had sunk four Allied merchant vessels, including two U.S. vessels: tanker Hahira (Nov. 3, 1942) and merchant Molly Pitcher (March 18, 1943).
1943 USS Tambor (SS 198) sinks Japanese transport Eika Maru in the Tonkin Gulf off French Indochina.
2012 USS Mississippi (SSN 782) is commissioned in Pascagoula, Miss. The Virginia-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine.
Today in History
May 31
1433 | Sigismund is crowned emperor of Rome. | |
1678 | The Godiva procession, commemorating Lady Godiva's legendary ride while naked, becomes part of the Coventry Fair. | |
1862 | At the Battle of Fair Oaks, Union General George B. McClellan defeats Confederates outside of Richmond. | |
1879 | New York's Madison Square Garden opens its doors for the first time. | |
1889 | Johnstown, Pennsylvania is destroyed by a massive flood. | |
1900 | U.S. troops arrive in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion. | |
1902 | The Boer War ends with the Treaty of Vereeniging. | |
1909 | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) holds its first conference. | |
1913 | The 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for direct election of senators, is ratified. | |
1915 | A German zeppelin makes an air raid on London. | |
1916 | British and German fleets fight in the Battle of Jutland. | |
1928 | The first flight over the Pacific takes off from Oakland. | |
1941 | An armistice is arranged between the British and the Iraqis. | |
1955 | The Supreme Court orders that states must end racial segregation "with all deliberate speed." | |
1962 | Adolf Eichmann, the former SS commander, is hanged near Tel Aviv, Israel. | |
1969 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance." | |
1974 | Israel and Syria sign an agreement on the Golan Heights. | |
1979 | Zimbabwe proclaims its independence. | |
1988 | President Ronald Reagan arrives in Moscow, the first American president to do so in 14 years. |
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Thanks to Burt and Dr. Rich
Why watch docking live?
Thanks to Burt …
Compare your 4-hour live watch with this short summary using 2001 movie music……..
Note head strike at 7:58, then cleaning up the blood at 8:23 through 9:36…..
Burt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdrXYgHanA8&feature=youtu.be
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A Brilliant Distraction from ....
thanks to GM and Dutch
THIS REALLY IS QUITE BRILLIANT ... AND A NICE BACKYARD :
The Swish Machine: 70 Step Basketball Trickshot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss-P4qLLUyk
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Thanks to Mugs….If I had heard the doodle doodle sound from the RAW gear in my ears while I was reading this article this morning I may have barrel rolled out of my chair
Dodging SAMs-In An AC-130!
Difficult to believe they survived. Hard enough to do in a fighter. Especially at night and not hit the ground.
Dodging SAMs—In An AC-130!
BY HENRY ZEYBEL
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The Battle of Midway
Thanks to Tom
This is surprisingly one of the best youtubes I have seen on the fog of war and why the Japanese reacted the way they did to the attacks during the Battle of Midway. Very informative and well worth the review. It really makes you aware of the American ingenuity, intelligence and surprise we had on their operations. And true sacrifice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo
Ever wonder how you would react if you were sitting on the Japanese side with the intelligence they had?
Add to this that the Japanese went down with their ships, and you see the great loss of flight, maintenance, ship crew, and war experience all lost in one major battle.
Tom Monroe
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"This Day in Aviation History" brought to you by the Daedalians Airpower Blog Update. To subscribe to this weekly email, go to https://daedalians.org/airpower-blog/.
June 2, 1957
At 6:23 a.m. CDT, Air Force Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger Jr., lifted off from Richard E. Fleming Field in South Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the gondola of a helium balloon designed and built by Winzen Research Inc. At 8:04 a.m., he reached a pressure altitude of 95,000 feet. This was only 400 feet short of the balloon's theoretical pressure ceiling. Using U.S. Weather Bureau data, the linear altitude of the balloon was calculated to have been 97,000 feet. This was the first of many high-altitude research balloon flights that Kittinger would make.
To learn more about this event and the company that conducted launch, click HERE. Kittinger, a retired colonel, is a Daedalian Life Member.
June 3, 1965
Gemini 4/Titan II GLV lifted off from Launch Complex 19 at Cape Kennedy AFS, Florida. On board were Air Force Maj. James Alton McDivitt, command pilot, and Maj. Edward Higgins White II, pilot. The mission was planned to include an orbital rendezvous with the Titan II booster and an Extravehicular Activity. On this mission, Higgins became the first American to walk in space.
Gemini 4 returned to Earth on June 7, splashing down in the North Atlantic Ocean at 17:12:11 UTC. The mission duration was 4 days, 1 hour, 56 minutes, 12 seconds. The Gemini 4 spacecraft is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
Retired Brig. Gen. McDivitt is a Daedalian Life Member. Lt. Col. White, along with Lt. Col. Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Roger Chaffee, were killed as they were testing the cabin of their spacecraft for the Apollo 1 launch on Jan. 27, 1967. White and Grissom were both Daedalian Life Members.
June 4, 1974
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Sally D. Woolfolk graduated from the Rotary Wing Flight School at the Army Aviation School, Fort Rucker, Alabama. She was the first woman to be designated a U.S. Army Aviator. Woolfolk joined the Army in January 1973. She attended an 11-week course officer's candidate course at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and was commissioned a second lieutenant. She was then assigned to a military intelligence course at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
At the suggestion of another student in the course, Lieutenant Woolfolk applied for helicopter flight training. She was the only woman in her class at Fort Rucker. On June 8, 1974, the Saturday following her graduation, Woolfolk married Capt. Dan Murphy, also an Army aviator, at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Their son, Sean Ryan Murphy, would also become an Army officer. Col. Sally Murphy retired from the Army on July 1, 1999, after 27 years of service.
June 5, 1917
The First Aeronautic Detachment, Lt. Kenneth Whiting commanding, arrived on board the collier Jupiter (Fuel Ship No. 3) at Pauillac, France. This marked the deployment of the initial U.S. military command to that country during WWI. The detachment comprised 7 officers and 122 enlisted men and included an element on board the collier Neptune (Fuel Ship No. 8) that arrived at St. Nazaire 3 days later. The French had requested the early deployment of the men to bolster allied morale.
Whiting was Daedalian Founder Member #13986. Naval Air Station Whiting Field near Milton in Santa Rosa County, Florida, is named for Whiting. His widow, Edna Andresen Whiting, was among 1,500 people who attended its commissioning on July 16, 1943. A plaque there reads: "Whiting Field, named in honor of Capt. Kenneth Whiting, U.S. Navy, Pioneer in Submarines and Aviation, Naval Aviator No. 16, Father of the Aircraft Carrier in our Navy, Died on Active Duty on April 24, 1943."
June 6, 1944
Today marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history. More than 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. The Battle of Normandy was code-named Operation Overlord, and it resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control.
June 7, 1920
A De Havilland DH-4B piloted by 2nd Lt. Delmar H. Denton, engineering officer of the 1st Day Bombardment Group, took off from Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas, at approximately 4 p.m. Also on board was 2nd Lt. John H. ("Dynamite") Wilson of the group's 96th Aero Squadron. Lieutenant Wilson, Daedalian Founder Member #2143, was wearing 2 parachutes.
For the next hour, the two men circled while climbing higher into the sky. When the airplane's altimeter indicated 20,000 feet, Lieutenant Wilson stood on his seat, then jumped out of what seemed to be a perfectly good airplane. Wilson pulled the "rip cord" of his primary parachute, and after what he thought was a very long time, the chute opened, subjecting our intrepid airman to a significant shock.
From that point, Wilson reported that it felt as if he was motionless in the sky. He had no sense of motion. He then fell through an area of severe turbulence. He was thrown in every direction, and, at one point, he and the parachute rolled up and over through a full "loop." Wilson was quite nauseous as a result. Wilson began steering his parachute toward an open area. At approximately 300 feet above the ground, he opened his second parachute in an effort to reduce his rate of descent further before landing. He is reported to have "landed gracefully in a turnip patch."
The duration of Wilson's descent was about 17 minutes, and he was blown approximately 18 miles away from Kelly Field. Denton followed Wilson's parachute in the DH-4B, then landed to pick him up. The pair took off and returned to Kelly Field. The sealed barographs carried on board the airplane indicated that the actual altitude at which Dynamite Wilson had jumped was 19,861 feet, more than a mile higher than the previous highest parachute jump.
June 8, 1959
North American Aviation's Chief Engineering Test Pilot, A. Scott Crossfield, made the first flight of the X-15A hypersonic research rocketplane at Edwards AFB, California. 56-6670 was the first of three X-15s built for the U.S. Air Force and NASA. It was airdropped from a Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress, 52-003, at 37,550 feet over Rosamond Dry Lake at 08:38:40 a.m, Pacific Daylight Time. This was an unpowered glide flight to check the flying characteristics and aircraft systems, so there were no propellants or oxidizers aboard, other than hydrogen peroxide which powered the pumps and generators. The aircraft reached 0.79 Mach (522 miles per hour) during the 4 minute, 56.6 second flight.
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1908: The Glenn H. Curtiss Manufacturing Company at Hammondsport announced that it would accept orders for and deliver flying machines in 60 days at $5,000 a plane. (12)
1922: Maj Oscar Westover and Lt C. F. Bond won the National Balloon Race by traveling 866.5 miles from the starting point at Milwaukee.
1930: Capt Arthur H. Page (USMC) won the last Curtiss Marine Trophy Race, an annual event for service seaplanes, in an F6C-3 Curtiss fighter with a speed of 164.08 MPH. (24)
1944: The experimental VB-7 vertical bomb, with television sighting, launched for the first time. (24)
1945: The last of 18,188 B-24 Liberators and Liberator variants delivered to the US AAF. This "workhorse" was produced in larger numbers than any other American aircraft and employed on more operational fronts than any other Allied or enemy bomber in World War II. (4)
1951: KOREAN WAR/Operation STRANGLE. FEAF launched an attempt to paralyze enemy transportation between the 39th parallel and the front lines. By late July, FEAF knew the interdiction of North Korean supply and communication lines, while substantial, had failed to isolate North Korean forces. In late December, however, General Weyland announced that the STRANGLE operations had shattered the North Korean rail-transportation net. The bombing effort destroyed or damaged 40,000 trucks and prevented a Red Chinese buildup for future offensive operations. (17)
1956: The 4080 SRW at Turner AFB, Ga., received the first RB-57, a D-model (number 53-3973) reconnaissance version of the British-designed B-57 Canberra light bomber. (1)
1967: MACKAY TROPHY. Maj John H. Casteel and his crew from the 902 AREFS at ClintonSherman AFB, Okla., began a routine KC-135 mission to refuel two F-104s over the Gulf of Tonkin. Before the flight ended, however, the tanker saved six Navy carrier aircraft. During the operation, Casteel refueled an A-3 tanker while it refueled a F-8, an event that later earned the crew the ninth Mackay Trophy. (1) The Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS) achieved its initial operating capability to give SAC the ability to launch ICBMs from airborne command posts. (6) The USAF completed its phase out of Atlas E, Atlas F, and Titan I missiles. (16)
1978: Operation ZAIRE II. On 31 May through 16 June, another 61 C-141 and 11 C-5 missions moved a Pan-African peacekeeping force to Zaire and took the French and Belgian forces, with 1,619 tons of cargo and 1,225 passengers back to Europe. (2) (16) (18)
1991: Complying with the 1987 INF Treaty, the USAF inactivated the 501 TMW at RAF Greenham Common, UK. The wing was the first GLCM wing to activate in Europe, the first to become operational, and the last to inactivate. (26)
1996: The USAF awarded C-17 multi-year contracts to McDonnell Douglas and Pratt and Whitney for 80 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and engines over seven years. The contracts, valued at $16.2 billion, were the longest and the largest multi-year contracts ever entered into by the government to date. That acquisition gave the USAF 120 C-17s and enabled the retirement of C-141s from the USAF inventory. (21)
2001: An AFFTC aircrew from Edwards AFB launched the first live JASSM from a B-52H over the White Sands Missile Range. The weapon destroyed a concrete bunker from a range of 195 miles. (3)
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This day in American Military History
1863 – U.S.S. Carondelet, Lieutenant Murphy, patrolling the Mississippi River below Vicksburg, proceeded to Perkins Landing, Louisiana, where Army troops were found cut off from the Union headquarters. Murphy "shelled the woods and thus prevented the enemy from advancing and throwing an enfilading fire on the troops ashore," while awaiting the arrival of a transport which could rescue the soldiers. As Forest Queen arrived and the Union troops began to board her, a large force of Confederates pressed an attack. Carondelet's guns laid down a heavy fire, saving the troops and forcing the Southerners eventually to break off the assault. Carondelet remained at Perkins' Landing after Forest Queen departed, saved those stores and material which it was possible to take on board, and destroyed the rest to prevent its capture by Confederates.
1900 – Sailors and Marines from USS Newark and USS Oregon arrive at Peking, China with other Sailors and Marines from Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan to protect U.S. and foreign diplomatic legations from the Boxers.
1945 – On Okinawa, the US 6th Marine Division (part of US 3rd Amphibious Corps) encounters Japanese rearguards near Hill 46. Japanese forces pull out of Shuri.
1945 – On Negros, organized Japanese resistance ends. On Luzon, a regiment of the US 37th Division begins moving northward from Santa Fe through the Cagayan valley.
1965 – U.S. planes bomb an ammunition depot at Hoi Jan, west of Hanoi, and try again to drop the Than Hoa highway bridge. These raids were part of Operation Rolling Thunder, which had begun in March 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson had ordered the sustained bombing of North Vietnam to interdict North Vietnamese transportation routes in the southern part of North Vietnam and slow infiltration of personnel and supplies into South Vietnam. In July 1966, Rolling Thunder was expanded to include North Vietnamese ammunition dumps and oil storage facilities as targets. In the spring of 1967, it was further expanded to include power plants, factories, and airfields in the Hanoi-Haiphong area. The White House closely controlled operation Rolling Thunder and President Johnson occasionally selected the targets himself. From 1965 to 1968, about 643,000 tons of bombs were dropped on North Vietnam. A total of nearly 900 U.S. aircraft were lost during Operation Rolling Thunder. The operation continued, with occasional suspensions, until President Johnson halted it on October 31, 1968, under increasing domestic political pressure.
2012 – SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule successfully returns to Earth following its demo mission to the International Space Station, landing intact in the Pacific Ocean. It is later recovered and shipped back to the United States.
2014 – Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, previously the only United States military prisoner held captive in Afghanistan, is released in exchange for five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.
Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
This is an incredible act of Valor and great read…..skip The 92 days of The Okinawa campaign that started on 1 April is just about over and this act was probably one that helped to do it.
CRAFT, CLARENCE B.
Rank and organization: Private, First Class, U.S. Army, Company G, 382d Infantry, 96th Infantry Division. Place and date: Hen Hill, Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, 31 May 1945. Entered service at: Santa Ana, Calif. Birth: San Bernardino, Calif. G.O. No.: 97, 1 November 1945. Citation: He was a rifleman when his platoon spearheaded an attack on Hen Hill, the tactical position on which the entire Naha-Shuri-Yonaburu line of Japanese defense on Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, was hinged. For 12 days our forces had been stalled, and repeated, heavy assaults by 1 battalion and then another had been thrown back by the enemy with serious casualties. With 5 comrades, Pfc. Craft was dispatched in advance of Company G to feel out the enemy resistance. The group had proceeded only a short distance up the slope when rifle and machinegun fire, coupled with a terrific barrage of grenades, wounded 3 and pinned down the others. Against odds that appeared suicidal, Pfc. Craft launched a remarkable 1-man attack. He stood up in full view of the enemy and began shooting with deadly marksmanship wherever he saw a hostile movement. He steadily advanced up the hill, killing Japanese soldiers with rapid fire, driving others to cover in their strongly disposed trenches, unhesitatingly facing alone the strength that had previously beaten back attacks in battalion strength. He reached the crest of the hill, where he stood silhouetted against the sky while quickly throwing grenades at extremely short range into the enemy positions. His extraordinary assault lifted the pressure from his company for the moment, allowing members of his platoon to comply with his motions to advance and pass him more grenades. With a chain of his comrades supplying him while he stood atop the hill, he furiously hurled a total of 2 cases of grenades into a main trench and other positions on the reverse slope of Hen Hill, meanwhile directing the aim of his fellow soldiers who threw grenades from the slope below him. He left his position, where grenades from both sides were passing over his head and bursting on either slope, to attack the main enemy trench as confusion and panic seized the defenders. Straddling the excavation, he pumped rifle fire into the Japanese at pointblank range, killing many and causing the others to flee down the trench. Pursuing them, he came upon a heavy machinegun which was still creating havoc in the American ranks. With rifle fire and a grenade he wiped out this position. By this time the Japanese were in complete rout and American forces were swarming over the hill. Pfc. Craft continued down the central trench to the mouth of a cave where many of the enemy had taken cover. A satchel charge was brought to him, and he tossed it into the cave. It failed to explode. With great daring, the intrepid fighter retrieved the charge from the cave, relighted the fuse and threw it back, sealing up the Japs in a tomb. In the local action, against tremendously superior forces heavily armed with rifles, machineguns, mortars, and grenades, Pfc. Craft killed at least 25 of the enemy; but his contribution to the campaign on Okinawa was of much more far-reaching consequence for Hen Hill was the key to the entire defense line, which rapidly crumbled after his utterly fearless and heroic attack
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