To All,
Good Thursday morning January 5, 2023.
I hope that your week has been going well. Tomorrow is the Bubba Breakfast.
Just got a note that at the World News is going to be late so I will send that when it arrives
Warm regards
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History
January. 5
1776 The first Continental Navy squadron is ordered to sea by Congress to seek the British off coasts of the Carolinas and Rhode Island and in the Chesapeake Bay.
1875 Cmdr. Edward Lull leaves New York to begin the Panamanian Expedition to locate the best ship canal route across Panama. The route mapped is followed 30 years later.
1943 While bombing airfields and installations during the Guadalcanal campaign, USS Helena (CL 50) becomes the first U.S. Navy ship to use Mk.32 proximity-fused projectiles in combat, downing a Japanese Aichi Type 99 carrier bomber (VAL) with her second salvo.
1944 USS Omaha (CL 4) and USS Jouett (DD 396) were summoned to engage the German blockade runner Burgenland under the guise of SS Rio Grande. Gunfire and scuttling charges, sank the German runner.
1945 Kamikaze attacks continued against the U.S. Navy force bound for the Lingayen Gulf. Eight ships were hit and Rear Admiral Theodore E. Chandler was among those who were killed.
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This day in World History January 5
1757 Robert Francois Damiens makes an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Louis XV of France.
1815 Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution.
1861 The merchant vessel Star of the West sets sail from New York to Fort Sumter, in response to rebel attack, carrying supplies and 250 troops.1904 American Marines arrive in Seoul, Korea, to guard the U.S. legation there.
1914 Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year's profits.
1917 Bulgarian and German troops occupy the Port of Braila.
1919 British ships shell the Bolshevik headquarters in Riga.
1920 GOP women demand equal representation at the Republican National Convention in June.
1921 Wagner's "Die Walkyrie" opens in Paris. This is the first German opera performed in Paris since the beginning of World War I.
1923 The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian.
1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States.
1936 Daggha Bur, Ethiopia, is bombed by the Italians.
1942 U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula.
1947 Great Britain nationalizes its coal mines.
1951 Inchon, South Korea, the site of General Douglas MacArthur's amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by United Nations force to the advancing Chinese Army.
1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with President Harry S. Truman.
1968 U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh.
1969 President Richard M. Nixon appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks.
1971 President Richard M. Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Party.
1979 Ohio officials approve an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops.
1982 A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism.
1991 The South Ossetia War (1991-92) begins as Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, capital of South Ossetia, Georgia.
2005 Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
… For The List for Thursday, 5 January 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 5 January 1968… Hope for peace dashed by bold, broad offensive by NVN…
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 https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
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1933
January 05
Golden Gate Bridge is born
On January 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure's huge anchorages.
Following the Gold Rush boom that began in 1849, speculators realized the land north of San Francisco Bay would increase in value in direct proportion to its accessibility to the city. Soon, a plan was hatched to build a bridge that would span the Golden Gate, a narrow, 400-foot deep strait that serves as the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, connecting the San Francisco Peninsula with the southern end of Marin County.
Although the idea went back as far as 1869, the proposal took root in 1916. A former engineering student, James Wilkins, working as a journalist with the San Francisco Bulletin, called for a suspension bridge with a center span of 3,000 feet, nearly twice the length of any in existence. Wilkins' idea was estimated to cost an astounding $100 million. So, San Francisco's city engineer, Michael M. O'Shaughnessy (he's also credited with coming up with the name Golden Gate Bridge), began asking bridge engineers whether they could do it for less.
Engineer and poet Joseph Strauss, a 5-foot tall Cincinnati-born Chicagoan, said he could.
Eventually, O'Shaughnessy and Strauss concluded they could build a pure suspension bridge within a practical range of $25-30 million with a main span at least 4,000 feet. The construction plan still faced opposition, including litigation, from many sources. By the time most of the obstacles were cleared, the Great Depression of 1929 had begun, limiting financing options, so officials convinced voters to support $35 million in bonded indebtedness, citing the jobs that would be created for the project. However, the bonds couldn't be sold until 1932, when San-Francisco based Bank of America agreed to buy the entire project in order to help the local economy.
The Golden Gate Bridge officially opened on May 27, 1937, the longest bridge span in the world at the time. The first public crossing had taken place the day before, when 200,000 people walked, ran and even roller skated over the new bridge.
With its tall towers and famous trademarked "international orange" paint job, the bridge quickly became a famous American landmark, and a symbol of San Francisco.
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Interesting Facts
Movie previews are called "trailers" because they were originally shown after the movie.
In the early days of moviegoing, you didn't just buy a ticket for one feature-length film and leave once the credits started rolling. You were instead treated to a mix of shorts, newsreels, cartoons, and, eventually, trailers — which, per their name, played after the movie rather than before — with people coming and going throughout the day. The idea for trailers came from Nils Granlund, who in addition to being a business manager for movie theaters worked as a producer on Broadway, which explains why the first trailer was actually for a play: 1913's The Pleasure Seekers.
Chicago producer William Selig took the idea further that same year by ending each installment of his serialized action-adventure short films with a tantalizing preview of the next chapter — a precursor to ending movies and TV shows on a cliffhanger. Today there are production houses that exclusively make trailers and are handsomely rewarded for their efforts, sometimes to the tune of millions of dollars.
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My roommate was the youngest PSA captain and as a result was stuck on the Red Eye flights for a long time. He brought home a string of young ladies in the early morning h ours over the time I was there. Then one day in early 1972 I left to CQ on the USS Midway and came back 11 months later. Ah the memories…skip
Thanks to Shadow
Just Remembering' .
I rode on PSA frequently while working for Reagan's re-election campaign for Governor back in the sixties. Myself and Steve Cooley traveled to most of the Colleges and Universities in the state to try to explain that a $3 billion dollar increase in funding for higher education over his first four years, was not a cut in funding for higher education, as the Democrats were claiming; even with copies of the State budget in hand… it was a hard sell.
Since all our trips were in state… PSA was the logical choice for our travels. If ever there was a "fun" airline to ride in those days… PSA was it! The Stews in those days were top shelf, mostly beautiful by any standard and were a hoot. Didn't hurt that their uniforms consisted of miniskirts and Hot Pants. Wasn't uncommon for one of them or the flight crew to get on the PA system and point out different points of interest or share a joke.
I'll never forget leaving Sacramento one day heading back to San Diego… we had about a 45 minute late departure due to a mechanical. Once airborne, the Captain came on the PA and announced that in appreciation of our (the Pacs) patience… the cabin crew would be offering free champagne curtesy of PSA… enjoy! Big cheer and the Stews went about making everybody happy. For what ever the reason, one of the Stews made some funny comments about the flight deck crew… and that led to some really funny back and forth between the pilots and Stews. Seemed like all onboard were feeling their oats and in a great mood! Fun flight!
On rollout in San Diego, the Captain gave his obligatory thank you for flying PSA and hope you enjoyed the great service from our beautiful Stewardesses. Big roar went up in the cabin! The girls all stood up front as we cleared the runway and took a bow… eliciting another roar! The Captain then made a comment along the lines of "what's going on back there"? One of the Stewardesses then answers that the men onboard were showing appreciation for our "service". The Captain then went too far and came back with… "Yes, we have the most beautiful Stewardesses in the world… by the way… the only way you can tell the difference between the young ones from the older ones….. is the stretch marks"! Immediately half the cabin crew started banging on the locked flight crew door as the Pacs started laughing their asses off!
BTW… the door was never opened until all the Pacs were off! Sometimes us men have more balls than brains… but it was the most memorable flight as a passenger I ever had.
Shadow
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Thanks to Carl
January 5, 2023
America Would Be A Better Place If We Taught The Truth About Slavery
By Kathleen Brush
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Why the mRNA Jabs Are Much Deadlier Than Natural Infection
New research shows the COVID boosters may be causing aggressive metastatic tumors as the spike protein wipes out 90% of the DNA repair mechanism in lymphocytes. But what about natural infection? If you are unvaxxed and become infected with COVID, can that put you at risk for malignancy?
COVID Boosters Trigger Metastasis
by Dr. Joseph Mercola January 05, 2023
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Thanks to CAP
: YES: Why Do We Sing the National Anthem Before Sports Games ??
HAPPY NEW YHEAR
Why do we sing the National Anthem before sports games?
Here is something that I didn't know.
Your history lesson for today.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RW2Wo9ChiEg
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Thanks to George
Paul Dietzel was a B-29 pilot in WW II
https://ww2thebigone.com/2016/09/09/before-his-football-fame-world-war-ii-shaped-paul-dietzel/
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January 5
This Day in U S Military History
1838 – President Martin Van Buren issues a neutrality proclamation forbidding US citizens from taking part in the Canadian insurrection. The privately owned US steamship Caroline, leased by Canadian revolutionaries, has been destroyed by Canadian militiamen on 29 December. President Van Buren orders General Winfield Scott to post militamen along the Canadian frontier.
1846 – Boldly reversing its long-standing policy of "free and open" occupation in the disputed Oregon Territory, the U.S. House of Representatives passes a resolution calling for an end to British-American sharing of the region. The United States, one congressman asserted, had "the right of our manifest destiny to spread over our whole continent." In different circumstances, such aggressive posturing might have led to war. The British, through their Hudson Bay Company at the mouth of the Columbia River, had a reasonable claim to the disputed territory of modern-day Washington. In contrast, the only part of the Oregon Territory the U.S. could legitimately claim by settlement was the area below the Columbia River. Above the river, there were only eight recently arrived Americans in 1845. Nonetheless, the aggressively expansionistic President James Polk coveted Oregon Territory up to the 49th parallel (the modern-day border with Canada). Yet Polk was also on the verge of war with Mexico in his drive to take that nation's northern provinces, and he had no desire to fight the British and Mexicans at the same time. Consequently, Polk had to move cautiously. Some of his fellow Democrats in the Congress pushed him to be even more aggressive, demanding that Americans control the territory all the way up to the 54th parallel, approximately where Edmonton, Alberta, is today. For five months, debate raged in Congress over the "Oregon controversy," but the House resolution in January made it clear that the U.S. was determined to end the joint occupation with Great Britain. Luckily, the British agreed to abandon their claim to the area north of the Columbia and accept the 49th parallel as a border. The Hudson Bay Company already had decided to relocate its principal trading post from the Columbia River area to Vancouver Island, leaving the British with little interest in maintaining their claim to area. Despite the cries of betrayal from the advocates of the 54th parallel, Polk wisely accepted the British offer to place the border on the 49th parallel. The new boundary not only gave the U.S. more territory than it had any legitimate claim to, but it also left Polk free to pursue his next objective: a war with Mexico for control of the Southwest.
1945 – In the Ardennes, the US 3rd Army reports reduced activity on its line while US 1st Army continues its attacks. There are German attacks just north of Strasbourg. Eisenhower's decision to divide command responsibility for the Allied defenses around the bulge between Montgomery in the north and Bradley in the south is made public.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
1999 – Four U.S. Air Force and Navy jets fired at Iraqi MiGs testing the "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq in the first such confrontation in more than six years. 6 missiles fired by 2 US F-15s missed the 4 MiG 25s of Iraq.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*WALKER, KENNETH N. (Air Mission)
Rank and organization: Brigadier General, U.S. Army Air Corps, Commander of V Bomber Command. Place and date: Rabaul, New Britain, 5 January 1943. Entered service at. Colorado. Birth: Cerrillos, N. Mex. G.O. No.: 13, 11 March 1943. Citation: For conspicuous leadership above and beyond the call of duty involving personal valor and intrepidity at an extreme hazard to life. As commander of the 5th Bomber Command during the period from 5 September 1942, to 5 January 1943, Brig. Gen. Walker repeatedly accompanied his units on bombing missions deep into enemy-held territory. From the lessons personally gained under combat conditions, he developed a highly efficient technique for bombing when opposed by enemy fighter airplanes and by antiaircraft fire. On 5 January 1943, in the face of extremely heavy antiaircraft fire and determined opposition by enemy fighters, he led an effective daylight bombing attack against shipping in the harbor at Rabaul, New Britain, which resulted in direct hits on 9 enemy vessels. During this action his airplane was disabled and forced down by the attack of an overwhelming number of enemy fighters.
MILLER, FRANKLIN D.
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, 5th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces. place and date: Kontum province, Republic of Vietnam, 5 January 1970. Entered service at: Albuquerque, N. Mex. Born: 27 January 1945, Elizabeth City, N.C. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt. Miller, 5th Special Forces Group, distinguished himself while serving as team leader of an American-Vietnamese long-range reconnaissance patrol operating deep within enemy controlled territory. Leaving the helicopter insertion point, the patrol moved forward on its mission. Suddenly, 1 of the team members tripped a hostile booby trap which wounded 4 soldiers. S/Sgt. Miller, knowing that the explosion would alert the enemy, quickly administered first aid to the wounded and directed the team into positions across a small stream bed at the base of a steep hill. Within a few minutes, S/Sgt. Miller saw the lead element of what he estimated to be a platoon-size enemy force moving toward his location. Concerned for the safety of his men, he directed the small team to move up the hill to a more secure position. He remained alone, separated from the patrol, to meet the attack. S/Sgt. Miller single-handedly repulsed 2 determined attacks by the numerically superior enemy force and caused them to withdraw in disorder. He rejoined his team, established contact with a forward air controller and arranged the evacuation of his patrol. However, the only suitable extraction location in the heavy jungle was a bomb crater some 150 meters from the team location. S/Sgt. Miller reconnoitered the route to the crater and led his men through the enemy controlled jungle to the extraction site. As the evacuation helicopter hovered over the crater to pick up the patrol, the enemy launched a savage automatic weapon and rocket-propelled grenade attack against the beleaguered team, driving off the rescue helicopter. S/Sgt. Miller led the team in a valiant defense which drove back the enemy in its attempt to overrun the small patrol. Although seriously wounded and with every man in his patrol a casualty, S/Sgt. Miller moved forward to again single-handedly meet the hostile attackers. From his forward exposed position, S/Sgt. Miller gallantly repelled 2 attacks by the enemy before a friendly relief force reached the patrol location. S/Sgt. Miller's gallantry, intrepidity in action, and selfless devotion to the welfare of his comrades are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
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This Day in Aviation History" brought to you by the Daedalians Airpower Blog Update. To subscribe to this weekly email, go to https://daedalians.org/airpower-blog/.
Jan. 3, 1905
In efforts to interest the United States government in the use of airplanes for the military, Wilbur Wright speaks to Congressman Robert M. Nevin, who asks him to prepare a letter for submission to the Secretary of War that Nevin would deliver and endorse. The Army declines the offer.
Jan. 4, 1957
Military Air Transport Service completed "Operation Safe Haven" bringing 10,000 Hungarian refugees to the United States. This was the most significant European humanitarian airlift since the Berlin airlift, executed by the United States for refugee resettlement and relief following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Jan. 5, 1939
After she had been missing for 18 months, Judge Clarence Elliot Craig of the Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles County declared Amelia Mary Earhart legally dead in absentia, at the request of her husband, George Palmer Putnam II. She and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while en route from Lae, Territory of New Guinea, to Howland Island in the Central Pacific, 2 July 1937.
Jan. 6, 1968
Major Patrick Henry Brady utilizes 3 UH-1 medical evacuation helicopters to evacuate a total of 51 seriously wounded men, many of whom would have perished without prompt medical treatment, from a small, heavily defended site in enemy held territory while deployed to Chu Lai, Vietnam with the 54th Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance), 67th Medical Group, 44th Medical Brigade. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Jan. 8, 1928
Lieutenant Christian F. Schilt completes a mission commenced on January 6, 1928 while serving in action with Marine Observation Squadron 7/M (VO-7M) during the progress of an insurrection at Quilali, Nicaragua. Lieutenant Schilt took off in dangerous weather conditions a total of 10 times in the rough, rolling street of a partially burning village, under hostile infantry fire on each occasion. He evacuated wounded and transported a relief commanding officer to his Marine Expedition that had already suffered heavy casualties, and brought supplies and aid to others in desperate need. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for January 5, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
5 January
1914: Marine pilots and enlisted mechanics were sent from Annapolis, Md., to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pa., where they left on the Navy transport, the USS Hancock, for Puerto Rico to join the Advance Base Brigade in Atlantic Fleet maneuvers. This was the first time an all-Marine aviation force acted with Marine ground forces. During the next three weeks, Lts Bernard L. Smith and William M. McIlvain flew a Curtiss C-3 (an F-model Flying Boat) on scouting and reconnaissance missions. (10)
1915: Lt Joseph E. Carberry, Signal Corps, and Lt Arthur R. Christie set a 2-man American altitude record of 11,690 feet at San Diego. The pilots made the 1-hour, 13-minute flight in a Curtiss Tractor (OXX Curtiss 100). (24)
1916: The 1st Company, 2d Aero Squadron, sailed from San Francisco, Calif., for the Philippines. It was the first air unit to serve outside the US. (24)
1935: The de Haviland Queen Bee first flew. (5)
1945: Operation GRUBWORM is completed this date. One month after its initiation, two entire Chinese divisions, Chinese Sixth Army Headquarters, a heavy mortar company, 249 American soldiers, and two portable surgical hospitals are airlifted from Burma to China into the combat zone. In all, more than 1,300 transport sorties by air commando and troop carrier squadrons of the USAAF Air Transport Command are required to complete the operation. Three aircraft are lost while completing the mission.
1949: Capt Charles E. Yeager flew the Bell X-1 to 23,000 feet at a record ascent of 13,000 feet per minute. (9) (24)
1951: KOREAN WAR. At Pyongyang, 59 B-29s dropped 672 tons of incendiary bombs. Additionally, the 18th Fighter-Bomber Group staged its final missions from Suwon Air Base. U.S. ground troops burned the buildings at Suwon's airfield before withdrawing. (28)
1954: Col Willard W. Millikan (Air National Guard) set a speed record, when he flew an F-86F Sabre between New York and Washington DC in 24 minutes. (24)
1961: PROJECT NARROW GAUGE: Tactical Air Command B-57s participated in a test of the runway lighting system at Dow AFB, Me. (11)
1968: The Air Force Academy implemented the T-41 Mescalero Light Plane flight program. (16) (26)
1970: With the acceptance of the 80th Air Defense Group facility at Fortuna Air Force Station, N. Dak., the Aerospace Defense Command's Backup Intercept Control (BUIC) III radar system became fully operational. (26)
1972: President Richard M. Nixon announced his decision to develop a Space Shuttle system. (5)
1985: A C-141 carried a Sikorsky S-70 helicopter to La Paz, Bolivia, to assist in the search for an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 that had crashed high in the Andes Mountains. (16) (26)
1995: Ben Rich, Lockheed Skunk Works designer and "Father of the F-117," dies at age 69
2001: An F-22 Raptor, equipped with combat-capable avionics, flew for the first time at LockheedMartin's facility in Marietta, Ga. (AFNEWS Article 0018, 6 Jan 01)
2002: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. A 437th Airlift Wing C-17 from Charleston AFB, S. C., arrived at Naval Air Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with the first materials for U. S. Navy Seabee project to build a prison for 2,000 Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees from Afghanistan. In the early weeks of 2002, 21 C-17 missions from Charleston moved 1.2 short tons of equipment and supplies to Guantanamo. (22)
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WORLD NEWS FOR 5 JANUARY THANKS TO MILITARY PERISCOPE
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