Good Saturday Afternoon 12 June
I hope that your weekend is off to a good Start.
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This Day In Naval History - June 12
1775: HMS Margaretta, commanded by Capt. James Moore, enters Machias Harbor to commandeer a load of lumber for the British Army at Boston. Jeremiah OBrien leads the crew of the American sloop, Unity, and engages the British. After an hour-long bloody struggle, the Americans defeat the British. This action is the first naval engagement of the American Revolution.
1944 - Four U.S. Carrier Groups (15 carriers) begin attack on Japanese positions in the Marianas.
1948 - The Women's Armed Forces Integration Act provides for enlistment and appointment of women in the Naval Reserve.
1970 - After earthquake in Peru, USS Guam begins 11 days of relief flights to transport medical teams and supplies, as well as rescue
1987 Reagan challenges Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall »
Today in History June 12
1442 | Alfonso V of Aragon is crowned King of Naples. | |
1812 | Napoleon Bonaparte and his army invade Russia. | |
1849 | The gas mask is patented by Lewis P. Haslett. | |
1862 | Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia. | |
1901 | Cuba agrees to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment. | |
1918 | The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France. | |
1920 | Republicans nominate Warren G. Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president. | |
1921 | President Warren Harding urges every young man to attend military training camp. | |
1926 | Brazil quits the League of Nations in protest over plans to admit Germany. | |
1931 | Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws. | |
1937 | Eight of Stalin's generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union. | |
1942 | American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Romania for the first time. | |
1963 | Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers is assassinated by a gunman outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi. | |
1967 | The Supreme Court rules that states cannot ban interracial marriages. | |
1972 | At a hearing in front the of a U.S. House of Representatives committee, Air Force General John Lavalle defends his orders on engagement in Vietnam. | |
1977 | David Berkowitz gets 25 years to life for the Son of Sam murders in New York. | |
1985 | The U.S. House of Representatives approves $27 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. | |
1991 | Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines begins erupting for the first time in 600 years. |
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Thanks to the Bear
Father's Day at The Wall
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This Sunday is a fleeting opportunity to honor those squadron mates who were fathers who didn't come home from our war… Every year on this day the kids who grew up without fathers who were killed or remain missing and are memorialized on The Wall, muster to remember and to honor their fathers and grandfathers with a flood or red and yellow roses. For $5 you can buy and leave a message at The Wall for those you remember as fathers who never got the opportunity to complete that incomparable responsibility, as we did.
Anybody who needs a little extra motivation to participate should Google "They Were Our Fathers" and watch the 56-minute PBS film chronicling the experiences of some of the kids who lost their dads in Vietnam and coped.
Roses and messages at: https://www.vvmf.org/fathers-day/
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The LSO here is Bug Roach a legend in Naval Aviation. I was in a couple squadrons with him and if the night was dark and things were out of the ordinary at all his was the voice you wanted on the other end of the phone. His tragic loss many years ago was felt by many of us and he is still honored at the Tailhook get together of Naval Aviators every year…..skip
Thanks to Felix ...
Overtime at the office ...
A-6 ... Night recovery, USS Ranger, Pacific Ocean, 500 miles for bingo Midway, pitching deck, starboard main gear missing.
Rig the barricade.
LSO "Bug" Roach talks Atlas down.
McNallyTV: U.S. Marine Captain Rand McNally "Atlas" crash lands on USS Ranger - YouTube
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Thanks to Dutch….I got behind in email and found this one that is truly worth your time. I have watched my two granddaughters go through this. One started High School and the other is in her final year of Junior High. Both have been in home school on the internet during this time.
worthy of a read
What Our Government Has Done to Our Children This Past Year Is Unforgivable – RedState
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Thanks to Carl
https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/blog/the-curse-of-the-iphone/
June 9, 2021
The Curse of the iPhone
Young people have never been famous for their political acumen. Recall the Children's Crusade of 1212 when thousands of unarmed youngsters attempted to march to the Holy Land to convert Muslims with persuasion and divine inspiration. Nevertheless, the current generation exhibits a level of political naiveite that would certify the children of the 1212 disaster as rocket scientists.
Youthful foolishness is the default option of human nature, but there are mechanisms to overcome it. Of particular importance is encountering wiser adults who can tell you, for example, that a recent severe hurricane does not prove the world is ending due to people driving cars, or that claims of rape should not automatically be believed. This is what adults do: confront and educate young people, cure their foolishness, and otherwise impart wisdom. But this obligation requires human interaction, and if youngsters avoid this, then it is no wonder they arrive on campus with all the sophistication of a 10-year-old.
Today's campuses are awash in student demands for safe spaces, speech codes, trigger warnings, and protection against microaggressions. A rumor that Charles Murray might soon give a lecture is sufficient to send the snowflakes off to a safe space to hear soft music and play with puppies to calm anxieties. Many willingly accept bold-faced lies about, for example, police killing thousands of unarmed blacks. Outrageous doomsday scenarios about "climate change" are taken as gospel truth even though barely anyone grasps the underlying science. Ditto for beliefs about rape culture, hate crimes, systemic racism, homophobia, and other alleged evils which are beyond questioning. Ideas such as defunding the police and socialism are no-brainers and nobody dares to differ.
Why does such nonsense flourish? Particularly since college students are, at least supposedly, smarter—or at least better educated—than average, and they voluntarily attend institutions committed to intellectual give and take? Obviously something has gone wrong in the path between kindergarten and freshman orientation. But what? Future analysis will no doubt offer copious explanations, but for the moment, I offer one possibility based on firsthand observations.
A major culprit disrupting the transmission of wisdom across generations is the cellphone. Thanks to these devices, young people may be physically present with adults but may nonetheless be incommunicado. We've all witnessed this disengagement, but we seldom recognized its importance—the breakdown of adult influence, a process akin to mothers unable to pass on colostrum and maternal antibodies to their newborns.
This disruption became clear to me recently when I was in a Chinese restaurant and in walked what appeared to be a family of six. All sat passively wired to their cellphones. Nobody talked over the course of the entire meal save for the father occasionally barking at a hapless waiter. It was an entire "family meal," sans any human interaction. A few weeks later I encountered a comparable situation at a family event—a teenage nephew of mine sat zombie-like through almost the entire three-hour event, lost in his cellphone while the adults around him talked of this and that. I suppose he might have been listening to an audio version of A Critique of Pure Reason, but for some reason I rather doubt it. More likely, he was consumed by rap music or a game. The surrounding conversation may not have been intellectual caviar, but surely he could have gained something from listening to his family members.
Having arrived at this realization, I soon applied it to good use at a dinner party of mine attended by a few heavy cellphone users. As host I banned all electronic devices, and everybody was required to engage in adult conversation. Hard to say whether I've discovered the cure for chronic teenage airhead disorder, but we fared better than a convocation of zombies.
Unfortunately many adults are happy to permit children and adolescents to zone out as one might dispense Brave New World's soma. It often begins when toddlers are given electronic devices to keep them quiet. Teachers, including university professors, may similarly tolerate this disengagement given the tranquility it brings. It's a short-term win-win as kids escape the challenges of navigating adulthood and adults secure peace and quiet. No upsetting disputes about the evils of the white patriarchy. iPhones and the like are just electronic versions of Ritalin.
Much has been said about curing today's youth of their insanity, but perhaps the best solution is cell-phone jammers. Laws would have to be changed, but for under $600 a family could install one to ensure that when a cis-gendered but "in transition" muddle-brained junior arrives home for spring break, Mom and Pop could inquire about his Postmodern Gender Studies major without worrying he might escape to his iPhone. Junior would also know that a reckoning awaits him over dinner, and he better start preparing a response. Welcome to talking with adults.
Robert Weissberg is a retired professor (emeritus) of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He writes from New York.
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Thanks to Dutch….This lady has some moxie
thanks to Tude
TATIANA IBRAHIM SPEAKS FOR THE CHILDREN OF CARMEL, NY ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY (CRT) (bitchute.com)
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill
The Unthinkable: Culling the Population To Balance the Books
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(Finally, here is some good health news from Dr Mirkin's newsletter!! He has to be a good guy if he plays a harmonica with Willie.)
https://www.drmirkin.com/health/morehealth/jim-allisons-nobel-prize-toward-a-cure-for-cancer.html
Jim Allison's Nobel Prize: Toward a Cure for Cancer
May 31, 2021
In August 2015, the world learned that former U.S. president Jimmy Carter's melanoma skin cancer had spread to his liver and his brain. Patients with melanoma that had spread through their bodies were expected to die from their disease, but doctors radiated Carter's tumors and then gave him Keytruda, a checkpoint inhibitor. Three months later, there was no evidence of cancer anywhere in his 91-year old body.
In 2001, a young woman named Sharon Belvin had been told by her doctors that there were no long-term survivors from melanoma like hers that had spread to the liver and lungs, and the available treatments of radiation and chemotherapy would not be effective. She was told that a new drug called ipilimumab, a checkpoint inhibitor, was in its initial phase I trial, which was not even a test of whether it could cure cancer; it was only being tested to see if it was safe to give to human patients. If Sharon took it, she would be one of the first humans to have ever received the drug. She didn't know if the drug would kill her, but she did know that if she didn't take it, her melanoma most likely would be fatal. This brave woman chose to take the experimental drug and all of the melanoma cells in her body disappeared. Since then, follow-up data have shown that most likely she is protected from the melanoma ever returning for the rest of her life.
Jim Allison: Breakthrough Official Trailer (2019) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI9X1de_XsU (2:12)
What is a Checkpoint Inhibitor?
Ipilimumab is the first checkpoint inhibitor drug that was developed by James Allison, a brilliant and rebellious scientist who grew up in Alice, Texas, a town so small that all the grades in elementary school were taught in the same room. For more than 30 years before James Allison started his research, scientists had known that everyone makes millions of cancer cells every day. Your immune system can recognize that cancer cells are different from normal cells, so it attacks and kills the cancer cells just like it kills invading germs. You develop cancer only when your immune system fails to recognize that the cancer cells are different from your normal cells. Then instead of being killed by your immune system, the cancer cells are able to multiply, develop into tumors, and spread through your body.
Your immune system has two types of killer lymphocyte cells:
• T cells that come from your thymus gland
• B cells that come from your bone marrow.
Before Jim Allison came along, scientists knew that the T cells recognize a cancer cell and pass on this information to the B cell to tell it to kill that cancer cell. So for many years, scientists spent time trying to increase the stimulator made by the T cell to teach the B cell to kill the cancer, but this never worked. Then Allison, working in a small lab in Smithville, Texas, said that all the world's leading scientists were wrong. Instead of stimulating the stimulator, there was another approach. He showed that T cells also inhibit the B cell to prevent B cells from uncontrollably attacking everything, even the host. He had to fend off a lot of dubious scientists. who laughed at him and considered him an upstart, but he was correct. This new treatment for cancer includes inhibiting the inhibitor that the T cell sends to the B cell. By inhibiting the inhibitor produced by the T cell, the T cell could produce B cell stimulators without inhibition and they could kill the cancer cells.
These chemicals that block T cell inhibitors are called checkpoint inhibitors, and they are curing some patients with cancers that were formerly considered to be hopeless. In 2018, Jim Allison went to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries, and today he is head of the largest cancer hospital in the world, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
The Future for Checkpoint Inhibitors
In 2011 the FDA approved ipilimumab, and it has been used to cure some hopeless cases of melanoma and advanced cancers of the lung, kidney, and bladder. Once a person is cured of cancer by checkpoint inhibitors, that person is thought to be protected from ever getting that cancer again. The problem facing the researchers was that sometimes checkpoint inhibitors make the immune system so powerful that it can attack and kill the patient.
The FDA has approved three second-generation checkpoint inhibitors, and scientists now also have cancer vaccines and adoptive T cell transfer, in which a patient's own T cells are changed outside the body and then reinjected back into the bloodstream. Ipilimumab markedly reduces the cancer in 20 percent of stage-4 (usually fatal) melanoma patients, and two newer check point inhibitors and other drugs have improved this response rate to almost 50 percent. They are now being used to treat non–small cell lung cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, head and neck cancers, and Hodgkin's lymphoma. They are being tested to treat brain, breast, ovarian, and prostate cancers.
James Allison's Cancer Research Breakthrough - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySG2AwpSZmw (4:32)
Jim Allison's Personal Interest in Cancer
Allison's mother died of a cancerous lymphoma when he was just 10 years old, an uncle died of melanoma, and another uncle died of lung cancer. One week after his brother died of prostate cancer in 2005, Allison was diagnosed with prostate cancer himself at age 57. He had his prostate removed and has had no known recurrence, but he developed a melanoma in his nose at age 67.
Allison was raised in a small Texas town where kids usually did not go to college. His early work was largely ignored by the world's top scientists, but today he is a Nobel Prize winner who is one of the most respected scientists in the world because of his revolutionary ideas about checkpoint inhibitors. He is the subject of a wonderful 2019 documentary film, Jim Allison: Breakthrough, that is widely available on the popular streaming services and is well worth watching. He breaks every stereotype of how a nerdy scientist is supposed to look and act, and can be seen in the documentary trailer playing his harmonica with Willie Nelson.
Inspiration from Jim Allison's Quest to Cure Cancer
If you are dealing with a cancer diagnosis, make sure your doctor or team of doctors can explain all of the available options and help you decide if any of the recent advances or experimental treatments are appropriate for you.
Everyone, at any stage of life, can follow the lifestyle rules that can help to prevent and treat cancer:
• avoid smoking, alcohol, recreational drugs and other toxic substances
• avoid being overweight
• try to exercise every day
• eat a plant based diet that includes lots of vegetables, fruits, beans, whole (unground) grains, nuts and other seeds
• limit or avoid processed foods including all sugar-added foods and drinks including fruit juices, and fried foods
• limit or avoid meat from mammals and processed meats
• do not take hormones unless your doctor has a specific reason for prescribing them
• avoid excessive exposure to sunlight
James P. Allison
Born August 7, 1948
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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, 12 June 2021... Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)...
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 12 June 1966...
"GOP candidate to challenge LBJ in 1968– Romney or Nixon?"
https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-12-june-1966-gop-race-is-on/
https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-10-june-1966-lbj-daily-brief/
This following 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 Rich
Subject: MORE: Stories from the Edge\RICH
Hi to all -
Samson
Back in the days of the Old Testament, Samson was quite a problem for the Philistines. He really upset them by killing a thousand with the jawbone of an ass (he could have been a politician!), tearing gates off of cities, and generally wrecking havoc among those folks. When he was finally captured, imprisoned and humiliated, he still had one last move, knocking down the supports to their temple, causing it to fall and killing a lot of people.
As happy as his enemies were to see him go, they just did not realize that his death made him a martyr in the eyes of many, and suddenly, there were many thorns in their sides, not just Samson.
Kind of like todays left - watch them chuckle as they think they are winning.
Peter Navarro
You may remember this man as a former adviser to Trump. He has made a statement that CNN and Fauci 'have blood on their hands' for their handling of HCQ in treating Covid. Yet another study has shown that people treated with HCQ doubled their survival chances, even if they were on a ventilator. This has also been validated by studies in other nations, like Germany, France and Canada.
As an aside, deaths from all vaccines in use from 1997 to 2020 totaled about 2500. That is over a period of years and years. Deaths associated with the current vaccinations, in use for about six months or so, so far total over 5000, just in the US. Keep that in mind when you hear all the smooth propaganda telling you how wonderful and safe these vaccines are.
Jeffrey Tobin
This guy was a 'legal analyst' for CNN, who was fired and kicked off the air (but still paid) after being caught masterbating on a Zoom call business meeting. Well, 'he's back'...yep, a triumphal return to CNN. Really, is there any degree of perversion that CNN will not support? Did anyone notice that their audience has fallen 80% during prime time, since Trump left? With no Trump to bash, they have nothing left to talk about.
North Carolina
Their first black governor, Mark Robinson, has told the GOP to 'stand up and fight for freedom', or the left will take it away.
New York
Big hockey game between the local team, "Islanders", and the 'Boston Bruins'. Nicole Ravio, an entertainer, sang the National Anthem before the game, as she has for many games. But, this time, everyone in the Nassau Coliseum stood up and sang it with her. It was an awesome video. That was 13,000 fans, singing this together. Even Nicole, who has performed before many games, was impressed.
By the way, the Islanders won. 6-2.
G-7 Summit
Joe is supposed to be doing this show and tell. But, perhaps he was taking a nap, or something, as his presentation was being prepared by Jill. When questioned by the press 'Where's Joe', the leftist handlers got very excited, and upset. Nothing to see here, folks, move along...
Atlanta
A 34 year old pregnant woman was walking in daylight with her other small child, in a part of town where that may not have been a good idea, even in daytime. A stranger, later identified as homeless man Christopher Jones, approached her, tried to engage in conversation, then stabbed this lady. Christopher had a history of mental illness. The woman was in bad shape, but will survive. Her baby was delivered by emergency C-section, and will require hospitalization for a long time, but will be okay.
"We Want to Buy Your House"
Okay, we all get calls and letters all the time on this line. Recently, this has progressed to the level of robocalls. So, what is going on? Saw on the news today that big investment firms are trying to buy out entire neighborhoods. They want to displace homeowners, and turn these homes into rental properties. Looks like they enlist the help of local real estate companies as fronts. Homeowners have a stake in their community, and are a stabilizing influence. But, can you hear the siren song of money talking? And with it, people will own less, and be dependent on big companies for survival. Sellers right now are doing great - home prices are soaring, for now, and people can get far above asking price for a quick flip.
Iran
They are sending two warships to make a port visit in South America, likely to Venezuela. They are also delivering seven 'fast attack boats', like those which have harassed shipping in their home waters. Iran has at least 400 of these boats, and they are used in 'swarm attacks' against US vessels, and others. When they did this during Trump's time - he gave blanket orders to our naval commanders to attack and sink these craft. And, what do you know, the harassment ended right there. How will Biden fare on this test of his will?
Bryan Donalds (R-FL)
This congressman was denied membership in the Congressional Black Caucus, which he has asked to join. It cannot be because 'he is a racist', since he is black. Perhaps it is because he is a republican, or a conservative. The thick plot thickens.....
Wasn't that fun, boys and girls? Stay tuned...
Rich
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This Day in U S Military History…….June 12
1945 – On Okinawa, many of the Japanese naval infantry cut off in the Oruku peninsula, reduced to a pocket of about 1000 square yards, begin to commit mass suicide to avoid surrender. The US 1st Marine Division captures the west end of Kunishi Ridge during a night attack. The US 96th Division attacks Japanese positions around Mount Yuza and Mount Yaeju. ( this battle started on 1 April)
1945 – On Luzon, the US 145th Infantry Regiment breaks Japanese resistance at Orioung Pass, occupies the town of Orioung and advances as far as positions overlooking the town of Balite. The Visayan Islands (including Samar, Negros, Panay, Leyte, Cebu, and Bohol), between Luzon and Mindanao, are secured by American forces. American casualties in the campaign have amounted to 835 dead and 2300 wounded. Japanese casualties are estimated to be 10,000 dead.
1961 – President John F. Kennedy signed a Presidential Proclamation calling for the American flag to be flown at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, "at all times during the day and night." Discussions between the Attorney General's office and Marine Corps officials earlier in 1961 on improving the visibility and appearance of the monument led to the proposal to fly the Flag continuously, which by law could only be done by Congressional legislation or by Presidential proclamation.
1972 – Gen. John D. Lavelle, former four-star general and U.S. Air Force commander in Southeast Asia, testifies before the House Armed Services Committee. He had been relieved of his post in March and later demoted after it was determined that he had repeatedly ordered unauthorized bombings of military targets in North Vietnam. Court-martial charges were brought against him by his subordinates but were dropped by the Air Force because the "interests of discipline" had already been served. Lavelle became the first four-star general in modern U.S. history to be demoted on retirement, although he continued to receive full general's retirement pay of $27,000 per year.
1987 – In one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Two years later, deliriously happy East and West Germans did break down the infamous barrier between East and West Berlin. Reagan's challenge came during a visit to West Berlin. With the Berlin Wall as a backdrop, Reagan declared, "There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace." He then called upon his Soviet counterpart: "Secretary General Gorbachev, if you seek peace–if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe–if you seek liberalization: come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Addressing the West Berlin crowd, Reagan observed, "Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar." Reagan then went on to ask Gorbachev to undertake serious arms reduction talks with the United States. Most listeners at the time viewed Reagan's speech as a dramatic appeal to Gorbachev to renew negotiations on nuclear arms reductions. It was also a reminder that despite the Soviet leader's public statements about a new relationship with the West, the United States wanted to see action taken to improve the Cold War tensions. Just eight months before, a summit between Reagan and Gorbachev had ended unsatisfactorily, with both sides charging the other with bad faith in talks aimed at reducing nuclear arsenals. Reagan, who had formed a personal closeness to Gorbachev during their previous meetings, obviously wanted to move those negotiations forward. In December 1987, the two met once again and signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which eliminated an entire class of nuclear missiles from Europe.
1998 – Space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth, bringing home the last American to live aboard Mir and closing out three years of U.S.-Russian cooperation aboard the aging space station.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
FURNESS, FRANK
Rank and organization: Captain, Company F, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Place and date: At Trevilian Station, Va., 12 June 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth:——. Date of issue: 20 October 1899. Citation: Voluntarily carrier a box of ammunition across an open space swept by the enemy's fire to the relief of an outpost whose ammunition had become almost exhausted, but which was thus enabled to hold its important position.
WILLISTON, EDWARD B.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 2d U.S. Artillery. Place and date: At Trevilian Station, Va., 12 June 1864. Entered service at: San Francisco, Calif. Birth: Norwich, Vt. Date of issue: 6 April 1892. Citation: Distinguished gallantry.
*SVEHLA, HENRY
Rank: Private First Class, Organization: U.S. Army, Company: Company F, Division: 32d Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, Born: 1932, New Jersey, Departed: Yes, Entered Service At: New Jersey, G.O. Number:, Date of Issue: 05/02/2011, Accredited To: New Jersey, Place / Date: Pyongony, Korea, 12 June, 1952. Citation: Private First Class Henry Svehla distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a Rifleman with F Company, 32d Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, in connection with combat operations against an armed enemy in Pyongony, Korea, on 12 June 1952. That afternoon while Private First Class Svehla and his platoon were patrolling a strategic hill to determine enemy strength and positions, they were subjected to intense enemy automatic weapons and small arms fire at the top of the hill. Coming under the heavy fire, the platoon's attack began to falter. Realizing the success of the mission and the safety of the remaining troops were in peril, Private First Class Svehla leapt to his feet and charged the enemy positions, firing his weapon and throwing grenades as he advanced. In the face of this courage and determination, the platoon rallied to the attack with renewed vigor. Private First Class Svehla, utterly disregarding his own safety, destroyed enemy positions and inflicted heavy casualties, when suddenly fragments from a mortar round exploding nearby seriously wounded him in the face. Despite his wounds, Private First Class Svehla refused medical treatment and continued to lead the attack. When an enemy grenade landed among a group of his comrades, Private First Class Svehla, without hesitation and undoubtedly aware of the extreme danger, threw himself upon the grenade. During this action, Private First Class Svehla was mortally wounded. Private First Class Svehla's extraordinary heroism and selflessness at the cost of his own life, above and beyond the call of duty, are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for June 12, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
12 June
1918: The 96th Aero Squadron carried out the first American daylight-bombing mission in World War I from Amanty Airdrome against the occupied Dommary-Baroncourt rail yards in France. (4)
1922: Capt Albert W. Stevens, Air Service, made a record parachute jump from 24,206 ft. from a supercharged Martin bomber over McCook Field. (24)
1934: Federal Aviation Commission (Howell Committee) appointed to study the Army and Air Corps separation issue. It made no recommendations, because the earlier Baker Board opposed that separation.
1942: Twelve B-24s raided oil refineries in Ploesti, Rumania, unsuccessfully. This was the first heavy bomber attack in Europe during World War II. Col Harry A. Halverson led the raid from Fayid, Egypt. (4) (21)
1958: Capt William H. Howell flew a Boeing KC-135 at 670 MPH from Los Angeles to New York and set an FAI record of 3 hours 42 minutes 45 seconds for that route. (9)
1959: The USAF transport VC-137, a military version of the Boeing 707, flew from Washington DC to London on its maiden transoceanic voyage. (24)
1970: A USAF K-30, one of the largest reconnaissance cameras, retired to the Air Force Museum after more than 20 years in service. The camera measured 3' x 4 1/2' x 5', weighed 665 pounds, and used 100-inch focal length optical system.
1971: Chauncy Dunn flew his Raven S-60 to an FAI altitude record of 32,949 feet for three balloon subclasses (AX-8, AX-9, and AX-10) at Boulder. The records covered balloons between 2,200 and over 4,000 cubic meters. (9)
1973: Early Warning Space Satellites joined the aerospace surveillance system. Fourteenth Air Force operated the satellite system that augmented the ground-based, missile-launch detection sensors.
1979: Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross I under pedal-power across the English Channel. (21) President Carter approved full-scale engineering development for the M-X missile. (1)
1980: First AGM-86B ALCM launched and flown over the Utah Test and Training Range. (12)
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