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The List 5930     TGB

Good Sunday Morning 5 December.

I hope that you are all having a great weekend..

Regards,

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Note from Tailhook and P'nuts

All you Tailhookers that can make it remember the RR event at NKX O'Çlub on Friday 10 Dec 1700 to 1900. $25 each

 

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This Day in Navy and Marine Corps History

December 5

1813—During the War of 1812, the frigate Congress captures the British brig Atlantic in the North Atlantic. Also on this date USS President captures schooner Comet off New York.

1862—During the Civil War, boats from the gunboat Mahaska and the converted tug General Putnam capture and destroy "several fine Confederate boats," a schooner and two sloops in branches of Severn River, MD, and bring back schooners Seven Brothers and Galena.

1941—USS Lexington (CV 2) sails with Task Force 12 to ferry Marine aircraft to Midway, leaving no carriers at Pearl Harbor. Previously, on Nov. 28, USS Enterprise (CV 6) sails from Pearl Harbor for Wake Island to ferry Marine aircraft to island.

1943—USS Narwhal (SS 167) embarks nine evacuees at Alubijid, Mascalar Bay and then sinks Japanese cargo ship Himeno Maru off Camiguin Island.

1944—USS Hake (SS 256) evacuates downed aviators and turns over all supplies that can be spared to Filippino guerilla forces ashore at Libertad, Panay, Philippines.

 

Today in History
December 5

1484		Pope Innocent VIII issues a bill deploring the spread of witchcraft and heresy in Germany.
1776		Phi Beta Kappa is organized as the first American college Greek letter-fraternity, at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va.
1791		Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies in Vienna.
1861		In the U.S. Congress, petitions and bills calling for the abolition of slavery are introduced.
1862		Union General Ulysses S. Grant's cavalry receives a setback in an engagement on the Mississippi Central Railroad at Coffeeville, Mississippi.
1864		Confederate General John Bell Hood sends Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry and a division of infantry toward Murfreesboro, Tenn.
1904		The Japanese destroy a Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea.
1909		George Taylor makes the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself.
1912		Italy, Austria and Germany renew the Triple Alliance for six years.
1916		David Lloyd George replaces Herbert Asquith as the British prime minister.
1921		The British empire reaches an accord with the Irish revolutionary group the Sinn Fein; Ireland is to become a free state.
1933		The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition in the United States, which had begun 13 years earlier.
1934		Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ualual on disputed the Somali-Ethiopian border.
1936		The New Constitution in the Soviet Union promises universal suffrage, but the Communist Party remains the only legal political party.
1937		The Lindberghs arrive in New York on a holiday visit after a two-year voluntary exile.
1945		Four TBM Avenger bombers disappear approximately 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
1950		Pyongyang in Korea falls to the invading Chinese army.
1953		Italy and Yugoslavia agree to pull troops out of the disputed Trieste border.
1955		A bus boycott begins under the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery, Alabama.
1966		Comedian and political activist Dick Gregory heads for Hanoi, North Vietnam, despite federal warnings against it.
1978		The Soviet Union signs a 20-year friendship pact with Afghanistan.
1983		Military Junta dissolves in Argentina.
2006		Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.
2007		A gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle kills 8 people at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Neb., before taking his own life.

 

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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … For The List for Sunday, 5 December 2021… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻

 

OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…

From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 5 December 1966… NYT story from 1966 25th anniversary of Pearl Harbor… Japanese strike leader Mitsuo Fuchida interview…

 

http://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/rolling-thunder-remembered-special-post-75th-anniversary-of-the-japanese-attack-on-pearl-harbor-on-7-december-1941/

 

 

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 Micro…..so true

 

 

Thanks to Johnny

Landing on a carrier

Former Naval Flight Officer (NFO) at United States Navy (USN) (1991–1998)3y

What is it like to land on an aircraft carrier?

 

Here's my best analogy. Imagine you have to park your car in your garage exactly this way:

Drive down your street at 43 miles per hour.

When the front bumper of your car passes your mail box, shift into neutral and apply your brakes, slowing to 31 MPH. Press your garage door opener.

When your front bumper crosses your sidewalk, turn your wheel to your right and head for the corner of your driveway. When you reach the corner, you should be at 22 MPH.

Continue your turn up the driveway, confirm the door is going up, and aim between the car in the other stall and the side of the garage. You have 5″ to spare on each side. When your bumper crosses the garage threshold, you should be at 13 MPH, and the door must be at least as high as your rear-view mirror.

Apply brakes to stop within 12″ of the back wall.

If you practiced this in a simulator hundreds of times, and then practiced in a parking lot with the obstacles painted on the ground hundreds of times, and then finally tried it on a nice day, you would be able to do it. It would always be dangerous and challenging, but if you are very skilled and practiced, it might even seem like fun. This is a good weather, day carrier landing.

Now, do it in a heavy rain and fog. That is a bad weather day carrier landing.

Now, do it at night, with only a light tied to the mail box, a light at the sidewalk, lights on the sides of the garage and the garage door, and a light at the back of the garage. All the speeds must be the same. All the distances are the same. This is a good weather, night carrier landing.

Now, do it at night, in the rain and fog. That is a bad weather, night carrier landing.

Oh, by the way, sometimes the sea makes the deck move, a lot. So, add a sloppy steering wheel, an occasionally surging engine, and unpredictably spongy brakes to the car analogy.

 

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Thanks to Interesting Facts

Tenth President John Tyler has a living grandson.

More than 200 years after the 10th President of the United States was born, one of his grandsons is still alive. As impossible as that may seem, the math — and biology — checks out. John Tyler, who was born in 1790 and became President in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died in office (possibly of pneumonia), had a son named Lyon Gardiner Tyler in 1853. This son was born to the then-60-something Tyler and his second, much younger, wife, Julia Gardiner. Lyon then had two sons of his own in his 70s (also with a much younger second wife), one of whom — Harrison Ruffin Tyler, born in 1928 — is still gracing the Earth in his early nineties. It may make this feat slightly less surprising to know that Tyler had 15 children, more than any other POTUS in U.S. history. Tyler's actual presidency is less remarkable than this biographical oddity, alas — he was referred to as "His Accidency" upon assuming office and wasn't re-nominated in the following election. (He was also an enslaver whose profitable plantation ran on the labor of 40–50 enslaved people.) Though his grandsons haven't had major political aspirations, you might say it was in Tyler's blood to seek office: His father, John Tyler Sr., was roommates with Thomas Jefferson at the College of William and Mary and later served as the 15th Governor of Virginia.

 

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YP's  'Tip of the Pisscutter' to Fantoomery ...

Thanks to Dr. Rich ...

 Perhaps Sluggo will remember.  

While in advanced jet training at NAS Beeville, a student who was a few weeks ahead of us went on a cross country to NAS Miramar, Fighter Town, USA.  Upon return he regailed us with a story from that O Club.  Seems an F-8 solo had entered the O Club about the same time and proceeded to light his hair on fire, gathering much attention.  The student nasal radiator retired to the BOQ at a saintly hour along with his instructor to dream of what might have been if it was Wednesday night at the O-Club.

The next morning they went through all the preflight planning they were supposed to do, filing a DD-175 after pouring over charts, checking the weather, then doing a thorough preflight of their trusty steed.  The F-8 sat on the ramp next door.  They went through all that preflight checklist stuff that gets you an above average grade at the hold short.  Nearly complete, the SNA looked up to see the F-8 come around the corner nearly on two wheels and announce ready to take off to the tower.  He went into position on the runway and promptly received clearance to take off.  The engine went to Mil power then suddenly came back to idle as the pilot mumbled something about needing a minute.  The canopy came up, the oxygen mask was ripped off his face and he proceeded to barf off the side of his cockpit.  He promptly lowered the canopy via the tether, threw the locking bolt, put the mask on his face, mumbled he was ready and via afterburner departed the scene of the runway FODing.

He finished the story by stating, "I knew right then I wanted to go fighters."

 

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Thanks to YP

Arrrr!

Laughlin Aerial Force Base got treated to a way less spectacular Puresome show during an early 70's quest for The Perfect Happiness Hour, or something like that. After a hot and dusty gunnery det to MCAS Yumer, followed by a no-time- to-play missile shoot out of Miramar, it was cross country time. There were some compelling reasons to go all the way East Coast, so that meant a fuel stop somewhere in mid Tejas. The metro guys said there would be summer clag and puffies around the various bases at San Antonio and Austin, which were closest to the straight line Puresome drew across the High Altitude charts to the Ritual of Eventual Happiness. Real good. So, passing El Paso, residence of the Lady Sheriff with the Biggest Posse in the West, YP contacted Metro. They told him things he did not want to hear about storms and rain and short visibilities.

Switching back to center frequency, it was time to look at the fuel gage, count on the fingers some, and make a decision. It was still hot and dusty in West Tejas, and, looking out the window, down below was....... Laughlin Aerial Force Base!

Right quickly, YP changed his flight plan destination to Laughlin, peeled off, canceled instruments, and machedy-mached (almost) into the pattern, oil cooler door open and whoostling. Cleared to "pitch," max G's around, manage to get gear down and wing up around the ninety, swoop to land, lookin' Sierra Hotel for the Earth Pigs. The transient line was right by the tower, and, when Puresome shut down, he noticed a group of young and tender Blue Suiters, had to be in flight training, with cameras recording the strange apparatus that had just taxied in. The Crusader looked rode hard and put away wet. There were blast patches around the gun ports. It dripped righteous hydraulic fluid on their pristine ramp.

Clearly, there had to be more to the show. So, Puresome climbed down, festooned with exotic flight gear. He shed his fuming torso harness , cocked on his pisscutter at a jaunty angle, and swaggered into OPS with the twin Martin Baker leg restraints slud down below the knee of his G-suit going Ching! Ching! like Spanish Spurs. The only things missing were a KBar between the teefs and going Arrr! Matey! Arrr! The infant Blue Suiters did not know whether to shat or be blind. It was a Fighter Pilot Moment.

YP 

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Thanks to Outlaw

Half jokingly, think of past and current day fighter pilots and where we're now headed with drone operators in the former No Gut, No Glory arena.



Outlaw out…

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Thanks to Tam and Dr. Rich

"Hoover" pilots will enjoy!

 

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/43335/an-s-3-viking-once-flew-a-captured-terrorist-on-a-record-breaking-flight-to-the-united-states

 

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A couple Thanks to Jimbo ..and Dr. Rich

 

Little girls ...

My wife hosted a dinner party for all our friends, some of whom we hadn't seen for ages and everyone was encouraged to bring their children along as well. 

 

All throughout dinner my wife's best friend's four-year-old daughter stared at me as I sat opposite her. 
The girl could hardly eat her food for staring. I checked my shirt for spots, felt my face for food,  and patted my hair in place, but nothing stopped her from staring at me  

Finally I asked her, "Why are you staring at me?" 

Everyone at the table had noticed her behavior, and the table went quiet, waiting for her response. 
 
The little girl said, "I'm just waiting to see how you drink like a fish." 

 

Thanks to Jimbo ..

 

 

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December 5

This Day in U S Military History

1861 – Gatling gun was patented.

1904 – Japanese destroyed Russian fleet at Port Arthur in Korea.
1929 – Marine Captain A. N. Parker was the first person to fly over unexplored Antarctica.

1932 – German physicist Albert Einstein was granted a visa, making it possible for him to travel to the United States. In 2003 Thomas Levenson authored "Einstein in Berlin."

1933 – Prohibition was repealed–much to the delight of thirsty revelers–when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The nationwide prohibition of the manufacture, sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages was established in January 1919 with passage of the 18th Amendment. Prohibition's supporters gradually became disenchanted with it as the illegal manufacture and sale of liquor fostered a wave of criminal activity. By 1932, the Democratic Party's platform called for the repeal of Prohibition. In February 1933, Congress adopted a resolution proposing the 21st Amendment to repeal the 18th and with Utah's vote in December, Prohibition ended. Three-quarters of the states approved the repeal of the 18th amendment and FDR proclaimed the end of Prohibition.1936 – Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR became constituent republics of Soviet Union.

1941 – USS Lexington, one of the two largest aircraft carriers employed by the United States during World War II, makes its way across the Pacific in order to carry a squadron of dive bombers to defend Midway Island from an anticipated Japanese attack. Negotiations between the United States and Japan had been ongoing for months. Japan wanted an end to U.S. economic sanctions. The Americans wanted Japan out of China and Southeast Asia and Japan to repudiate the Tripartite "Axis" Pact with Germany and Italy before those sanctions could be lifted. Neither side was budging. President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were anticipating a Japanese strike as retaliation-they just didn't know where. The Philippines, Wake Island, Midway Island-all were possibilities. American intelligence reports had sighted the Japanese fleet movement out from Formosa (Taiwan), apparently headed for Indochina. The U.S. State Department demanded from Japanese envoys explanations for the fleet movement across the South China Sea. The envoys claimed ignorance. Army intelligence reassured the president that, despite fears, Japan was most likely headed for Thailand-not the United States. The Lexington never made it to Midway Island; when it learned that the Japanese fleet had, in fact, attacked Pearl Harbor, it turned back-never encountering a Japanese warship en route or employing a single aircraft in its defense. By the time it reached Hawaii, it was December 13.

1945 – At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would return them to the naval base. They never returned. Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron, who had been flying in the area for more than six months, reported that his compass and back-up compass had failed and that his position was unknown. The other planes experienced similar instrument malfunctions. Radio facilities on land were contacted to find the location of the lost squadron, but none were successful. After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers, a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was heard at 6:20 p.m., apparently calling for his men to prepare to ditch their aircraft simultaneously because of lack of fuel. By this time, several land radar stations finally determined that Flight 19 was somewhere north of the Bahamas and east of the Florida coast, and at 7:27 p.m. a search and rescue Mariner aircraft took off with a 13-man crew. Three minutes later, the Mariner aircraft radioed to its home base that its mission was underway. The Mariner was never heard from again. Later, there was a report from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion seen at 7:50 p.m. The disappearance of the 14 men of Flight 19 and the 13 men of the Mariner led to one of the largest air and seas searches to that date, and hundreds of ships and aircraft combed thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and remote locations within the interior of Florida. No trace of the bodies or aircraft were ever found. Although naval officials maintained that the remains of the six aircraft and 27 men were not found because stormy weather destroyed the evidence, the story of the "Lost Squadron" helped cement the legend of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and aircraft are said to disappear without a trace. The Bermuda Triangle is said to stretch from the southern U.S. coast across to Bermuda and down to the Atlantic coast of Cuba and Santo Domingo.

 

Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day

MAGEE, WILLIAM
Rank and organization: Drummer, Company C, 33d New Jersey Infantry. Place and date: At Murfreesboro, Tenn., 5 December 1864. Entered service at:——. Birth: Newark, N.J. Date of issue: 7 February 1866. Citation: In a charge, was among the first to reach a battery of the enemy and, with one or two others, mounted the artillery horses and took two guns into the Union lines.

WALLING, WILLIAM H.
Rank and organization: Captain, Company C, 142d New York Infantry. Place and date: At Fort Fisher, N.C., 25 December 1864. Entered service at:——. Birth: Hartford, N.Y. Date of issue: 28 March 1892. Citation: During the bombardment of the fort by the fleet, captured and brought the flag of the fort, the flagstaff having been shot down.

WELD, SETH L.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company L, 8th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At La Paz, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 5 December 1906. Entered service at: Altamont, Tenn. Birth: Sandy Hook, Md. Date of issue: 20 October 1908. Citation: With his right arm cut open with a bolo, went to the assistance of a wounded constabulary officer and a fellow soldier who were surrounded by about 40 Pulajanes, and, using his disabled rifle as a club, beat back the assailants and rescued his party.

*McWHORTER, WILLIAM A.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company M, 126th Infantry, 32d Infantry Division. Place and date: Leyte, Philippine Islands, 5 December 1944. Entered service at: Liberty, S.C. Birth: Liberty, S.C. G.O. No.: 82, 27 September 1945. Citation: He displayed gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in operations against the enemy. Pfc. McWhorter, a machine gunner, was emplaced in a defensive position with 1 assistant when the enemy launched a heavy attack. Manning the gun and opening fire, he killed several members of an advancing demolition squad, when 1 of the enemy succeeded in throwing a fused demolition charge in the entrenchment. Without hesitation and with complete disregard for his own safety, Pfc. McWhorter picked up the improvised grenade and deliberately held it close to his body, bending over and turning away from his companion. The charge exploded, killing him instantly, but leaving his assistant unharmed. Pfc. McWhorter's outstanding heroism and supreme sacrifice in shielding a comrade reflect the highest traditions of the military service.

 

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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for December 5, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY

 

5 December

1907: Wilbur Wright offered the Army's Board of Ordnance and Fortification an airplane that could carry two people for $25,000. The board asked the Signal Corps to submit its specifications for an airplane. (12)

1911: Bell aileron patent issued to the Aerial Experiment Association (Alexander Graham Bell and others). Glenn Curtiss later bought this patent. (24)

1929: Cmdr Richard E. Byrd made a 400-mile aerial mapping flight along the coast of Antarctica. (24)

1943: Ninth Air Force pilots from the 354th Fighter Group flew P-51s into combat for the first time. They escorted Eighth Air Force bombers 490 miles to targets in northern Germany. The presence of escort fighters reduced bomber losses significantly. (21)

1944: Eighth Air Force B-17s and B-24s, escorted by P-51s, P-47s, and P-38s from Eighth and Ninth Air Force, hammered German targets in Kassel, Mainz, Giessen, Soest, and Bebra. (4)

1949: The USAF diverted $50 million from other projects to build a radar screen in Alaska and certain US areas after detecting a Soviet Atomic explosion in August 1949. (16) (24)

1950: McChord AFB, Wash., received the first two Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft. The Globemaster soon became the mainstay of the strategic airlift fleet. (18) KOREAN WAR. Far East Air Forces Combat Cargo Command evacuated 3,925 patients from Korea in 131 flights, with most of these flying from a frozen airstrip at Hagaru-ri. This effort was the most aeromedical airlift in one day during the Korean War. Greek C-47s joined the Combat Cargo Command airlift to supply UN troops surrounded in northeastern Korea. Additionally, the USAF suspended attacks on the Yalu River bridges, because enemy forces were crossing the frozen river on the ice. (21) (26) (28)

1958: At Cape Canaveral, Fla., a Goose research missile completed the program's last test flight. (6)

1960: The Snark missile research and development effort ended when Cape Canaveral, Fla., launched the eleventh test missile. (6) A ship carrying F-102 Delta Daggers for the Hawaii Air National Guard arrived in Pearl Harbor. The delivery was part of an USAF conversion program from F-86 aircraft. (17)

1961: Cmdr George W. Ellis (US Navy) flew an F4H Phantom II at a speed of 1,400 MPH at a sustained altitude of 66,443.8 feet. (24)

1962: The USAF ended the Atlas flight test program with an "F" model launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on a 5,000-mile flight. Since 11 June 1957, 108 of 151 missiles launches were successful. (16) (24)

1963: Maj Robert A. Rushworth flew the X-15A-1 to Mach 6.06 over Edwards AFB, Calif. (3)

1970: The 954th Military Airlift Group (AF Reserves) from Hill AFB, Utah, assisted in a domestic action program to provide 40,000 pounds of food and clothing to Navajo Indians on reservations spanning the corners of four states. (16)

1974: Sikorsky Aircraft delivered the last HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant helicopter to the USAF. (18)

1978: The Defense Systems Acquisition Review Council II recommended full-scale development of the M-X (Peacekeeper) missile in vertical multiple protective shelter basing. The council also wanted an airmobile basing mode for the missile investigated. (6)

1987: Following Typhoon Nina, six C-130 Hercules aircraft belonging to the 374th Tactical Airlift Wing flew 34 tons of relief supplies to the island of Luzon, Philippines. (16)

1994: The START I Treaty went into force, bringing about reductions in nuclear-capable bombers and missiles. (16)

2001: The USAF awarded a $1.1 billion contract to Lockheed Martin to develop and demonstrate a Reliability Enhancement and Reengining Program for the C-5. The program included hydraulic upgrades, structural improvements to ensure the life of the C-5 to 2040, and environmental control system improvements related to the C-5's Avionics Modernization Program. In the program, four C-5Bs would be equipped with the higher-thrust General Electric CF6 engines used on Boeing's 747 and 767 as well as the Airbus A300. (22) Operation NOBLE EAGLE. The 125th Fighter Wing (Florida Air National Guard) sent its F-15s to patrol the skies over the Kennedy Space Center for the Space Shuttle Endeavour launch. It was the first shuttle launch since the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. (32)

 

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