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Good Saturday morning October 2

I hope that you are having a good weekend.

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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History

 

October 2

 

Today in Naval History

October 2

1799 The Washington Navy Yard is established under the direction of Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert and supervision of Commodore Thomas Tingey.

1863 USS Bermuda seizes the blockade-running English schooner Florie near Matagorda, Texas, with a cargo of medicine, wine and saddles much needed by the Confederate cavalry.

1918 A squadron of 11 American submarine chasers screen British-French-Italian naval forces during the Second Battle of Durazzo, destroying mines and driving off an Austrian submarine trying to reach the fleet.

1939 The Act of Panama is approved by the ministers of the American Republics at Panama City, Panama. The act establishes a neutral zone 300 miles to seaward from the continental coastline that is patrolled by the U.S. Navy.

1943 A mine laid by USS Silversides (SS 236) four months earlier damages Imperial Japanese Navy minesweeper W 28 off Kavieng Bay, New Ireland, Bismarck.

1944 USS Pomfret (SS 391) attacks a Japanese convoy in Luzon Strait, sinking an army transport about 75 miles southeast of the southern tip of Formosa.

1952 USS Marsh (DE 699) and HMCS Iroquois (DDE 217) undergo fire by shore batteries in the vicinity of Songin, South Korea. Marsh escapes without damage but Iroquois receives one direct hit and one airburst, killing three men and wounding 10. Both ships replied with counter-battery fire, silencing the enemy shore batteries. 

 

 

 

Today in History

October 2
1263		At Largs, King Alexander III of Scotland repels an amphibious invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway.
1535		Having landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques Cartier reaches a town, which he names Montreal.
1862		An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga. Chattanooga's Lookout Mountain provides a dramatic setting for the Civil War's battle above the clouds.
1870		The papal states vote in favor of union with Italy. The capital is moved from Florence to Rome.
1871		Morman leader Brigham Young, 70, is arrested for polygamy. He was later convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
1879		A dual alliance is formed between Austria and Germany, in which the two countries agree to come to the other's aid in the event of aggression.
1909		Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham's previous record of 508 feet.
1931		Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. set off to complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Misawa City, Japan.
1941		The German army launches Operation Typhoon, the drive towards Moscow.
1950		The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schultz, makes its first appearance in newspapers.
1959		The groundbreaking TV series The Twilight Zone, hosted by Rod Serling, premiers on CBS.
1964		Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer.
1967		Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, is sworn in. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer.
1970		A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, staff, and supporters crashes in Colorado; 31 of the 40 people aboard die.
1980		Congressional Representative Mike Myers is expelled from the US House for taking a bribe in the Abscam scandal, the first member to be expelled since 1861.
1990		Flight 8301 of China's Xiamen Airlines is hijacked and crashed into Baiyun International Airport, hitting two other aircraft and killing 128 people.
2001		NATO backs US military strikes in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

 

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From the List Archives

 

Bug Roach

Today is the 30th anniversary of loss of great fighter pilot and superb LSO. Hear his voice below and read his words. I heard that voice many times and it was always a comfort to know that "Bug" was on the platform with the pickle in his hand.

 

Even though I have watched this many times before when the A-6  was in close and Bug was talking to him and staying with him all the way through to the end with the "STAY WITH IT CALL" the screen got out of focus remembering what it was like to have Bug on the platform and as a friend and the loss we all shared. How many of you remember that sound he could make when he would put his lips together and force air through them and make that high pitched whistle sound that was uniquely      BUG,    Skip

 

Subject:: A-6 Barrier landing  (left main gear up.)

Here is a great video. A terrific job by the Landing Signal Officer. Watch/listen to the video first then read "the rest of the story". A great Naval Aviator that most carrier jocks knew in the '70's-'80's.

NOTICE THE LIGHT IN THE CENTER OF THE FRAMES MOVING UP/DOWN. IT IS THE ONSTATION PLANE GUARD (DESTROYER) IN THE WAKE OF THE CARRIER, the movement reflecting HOW MUCH THE FLIGHT DECK WAS MOVING .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRURB7FdsII&feature=player_embedded#!

 

The Landing Signal Officer referred to and handling this recovery was "Bug" Roach.

CDR Roach was born in Monterey, Calif. and received his Naval Aviator wings in 1966. He served as an F-8 Crusader pilot and Landing Signal Officer (LSO) during the Vietnam War, making combat cruises with three different air wings on three different 27C class carriers. In 1990 the Navy League sponsored an award to recognize professional LSO performance, on the LSO platform. Based on his unsurpassed expertise on the LSO platform, the Navy League felt very strongly that they wanted to name the award the "CDR John "Bug" Roach Paddles Award", while CDR Roach was still on active duty. At the 1990 Tailhook Convention, where the first award was presented, the following facts were supplied about CDR Roach's LSO career:
He made four separate CAG LSO tours. In addition he was recalled on two other occasions as a ready alert CAG LSO due to his expertise. During his tenure as a CAG LSO he waved without mishap:

ten barricade arrestments

twenty single engine approaches

five aircraft missing main landing gear

two A-4 aircraft with major battle damage

the first ever S-3 with an unlocked wing

a night, hand-held radio (PRC-90), talkdown of six aircraft with no meatball and with the flight deck illuminated by the headlights of flight deck tractors, following a total engineering casualty on the ship.

Subsequent to these accomplishments, when events began heating up in the Middle East in 1990, CDR Roach volunteered his services as CAG LSO yet again and deployed with CVW-2 to the war zone. It was on this cruise that he made his 1,000th arrested landing. In more than 25 years of Naval service, CDR Roach never had a non-flying tour. On 2 October 1991 while on an adversary flight in an A-4E off the coast of Southern California, CDR Roach was killed when his aircraft lost power and he was unable to successfully eject from the stricken aircraft. Note Bug's prayer below.

 

Prayer written by
CDR John "Bug" Roach
1944-1991

 

Lord, we are the nation! We celebrate our birthday on July 4th, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence as our birth certificate. The bloodlines of the world run in our veins because we offer freedom and liberty to all whom are oppressed. We are many things and many people. We are the nation.
We sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific, to Alaska and Hawaii. three million square miles throbbing with industry and with life. We are the forest, field, mountain and desert. We are the wheat fields of Kansas, the granite hills of Vermont, and the snow capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada. We are the Brooklyn Bridge, we are the grain elevators in the farm belt, we are the Golden Gate. We are the nation.
We are 213 million living souls, and yet we are the ghosts of millions who have lived and died for us. We are Nathan Hale and Paul Revere. We are Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. We are Lee, Grant, Abe Lincoln and George Bush. We are the famous and the unknown. We are presidents, we are paupers. We are the nation.
We stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard around the world. We remember the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor, Inchon and the Persian Gulf. When freedom calls, we answer. We left our heroic dead at Belleau Wood, on the rock of Corregidor, on the bleak slopes of Korea, in the steaming jungles of Vietnam and under the rubble of Beirut. We are the nation.
We are schools and colleges, churches and synagogues. We are a ballot dropped in a box, the harmonious voice of a choir in a cathedral, the crack of a bat and the roar of a crowd in a stadium. We are craftsmen, teachers, businessmen, and judges. We are laborers and nurses. We are parents and we are children. We are soldiers, sailors and airmen. We are peaceful villages, small towns and cities that never sleep. Yes, we are the nation, and these are the things that we are.
We were conceived in freedom, and dear God, if you are willing, in freedom we will spend the rest of our days. May we always be thankful for the blessings you have bestowed upon us. May we be humble to the less fortunate and assist those in need. May we never forget the continuing cost of freedom. May we always remember that if we are to remain the land of the free, we must continue always to be the home of the brave. May our wishbone never be found where our backbone should be. May we possess always, the integrity, the courage and the strength to keep ourselves unshackled, to remain always a citadel of freedom and a beacon of hope to the world.
We are the nation.....this is our wish...this is our hope and this is our prayer...Amen
Commander
John "Bug" Roach
United States Navy
1944-1991

 

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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, 2 October 2021… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻

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> OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)… From the archives of

> rollingthunderremembered.com post for 2 October 1966… LBJ's Greek

> Tragedy… and the USA didn't learn a thing!…

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> https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-2-

> october-1966-lbjs-greek-tragedy/

 

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 Carl N

 

01 OCTOBER 1864 ...... Civil War history

 

I just found this bit of heretofore unknown Civil War history about a spy.

Carl

 

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In 1861 Rose O'Neal Greenhow was living in Washington D.C. She was a 48-year-old widow, a prominent socialite, and (secretly) a Confederate sympathizer. Mrs. Greenhow would go on to become one of the most notorious and celebrated spies in American history.

After being recruited by Confederate intelligence, Mrs. Greenhow became the leader of a network of spies, smuggling coded messages to the south with details of Federal troop movements, unit strengths, and strategies.

 

One of her best sources of information was an unwitting suitor who happened to be a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Information smuggled south by Mrs. Greenhow may have enabled the Confederate victory at the first Battle of Manassas.

Eventually, suspicion fell on Mrs. Greenhow. After Alan Pinkerton's agency discovered evidence proving that she was a spy, she was arrested and imprisoned at Old Capitol Prison, along with her eight-year-old daughter, "Little Rose." After 5 months, Mrs. Greenhow was released and deported to Virginia, where she was received as a heroine.

By then she had achieved international fame and the Confederacy sent her to Europe to serve as a diplomat. While there she was feted as a celebrity and had audiences with Queen Victoria and Napoleon III. In England she published a best-selling memoir and became engaged to the Earl of Granville.

In late 1864 Rose decided to return to the south, and she left England aboard a British blockade runner. As the ship approached Wilmington, North Carolina it was intercepted by a Federal gunboat. To avoid being captured and sent back to prison, Mrs. Greenhow escaped the vessel aboard a rowboat. But when her boat was swamped by a wave, Rose Greenhow was washed overboard and she drowned, perhaps in part because she was weighed down by the $2,000 in gold coins (about $33,000 in today's money) that she had sewed into her clothes.

 

Rose O'Neal Greenhow died at age 50 on October 1, 1864, one hundred fifty-seven years ago today.

 

The image below is the famous photo of Rose and "Little Rose" in the Old Capitol Prison in 1862. When her mother made her ill-fated return to America, Little Rose remained behind in Europe. She was educated in Paris before returning to America in 1871, where, at age 17, she met and married William Penn Duvall, a young U.S. army officer and West Point graduate. They had a daughter the next year. After Rose and Captain Duvall were divorced in 1899, she returned to France and entered a convent, where she died in 1910 at age 57.

 

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Thanks to Ken ... and Dr. Rich         All you need to know

The Unicorn Zone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pInk1rV2VEg

 

 

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Thanks to Brett and STRATFOR

Stratfor - THE WEEKLY RUNDOWN

 

KEY DEVELOPMENTS WE'RE TRACKING

 

OPEC+ meets as oil prices reach a three-year high. The Oct. 4 OPEC+ ministerial meeting will be closely watched after the European benchmark Brent hit $80 per barrel for the first time in three years Sept. 28. OPEC+ is already planning to add 400,000 b/d of production to the market each month through the end of the year, but with oil prices so high, there is significant pressure for a greater increase. Eighty dollars per barrel may be too high for Saudi Arabia and Russia to accept. But given global pressure on them to raise production, and given how the high prices will spur investment elsewhere, leaks indicate that a deal to front-load production increases for 800,000 b/d for one month and none for the next month is on the table. OPEC+ has thus far been conservative in raising production levels, and although this strategy may excessively contribute to inflation levels and higher prices, the bloc is likely to remain somewhat conservative even if it agrees to a higher increase at next week's meeting.

 

Rising tensions along the Tajik-Afghan border. Reports have run rife of troop buildups, militant infiltration plots and negotiations on an Afghan government-in-exile in Tajikistan. Following Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexey Zaitsev's call for dialogue and calm along the border, both the Taliban and the Tajik government denied they had increased forces along the border. Numerous reports over the past two weeks, however, have highlighted military drills and exercises in Tajikistan, an uptick in border security, and an expansion of regular Taliban forces on the Afghan side of the border. Tajikistan has raised concerns that Jamaat Ansarullah, the so-called Tajik Taliban, is preparing for cross-border infiltration and operations with Kabul's full knowledge. There are several reports that resistance leader Ahmad Massoud and self-declared Afghan President Amrullah Saleh are coordinating the formation of an Afghan government-in-exile in Tajikistan. Any future for this so-called National Resistance Front, made up heavily of ethnic Tajiks, lies in ensuring close connections inside Tajikistan and through the ethnic Tajik areas of northern Afghanistan. The end of the country's traditional fighting season approaches ahead of the annual winter lull. But developments along the Afghan-Tajik frontier, as well as Russian and U.S. engagement, will be critical for assessing the likelihood of a renewed National Resistance Front offensive in the spring, and the Taliban's ability to extend its control to rural areas and to keep its promises to prevent Afghanistan from becoming a launch pad for transnational terrorism and cross-border attacks.

 

Ethiopia's Abiy forms a new government amid the threat of sanctions. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali will oversee the formation of a new government Oct. 4 after his Prosperity Party won a majority of parliamentary seats in June elections. The formation represents a turning point in Ethiopia's ongoing political crisis and civil war that broke out last year amid disputes about legitimacy and authority between the federal and Tigray governments. With elections behind him, many Western countries will be watching Abiy's moves closely to see if he will shift the government's hard-line stance against negotiating with the Tigray People's Liberation Front and against international mediation. The United States has threatened sanctions against Ethiopian entities for their roles in the Tigray crisis, and U.S. officials may proceed if Abiy signals continuity in his Tigray policy and keeps the door closed to negotiations, exacerbating the country's humanitarian crisis.

 

 

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Thanks to Carl

 

https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/this-surprising-hack-will-keep-mice-away-for-good/

 

A Surprising Hack to Keep Mice Away For Good

 

Mousetraps aren't the only tactic for keeping mice away. This simple, natural remedy will help keep those furry little creatures gone for good.

It's pretty clear that having mice in your home is not a pleasant experience. Even if they seem innocent, mice can create dangerous conditions in your home. However, getting rid of mice doesn't necessarily mean buying a slew of mousetraps and cheese. Mice can be easily avoided around your household by simply adding the scent of peppermint in corners where they congregate. Yes, that's right, peppermint.

Peppermint for Mice?

Although natural remedies aren't always the answer when getting rid of pests (like using cucumbers to get rid of cockroaches, along with many other methods that don't kill cockroaches), peppermint offers a successful natural remedy that works when trying to repel mice. This has to do with the nature of mice, which rely mostly on their sense of smell instead of their vision. Mice have incredibly weak vision but a strong, keen sense of smell. Which makes sense as to why mice typically go for a large chunk of stinky cheese, right?

Peppermint obviously has a strong scent, one that mice dislike. According to Victor Pest, peppermint contains very potent menthol compounds that irritate their nasal cavities. A whiff of peppermint certainly does keep them away.

Now, you can use two ways to incorporate the smell of peppermint into your home. The first is growing peppermint plants and leaving them around the house. The smell deters them from entering or roaming around in the first place.

Peppermint Oil to Repel Mice

If you don't fancy a home full of peppermint plants, then you might prefer using peppermint oil instead. Spray the essential oil in different areas of your home that mice can access. If you're trying to catch the mice, strategically spray the peppermint oil in places that don't have a mousetrap. In theory, this should lead them to wherever you have placed it.

Once you've used the peppermint to drive the mice away, here's how to keep mice away and have a mouse-free house.

Watch this video to learn more clever ways to get rid of mice in your home: https://www.familyhandyman.com/article/this-surprising-hack-will-keep-mice-away-for-good/?jwsource=em

 

 

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As I read these from a year ago I realized that it has only gotten worse

 

Thanks to Bill

 

Subject: SOME POINTS TO CONSIDER

 

Over all, there are some really valid points here.

 

 

Not one politician has died from the virus, lost their job,

or had their business looted. Or, missed a haircut Or wears a mask unless on camera 

Y'all know you're being played right?

 

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Remember how we panicked when we couldn't find any toilet paper?  What are we going to do when we can't find a cop?

 

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NYC just defunded the

very people that ran into the burning Towers on 9/11. 

Think about it!!!!

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Pretty wild how we used to eat cake after someone

had blown on it Good Times……………..

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For the first time in American History, American History is

no longer allowed in America.

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I don't want to know "Why mobs are tearing down America's monuments."  I would rather know, "Why are we letting them?"

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Watching our country being destroyed by our own people is the worst thing I've ever seen.

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DEFUND THE NFL

Don't watch.  Don't go.

Don't buy. Don't discuss.  It's Not About Football Anymore.

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Nothing says "unity" like playing a separate National Anthem for black people and white people at NFL games.

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If you still think that this is about Democrats vs Republicans...It's Not

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The battle is….

Progressive Socialism vs

The Republic

of the United States of America.

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If black lives really mattered;

they'd be tearing down crack houses instead of statues.

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Time for real Americans to take a stand.  I refuse to support NFL, NBA or any organization that removes the National Anthem.

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If masks work why didn't we just give masks to prisoners instead of releasing them?

 

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This Day in U S Military History

 

1799 – Establishment of Washington Navy Yard. The Washington Navy Yard is the U.S. Navy's oldest shore establishment, in operation since the first decade of the 19th century. It evolved from a shipbuilding center to an ordnance plant and then to the ceremonial and administrative center for the Navy. The yard is home to the Chief of Naval Operations and is headquarters for the Naval Historical Center, the Marine Corps Historical Center, and numerous naval commands.

 

1950 – The ROK Capital and 3rd Divisions seized Yangyang on the East Coast while in the southeast ROK Marines took the port of Mokpo. Chinese Foreign Minister Chou En-lai warned the Indian Ambassador in Beijing that if the Americans cross the 38th parallel China would enter the war.

 

1951 – Future jet ace Colonel Francis S. "Gabby" Gabreski, Vice Commander of the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, downed his third MiG-15 of the war in an F-86 Sabre jet. Colonel Gabreski was a leading World War II ace with 28 German aircraft kills while flying a P-47 Thunderbolt.

 

Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

 

*CORRY, WILLIAM MERRILL, JR.
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy. Place and date: Near Hartford, Conn., 2 October 1920. Born: 5 October 1889, Quincy, Fla. Accredited to: Florida. Other Navy award: Navy Cross. Citation: For heroic service in attempting to rescue a brother officer from a flame-enveloped airplane. On 2 October 1920, an airplane in which Lt. Comdr. Corry was a passenger crashed and burst into flames. He was thrown 30 feet clear of the plane and, though injured, rushed back to the burning machine and endeavored to release the pilot. In so doing he sustained serious burns, from which he died 4 days later.

 

CARR, CHRIS (name legally changed from CHRISTOS H. KARABERIS, under which name the medal was awarded)
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company L, 337th Infantry, 85th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Guignola, Italy, 1-2 October 1944. Entered service at: Manchester, N.H. Birth: Manchester, N.H. G.O. No.: 97, 1 November 1945. Citation Leading a squad of Company L, he gallantly cleared the way for his company's approach along a ridge toward its objective, the Casoni di Remagna. When his platoon was pinned down by heavy fire from enemy mortars, machineguns, machine pistols, and rifles, he climbed in advance of his squad on a maneuver around the left flank to locate and eliminate the enemy gun positions. Undeterred by deadly fire that ricocheted off the barren rocky hillside, he crept to the rear of the first machinegun and charged, firing his submachinegun. In this surprise attack he captured 8 prisoners and turned them over to his squad before striking out alone for a second machinegun. Discovered in his advance and subjected to direct fire from the hostile weapon, he leaped to his feet and ran forward, weaving and crouching, pouring automatic fire into the emplacement that killed 4 of its defenders and forced the surrender of a lone survivor. He again moved forward through heavy fire to attack a third machinegun. When close to the emplacement, he closed with a nerve-shattering shout and burst of fire. Paralyzed by his whirlwind attack, all 4 gunners immediately surrendered. Once more advancing aggressively in the face of a thoroughly alerted enemy, he approached a point of high ground occupied by 2 machineguns which were firing on his company on the slope below. Charging the first of these weapons, he killed 4 of the crew and captured 3 more. The 6 defenders of the adjacent position, cowed by the savagery of his assault, immediately gave up. By his l-man attack, heroically and voluntarily undertaken in the face of tremendous risks, Sgt. Karaberis captured 5 enemy machinegun positions, killed 8 Germans, took 22 prisoners, cleared the ridge leading to his company's objective, and drove a deep wedge into the enemy line, making it possible for his battalion to occupy important, commanding ground.

 

*KINER, HAROLD G.
Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Army, Company F, 117th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Palenberg, Germany, 2 October 1944. Entered service at: Enid, Okla. Birth: Aline, Okla. G.O. No.: 48, 23 June 1945. With 4 other men, he was leading in a frontal assault 2 October 1944, on a Siegfried Line pillbox near Palenberg, Germany. Machinegun fire from the strongly defended enemy position 25 yards away pinned down the attackers. The Germans threw hand grenades, 1 of which dropped between Pvt. Kiner and 2 other men. With no hesitation, Private Kiner hurled himself upon the grenade, smothering the explosion. By his gallant action and voluntary sacrifice of his own life, he saved his 2 comrades from serious injury or death.

 

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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 2, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY

 

2 October

 

1912: George A. Gray flew a Burgess Wright plane on the first flight over the Adirondack Mountains, flying from Malone to Saranac Lake, N.Y., a distance of about 85 miles. (24)

 

1918: The Army's Kettering pilotless aircraft, "The Bug," with preset controls made successful flights at Dayton. "The Bug" has been often called a guided missile in later years. (21)

 

1944: 1Lt Valmore Beaudrault received credit for downing the first German jet destroyed by Ninth Air Force. (4)

 

1950: KOREAN WAR. From the FEAF Bomber Command, 22 B-29s attacked a N. Korean military training area at Nanam, destroying 75 percent of the buildings. The 8th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron moved from Itazuke to Taegu to become the first USAF day reconnaissance squadron stationed in Korea. (28)

 

1956: For the first time, the USAF successfully recovered a full-scale flight-test version of the XSM62 (N69D series) Snark after a flight from Cape Canaveral. (16) (24)

 

1962: At Vandenberg AFB, an Atlas D completed a combat training launch (CTL). The CTLs preceded the current operational testing program. (6)

 

1963: The USAF issued a requirement for the Minuteman II missile with a new, larger second stage engine, improved guidance, more range and payload, and increased survivability. (6)

 

1968: The C-9A flew its first aeromedical mission. (18)

 

1970: The USAF Special Operations Force at Hurlburt Field took possession of the first Bell UH-1N "Twin Huey." (16) (26)

 

1981: President Reagan reversed several of President Carter's defense decisions to support force modernization. He planned to construct and deploy 100 B-1B aircraft, continue the ALCM and M-X program, and develop an advanced stealth bomber. He also cancelled the horizontal multiple shelter basing scheme for the M-X in favor of basing in superhard silos. (1) (6) Deputy SECDEF Frank P. Carlucci ordered the Titan II system inactivated. (6)

 

1991: In the second humanitarian mission to Mongolia, the 834th Airlift Division moved 15 pallets of medical supplies and 8 ambulances to Ulan Bator. (16) (26)

 

1993: Major earthquakes rolled through central India. Afterwards, C-5s airlifted 1,000 rolls of plastic sheeting, 950 tents, 18,550 five-gallon water containers, 22 pallets of blankets, and other relief supplies to Bombay through 4 October. (16)

 

2000: The NF-16D (Tail No. 86-0048) Variable In-Flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA) arrived at Edwards AFB to join the AFFTC fleet. It could simulate the flying characteristics of several different aircraft and would be used primarily by the AF Test Pilot School. (3)

 

2006: ACC declared an initial operating capability for the GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb, a lowcost and low-collateral damage 250-pound precision strike weapon for use by fighters, bombers and UAVs. (AFNEWS Article, "ACC Declares Small Diameter Bomb Initially Capable," 5 Oct 2006)

 

2007: The Commandant of Cadets, Brig Gen Susan Y. Desjardins, flew a new C-17 Globemaster III over the U.S. Air Force Academy cadet area in Colorado Springs, Colo. She formally accepted the aircraft for the Air Force at Boeing's facilities in Long Beach, Calif., and flew it to Dover AFB, Del., for duty with the 436th Airlift Wing. (AFNEWS, "Commandant of Cadets Flies New C-17 Globemaster III Home, 2 Oct 2007) At Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, Air Force Reserve officials activated the first F-22 Raptor unit, the 477th Fighter Group. The day also honored the 477th Fighter Group's and the 302nd Fighter Squadron's fabled heritage and their connection to the Tuskegee Airmen. (AFNEWS, Air Force Reserves Stands Up First F-22 Unit," 5 October 2007.)

 

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