To All,
Good Saturday morning March 25 2023.
Sad day today we have to put Stanley down . He just can't get up now and is in pain. The Vet is coming by in about an hour. He is 17 and has been a great dog. Mostly a yellow Lab. His Buddy Banjo will be lost without him.
Regards,
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History March 25
1813 During the War of 1812, the frigate Essex, commanded by Capt. David Porter, takes the Peruvian cruiser Neryeda, which is the first capture by the U.S. Navy in the Pacific.
1822 USS Shark, commanded by Lt. Matthew C. Perry, raises the first U.S. flag over Key West, Fla., and claims the territory for the United States, calling it Thompsons Island to honor Secretary of the Navy Smith Thompson.
1898 Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, recommends to Secretary of the Navy John D. Long that he appoint two officers of scientific attainments and practical ability who, with representatives from the War Department, would examine Professor Samuel P. Langley's flying machine and report upon its practicability and its potential for use in war.
1915 The submarine, F-4 (SS 23) sinks off Honolulu, Hawaii, with the loss of 21 lives. It is the first commissioned submarine loss for the U.S. Navy.
1944 USS Manlove (DE 36) and submarine chaser PC 1135 sink Japanese submarine I 32, 50 miles south of Wotje.
1957 The first F8U-1 Crusader is delivered to a fleet unit, VF-32, in the record time of two years after the first flight of the experimental model.
2007 Congress designates March 25 each year as National Medal of Honor Day. The day is significant as it is the day the first Medal of Honor was presented in 1863.
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This day in World History
0708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
1634 Lord Baltimore founds the Catholic colony of Maryland.
1655 Puritans jail Governor Stone after a military victory over Catholic forces in the colony of Maryland.
1668 The first horse race in America takes place.
1776 The Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington.
1807 British Parliament abolishes the slave trade.
1813 The frigate USS Essex flies the first U.S. flag in battle in the Pacific.
1865 Confederate forces capture Fort Stedman, during the siege of Petersburg, Va.
1879 Japan invades the kingdom of Liuqiu (Ryukyu) Islands, formerly a vassal of China.
1905 Rebel battle flags that were captured during the American Civil War are returned to the South.
1911 A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, a sweatshop in New York City, claims the lives of 146 workers.
1915 The first submarine disaster occurs when a U.S. F-4 sinks off the Hawaiian coast.
1919 The Paris Peace Commission adopts a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.
1931 Fifty people are killed in riots that break out in India. Mahatma Gandhi was one of many people assaulted.
1940 The United States agrees to give Britain and France access to all American warplanes.
1941 Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers.
1953 The USS Missouri fires on targets at Kojo, North Korea, the last time her guns fire until the Persian Gulf War of 1992.
1954 RCA manufactures its first color TV set and begins mass production.
1957 The European Common Market Treaty is signed in Rome. The goal is to create a common market for all products--especially coal and steel.
1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leads a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, Ala.
1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono stage a bed-in for peace in Amsterdam.
1970 The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight.
1975 Hue is lost and Da Nang is endangered by North Vietnamese forces. The United States orders a refugee airlift to remove those in danger.
1981 The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador is damaged when gunmen attack, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns.
1986 President Ronald Reagan orders emergency aid for the Honduran army. U.S. helicopters take Honduran troops to the Nicaraguan border.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
Skip… For The List for Saturday, 25 March 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.come post for 25 March 1968… Alfred Thayer Mahan: "The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practices."
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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Thanks to 'Newell
LIST Brethren,
One of my younger brothers celebrated his 79th birthday a couple of days ago, which naturally reminded me that he is a "younger" brother. It also called to mind a clever comedic take on aging. So, as you read further, channel Julie Andrews' lovely soprano voice breathing life into the following slightly-altered lyrics of "My Favorite Things".
Newell Tarrant
MY FAVORITE GERIATRIC THINGS
Maalox and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up with strings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Cadillacs and cataracts and hearing aids and glasses,
Polident and Fixodent and false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the pipes leak,
When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel so bad.
Hot tea and crumpets, and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or stuff cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heat pads and the hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Back pains, confused brains, and no fear of sinning,
Frail bones and fractures and hair that is thinning,
And don't even mention our short shrunken frames,
Or not remembering friends' faces and names.
When the joints ache,
When The hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
I simply remember the great life I've had,
And then I don't feel so bad.
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I could not get the one Newell sent me to work but Cowboy found it in another medium and it works for us all.
: Ages ago on a faraway planet....Family and Friends,
Long ago high school friend, Tom Bushar, shares the following delightful YouTube musical-video site. Aptly, it evokes the cheerful, optimistic, comedic, romantic, innocent, G-rated spirit of the 1950s ... our growing up years. It's a whirling dervish of dance, song and old TV or movie intercuts.
If it doesn't prompt a smile, check yourself for a heartbeat....
Newell
Try this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmsahlXby7c
I cleaned up the link some…Tom
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Thanks to Mugs
Interesting and detailed explanation of the recent SU-27 collision with a Predator. Gives some insights into how Russian fighter training compares to ours.
(3) Why a Russian fighter took out an American drone near Ukraine - YouTube
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Thanks to Mike
Flying the F-8 Crusader in Vietnam, The Last Gunfighter with James Markel
1 hour and ten minutes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3QoUp_vmU8k&feature=share
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Thanks to Andrea
Thought this might be good for The List, if you haven't already posted it.
1. Teaching Math In 1950
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit? $____
2. Teaching Math In 1970...
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80.
What is his profit? $___
3. Teaching Math In 1990...
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.
His cost of production is $80.
Did he make a profit? __Yes or __No
4 Teaching Math In 2000...
A logger sells a truckload of timber for $100.
His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20.
Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5 Teaching Math In 2015...
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands.
He does this so he can make a profit of $20.
What do you think of this way of making a living?
Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes?
6 Teaching Math in 2022...
Math is Racist. It was only invented to prove the superiority of whites.
Students no longer need any math skills to go to Graduate School.
2+2 = 4, or 22, or whatever you feel is correct…
There are no wrong answers, feel free to express your feelings, e.g., anger, anxiety, inadequacy, helplessness, etc. Should you require debriefing at the conclusion of the exam, there are counselors available to assist you to adjust back into the real world.
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Thanks to STRATFOR AND BRETT
THE WEEKLY RUNDOWN
RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL SHAPE THE COMING WEEK
KEY DEVELOPMENTS WE'RE TRACKING
Dueling presidential visits from Taiwan. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen will visit the United States during two stopovers (one in New York, one in California) on either end of a March 29-April 7 trip to Central America. Whether she will meet with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy remains to be seen, but if she does, China may launch a large round of aerial and naval incursions into Taiwan's aerial defense identification zone in protest, but is unlikely to escalate further given Tsai has already visited the United States in 2018 and 2019. Meanwhile, former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China from March 27 to April 7, marking the first-ever visit by a former or current Taiwanese president to the People's Republic of China. Ma stated he has no official plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. If they do meet, it could significantly harm support for the opposition Kuomintang in Taiwan ahead of January 2024 general elections, as Taiwanese citizens would see the meeting as a sign of capitulation to Beijing.
Spain's prime minister travels to China. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on March 30 will visit the Chinese island of Hainan, where he will hold a series of commercial meetings, before traveling March 31 to Beijing to meet Xi. Spain takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union in July, and Sanchez's visit to China will mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Madrid and Beijing. The two countries are likely to announce business agreements, but more notably, Sanchez intends to discuss the war in Ukraine with Xi, who recently visited President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. While Sanchez has portrayed Spain as a staunch ally of Ukraine, he has also signaled openness to China acting as a mediator, something most other European leaders have roundly rejected.
Anti-government protests continue in France. As protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to approve a controversial pensions reform without a vote in the National Assembly continue, the country's main trade unions will hold a general strike March 28. The strikes will disrupt operations at airports, train stations and gasoline stations across the country, with large demonstrations in Paris and other major cities. While Macron has promised to keep the controversial reform, which raises the retirement age from 62 to 64, in place, social unrest is quickly evolving from discontent with the plan to broader questions about the health of France's democracy and the institutions of the Fifth Republic. If the unrest escalates significantly or continues for an extended period, Macron's options include dropping the reform — which would come at a very high political price for him — or holding an early legislative election, which would probably result in an even more fragmented National Assembly.
The U.S. co-hosts the second Summit for Democracy. From March 28-30, the United States will co-host with Costa Rica, the Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia the second Summit of Democracy. Leaders of 120 countries were invited, but Hungary and Turkey were notably snubbed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will discuss his vision for a just and lasting peace ahead of a subsequent discussion chaired by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. China and Russia will meanwhile decry the summit, which they believe is intended to form a coalition against their influence and to ostracize countries unaligned with the United States on the global stage.
MOST READ ANALYSIS FROM THE WEEK
In France, Ongoing Pension Protests Underscore the Risk of Recurring Political Instability
French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to ram his pension reform through the National Assembly has triggered a political crisis that will likely fuel a protracted protest movement. While this crisis could bring the country's policy agenda to a standstill, it may only be the first symptom of chronic political instability resulting from the reconfiguration of France's political scene. On March 20, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne survived two no-confidence motions that opposition parties triggered after her government enacted a controversial pension reform without holding a vote in the National Assembly, France's lower house of Parliament. The reform aims to make France's pension system more sustainable amid an aging population by raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Then on March 22, President Macron defended the constitutional legitimacy of his government's use of this constitutional bypass and outlined his ambition to reform employees' working conditions. Despite these attempts at shifting the debate away from the pension reform, a large majority of the French public perceived the move to bypass the National Assembly as a breach of the social contract, leading to sporadic yet violent protests across France's major cities for seven consecutive days. Furthermore, the move has come at a great personal cost for Prime Minister Borne, who finds herself politically weakened and under intensifying calls from opposition parties to resign.
What to Make of Xi's Russia Trip and China's Growing Involvement in Ukraine
Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow confirms the two leaders' mutual desire for deeper economic and political cooperation, as well as Beijing's desire to position itself as a viable mediator in Ukraine and Moscow's desire to freeze the war along current battle lines. Xi arrived in the Russian capital on March 20 for a three-day state visit to Russia. Informal talks between the Chinese president and his Russian counterpart that night lasted nearly five hours. And on March 21, Xi continued talks with Putin in an expanded format, including high-ranking officials from both sides. The two leaders signed joint statements on their comprehensive partnership and their plans to develop key areas of Russian-Chinese economic cooperation by 2030, along with documents on cooperation in various areas, most notably a memorandum of understanding on industrial and infrastructural cooperation in the Russian Far East. Putin and Xi discussed the war in Ukraine, increasing military-technical cooperation between their countries and deepening economic ties, particularly in the energy sphere.
What the Matamoros Kidnapping Says About the State of Cartel Violence in Mexico
The recent armed attack on four U.S. citizens in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, illustrated well-documented security risks in Mexico's many crime hotspots, where gang and cartel violence disrupts daily life and hinders business operations. But while the demonstrated risks are nothing new, much about the incident was out of the ordinary, including the abnormal targeting of American civilians, the subsequent calls by U.S. Republicans for military intervention, and the cartel's highly out-of-character note apologizing for the whole affair. The oddities of the incident and the response to it by the cartel, as well as the Mexican and U.S. governments, confirm and expand on long-standing security, political and logistical risks from organized crime in Mexico.
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Thanks to Dr. Rich
I actually got a cat shot in one of these beasts off the HMS Hermes. The wings folded up like a broken umbrella. I went aboard in a Buccaneer back seat and believe it or not the Pilot who was the CO of the Squadron had the last name of Hornblower. We went out to the ship so low I thought I could see the tops of the waves and we went by the ship well below the flight deck at 550 indicated and he did a high G pull up and circled down and got aboard on the first pass. Quite an entertaining couple days on the ship...skip
Saw at OSH several years ago … one of the strangest ever!!
The Fairey Gannet was a dedicated anti-submarine platform primarily serving the Fleet Air Arm of the British Royal Navy during the Cold War years. She was an aircraft design originating from a 1945 British Admiralty initiative (GR.17/45) requiring an advanced, carrier-based, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) platform
Both Fairey Aviation Company and Blackburn Aircraft responded with prototypes "Fairey 17" and "B-54" respectively. Both were of outwardly similar design, sporting conventional monoplane wings, stout reinforced airframes, internal bomb bays and a tricycle undercarriage. The "gannet" name was derived from the species of large seabirds common to the North Atlantic, the southern regions of Africa and the South Pacific (near Australia and New Zealand). Their predatory nature is such that they dive, at speed, upon unsuspecting prey in the water and can continue the chase of said prey while remaining submerged.
The Blackburn B-54 featured a piston engine while the follow-up prototype, the B-88, was fitted with a gas-powered turbine engine driving a large-radius contra-rotating propeller system. The internal bomb bay was affixed to the underside of the fuselage. The pilot and his observer sat in tandem under a framed canopy. The empennage was conventional, featuring a single vertical tail fin with a pair of horizontal planes. A radar scanner was mounted under the base of the empennage in a cylindrical fitting and was retractable into the fuselage. First flight was recorded on September 20th,1949. Only three Blackburn prototypes were produced in all before the program was shelved in favor of the Fairey product.
The Fairey design (attributed to engineer H.E. Chaplin) made use of the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba gas-turbine engine in a dual configuration arrangement earning the pair the collective name of "Twin Mamba" or "Double Mamba". The arrangement showcased the engines in a side-by-side seating coupled to a single gearbox and powering contra-rotating propellers fitted to the nose of the aircraft. The engines exhausted from oblong ports along the sides of the fuselage, just above and aft of the wing trailing edges.
The aircraft could be flown on just one engine in the event of a failure or to conserve fuel and could also operate with kerosene or diesel fuel as opposed to the more volatile high-octane fuel common to carrier piston engine aircraft of the time. The initial crew complement included the pilot, seated in the forward cockpit, and an observer, seated in a rear cockpit just aft of the pilot. Like the Blackburn design, the Fairey 17 also sported a retractable radome assembly under the base of the tail and an internal bomb bay compartment under the fuselage. The wings were cranked upwards outboard of the main landing gear legs. As the design was intended to be fielded from British carriers, the wings were designed to fold for optimal storage space; the assemblies took on a very distinct "Z" shape as a result, folding at two hinged locations and effectively "stacking" the wing vertically upon itself. The nose landing gear leg of the tricycle undercarriage gave the aircraft a distinct "nose up" appearance when at rest.
After the prototype was developed, the design was slightly revised to include a third crewmember as an additional observer. This added a third segregated cockpit to the layout, set just aft of amidships behind the wing yet ahead of the tail assembly. Of course this addition was not without effect and it was found to disrupted the airflow along the stabilizers on the tail forcing the use of small "finlets" along the fuselage sides aft of the wing assemblies to counter the issue.
First flight of the Fairey 17 occurred on September 19th, 1949. On June 19th, 1950, the prototype made her first evaluation landing on the deck of the HMS Illustrious carrier. Content with the results, British authorities ordered the type for production as the Fairey "Gannet" AS Mark 1 (AS.Mk I) before the end of 1953. Deliveries of the first 100 aircraft began in April of 1954. That same year, a modified trainer variant was flown and accepted, entering service in 1955 as the T Mark 2 (T.Mk II). The first Gannet squadron for the Fleet Air Arm became 826 NAS, stationed on the HMS Eagle.
Wingspan 54 ft 4 in.
Length 44 ft
Height 16 ft 10 in.
Weight 25,000 lbs (loaded)
Maximum Speed 271 knots
Service Ceiling 25,000 ft
Range 700 miles
Engine 1 Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba ASMD.4 turboshaft with 3,875 horsepower
Crew 3
Production ran from 1953 until 1959 to which 348 examples were ultimately delivered by Fairey.
The AS Mark 1 (AS.Mk I) was the primary 3-seat production model of which 180 examples were built. The T Mark 2 (T.Mk II) became the primary training variant of the AS 1 production model. 35 of this type were produced. The AS Mark 4 (AS.Mk 4) soldiered on as an improved anti-submarine platform with a revised engine featuring greater output and was essentially the 170th production model onwards of the AS.Mk I. Eighty-two examples were produced. The COD Mark 4 (COD.Mk 4) were AS.Mk 4 production models revised for use as carrier-based transport aircraft. The T Mark 5 (T.Mk 5) was the trainer version of the AS.Mk 4 production model though only eight of this type were delivered. The A.Mk 6 were AS.Mk 4 models fitted with new and improved radar systems and revised electronics. The ECM.Mk 6 was an electronic countermeasures (ECM) land-based Gannet variant.
The last production Gannet became the AEW.Mk 3 utilized by the Royal Navy as an airborne early warning (AEW) platform beginning in 1958. Forty-four examples of this type were ultimately built with first flight recorded on August of 1958. AEW.Mk 3 equipped four flights of No. 849 Squadron. By the middle of the 1960s, the Fairey Gannet series - and its respective tasks - was being replaced by the Westland Whirlwind series of land- and carrier-based helicopters. The primary role of the Gannet now shifted wholly to use as electronic countermeasures platforms while some were revised as dedicated transports for passengers and cargo alike. It was about this time that the system was purchased by foreign parties including Australia, West Germany and Indonesia. The last of the Fairey Gannets was retired for good on December 15th, 1978, ending her long, yet useful, tenure for multiple naval parties.
The largest operator of the Fairey Gannet was the Fleet Air Arm of the British Royal Navy. The type was fielded through 700, 703, 703X, 719, 724, 725, 737, 744, 796, 810, 812, 814, 815, 816, 817, 820, 824, 825, 826, 831, 847, 849 Naval Air Squadrons. There was also B Flight on the HMS Ark Royal and D Flight on the HMS Eagle as well as the 1840 Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.
The Fairey Gannet was operated by the 724, 725, 816 and 817 squadrons of the Royal Australian Navy. The German Navy also operated the type with Marinefliegergeschwader 2 and Marinefliegergeschwader 3 up until 1963 and 1966 respectively. The aircraft was purchased in small quantities by the Indonesian Navy as well.
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This Day in U S Military History March 25
1898 – Assist. SECNAV Theodore Roosevelt proposes Navy investigate military application of Samuel Langley's flying machine, beginning naval aviation. Langley had been experimenting for over a decade with steam powered flying machines and was attempting to adapt a working steam model to an internal combustion powered design.
1945 – US 1st Army units, principally from US 3rd Corps, begin to break out of the Remagen bridgehead. The US 8th Corps (part of US 3rd Army) begins to cross the Rhine River near Boppard. To the south, Darmstadt is taken by US 12th Corps units who crossed at Nierstein. Other units have advanced farther east to the Main near Hanau and Aschaffenburg.
1958 – Elvis Presley's active duty service began and lasted two years, until March 5, 1960.
1960 – A guided missile, a Regulus I, was launched from a nuclear powered submarine, the USS Halibut, for the first time. Halibut is also the first submarine to be designed and built from the keel up to launch guided missiles.
1961 – Elvis Presley (26) performed live on the USS Arizona, a fund raiser for a memorial. Col. Parker, Presley's manager, came up with the brilliant idea to have Elvis Presley give the benefit concert in the 4,000-seat Bloch Arena next to the entrance to Pearl Harbor.
2003 – In the 7th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom US aircraft dropped more than 2,000 precision-guided bombs on Iraq since the war's start. The "smart" bombs were produced for a relatively cheap $20,000 each. Sandstorms slowed coalition movement and air missions. US officials reported 150-200 Iraqi soldiers were killed near Najaf. US Commander General Tommy Franks says US-led forces are making "rapid and in some cases dramatic" progress but has also met sporadic resistance. Franks also says that his forces have captured 3,000 prisoners.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
1863 – The first Army Medal of Honor is presented to PVT Jacob Parrott of the 33rd Ohio Infantry. Four others are so honored this day as well.
CARTER, JOSEPH F.
Rank and organization: Captain, Company D, 3d Maryland Infantry. Place and date: At Fort Stedman, Va., 25 March 1865. Entered service at: Baltimore, Md. Birth: Baltimore, Md. Date of issue: 9 July 1891. Citation: Captured the colors of the 51st Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.). During the battle he was captured and escaped bringing a number of prisoners with him.
HOUGHTON, CHARLES H.
Rank and organization: Captain, Company L, 14th New York Artillery. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 30 July 1864; 25 March 1865. Entered service at: Ogdensburg, N.Y. Born: 30 April 1842, Macomb, St. Lawrence County, N.Y. Date of issue: 5 April 1898. Citation: In the Union assault at the Crater (30 July 1864), and in the Confederate assault repelled at Fort Haskell, displayed most conspicuous gallantry and repeatedly exposed himself voluntarily to great danger, was 3 times wounded, and suffered loss of a leg.
LITTLEFIELD, GEORGE H.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company G, 1st Maine Veteran Infantry. Place and date: At Fort Fisher, Va., 25 March 1865. Entered service at: Skowhegan, Maine. Birth: Skowhegan, Maine. Date of issue: 22 June 1885. Citation: The color sergeant having been wounded, this soldier picked up the flag and bore it to the front, to the great encouragement of the charging column.
McDONALD, GEORGE E.
Rank and organization: Private, Company L, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. Place and date: At Fort Stedman, Va., 25 March 1865. Entered service at: Warwick, R.I. Birth: Warwick, R.I. Date of issue: 21 July 1865. Citation: Capture of flag.
MURPHY, JAMES T.
Rank and organization: Private, Company L, 1st Connecticut Artillery. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 25 March 1865. Entered service at: New Haven, Conn. Birth: Canada. Date of issue: 29 October 1886. Citation: A piece of artillery having been silenced by the enemy, this soldier voluntarily ass1sted in working the piece, conducting himself throughout the engagement in a gallant and fearless manner.
OLIVER, CHARLES
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company M, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 25 March 1865. Entered service at: Allegheny County, Pa. Birth: Allegheny County, Pa. Date of issue. 3 July 1865. Citation: Capture of flag of 31st Georgia Infantry (C.S.A.).
PINKHAM, CHARLES H.
Rank and organization: Sergeant Major, 57th Massachusetts Infantry. Place and date: At Fort Stedman, Va., 25 March 1865. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Grafton, Mass. Date of issue: 15 April 1895. Citation: Captured the flag of the 57th North Carolina Infantry (C.S.A.) and saved his own colors by tearing them from the staff while the enemy was in the camp.
THOMPKINS, GEORGE W.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company F, 124th New York Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg, Va., 25 March 1865. Entered service at: Esport Jervis, N.Y. Birth: Orange County, N.Y. Date of issue: 6 April 1865. Citation: Capture of flag of 49th Alabama Infantry (C.S.A.) from an officer who, with colors in hand, was rallying his men
SHIELS, GEORGE F.
Rank and organization: Surgeon, U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At Tuliahan River, Philippine Islands, 25 March 1899. Entered service at: California. Birth: California. Date of issue: 22 November 1906. Citation: Voluntarily exposed himself to the fire of the enemy and went with 4 men to the relief of 2 native Filipinos Iying wounded about 150 yards in front of the lines and personally carried one of them to a place of safety.
*DOANE, STEPHEN HOLDEN
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company B, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date: Hau Nghia Province, Republic of Vietnam, 25 March 1969. Entered service at: Albany, N.Y. Born: 13 October 1947, Beverely, Mass. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. First Lt. Doane was serving as a platoon leader when his company, engaged in a tactical operation, abruptly contacted an enemy force concealed in protected bunkers and trenches. Three of the leading soldiers were pinned down by enemy crossfire. One was seriously wounded. After efforts of 1 platoon to rescue these men had failed, it became obvious that only a small group could successfully move close enough to destroy the enemy position and rescue or relieve the trapped soldiers, 1st Lt. Doane, although fully aware of the danger of such an action, crawled to the nearest enemy bunker and silenced it. He was wounded but continued to advance to a second enemy bunker. As he prepared to throw a grenade, he was again wounded. Undaunted, he deliberately pulled the pin on the grenade and lunged with it into the enemy bunker, destroying this final obstacle. 1st Lt. Doane's supreme act enabled his company to rescue the trapped men without further casualties. The extraordinary courage and selflessness displayed by this officer were an inspiration to his men and are in the highest traditions of the U.S. Army .
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for March 25, 2021 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
25 March
1898: Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, recommended the appointment of two officers "of scientific attainments and practical ability" to join War Department representatives in the examination of Professor Samuel P. Langley's flying machine. They were to report upon its practicability and its potentiality for use in war. (29)
1918: Ensign John F. McNamara, flying out of RNAS Portland, England, made the first attack on an enemy submarine by a US naval aviator. (5)
1940: The US allowed Air Corps contractors to sell modern Army combat planes to anti-Axis governments under a "liberalized release policy." This program tried to expand Air Corps production facilities for the future. (12) (24)
1942: Flying with the RAF's 64th Squadron, Maj C. P. Lessig became the first Eighth Air Force pilot to fly a mission over France in World War II. (4)
1944: Fifteenth Air Force made the first operational delivery of a VB-1 Azon radio-controlled bomb against the Avisio Viaduct in the Brenner Pass to cut the main highway between Italy and greater Germany. Azon bombs were later employed in the European Theater in June 1944, and most successfully in China-Burma-India from November 1944 to August 1945. (8) (21)
1949: Bell's XH-12 helicopter claimed a new world speed record of 133.9 MPH at Niagara Falls. (24)
1951: KOREAN WAR. H-5 helicopter aircrews from the 3 ARS recovered 148 paratrooper casualties in the second biggest paradrop of the Korean War. Despite intense mortar and ground fire, the crews flew 77 sorties in two days near Musan. (2)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force flew 959 sorties, concentrating on interdiction of the rail line from Sinanju to Chongju in Korea and making approximately 142 cuts in the track. Some aircraft struck the Sunchon-Pyongyang highway, scoring 27 hits. (28)
1955: The Chance Vought F-8 Crusader first flew. (5)
1956: The last XB-51 crashed at El Paso, Tex., going to Eglin AFB for use in the movie "Toward the Unknown." (3)
1960: The USS Halibut fired a Regulus I guided missile off Oahu. This was the first guided missile launch from a nuclear-powered sub. (16) (24) Asst SECDEF James H. Douglas authorized the USAF to field 150 Minutemans by July 1963. (6) (12) NASA test pilot Joseph A. Walker began the NASA/Air Force/Navy phase of the X-15A-1 test program with a powered flight above Edwards AFB. (3)
1961: From Cape Canaveral, NASA launched Explorer X into a highly elliptical ("Yo-Yo") orbit with an apogee of 148,000 miles and perigee of 100 miles to survey magnetic fields and charged particles. (24)
1965: SAC inactivated five Atlas and three Titan I squadrons under SECDEF McNamara's phaseout orders of 19 November 1964. (6)
1966: Lt Col R. C. W. Blessley flew an F-111A on the longest low-level penetration flight to date (1,201.8 miles). He flew 1,000 feet above terrain ranging from 500 feet to over 10,000 feet. (5)
1968: Four F-111As flew the first F-111 combat mission from Takhli AB, Thailand, under radar control to target areas northwest of Dong Hoi, North Vietnam. (12)
1975: The USAF organized an airlift to evacuate 10,000 people a day from Da Nang, South Vietnam. Communist forces had surrounded and completely cut off this provincial city. (16) (26)
1977: The YC-141B "stretched" cargo aircraft completed its first test flight. (3) 1980: Boeing's AGM-86B won the ALCM competition. (3) (12)
1985: The SECAF announced changed in the combat exclusion policy to allow women to serve as forward air controllers, fly and crew various models of C-130 Hercules aircraft, and to serve at munitions storage facilities. (16) (26)
1986: The first all-female Minuteman crew stood alert at the 351 SMW, Whiteman AFB. This was the first time an all-female crew accomplished Minuteman combat crew duty under the gender specific crew policy. (16)
1994: Operation RESTORE HOPE. American involvement in this relief effort to Somalia ended when the last US military personnel climbed aboard a C-5 Galaxy. (16) (26)
1999: A test team successfully released the first JSOW guided munition from a B-2 flying at 25,000 feet over the Precision Impact Range Area at Edwards AFB. (3)
2002: The USAF dispatched a third Global Hawk UAV (AV-4) from Edwards AFB to duty in the Southwestern Asia war zone. (3)
2004: MACKAY TROPHY. Five C-17 airmen from the 62 AW at McChord AFB won the 2003 Mackay Trophy for serving as the lead aircrew for a 26 March 2003 C-17 airdrop over northern Iraq. It was the largest combat airdrop since Operation JUST CAUSE in December 1989. The recipients included: Lt Col Shane Hershman and MSgt Chris Dockery, 7 AS; Maj Bob Colvin, 8 AS; 1Lt Matt Clausen, 4 AS; and MSgt Shawn Brumfield, 62d Operations Group. (22)
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