Good Sunday Morning 13 June
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Today in Naval History
June 13
1881 The bark-rigged wooden steamship Jeannette sinks after she is crushed in an Arctic ice pack during the expedition to reach the North Pole through the Bering Strait. Only 13 of her crew survive out of 33.
1900 During the Boxer Rebellion, the International Relief Expedition turns back near Anting, China, and moves to Sanstun after the Tientsin-Peking railroad is cut by the Boxers, whose anti-foreign mantra grew to burning homes and killing foreigners as well as Chinese Christians. In total, 56 Marines and Sailors receive the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Rebellion.
1913 Lt. j.g. P.N.L. Bellinger sets an American altitude record for seaplanes when he reaches 6,200 feet in a Curtiss (A 3) aircraft.
1939 USS Saratoga (CV 3) and USS Kanawha (AO 1) complete a two-day underway refueling test off the coast of southern Calif., demonstrating the feasibility of refueling carriers at sea where bases are not available.
1943 USS Frazier (DD 607) sinks Japanese submarine (I 9), east of Sirius Point, Kiska, Aleutian Islands.
1944 USS Melvin (DD 680) sinks Japanese submarine (RO 36) between 50 and 75 miles east of Saipan. Also on this date USS Barb (SS 220) sinks Japanese army transport Takashima Maru in the Sea of Okhotsk and survives counter-attacks by destroyer Hatsuharu.
1992 USS Maryland (SSBN 738) is commissioned at New London, Conn. Two days later, the 13th out of 18 Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines sails with her Gold Crew to her homeport at Naval Submarine Base, Kings Bay, Ga.
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Today in History June 13
1777 | The Marquis de Lafayette arrives in the American colonies to help in their rebellion against Britain. | |
1863 | Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia. | |
1920 | The U.S. Post Office Department rules that children may not be sent by parcel post. | |
1923 | The French set a trade barrier between occupied Ruhr and the rest of Germany. | |
1940 | Paris is evacuated as the Germans advance on the city. | |
1943 | German spies land on Long Island, New York, and are soon captured. | |
1944 | The first German V-1 buzz-bomb hits London. | |
1949 | Installed by the French, Bao Dai enters Saigon to rule Vietnam. | |
1971 | The New York Times begins publishing the Pentagon Papers. | |
1978 | Israelis withdraw the last of their invading forces from Lebanon. | |
1979 | Sioux Indians are awarded $105 million in compensation for the 1877 U.S. seizure of the Black Hills in South Dakota. | |
1983 | Pioneer 10, already in space for 11 years, leaves the solar system. |
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Thanks to Robert
Enjoy a trip down Memory Lane compliments of a fellow in Hillsboro, TX..
Don't miss this if you're into yesterday!!
Life was good !!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ 2okbl6SRRbg
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Standing up for your troops
Thanks to Jim
On the HAL-3 piece…
I had a petty officer last name Stayton I think, that worked for me in VF-161. He was one of only a few Navy enlisted men to get the Navy Cross in the war. He was in Hal-3 as a door gunner that responded to 2 Brown water boats caught on a VC cross fire with men in the water. Slayton jumped into the water with an M-16 returning fire as he dragged two men into a position out of the line of fire. He was wounded twice.
In May 1973, I get a call from COMFIT that he is to receive the NC. This requires a 4 star or Navy Secretary, and the full base in dress uniform formation. Stayton says I don't want the award if I have to force my friends to stand in formation in dress gear.
I go back to COMFIT and relay this. The Admiral says he won't change the reg. Slayton says then I don't want it.
I said to the admiral, he did the deed, he should get what he wants.
It was arranged to have CINC Pac Flt present the award to Stayton in COMFIT's office surrounded by a few friends and relatives, in dungarees and chambre cloths.
A very humble kid that was painting planes for me.
Click below to read the citation
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/4012
The real facts
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Fallujah Vet Will Be First Living Medal of Honor Recipient from Iraq War
Staff Sgt. David Bellavia. (Screenshot via DVIDs)7 Jun 2019
A former Army staff sergeant who took on enemy fighters at close range, first with an M249 light machine gun and then with a knife, will be the first living veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom to receive the Medal of Honor, Military.com has learned.
David S. Bellavia, 43, of Batavia, New York, will have his Silver Star upgraded to the highest military award for valor in a June 25 ceremony at the White House, a source close to Bellavia confirmed to Military.com. The news of the award was first posted at the American Legion's Burn Pit blog Thursday and then confirmed by Army Times. The White House is expected to announce the award next week.
Bellavia's Silver Star citation, for heroism on Nov. 10, 2004, in Fallujah, Iraq, reads like the script of an action movie. An infantryman with Company A, Task Force 2-2, 1st Infantry Division, Bellavia was ordered with his platoon to clear a 12-building block in which "jihadists" were taking shelter in order to fire on American troops, according to the citation.
After clearing the first nine buildings and finding only weapons caches, Bellavia and four other soldiers entered the tenth and found themselves under fire from insurgents. As more soldiers rushed in to reinforce the five, the close-quarters combat became hot and intense, and troops began to go down with injuries due to small-arms fire and debris.
"At this point, Sergeant Bellavia, armed with an M249 SAW gun, entered the room where the insurgents were located and sprayed the room with gunfire, forcing the Jihadists to take cover and allowing the squad to move out into the street," the citation reads.
In the street, the soldiers came under fire from enemy fighters shooting from the building's roof. As they took cover in an adjacent building, Bellavia went back into the street to call in a Bradley fighting vehicle to shell the structures. He then went back into the first building to see whether any insurgents remained alive, according to the citation.
He would find himself one man pitted against a house full of armed enemy fighters.
"I wanted that revenge. I wanted to be that leader that I promised I would be," Bellavia later said about the fight, according to a 2016 Army release. "A light switch went off."
He first encountered an insurgent with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and gunned him down.
"A second Jihadist began firing as the soldier ran toward the kitchen, and Bellavia fired back, wounding him in the shoulder," the citation reads. "A third Jihadist began yelling from the second floor. Sergeant Bellavia then entered the uncleared master bedroom and emptied gunfire into all the corners, at which point the wounded insurgent entered the room, yelling and firing his weapon. Sergeant Bellavia fired back, killing the man."
Bellavia continued fighting, killing the insurgent upstairs. Then, another insurgent jumped out of the wardrobe in the bedroom where he was hiding, and began "firing wildly around the room and knocking over the wardrobe."
The insurgent was shot and wounded by Bellavia, but got away. As Bellavia tried to pursue him into the second floor of the building, the soldier slipped on stairs slick with blood. Regaining his footing and climbing the stairs, he threw a fragmentary grenade into the upper room, flushing the insurgent onto the roof.
"Hearing two other insurgents screaming from the third story of the building, Sergeant Bellavia put a choke hold on the wounded insurgent to keep him from giving away their position," the citation reads. "The wounded Jihadist then bit Sergeant Bellavia on the arm and smacked him in the face with the butt of his AK-47. In the wild scuffle that followed, Sergeant Bellavia took out his knife and slit the Jihadist's throat."
He would continue to fight and fell insurgents until he was joined by five other members of the platoon, his citation states.
Bellavia left the Army in 2005 after six years of service and would go on to co-found the political advocacy organization Vets for Freedom. He documented his military experiences in "House to House: An Epic Memoir of War," co-written with John R. Bruning and published in 2007.
The long-awaited and historic Medal of Honor comes as the Pentagon concludes a wide-ranging review of valor awards from the conflicts following Sept. 11, 2001. Bellavia's Medal of Honor upgrade will be the third for the Army and the fifth overall as a result of the review.
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Thanks to DR
A brilliant and chilling analysis of today's American revolution.
Yellow highlights are Mr. Hanson.
Green highlights are mine (DRs).
This Isn't Your Father's Left-Wing Revolution
June 10, 2021
Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either were going to take over America or destroy it.
One of their favorite mottos was "Change it or lose it," even as protests focused on drugs, music, race, class, sex, fashion—almost anything and everything.
Sixties radicals tutored America on long hair; wire-rim eyeglasses; who was a drag, a square, a bummer; and who was hip, cool, groovy, mellow, and far out. Most of these silly revolutionaries were not unhinged Weathermen killers or SDS would-be communists, but just adolescents along for the good-time ride.
With the end of the draft in 1972, the winding down of the Vietnam War, the oil embargoes, and a worsening economy, the '60s revolution withered away. Cynics claimed the revolution was mostly about middle-class students with long hair kicking back during the peak of the postwar boom, indulging their appetites and ensuring they would not end up in Vietnam.
It is not even true that the '60s at least ensured needed reform. The civil rights movement and equal rights for women and gays were already birthed before the hippies, as were folk songs and early rock music.
Instead, what the '60s revolution did was accelerate these trends—but also radicalize, manipulate, and coarsen them.
The grasping "yuppies" of the 1980s were the natural successors to let-it-all-hang-out "hippies." The '60s were at heart a narcissistic free-for-all, when "freedom" often entailed self-indulgence and avoiding responsibility.
By 1981, the Reagan revolution finished off the dead-enders of the Woodstock generation. Most eventually grew up. They rebooted their self-centered drug, sex, and party impulses to fixations on money, status, and material things.
Sixties protestors mainlined divorce, abortion on demand, promiscuity, drug use, and one-parent homes. But by the late 1970s and the 1980s, most veteran cultural revolutionaries had gotten married, were raising a family, bought a house, got a job, and made money.
This time around, their offspring's left-wing assault is different—and far more ominous. The woke grandchildren of the former outsiders are now more ruthless systematic insiders. The woke and wired new establishment knows how to use money and power to rebirth America as something the founders and most current Americans never envisioned.
Name one mainline institution that the woke left does not now control—and warp. The media? The campus? Silicon Valley? Professional sports? The corporate boardroom? Foundations? The K-12 educational establishment? The military hierarchy? The government deep state? The FBI top echelon?
The Left absorbed them all. But this time around, members of the Left really believe that "by any means necessary" is no mere slogan. Instead, it is a model of how to disrupt or destroy American customs, traditions, and values.
Woke revolutionaries are not panhandlers, street people, or Grateful Dead groupies. They are not even a few nutty and murderous Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists fighting against "the Man."
They are "the Man."
Our 21st century revolutionaries are multibillionaires with flip-flops, tie-dye T-shirts, and nose rings, but with the absolute power and desire to censor how half the country communicates—or cancel them entirely.
They don't flock to campus free-speech areas; they are the campus administrators who ban free speech.
They don't picket outside the Pentagon; they are inside the Pentagon.
They don't chant "eat the rich"; they are the rich who eat at Napa Valley's French Laundry.
Names of Newsom, Pelosi, Brown, Obama, Clinton, Schumer, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, Pressley.
I would have to include Biden & Harris but clearly neither of them fit into today's revolutionaries. They are puppets. Pole sitters. Like the proverbial tortoise on top of a roadside post. Didn't get up there on his own; no idea how he got up there; nor any idea how to get down.
They don't protest "uptight" values, because they are more intolerant and puritanical than any Victorian.
They don't believe in racial quotas based on "proportional representation," because they are racists who demand underrepresentation of "bad" racial groups and overrepresentation of "good" groups. The color of our skin is their gospel, not the content of our character.
They are top-down revolutionaries. None of their agendas, from open borders and changing the Constitution to critical race theory and banning clean-burning fossil fuels, are ever favored among a majority of the population.
Their guiding principle is "never let a crisis go to waste." Only in times of a pandemic, a national quarantine, or volatile racial relations can the new upscale leftist revolutionaries use fear to push through policies that no one in calm times could stomach.
Our revolutionaries hate dissent. They destroy any who question their media-spun hoaxes.
Truth is their enemy, and fear is their weapon. Sixties paranoid revolutionaries warned about George Orwell's "1984," but our revolutionaries are "1984."
While this elitist leftist revolution is more dangerous than its sloppy '60s predecessor, it is also more vulnerable, given its obnoxious, top-heavy apparatus—but only if the proverbial "people" finally say to their madness, "Enough is enough."
Victor Davis Hanson is a conservative commentator, classicist, and military historian.
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Thanks to DR and Rich
Subject: Prom Night and other Adventures
Hi to all -
Prom Night
Yes, friends, some schools are actually allowing prom night to continue, once again. so, young students can get all dressed up and go for a wonderful night that they will remember and talk about for decades to come. A Rite of Passage that most of us have experienced.
But, wait, what is that I see? As they enter, they are having a colorful stamp placed on their hands, like those you get when attending night clubs or concerts. And, there is more than one color ! Look closer - there is one stamp for those who have been vaccinated, and a different one for those who have not. How interesting.
For many years, people have speculated on exactly what 'The Mark of the Beast' was. This was described as being placed on the hand, or the forehead, and unless you displayed this mark, you would not be permitted to buy or sell. You know, you could not enter a store, or travel, or conduct a business, etc. Bar codes were an early candidate, then the 'scattergram' codes. And, later, the 'chips' with your medical history on them, no larger than a grain of rice (similar to the chips we put in our pets, to find them if they are lost). Now, we have 'vaccine passports', with all the same parameters. Why, even Tony Blair, former PM of Great Britain, thinks this would be a wonderful idea. Most of the G-7 also want this. Did you see how happy they were to welcome Biden 'back into the club'? No more annoying Trump, actually working for the interests of the American people, and making Europe pay for its own defense, for example. The money spigot is open again!
White Farmers
Way out west, these white farmers filed a lawsuit against the USDA. See, the USDA decided to offer 'loan forgiveness' to farmers, but only if they were not white. Clearly racial discrimination, and the white farmers took offense, as they should. Judge William Griesbach, in Wisconsin, looked at the suit and told the USDA that this was a winner - if they push the suit, they will win. The USDA immediately dropped this racist loan forgiveness program.
Scuba Diver
Michael Packard is a commercial lobster fisherman, who dives to collect lobsters. Dangerous job, as the areas where the lobsters live also attract a lot of other predators - like Great White sharks. But, shades of the story of Jonah, Michael suddenly found himself engulfed in the mouth of - not a shark - but a humpback whale. He was okay for the moment, as he was wearing scuba gear, but had nervous thoughts about his future. However, the whale did not find him so easy to swallow, or tasty, and so went to the surface and spit him out. This was seen by others on the boat. Okay, Michael had a few bruises, and perhaps a bad taste in his mouth, but was otherwise okay. Try telling that story to your insurance company!
AOC
Well, she has had another bad day. Some reporter visited her aunt, in the hurricane wrecked area of PR, and asked her about all that aid money that Trump supposedly denied them. Well, said the aunt, the story is not true. A lot of aid money was delivered, but the crooked politicians skimmed most of it off, and little or nothing got to the people it was intended for. This is typical for Puerto Rico, and a lot of other places. There is so much money being siphoned off by crooked politicians, that the whole place is billions and billions in debt, with no hope of ever fixing their finances. That is a prime reason why they want to become a state - so they can throw their face into the federal trough , and not have to deal with the consequences of their theft.
Greece
Anciently, they had amazing builders and very wise people. The nation built all these wonderful buildings and monuments. They were 'Wonders of the World'. But, something happened, and those people vanished, leaving behind their own version of 'woke' culture. Sadly, these new folks not only could not build new structures, they didn't have a clue how to maintain the ones they already had. In fact, they forgot what they had been built for, and how to use them. We will see the same thing here, in time.
Volkswagen
This car got its start in life in Nazi Germany. It was to be 'the people's car', in a nation where few people could afford cars. Hitler demanded that Mr. Porsche, who designed this car, to build a car that every worker could afford. He even set a price for it - one that was quite low. Porsche tried very hard, but could not find a way to build this car at that price. And, he did not want to run a production line to sell a product that lost money on every sale. What to do? What to do?
Well, they found several solutions. One was to demand that the buyer pay the full price in advance, and then wait for delivery, some day. When not enough people put their cash on the table, the state went to Phase Two. All workers were 'unionized' (all the regular labor unions had been banned by the Nazis), and their 'dues', taken from their paychecks, used to subsidize this production.
Of course, the war came along, and the plants were converted to building military equipment, and no one, not anyone, ever got their 'people's car'. It was one of the greatest scams ever done. But, then, the whole of Nazi Germany was a big theft ring, looting all of Europe to fill their own pockets.
Rich
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Thanks to Carl
Another name to add to the Arkancide list?? http://www.arkancide.com
BREAKING: Reporter Who Broke Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Story Found DEAD in His Apartment
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
LOOKING BACK 55-YEARS to the Vietnam Air War— ... ... For The List for Sunday, 13 June 2021... Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)...
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 13 June 1966__ "An Air Medal the hard way"... good story...
https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-13-june-1966-moon-over-ben-thuy/
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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This Day in U S Military History…….June 13
1805 – Having hurried ahead of the main body of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four men arrive at the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming that the explorers are headed in the right direction. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had set out on their expedition to the Pacific the previous year. They spent the winter of 1804 with the Mandan Indians in present-day North Dakota. The Hidatsa Indians, who lived nearby, had traveled far to the West, and they proved an important source of information for Lewis and Clark. The Hidatsa told Lewis and Clark they would come to a large impassable waterfall in the Missouri when they neared the Rocky Mountains, but they assured the captains that portage around the falls was less than half a mile. Armed with this valuable information, Lewis and Clark resumed their journey up the Missouri accompanied by a party of 33 in April. The expedition made good time, and by early June, the explorers were nearing the Rocky Mountains. On June 3, however, they came to a fork at which two equally large rivers converged. "Which of these rivers was the Missouri?" Lewis asked in his journal. Since the river coming in from the north most resembled the Missouri in its muddy turbulence, most of the men believed it must be the Missouri. Lewis, however, reasoned that the water from the Missouri would have traveled only a short distance from the mountains and, therefore, would be clear and fast-running like the south fork. The decision was critical. If the explorers chose the wrong river, they would not be able to find the Shoshone Indians from whom they planned to obtain horses for the portage over the Rockies. Although all of their men disagreed, Lewis and Clark concluded they should proceed up the south fork. To err on the side of caution, however, the captains decided that Lewis and a party of four would speed ahead on foot. If Lewis did not soon encounter the big waterfall the Hidatsa had told them of, the party would return and the expedition would backtrack to the other river. On this day in 1805, four days after forging ahead of the main body of the expedition, Lewis was overjoyed to hear "the agreeable sound of a fall of water." Soon after he "saw the spray arise above the plain like a column of smoke…. [It] began to make a roaring too tremendous to be mistaken for any cause short of the great falls of the Missouri." By noon, Lewis had reached the falls, where he stared in awe at "a sublimely grand specticle [sic]…. the grandest sight I had ever held." Lewis and Clark had been correct–the south fork was the Missouri River. The mysterious northern fork was actually the Marias River. Had the explorers followed the Marias, they would have traveled up into the northern Rockies where a convenient pass led across the mountains into the Columbia River drainage. However, Lewis and Clark would not have found the Shoshone Indians nor obtained the horses. Without horses, the crossing might well have failed. Three days after finding the falls, Lewis rejoined Clark and told him the good news. However, the captains' elation did not last long. They soon discovered that the portage around the Great Falls was not the easy half-mile jaunt reported by the Hidatsa, but rather a punishing 18-mile trek over rough terrain covered with spiky cactus. The Great Portage, as it was later called, would take the men nearly a month to complete. By mid-July, however, the expedition was again moving ahead. A month later, Lewis and Clark found the Shoshone Indians, who handed over the horses that were so critical to the subsequent success of their mission.
1918 – Marines plug the line in their exposed area. German counterattack begins supported by the artillery from three divisions and almost recaptures Bouresches. Heavy gas casualties. A planned relief of 2/5 goes for naught as 2/6 is caught in the open by a artillery barrage with gas.
1942 – John C. Cullen, Seaman 2/c discovered Nazi saboteurs landing on beach at Amagansett, Long Island. He reported this to his superiors. The FBI later captured the Nazis and Cullen was awarded the Legion of Merit. The four men had plans to sabotage NYC's water system and industrial sites across the Northeastern US.
1942 – CGC Thetis sank the German U-boat U-157 off the Florida Keys. There were no survivors.
1942 – 1st V-2 rocket launch from Peenemunde, Germany, reached 1.3 km.
1943 – CGC Escanaba exploded and sank off Ivigtut, Greenland, with only two survivors. The cause for the loss has never been confirmed.
1944 – Only one week after the Normandy invasion, the first German V-1 buzz bomb, also called the doodlebug (Fieseler Fi-103), was fired at London. The first guided missile to be used in force, the V-1 was powered by a pulse-jet engine and resembled a small aircraft. Only one of the four missiles London saw that day caused any casualties, but a steady stream of V-1s causing severe damage and casualties fell on London in coming months. At times, nearly 100 bombs fell each day. Many German buzz bombs never reached their targets because of primitive guidance systems or because they were destroyed in flight by anti-aircraft fire or intercepting Allied fighters.
1944 – US 1st Army makes progress towards St Lo and across the Cotentin. Pont l'Abbe is capture in the peninsula. A German counterattack, spearheaded by 17th Panzer Division, toward Carentan is held.
1944 – On Biak, American forces reduce the scattered Japanese resistance from caves in the east of the island. US aircraft are operating from Mokmer Airfield.
1945 – On Okinawa, the Japanese resistance in the Oruku peninsula ends. The US 6th Marine Division records a record 169 Japanese prisoners as well as finding about 200 dead. (This is a large total when compared with previous numbers of Japanese prisoners reported.) The fighting continues to the southeast, especially in the Kunishi Ridge area where a regiment of the US 1st Marine Division suffers heavy casualties. The US 24th Corps uses armored flamethrowers in the elimination of the Japanese held fortified caves on Mount Yuza and Mount Yaeju and on Hills 153 and 115.
1945 – On Luzon, an American armored column attempts pass through the Orioung Pass, to exploit a breakthrough achieved by the US 145th Infantry Regiment (US 37th Division), but a Japanese counterattack blocks the road.
1966 – The Supreme Court issued its landmark Miranda vs. Arizona decision, ruling that criminal suspects must be informed of their constitutional rights prior to questioning by police. The conviction of Ernesto Miranda for rape and kidnapping was overturned because his confession was not voluntarily given.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
FASSEUR, ISAAC L.
Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1860 Holland. Biography not available. Citation: Serving on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna, 13 June 1884, at Callao, Peru, Fasseur rescued William Cruise, who had fallen overboard, from drowning.
WILLIAMS, LOUIS (Second Award)
Rank and organization: Captain of the Hold, U.S. Navy. Born: 1845 Norway. Accredited to: California. G.O. No.: 326, 18 October 1884 Citation: Serving on board the U.S.S. Lackawanna, Williams rescued from drowning William Cruise, who had fallen overboard at Callao Peru, 13 June 1884.
SAGE, WILLIAM H.
Rank and organization: Captain, 23d U.S. Infantry. Place and date: Near Zapote River, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 13 June 1899. Entered service at: Binghamton, N.Y. Birth: Centerville, N.Y. Date of issue: 24 July 1902. Citation: With 9 men volunteered to hold an advanced position and held it against a terrific fire of the enemy estimated at 1,000 strong. Taking a rifle from a wounded man, and cartridges from the belts of others, Capt. Sage himself killed 5 of the enemy.
* KEDENBURG, JOHN J.
Rank and organization: Specialist Fifth Class, U.S. Army, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces. place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 13 June 1968. Entered service at: Brooklyn, N.Y. Born: 31 July 1946, Brooklyn, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp5c. Kedenburg, U.S. Army, Command and Control Detachment North, Forward Operating Base 2, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), distinguished himself while serving as advisor to a long-range reconnaissance team of South Vietnamese irregular troops. The team's mission was to conduct counter-guerrilla operations deep within enemy-held territory. prior to reaching the day's objective, the team was attacked and encircled by a battalion-size North Vietnamese Army force. Sp5c. Kedenburg assumed immediate command of the team which succeeded, after a fierce fight, in breaking out of the encirclement. As the team moved through thick jungle to a position from which it could be extracted by helicopter, Sp5c. Kedenburg conducted a gallant rear guard fight against the pursuing enemy and called for tactical air support and rescue helicopters. His withering fire against the enemy permitted the team to reach a preselected landing zone with the loss of only 1 man, who was unaccounted for. Once in the landing zone, Sp5c. Kedenburg deployed the team into a perimeter defense against the numerically superior enemy force. When tactical air support arrived, he skillfully directed air strikes against the enemy, suppressing their fire so that helicopters could hover over the area and drop slings to be used in the extraction of the team. After half of the team was extracted by helicopter, Sp5c. Kedenburg and the remaining 3 members of the team harnessed themselves to the sling on a second hovering helicopter. Just as the helicopter was to lift them out of the area, the South Vietnamese team member who had been unaccounted for after the initial encounter with the enemy appeared in the landing zone. Sp5c. Kedenburg unhesitatingly gave up his place in the sling to the man and directed the helicopter pilot to leave the area. He then continued to engage the enemy who were swarming into the landing zone, killing 6 enemy soldiers before he was overpowered. Sp5c. Kedenburg's inspiring leadership, consummate courage and willing self-sacrifice permitted his small team to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy and escape almost certain annihilation. His actions reflect great credit upon himself and the U.S. Army.
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F-104 touch … roll … touch - video
Thanks to Billy ...and Dr Rich
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for June 13, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
13 June
1910: Through 18 June, the Indianapolis Air Meet took place at the Speedway. The Wright Exhibition Team flew here for the first time. (24) In 3 hours 27 minutes, Charles K. Hamilton flew 149.54 miles from New York to Philadelphia and back to win the New York Times $10,000 prize. (24)
1913: Lt (JG) Patrick N. L. Bellinger flew the Curtiss A-3 at Annapolis to a 6,200-foot US altitude record for seaplanes. (24)
1925: In a sham air battle staged 4,000 feet over Times Square, four National Guard aircraft defeated an attack on New York City by four Army planes and then chased them back over Long Island. An estimated 6,000 people watched the clash, and radio station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, broadcast the event live. (32)
1943: Eighth Air Force lost 26 of 60 bombers in a raid on Kiel, Germany. That mission demonstrated the need for fighter escorts. (21)
1962: Capt Richard H. Coan flew the H-43B Huskie helicopter to a world distance record of 656.258 miles over a 25-mile closed-course at Mono Lake, Calif. (24)
1968: A Titan IIIC launch vehicle placed eight Initial Defense Communication Satellite Program (IDCSP) jam-proof satellites into an equatorial orbit, for a total of 26, to extend the system's life span. The launch from Cape Kennedy also ended the IDCSP program. (16) (26)
1972: At Edwards AFB, Maj Buzz Lynch became the first USAF pilot to fly the A-10A. (3)
1973: Seventh Air Force, Eighth Air Force, and the Navy Task Force 77 received the Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1972 for the use of advanced aerospace technology in Operation Linebacker II.
1983: Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. (21) 1995: A B-2 bomber dropped a precision-guided munition on target in a test of a Global Positioning System Aided Munition. The test occurred at China Lake. (16)
1999: Operation ALLIED FORCE. A KC-135R and aircrew from the 319 AREFW at Grand Forks AFB, flying with the 92 AEW in southern Europe, performed the first-ever combat sortie in a Pacer CRAG-modified KC-135 while supporting this operation. Although Pacer CRAG tankers had been deployed to Southwest Asia to support Operation SOUTHERN WATCH, the 13 June mission marked the first time a Pacer CRAG aircraft had logged actual combat time. (22)
2007: The U. S. Army announced a $2.04 billion contract award to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems after selecting the C-27J Spartan as the Joint Cargo Aircraft. (AFNEWS, "C-27J Named as Joint Cargo Aircraft," 14 Jun 2007,
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