Good Saturday morning May 29
I hope that you all have a great Memorial Day weekend.
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Memorial Day is the day we remember and respect those that have given their lives in the service of our country. This a story of how they find their way home to their families.
Taking Chance is a story about a Marine Lt Col escorting the body of a young Marine home after being killed overseas. I bought the DVD when it first came out and I was overwhelmed by it. Even now just watching the trailer I had trouble keeping it together. It was very well done and
The actors especially Kevin Bacon did a marvelous job. I highly recommend it. But watch in a quiet respectful place…skip
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo2HgOD292Y
And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chance_Phelps
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On This Day in Naval History May 29
1781 During the American Revolution, the Continental frigate Alliance, under command of Capt. John Barry, battles HMS Atalanta and HMS Trepassy off Nova Scotia. After several broadsides by Alliance, the British ships surrender.
1844 The frigate Constitution, commanded by John Percival, sails from New York to depart on her 52,370 mile around-the-world cruise. Heading eastward, she visits places such as Brazil, Borneo, China, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Mexico before returning to Boston on September 27, 1846.
1863 During the Civil War, the side-wheel "double-ender" gunboat , USS Cimarron, commanded by Cmdr. Andrew J. Drake, captures the blockade-runner, Evening Star, off Wassaw Sound, Ga.
1944 USS Block Island (CVE 21) is torpedoed and is sunk by German submarine U 549. During this attack, USS Barr (DE 576) is also damaged. Block Island is the only U.S. carrier lost in the Atlantic during World War II. U-549 is later sunk that night by USS Eugene E. Elmore (DE-686) and USS Ahrens (DE 575).
1945 USS Sterlet (SS 392) sinks Japanese army cargo ships Kuretake Maru and Tenyro Maru despite the close proximity of the escort Coast Defense Ship No. 65.
1952 During the Korean War, USS Ozbourn (DD 846), USS Radford (DDE 446), and USS Heron (AMS 18), are engaged by enemy shore batteries and machine guns for two days off Wonson, Korea. Enemy batteries are silenced by counter-battery fire.
2004 USS Pinckney (DDG 91) is commissioned at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme, Calif. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is named for Cook 1st Class William Pinckney, who received the Navy Cross for rescuing a fellow USS Enterprise (CV 6) crew member during the Battle of Santa Cruz Oct. 26, 1942.
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Today in History May 29
1453 | Constantinople falls to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire. | |
1660 | Charles II is restored to the English throne, succeeding the short-lived Commonwealth. | |
1721 | South Carolina is formally incorporated as a royal colony of England. | |
1790 | Rhode Island becomes the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the Constitution. | |
1848 | Wisconsin becomes the thirtieth state. | |
1849 | A patent for lifting vessels is granted to Abraham Lincoln. | |
1862 | Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard retreats to Tupelo, Mississippi. | |
1911 | The Indianapolis 500 is run for the first time. | |
1913 | The premier of the ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in Paris causes rioting in the theater. | |
1916 | U.S. forces invade the Dominican Republic. | |
1922 | Ecuador becomes independent. | |
1922 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport not subject to antitrust laws. | |
1942 | The German Army completes its encirclement of the Kharkov region of the Soviet Union. | |
1951 | C. F. Blair becomes the first man to fly over the North Pole in single-engine plane. | |
1953 | Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest. | |
1974 | President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over 1,200 pages of edited Watergate transcripts. | |
1990 | Boris Yeltsin is elected the president of Russia. |
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Thanks to Todd …
Keep this in mind on Monday … and give thanks for what our veterans have given for us and our country!!
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From Decoration Day to Midway
by W. Thomas Smith Jr.
This Week in American Military History:
May 30, 1868: "Decoration Day" – the predecessor to Memorial Day – is first observed by order of U.S. Army Gen. John A. Logan, who had decreed on May5: "The 30th day of May 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit." Maj. Gen. (future U.S. pres.) James A. Garfield presides over ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery (the former estate of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee), and approximately 5,000 participants decorate the graves of both Union and Confederate dead — about 20,000 of them — buried on the grounds.
June 1, 1864: The bloody battle of Cold Harbor opens in earnest between Union Army forces under the command of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate forces under Gen. Robert E. Lee. Grant will launch a series of futile attacks over the next three days. Lee will defend and hold. Union losses will be staggering: 13,000 to the Confederacy's 2,500. In his memoirs, Grant will express regret for having attacked at Cold Harbor.
June 3, 1942: The great Naval battle of Midway opens between U.S. Naval and air forces under the command of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and Japanese forces under Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, who had hoped to lure the U.S. Pacific Fleet into a great air-sea battle and destroy it. Considered a turning point in the Pacific theater of operations, the Japanese fleet is intercepted near Midway atoll, engaged, and will be decisively defeated by Nimitz. The Americans will lose one carrier, USS Yorktown (the third of five U.S. Navy warships named in commemoration of the famous Battle of Yorktown), but four Japanese carriers will be sent to the bottom. According to the U.S. Naval Historical Center: [Midway] represents the strategic high water mark of Japan's Pacific Ocean war. Prior to this action, Japan possessed general naval superiority over the United States and could usually choose where and when to attack. After Midway, the two opposing fleets were essentially equals, and the United States soon took the offensive."
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
MAY 29
1939
May 29
Ship carrying 937 Jewish refugees, fleeing Nazi Germany, is turned away in Cuba
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A boat carrying 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution is turned away from Havana, Cuba, on May 27, 1939. Only 28 immigrants are admitted into the country. After appeals to the United States and Canada for entry are denied, the rest are forced to sail back to Europe, where they're distributed among several countries including Great Britain and France.
READ MORE: A Ship of Jewish Refugees Was Refused US Landing in 1939. This Was Their Fate
On May 13, the S.S. St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba. Most of the passengers—many of them children—were German Jews escaping increasing persecution under the Third Reich. Six months earlier, 91 people were killed and Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were destroyed in what became known as the Kristallnacht pogrom. It was becoming increasing clear the Nazis were accelerating their efforts to exterminate Jews by arresting them and placing them in concentration camps. World War II and the formal implementation of The Final Solution were just months from beginning.
The refugees had applied for U.S. visas, and planned to stay in Cuba until they could enter the United States legally. Even before they set sail, their impending arrival was greeted with hostility in Cuba. On May 8, there was a massive anti-Semitic demonstration in Havana. Right-wing newspapers claimed that the incoming immigrants were Communists.
The St. Louis arrived in Havana on May 27. Roughly 28 people onboard had valid visas or travel documents and were allowed to disembark. The Cuban government refused to admit the nearly 900 others. For seven days, the ship's captain attempted to negotiate with Cuban officials, but they refused to comply.
The ship sailed closer to Florida, hoping to disembark there, but it was not permitted to dock. Some passengers attempted to cable President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking for refuge, but he never responded. A State Department telegram stated that the asylum-seekers must "await their turns on the waiting list and qualify for and obtain immigration visas before they may be admissible into the United States."
As a last resort, the St. Louis continued north to Canada, but it was rejected there, too. "No country could open its doors wide enough to take in the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people who want to leave Europe: the line must be drawn somewhere," Frederick Blair, Canada's director of immigration, said at the time.
Faced with no other options, the ship returned to Europe. It docked in Antwerp, Belgium on June 17. By then, several Jewish organizations had secured entry visas for the refugees in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Great Britain. The majority who had traveled on the ship survived the Holocaust; 254 later died as the Nazis swept through the continent.
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Passing of Former SECNAV John Warner
Dutch... He served with distinction. Sam Cox has done him justice in this notice of his passing. Bear
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Cox, Samuel J SES USN NHHC WASHINGTON DC (USA)" <samuel.cox@navy.mil>
Date: May 27, 2021 at 12:56:02 PM MDT
To: "Cox, Samuel J SES USN NHHC WASHINGTON DC (USA)" <samuel.cox@navy.mil>
Cc: Sam Cox <sjcox80@verizon.net>
Subject: Passing of Former SECNAV John Warner
Fellow Flag Officers,
It is with deep regret that I inform you of the passing of former Secretary of the Navy John William Warner on May 25, 2021. Secretary Warner served as Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and then was a five-term U.S. senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1979 to 2009.
Secretary Warner was born 18 February 1927 in Washington, DC. He is the grandson of John William Warner and Mary Tinsley Warner of Amherst, Virginia. His father was Dr. John W. Warner, a physician who served as an Army doctor in World War I. His mother, Martha (Budd) Warner from St. Louis, Missouri served as a Red Cross volunteer, helping the wounded who returned from France.
As a young man, Warner was at Griffith Stadium in Washington, DC when news begin trickling that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. In a 2005 interview with NHF historian Dave Winkler, he stated that the ballgame's announcer started to pass requests for generals and admirals in attendance to call their officers immediately. It wasn't until the Warner family left the stadium that they learned why they departed the ballpark.
At the age of 17, he asked his parents for their permission to join the Marine Corps. His father refused stating that after serving in muddy trenches in the Army in World War I, his son would only serve in the Navy or Air Corps.
Soon enough, he enlisted in the Navy in late 1944. He boarded a train at Washington, DC Union Station bound for Great Lakes Training Center. On VE-Day in May 1945, he was a student at electronics school. A captain asked the students to raise their hands if they didn't drink. Not wanting to admit imbibing, he raised his hand and that's when the captain shared that the war in Europe was over. The captain then assigned Warner and other non-drinkers to shore patrol in central Chicago to maintain order among the celebrating military personnel.
He left the Navy in July 1946 as a third-class electronics technician and entered Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA in September 1946. He majored in general engineering courses, physics, and mathematics. During his senior year, Warned joined the Marine Corps Reserves and he was commissioned as second lieutenant upon graduating from college in June 1949.
The following September he entered the University of Virginia Law School. His law training was interrupted for a second tour of active military service when he was called to active duty as a Second Lieutenant in October 1950. After a tour of duty in Korea serving as Communications Officer for Marine Attack Squadron VMA-121 and later as Communications Officer for Marine Air Group 33, he was released from active duty in April 1952. He attained the rank of captain and remained in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1961.
Graduating from law school in 1953, he was appointed law clerk to the Honorable E. Barrett Prettyman, former Chief Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit. He was admitted to the Bar in April 1954, and following a brief period in private practice was appointed a Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney in 1956. In 1957 he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney, Department of Justice. He served as a trial lawyer in the U.S. Attorney's Office, Washington, DC, until April 1960, when he joined the campaign staff of then-Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
In November 1960, Warner became associated with the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, and in 1964 was admitted to the firm as a general partner, specializing in corporate and banking law.
He was appointed Under Secretary of the Navy by President Nixon and sworn in on 11 February 1969 by Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird. He subsequently was nominated by President Nixon to be the Secretary of the Navy and sworn in by Secretary of Defense Laird on 4 May 1972. He is the first Under Secretary and Secretary to have served in the uniform of both the Navy and Marine Corps.
In addition to duties as Under Secretary of the Navy, he was given assignments representing the Department of Defense. On 15 July 1971 he was appointed Director of Ocean Affairs, with the primary responsibility of representing the Department in international affairs involving law of the sea. The President designated him head of the U.S. Delegation which met in Moscow in October 1971 and again in Washington, DC, in May of 1972 to discuss incidents at sea between U.S. and Soviet naval units. Secretary Warner was a member of the Presidential Party at the Moscow Summit Meeting and signed, on behalf of the United States Government, the Executive Agreement on Incidents at Sea between the United States and Soviet Union on 25 May 1972.
For his nearly four years of service as Under Secretary and then Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Warner received the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal on 10 January 1973 from the then-Secretary of Defense, Melvin R. Laird. A citation accompanying the Medal, signed by Secretary Laird, said in part:
"...John W. Warner has provided superb leadership to the Department of the Navy during a difficult period of changing priorities, missions, and resources...he has brought great energy, keen foresight, broad vision and expert managerial capacity to guiding the development of new naval forces and concepts...and to improving the management of weapons systems acquisition...he has ably represented the Department of Defense in international law of the sea negotiations, and the President of the United States in negotiating an Executive Agreement on Incidents at Sea between the United States and the Soviet Union."
After leaving the Navy, President Gerald Ford asked Secretary Warner to become Administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, the federal entity responsible for organizing commemorative events in 50 states and 22 foreign countries in 1976. Secretary Warner joined President Ford on the flight deck of the USS Forrestal initiating the ringing of the bicentennial bells, similar events are planned for the country's 250th birthday in 2026.
In November 1978 Secretary Warner was elected as senator from the state of Virginia. He held this seat until 2009. Shortly before he retired his fellow senators paid tribute to his service on the Senate floor. Senator James Webb reminisced about his decades-long friendship with the Virginian.
As a twenty-five year old Marine captain and Vietnam War veteran, Webb was assigned to the Secretary of the Navy's staff. Warner was serving as Under Secretary of the Navy at the time. He retired then-Captain Webb from the Marine Corps in front of the Secretary of the Navy's desk. Webb followed Secretary Warner's path becoming Secretary of the Navy Webb during the Reagan administration.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse shared two sea stories in his tribute. His first referenced Secretary Warner's passion and devotion to Navy Sailors. Every time he visited a ship, he insisted on talking with Sailors. He wanted the ground truth.
Secretary Warner was frequently observed to be closing his eyes while talking during Senate hearings. Senator Whitehouse shared that the habit wasn't one of disrespect. Rather, it was one of concentration and deliberation.
Five days after he retired from the Senate in 2009, Secretary of the Navy Donald Winter named a Virginia-class fast attack submarine after Senator Warner—USS John Warner (SSN-785). Commissioned in 2015, it was the first Virginia-class boat named after a person. His stature and efforts on behalf of his beloved Navy were such that USS John Warner was only the thirteenth Navy ship named after a living person in the last century.
Upon his retirement from the Senate, Secretary Warner returned to Hogan Lovells in 2010 (formerly Hogan and Hartson) as a senior advisor.
Senator Warner was a true American patriot who volunteered to serve in the U.S. Navy during WWII just as soon as he was old enough. He volunteered to serve as a U.S. Marine Corps officer in the Korean War flying as a bomb damage assessment observer over enemy territory. His tenure as Secretary of the Navy during a critical period in the Cold War was marked by a seminal agreement to reduce Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union—the US/USSR Incidents at Sea (INCSEA) Agreement of 1972. He was an avid student of naval history and supporter of naval history programs. In his recent years he was a vocal leading advocate for a new National Museum of the U.S. Navy. We will truly miss him, but his legacy will live on.
Rest in Peace Secretary Warner.
Very respectfully,
Samuel J. Cox (SES)
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Retired)
Director of Naval History
Curator for the Navy
Director, Naval History and Heritage Command
202-433-2210 (office); 571-213-9392 (govt. cell)
E-mail: samuel.cox@navy.mil
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
LOOKING BACK 55-YEARS to the Vietnam Air War—... For The List for Saturday, 29 May 2021... Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)...
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 29 May 1966...
"Honoring those who fell first"...
https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-29-may-1988-they-gave-all/
The followiing work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
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Thanks to Clyde
Vietnam, 50 years later
https://www.youtube.com/embed/aVeBtnfAxP8
SAM ELLIOTT
NARRATES THIS STIRRING VIDEO....
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Thanks to Mike…..SOME FUN STUFF
F/A-18 vs MiG-29 - Dogfighting the Fulcrum in Malaysia
I didn't know the Fulcrum smokes like the F-4 in afterburner!
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This Day in U S Military History…….May 29
1903 – Bob Hope (d.2003), US comedian, was born as Leslie Townes in Kent, England.
1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair. The Chance Vought F4U Corsair was an American fighter aircraft that saw service primarily in World War II and the Korean War. Demand for the aircraft soon overwhelmed Vought's manufacturing capability, resulting in production by Goodyear and Brewster: Goodyear-built Corsairs were designated FG and Brewster-built aircraft F3A. From the first prototype delivery to the U.S. Navy in 1940, to final delivery in 1953 to the French, 12,571 F4U Corsairs were manufactured by Vought, in 16 separate models, in the longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history (1942–53). The Corsair was designed as a carrier-based aircraft. However its difficult carrier landing performance rendered the Corsair unsuitable for Navy use until the carrier landing issues were overcome when used by the British Fleet Air Arm. The Corsair thus came to and retained prominence in its area of greatest deployment: land based use by the U.S. Marines. The role of the dominant U.S. carrier based fighter in the second part of the war was thus filled by the Grumman F6F Hellcat, powered by the same Double Wasp engine first flown on the Corsair's first prototype in 1940. The Corsair served to a lesser degree in the U.S. Navy. As well as the U.S. and British use the Corsair was also used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the French Navy Aéronavale and other, smaller, air forces until the 1960s. Some Japanese pilots regarded it as the most formidable American fighter of World War II, and the U.S. Navy counted an 11:1 kill ratio with the F4U Corsair. After the carrier landing issues had been tackled it quickly became the most capable carrier-based fighter-bomber of World War II. The Corsair served almost exclusively as a fighter-bomber throughout the Korean War and during the French colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria.
1943 – Norman Rockwell's portrait of "Rosie the Riveter" appeared on the cover of "The Saturday Evening Post." Rockwell's model was Mary Keefe (19) of Arlington, Vermont. In 2002 the painting sold at auction for $4,959,500.
1943 – Churchill, Marshall and Eisenhower met in the Confederacy of Algiers.
1943 – Meat and cheese began to be rationed in US.
1943 – On Attu the Japanese mount a final attack on American forces established in Chicagof.
1944 – On Biak Island, as well as Arare on the mainland, the American beachheads are heavily attacked by Japanese forces. The Japanese garrison on Biak makes use of tanks to force the US 162nd Regiment back towards its landing zone.
1944 – The American escort carrier Block Island and a destroyer are sunk by U-549 before it is itself sunk.
1944 – About 400 American bombers attack German synthetic fuel works and oil refineries at Polits and other locations. The damage caused sets back aircraft fuel production.
1944 – At Anzio, the British and American troops of the US 6th Corps take Campoleone and Carroceto. The Canadian 1st Corps begins to advance up Route 6 from Caprano toward Frosinone.
1945 – American B-29 Superfortress bombers drop incendiaries on Yokohama, burning 85 percent of the port area
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
BOYNE, THOMAS
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Mimbres Mountains, N. Mex., 29 May 1879; at Cuchillo Negro River near Ojo Caliente, N. Mex., 27 September 1879. Entered service at:——. Birth: Prince Georges County, Md. Date of issue: 6 January 1882. Citation: Bravery in action.
NOLAN, JOSEPH A.
Rank and organization: Artificer, Company B, 45th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At Labo, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 29 May 1900. Entered service at: South Bend, Ind. Birth: Elkhart, Ind. Date of issue: 14 March 1902. Citation: Voluntarily left shelter and at great personal risk passed the enemy's lines and brought relief to besieged comrades.
KING, JOHN
Rank and organization: Watertender, U.S. Navy. Born: 7 February 1865, Ireland. Accredited to: New York. G.O. No.: 72, 6 December 1901. Second award. Citation: On board the U.S.S. Vicksburg, for heroism in the line of his profession at the time of the accident to the boilers, 29 May 1901.
*GALT, WILLIAM WYLIE
Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army, 168th Infantry, 34th Infantry Division. Place and date: At Villa Crocetta, Italy, 29 May 1944. Entered service at: Stanford, Mont. Birth: Geyser, Mont. G.O. No.: 1, 1 February 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. Capt. Galt, Battalion S3, at a particularly critical period following 2 unsuccessful attacks by his battalion, of his own volition went forward and ascertained just how critical the situation was. He volunteered, at the risk of his life, personally to lead the battalion against the objective. When the lone remaining tank destroyer refused to go forward, Capt. Galt jumped on the tank destroyer and ordered it to precede the attack. As the tank destroyer moved forward, followed by a company of riflemen, Capt. Galt manned the .30-caliber machinegun in the turret of the tank destroyer, located and directed fire on an enemy 77mm. anti-tank gun, and destroyed it. Nearing the enemy positions, Capt. Galt stood fully exposed in the turret, ceaselessly firing his machinegun and tossing hand grenades into the enemy zigzag series of trenches despite the hail of sniper and machinegun bullets ricocheting off the tank destroyer. As the tank destroyer moved, Capt. Galt so maneuvered it that 40 of the enemy were trapped in one trench. When they refused to surrender, Capt. Galt pressed the trigger of the machinegun and dispatched every one of them. A few minutes later an 88mm shell struck the tank destroyer and Capt. Galt fell mortally wounded across his machinegun. He had personally killed 40 Germans and wounded many more. Capt. Galt pitted his judgment and superb courage against overwhelming odds, exemplifying the highest measure of devotion to his country and the finest traditions of the U.S. Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for May 29, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
29 May
1910: Glenn H. Curtiss flew a record 142.5 miles from Albany to New York in 2 hours 50 minutes to win his third Scientific American Trophy. This flight gave him permanent possession of the trophy as well as the $10,000 prize from New York World. 1934: COLLIER TROPHY. The Hamilton Standard Propeller Company, with credit to Frank W. Caldwell, received the 1933 trophy for developing a controllable pitch propeller. (24)
1940: The Vought F4U Corsair first flew.
1951: Flying a converted P-51, Charles F. Blair, Jr., traveled 3,300 miles across the North Pole from Bardufoss, Norway, to Fairbanks in 10 hours 29 minutes. Thus, he became the first man to make the trip alone and in a single-engine plane. (9) (24)
1953: SAC received its first KC–97G Stratofreighter, a flying boom-type tanker that could dispense 8,513 gallons of aviation gasoline. Unlike previous models, the KC-97G could haul cargo without reconfiguration or carry 96 troops or heavy equipment without modification. (18)
1966: The ARRS observed its 20th anniversary. In this period, the ARRS rescued more than 12,000 people throughout the world. (16)
1997: A B-2 from the 509 BW at Whiteman AFB dropped a GAM-113 bomb over the China Lake Range near Edwards AFB. This drop marked the first time the 4,700-pound conventional penetrating weapon was paired with the B-2. (AFNEWS, 19 Jun 97)
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