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Good Sunday Morning July 3.
I hope that your long weekend is going well.
Regards,
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Thanks to Wigs
Watch "The Star-Spangled Banner | In God We Trust" on YouTube
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This Day in Navy and Marine Corps History:
July 3
1898 During the Spanish American War, when Rear Adm. Cerveras Spanish fleet attempts to flee from the harbor at Santiago, Cuba, but the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Squadron successfully pursues, attacks, and systematically destroys the Spanish vessels.
1942 A PBY 5A aircraft successfully fires the first airborne retro-rocket at Goldstone Lake, Calif.
1943 Submarine chaser USS (SC 1048) rescues survivors of a U-boat attack who had been sighted by a Navy blimp in the North Atlantic Ocean. The survivors are from the tanker Bloody Marsh, which was previously torpedoed July 2 and sunk by German submarine (U 66), which during its career sinks 37 Allied vessels until sunk by aircraft from USS Block Island (CVE 21) and USS Buckley 51) nearly a year later.
1944 USS Frost (DE 144) and USS Inch (DE 146) sink German submarine (U 154) off Madiera.
1950 USS Valley Forge (CV 45) and HMS Triumph participate in first carrier action of Korean War. VF 51 aircraft from Valley Forge shoot down two North Korean aircraft. The action is also the first combat test of F9F Panther and AD Skyraider.
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Today in History July 3
1775 George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.
1790 In Paris, the Marquis de Condorcet proposes granting civil rights to women.
1844 American ambassador Caleb Cushing successfully negotiates a commercial treaty with China.
1863 Confederate forces attack the center of the Union line at Gettysburg, but fail to break it.
1878 John Wise flies the first dirigible in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1901 The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, commits its last American robbery near Wagner, Montana, taking $65,000 from a Great Northern train.
1903 The first cable across the Pacific Ocean is spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
1944 The U.S. First Army opens a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.
1945 U.S. troops land at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.
1950 U.S. carrier-based planes attack airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.
1954 Food rationing ends in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
1962 Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
1967 North Vietnamese soldiers attack South Vietnam's only producing coal mine at Nong Son.
1863
Battle of Gettysburg ends
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 3 July 1967… The complete Cold War warrior…
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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BTW as I watched and listened to her sing this morning I got a chill and the screen went out of focus for a bit. It happens every time
It is that time of year again and I think this will bring back a few memories for many of you...I don't know why but hearing Kate Smith sing this today really struck a chord with me. Happy 4th of July tomorrow and God Bless America
This was the era just before TV when radio shows were huge, and American families sat around their radios in the evenings, listening to their favorite entertainers, and no entertainer of that era was bigger than Kate Smith.
Kate was also large -- plus size, as we now say, and the popular phrase still used today is in deference to her: "It ain't over till the fat lady sings."
Kate was also patriotic. It hurt her to see Americans so depressed and afraid of what the next day would bring. She had hope for America and faith in her fellow Americans. She wanted to do something to cheer them up. So she went to the famous American song-writer, Irving Berlin (who also wrote "White Christmas") and asked him to write a song that would make Americans feel good again about their country. When she described what she was looking for, he said he had just the song for her. He went to his files and found a song that he had written but never published, 22 years before in 1917. He gave it to her, and she worked on it with her studio orchestra. She and Irving Berlin were not sure how the song would be received by the public, but both agreed they would not take any profits from God Bless America. Any profits would go to the Boy Scouts of America. Over the years, the Boy Scouts have received millions of dollars in royalties from this song.
This video starts out with Kate Smith coming into the radio studio with the orchestra and an audience. She introduces the new song for the very first time and starts singing. After the first couple verses, with her voice in the background still singing, scenes are shown from the 1940 movie, "You're In the Army Now." At the 4:20 mark of the video you see a young actor in the movie, sitting in an office, reading a paper; it's Ronald Reagan.
To this day, "God Bless America" stirs our patriotic feelings and pride in our country. Back in 1940, when Kate Smith went looking for a song to raise the spirits of her fellow Americans, I doubt whether she realized just how successful the results would be for her fellow Americans during those years of hardship and worry -- and for many generations of Americans to follow. Now that you know the story of the song, I hope you'll enjoy it and treasure it even more.
Many people don't know there's a lead in to the song since it usually starts with "God Bless America."
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Thanks to Dr. Rich
If you ever watched this jet powered truck roar down the runway it was very impressive and had all the noise and excitement you would love. It will be missed at air shows.
1 person dies in accident at Battle Creek air show, police say
Updated: Jul. 02, 2022, 7:16 p.m. | Published: Jul. 02, 2022, 4:17 p.m.
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Thanks to Newell
Military Brethren,
A couple of times during the last few months, friends sent me a short email titled, "I NEVER CARED". It was a snapshot expression of frustration regarding our nation's current sociopolitical climate.
If memory serves me correctly, the thrust of its message was twofold: (1) a rebellion against being told what to think instead of any opposing acceptance of nonconforming independent thought. And (2) a refusal to accept any insulting denigration of either an individual's identity or rights.
Although I don't presently recall I NEVER CARED's exact words or any number of its specific points, its forthright candor and general tenor reminded me of an insightful Sir Winston Churchill warning: "When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
With that in mind, and secure in the knowledge that I'd rather fly with soaring eagles than flutter with preening parrots, I thought to expand on I NEVER CARED's themes. I duplicated some of its bullet-statement style and pirated a few of its talking points, then addressed issues that I trusted vocal eagles would judge important. This felt especially apropos during a weekend in which we celebrate our "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE" and the original thirteen colonies' first stride in the founding of our nation.
Thus, I submit for your consideration, "I NEVER CARED BEFORE…".
Very Respectfully,
Newell Tarrant
"I NEVER CARED BEFORE…"
I never cared before about where you came from in this great Constitutional Republic of ours, until you began demeaning people based on where they were born and the geographical history that contributed to their identities.
I never cared before about your political affiliation, until you started to condemn me for mine.
I never cared what race you were, until you started blaming me for your particular community's problems.
I never cared if you were "gay" or "queer" or "bi" or "pan" or whatever label you chose to call yourself, until you started shoving it combatively in my face.
I never cared if you were well off or poor, because I've been both, until you started vilifying my success … a personal success hard-earned by working diligently and bettering myself.
I never cared if your beliefs were different than mine, until you declared that my beliefs were wrong.
I never cared if you didn't like guns, until you tried to compromise my right to own them.
Time passes. And there are reasonable limits to my patience.
My forbearance has finally waned for sociopolitical "victimization identities," "easily offended snowflake sensibilities," "requisite emotional safe zones," "fashionable revisions of our nation's history," "elevation of any minority's rights over any majority's rights," "mediocracy supplanting meritocracy," "denigration of our national heritage," "CHAZ-like enclaves," "open borders," "sanctuary cities," "equity replacing equality," "socialist nanny-state policies," and "elementary schools providing gender-identification instruction to young children."
I am out of patience. There are actually many millions of people who, like me, have grown weary of all anti-capitalism and anti-American proselytization.
There are hundreds of millions of Americans who still recall and find repugnant the shouted marching-chants of, "Pigs In A Blanket! Fry 'Em Like Bacon!"
Or its complementary mantra:
"What Do We Want?
Dead Cops!
When Do We Want 'Em?
Now!"
We value all lives, but now there are entities trying to force upon us the notion that certain lives matter more than others. To publicly emphasize their viewpoint, they riot, attack, loot and burn. These society-altering campaigns have turned into out-of-control intimidating groupings of thugs, criminals and anarchists who ― for personal gain via their break-in, snatch-and-grab shopping ― destructively rend the law-abiding fabric of our country.
We have suffered enough of this lunacy and lawlessness. America remains the world's greatest haven for an individual's freedom, equal opportunity and upward economic mobility. But the majority of us are finished nurturing offended hyper-sensitivities, or accommodating an elevated status for any select group of our citizenry, or becoming a nation without secure borders, or tolerating further enflamed urban criminal mayhem.
For the criminally wayward, a Bob Dylan forewarning lyric:
"The times, they are a-changin'!"
Because we do care!
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Thanks to Cowboy for finding the url. This is some really bad chit as YP would say.
Thanks to Dr. Rich
Dangers of FENTANYL!!
Fentanyl is killing between 50k and 100k young adults a year in the United States. Made in China, shipped through the Cartels in Mexico, smuggled through our open borders. We have to stop this poison.
Zowie!! Too close Budd.
Those in our government that refuse to close our borders are murderers MANY times over!!
Sent from Rich's iPhone - Please pardon any iSpell errors!
Here's a blog I ran last year about a close one we had because of Fentanyl. Super Close! It can hit ANYONE!
12 Nov 21...The Killer Amongst Us
Here's a story that I thought long and hard about whether to tell it or not. However, given the opioid death epidemic that we're experiencing and the amount of Fentanyl that's crossing our now-open borders, I thought there was a lesson to be learned here. A very personal one.
It happens so often that it doesn't rate even a column-inch on the front page: a parent goes in to get their child up to get ready for school only to find the love of their life laying there lifeless. They aren't addicts. They aren't hell raisers. They are someone who was handed a pill."Hey, everyone's doing it." And it only takes one pill to erase a life. Once that pill is taken, there are no warnings and no cure unless fate is absolutely on your side and the odds, for some unexplainable reason, go in your favor.
First, let me set the stage and explain the setting and the characters in our episode. Marlene is my 70-year-old wife. Bo is my 44-year-old step-son and Emily is his 40-year-old, very long-time girlfriend. They're staying with us temporarily. They have drugs in their history, but are now sober and have been for a while. This factors into the following story in both good and bad ways.
It was a Sunday afternoon and everyone was playing in the pool and I was cleaning our storage shed. Marlene's back has always been, and always will be, a problem that causes occasional bouts of blinding, unbearable pain. This time it was exaggerated by her having cracked a vertebra trying to move something. She had had a couple of wines, but not enough to be even tipsy. However, the alcohol was in her. This became a factor.
Her pain is often so bad that her eyes won't focus and this was one of those times. She was desperate to get some relief from the pain but no normal pain pill helps. Bo had some oxycodone pills left from back when they were taking those and gave her one.
She walked into the bedroom and laid down right on the edge of passing out. Emily has medical training and immediately recognized what was going on. She sat on the edge of the bed and screamed for Bo. Marlene also seemed to know what was going on and asked if she was going to die. Emily told her she wouldn't let her. Her breathing stopped and Emily was getting ready to do CPR, when Bo rushed in. He had remembered that they had some left over Narcan (an opioid inhibitor) and syringes somewhere in the trunk of their car. He ran out, tore the trunk apart, found it, raced back and gave her a shot while calling 911. By this time, she was dark blue and hadn't been breathing for some time. He then came to the shed and got me.
By the time I got to the bedroom, she was still out and blue. In a couple of minutes, which seemed like an hour, the EMTs showed up and immediately hooked her up with a heart monitor while giving her another Narcan shot. Then another. Then another. She wasn't responding as they hoped, so they kept the Narcan coming. I believe the total was eight shots. It was obvious they were working very hard and were very worried.
By this time the ambulance showed up and we had a total of eight or nine EMTs, some in fire department gear, others in medical gear, in our bedroom with a gurney. The scene was beyond being surreal!!! By this time, her eyes were partially open but she wasn't actually conscious and she doesn't remember any of it.
The whole scene was so overwhelming I couldn't sort my feelings out enough to even react to it. I felt absolutely zero emotion. No panic. No fear. No nothing. Maybe a little numb. Somewhere in the back of my mind I don't think that I believed what was happening. This was the kind of scene you saw on television or in a movie. Not in your own bedroom. Not in your own life. She's not an addict and doesn't even take aspirin. Now this!!
The heart monitor was apparently causing them great concern as they hustled her into the ambulance. I tossed Bo in the car and we beat the ambulance to the hospital. By the time we got there, Bo had gotten the message that if Marlene didn't make it, he had better start running. And keep running.
They worked on her for 45 minutes before they'd let us in to see her. The attending doctor (further backed up by our GP later, when he'd reviewed the report) said she was less than two minutes from being dead. Maybe only a minute. If Bo hadn't immediately given her the Narcan, the EMTs couldn't have saved her. One damned minute from disaster. The odds had somehow worked in our favor.
It turns out Bo had gotten the oxy pill on the street and it was laced with fentanyl. This would have been another of those one-pill-one-death stories we're hearing about kids today. One pill is all it takes, when fentanyl is involved.
For a brief moment, Bo felt as if he had saved the day. I corrected him in no uncertain terms that he had caused the day and was definitely not a hero. If she hadn't made it, Bo would have been suicidal, as he's very close to her, even though they fight constantly.
The whole episode, beginning-to-end, was four hours with no after effects. These days, I react to it stronger than I did at the time. I'm choking up as I'm typing this, which is my usual reaction to the memory. We came so damned close to a real tragedy! So close!
It can't be emphasized enough that the abundance of fentanyl has created a situation where every pill, no matter how small, is a potential, immediate, unstoppable overdose. It didn't take three minutes for it to take her down and it was nothing short of a miracle that Bo had the Narcan and needle on hand. That was part of the root cause but it turned out to be a saving grace. Even if we had known exactly what the pill was and what the effect would be, when she put it in her mouth, and had called 911 right at that moment, she would have been gone before EMTs could have arrived. Fentanyl is very serious sh*t!
We are now in a situation at the border that is so bad that our normal population can't begin to understand how incredibly dangerous it is. There is so much Fentanyl coming across and there are so many bad guys processing it into forms that duplicate known pill manufactures that almost no one is safe.
If it can happen to Marlene and me, it can happen to anyone. Nothing should go in our mouths that isn't part of our own prescriptions. Nothing!
And we desperately need to stop it at the source: Close the damn borders and give us back our country. bd
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Thanks to Brett
Stratfor - THE WEEKLY RUNDOWN
The unveiling of Chile's proposed constitution. Chile's constitutional convention will present the final draft of the country's new constitution July 4, nearly a year after the constitutional drafting process began. The convention adopted a maximalist approach, writing the world's longest constitution at 388 articles — assuming the charter goes into effect. Public support for the new constitution has wavered in recent months, but the finalized text will likely give undecided voters a better idea of how the constitution would affect the everyday citizen, potentially leading to greater public support for the document. If approved in a Sept. 4 referendum, the new constitution will eliminate the country's Senate in favor of a smaller body with reduced powers, increase regulations on mining companies and implement gender parity in all branches of government.
An ECOWAS summit on West African sanctions. Ghana will host the 61st Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States on July 3. The summit is expected to focus on determining whether to lift or soften diplomatic and economic sanctions against the military juntas in Mali and Guinea, and to focus on the regional response to Burkina Faso's January coup. While the Guinean junta has done little to show concrete progress toward holding elections, the Malian junta recently released a timetable for local and presidential elections and a constitutional referendum. In light of the worsening economic and humanitarian crisis in Mali, ECOWAS reportedly is considering using the electoral timetable as justification for easing sanctions, a move that would allow the reopening of borders and a resumption of trade and financial exchanges. China goes to Myanmar for a Mekong meeting. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected to travel to Bagan, Myanmar, for the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers' Meeting from July 2-5 along with his counterparts from Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Myanmar junta. Wang will be the highest level Chinese official to visit Myanmar since the junta's February 2021 coup, and will further implicate China in supporting the junta's rule in the eyes of the West and anti-junta ASEAN nations like Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. The other ASEAN members attending the meeting have all either been silent about, or mildly supportive of, the Myanmar junta. So while their attendance will not markedly change the dynamics within ASEAN about its push for peace, it will degrade the bloc's legitimacy as a neutral negotiator in the search for a resolution to Myanmar's civil conflict. A vote in the European Parliament on "green" taxonomy. On July 7, the European Parliament will vote on the European Commission plan to include certain nuclear and natural gas activities in the EU green investment guidelines known as the EU taxonomy. On June 14, two parliamentary committees rejected the commission's proposal; the parliament's plenary now will decide whether to confirm this vote. To stand, the joint committees' motion must win support from a majority of 353 lawmakers; otherwise, the new gas and nuclear rules envisioned in the commission's proposal will apply from January 2023. Whether nuclear energy and natural gas should be included within the EU taxonomy has long been a contentious topic among member states, a debate reflecting broader divisions over how to meet the bloc's goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 intensified by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Thanks to Carl
The End of the Road for American Motors
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This Day in US Military History
July 3
1863 – Troops under Confederate General George Pickett begin a massive attack against the center of the Union lines at Gettysburg on the climactic third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the largest engagement of the war. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia encountered George Meade's Army of the Potomac in Pennsylvania and battered the Yankees for two days. The day before Pickett's charge, the Confederates had hammered each flank of the Union line but could not break through. Now, on July 3, Lee decided to attack the Union center, stationed on Cemetery Ridge, after making another unsuccessful attempt on the Union right flank at Culp's Hill in the morning. The majority of the force consisted of Pickett's division, but there were other units represented among the 15,000 attackers. After a long Confederate artillery bombardment, the Rebel force moved through the open field and up the slight rise of Cemetery Ridge. But by the time they reached the Union line, the attack had been broken into many small units, and they were unable to penetrate the Yankee center. The failed attack effectively ended the battle of Gettysburg. On July 4, Lee began to withdraw his forces to Virginia. The casualties for both armies were staggering. Lee lost 28,000 of his 75,000 soldiers, and Union losses stood at over 22,000. It was the last time Lee threatened Northern territory.
1890 – Idaho, the last of the 50 states to be explored by whites, is admitted to the union. Exploration of the North American continent mostly proceeded inward from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and northward from Spanish Mexico. Therefore, the rugged territory that would become Idaho long remained untouched by Spanish, French, British, and American trappers and explorers. Even as late as 1805, Idaho Indians like the Shoshone had never encountered a white man. That changed with the arrival of the American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in the summer of 1805. Searching for a route over the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River, Lewis and Clark traveled through Idaho with the aid of the Shoshone Indians and their horses. British fur traders and trappers followed a few years later, as did missionaries and a few hardy settlers. As with many remote western states, large-scale settlement began only after gold was discovered. Thousands of miners rushed into Idaho when word of a major gold strike came in September 1860. Merchants and farmers followed, eager to make their fortunes "mining the miners." By 1880, Idaho boasted a population of 32,610. In the southern section of the territory, many settlers were Mormons who had been dispatched from Salt Lake City to found new colonies. Increasingly, Idaho territory became divided between a Mormon-dominated south and an anti-Mormon north. In the mid-1880s, anti-Mormon Republicans used widespread public antipathy toward the Mormon practice of polygamy to pass legislation denying the predominantly Democratic Mormons the vote. With the Democratic Mormon vote disarmed, Idaho became a Republican-dominated territory. National Republicans eager to increase their influence in the U.S. Congress began to push for Idaho statehood in 1888. The following year, the Idaho territorial legislature approved a strongly anti-Mormon constitution. The U.S. Congress approved the document on this day in 1890, and Idaho became the 43rd state in the Union
1950 – USS Valley Forge and HMS Triumph participate in first carrier action of Korean Conflict. VF-51 aircraft (Valley Forge) shoot down 2 North Korean aircraft. The action is first combat test of F9F Panther and AD Skyraider.
1950 – Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Leonard H. Plog, flying a F9F Panther jet fighter, shot down a Yak-9P, claiming the first U.S. Navy aerial victory of the Korean War.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CUSHING, ALONZO H.
Rank and Organization: 1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Battery A, 4th US Artillery, II Corps, Army of the Potomac. Place and Date: Gettysburg, PA, July 3rd, 1863. Entered Service At: Fredonia, New York. Born: 19 January 1841, at Delafield, Wisconsin. Departed: Yes (07/03/1863). G.O. Number: . Date of Issue: 11/06/2014. Citation: First Lieutenant Alonzo H. Cushing distinguished himself by acts of bravery above and beyond the call of duty while serving as an artillery commander in Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery, Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 3rd, 1863 during the American Civil War. That morning, Confederate forces led by General Robert E. Lee began cannonading First Lieutenant Cushing's position on Cemetery Ridge. Using field glasses, First Lieutenant Cushing directed fire for his own artillery battery. He refused to leave the battlefield after being struck in the shoulder by a shell fragment. As he continued to direct fire, he was struck again – this time suffering grievous damage to his abdomen. Still refusing to abandon his command, he boldly stood tall in the face of Major General George E. Pickett's charge and continued to direct devastating fire into oncoming forces. As the Confederate forces closed in, First Lieutenant Cushing was struck in the mouth by an enemy bullet and fell dead beside his gun. His gallant stand and fearless leadership inflicted severe casualties upon Confederate forces and opened wide gaps in their lines, directly impacting the Union force's ability to repel Pickett's charge. First Lieutenant Cushing's extraordinary heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty at the cost of his own life are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery, Army of the Potomac, and the United States Army.
HINCKS, WILLIAM B.
Rank and organization: Sergeant Major, 14th Connecticut Infantry. Place and date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 3 July 1863. Entered service at: Bridgeport, Conn. Birth: Bucksport, Me. Date of issue: 1 December 1864. Citation: During the highwater mark of Pickett's charge on 3 July 1863 the colors of the 14th Tenn. Inf. C.S.A. were planted 50 yards in front of the center of Sgt. Maj. Hincks' regiment. There were no Confederates standing near it but several were Iying down around it. Upon a call for volunteers by Maj. Ellis, commanding, to capture this flag, this soldier and 2 others leaped the wall. One companion was instantly shot. Sgt. Maj. Hincks outran his remaining companion running straight and swift for the colors amid a storm of shot. Swinging his saber over the prostrate Confederates and uttering a terrific yell, he seized the flag and hastily returned to his lines. The 14th Tenn. carried 12 battle honors on its flag. The devotion to duty shown by Sgt. Maj. Hlncks gave encouragement to many of his comrades at a crucial moment of the battle.
WINANS, ROSWELL
Rank and organization: Brigadier General (then First Sergeant), U.S. Marine Corps. Place and date: Guayacanas, Dominican Republic, 3 July 1916. Entered service at: Washington. Born. 9 December 1887, Brookville, Ind. G.O. No.: 244, 30 October 1916. Citation: During an engagement at Guavacanas on 3 July 1916, 1st Sgt. Winans participated in action against a considerable force of rebels on the line of march. During a running fight of 1,200 yards, our forces reached the enemy entrenchments and Cpl. Joseph A. Gowin, U.S.M.C., placed the machinegun, of which he had charge, behind a large log across the road and immediately opened fire on the trenches. He was struck once but continued firing his gun, but a moment later he was again struck and had to be dragged out of the position into cover. 1st Sgt. Winans, U.S.M.C., then arrived with a Colt's gun which he placed in a most exposed position, coolly opened fire on the trenches and when the gun jammed, stood up and repaired it under fire. All the time Glowin and Winans were handling their guns they were exposed to a very heavy fire which was striking into the logs and around the men, 7 men being wounded and 1 killed within 20 feet. 1st Sgt. Winans continued flring his gun until the enemy had abandoned the trenches.
*KOELSCH, JOHN KELVIN.
Rank and organization: Lieutenant (J.G.), U.S. Navy, Navy helicopter rescue unit. Place and date: North Korea, 3 July 1951. Entered service at: Los Angeles, Calif. Birth: London, England. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with a Navy helicopter rescue unit. Although darkness was rapidly approaching when information was received that a marine aviator had been shot down and was trapped by the enemy in mountainous terrain deep in hostile territory, Lt. (J.G.) Koelsch voluntarily flew a helicopter to the reported position of the downed airman in an attempt to effect a rescue. With an almost solid overcast concealing everything below the mountain peaks, he descended in his unarmed and vulnerable aircraft without the accompanying fighter escort to an extremely low altitude beneath the cloud level and began a systematic search. Despite the increasingly intense enemy fire, which struck his helicopter on 1 occasion, he persisted in his mission until he succeeded in locating the downed pilot, who was suffering from serious burns on the arms and legs. While the victim was being hoisted into the aircraft, it was struck again by an accurate burst of hostile fire and crashed on the side of the mountain. Quickly extricating his crewmen and the aviator from the wreckage, Lt. (J.G.) Koelsch led them from the vicinity in an effort to escape from hostile troops, evading the enemy forces for 9 days and rendering such medical attention as possible to his severely burned companion until all were captured. Up to the time of his death while still a captive of the enemy, Lt. (J.G.) Koelsch steadfastly refused to aid his captors in any manner and served to inspire his fellow prisoners by his fortitude and consideration for others. His great personal valor and heroic spirit of self-sacrifice throughout sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
*SHUCK, WILLIAM E., JR.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, Company G, 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division (Rein.). Place and date: Korea, 3 July 1952. Entered service at: Cumberland, Md. Born. 16 August 1926, Cumberland, Md. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a squad leader of Company G, in action against enemy aggressor forces. When his platoon was subjected to a devastating barrage of enemy small-arms, grenade, artillery, and mortar fire during an assault against strongly fortified hill positions well forward of the main line of resistance, S/Sgt. Shuck, although painfully wounded, refused medical attention and continued to lead his machine gun squad in the attack. Unhesitatingly assuming command of a rifle squad when the leader became a casualty, he skillfully organized the 2 squads into an attacking force and led 2 more daring assaults upon the hostile positions. Wounded a second time, he steadfastly refused evacuation and remained in the foremost position under heavy fire until assured that all dead and wounded were evacuated. Mortally wounded by an enemy sniper bullet while voluntarily assisting in the removal of the last casualty, S/Sgt. Shuck, by his fortitude and great personal valor in the face of overwhelming odds, served to inspire all who observed him. His unyielding courage throughout reflects the highest credit upon himself and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
*BLANCHFIELD, MICHAEL R.
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company A, 4th Battalion, 503d Infantry, 173d Airborne Brigade. Place and date: Binh Dinh Province, Republic of Vietnam, 3 July 1969. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill. Born: 4 January 1950, Minneapolis, Minn. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Sp4c. Blanchfield distinguished himself while serving as a rifleman in Company A on a combat patrol. The patrol surrounded a group of houses to search for suspects. During the search of 1 of the huts, a man suddenly ran out toward a nearby tree line. Sp4c. Blanchfield, who was on guard outside the hut, saw the man, shouted for him to halt, and began firing at him as the man ignored the warning and continued to run. The suspect suddenly threw a grenade toward the hut and its occupants. Although the exploding grenade severely wounded Sp4c. Blanchfield and several others, he regained his feet to continue the pursuit of the enemy. The fleeing enemy threw a second grenade which landed near Sp4c. Blanchfield and several members of his patrol. Instantly realizing the danger, he shouted a warning to his comrades. Sp4c. Blanchfield unhesitatingly and with complete disregard for his safety, threw himself on the grenade, absorbing the full and fatal impact of the explosion. By his gallant action and self-sacrifice, he was able to save the lives and prevent injury to 4 members of the patrol and several Vietnamese civilians in the immediate area. Sp4c. Blanchfield's extraordinary courage and gallantry at the cost of his 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 U.S. Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for July 3, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
July 3
1915: Lt Byron Q. Jones became the first Army officer to deliberately loop and stall an aircraft at San Diego. (4) (24)
1936: Henry Ford bought the Wright Brothers workshop, where the Wrights built the first airplane, in Dayton for his Greenfield Village exhibit in Dearborn, Mich. (24)
1942: Lt Cmdr J. H. Hean (USN) flew a PBY-5A over Goldstone Lake, Calif., to fire the first retrorocket in flight. (24)
1949: The USAF gave the B-29 Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to the Smithsonian Institute. (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg ordered the 22d Bombardment Group and 92d Bombardment Group to deploy with their B-29s to the Far East for conventional bombing operations against North Korea. FEAF continued to airlift US Army troops to Korea, but substituted smaller C-46s and C-47s for C-54s, which damaged Pusan's runways. Four F-80s completed the first mission with external rockets. Carrier F9F Pantherjets went into action in Korea with strikes in and around Pyongyong. This day also marked the first Navy kills in air combat as Lt Leonard H. Plog and Ensign E. W. Brown each shot down a Yak-9. (1) (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Brig Gen Chester E. McCarty, 315th AD commander, flew the 374th Troop Carrier Wing's first operational C-124 Globemaster from Japan to Korea. Additionally, in 13 sorties over enemy territory, C-47s dropped more than 22 million leaflets, over one-sixth of all dropped during the month. (28)
1958: A Boeing 707 Stratoliner set a commercial speed record by flying 1,550 miles from Mexico City to Los Angeles in 3 hours 9 minutes. (24)
1970: Through 13 July, MAC's first C-5A "Galaxy," assigned to the 437 MAW, left Charleston AFB on its first mission outside the CONUS. The Galaxy made a 10-day tour of PACAF bases to provide a first-hand explanation of its unique capabilities to MAC officers and airmen. The C5A stopped at Hickam AFB, Andersen AB, Clark AB, Cam Ranh Bay, Kadena and Yokota ABs in Japan, and Elmendorf AFB, before returning to Charleston on 13 July. In the states, the C-5 also visited Dover and Travis AFBs, on its 21,500-nautical-mile tour. (17)
1992: Operation PROVIDE PROMISE. The US European Command launched the operation to send C-130s, C-141s, C-5s, and C-9s to airlift relief supplies to Bosnia-Herzegovina on a regular basis. (16) (26)
1996: Majors Gavin L. Ketchen and Richard Vanderburgh from the 509 BW flew the twelfth operational B-2 Spirit from the Northrop Grumman plant at Palmdale, Calif., to Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. (AFNEWS, 9 Jul 96)
2001: Lockheed Martin ferried the X-35B Joint Strike Fighter to Edwards AFB. (3)
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