To All,
Good Monday morning February 6, 2023.
I hope that you all had a great weekend.
Regards,
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History February 6
1862—During the Civil War, naval forces under flag officer A. H. Foote capture strategic Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, breaching the Confederate line and opening the flood gates for the flow of Union power deep into the South.
1922—The world powers of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France and Italy, sign the Washington Naval Treaty providing for limitation of naval armament.
1944—Lt. j.g. C.I. Purnell, in his PB4Y-1 "Liberator" aircraft, sinks German submarine U-177 west of Ascension Island, in the South Atlantic.
1945—U.S. Navy submarine USS Pampanito (SS 383) attacks a Japanese convoy and sinks merchant tanker Engen Maru about 200 miles northeast of Singapore. Also on this date, USS Spadefish (SS 411) sinks Japanese merchant passenger-cargo ship Shohei Maru off Port Arthur, Korea.
1973—In accordance with the agreement at the Paris Peace Talks, Navy Task Force 78 begins Operation End Sweep, the mine clearance of North Vietnamese waters of mines laid in 1972.
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This day in World History
February 6
1626 Huguenot rebels and the French sign the Peace of La Rochelle.
1778 France recognizes the United States and signs a treaty of aid in Paris.
1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
1862 The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., begins the Mississippi Valley campaign.
1891 The Dalton Gang commits its first crime, a train robbery in Alila, Calif.
1899 The Spanish-American War ends.
1900 President McKinley appoints W.H. Taft commissioner to report on the Philippines.
1904 Japan's foreign minister severs all ties with Russia, citing delaying tactics in negotiations over Manchuria.
1916 Germany admits full liability for Lusitania incident and recognizes the United State's right to claim indemnity.
1922 The Washington Disarmament Conference comes to an end with signature of final treaty forbidding fortification of the Aleutian Islands for 14 years.
1926 Mussolini warns Germany to stop agitation in Tyrol.
1929 Germany accepts Kellogg-Briand pact.
1933 Adolf Hitler's Third Reich begins press censorship.
1936 Adolf Hitler opens the Fourth Winter Olympics.
1941 The RAF clears the way as British take Benghazi, trapping thousands of Italians.
1944 Kwajalein Island in the Central Pacific falls to U.S. Army troops.
1945 MacArthur reports the fall of Manila, and the liberation of 5,000 prisoners.
1952 King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes queen
1963 The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba.
1964 Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State's seizure of four Cuban fishing boats.
1964 Paris and London agree to build a rail tunnel under the English Channel.
1965 Seven U.S. GIs are killed in a Viet Cong raid on a base in Pleiku.
1968 Charles de Gaulle opens the 19th Winter Olympics in France.
1975 President Gerald Ford asks Congress for $497 million in aid to Cambodia.
1977 Queen Elizabeth marks her Silver Jubilee.
1982 Civil rights workers begin a march from Carrolton to Montgomery, Alabama.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
… For The List for Monday, 6 February 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 6 February 1968… "The Agony of Khe Sanh" continues…
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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Bob Howard the most decorated U.S soldier
An exceptional warrior A true hero!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6aPRYwGY8s
There are a number of other videos available with this one that are worth your time
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I bought my first week ( 4 boxes) of Shortbread cookies. They come in convenient tubes and you can hold the tube with your palm and fingers open the top and push the top cookie right into your mouth using your thumb and keep going until. It is done. Then just reload your hand with the next tube cock your thumb and keep going. Fortunately my good friend Mac down the street has a granddaughter that sells them so additional boxes are readily available…….skip
Thanks to Al….
Monday Morning Humor--Girl Scout Cookies
Operation Thin Mint is a local Girl Scout service project that originated in San Diego in 2002. This year with support from the community, Girl Scouts are on track to hit an impressive milestone of reaching a cumulative four million packages of America's favorite cookies and countless notes of support to deployed troops serving around the world, including Iraq, Africa, Japan, Korea, and the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans and local first responders. Just ask the Girl Scout in your family how to support this effort. If you don't have a Girl Scout in your family, click on https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/mia239476 my granddaughter's website.
I'm happy for Girl Scout cookie season as I have taken to eating Thin Mints in place of using toothpaste.
The problem with Girl Scout cookies: no matter how many I eat, I always want Samoa.
Are they still selling Girl Scout cookies? The year's supply I bought last week is gone.
The true meaning of strength is opening a box of Girl Scout cookies and eating just one.
A 13-year-old Girl Scout in San Francisco made the news for being the first Girl Scout to sell cookies outside a marijuana dispensary. She sold 117 boxes in two hours.
Lindsey was accompanying her nine-year-old daughter who was selling cookies door-to-door for the Girl Scouts. After visiting several homes, she commented on the different styles of doorbells: some buzzed, some rang, some warbled.
They made a game of guessing what the next bell would sound like.
At the precise moment she touched the doorbell at one house, the church tower began to chime. She wheeled around with a look of amazement on her face. "Now THAT'S a door bell"
I've just finished my third box of Thin Mints. How many more boxes do I have to eat before I start seeing results?
There's a green man who lives in a house and one day he was having a shower, when he heard a knock on the door. So he puts on a towel and walks to the door and when he gets to the door there's a Girl Scout selling cookies.
"Would you like a cookie, sir "said the girl.
"Of course let me get my…" said the green man. But when the green man went to get his wallet his towel drops and the little girl panics and runs across the road and gets into a car crash.
So remember don't cross the road when the green man is flashing.
Top 10 Reasons to Buy Girl Scout Cookies
• There's a flavor for every day of the week.
• Crumbled in ice cream they make a great dessert.
• If you buy too many you can use them to make earrings.
• It's a great reason to buy a freezer.
• No pre-heating necessary.
• You can only buy them once a year.
• They come in a handy single serving size—one box.
• They're great to share with a friend—NOT!!
• If you buy something for a good cause it has no calories.
• You are helping girls all over the world to learn new skills and gain self esteem through the Girl Scout program.
I don't always break my New Year's resolutions, but when I do, it's for Girl Scout cookies,
Al
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Thanks to Mike
Had Never Heard Of This Tradition!
"Pappy" Boyington's Aviator Wings and Wrist Watch - MILITARY AIRCRAFT & AVIATION - U.S. Militaria Forum (usmilitariaforum.com)
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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. 31, 1968: A helicopter crew down near Hue, South Vietnam, CWO2 Frederick Ferguson quickly organizes an impromptu rescue force of three Bell UH-1 "Huey" gunships and his "slick' UH-1H. At Hue, the helicopters come under intense fire. Flying so low that the North Vietnamese are actually shooting down at him, Ferguson lands in an area with only a couple of feet clearance for his rotor blades. Four wounded Americans and a South Vietnamese soldier are loaded. Retracing his inbound flight, Ferguson finally lands at Hue Phu Bai, his helicopter so damaged it had to be airlifted out. Ferguson is awarded the Medal of Honor.
Feb. 1, 2003: The Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on reentry, killing all seven astronauts on board. Columbia launched Jan. 16, 2003, for mission STS-107. During launch, Columbia's 28th mission, a piece of the spray-applied polyurethane foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the reinforced carbon–carbon leading edge of the orbiter's left wing.
Feb. 2, 1974: The YF-16 made its 'official' first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., with General Dynamics test pilot Phil Oestricher in the cockpit. The aircraft flew for 90 minutes at 30,000 feet and at a speed of 460 mph.
Feb. 3, 1943: Robert Chilton, a North American Aviation test pilot, made the first flight of the first production P-51A Mustang. The aircraft was one of 1,200 the U.S. Army Air Corps had ordered on June 23, 1942. Following the introduction of the Merlin-powered P-51B, the number of P-51As ordered was reduced to 310.
Feb. 4, 1969: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, tail number 62-0001, made its final flight. The aircraft, with NASA test pilot Fitz Fulton and Air Force Lt. Col. Emil Sturmthal, were the crew for the flight from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Upon arrival at Wright-Patt, Fulton closed out the plane's log book and handed it over to the curator of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The Mach 3+ prototype strategic bomber and high-speed, high-altitude research airplane had completed 83 flights for a total of 160 hours, 16 minutes of flight time.
Feb. 5, 1962: A Sikorsky HSS-2 Sea King became the world's fastest helicopter by establishing a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) world speed record for helicopters of 339 kilometers per hour (210.645 miles per hour) over a 19 kilometer (11.8 mile) course between Milford and New Haven, Connecticut. The pilots were Lieutenant Robert Wiley Crafton, United States Navy and Captain Louis K. Keck, United States Marine Corps. Both pilots were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the American Helicopter Society's Frederick L. Feinberg Award. Having served the United States Navy for 45 years, the Sea King is still in service world-wide, most notably as the VH-3D "Marine One" presidential helicopter.
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Thanks to Micro
Too precious not to share again
https://media.rainpos.com/4417/both_sides_of_the_mirror_.mp4
The adventures of a little boy as he discovers a mirror.
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Thanks to Robert
Good !!
Political Humor
This may be designated as humor...but there really is too much truth in it for that alone.
We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~ Aesop, Greek slave & fable author.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
~ Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~ Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~ Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy more tunnels. ~ John Quinton, American actor/writer
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each, from the other.
~ Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them". ~ Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~ Texas Guinan. 19th-century American businessman.
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~ Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~ Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games.
I am reminded of a joke: What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
Answer: That is Pollution. What happens if all of them drown? . . . That may be the Solution!
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two are lawyers and three or more are the government.
~ John Adams (1735 - 1826)
suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of the Government. But then I repeated myself.
~ Mark Twain (1835- 1910)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts!
~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)
I contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
~ Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A Government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on Paul support !
~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)
The problem we face today is; the people that work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.
~ George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950)
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Thanks to YP, Dr.Rich and John Trotti.
As long as we're at it:
YP
"You're not completely useless, you can always serve as a bad example".
Thanks to Thanks to John H. ...
ARAPROSDOKIANS... (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently humorous.
1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.
3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. (use this all the time w. liberal friends!!)
5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
8. They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.
9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.
10. Buses stop in bus stations. Trains stop in train stations. On my desk is a work station.
11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.
12. In filling out an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'
13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.
15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.
17. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
18. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
19. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.
20. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
21. You're never too old to learn something stupid.
22. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
23. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
24. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
25. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
26. Where there's a will, there are relatives.
Finally:
I'm supposed to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder for me to find one now.
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This Day in U S Military History February 6
1778 – During the American War for Independence, representatives from the United States and France sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce recognized the United States as an independent nation and encouraged trade between France and the America, while the Treaty of Alliance provided for a military alliance against Great Britain, stipulating that the absolute independence of the United States be recognized as a condition for peace and that France will be permitted to conquer the British West Indies. With the treaties, the first entered into by the U.S. government, the Bourbon monarchy of France formalized its commitment to assist the American colonies in their struggle against France's old rival, Great Britain. The eagerness of the French to help the United States was motivated both by an appreciation of the American revolutionaries' democratic ideals and by bitterness at having lost most of their American empire to the British at the conclusion of the French and Indian Wars in 1763. In 1776, the Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and Arthur Lee to a diplomatic commission to secure a formal alliance with France. Covert French aid began filtering into the colonies soon after the outbreak of hostilities in 1775, but it was not until the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 that the French became convinced that the Americans were worth backing in a formal treaty. On February 6, 1778, the treaties of Amity and Commerce and Alliance were signed, and in May 1778 the Continental Congress ratified them. One month later, war between Britain and France formally began when a British squadron fired on two French ships. During the American Revolution, French naval fleets proved critical in the defeat of the British, which culminated in the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781. It was the first alliance treaty for the fledgling U.S. government and the last until the 1949 NATO pact.
1838 – Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrated his telegraph, in Morristown, N.J.
1899 – The Spanish-American War ends. After a protracted struggle between imperialists and anti-imperialists, the Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris , 57 to 27. The argument for ratification is lead by Henry Cabot Lodge who contends that it will enhance national prestige, prevent foreign annexation of the formerly Spanish possessions of the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam, and constitute economic, strategic and "civilizing" advantages. The case against ratification is that it is contrary to US tradition to acquire territory outside the continental area; that people of alien races will not be easily assimilated into the American way of life; that the treaty is against the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine and will weaken the American belief in self-government. Anti-imperialists also contend that "the Constitution follows the flag," but imperialists argue that the people of these new acquisitions, even while being nationals, are not automatically endowed with the privileges of US citizenship. This sets the stage for a series of Supreme Court cases known collectively as the Insular Cases that have never fully settled the issues.
1968 – Two reduced Marine battalions, the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines with two companies, and 2d Battalion, 5th Marines with three, recaptured Hue's hospital, jail, and provincial headquarters. It would take three more weeks of intense house to house fighting, and nearly a thousand Marines killed and wounded, before the imperial city was secured.
1973 – In accordance with the agreement at the Paris Peace Talks, Navy Task Force 78 begins Operation End Sweep, the mine clearance of North Vietnamese waters of mines laid in 1972.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CADWALLADER, ABEL G.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company H, 1st Maryland Infantry. Place and date: At Hatchers Run and Dabneys Mills, Va., 6 February 1865. Entered service at:——. Birth: Baltimore Md. Date of issue: 5 January 1897. Citation: Gallantly planted the colors on the enemy's works in advance of the arrival of his regiment.
CALDWELL, DANIEL
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company H, 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Place and date: At Hatchers Run, Va., 6 February 1865. Entered service at:——. Born: 1 June 1842, Marble Hill, Montgomery County, Pa. Date of issue: 25 February 1865. Citation: In a mounted charge, dashed into center of the enemy's line and captured the colors of the 33rd North Carolina Infantry.
COEY, JAMES
Rank and organization: Major, 147th New York Infantry. Place and date: At Hatchers Run, Va., 6 February 1865. Entered service at: ——. Born: 12 February 1841, New York, N.Y. Date of issue: 12 May 1892. Citation: Seized the regimental colors at a critical moment and by a prompt advance on the enemy caused the entire brigade to follow him; and, after being himself severely wounded, he caused himself to be lifted into the saddle and a second time rallied the line in an attempt to check the enemy.
DAY, CHARLES
Rank and organization: Private, Company K, 210th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Hatchers Run, Va., 6 February 1865. Entered service at: Lycoming County, Pa. Birth: Otsego County, N.Y. Date of issue: 20 July 1897. Citation: Seized the colors of another regiment of the brigade, the regiment having been thrown into confusion and the color bearer killed, and bore said colors throughout the remainder of the engagement.
DELANEY, JOHN C.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company I, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Danby's mills, Va., 6 February 1860. Entered service at: Honesdale, Pa. Birth: 22 April 1848, Ireland. Date of issue: 29 August 1894. Citation: Sprang between the lines and brought out a wounded comrade about to be burned in the brush.
JACOBSON, DOUGLAS THOMAS
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, 3d Battalion, 23d Marines, 4th Marine Division. Place and date: Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 26 February 1945. Entered service at: New York. Born: 25 November 1925, Rochester, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 3d Battalion, 23d Marines, 4th Marine Division, in combat against enemy Japanese forces during the seizure of Iwo Jima in the Volcano Island, 26 February 1945. Promptly destroying a stubborn 20mm. antiaircraft gun and its crew after assuming the duties of a bazooka man who had been killed, Pfc. Jacobson waged a relentless battle as his unit fought desperately toward the summit of Hill 382 in an effort to penetrate the heart of Japanese cross-island defense. Employing his weapon with ready accuracy when his platoon was halted by overwhelming enemy fire on 26 February, he first destroyed 2 hostile machinegun positions, then attacked a large blockhouse, completely neutralizing the fortification before dispatching the 5-man crew of a second pillbox and exploding the installation with a terrific demolitions blast. Moving steadily forward, he wiped out an earth-covered rifle emplacement and, confronted by a cluster of similar emplacements which constituted the perimeter of enemy defenses in his assigned sector, fearlessly advanced, quickly reduced all 6 positions to a shambles, killed 10 of the enemy, and enabled our forces to occupy the strong point. Determined to widen the breach thus forced, he volunteered his services to an adjacent assault company, neutralized a pillbox holding up its advance, opened fire on a Japanese tank pouring a steady stream of bullets on 1 of our supporting tanks, and smashed the enemy tank's gun turret in a brief but furious action culminating in a single-handed assault against still another blockhouse and the subsequent neutralization of its firepower. By his dauntless skill and valor, Pfc. Jacobson destroyed a total of 16 enemy positions and annihilated approximately 75 Japanese, thereby contributing essentially to the success of his division's operations against this fanatically defended outpost of the Japanese Empire. His gallant conduct in the face of tremendous odds enhanced and sustained the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
KINSMAN, THOMAS JAMES
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company B, 3d Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division. place and date: Near Vinh Long, Republic of Vietnam, 6 February 1968. Entered service at: Seattle, Wash. Born: 4 March 1945, Renton, Wash. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty Sp4c. Kinsman (then Pfc.) distinguished himself in action in the afternoon while serving as a rifleman with Company B, on a reconnaissance-in-force mission. As his company was proceeding up a narrow canal in armored troops carriers, it came under sudden and intense rocket, automatic weapons and small-arms fire from a well entrenched Viet Cong force. The company immediately beached and began assaulting the enemy bunker complex. Hampered by exceedingly dense undergrowth which limited visibility to 10 meters, a group of 8 men became cut off from the main body of the company. As they were moving through heavy enemy fire to effect a link-up, an enemy soldier in a concealed position hurled a grenade into their midst. Sp4c. Kinsman immediately alerted his comrades of the danger, then unhesitatingly threw himself on the grenade and blocked the explosion with his body. As a result of his courageous action, he received severe head and chest wounds. Through his indomitable courage, complete disregard for his personal safety and profound concern for his fellow soldiers, Sp4c. Kinsman averted loss of life and injury to the other 7 men of his element. Sp4c. Kinsman's extraordinary heroism at the risk 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 February 6, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
6 February
1908: The Board of Ordnance and Fortification considered 41 bids for the Army's first airplane. It recommended accepting bids from James F. Scott of Chicago, Ill., Augustus M. Herring of Ohio, and the Wright Brothers of Ohio. (12) (24)
1939: DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS. Through 14 February, Maj Caleb V. Haynes flew the XB-15 in a flight to Santiago, Chile, from Langley Field, Va., in 29 hours 53 minutes with 3,250 pounds of medical supplies for earthquake victims. (21) 1940: The North American AT-6 Harvard/Texan first flew. (5)
1948: The Army successfully used electronic guidance on a V-2 rocket for the first time in a 70-mile ascent at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. (4) (24)
1950: The Department of Defense announced test-firing of the Navy's "Mighty Mouse" rocket with 2.75 inch folding fins. The missile, developed by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake, Calif., was the first successful air-to-air rocket. (24)
1951: KOREAN WAR. B-26 crews first used new MPQ-2 radar equipment, which improved target definition, for increased accuracy on night bombing raids. To clear a medical patient backlog at Chungju, 315 AD C-47s airlifted 343 patients to Pusan. Eight C-54s airlifted a 40-ton, 310-foot treadway bridge in 279 pieces from Tachikawa AB, Japan, to Taegu. Six C-119s dropped 32 booby-trapped boxes, designed to blow up when opened, on an enemy troop concentration at Kwangdong-ni. The 91st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron performed its first night photographic mission. (28)
1959: KEY EVENT. The USAF successfully launched its first Titan I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile from Cape Canaveral, Fla. (6)
1963: The first all-USAF crew from the 655th Aerospace Test Wing launched a Titan II missile from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The missile flew 5,871 miles down the Atlantic Missile Range. (6)
1965: Four graduate students from the University of California's Nutritional Science School completed a 60-day test of a space flight diet for the National Air and Space Administration. (5) Lt Col Ralph I. Leslie and his crew of the Air Force Flight Test Center C-141 Joint Test Force returned to Edwards AFB, Calif., after a 5,200-mile non-stop, round-trip flight to Honolulu, Hawaii. (3)
1967: AIR FORCE CROSS. A2C Duane Hackney, the most decorated airman in Vietnam, received an Air Force Cross for rescuing a downed pilot near Mu Gia pass, N. Vietnam. (18)
1973: Operation END SWEEP. Through 27 July, the U. S. Navy conducted mine sweeping operations to clear anchorages around Haiphong Harbor, N. Vietnam. In July, 374th Tactical Airlift Wing C-130s supported that U. S. Navy operation by airlifting trucks and equipment from Cubi Point, Philippines, to Cat Bi Airfield in Haiphong. (17)
1979: The Strategic Air Command accepted the Minuteman sites at Malmstrom AFB, Mont., following an integrated improvement program for the ground systems. (6)
1991: Operation DESERT STORM. Capt Robert Swain, 706th Tactical Fighter Squadron, scored the first A-10 air-to-air kill by shooting down an Iraqi helicopter. (16) (26)
1992: Four C-130 Hercules transports from the 435th Tactical Airlift Wing moved food and supplies from US bases in Germany to Lithuania after its centralized economy collapsed in 1991. (16)
2007: Air Force officials announced the successful launch and delivery of the second Interim Polar System. This second of three planned satellites gave the Air Force the ability to provide 24- hour Extra High Frequency communications coverage of the northern polar region to give U. S. forces there seamless communications with CONUS-based combatant commanders and separate force elements located above the Arctic Circle. (AFNEWS, "Interim Polar System Reaches Full Operational Capability," 6 Feb 2007.)
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