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Good Saturday Morning January 9
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This Day In Naval History
Jan. 9
1861—The steamship Star of the West is fired on by Confederate troops from Morris Island and Fort Moultrie as she attempted to enter Charleston Harbor, S.C. These are the first pre-Confederate shots fired at a northern-based vessel.
1918—The Naval Overseas Transportation Service, (now the Military Sealift Command), is established to carry cargo during World War I.
1942—Submarine USS Pollack (SS 180) sinks the Japanese freighter Teian Maru (ex-Yugoslav Tomislav) 40 miles south-southwest of Inubo Saki, Japan.
1945—Amphibious ships from Task Force 7 land the Sixth Army on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines. The troops are lightly opposed and the amphibious stage proceeds smoothly, yet the kamikaze presence is felt after sunset.
1959—Non-strategic submarine Halibut (SSGN 587), launches. Redesignated an attack submarine in 1965, she serves until decommissioned in 1986.
1993—Fast Attack Submarine USS Springfield (SSN 761) is commissioned.
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Today in History January 9
1719 | Philip V of Spain declares war on France. | |
1776 | Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, a scathing attack on King George III's reign over the colonies and a call for complete independence. | |
1792 | The Ottomans sign a treaty with the Russians ending a five year war. | |
1793 | Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in North America. | |
1861 | Southern shellfire stops the Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston Harbor on her way to Fort Sumter. | |
1861 | Mississippi secedes from the Union. | |
1908 | Count Zeppelin announces plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers. | |
1909 | A Polar exploration team lead by Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees, 23 minutes south longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They are 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole, but the weather is too severe to continue. | |
1912 | Colonel Theodore Roosevelt announces that he will run for president if asked. | |
1915 | Pancho Villa signs a treaty with the United States, halting border conflicts. | |
1924 | Ford Motor Co. stock is valued at nearly $1 billion. | |
1943 | Soviet planes drop leaflets on the surrounded Germans in Stalingrad requesting their surrender with humane terms. The Germans refuse. | |
1945 | U.S. troops land on Luzon, in the Philippines, 107 miles from Manila. | |
1947 | French General Leclerc breaks off all talks with Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh. | |
1952 | Jackie Robinson becomes the highest paid player in Brooklyn Dodger history. | |
1964 | U.S. forces kill six Panamanian students protesting in the canal zone. | |
1974 | Cambodian Government troops open a drive to avert insurgent attack on Phnom Penh. | |
1992 | The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of a new state within Yugoslavia, the Rupublika Srpska. | |
1996 | A raid by Chechen separatists in the city of Kizlyar turns into a hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. | |
2005 | Mahmoud Abbas wins election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. | |
2005 | The Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War is signed by the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement. | |
2007 | Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveils the first iPhone. |
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The death of the largest Battleship ever made
January 9, 2018
At 14:23, it happened. Yamato's forward internal magazines detonated in a spectacular fireball. It was like a tactical nuclear weapon going off. Later, a navigation officer on one of Japan's surviving destroyers calculated that the "pillar of fire reached a height of 2,000 meters, that the mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 6,000 meters." The flash from the explosion that was Yamato's death knell was seen as far away as Kagoshima on the Japanese mainland. The explosion also reportedly destroyed several American airplanes observing the sinking.
In early 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy made a difficult decision: it would sacrifice the largest, most powerful battleships ever built to protect Okinawa, the gateway to Japan's Home Islands. The decision sealed the fate of the battleship Yamato and its crew, but ironically did nothing to actually protect the island from Allied invasion.
The battleship Yamato was among the largest and most powerful battleships of all time. Yamato has reached nearly mythical status, a perfect example of Japan's fascination with doomed, futile heroics. Built in 1937 at the Kure Naval Arsenal near Hiroshima, it was constructed in secrecy to avoid alarming the United States. Japan had recently withdrawn from the Washington Naval Treaty, which limited battleship tonnages, and was free to build them as large as it wanted.
And what ships it built. 839 feet at the waterline and weighing seventy thousand tons fully loaded, Yamato was the largest ship of the war, eclipsed only by postwar American aircraft carriers. It and its sister, Musashi, were armed with nine eighteen-inch naval guns, mounted in turrets of three; six 155-millimeter secondary naval guns; twenty-four five-inch guns; 162 twenty-five-millimeter antiaircraft guns; and four 13.2-millimeter heavy machine guns.
All of this firepower was meant to sink enemy battleships—more than one at a time if necessary. The extremely large number of antiaircraft guns, added during a refit, were meant to keep the ship afloat in the face of American air power until it could close within striking range of enemy ships.
Unfortunately for Yamato and its crew, it was obsolete by the time it was launched in 1941. The ability of fast aircraft carriers to engage enemy ships at the range of their embarked dive and torpedo bombers meant a carrier could attack a battleship at ranges of two hundred miles or more, long before it entered the range of a battleship's guns. Battleships were "out-sticked," to use a modern term.
By early 1945, Japan's strategic situation was grim. Japanese conquests in the Pacific had been steadily rolled back since the Allied landings on Guadalcanal in August 1942. The Philippines, Solomons, Gilberts and Carolines had all been lost and the enemy was now literally at the gates. Okinawa, the largest island in the Ryukyu island chain was the last bastion before the Home Islands itself. The island was just 160 miles from the mainland city of Kagoshima, coincidentally the birthplace of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The invasion of Okinawa began on April 1, 1945. In response, the Japanese Navy activated Operation Ten-Go. Yamato, escorted by the cruiser Yahagi (commanded by the famous Tameichi Hara) and eight destroyers, would sail to Okinawa and disrupt the Allied invasion force. Yamato would then beach, becoming coastal artillery. It was a humiliating end for a battleship capable of twenty-seven knots, but the lack of fuel and other military resources made for truly desperate times.
Yamato and its task force, designated the Surface Special Attack Force, departed Tokuyama, Japan on April 6, proceeding due south to transit the Bungo Strait. American forces had already been alerted to the Ten-Go operation, thanks to cracked Japanese military codes, and two American submarines were waiting to intercept the flotilla. Yamato and its escorts were duly observed by the submarines, but the subs were unable attack due to the task force's high rate of speed and zigzagging tactics. The sighting report was pushed up the chain of command.
Allied naval forces in and around Okinawa were the obvious target, and the massive fleet braced itself accordingly. Six older battleships from the Gunfire and Covering Support Group, or Task Force 54, under Rear Admiral Morton Deyo, prepared to defend the invasion force, but were pulled away in favor of an air attack.
At 0800 hours on April 7, scout planes from Admiral Mitscher's Fast Carrier Force, or Task Force 58, located Yamato, still only halfway to Okinawa. Mitscher launched a massive strike force of 280 fighters, bombers and torpedo planes, and the fight was on.
For two hours, the Surface Special Attack Force was subjected to a merciless aerial bombardment. The air wings of eleven fleet carriers joined in the attack—so many planes were in the air above Yamato that the fear of midair collision was real. The naval aviators were in such a hurry to score the first hit on the allegedly unsinkable ship plans for a coordinated attack collapsed into a free-for-all. Yamato took two hits during this attack, two bombs and one torpedo, and air attacks claimed two escorting destroyers.
A second aerial armada consisting of one hundred aircraft pressed the attack. As the Yamato started to go down, U.S. naval aviators changed tactics. Noticing the ship was listing badly, one squadron changed its torpedo running depth from ten feet—where it would collide with the main armor belt—to twenty feet, where it would detonate against the exposed lower hull. Aboard Yamato, the listing eventually grew to more than twenty degrees, and the captain made the difficult decision to flood the starboard outer engine room, drowning three hundred men at their stations, in an attempt to trim out the ship.
Yamato had taken ten torpedo and seven bomb hits, and was hurting badly. Despite counterflooding, the ship continued to list, and once it reached thirty five degrees the order was given to abandon ship. The captain and many of the bridge crew tied themselves to their stations and went down with their ship, while the rest attempted to escape.
At 14:23, it happened. Yamato's forward internal magazines detonated in a spectacular fireball. It was like a tactical nuclear weapon going off. Later, a navigation officer on one of Japan's surviving destroyers calculated that the "pillar of fire reached a height of 2,000 meters, that the mushroom-shaped cloud rose to a height of 6,000 meters." The flash from the explosion that was Yamato's death knell was seen as far away as Kagoshima on the Japanese mainland. The explosion also reportedly destroyed several American airplanes observing the sinking.
When it was all over, the Surface Special Attack Force had been almost completely destroyed. Yamato, the cruiser Yahagi and three destroyers were sunk. Several other escorts had been seriously damaged. Gone with the great battleship were 2,498 of its 2,700-person crew.
The destruction of Yamato was inevitable even as far back as the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was clear that the age of the aircraft carrier had already superseded the battleship, but the insistence of battleship-minded general officers to cling to obsolete military technology undermined Japan's conduct of the war and sent thousands of Japanese sailors needlessly to their deaths. The story of the Yamato is a warning to all armed forces that the march of war technology is merciless and unsentimental.
Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writer based in San Francisco who has appeared in the Diplomat, Foreign Policy, War is Boring and the Daily Beast. In 2009 he cofounded the defense and security blog Japan Security Watch.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… Lest We Forget
January 7, 2021Peter Fey1 Comment
Greetings all,
Your new scribe here—Peter Fey. I must take a moment to thank Mr. Taylor. Not only for starting this amazing site, but the amount of work he has put into it. It is truly a fantastic resource. It is a marvelous tribute, and I hope that I can continue to do it justice!
I have been quiet thus far, letting Bear run things till the appropriate time. As his last post alluded, he's given me the lead and it's over to me. I doubt I will be as prodigious a poster as Bear was. My plans are to start adding some pictures, adding to the amazing collection of information he has provided. My goal is to have a repository of each carrier and air wing for every deployment they made. Maybe even add the other services as I can. A tall task for certain, but I think it will help continue to tell their story. I'd also like to start adding documents that would help veterans, families and researchers looking for information. That will include making the site searchable. I'll add stories as I find them, or as folks are willing to share. In short, no big changes, other than some tweaks here and there.
I look forward to hearing from everyone and continuing this journey that Bear has started us on.
Bear, From the bottom of my heart, Thank You. I am humbled to have the opportunity to carry on this legacy. Thanks again for everything you've done…Lest We Forget.
I have the lead on the left.
Peter
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This Day in U S Military History
1863 – U.S.S. Baron De Kalb, Louisville, Cincinnati, Lexington, Rattler, and Black Hawk, under Rear Admiral Porter in tug Ivy, engaged and, with the troops of Major General W. T. Sherman, forced the surrender of Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post. Ascending the Arkansas River, Porter's squadron covered the landing of the troops and shelled Confederates from their rifle pits, enabling McClernand's troops on 9 January to take command of the woods below the fort and approach unseen. Though the Army was not in a position to press the attack on 10 January, the squadron moved to within 60 yards of the staunchly defended fort to soften the works for the next day's assault. A blistering engagement ensued, the fort's 11 guns pouring a withering fire into the gunboats. U.S.S. Rattler, Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith, attempted to run past the fort to provide enfilade support, but was caught on a snag placed in the river by the Confederates, received a heavy raking fire, and was forced to return downstream. Porter's gunboats renewed the engagement the next morning, 11 January, when the Army launched its assault, and "after a well directed fire of about two and one-half hours every gun in the fort was dismounted or disabled and the fort knocked all to pieces. . ." Ram Monarch and U.S.S. Rattler and Glide, under Lieutenant Commander W. Smith, knifed upriver to cut off any attempted escape. Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill, CSA, surrendered the fort-including some 36 defending Confederate naval officers and men after a gallant resistance to the fearful pounding from the gunboats. Porter wrote Secretary of the Navy Welles: "No fort ever received a worse battering, and the highest compliment I can pay those engaged is to repeat what the rebels said: 'You can't expect men to stand up against the fire of those gunboats.' " After the loss of Fort Hindman, Confederates evacuated other positions on the White and St. Charles Rivers before falling waters forced the gunboats to retire downstream. Porter wrote: 'The fight at Fort Hindman was one of the prettiest little affairs of the war, not so little either, for a very important post fell into our hands with 6,500 prisoners, and the destruction of a powerful ram at Little Rock [C.S.S. Pontchartrain], which could have caused the Federal Navy in the West a great deal of trouble, was ensured. . . . Certain it is, the success at Arkansas Post had a most exhilarating effect on the troops, and they were a different set of men when they arrived at Milliken's Bend than they were when they left the Yazoo River." A memorandum in the Secretary's office added: "The importance of this victory can not be estimated. It happened at a moment when the Union arms were unsuccessful on three or four battlefields. . . "
1918 – The Battle of Bear Valley was a small engagement fought in 1918 between a band of Yaquis and a detachment of United States Army soldiers. Elements of the American 10th Cavalry Regiment detected about thirty armed Yaquis in Bear Valley, Arizona, a large area that was commonly used as a passage across the international border with Mexico. A short firefight ensued, which resulted in the death of the Yaqui commander and the capture of nine others. Though the conflict was merely a skirmish, it was the last time the United States Army engaged hostile native Americans in combat and thus has been seen as one of the final battles of the American Indian Wars
1945 – Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the American 6th Army land on the Lingayen Gulf of Luzon, another step in the capture of the Philippine Islands from the Japanese. The Japanese controlled the Philippines from May 1942, when the defeat of American forces led to General MacArthur's departure and Gen. Jonathan Wainwright's capture. But in October 1944, more than 100,000 American soldiers landed on Leyte Island to launch one of one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war-and herald the beginning of the end for Japan. Newsreels captured the event as MacArthur waded ashore at Leyte on October 20, returning to the Philippines as he had famously promised he would after the original defeat of American forces there. What the newsreels didn't capture were the 67 days it took to subdue the island, with the loss of more than 55,000 Japanese soldiers during the two months of battle and approximately 25,000 more soldiers killed in smaller-scale engagements necessary to fully clear the area of enemy troops. The U.S. forces lost about 3,500. The sea battle of Leyte Gulf was the same story. The loss of ships and sailors was horrendous for both sides. That battle also saw the introduction of the Japanese kamikaze suicide bombers. More than 5,000 kamikaze pilots died in this gulf battle, taking down 34 ships. But the Japanese were not able to prevent the loss of their biggest and best warships, which meant the virtual end of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. These American victories on land and sea at Leyte opened the door for the landing of more than 60,000 American troops on Luzon on January 9. Once again, cameras recorded MacArthur walking ashore, this time to greet cheering Filipinos. Although the American troops met little opposition when they landed, American warships were in for a new surprise: kamikaze boats. Japanese boats loaded with explosives and piloted by kamikaze personnel rammed the light cruiser Columbia and the battleship Mississippi, killing a total of 49 American crewmen. The initial ease of the American fighters' first week on land was explained when they discovered the intricate defensive network of caves and tunnels that the Japanese created on Luzon. The intention of the caves and tunnels was to draw the Americans inland, while allowing the Japanese to avoid the initial devastating bombardment of an invasion force. Once Americans reached them, the Japanese fought vigorously, convinced they were directing American strength away from the Japanese homeland. Despite their best efforts, the Japanese lost the battle for Luzon and eventually, the battle for control over all of the Philippines.
1945 – The fleet carriers of Task Force 38 attack targets on Okinawa and Formosa in conjunction with US Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bombers from bases in China. This is intended to give cover to the landings on Luzon. One Japanese destroyer is sunk along with seven other ships.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
HANDRAN, JOHN
Rank and organization: Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1852, Massachusetts. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 206, 15 February 1876. Citation: For gallant conduct while serving on board the U.S.S. Franklin at Lisbon, Portugal, 9 January 1876. Jumping overboard, Handran rescued from drowning one of the crew of that vessel.
MADDIN, EDWARD
Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1852, Newfoundland. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 206, 15 February 1876. Citation: Serving on board the U.S.S. Franklin at Lisbon, Portugal, 9 January 1876. Displaying gallant conduct, Maddin jumped overboard and rescued one of the crew of that vessel from drowning.
*CAREY, CHARLES F., JR.
Rank and organization: Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army, 397th Infantry, 100th Infantry Division. Place and date: Rimling, France, 8-9 January 1945. Entered service at: Cheyenne, Wyo. Birth: Canadian, Okla. G.O. No.: 53, July 1945. Citation: He was in command of an antitank platoon when about 200 enemy infantrymen and 12 tanks attacked his battalion, overrunning part of its position. After losing his guns, T/Sgt. Carey, acting entirely on his own initiative, organized a patrol and rescued 2 of his squads from a threatened sector, evacuating those who had been wounded. He organized a second patrol and advanced against an enemy-held house from which vicious fire issued, preventing the free movement of our troops. Covered by fire from his patrol, he approached the house, killed 2 snipers with his rifle, and threw a grenade in the door. He entered alone and a few minutes later emerged with 16 prisoners. Acting on information he furnished, the American forces were able to capture an additional 41 Germans in adjacent houses. He assembled another patrol, and, under covering fire, moved to within a few yards of an enemy tank and damaged it with a rocket. As the crew attempted to leave their burning vehicle, he calmly shot them with his rifle, killing 3 and wounding a fourth. Early in the morning of 9 January, German infantry moved into the western part of the town and encircled a house in which T/Sgt. Carey had previously posted a squad. Four of the group escaped to the attic. By maneuvering an old staircase against the building, T/Sgt. Carey was able to rescue these men. Later that day, when attempting to reach an outpost, he was struck down by sniper fire. The fearless and aggressive leadership of T/Sgt. Carey, his courage in the face of heavy fire from superior enemy forces, provided an inspiring example for his comrades and materially helped his battalion to withstand the German onslaught.
*PETERSEN, DANNY J.
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 4th Battalion, 23d Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date: Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam, 9 January 1970. Entered service at: Kansas City, Mo. Born: 11 March 1949, Horton, Kans. Citation: Sp4c. Petersen distinguished himself while serving as an armored personnel carrier commander with Company B during a combat operation against a North Vietnamese Army Force estimated to be of battalion size. During the initial contact with the enemy, an armored personnel carrier was disabled and the crewmen were pinned down by the heavy onslaught of enemy small arms, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire. Sp4c. Petersen immediately maneuvered his armored personnel carrier to a position between the disabled vehicle and the enemy. He placed suppressive fire on the enemy's well-fortified position, thereby enabling the crewmembers of the disabled personnel carrier to repair their vehicle. He then maneuvered his vehicle, while still under heavy hostile fire to within 10 feet of the enemy's defensive emplacement. After a period of intense fighting, his vehicle received a direct hit and the driver was wounded. With extraordinary courage and selfless disregard for his own safety, Sp4c. Petersen carried his wounded comrade 45 meters across the bullet-swept field to a secure area. He then voluntarily returned to his disabled armored personnel carrier to provide covering fire for both the other vehicles and the dismounted personnel of his platoon as they withdrew. Despite heavy fire from 3 sides, he remained with his disabled vehicle, alone and completely exposed. Sp4c. Petersen was standing on top of his vehicle, firing his weapon, when he was mortally wounded. His heroic and selfless actions prevented further loss of life in his platoon. Sp4c. Petersen's conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism are in the highest traditions of the service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
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Thanks to Super
F-16 vs Iraq Fighters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdvWJtArexE
If you haven't seen it ... an excellent audio, video, and debrief of the event.
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Thanks to Boris
Happy New Year, hope your health is good this year.
Thanks for posting the Missmus Bismus announcement. While I realize parts 3 and 4 were VA-56 Champ focused, there was really some funny stuff that came out of that early LB II and on into Singapore period. And the events had legs on into getting home in '73.
One very unique aspect - possibly across the whole Navy - was the greeting with Champaign, beer and hugs by the CTF 77 wives on the CAG Five ramp in Cubi the day Nixon announced the end of the war. The four Champs me as lead, and Floo LaFlair, Max Carey, and Pat Moneymaker delayed with all that good A-7 gas for a little 2v2 before coming in and were therefore the last group from Midway to land. The 77 wives got the word late that an airwing was coming in so we received the reception intended for all of the first airwing to fly in after the end of war announcement.
The story link is embedded within Missmus Bismus #4 but given that I don't think chronologically any other unit can match this, you might consider as a separate "bubba" story
Christmas '72 Stories: (Final) Gifts, a Tree, and a Turkey with all the Trimmings
http://rememberedsky.com/?p=743
Fly Navy, the BEST Always Have
Ed "Boris' Beakley
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Thanks to Robert
Subject: Fwd: Clear and Concise
In a recent linguistic competition held in London and attended by, supposedly, the best in the world, Samdar Balgobin, a Guyanese man, was the clear winner with a standing ovation which lasted over 5 minutes.
The final question was: "How do you explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand? Some people say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED."
Here is his astute answer:
"When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE. When you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED. And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!"
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for January 9, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
9 January
1793: Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first manned balloon flight in America with a 46-minute trip between the Wall Street Prison in Philadelphia, Pa., to Debtford Township, N.J. He carried landing clearance orders signed by President George Washington and a small black dog as a passenger. (7)
1917: The Army ordered Capt Henry H. Arnold from Aviation School duty at San Diego, Calif., to Panama to organize and command the 7th Aero Squadron and ordered Capt John F. Curry to Fort Kamehameha, Hawaii, to command the 6th Aero Squadron. (24)
1918: The 1st Marine Aviation Company, under Capt Francis T. Evans, left the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the Azores. There, the Marine pilots used Curtiss R-6 airplanes to conduct antisubmarine patrols against Germany. (10)
1929: Through the 16th, Maj Paul Bock flew a C-2 Army transport 3,130 miles from Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, to France Field, Panama. This was the first airplane to be ferried by the Army Air Corps to a foreign station. (24)
1943: Lockheed's C-69 transport, a military version of the Model 49 Constellation, flew its first flight at Burbank, Calif. (5) The Lockheed C-121 Super Constellation first flew. (5)
1945: U. S. Army Air Forces participated in the opening of Luzon, Philippine Campaign. (24)
1946: Northrop Aircraft Incorporated submitted a proposal to the US Army Air Forces (U. S. Army Air Forces) to study a subsonic surface-to-surface air-breathing missile with six turbojet engines and a range of 3,000 miles. (6)
1956: 1Lt E. A. Schmid, 63rd Troop Carrier Wing, became the first airman in the USAF to fly over the South Pole and first member to fly over the North and South poles. (11)
1962: A B-52G crew from the 4126th Strategic Wing at Beale AFB, Calif., launched a Hound Dog missile on its first combat evaluation launch. The missile flew 607 nautical miles down Atlantic Missile Range and hit the target area. (6)
1967: The Tactical Air Command initiated Combat Lady, a test of classified weapons, at Eglin AFB, Fla. (11)
1973: Secretary of the Air Force Robert C. Seamans, Jr., picked Fairchild's A-10 and General Electric's TF-34 engine as the winners of the A-X competition. (3) At Holloman AFB, N. Mex., B-52s began operational testing on the Short Range Attack Missile. (6)
1976: The first operational Hybrid Explicit flight test occurred with the launch of production verification missile (PVM-12) from Vandenberg AFB, Calif. (5) The 1st Tactical Fighter Wing at Langley AFB, Va., received the first operational F-15A Eagle (Tail No. 74-0083). The base received a two-seat training model earlier on 18 December 1975. (19)
1990: Through 20 January, in mission STS-32 the Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center to deliver a Navy Synchronus Communications System Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite into orbit. Additionally, two mission specialists, Dr. Bonnie Dunbar and Marsha Irvins, retrieved the Long Duration Exposure Facility from its deteriorating orbit. The shuttle landed at night at Edwards AFB, Calif., after being delayed a day by high winds, on the base's concrete runway rather than Rogers Dry Lake. It also landed with a weight of 115 tons, nearly 5 tons more than the previous record set in 1983 in the STS-9 mission. [8: Mar 90]
1996: Operation PROVIDE PROMISE. This operation officially ended (See 3 July 1992). It was the longest air supply effort in history to date. C-130s, C-141s, and C-17s from Air Mobility Command and C-130s from United States Air Forces in Europe flew more than 4,500 sorties to deliver 62,802 metric tons of cargo. Altogether, aircraft from 21 nations participating in the United Nations humanitarian airlift flew nearly 13,000 sorties to deliver some 160,000 metric tons of supplies to Sarajevo. (18) (21)
1999: The Miniature Air-Launched Decoy made its first successful flight above Edwards AFB, Calif. The tiny vehicle separated cleanly from an F-16 at 460 knots and flew autonomously at Mach 0.75 at 20,000 feet before it suffered an engine shutdown. It was recovered safely. (3)
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NEED YOUR HELP - Editor/Desktop Publisher
99 Windmills, Great effort need help - from THE Bear -
Dutch.... for wider distribution.... great opportunity... Bear
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