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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History
Today in Naval and Marine Corps History
October 1
1844 Naval Observatory headed by LT Matthew Fontaine Maury occupies first permanent quarters.
1880 John Phillip Sousa becomes leader of Marine Corps Band
1942 USS Roe (DD 418) rescues 17 merchant seamen and two Naval Armed Guard sailors of the freighter SS West Chetac who drifted off the coast of Brazil for eight days after their vessel is sunk by German submarine U 175.
1955 Commissioning of USS Forrestal (CVA-59), first of postwar supercarriers
1980 USS Cochrane (DDG-21) rescues 104 Vietnamese refugees 620 miles east of Saigon
1990 USS Independence (CV-62) enters Persian Gulf (first carrier in Persian Gulf since 1974)
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This Day in History
October 1
331BC Alexander the Great decisively shatters King Darius III's Persian army at Gaugamela (Arbela), in a tactical masterstroke that leaves him master of the Persian Empire.
1273 Rudolf of Hapsburg is elected emperor in Germany.
1588 The feeble Sultan Mohammed Shah of Persia, hands over power to his 17-year old son Abbas.
1791 In Paris, the National Legislative Assembly holds its first meeting.
1839 The British government decides to send a punitive naval expedition to China.
1847 Maria Mitchell, American astronomer, discovers a comet and is elected the same day to the American Academy of Arts---the first woman to be so honored. The King of Denmark awarded her a gold medal for her discovery.
1856 The first installment of Gustav Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary appears in the Revue de Paris after the publisher refuses to print a passage in which the character Emma has a tryst in the back seat of a carriage.
1864 The Condor, a British blockade-runner, is grounded near Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
1878 General Lew Wallace is sworn in as governor of New Mexico Territory. He went on to deal with the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid and write Ben-Hur. His Civil War heroics earned him the moniker Savior of Cincinnati.
1890 Yosemite National Park is dedicated in California.
1908 The Ford Model T, the first car for millions of Americans, hits the market. Over 15 million Model Ts are eventually sold, all of them black.
1942 The German Army grinds to a complete halt within the city of Stalingrad.
1943 British troops in Italy enter Naples and occupy Foggia airfield.
1944 The U.S. First Army begins the siege Aachen, Germany.
1946 Eleven Nazi war criminals are sentenced to be hanged at Nuremberg trials---Hermann Goring, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachin von Ribbentrop, Fritz Saukel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg.
1947 First flight of F-86 Sabre jet fighter, which would win fame in the Korean War.
1949 Mao Zedong establishes the People's Republic of China.
1957 "In God We Trust" appears on US paper currency as an act to distinguish the US from the officially atheist USSR; the motto had appeared on coins at various times since 1864.
1958 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) replaces the 43-year-old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the US.
1960 Nigeria becomes independent from the UK.
1961 The Federal Republic of Cameroon is formed by the merger of East and West Cameroon.
1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson debuts; Carson will remain The Tonight Show host until 1992.
1964 The first Free Speech Movement protest erupts spontaneously on the University of California, Berkeley campus; students demanded an end to the ban of on-campus political activities.
1964 Japanese "bullet trains" (Shinkansen) begin high-speed rail transit between Tokyo and Osaka.
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, the second of Disney's "Magic Kingdoms."
1971 First CT or CAT brain scan performed, at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1974 Five Nixon aides--Kenneth Parkinson, Robert Mardian, Nixon's Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell--go on trial for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation.
1975 Legendary boxing match: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila."
1979 US returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
1982 First compact disc player, released by Sony.
1989 Denmark introduces the world's first "civil union" law granting same-sex couples certain legal rights and responsibilities but stopping short of recognizing same-sex marriages.
1991 Siege of Dubrovnik begins in the Croatian War of Independence.
2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over judicial functions of the House of Lords.
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From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 1 October 1967… NYT writer Tom Hedrick: Reviews the American "strategic interdiction and bridge removal plan."
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.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War
. Listed by last name and has other info
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Servicemembers Killed in the Vietnam War
(This site was sent by a friend last week and I forgot to forward. The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature. https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )
Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
By: Kipp Hanley
AUGUST 15, 2022
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: Could the TWA 800 Cover-Up Finally Come Undone? - American Thinker
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Thanks to Bruddah ....
I'm impressed that no participants or eye witnesses to this horrific event of 26 years ago have come forward to "fess up."
Somebody pulled the trigger and I don't even know the names of the ships that were involved. I'm sure I could find out, but what's the point? The Gummint has done a great job in covering up this incident. "Yeah, it was a guy in seat 13A that was smoking while on his cell phone that caused a short in the Pupper Snuffer compartment that blew up the main fuel cell. Yeah, that's it! That's the ticket!" NTSB spokes mouth.
The USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner and we immediately knew who dun it. Not so when we shoot down our own. Had a Republican been President at the time, the press would have latched on to this story like a moray eel chomping down on your wrist. It wouldn't let go until it had the full story or the victim was dead. Or both. But a Republican was not president so they just moved on.
Somebody gave the order. Somebody locked up the target on the radar. Somebody pulled the trigger. Somebody knows the full story. But the gummint doesn't want us to know. The Gummint doesn't want to take any responsibility for its actions. The Gummint feels totally justified in continuously lying to the nation about its role in this major mistake.
Bill Clinton has never had to fess up to any of his lies and he never had to make a truthful statement concerning the US Navy and TWA 800. He wasn't responsible for it, but it happened on his watch. No better liar than him to cover up what our Navy did.
Is it any wonder why no one trusts the Gummint? Why should we?
Bruddah
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September 30, 2022
Could the TWA 800 Cover-Up Finally Come Undone?
By Jack Cashill
A month ago American Thinker published my article on whistleblower William Teele, the ten-year U.S. Navy vet who shared his own perspective on the TWA Flight 800, the 747 that blew up off the coast of Long Island in July 1996. In that Teele was not on the ship that fired the missile, I asked for those with more information to share what they knew by contacting me through my website.
The quantity and quality of the response stunned me. As a spoiler alert, no respondent admitted to being a witness, and some did not believe the Navy fired the missile. That said, all were respectful and informative. Several added corrective or confirming details. Some sample intros:
While working as a commercial airline (NWA) Captain…
I spent 3-and-a-half years aboard the USS Nimitz…
I'm a retired USN Commander…
I was a GMM or gunners mate missiles while in the US Navy…
I'm retired mil. I have studied weapons for decades…
I am a retired Navy Surface Warfare Officer Captain…
I was a first officer flying the Airbus A320 for Northwest Airlines…
I was in the Navy for 20 years, four ships (3 of them "shooters")…
I was qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer
As much as I would love to hear from a firsthand witness, I believe the courts hold more immediate potential. On June 28, 2022, attorney John Roddy with the Boston firm of Bailey and Glasser filed a lawsuit on behalf of numerous family members of those killed in the 1996 crash. Based on the research of physicist Tom Stalcup, the suit is stunning in its sophistication and detail.
I first met Stalcup when I interviewed him for a documentary on TWA 800 called "Silenced" that James Sanders and I produced in 2001. I was a latecomer to this extraordinary story, but Stalcup had been deeply involved in the case from very nearly the beginning and remains committed to this day.
As a quick refresher, TWA Flight 800 left JFK airport in New York en route to Paris on July 17, 1996. Twelve minutes after its 8:19 departure the ill-fated 747 blew up off the south coast of Long Island, killing all 230 souls aboard.
The suit wastes no time in establishing its central argument: "After the incident, the federal government released a false report contending that the explosion was the result of an electrical fire in the airplane's center." The real cause, the suit argues, was "an errant United States missile fired at aerial target drones flying nearby."
Based on the "overwhelming evidence" uncovered by Stalcup through his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation in Massachusetts federal court, the suit names as the government defendants in this tragic mishap the Missile Defense Agency, the United States Department of Defense, and the United States Navy.
The contractor defendants cited are Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. Working "side-by-side," these defendants were reportedly testing the Aegis Weapons System and firing SM-2 missiles with live warheads at aerial missile targets off the coast of New York "in close proximity to commercial airline flight paths." The suit leaves open the possibility that more than one "warship" was involved in the launch.
The suit walks through the well-established facts surrounding the investigation. The FBI froze out the National Transportation Board despite the NTSB's legal responsibility to manage domestic air crashes. According to the suit, "The FBI also enlisted the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA")." Yes, the CIA was involved from day one, but I suspect that "enlisting" the agency was not the FBI's idea.
The suit adds new information, namely that "the FBI removed all copies (original and duplicates) of Navy radar tapes from the Navy, placing them out of the NTSB's reach."
The suit addresses the CIA animation used to discredit the scores of excellent eyewitness, but adds this detail, "Despite outwardly proclaiming that the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was, in the CIA's words, 'NOT A MISSILE,' several internal government communications (that have only come to light in the recent FOIA litigation) indicated that a missile was involved."
The suit reviews the history of Navy's Aegis Missile system responsible for the misfire. The Department of Defense (DOD) pushed the system quickly through production and deployment thinking the missile threat from hostile countries "here and now." Although the suit does not mention this detail, there was a real fear at the time of terrorists using planes as missiles, a fear that proved tragically well-grounded five years later.
The radar needed particular upgrading of "its ability to operate close to shore and to properly integrate into existing systems." This helps explain why the Navy was testing in a crowded air space. To address the deficiencies, the DOD directed its contractors to integrate a new radar and computer system into all new ship designs, known as the SPY-ID(V).
"In 1996 the only option with the hardware and computing power sufficient to operate the SPY-ID(V)," the suit claims, "was a New Jersey land-based testing site called the Combat Systems Engineering and Development Site ("CSEDS")."
Rather than wait five years for ships to be built with the computing power to operate this system, "The SPY-ID(V) was tested on an expedited basis in and around the CSEDS in New Jersey, in a highly congested area."
"In 1996," the suit continues, "the Defendants began testing the SPY-ID(V) using 'simulated and actual targets' in and around New Jersey. Stalcup unearthed evidence that the testing of missiles with live warheads began as early as May 1996.
The suit talks about the videotape, which I have seen, shot by an electrician on the roof of Long Island hospital. The fellow was recording the sunrise and inadvertently captured a missile test off the Long Island's south coast, and this just five days before the TWA 800 disaster. Despite that tragedy, the suit contends, the Navy continued to test its missile system in that same commercial corridor.
The suit cites the testimony of Steve Habeger, the Executive Director of CSEDS's sister site in Virginia. Habeger testified in Stalcup's FOIA suit that he "was personally aware of at least a dozen Aegis missile tests off the East Coast of the United States around this same overall time period." Habeger also testified that within minutes of the disaster, he was ordered "to allow the FBI to remove all Navy radar tapes from his facility that might have recorded the TWA 800 incident." His commanding officer and FBI custody records corroborated his testimony.
Stalcup also discovered that the Joint Terrorism Task Force directed the FBI to obtain original Navy radar tapes showing an object "heading straight for TWA 800." The FBI confiscated these tapes immediately after the crash. They show "an object 'impact' TWA 800, which directly contradicts the FBI's, CIAs, and NTSB's public conclusions that what caused the incident was 'NOT A MISSILE.'"
In sum, "The evidence reveals that TWA 800 was brought down by a missile and the government hid this truth from Plaintiffs and the public at large for over twenty-five years." My 2016 book, TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover Up, the Conspiracy, book covers much of this information and the political dynamics surrounding the investigation. Stalcup adds what I could only allude to, namely the technological details of how the systems work and why there was such urgency in deploying them.
In last several years especially, many patriotic Americans have come to the reluctant conclusion that, yes, the government is capable of lying to us. Some of them have first-hand knowledge of TWA 800's demise. In the final analysis it will be they who provide the counterweight to the powerful forces that want this suit to fail.
For more information, see www.cashill.com
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Geopolitical Futures:
Keeping the future in focus
Daily Memo: Putin Announces Annexation
The Russian president called on Kyiv to return to the negotiating table.
By: GPF Staff
September 30, 2022
Putebin's announcement. Following so-called referendums held earlier this week in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formal annexation of the four occupied regions of Ukraine on Friday. He said the regions would be "Russian forever" and promised to use all available means to protect all of Russia. He also called on Kyiv to return to the negotiating table.
Meddling. During a videoconference with the heads of security and intelligence for the Commonwealth of Independent States, a grouping of post-Soviet countries, Putin accused the West of trying to incite conflict among CIS member states. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev raised similar concerns on his trip to Abay region, saying forces from abroad intend to sow confusion in Kazakhstan, noting an increase in the spread of misinformation and cyberattacks. The tug-of-war between Russia and the West will be playing out in the post-Soviet space as the war in Ukraine continues.
Erdogan chat. Meanwhile, Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone on Thursday and discussed the situation in Ukraine. Ankara is seeking to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv.
Meeting in Washington. Senior Palestinian Authority official Hussein al-Sheikh will reportedly meet with U.S. national security adviser Jack Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the weekend. It will be the first meeting between senior Palestinian and American officials in Washington in five years.
Chip boost. The Japanese government will provide U.S. chipmaker Micron Technology up to $320 million in subsidies to produce advanced memory chips at its Japanese plant. The deal, which aims at reducing dependence on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, was reached after months of negotiations between the two countries on expanding cooperation in semiconductor production.
Ankara offers support. Commenting on the U.S. decision last week to lift an arms embargo against Cyprus, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara would send reinforcements and arms to the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus if necessary.
Trilateral drills. South Korea, the United States and Japan on Friday held anti-submarine exercises near the Korean Peninsula for the first time in five years. This comes amid concerns that North Korea is getting ready to launch a nuclear test.
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This Day in U S Military History……. October 1
1874 – Supply Corps purser, LT J. Q. Barton, given leave to enter service of new Japanese Navy to organize a Pay Department and instruct Japanese about accounts. He served until 1 October 1877 when he again became a purser in the U.S. Navy. In 1878, the Emperor of Japan conferred on him the Fourth Class of Rising Sun for his service.
1878 – General Lew Wallace was sworn in as governor of New Mexico Territory. He went on to deal with the Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid and wrote Ben-Hur.
1942 – Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, made its maiden flight. Development of the P-59, America's first jet-propelled airplane, was ordered personally by General H. H. Arnold on September 4, 1941. The project was conducted under the utmost secrecy, with Bell building the airplane and General Electric the engine. The first P-59 was completed in mid-1942 and it made its initial flight at Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards Air Force Base), California. One year later, the airplane was ordered into production, to be powered by I-14 and I-16 engines, improved versions of the original I-A. Bell produced 66 P-59s. Although the airplane's performance was not spectacular and it never got into combat, the P-59 provided training for AAF personnel and invaluable data for subsequent development of higher performance jet airplanes.
1946 – Twelve Nazi war criminals were sentenced to be hanged at Nuremberg trials– Karl Donitz, Hermann Goring, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachin von Ribbentrop, Fritz Saukel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg. Karl Donitz was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
1947 – The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time. The North American F-86 Sabre — sometimes called the Sabrejet — was a transonic jet fighter aircraft. Produced by North American Aviation, the Sabre is best known as the United States' first swept wing fighter which could counter the similarly-winged Soviet MiG-15 in high-speed dogfights over the skies of the Korean War (1950-53). Considered one of the best and most important fighter aircraft in that war, the F-86 is also rated highly in comparison with fighters of other eras. Although it was developed in the late 1940s and was outdated by the end of the '50s, the Sabre proved versatile and adaptable, and continued as a front-line fighter in numerous air forces until the last active operational examples were retired by the Bolivian Air Force in 1994. Its success led to an extended production run of more than 7,800 aircraft between 1949 and 1956, in the U.S., Japan and Italy. Variants were built in Canada and Australia. The Sabre was by far the most-produced Western jet fighter, with total production of all variants at 9,860 units.
1955 – Commissioning of USS Forrestal (CVA-59), first of postwar supercarriers. Forrestal (CVA-59) was launched 11 December 1954 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Mrs. James V Forrestal, widow of Secretary Forrestal; and commissioned 1 October 1955, Captain R. L. Johnson i n command. From her home port, Norfolk, Va., Forrestal spent the first year of her commissioned service in intensive training operations off the Virginia Capes and in the Caribbean. An important assignment was training aviators in the use of her advance d facilities, a duty on which she often operated out of Mayport, Fla. On 7 November 1956, she put to sea from Mayport to operate in the eastern Atlantic during the Suez Crisis ready to enter the Mediterranean should her great strength be necessary. She returned to Norfolk 12 December to prepare for her first deployment with the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, for which she sailed 15 January 1957. On this, as on her succeeding tours of duty in the Mediterranean, Forrestal visited many ports to allow dignitaries and the general public to come aboard and view the tremendous power for peace she represented. For military observers, she sta ged underway demonstrations to illustrate her capacity to bring air power to and from the sea in military operations on any scale. She returned to Norfolk 22 July 1957 for exercises off the North Carolina coast in preparation for her first NATO Operation, "Strikeback," in the North Sea. This deployment, between 3 September and 22 October, found her visiting Southampton England, as well as drilling in the highly important task of coordinating United States naval power with that of other NATO nations. The next year found Forrestal participating in a series of major fleet exercises, as well as taking part in experimental flight operations. During the Lebanon Crisis of summer 1958, the great carrier was again called upon to operate in the ea stern Atlantic to back up naval operations in the Mediterranean. She sailed from Norfolk 11 July to embark an air group at Mayport 2 days later, then patrolled the Atlantic until returning to Norfolk 17 July. On her second tour of duty in the Mediterranean, from 2 September 1958 to 12 March 1959, Forrestal again combined a program of training, patrol, and participation in major exercises with ceremonial, hospitality and public visiting. Her guest list during this cruise was headed by Secretary of Defense N. H. McElroy. Returning to Norfolk, she continued the never ending task of training new aviators, constantly maintaining her readiness for instant reaction to any demand for her services brought on by international events. Visitors during the year included King Hussein of Jordan. Forrestal was decommissioned September 11, 1993.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
October 1
KEEN, JOSEPH S.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company D, 13th Michigan Infantry. Place and date: Near Chattahoochee River, Ga., 1 October 1864. Entered service at: Detroit, Mich. Born: 24 July 1843, England. Date of issue: 4 August 1899. Citation: While an escaped prisoner of war within the enemy's lines witnessed an important movement of the enemy, and at great personal risk made his way through the enemy's lines and brought news of the movement to Sherman's army.
CLANCY, JAMES T.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 1st New Jersey Cavalry. Place and date: At Vaughn Road, Va., 1 October 1864. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Albany, N.Y. Date of issue: 3 July 1865. Citation: Shot the Confederate Gen. Dunovant dead during a charge, thus confusing the enemy and greatly aiding in his repulse.
SCHWAN, THEODORE
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 10th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Peebles Farm, Va., 1 October 1864. Entered service at: New York. Born: 9 July 1841, Germany. Date of issue: 12 December 1898. Citation: At the imminent risk of his own life, while his regiment was falling back before a superior force of the enemy, he dragged a wounded and helpless officer to the rear, thus saving him from death or capture.
WRIGHT, ROBERT
Rank and organization: Private, Company G, 14th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Chapel House, Farm, Va., 1 October 1864. Entered service at: Woodstock, Conn. Birth: Ireland. Date of issue: 25 November 1869. Citation: Gallantry in action.
THOMPSON, JOSEPH H.
Rank and organization: Major, U.S. Army, 110th Infantry, 28th Division. Place and date: Near Apremont, France, 1 October 1918. Entered service at: Beaver Falls, Pa. Born: 26 September 1871, Kilkeel, County Down, Ireland. G.O. No.: 21, W.D., 1925. Citation: Counterattacked by 2 regiments of the enemy, Maj. Thompson encouraged his battalion in the front line of constantly braving the hazardous fire of machineguns and artillery. His courage was mainly responsible for the heavy repulse of the enemy. Later in the action, when the advance of his assaulting companies was held up by fire from a hostile machinegun nest and all but 1 of the 6 assaulting tanks were disabled, Maj. Thompson, with great gallantry and coolness, rushed forward on foot 3 separate times in advance of the assaulting line, under heavy machinegun and antitank-gun fire, and led the 1 remaining tank to within a few yards of the enemy machinegun nest, which succeeded in reducing it, thereby making it possible for the infantry to advance.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 1, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
1 October
1907: At Mrs. Bell's suggestion, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell formed the Aerial Experiment Association at his summer home in Beinn Breagh, Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The association included Dr. Bell, Frederick W. "Casey" Baldwin, John A. "Douglas" McCurdy, Glenn Curtiss, and Thomas E. Selfridge. (24)
1942: KEY EVENT. Robert M. Stanley flew the Bell XP-59A, the first U.S. turbojet aircraft, for the first time at Muroc Field. (21)
1947: North American's prototype F-86 Sabre (XP-86) first flew at Muroc Dry Lake. (20) (24)
1951: KOREAN WAR/Operation SNOWBALL. In an experiment, through 3 October C-119s from the 315 AD dropped 55-gallon drums filled with napalm behind enemy lines. (28) The USAF activated the 1st Pilotless Bomber Squadron at the Missile Test Center, Cocoa, Fla.
1952: Operation FOX PETER TWO: Through 14 October, in a second mass flight, 75 F-84Gs of the 27 FW, with Col Donald Blakeslee leading, extended air refueling over the western Pacific. The first refueling occurred between California and Hawaii and the second the 2,575 miles between Midway Island and Japan. The Fox Peter operations proved that fighters could be moved to the Orient quickly by air to avoid the corrosion potential of water transport. (18)
1955: The Navy started the super carrier age by commissioning the USS Forrestal, the first designed for jet aircraft. (7)
1957: USAF personnel launched their first intercontinental missile, the XSM-62 Snark, in a flight from Cape Canaveral. (16) (24) TAC received its first F-104C. General Thomas S. Power, the CINCSAC, decided to begin ground alert operations to counter the Soviet ICBM threat. Through 2 October, a Transworld Airlines Jetstream made the first nonstop flight over the Great Circle route from London to San Francisco.
1960: The Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar post at Thule, Greenland, began operations. It was one of three planned warning sites against enemy attacks on North America. (16) (24) SAC activated the last Atlas E squadron, the 549 SMS, at Francis E. Warren AFB. (6)
1961: The last Atlas F squadron, the 556 SMS, activated at Plattsburgh AFB, N.Y. It was also the last unit activated for the Atlas program. (6)
1963: In a ski-equipped Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, Rear Admiral James R. Reedy (USN) made the first transpolar, nonstop flight from Capetown, South Africa, to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. This flight covered 4,700 miles in 14 hours 31 minutes and crossed the entire Antarctic continent. (5) (16)
1964: SAC phased out its Atlas-D program by taking the last missile off alert in the 549 SMS at Offutt AFB. (6) Exercise TROPIC LIGHTNING. Through 16 December, the first Tropic Lightning exercise provided live close air support training to soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division on Hawaii. The 18 TFW at Kadena AB sent six F-105Ds to Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station to participate in the training. They were replaced in late October by six F-105Ds from the 560 TFG at McConnell AFB. (17)
1965: When the USAF Aeronautical Station inactivated at Yokota, a 30-year era of Morse code in the USAF came to an end. Begun in 1935 with the creation of the Aeronautical (Airways) Station - Network, expanded greatly thereafter, and gradually reduced after the close of World War II, the requirement for this type of long-range communication ended with the transfer of WB-50 weather reconnaissance aircraft from Japan. Mariner IV, after broadcasting from a record distance of 191,059,922 miles in space, had its telemetry transmission halted by a radio command from the Goldstone Space Communications Station. The 1502 ATW logged its 600,000th accident-free flying hour, a record in aviation history. (16)
1968: REFORGER/CRESTED CAP. MAC moved 33,043 passengers and 3,796 tons of cargo during a four-month airlift to support this exercise. The airlift moved military personnel, dependents, and equipment from Germany to the US. (16)
1969: The C-5A Galaxy, world's largest aircraft at the time, took off from Edwards AFB with a 410,000-payload, heaviest ever carried by any aircraft. This load was also 21,000 pounds heavier than the C-5A's designed lift capability, and 28,100 pounds heavier than the record it set on 15 June.
1970: TAC made the bare-base concept a reality by establishing the first operationally-ready "heavy bare" squadron, the 336 TFS at Seymour Johnson AFB, NC. (16)
1971: General John D. Ryan, the CSAF, presented the 1970 Cheney Award to Maj Travis Wofford for an act of heroism performed as a helicopter pilot in SEA. (16)
1972: The USAF inactivated the last BOMARC missile squadron. These squadrons started operating in 1969.
1977: VOLANT OAK. The Air Force began a quarterly rotation of AFRES and ANG C-130 aircraft and crews to Howard AFB, Panama Canal Zone. (21)
1980: Operation ELF ONE. Four E-3A AWACS deployed to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to protect Saudi airspace during the Iraq-Iran war. C-141s airlifted supplies and personnel for the operation, while two KC-135s based at the Riyadh Royal Saudi AB refueled the E-3s. (4) (18)
1981: ATC conducted the first Euro-NATO Jet Pilot Training class at Sheppard AFB. The program provided combined pilot training for candidates from NATO nations. (16) 1981: At Mather AFB, ATC began a special program to train German weapons systems officers for duty in the Tornado fighter-bomber. (16) (26)
1983: The Air Force retired the B-52D from its inventory of operational aircraft. This aircraft performed most of the ARC LIGHT bombing missions in SEA from
1966 through 1973. (See 4 October 1983) (1)
1984: Peacekeeper test missile-6 launched at Vandenberg AFB. (12)
1986: The B-1 achieved initial operating capability at Dyess AFB, Texas. (16)
1987: PACAF retired its last T-33 two seat training aircraft. The retirement of 7 T-33 T-Birds at Hickam and 7 more at Clark AB ended 32 years of operations in the command. (16)
1990: AFSC turned Patrick AFB and the space-launch mission to AFSPACE. (21)
1991: MAC C-5s and C-141s delivered two Patriot antimissile batteries to Saudi Arabia to counter a threat from Iraq. (18)
1992: PACAF and USAFE assumed control of intratheater aeromedical airlift forces based in their theaters of operation from AMC. (18)
1993: The AFRES activated its first B-52 unit, the 93d Bomb Squadron, at Barksdale AFB. (16) (26) ACC and AMC swapped aircraft assets. In this exchange, ACC received C-130 Hercules from AMC in return for KC-135 Stratotankers. (16)
1999: The USAF deployed Aerospace Expeditionary Force (AEF) 1 to Southwest Asia. It was the first AEF to deploy under a new rotational system for 10 AEFs. The deployment integrated ANG and the Air Force Reserve with the active duty air forces. Prior to the deployment, the ANG had agreed to supply 10 percent of the planes and personnel for each AEF. (21) (32) The first ANG pilot with Detachment 1, Southeast Air Defense Sector, began flying with the activeduty 325th Fighter Wing at Tyndall AFB, Fla., under a new program to have ANG flight instructors train new active duty F-15 pilots.
2002: Gen John P. Jumper, USAF Chief of Staff (CSAF), ordered the deactivation of the Peacekeeper ICBM system. (21)
2007: The Air Force redesignated the 27th Fighter Wing at Cannon AFB, N. Mex., as the 27th Special Operations Wing. Thus, the 27th became the second active-duty special operations wing in the Air Force Special Operations Command. The 73d Special Operations Squadron's MC-130W Combat Spear aircraft was the first plane to move from Hurlburt Field, Fla., to Cannon. The MC-130W handled infiltration, exfiltration, and the resupply of special operations forces, while providing refueling capability for special operations vertical-lift assets like the CV-22 Osprey. (AFNEWS, "New Chapter for Air Force Special Operations Begins," 4 Oct 2007.)
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