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Good Sunday Morning August 23, 2020

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Today in Naval History

Aug. 23

1819 Commodore Oliver H. Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, dies on board the schooner, USS Nonsuch, in Trinidad of a fever contracted during his successful efforts to suppress piracy while maintaining the friendship of Latin American governments. It was his 34th birthday.

1862 A boat crew from USS Essex, commanded by Capt. William D. Porter, is fired on by Confederate guerillas at Bayou Sara, La. In return, USS Essex shells the town.

1864 During the Civil War, Rear Adm. David G. Farraguts squadron capture Fort Morgan at Mobile Bay, Ala., winning control of Mobile Bay. The fort withstands naval bombardment for more than two weeks.

1890 USS Baltimore (Cruiser #3) departs New York Harbor to return the remains of inventor John Ericsson to his native Sweden. For the US Navy, Ericssons most notable designs are for USS Princeton and USS Monitor. In honor of Ericsson, three U.S. Navy ships have been named in his honor: the torpedo boat Ericsson (Torpedo Boat # 2), 1897-1912; and the destroyers Ericsson (DD 56), 1915-1934; and Ericsson (DD 440), 1941-1970.

1942 During Operation Europe, USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37), escorted by destroyers Rodman (DD 456) and Emmons (DD 457) and British destroyer HMS Onslaught, arrives at Murmansk, Russia, and disembark men and unloads equipment from two RAF Bomber Command squadrons that were transferred to North Russia.

1944 USS Haddo (SS 255) torpedoes Japanese destroyer Asakaze as the enemy warship is escorting tanker, Niyo Maru, 20 miles southwest of Cape Bolinao, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Asakaze later sinks near Dasol Bay after attempts at salvage fail. Also on this date, USS Tang (SS 306) attacks a Japanese convoy off Honshu, sinking cargo ship, Tsukushi Maru off Hamamatsu.

1963 The first satellite communications ship, USNS Kingsport (T AG 164) connects President John F. Kennedy with Nigerian Prime Minister Balewa who is on board for the first satellite (Syncom II) relayed telephone conversation between heads of state, in Lagos, Nigeria.

 

No CHINFO on the weekend

 

Today in History
August 23

1244		Turks expel the crusaders under Frederick II from Jerusalem.
1305		Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London.
1541		Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec on his third voyage to North America.
1775		King George III of England refuses the American colonies' offer of peace and declares them in open rebellion.
1821		After 11 years of war, Spain grants Mexican independence as a constitutional monarchy.
1863		Union batteries cease their first bombardment of Fort Sumter, leaving it a mass of rubble but still unconquered by the Northern besiegers.
1900		Booker T. Washington forms the National Negro Business League in Boston, Massachusetts.
1902		Fanny Farmer, among the first to emphasize the relationship of diet to health, opens her School of Cookery in Boston.
1914		The Emperor of Japan declares war on Germany.
1939		Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, freeing Adolf Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland.
1942		German forces begin an assault on the major Soviet industrial city of Stalingrad.
1944		German SS engineers begin placing explosive charges around the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1950		Up to 77,000 members of the U.S. Army Organized Reserve Corps are called involuntarily to active duty to fight the Korean War.
1952		The Arab League security pact linking seven Arab States in a military, political and economic alliance goes into effect.
1954		The first flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft takes place.
1958		The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins: the People's Liberation Army bombards the island of Quemoy during Chinese Civil War.
1961		Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi during bloody Tutsi-Hutu conflict.
1966		Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from the moon.
1975		Pathet Lao communists occupy Vientiane, Laos.
1977		Bryan Allen, piloting the Gossamer Condor, wins the Kremer prize for the first human-powered aircraft to fly a one-mile, figure-eight course.
1979		The Iranian army opens an offensive against the Kurds.
1990		Armenia declares independence from the USSR.
1990		East and West Germany announce they will unite on Oct 3.
1996		Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places."
2011		Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after National Transitional Council forces take control of the Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
2011		A 5.8 earthquake centered at Mineral, Virginia, damages the Washington Monument, forcing the landmark to close for repairs.

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Thanks to Shadow

Folks,

 

When Black and I had BSA… Corky was a regular visitor after our introduction… He was a joy to have around. His stories were incredible… terminal dive tests in the F4F… the Bearcat exploding wing tests… the crazy Jauguar and the F11F-1F Mach II Tiger. And he always told them in humorous sort of way. Must have a dozen pics he sent me or brought up… and he was gracious enough to ask for one of me… YGTBSM! Worlds greatest test pilot alive wanting a picture of me? No way!

 

But then there came a day when he did something that compelled me to do something. BTW, I've failed to mention Corky had the hots for my wife, never failed to remind me how lucky I was and if I didn't treat her right he would steal her. Anyway, Corky shows up one day and asked if he could salvage a part for his TBM he was working on from our carcass? Of course we said sure.  It was some small part in a wing and it would have been extremely difficult to remove through an access panel… so I suggested I'd have one of my guys run an air hose out to the wreck and use a high speed cutter and remove it that way… quick and easy. Corky then says, "Tell you what, just have them run the hose and I'll do it myself, no need to take any of them away from their work". I didn't like that idea as those little buggers had a lot of torque and if you didn't know what you were doing… it was easy to get a kick back and cut yourself. Typical Corky, he reminded me he'd been doing shit like that before I was born. 

 

I called Kenny into the office and told him to run a hose over to the TBM wreck and cut out the part for Corky. They left the office and about ten minutes later, Kenny comes running into the office and yells out, "We need to take Corky to the hospital, he just cut himself real bad"! Holy shit… the stubborn old goat had taken the high speed cutter from Kenny and said he could do it himself. Luke and I ran out into the hangar and here comes Corky with a white handkerchief (that was now blood red) over his wounded hand… and looking a little pale. I had Kenny rush him to the hospital, but not before I looked at the wound and it looked really bad. I told Kenny to call us as soon as the doctors had a look at it and decided what to do. Kenny rushed him to the Emergency Room. About an hour later, he calls and says they'll be coming back as soon as the doc gets through sewing him up… luckily it appeared there was no permanent damage, nerves were intact and still had mobility. That was a sigh of relief.

 

While waiting, Luke and I got to talking about his stubbornness that had almost ended in a total disaster. How he'd insisted on doing it himself after I'd warned him not to. I told Black, "I gotta get him for this"! I sat there thinking and remembered his request for a picture for some damn reason and then it dawned on me, I had a picture in the office of me and the Corsair I owned. I walked over and pulled it off the wall and took it out of the frame… I then wrote the following across the bottom of the picture.

 

"To Corky Meyer… a man I would trust with my life… but never my wife or a hand tool… Shadow"! 

 

When they finally came back… I called the whole crew into the office… explained what happened and then made the presentation of the picture. It was a hoot! Corky humbly accepted it and basically said, "Well I guess I had that one coming". I was pleased a month or so later when visiting him at his home on Leeward Air Ranch and saw the picture hanging over his desk. What a guy!

 

Black and I had some neat experiences in the office… never forget the day when we had two WW II Aces, Corky Meyer, John Verdi, Big Jim Robinson and a couple of others sitting in our office swapping war stories for over a couple of hours! When they left… Black looked at me and said, "We need our asses kicked! Can you imagine what a recording of that session would be worth… real history from a first person account"!

Those were the days!

Shadow

 

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Thanks to Dr. Rich

Corky Meyer's Flight Journal

If you haven't read this you need to .. and he dodges a bunch of them. Some humorous ones too .. like the climb engine cooling test ...

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Corky-Meyers-Flight-Journal-Corwin/dp/1580072038/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=corky+meyer&qid=1598118316&sr=8-1

 

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An olde from the List archives

This video presents videos of a day and a night carrier landing by the same plane side-by-side.  Note the mirror on the left side of the deck which is the device by which the pilot controls altitude and direction of flight during the landing approach.  Watching this you will understand why I called pilots who said they enjoyed night carrier landings either liars or damn fools!

 

Regards, Al

 

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Subject: Day vs Night Carrier Landing

 

Day / night carrier landings, side by side.

 

http://gizmodo.com/night-vs-day-aircraft-carrier-landings-in-one-harrowin-979263050

 

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World maps . of everything imaginable!!

Thanks to Doctor Rich and Dutch

 

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/

 

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Thanks to Mike

5 minute video of beautiful exotic birds  

http://www.youtube.com/embed/REP4S0uqEOc

 

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Subject: Carrier Pilots

OK one for the NAVY !

 

http://www.youtube.com/embed/Jw-jU9pnGhU?feature=player_embedded 

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Thanks to Jerry

Interesting Approach and landing at Chagual. Peru

 New meaning to the words, "pucker up."

 

Asiana pilots need not apply to this airline.   Do you think that there any pilots who really like this "airport"?  How about weather or at night?  Gotta be restrictions there!  https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=618092801551323

 

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I'm obviously "older than dirt" ...

 

"SLOW FOOD"   I remembered all 25 of them, fondly   All the food was slow 'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'  'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.  'All the food was slow.'  'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'  'It was a place called 'at Home,'' I explained. !  'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'  By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.  But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :  Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.  In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears &Roebuck.  Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.  My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.  I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)  We didn't have a television in our house until I was 9.  It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a..m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.  I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.  I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.  Pizzas were not delivered to our home but milk was.  All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers-- I delivered a newspaper, 7 days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents. I had to get up at 6AM every morning.  On Saturday, I had to collect the 49 cents from his customers. My favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told me to keep the change. My least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.  Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.  If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.  Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it? MEMORIES from a friend :  My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.  How many do you remember?  Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.  Ignition switches on the dashboard.  Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.  Real ice boxes.  Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.  Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.  Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.  Older Than Dirt Quiz :  Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.  1. Blackjack chewing gum 2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water 3. Candy cigarettes 4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles  5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke  boxes  6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers  7. Party lines on the telephone 8 Newsreels before the movie  9. P.F. Flyers 10. Butch wax  11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate])  12. Peashooters  13. Howdy Doody  14. 45 RPM records  15. S& H green stamps  16. Hi-fi's 17. Metal ice trays with lever  18. Mimeograph paper 19. Blue flashbulb 20. Packards 21. Roller skate keys 22. Cork popguns  23. Drive-ins 24. Studebakers 25. Wash tub wringers  If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older  If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age, If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!  I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life. Don't forget to pass this along!! Especially to all your reallyOLD friends   Have a Great Day and GOD BLESS!!!!!

 

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