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To All,

Good Friday morning December 11

I hope that you all have a great weekend. Only one more weekend after this one until Christmas.

Wishing Cowboy a speedy recovery from the hospital where he is recovering. He is the man that makes the List and the Bubba List operate through his servers.

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This day in Naval History

Dec. 11

1863—During the Civil War, the iron-clad river gunboat Carondelet fires upon Confederate troops that are firing upon iron-clad river gunboat Indianola, which had been stuck on a bar in the Mississippi River since earlier that year and had not yet been freed. The effective counter-fire by Carondelet drives off the Confederates.

1865—Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles writes to Secretary of State William H. Seward, complaining of the action of the British government in releasing the officers and crew of CSS Shenandoah.

1941—The Wake Island Garrison under Cmdr. Winfield Cunningham repulses the Japanese invasion force with shore battery fire that sink Japanese destroyer Hayate while Marine F4Fs sink destroyer Kisaragi.

1943—The U.S. Navy dispatches vessels to help the U.S. collier Suffolk, which is foundering and eventually sinks in a storm.

1944—USS Gar (SS 206) lands 35 tons of supplies at Darigayos Inlet on the west coast of Luzon and picks up secret intelligence documents. Also on this date, USS Sea Owl (SS 405) sinks Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 76 in the East China Sea.

1954—The first "supercarrier" USS Forrestal (CVA 59) is launched. 

 

Thanks to CHINFO

Executive Summary:

•           Trade press reported on the release of the Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan.

•           Reuters reported the Trump administration intends to sanction Turkey over the purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system.

•           Media reported on the Marine Corps' new Amphibious Combat Vehicle achieving Initial Operational Capability and full rate production approval.

 

 

Today in History December 11

1688		James II abdicates the throne because of William of Orange landing in England.
1816		Indiana is admitted to the Union as the 19th state.
1861		A raging fire sweeps the business district of Charleston, South Carolina, adding to an already depressed economic state.
1862		Union General Ambrose Burnside occupies Fredericksburg and prepares to attack the Confederates under Robert E. Lee.
1863		Union gunboats Restless, Bloomer and Caroline enter St. Andrew's Bay, Fla., and begin bombardment of both Confederate quarters and saltworks.
1882		A production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Iolanthe at Boston's Bijou Theatre becomes the first performance in a theatre lit by incandescent electric lights.
1927		Nearly 400 world leaders sign a letter to President Calvin Coolidge asking the United States to join the World Court.
1930		As the economic crisis grows, the Bank of the United States closes its doors.
1933		Reports say Paraguay has captured 11,000 Bolivians in the war over Chaco.
1936		Britain's King Edward VIII abdicates the throne to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1941		The United States declares war on Italy and Germany.
1943		U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull demands that Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria withdraw from the war.
1945		A Boeing B-29 Superfortress shatters all records by crossing the United States in five hours and 27 minutes.
1951		Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball.
1955		Israel raids Syrian positions on the Sea of Galilee.
1964		Frank Sinatra, Jr., is returned home to his parents after being kidnapped for the ransom amount of $240,000.
1967		The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world's first supersonic airliner, is unveiled in Toulouse, France.
1972		Challenger, the lunar lander for Apollo 17, touches down on the moon's surface, the last time that men visit the moon.
1978		Massive demonstrations take place in Tehran against the shah.
1981		Military forces in El Salvador kill over 800 civilians in what is known as the El Mozote massacre during the Salvadoran Civil War.
1997		The Kyoto Protocol international treaty intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses, opens for signature.
2001		People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2005		Cronulla riots begin in Cronulla, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2006		President of Mexico Felipe Calderon launches a military-led offensive against drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacan.
2008		Bernard "Bernie" Madoff arrested and charged with securities fraud in what was called a $50-billion Ponzi scheme.

 

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This Day in U S Military History  December 11

1620 – 103 Mayflower pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.

1864 – Commander Preble, commanding the Naval Brigade fighting ashore with the forces of Major General Foster up the Broad River, South Carolina, reported to Rear Admiral Dahlgren concerning a unique "explosive ball" used by Confederate forces against his skirmishers: "It is a conical ball in shape, like an ordinary rifle bullet. The pointed end is charged with a fulminate. The base of the ball separately from the conical end, and has a leaden standard or plunger. The explosion of the charge drives the base up, so as to flatten a thin disk of metal between it and the ball, the leaden plunger is driven against the fulminate, and it explodes the ball. . . . It seems to me that use of such a missile is an unnecessary addition to the barbarities of war."

1872 – Already appearing as a well-known figure of the Wild West in popular dime novels, Buffalo Bill Cody makes his first stage appearance on this day, in a Chicago-based production of The Scouts of the Prairie. Unlike many of his imitators in Wild West shows and movies, William Frederick Cody actually played an important role in the western settlement that he later romanticized and celebrated. Born in Iowa in 1846, Cody joined the western messenger service of Majors and Russell as a rider while still in his teens. He later rode for the famous Pony Express, during which time he completed the third longest emergency ride in the brief history of that company. During the Civil War, Cody joined forces with a variety of irregular militia groups supporting the North. In 1864, he enlisted in the Union army as a private and served as a cavalry teamster until 1865. Cody began to earn his famous nickname in 1867, when he signed on to provide buffalo meat for the workers of the Eastern Division of the Union Pacific Railroad construction project. His reputation for skilled marksmanship and experience as a rapid-delivery messenger attracted the attention of U.S. Army Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan, who gave Cody an unusual four-year position as a scout-a testament to Cody's extraordinary frontier skills. Cody's work as a scout in the western Indian wars laid the foundation for his later fame. From 1868 to 1872, he fought in 16 battles with Indians, participating in a celebrated victory over the Cheyenne in 1869. One impressed general praised Cody's "extraordinarily good services as trailer and fighter . . . his marksmanship being very conspicuous." Later, Cody again gained national attention by serving as a hunting guide for famous Europeans and Americans eager to experience a bit of the "Wild West" before it disappeared. As luck would have it, one of Cody's customers was Edward Judson, a successful writer who penned popular dime novels under the name Ned Buntline. Impressed by his young guide's calm competence and stories of dramatic fights with Indians, Buntline made Cody the hero of a highly imaginative Wild West novel published in 1869. When a stage version of the novel debuted in Chicago as The Scouts of the Prairie, Buntline convinced Cody to abandon his real-life western adventures to play a highly exaggerated version of himself in the play. Once he had a taste of the performing life, Cody never looked back. Though he continued to spend time scouting or guiding hunt trips in the West, Cody remained on the Chicago stage for the next 11 years. Buffalo Bill Cody was the hero of more than 1,700 variant issues of dime novels, and his star shone even more brightly when his world-famous Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show debuted in 1883. The show was still touring when Buffalo Bill Cody died in 1917.

1930 – This day brought another ominous sign that the nation was sliding towards a prolonged and difficult economic slump, as New York's branch of Bank of the United States announced that it had gone belly-up. Up until its downfall, the Bank held the savings of some 400,000 depositors, including a number of immigrants; its subsequent demise imperiled the finances of roughly one-third of New York and stood as the nation's single worst bank failure.

1939 – Actress Marlene Dietrich records her hit song "Falling in Love Again." Dietrich also became a U.S. citizen in 1939. Born in Berlin, Dietrich came to the United States in 1930 to make movies after considerable success on the German screen. She allegedly refused several offers to return to Germany to star in Nazi films. She became a U.S. citizen in 1939 and worked tirelessly during and after World War II to sell war bonds and entertain troops. She was awarded the Medal of Freedom and named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor.

1985 – Hugh Scrutton is killed in his computer store in Sacramento, California, by a mail package that explodes in his hands. By the time he was finally apprehended, the "Unabomber"-so named because his earliest attacks were directed at universities-had been responsible for the deaths of 3 people and the injuries of 23 others. The Unabomber detonated his first bomb on May 26, 1978, at Northwestern University. Over the next 15 years, his sporadic attacks kept his identity a mystery to FBI investigators, but in the mid-1990s, he appeared to want more publicity. He increased the frequency of his attacks and sent a letter to The New York Times claiming responsibility on behalf of "FC," which was later revealed to be the "Freedom Club." In late 1994, the Unabomber became very active; Thomas Mosser was killed in his home in New Jersey in December 1994 by a mail bomb, and four months later, another bomb killed Gilbert Murray, a lobbyist for the timber industry. During this time, the Unabomber also began to send notes to the press declaring the "principles" behind his terrorist attacks. When the Unabomber threatened to blow up an airplane flying out of Los Angeles International Airport in 1995, the FBI made his capture a top priority. A sketch of the suspect, who appeared menacing in a hood and sunglasses, was circulated in newspapers and on television. The Unabomber claimed that he would stop the bomb spree if the national press published his manifesto. Eventually, The New York Times and The Washington Post agreed to publish an excerpt, which contained mostly rants against technology and environmental destruction. When he read it, David Kaczynski realized that it bore a distinct similarity to writings by his brother, Ted, a former university professor who had dropped out of society and was living in a remote shack in Montana. David Kaczynski contacted the FBI with his suspicions on the condition-later broken-that the FBI would not seek the death penalty against his brother. After two months of surveillance, the FBI finally arrested Ted Kaczynski in 1996. Inside his cabin were bombs and writings that tied him to the crimes. In January 1998, while awaiting trial, Kaczynski tried to commit suicide in his cell. Still, he resisted his lawyer's attempts to plead insanity and instead pleaded guilty. Although prosecutors originally sought the death penalty, Kaczynski eventually accepted a life sentence with no right to appeal.

1998 – The Mars Climate Orbiter blasted off on a 9 ½ month journey to the Red Planet. The probe disappeared in September 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values.

 

Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

PLUNKETT, THOMAS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company E, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. Place and date. At Fredericksburg, Va., 11 December 1862. Entered service at: West Boylston, Mass. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 30 March 1866. Citation: Seized the colors of his regiment, the color bearer having been shot down, and bore them to the front where both his arms were carried off by a shell.

 

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Thanks to CAP

Courage and Conviction - YouTube

Sorry if this is a repeat but it's history our schools should be teaching.

The truth about Christopher Columbus.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl3aDan7BBA&feature=youtu.be

 

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Thanks to Dr. Rich

Thanks to John (USAF … so must be good!!)

 

…very cool, those young sailors will make you proud!

 

Life On A U.S. Navy Destroyer (2019) • Full Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-YjCLqhxGs

 

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Thanks to Ed

The Greatest Generation

This 2 minute video is pretty moving.  Worth your while.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ jpt6Bvr2L-s?rel=0&controls=0& showing

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Thanks to Jim

The List 5539

I don't know whether this is the book John was thinking of, but "Devotion" by Adam Makos is an outstanding story of Jesse Brown and Tom Hudson, the hero who crash-landed near Brown's aircraft in an attempt to rescue his friend. After being threatened with a court martial, Hudner ended up being awarded the Medal of Honor.

 

Garv

 

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Thanks to Dutch

yeap 5 years ago - but, remember, a very great deal  of  the military leadership was nominated by the Obama administration and we are still not recovered from the damage done by that administration - Dutch

Disaster:  The Warrior Purge In The U.S. Military

By Capt Joseph R. John, October 19, 2015

 The biography and photo of the newest member of the Board of Director of the Combat Veterans For Congress PAC, REAR ADMIRAL Edward S. McGinley, II, USNA '61, USN (Ret) is attached. RADM McGinley forwarded the below listed article "Disaster: The Warrior Purge In The U.S. Military" which deserves very wide distribution.

The article discusses how the US Armed Forces' need for warriors—-men of rare talent, intellect, and courage that has always been essential for victory in any armed conflict by the US Military, have been systematically purged from the US Armed Forces by the occupant of the Oval Office.– the subtle purge has been underway for nearly 7 years. Over the same nearly 7 years, China, Russia, Iran, and the ISIS Radical Islamic Terrorists have grown in strength, modernized their military weapon systems, and have been honing their combat skills in Crimea, Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Lebanon, the Philippines, the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, and the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Obama's priority has been to replace warriors in front line combat units with Illegal Aliens who are not proficient in English, women, transgender individuals, felons with police records, and gay members who are being recruited into Obama's new "Politically Correct" US military. Obama has turned the US Armed Forces into the first major openly gay military force in the world, and last year 11,000 straight male members in the US Armed Forces were sexually assaulted by gays—driving the retention rate for straight males to new lows.

The commanding officers of combat forces that once were warriors are slowly being replaced by briefcase-carrying, yes-men and yes-women, more interested in driving the Social Experiment On Diversity into the military, driving the "Political Correct" agenda requirement for promotion, howling out the strength of the US Armed Forces, and purging thousands of senior enlisted Non Commissioned Officers who opposed massive social change in the US Armed Forces. The leaders of Obama's US Military seem to care more about their careers than about the Obama administration's downsizing of the US military and the steady degrading of the National Security of the Republic.

The last two Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullins and General Martin Dempsey:

 (1) Covered up why armed and ready armed aircraft sitting on the tarmac in Italy and a rapid deployment US Marine Force sitting on the tarmac in Europe were not dispatched to save the lives of the four Americans who were murdered in Benghazi by Radical Islamic Terrorists.

 (2) Forced the new & dangerous Rules of Engagement (ROE) on US Combat Forces in harm's way, those ROE were responsible for increasing combat deaths by 458%/year, and those dangerous ROE increased the wounding & maiming of thousands of military personnel by 378%/year

 (3) They both supervised the downsizing of the US Navy to the number of ships the Navy had in its fleet before WWI, reduced the strength of the US Army to the manning level if had before WWII, and allowed the US Air Force to become a smaller and older air force than in any time since 1947

 (4) They presided over the purge of hundreds of Senior Officers, General Officers, and Flag Officers, and the removal of thousands of senior enlisted Non Commissioned Officers who opposed Obama's systematic hollowing out of the US Armed Forces.

 (5) They allowed Obama to drive the destructive "Social Experiment On Diversity" into the US Armed Forces resulting in the degrading of unit cohesiveness, unit moral, and the "Combat Effectiveness" of the US Armed Forces.

 (6) They systematically drove women into tip of the spear combat hardened units such as US Marine Corps Infantry Units, US Navy Seal Teams, and US Army Ranger Battalions.

 (7) For nearly 7 years, the new slate of Politically Correct Flag and General Officers promoted by Obama, failed to oppose the hollowing out of the US Armed Forces, nor did any of them threaten to resign unless the degrading of the US Armed Forces ceased.

Over nearly 7 years, Obama has not only down sized the US Army to a lower manning level than the Army had before WWII, but he has changed the warrior leadership philosophy of the US Army, an Army that was once led by warriors like Generals Pershing, General MacArthur, General Patton, General Bradley, Army Air Force General Curtis LeMay, General Ridgeway, and General Schwarzkopf, to the generals that Obama promoted who passed his litmus test for "Political Correctness".

For 1 ½ years, Obama's Generals have presided over the Uniform Code of Military Justice case for Bowe Bergdahl, for "Desertion and Misbehavior In The Face Of The Enemy" for leaving his post during combat operations in Afghanistan in June 2009. The case should have been adjudicated in 90 days after Bergdahl returned to the US in May 2014. It now appears, that the Article 32 Fact Finding Hearing Officer, LTC Mark Visger, USA (JAG) is recommending that Bergdahl be released with no jail time, nor that he not receive a punitive Dishonorable Discharge for the charge of "Desertion and Misbehavior In The Face Of The Enemy" .

The Convening Authority, General Creighton W. Abrams, Jr, USA, Commander, US Forces Command, refused to allow the members in Bergdahl's platoon to testify, even though they witnessed Bergdahl's desertion, and excluded recorded transmission from the Taliban saying Bergdahl was joining their combat units, from being introduced as evidence into Bergdahl's Article 32 Hearing. Bergdahl would have been executed in WWII for "Desertion and Misbehavior In The Face of The Enemy."

We encourage you to read the below listed article and forward it to those in your address book who would support halting the continued hollowing out of the US Armed Forces.

Copyright 2015, Capt. Joseph R. John. All Rights Reserved. This material can only be posted on another Web site or distributed on the Internet by giving full credit to the author. It may not be published, broadcast, or rewritten without permission from the author

Joseph R. John, USNA '62

Capt USN(Ret)
Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC

Disaster: The Warrior Purge in the U.S. Military (conservativewriters.org)

 

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Thanks to Dutch

The end of journalism?

By Gary Anderson

This is an op-ed piece. It appears in the Commentary section of this newspaper. It does not pretend to be straight news, or news at all. It represents my opinion, and I would expect rebuttals from those who disagree with it.

When I took a journalism class in high school, the teacher's first injunction was to point out the difference between an editorial and a straight news story; she explained that the fastest way for any news outlet to lose its professional reputation and credibility was to editorialize in the pages advertised as straight news.

In the past few years, that ethic has been steadily degraded in outlets such as The Washington Post and The New York Times to a point where the front pages of these papers are nearly indistinguishable from the op-ed sections. Instead of responsibly supervising their reporters, it now appears that some editors are encouraging this practice. In broadcast journalism, CNN abandoned any pretense of objectivity in its newsrooms years ago and strives to become the anti-Fox News. However, when James O'Keefe of Project Veritas hacked into an editorial meeting and caught CNN's Jeff Zuckerberg in the act; CNN executives tried to have Mr. O'Keefe arrested.

In a column in The Washington Post, Margaret Sullivan celebrated this rise in advocacy journalism and encouraged her colleagues to do more of it. Her argument is that — because so many Americans increasingly get their news from social media and partisan sites on the Internet — mainstream outlets must become advocates for the correct point of view which represents ground truth as she and a presumably omnipotent group of fellow journalists define it.

This is the equivalent of the "everyone else in doing it" argument that I used on my mother. The retort of mothers throughout history has been. "if everyone else jumped off a cliff, would you do so too?" Streaming news channels and social media sites put out a lot of garbage, but for established news outlets to imitate them by letting their editorial positions seep into the straight news pages is a slippery slope that could mean the end of journalism as we have known it since the founding of the nation.

There is a place for investigative journalism, and it has deep roots within the traditions of the profession. Good investigative journalism still stays within the framework of objectivity. The investigative team gets wind of a perceived wrong, and proceeds to gather the facts. Attempts are made to confront the alleged malefactor to get his or her side of the story.

If the alleged perpetrator slams the door in the face of the reporter, or goes screaming from the office when confronted, that is reported too. The facts of the story are laid out and the reader — or listener/viewer in the case of television and radio — is left to draw his or her own conclusions.

Streaming news channels and social media sites put out a lot of garbage, but for established news outlets to imitate them by letting their editorial positions seep into the straight news pages is a slippery slope.

There is probably even a role for "gonzo journalism" as practiced by Hunter Thomson — the model for Doonesbury's Uncle Duke — where the writer becomes part of the story. However, those pieces are usually confined to the entertainment/style sections.

Ms. Sullivan, and those like her in academic journalistic circles, argue that reporters should set what they consider to be the proper moral tone. She quotes Professor Nikki Usher of the University of Illinois. "This battle can't be fought with facts alone. The only hope for mainstream journalism to appeal to passion as well as reason — providing moral clarity along with truthful content." That quote could have easily come from Joseph Goebbels. What Ms. Sullivan is advocating is indoctrination, not journalism.

When I was in college, I picked up beer money as a stringer for the local paper. One day, I inadvertently editorialized on a story about what I considered to be an unfair practice by a local merchant. My editor asked, "did you interview the store owner or just the customers?" I admitted to not having confronted the owner. "Kid" he said, "here we do journalism not fiction; now go back and be a reporter." That editor is long dead, but generations of journalists were kept honest by people like him.

I find it disappointing, that traditional old school reporters have not spoken up and attacked the increasing loss of professional standards. One would hope that distinguished journalists such as Tom Ricks, Greg Jaffe and Ted Koppel would take their profession to task; but the silence has been deafening to date. Journalism may have crossed a Rubicon and burned the bridges behind it.

 

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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for December 11, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY

 

11 December

1914: For the first time, an Army plane received and transmitted radio messages at distances of four and 10 miles, respectively. Using a Burgess-Wright airplane, Lt Herbert A. Dargue, the pilot, and Lt Joseph O. Mauborgne, who designed the radio set, conducted the experiment in the Philippines. (21) (24)

1915: Four Portuguese Army Officers became the first officers to become flying students in the US when they reported to the Signal Corps Aviation School at San Diego. (24)

1941: Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; Congress responded in kind with a similar declaration against Germany and Italy.

 1945: Col Clarence S. Irvine and his crew flew his Pacusan Dreamboat B-29 to a 5-hour, 27-minute, 8-second record for a 2,464-mile flight from Burbank to New York. He averaged 450.38 MPH for the trip in setting a FAI record for multi-engined military aircraft. (9) (24)

1952: KOREAN WAR. A fully loaded B-26 of the 3d Bombardment Wing caught fire at Kunsan Airfield and exploded. The accident soon destroyed three other B-26s and caused major damage to six F-84s of the co-located 474th Fighter-Bomber Wing. (28)

1956: Operation SAFE HAVEN. After a revolt against Soviet rule in Hungary expelled Russian occupation forces, the Soviets sent in reinforcements to restore order. But before the Soviet backed Hungarian government closed the borders, some 200,000 refugees fled. MATS, Navy, and commercial aircraft flew 15,570 refugees from Germany to the US to 3 January 1957. (4)

1959: Piloting an F-105 Thunderchief, Brig Gen Joseph H. Moore set a world speed record of 1,216.48 MPH over a closed course at Edwards AFB. (24) The US and UK certified the Thor missile's operational capability. (6)

1961: First direct US aid to Vietnam came when the Army assigned two helicopter companies with 32 H-21Cs.

1962: The first two flights of Minuteman I missiles were declared operational at Malmstrom AFB. (6)

1969: The Air Force's YF-12A supersonic aircraft made its first flight from Edwards AFB under joint USAF-NASA sponsorship. This opened a program to advance American knowledge of aerial defense tactics and the future of commercial aviation.

1984: Two C-141 Starlifters flew survivors and two casualties of a Kuwaiti Airlines hijacking to either Rhein-Main AB or to the US. (16) (26)

1986: The F-15E dual-role fighter made its first flight at St. Louis. (30)

1988: Two C-141s with humanitarian relief supplies arrived in Yerevan, Armenia, after a massive earthquake on 7 December killed more than 40,000 people and left another 500,000 homeless. A C-5 also carried supplies to Incirlik AB. In the ensuing 20 missions to Soviet Armenia through December 1989, MAC delivered 572 tons of rescue equipment, blankets, tents, and medical supplies. For the first time, US aircraft flew directly to the Soviet Union with out Soviet personnel on board as observers. (18) (21)

 

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World News for 11 December thanks to Military Periscope See attachment

 

 

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