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Good Tuesday morning March 7 2023.
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History March 7
1778 Continental frigate Randolph explodes while attacking HMS Yarmouth off the coast of Barbados, killing all but four of her 305 crew.
1942 USS Grenadier (SS 210) torpedoes Japanese Asahisan Maru south of Shioya Saki, causing damage to the transport ship.
1956 The fleet assignment of the all-weather fighter, F3H-2N Demon, begins with the delivery of six to VF-14 at Naval Air Station Cecil Field, Fla.
1958 USS Grayback (SSG 574) is commissioned. She is the first submarine built from the keel up with guided missile capability to fire the Regulus II missile.
1994 The Navy issues the first orders for women to be assigned on board a combatant ship, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69).
This Day in World History March 7
0161 On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor.
0322 The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies.
1774 The British close the port of Boston to all commerce.
1799 In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners.
1809 Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard -- the first person to make an aerial voyage in the New World -- dies at the age of 56.
1838 Soprano Jenny Lind ("the Swedish Nightingale") makes her debut in Weber's opera Der Freischultz.
1847 U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico.
1849 The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved.
1862 Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1904 The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok.
1906 Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state.
1912 French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours.
1918 Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany.
1925 The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia.
1927 A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
1933 The film King Kong premieres in New York City.
1933 The board game Monopoly is invented.
1935 Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
1936 Hitler sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact.
1942 Japanese troops land on New Guinea.
1951 U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese.
1968 The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends.
1971 A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos.
1979 Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter.
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Vietnam Air Losses
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Super Bowl
The Navy (whoever that is --- Air Boss, CNO, Some CinC,) ????
Two months planning ???? ---- for a diamond fly by? Every week??? Like planning for a 40 plane Alfa Strike to Hanoi.
15 pilots ???? It aint that hard. 4 plus a couple turning spares.
I guess why not females? Everything else is going woke in the military
WE ARE DOOMED !!!!!! :-(
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Navy Admits to Dropping Male Pilots From Super Bowl Flyover
Equity?
The U.S. Navy—for the purpose of allegedly facilitating a publicity-stunt, all-female flyover—reportedly booted 12 male aviators previously chosen and confirmed to partake in a 15-aircraft formation flight over 2023's Super Bowl LVII.
In a 26 January press release pertaining to the Super Bowl flyover, the Navy set forth that the event would commemorate the fifty-year history of female Naval Aviators. The original lineup of 15 Navy pilots chosen to participate in the flyover comprised 12 men and three women—all of whom were honored with digital playing cards, similar to baseball cards, which were promoted on numerous prominent social media sites. The original team was assembled in November 2022—the better part of two-months prior to the 12 February 2023 big game—and immediately commenced training for the event.
A male Naval Aviator originally slated to participate in the Super Bowl LVII flyover stated: "Basically every Friday until Jan. 27, there was a teams meeting with the NFL and the Navy." The meetings in question included discussions of a broad number of topics germane to the planned flyover, including aircrew lodging and the actual execution of the maneuver.
Throughout the training and planning processes, the notion of an all-female flight crew was reportedly neither discussed nor even raised.
On 28 January 2023, two days after the dissemination of the Navy's press release announcing the original lineup of Super Bowl LVII flyover pilots, the entirety of the detail's dozen male aviators received telephone calls informing them they'd been axed from the performance on account of Navy brass having arbitrarily changed the mission for purpose of prioritizing an all-female pilot complement.
"The 26th was when the digital playing cards were released by the Navy via Facebook and Instagram," the ousted male aviator reported. "Another teams meeting the following day on the 27th, and then the next day, Saturday morning, was when we all got phone calls telling us that we were no longer part of the flyover because… the mission had changed and they were prioritizing all-female aircrew for the flyover."
The male Naval Aviator further stated the change of plans had come as a surprise to all parties privy to the information—not just the original flyover pilot cadre.
"It was kind of a surprise just due to the fact that it was so late and there had been so much press on it already," he said. "I think that was why it was so surprising."
The Super Bowl was held on 12 February 2023—16 days after 12 of the 15 original flyover pilots had been allegedly dropped from the program.
"This was one of the coolest things in any of our careers," the displaced male aviator rued. "And when you get reached out to by friends and family who had seen the release and were so excited … that was a tough day for everyone that was previously involved."
"The fact that it [the Navy's] decision was based on gender and not on merit was not only difficult for the males who were no longer a part of it, but it was also difficult for the females who were a part of it based on merit originally," the male pilot concluded.
The Navy's change of plans was quietly made public just days prior to Super Bowl Sunday 2023 via news reports and television segments that went to great lengths to celebrate the all-female crew. Subject news and television reports artfully avoided mention of the Navy's original plan to field a team consisting of both male and female aviators.
The Navy subsequently confirmed its change of program, disclosing to a national news outlet that it "made some changes" to its initial Super Bowl flyover plan, adding that the service's goal had been to "maximize the participation of our women naval aviators."
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Daily Memo: Hungary and Russia
By: George Friedman
March 7, 2023
The Russian government has informed Hungary that its diplomats entering Russia will have to pay a fee rather than pass into Russia without paying for visas. Since levying a minor charge on diplomats entering countries is fairly common, Russia's move seems inconsequential. However, Russia also said that the fee will be levied until the Hungarians rectify certain violations of an agreement, which is presumably the agreement governing diplomatic relations.
What makes this significant is that Hungary, fairly alone among European nations, has developed a singularly friendly relationship with Russia. Recall that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Moscow shortly before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Orban was seen conversing with Russian President Vladimir Putin about war and making a deal for a large amount of Russian natural gas to be delivered to Hungary. More important, Hungary refused to join the coalition coalescing to resist Russia. As recently as last week, Orban said that the fight between Russia and Ukraine is not a matter of concern to Hungary. Hungary was therefore the country in Europe least committed to supporting Ukraine and most enjoying its relationship with Russia.
This is what elevates a seemingly trivial bureaucratic misunderstanding to something noteworthy. Russia has no positive relations with members of the EU aside from Hungary, and it's odd that Moscow would allow any doubt to be cast on that relationship. It is not the importance of the policy shift; there is none. It is Russia's decision to impose this fee on a friendly nation, and then to publicize it, at a time when President Vladimir Putin needs to find a way to change Europe's point of view on the war.
Key to understanding this is understanding the Hungarian-Russian relationship. Hungary has strained relations with many of its neighbors, not to mention the European Union and NATO. The EU has sought to fine Hungary for violations of European rules concerning the organization of the judiciary, freedom of the press, immigration and other things. The EU has withheld some funds as punishment and has threatened to suspend others. In turn, Budapest has obstructed Finland and Sweden's NATO membership process. Perhaps most interesting, Orban visited the United States to attend meetings of conservative Republicans, many of them committed to former President Donald Trump. He has been a thorn in the side of the Western political establishment.
His reasons for doing this are partly ideological – he accepts the principles of American and European conservatives and, in accepting them, believes the West is corrupt and weak. When he saw that war with Russia was coming, he assumed the West would either fail to defend Ukraine or collapse in the face of Russian power. Like others, he expected Western help to be limited, Ukraine to be rapidly overrun by Russia, and a new political and institutional structure to be established in Europe. This reasonably led to moving close to Russia and separating himself from Western powers. The fact that his assumptions were wrong has forced him into a difficult position. If Ukraine falls, Russia will occupy the eastern border of NATO – a border shared by Poland, Hungary and Romania. The next Russian move, in the face of the defeat of NATO, would likely run through Hungary, whose terrain enables relatively easy passage. NATO would therefore have to deploy soldiers to Hungary to block Russia. Hungary is a marginal player in the Ukraine war, but if Russia overtakes Ukraine, moves into Central Europe and establishes a new balance of power, Hungary will be a key battleground – in which case Orban's relationship with Putin will mean little. So long as the Ukrainian war continues Hungary is secure. That changes if either Russia or the West scores a decisive victory. From Budapest's point of view, the situation can get out of control.
Ingratiating itself with the West, then, would make sense for Hungary. It knows it cannot control Russia, and that it will need to be at least congenial with the West if or when it wins in Ukraine. This is why Russia's decision to levy fines is strange. For now, Russia needs Hungary, and Hungary needs room to maneuver. It's unclear if this is meaningful, or if this little more than a slap on the wrist of a nation Russia values is part of a broader shift on the battlefield and thus on the global stage.
P.S. After completing this article we received an update that Orban is now calling for an immediate cease-fire and negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and is preparing to go to Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and act as a kind of mediator.
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Another reminder
March 6, 2023
Another Pulitzer Prize discredited as propaganda…
By Monica Showalter
Remember all that political hay the far left and its media allies made during the Vietnam War about the wickedness of America's South Vietnamese ally and the importance of abandoning that country to the communists?
Here's the Pulitzer Prize–winning AP photo that was supposed to prick our consciences and make us turn against that "immoral" war against a communist takeover:
There's no doubt about it, the photo is hard to look at. It's crude, rough, wartime justice, a picture of South Vietnamese Police Captain Nguyễn Ngọc Loan coldly executing Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém. The film is even harder to look at.
It ran on the front page of the New York Times, cropped from the original to fill the space and make its impact even more immediate.
And it got the results the anti-war left wanted: public sentiment abruptly turned against the war as a result of this photo. The Vietnamese people were abandoned by the Americans, whose cut-and-run evacuation from the Saigon embassy rooftop was only recently bested by Joe Biden's Afghanistan pullout. After that, the re-education camps rolled in, the boat people launched into the high seas, and the killing fields of Cambodia began.
Jane Fonda must have been so proud of herself.Just one problem, though: The context was missing, and that context mattered.
The guy who got shot, who went by the nom de guerre Bay Lop, was a death squad psychopath in the Viet Cong who had just gotten done massacring 34 innocent people.
According to GroovyHistory:
From January to September 1968, North Vietnamese forces launched a coordinated series of attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam, proof that American forces had failed to quash the guerilla combatants. Death squads made their way through the cities, killing anyone who wasn't joining their revolution. Captured in a building in the Cho Lon quarter of Saigon, Nguyễn Văn Lém was a member of the Viet Cong whose downfall began in the Tet Offensive. Allegedly Lém was arrested for cutting the throats of South Vietnamese Lt Col Nguyen Tuan, his wife, their six children and the officer's 80-year-old mother. On top of that, he was leading a Viet Cong team whose whole deal was taking out members of the National Police and their families. A the time of his death, Lém should have been considered a prisoner of war under the Geneva Convention, but because he was dressed in civilian clothing and he wasn't carrying a firearm, he was technically seen as an "illegal combatant."
During the Tet Offensive, Lém was on a bloodthirsty tear through Saigon. He may look boyish, but he had the heart of a killer. The photo shows Lém handcuffed and in civilian clothing, but he was operating a death squad that had killed 34 that same day. He allegedly took out seven police officers, multiple members of their families, and even a few Americans. Each victim was bound by their wrists and shot in the back of the head, execution style. Because he wasn't wearing the outfit of a solider this put him in a bad scenario. As a person committing war crimes he was in a bad way, especially with General Loan coming after him. Not only had he carried out a gruesome act, but he was eligible for immediate execution.
Wikipedia notes that maybe this didn't happen the way these facts say it happened. A leftist professor quoted on Wikipedia said:
In 2018, author Max Hastings detailed the allegations against Lém, adding that American historian Ed Moise "is convinced that the entire story of Lém murdering the Tuân family is a post-war invention" and that "The truth will never be known."
Now that revisionist history is falling apart.
The Daily Mail found an admiral in the U.S. Navy, who was a tiny sole survivor of that massacre.
He was a little Vietnamese boy at the time who watched as this psychopath shot civilian after civilian including his entire family. He survived by playing dead and eventually made his way to America to becomee an American citizen, joining the U.S. Navy, and rising to the rank of admiral.
According to the Mail:
Bay Lop, the subject in the photo, had been executed in Saigon after carrying out the mass murder of Huan Nguyen's father — South Vietnamese Lt. Col. Nguyen Tuan, along with the officer's wife, mother, and six of his children, five boys and one girl.
Huan Nguyen, managed to survive despite being shot three times through the arm, thigh, and skull. The youngster stayed with his mother's dead body for two hours following the cold-blooded murder according to Military.com.
When night fell, Nguyen then escaped managing to avoid the communist guerrillas, and went to live with his uncle, a colonel in the South Vietnamese Air Force.
There's no disputing the facts of what happened to him, which pretty well puts paid to the nutty leftist professor's claims, and there's no excusing the behavior of the anti-war left, which used this child's family's murder to sell the first great bug-out of America on its allies for the purpose of spreading communism. The press, which acted pretty much in the same dishonest manner as it does today, was amazingly dishonest in its presentation of its "narrative," particularly at the editorial level.
Now we learn that a brave survivor exists from that terrible incident, and the badness of America suddenly wasn't so bad. The bad guy, in fact, was the communist Viet Cong "captain" who was a mass murderer not at all different from the Las Vegas spray shooter.
It's amazing what the press got away with on that one. And it serves as a reminder that pictures can be distorted and manipulated without context, without even Photoshop. While the photographer, Eddie Adams, was blameless, as he was just doing his job, the way the photo was presented, by broadcasters and newspaper editors, was not. This is one sorry incident that the left got away with. They showered their Pulitzers and watched the protests begin. One only wonders what the little kid who survived the massacre to become an admiral must have thought. Now that it's out that he survived this psychopath, his life is living testimony to that reality.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/another_pulitzer_prize_discredited_as_propaganda.html
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Novak Djokovic Denied Entry Into U.S. Again Over COVID Vaccine Status • Children's Health Defense
Check out the NY Post link for more. This is asinine pettiness and spitefulness! Novak won the Australian Open this year for the 10th time.
Novak Djokovic Denied Entry Into U.S. Again Over COVID Vaccine Status
New York Post reported:
The Novak Djokovic vaccine saga has extended into 2023. The world No. 1 Serbian tennis star was denied entry into the United States due to his being unvaccinated against COVID-19, forcing him to withdraw from the BNP Paribas Open, which starts Wednesday in Indian Wells, Ca.
Djokovic had requested a vaccine waiver but was denied by Homeland Security. It's not the first time that Djokovic has been forced out of competition due to his vaccination status.
The 35-year-old was forced to withdraw from the 2022 Australian Open after arriving in Melbourne, first having his visa canceled and then being deported out of the country.
Djokovic also did not play in the 2022 U.S. Open, which Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz ended up winning.
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Daily Memo: Beijing Sets Growth Target, Moscow Closes in on Bakhmut
The Chinese government also set its defense spending for this year.
By: GPF Staff
March 6, 2023
2023 agenda. China set an economic growth target of 5 percent for 2023 at its annual National People's Congress meeting over the weekend. Outgoing Premier Li Keqiang delivered a speech at the event outlining new measures aimed at boosting economic development, including raising incomes for mid- and low-income groups, increasing new-energy vehicle sales and supporting the development of the elder care sector. The draft budget for 2023 also included a 7.2 percent rise in the defense budget to 1.6 trillion yuan ($224.8 billion). In 2022, Beijing's defense spending rose by 7.1 percent over the previous year.
Battle for Bakhmut. Russian troops from both the Wagner Group private military company and the Russian army are intensifying their pressure on the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Wagner forces have near total control of all roads to and from the city. The Institute for the Study of War said over the weekend that Ukrainian forces may be conducting a "limited tactical withdrawal" from Bakhmut. There's also reportedly a disagreement between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Army Commander-in-Chief Valery Sulzhny over how to conduct the battle for the city.
German scandal. A political scandal is unfolding in Germany involving Russia's Gazprom and a German state-sponsored fund, the Foundation for the Protection of the Climate and Environment, that was designed to support development of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The governor of Germany's Mecklenburg-West Pomerania state, Manuela Schwesig, said in a new interview that she was unaware an employee for the German tax service burned documents in 2021 showing that Gazprom had donated money. She also said she was unaware of an investigation into whether the company should have paid taxes for its contributions to the foundation, which was created by the government of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in January 2021, around the time the U.S. threatened to sanction entities linked to the pipeline. Meanwhile, Russia reportedly plans to seal up the Nord Stream 1 pipelines, which were damaged last year by unexplained explosions. The Nord Stream 2 pipelines were also damaged by the blasts but were not operational at the time because Berlin suspended the certification process following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Violence in the Caucasus. Clashes erupted on Sunday between Azerbaijani troops and ethnic Armenian police from Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. At least five people were killed, including three officers from the separatist region and two Azerbaijani soldiers. According to Baku's Defense Ministry, the troops died after trying to stop Armenian vehicles from smuggling weapons into Nagorno-Karabakh.
Exercises. Meanwhile, Russia and Armenia carried out joint air drills involving troops and aircraft from Russia's air base in Armenia. This comes as the U.S. secretary of state's senior adviser for Caucasus negotiations met with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Monday before traveling to Armenia and Georgia. The United States and Europe have been paying increasing attention to the Caucasus since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.
U.S. supplies. Venezuela's state-owned oil giant PDVSA has reportedly been purchasing naphtha from U.S. firm Chevron since December. So far, PDVSA has imported 1.57 million barrels of naphtha from Chevron. Such purchases were banned before the U.S. lifted certain sanctions against Venezuela in November. The move was reportedly made because of delays from Iranian suppliers. Relatedly, Iranian authorities announced over the weekend the opening of a regular shipping line between Iran and Venezuela. Merchants, however, have reportedly shown little interest in the route.
Middle East tour. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin began a Middle East tour in Jordan on Sunday. He met with King Abdullah II to discuss the situation in the West Bank, where violence has been escalating between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. Austin will head to Egypt and Israel next. Relatedly, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, visited a base in northeast Syria over the weekend.
Korean Peninsula. The U.S. and South Korea launched combined air drills on Monday over the Yellow Sea. The exercises involved at least one nuclear-capable B-52H strategic bomber as well as South Korean F-15K and KF-16 fighter jets. The two allies also began drills at the Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek. This comes amid concerns about Pyongyang's response to the U.S.-South Korean Freedom Shield exercises set for March 13-23.
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This Day in U S Military History
1774 – The British close the port of Boston to all commerce. The Boston Port Bill was intended to close down completely the Port of Boston until the East India Company was paid for their tea lost in the Boston Tea Party and Parliament was paid the tax due on the tea.
1774 – A 2nd Boston tea party was held.
1776 – Lead by General William Howe, the British evacuate Boston. Howe's army and a group of 1000 loyalists will set sail for Halifax, Nova Scotia on 17 March.
1778 – Capt. James Cook 1st sighted the Oregon coast at Yaquina Bay.
1847 – U.S. General Scott occupied Veracruz, Mexico. Pres. Polk decided to attack the heart of Mexico. He sent Gen. Winfield Scott, who landed at Veracruz and with his troops hacked their way to Mexico City.
1918 – President Wilson authorized the Army's Distinguished Service Medal. The Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to any person who while serving in any capacity with the U.S. Army, has distinguished himself or herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the Government in a duty of great responsibility. The performance must be such as to merit recognition for service which is clearly exceptional. Exceptional performance of normal duty will not alone justify an award of this decoration. For service not related to actual war, the term "duty of great responsibility" applies to a narrower range of positions than in time of war and requires evidence of conspicuously significant achievement. However, justification of the award may accrue by virtue of exceptionally meritorious service in a succession of high positions of great importance. Awards may be made to persons other than members of the Armed Forces of the United States for wartime services only, and then only under exceptional circumstances with the express approval of the President in each case.
1974 – The Civil War ironclad ship, Monitor, which sank in 1862, is discovered off the coast of Hatteras, North Carolina. For more than a century, the Monitor's resting place in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" remained a mystery, despite numerous searches. In 1973, an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by John G. Newton of the Duke University Marine Laboratory located the Monitor while testing geological survey equipment for underwater archaeological survey and assessment. Newton's team determined the search area by replotting the track of the USS Rhode Island, a paddlewheel steamer that was towing the Monitor when she sank on New Year's Eve, 1862. The Rhode Island's logbook recorded events and times as the two ships rounded treacherous Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. An 1857 coast survey chart helped refine the plotting of the search area. The scientists also developed sonar and visual configurations for the wreck with specific points of identification: the ship's turret, armor belt, and nearly flat bottom. On August 27, 1973, after identifying twenty-one possible contacts, side-searching sonar found a long, amorphous echo. The first pass of the television camera revealed iron plates; a virtually flat, unobstructed surface (the bottom of the hull); a thick waist (the armor belt); and a circular structure (the turret). With each successive series of camera passes, evidence mounted that the wreck was that of the Monitor, but it would take an intensive study of the visual evidence over the next five months to confirm it. A second visit to the site in April 1974 will positively identify the Monitor, lying in approximately 230 feet of water about 16 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras.
1979 – Voyager 1 reached Jupiter.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CARR, EUGENE A.
Rank and organization: Colonel, 3d Illinois Cavalry. Place and date: At Pea Ridge, Ark., 7 March 1862. Entered service at: Hamburg, Erie County, N.Y. Born: 10 March 1830, Boston Corner, Erie County, N.Y. Date of issue: 16 January 1894. Citation: Directed the deployment of his command and held his ground, under a brisk fire of shot and shell in which he was several times wounded.
POWER, ALBERT
Rank and organization: Private, Company A, 3d lowa Cavalry. Place and date: At Pea Ridge, Ark., 7 March 1862. Entered service at: Davis County, lowa. Birth: Guernsey County, Ohio. Date of issue: 6 March 1899. Citation: Under a heavy fire and at great personal risk went to the aid of a dismounted comrade who was surrounded by the enemy, took him up on his own horse, and carried him to a place of safety.
DANIELS, JAMES T.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company L, 4th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: Arizona, 7 March 1890. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Richland County, 111. Date of issue: 15 May 1890. Citation: Untirlng energy and cool gallantry under fire in an engagement with Apache Indians.
McBRYAR, WILLIAM
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company K, 1 0th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: Arizona, 7 March 1890. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: 14 February 1861, Elizabethtown, N.C. Date of issue: 15 May 1890. Citation: Distinguished himself for coolness, bravery and marksmanship while his troop was in pursuit of hostile Apache Indians.
CECIL, JOSEPHUS S.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 19th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Bud-Dajo, Jolo, Philippine Islands, 7 March 1906. Entered service at: New River, Tenn. Birth: New River, Tenn. Date of issue: Unknown. Citation: While at the head of the column about to assault the first cotta under a superior fire at short range personally carried to a sheltered position a wounded man and the body of one who was killed beside him.
JOHNSTON, GORDON
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Signal Corps. Place and date: At Mount Bud Dajo, Jolo, Philippine Islands, 7 March 1906. Entered service at: Birmingham, Ala. Born: 25 May 1874, Charlotte, N.C. Date of issue: 7 November 1910. G.O. No.: 207. Citation: Voluntarily took part in and was dangerously wounded during an assault on the enemy's works.
LEIMS, JOHN HAROLD
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. marine Corps Reserve, Company B, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division. Place and date: Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, 7 march 1945. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill. Born: 8 June 1921, Chicago, Ill. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as commanding officer of Company B, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands, 7 march 1945. Launching a surprise attack against the rock-imbedded fortification of a dominating Japanese hill position, 2d Lt. Leims spurred his company forward with indomitable determination and, skillfully directing his assault platoons against the cave-emplaced enemy troops and heavily fortified pillboxes, succeeded in capturing the objective in later afternoon. When it became apparent that his assault platoons were cut off in this newly won position, approximately 400 yards forward of adjacent units and lacked all communication with the command post, he personally advanced and laid telephone lines across the isolating expanse of open fire-swept terrain. Ordered to withdraw his command after he had joined his forward platoons, he immediately complied, adroitly effecting the withdrawal of his troops without incident. Upon arriving at the rear, he was informed that several casualties had been left at the abandoned ridge position beyond the frontlines. Although suffering acutely from the strain and exhausting of battle, he instantly went forward despite darkness and the slashing fury of hostile machinegun fire, located and carried to safety 1 seriously wounded marine and then, running the gauntlet of enemy fire for the third time that night, again made his tortuous way into the bullet-riddled deathtrap and rescued another of his wounded men. A dauntless leader, concerned at all time for the welfare of his men, 2d Lt. Leims soundly maintained the coordinated strength of his battle-wearied company under extremely difficult conditions and, by his bold tactics, sustained aggressiveness, and heroic disregard for all personal danger, contributed essentially to the success of his division's operations against this vital Japanese base. His valiant conduct in the face of fanatic opposition sustains and enhances the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
*BRITTIN, NELSON V.
Rank and organization: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, Company I, 19th Infantry Regiment. Place and date: Vicinity of Yonggong-ni, Korea, 7 March 1951. Entered service at: Audubon, N.J. Birth: Audubon, N.J. G.O. No.: 12, 1 February 1952. Citation: Sfc. Brittin, a member of Company I, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action. Volunteering to lead his squad up a hill, with meager cover against murderous fire from the enemy, he ordered his squad to give him support and, in the face of withering fire and bursting shells, he tossed a grenade at the nearest enemy position. On returning to his squad, he was knocked down and wounded by an enemy grenade. Refusing medical attention, he replenished his supply of grenades and returned, hurling grenades into hostile positions and shooting the enemy as they fled. When his weapon jammed, he leaped without hesitation into a foxhole and killed the occupants with his bayonet and the butt of his rifle. He continued to wipe out foxholes and, noting that his squad had been pinned down, he rushed to the rear of a machine gun position, threw a grenade into the nest, and ran around to its front, where he killed all 3 occupants with his rifle. Less than 100 yards up the hill, his squad again came under vicious fire from another camouflaged, sandbagged, machine gun nest well-flanked by supporting riflemen. Sfc. Brittin again charged this new position in an aggressive endeavor to silence this remaining obstacle and ran direct into a burst of automatic fire which killed him instantly. In his sustained and driving action, he had killed 20 enemy soldiers and destroyed 4 automatic weapons. The conspicuous courage, consummate valor, and noble self-sacrifice displayed by Sfc. Brittin enabled his inspired company to attain its objective and reflect the highest glory on himself and the heroic traditions of the military service.
KRAVITZ, LEONARD M.
Rank and Organization: Private First Class. U.S. Army. Company M, 3d Battalion. 5th Regiment. Place and Date: March 6-7, 1951, Yangpyong, Korea. Born: 1931, Brooklyn, NY . Departed: Yes (03/07/1951). Entered Service At: New York. G.O. Number: . Date of Issue: 03/18/2014. Accredited To: . Citation: Kravitz is being recognized for his actions in Yangpyong, Korea, March 6-7, 1951. While occupying defensive positions, Kravitz's unit was overrun by enemy combatants and forced to withdraw. Kravitz voluntarily remained at a machine-gun position to provide suppressive fire for the retreating troops. This forced the enemy to concentrate their attack on his own position. Kravitz ultimately did not survive the attack, but his actions saved his entire platoon.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for March 7, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
7 March
1911: At Palm Beach, Fla., Percy G. B. Morris and John A. "Douglas" McCurdy demonstrated a new airplane radio that employed a small Marconi transmitter and a loop antenna. This replaced the hanging antenna. (24)
1919: Lt (JG) F. M. Johnson launched an N-9 landplane from a sea sled traveling at 60 MPH at Hampton Roads, Va. (24)
1-9 March
During this week, US Army Air Corps Lt. Burnie Dallas and Beckwith Havens fly a Loening Amphibian on the first transcontinental amphibious airplane flight. Total flight time is 32 hours and 45 minutes. First flown in 1923, the aircraft was a high-performance amphibian with a large single hull and stabilizing floats fitted underneath each lower wing.
1924: Lt Eugene Hoy Barksdale and his navigator, Lt Bradley Jones, flew a DH-4B, powered by 400 horsepower Liberty engine from McCook Field to Mitchel Field using instruments only. (24)
1954: Northwest Orient Airlines set a transpacific speed record for commercial aircraft by flying 5,000 miles from Tokyo to Seattle in 16 hours 18 minutes. (24)
1958: The US Navy commissioned the USS Grayback at Mare Island, Calif. It was the first US submarine built from the keel up with a guided cruise missile launch capability.
1961: Major Robert M. White pilots the North American X-15 hypersonic research airplane to a speed of 2,905 miles per hour. In accomplishing this, White becomes the first man to exceed Mach 4 during this mission. In July the following year, White will become the first to fly into space under the aircraft's own power and return to the Earth to a safe landing. (USAF Art Program)
1961: SAC declared the B-52's GAM-72A Quail missile system operational. (12) Maj Robert M. White flew the X-15A-2, with the XLR99 57,000-pound thrust engine, on its first Mach 4 flight. (3)
1962: NASA launched its first second-generation satellite, a 450-pound Orbiting Solar Observatory from Cape Canaveral. (24)
1965: Qantas Airlines completed the first nonstop commercial flight across the Pacific by flying a Boeing 707 from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, in 14 hours 33 minutes. (5)
1967: EXERCISE SIYASAT. This 14-day Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) air-landsea exercise in the Philippines climaxed on 21 March with a massive firepower demonstration at Fort Magsaysay. Observers from six SEATO nations attended the event. F-102s from the 405 FW participated. (17)
1977 A MAC C-130 airlifted approximately 6.6 tons of medical supplies from Ramstein AB to Bucharest, Romania, after an earthquake. (18)
1983: In the largest B-52 mining exercise to date, 10 B-52D/Gs dropped mines off the South Korean coast in "Team Spirit 83." This exercise included US Navy and Marine minelayers and fighters, SAC and Navy tankers, and South Korean fighters. (1)
1986: The Air Force conducted its 11th flight test for the Peacekeeper (M-X) missile in the third launch from a modified Minuteman silo at Vandenberg AFB. The missile carried eight unarmed MK-21 reentry vehicles to the planned target area, 4,100 miles away at the Kwajalein Missile Test Range. Contractor crews conducted all previous launches; however, the 11th flight used two Air Force launch control officers with contractor support. (5) An F-16 conducted a successful separation control test of the Advanced Medium Range Air-toAir Missile. (11)
1990: Rockwell's Missile Systems Division received a $125,200,000 contract to build 4,864 AGM-114 Hellfire missiles for the Army. (8: May 90)
2003: President George W. Bush issued an ultimatum giving Saddam Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq. (32)
2007: Operation Deep Freeze. Ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules and C-17 Globemaster IIIs redeployed from Christchurch, New Zealand, to end the 2006-2007 season of support to the National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program. In this period, the LC-130s flew 430 missions to move nearly 11 million pounds of cargo and 1,000 passengers throughout Antarctica, while the C-17s flew 57 missions to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from Christchurch carrying more than 3 million pounds of cargo and 2,700 passengers to McMurdo, and more than 720,000 pounds of cargo and 2,600 passengers to Christchurch from McMurdo. The LC-130s came from the 109th Airlift Wing, New York Air National Guard, while the C-17s came from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings, McChord Air Force Base, Wash. (AFNEWS, "Operation Deep Freeze Ends Record-Setting Year," 7 Mar 2007.)
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