To All,
Good Monday Morning May 22 2023.
I hope that you all had a great weekend.
Regards,
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History May 22
1943 During the battle to protect British Royal Convoy (ON 184) in the North Atlantic, TBFs from (VC 9) based on board USS Bogue (ACV 9) sink German submarine (U 569) and damage (U 305).
1967 New York City reaches an agreement to purchase the New York Naval Shipyard, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, after it was closed in 1966.
1968 USS Scorpion (SSN 589) is lost with her crew south-west of the Azores. In late Oct. 1968, her remains are found on the sea floor more than 10,000 feet below the surface by a deep-submergence vehicle towed from USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11).
1986 Military Sealift Commands USNS Sgt. William R. Button (T-AK 3012) is christened and launched. The ship serves as one of 17 Container and Roll-on/Roll-off vessels for the Navy and is part of the 36 ships in the Prepositioning Program.
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Today in World History May 22
1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France.
1455 King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1843 The first major wagon train to the northwest departs from Elm Grove, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail.
Although U.S. sovereignty over the Oregon Territory was not clearly established until 1846, American fur trappers and missionary groups had been living in the region for decades, to say nothing of the Native Americans who had settled the land centuries earlier. Dozens of books and lectures proclaimed Oregon's agricultural potential, piquing the interest of white American farmers. The first overland immigrants to Oregon, intending primarily to farm, came in 1841 when a small band of 70 pioneers left Independence, Missouri. They followed a route blazed by fur traders, which took them west along the Platte River through the Rocky Mountains via the easy South Pass in Wyoming and then northwest to the Columbia River. In the years to come, pioneers came to call the route the Oregon Trail.
In 1842, a slightly larger group of 100 pioneers made the 2,000-mile journey to Oregon. The next year, however, the number of emigrants skyrocketed to 1,000. The sudden increase was a product of a severe depression in the Midwest combined with a flood of propaganda from fur traders, missionaries, and government officials extolling the virtues of the land. Farmers dissatisfied with their prospects in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, hoped to find better lives in the supposed paradise of Oregon.
1856 U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler.
1863 Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins.
1868 The "Great Train Robbery" takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana.
1872 The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners.
1882 The United States formally recognizes Korea.
1908 The Wright brothers register their flying machine for a U.S. patent.
1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers.
1947 The Truman Doctrine brings aid to Turkey and Greece.
1967 The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers.
1972 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified.
1985 Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108.
1990 In the Middle East, North and South Yemen merge to become a single state.
1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance on The Tonight Show on NBC, after 30 years as the program's host.
2004 An EF4 tornado with a record-setting width of 2.5 miles wipes out Hallam, Nebraska, killing 1 person.
2004 Fahrenheit 9-11, directed by Michael Moore, becomes the first documentary ever to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
2010 Following a 200-year search for the tomb of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus his remains are reburied in Frombork Cathedral
2011 An EF5 tornado kills at least 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, the largest death toll from a tornado since record-keeping began in 1950.
2015 The Republic of Ireland, long known as a conservative, predominantly Catholic country, becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post
Skip… For The List for Monday, 22 May 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 22 May 1968…
"90,000 US troops go AWOL in last two years"… including a brother-in-law who deserted from his Alameda-based carrier during turnaround, was apprehended months later, and Court-Martialed. 6-months brig-time and BCD followed… Total service: Boot camp + 4 months mess cooking + 6-months in the brig… Now receiving more than $36,000/year VA 100% disability (Asbestosis and Agent Orange), plus free meds, in addition to check from VA for $180,000 to cover period awaiting decision on his disability claim… In addition, his wife is receiving a care-giver stipend of $1100/month (she married him in the 1980s)… Is this a great country, or what?… (Please pardon the rant… 🤬… Bear)
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.
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Thanks to Newell
This is a special week for all ol' warriors. Armed Forces Day last Saturday, and Memorial Day approaches on Monday. Please accept the following for posting in THE LIST, and/or alternately in THE BUBBAS. It's a message of remembrance, comradeship and homage in keeping with, "ALL GAVE SOME. SOME GAVE ALL!"
Newell "Scorpio" Tarrant
Last Flight West
I hope there's a place, way up in the sky,
Where pilots can go, when they have to die.
A place where a guy can buy a cold beer,
For a friend and comrade, whose memory is dear.
A place where no doctor or lawyer can tread,
Nor a management type would e're be caught dead.
Just a quaint little place, kind of dark, full of smoke,
Where they like to sing loud, and love a good joke.
The kind of a place where a lady could go,
And feel safe and protected, by the men she would know.
There must be a place where old pilots reside,
When their pain is finished, and their airspeed subsides.
Where the whiskey is old, and the women are young,
And songs about flying and dying are sung.
Where you'd see all the fellows who'd flown West before,
And they'd call out your name, as you came through the door.
Who would buy you a drink, if your thirst be bad,
And declare to all others, "He's a fine sturdy lad!"
Then through the mist, you'd spot an old guy,
You had not seen in years, though he taught you to fly.
He'd nod his old head, and grin ear to ear,
Saying, "Welcome, my son, I'm pleased that you're here."
For this is the haven where true flyers come,
When their journey is over, and their war has been won.
They've come here at last to be safe and alone,
From the government clerks and the management clones,
From the politicians, the lawyers, the Feds and the noise,
Where all hours are happy, and these good ole boys,
Can relax with a cool one, and have a well-deserved rest,
"It's West Heaven, my son. You've flown your last test!"
(Author Unknown)
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Thanks to Carl
LT Alkonis; Lost in Japan - CDR Salamander
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/lt-alkonis-lost-in-japan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
LT Alkonis; Lost in Japan
a Shipmate, left behind
CDR SALAMANDER MAY 22, 2023
One of my favorite things about the Navy was being part of something bigger than myself. There is none of that here. I feel worthless.
- Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, USN
If there is a characteristic of the last few years; abandonment.
Abandonment, either of duties, friends, families, or principals was once seen as a disgrace and blight on ones honor. Now? I don't think so.
We abandoned thousands, really tens of thousands, of American citizens, family members, and allies in Afghanistan.
Recently we abandoned almost as many in Sudan.
After a news cycle or two, the press loses interest. Our politicians - or at least most of them - move on.
The fault is not so much our government or civil society, but really it is all of our's fault.
We allow this abandonment - this disregard for ethics, this amoral failure of responsibility to protect and honor our word - to stand for unwritten agreements. Abandonment breaks the bonds stewardship that binds a society together.
We fail the fundamentals - and then wonder why we cannot execute anything more effectively. We shrug at dishonor, and then wonder where the quality of civil society went.
No one in power is challenged. No one is held accountable … unless it fits a certain agenda.
Our Navy can be no different. Every oath has a price, to some. It isn't all that precious. It is a priority … but a fungible one; a principal only to suckers.
We covered the story of LT Alkonis back in December. Read the post then to catch up. I'm a little sheepish here it is the last week in May am only now returning to the topic.
The quote at the top was from a letter he sent a month ago from a Japanese prison to his wife Brittany who decided to share it.
I'll repost it here for you to read.
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
Canned food was invented before the can opener.
On January 5, 1858, Ezra J. Warner of Connecticut invented the can opener. The device was a long time coming: Frenchman Nicolas Appert had developed the canning process in the early 1800s in response to a 12,000-franc prize the French government offered to anyone who could come up with a practical method of preserving food for Napoleon's army. Appert devised a process for sterilizing food by half-cooking it, storing it in glass bottles, and immersing the bottles in boiling water, and he claimed the award in 1810. Later the same year, Englishman Peter Durand received the first patent for preserving food in actual tin cans — which is to say, canned food predates the can opener by nearly half a century.
Though he didn't initially know why his method of storing food in glass jars and heating them worked, years of experimentation led Appert to rightly conclude that "the absolute deprivation from contact with the exterior air" and "application of the heat in the water-bath" were key. He later switched to working with cans himself. Before Warner's invention, cans were opened with a hammer and chisel — a far more time-consuming approach than the gadgets we're used to. Warner's tool (employed by soldiers during the Civil War) wasn't a perfect replacement, however: It used a series of blades to puncture and then saw off the top of a can, leaving a dangerously jagged edge. As for the hand-crank can opener most commonly used today, that wasn't invented until 1925.
Numbers Don't Lie
Sale price of Andy Warhol's "Small Torn Campbell's Soup Can"
$11.7 million
Cans of soup sold in America in 2018
420 million+
I love Campbell Chicken Noodle Soup….skip
Number of aluminum cans recycled per minute
113,200
Different types of can openers
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John Steinbeck wrote a novel set on a street lined with canneries.
And it's called — you guessed it — Cannery Row. The actual location in Monterey, California, was called Ocean View Avenue until 1958, when it was formally changed to Cannery Row in honor of the 1945 novel about a group of people living on the street during the Great Depression. Steinbeck, who set most of his work in central California, describes the street as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream" in the book's first sentence. After reaching its peak during the first half of the 20th century, the sardine-cannery hotbed fell victim to intense overfishing and the last cannery closed in 1973. The area is now a historic tourist attraction complete with sea lions.
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Thanks to Mike
Brian Shul Death Info
Brian Shul, SR-71 pilot (Speed Check Story) that always had his camera with him passed away last evening. He always had a booth at the air races selling his SR Photo Books. Some further info here:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02WUjG1z9oQ4b8wtXuXQAc8yMRe
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Thanks to Brett
Geopolitical Futures:
Keeping the future in focus
Daily Memo: In Pakistan, the Military Sustains Its Dominance for Now
Violent unrest has given the generals the pretext to crack down on Imran Khan's political apparatus.
By: Kamran Bokhari
May 22, 2023
For over a year, the Pakistani military has been trying to solve a political problem of its own making: the ascendance of Imran Khan, whom it had all but installed as a proxy for its own political designs in 2018. The ongoing crackdown on Khan's movement in the wake of the May 9 violence is a short-term victory for the military establishment, led by Gen. Asim Munir. But the army has no solution for the fact that Khan remains overwhelmingly popular, and the dismantling of his party is unlikely to save the nuclear-armed country from its unprecedented political-economic crisis.
The crisis has been brewing for years – decades, depending on how you look at it. The military has long been the arbiter of power in Pakistan, even if the country since 2008 has had its longest-ever continuous period of civilian governance. More important, the army spent 10 years trying to bring Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to power with the assumption it would be a pliant proxy. But his maverick governance and desire to put loyal officers in top military and intelligence roles eventually rankled the senior brass. For example, Khan in 2019 fired Munir from his position as head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) directorate, where he had served just eight months of a three-year appointment.
But Khan had been groomed for so long that he seemed to have been forgiven this breach of protocol, and he still had the support of then-army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa and of his own hand-picked ISI successor, Lt. Gen. Faiz Hameed. Khan needed Hameed as intelligence czar to ensure that he remained in power and so that he could eventually appoint him as army chief after Bajwa's retirement. Khan's own ouster seven months prior to Bajwa's departure disrupted the former prime minister's plans. Bajwa orchestrated Khan's removal in April 2022 through a no-confidence vote in the legislature. It was easy to do at the time: Khan had lost a lot of popularity thanks to political mismanagement and a serious economic downturn. Hameed was reassigned, and the ISI top spot was taken over by Lt. Gen. Nadeem Anjum, a close Bajwa associate who continues to play a key role in neutralizing Khan.
Thus began Khan's blistering criticism of the military establishment. The top brass may have turned on him, but he still had significant support among the officer corps and commanders, which he sought to leverage to weaken the army leadership. That support, however, was blunted by the appointment of Munir as army chief. With the military deck stacked against him, Khan shifted gears and refocused his attention on the demand for immediate elections. By then, the economy had grown worse, which, combined with his position atop a movement that saw itself as the champion of civilian supremacy over the military, caused his popularity to grow exponentially.
Khan's campaign against the military only intensified after an attempt on his life at a Nov. 3 rally, which he accused senior generals of plotting. The military has been struggling to counter him as the clock ticks toward elections due in October amid the government's inability to stop the country's financial bleeding. A major electoral victory – one that puts Khan in a position to be the first elected leader in 50 years with a serious opportunity to subordinate the military – is a clear and present danger to the generals. Delaying elections is an option, but it's risky so long as Khan is free to mobilize his political machine and create unrest for a weak government.
Munir needed a strategy that could not just neutralize Khan politically but also neutralize his supporters within the army. It entailed piling on about 100 litigation cases involving corruption charges, which would push Khan into a corner, pressuring him to have his machine escalate from radical rhetoric to violent unrest. If Khan and his supporters, who had been engaged in audacious verbal assaults against the military, could be goaded into actual assaults, then the military would have the excuse it needed to take down Khan and his PTI. (And it would make it difficult for Khan supporters among the general staff to pressure the military from within.)
And this is precisely what happened: Violent unrest followed Khan's arrest. Khan himself issued a video statement from his vehicle as he was headed to the court threatening the military leadership with potential violent public agitation. He figured that a mass uprising would further weaken Munir and empower his supporters among the officer corps. The most significant incident was the attack on the residence of the commander of the IV Corps in Lahore, which was overrun by PTI activists. The commander, a Khan sympathizer named Lt. Gen. Salman Ghani, was unharmed (as was his family), but he has since been removed from his position and is under investigation for his possible involvement in the incident.
The unrest provided Munir with the opening that he needed to crack down on Khan's party and neutralize Khan's supporters within the army. Authorities have since arrested thousands of PTI members, including several senior leaders, while several important party figures have since had to distance themselves from Khan. Rumors abound that as many as 20 officers have been asked to hand in their resignations, while at least another dozen have been forced into premature retirement. It is difficult to determine the scope of the apparent purge. The process will likely be completed after Munir appoints senior officers in key positions in October, when a regularly scheduled reshuffle is due to take place with the pending retirement of senior generals.
While he tries to consolidate his control over the military, Munir will remain focused on undoing the political force that the military itself expended huge resources trying to build up. Khan's massive popularity still makes it terribly difficult to shut down their political experiment that went awry. The establishment seems to be trying to dial PTI back into a smaller and more manageable party by paring it down and peeling away key figures (in addition to the usual pre-election engineering). It is unclear whether elections will happen on time. For now, the military leadership seems to have won a key battle in what will be a long war with Khan and the broader struggle to maintain its dominant position in a republic that is becoming increasingly fragile.
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From the archives
Thanks to Carl. I agree with this and still have my first .22 bolt action Winchester model 69 that I got around 1956. My dad would not let me get the automatic one that shot with each pull of the trigger because he said that it will not teach you how to shoot just how to shoot at the target by pulling the trigger faster. I always take a .22 pistol to the range and sort of warm up with it and it helps me settle down before I start throwing the heavier caliber rounds down range that are much more expensive these days.. Skip
.22 RENAISSANCE | Massad Ayoob
(I grew up with a .22LR on our farm. The first gun I bought after commissioning was a Ruger .22LR Single Six Pistol with a .22Mag interchangeable cylinder! A fun plinking pistol and still have it!)
https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/22-renaissance/?mc_cid=026fa9185f&mc_eid=69b89c44b2
22 RENAISSANCE
By Massad Ayoob on May 21, 2022
The .22 rimfire has always been uber-popular: low cost, light recoil, relatively quiet report. Today, events have conspired to make it more relevant than ever.
The estimated ten million first-time gun owners who've "joined the club" in the last couple of years constitute a pool of new shooters both broad and deep. All the above advantages apply. The less the kick of the gun hits hand or shoulder, the less the startling crack of a gunshot assails the ears – and the less the practice session impacts the pocketbook! – the easier it is for those new shooters to learn the fundamentals of marksmanship and the safe handling of loaded firearms.
For us regular shooters, the .22 is as relevant as it has always been. No, it doesn't let us practice recoil control to fully prepare for serious use of our more powerful rifles or pistols. But for "aim, hold, squeeze" practice in putting bullets where we want them to go, the .22 is absolutely relevant. For defensive handguns, drills such as draw to the shot practice with a gun the same size and shape out of the same holster, everything is the same except for recoil recovery for second and subsequent rounds. Cost? You're doing well to find 9mm cartridges for 35 cents apiece, and figure way more per high power rifle rounds, but you can find .22 Long Rifle ammo for roughly a dime a shot.
My late first wife was a big fan of lever action Winchester rifles, and had quite a collection of them. The one she was most likely to actually SHOOT was the .22 Long Rifle version, the Winchester 94/22. She got along well with my current spouse, the Evil Princess, and one of the several things they had in common in addition to bad taste in husbands was that they'd spend more time shooting a .22 than a larger caliber gun. By actual count, the EP has put more rimfire rounds through her multiple Ruger 10/22 rifles and our Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22 than centerfire rounds through the "evil black rifles." She has a couple of Ruger LCP .380s for when she "dresses like a girl" and needs to conceal something smaller than her usual 9mm, so there's a .22 caliber LCP for cheap, high-volume draw-and-fire practice with the mouse gun. On my side of the house, there are .22 conversion units for several of the service pistols, and understudy .22 revolvers for the assorted six-shooters, too.
And, let us not forget, .22s are FUN. In dark times, it's easy to remember that safe fun is a perfectly good reason to own firearms…and the more you can shoot them, the more fun they are to own.
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This day in American Military History
May22
1843 – A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri. Known as the "Great Emigration," the expedition came two years after the first modest party of settlers made the long, overland journey to Oregon. After leaving Independence, the giant wagon train followed the Sante Fe Trail for some 40 miles and then turned northwest to the Platte River, which it followed along its northern route to Fort Laramie, Wyoming. From there, it traveled on to the Rocky Mountains, which it passed through by way of the broad, level South Pass that led to the basin of the Colorado River. The travelers then went southwest to Fort Bridger, northwest across a divide to Fort Hall on the Snake River, and on to Fort Boise, where they gained supplies for the difficult journey over the Blue Mountains and into Oregon. The Great Emigration finally arrived in October, completing the 2,000-mile journey from Independence in five months. In the next year, four more wagon trains made the journey, and in 1845 the number of emigrants who used the Oregon Trail exceeded 3,000. Travel along the trail gradually declined with the advent of the railroads, and the route was finally abandoned in the 1870s.
1863 – U.S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg, Miss., failed and a siege began.
See the MOH LIST BELOW
1912 – First Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine officer to be assigned to "duty in connection with aviation" by Major General Commandant William P. Biddle. Cunningham reported for aviation training at the Naval Aviation Camp at Annapolis, Maryland, and Marine aviation had its official beginning.
1943 – Admiral Dontiz orders all U-boat patrols in the north Atlantic to break off operations against the convoys. The submarine losses have grown too high. This decision effectively ends the battle of the Atlantic with an Allied victory. Some boats are moved south to the Caribbean and to waters off the Azores.
1944 – US 5th Army forces continue to advance. The US 2nd Corps (Keyes) advances north along the coast and Route 7. The French Expeditionary Corps
1944 – An American submarine detects the concentration of the Japanese fleet around Tawitawi.
1944 – Japanese forces attack US positions around Aitape. American forces make some withdrawals.
1944 – U.S. and British aircraft begin a systematic bombing raid on railroads in Germany and other parts of northern Europe, called Operation Chattanooga Choo-Choo. The operation is a success; Germany is forced to scramble for laborers, including foreign slave laborers, to repair the widespread damage exacted on its railway network.
1945 – Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS, is captured by a British patrol at Bremervorde, near Hamburg. He initially claimed to be a rural policeman named Heinrich Hitzinger but under interrogation he removed the black eye patch he was wearing and put on his familiar glasses before admitting his true identity.
1945 – President Truman reports to Congress on the Lend-Lease program. He announces that up to March 1945, Britain had received supplies worth $12,775,000,000 and the Soviets $8,409,000,000. Reverse Lend-Lease, mostly from Britain has been worth almost $5,000,000,000 in the same period.
1945 – On Okinawa, American forces enter Yonabaru and capture Conical Hill. Heavy rains begin that hamper offensive operations for the coming weeks.
1945 – Elements of the US 24th Division reach Tambongan on Mindanao.
1945 – Operation Paperclip begins. United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1947 – In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
1947 – The 1st US ballistic missile was fired.
1952 – Major General William K. Harrison succeeded Admiral C. Turner Joy as Senior U.N. Command Delegate for armistice negotiations.
1958 – Naval aircraft F4D-1 Sky Ray sets five world speed-to-climb records.
1969 – In Phubai, South Vietnam, Major General Melvin Zais, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, says his orders were 'to destroy enemy forces' in the Ashau valley and Apbia mountain from 10-20 May and says that he did not have any orders to reduce casualties by avoiding battles. Apbia mountain has been dubbed 'Hamburger Hill' due to high casualties on both sides. The US military command in Saigon states that the recent battle for Apbia mountain is an integral part of the policy of 'maximum pressure' that it has been pursuing for the last six months and confirms that no orders have been received from President Nixon to modify the basic strategy.
1969 – The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon's surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1970 – The White House announces the US is prepared to continue air cover, if needed, for South Vietnamese forces that are considered almost certain to remain in Cambodia after US troops are withdrawn.
1972 – President Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for a summit with Soviet leaders. Although it was Nixon's first visit to the Soviet Union as president, he had visited Moscow once before–as U.S. vice president. As Eisenhower's vice president, Nixon made frequent official trips abroad, including a 1959 trip to Moscow to tour the Soviet capital and to attend the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Sokolniki Park. Soon after Vice President Nixon arrived in July 1959, he opened an informal debate with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev about the merits and disadvantages of their governments' political and economic systems. Known as the "Kitchen Debate" because of a particularly heated exchange between Khrushchev and Nixon that occurred in the kitchen of a model U.S. home at the American fair, the dialogue was a defining moment in the Cold War. Nixon's second visit to Moscow in May 1972, this time as president, was for a more conciliatory purpose. During a week of summit meetings with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet officials, the United States and the USSR reached a number of agreements, including one that laid the groundwork for a joint space flight in 1975. On May 26, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), the most significant of the agreements reached during the summit. The treaty limited the United States and the USSR to 200 antiballistic missiles each, which were to be divided between two defensive systems. President Nixon returned to the United States on May 30.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
1863 – U.S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg, Miss., failed and a siege began.
99 MOH Citations: for Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party."
At Vicksberg Miss on 22 May 1863
ALBERT, CHRISTIAN
Rank and organization: Private, Company G, 47th Ohio Infantry. Place and date: At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio. Date of issue: 10 August 1895. Citation: Gallantry in the charge of the "volunteer storming party."
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS MANY MOH FOR ONE BATTLE In a losing effort or any effort skip
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for May 22, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
22 May
1908: Roy Knabenshue's three-man airship made its first ascent at Toledo, Ohio, with the owner, Charles K. Hamilton, and George Duesler aboard. (24)
1912: 1Lt Alfred A. Cunningham reported for "duty in connection with aviation" to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He thus became the Marine Corps' first aviator and the fifth in the Navy. As such, today is the birthday of Marine Corps aviation. (10)
1917: Curtiss schools at Newport News and Miami stopped training civilian pilot candidates for Air Service Signal Officers, Reserve Corps. The students were assigned to cadet schools at several universities. (24)
1934: MACKAY TROPHY. Capt Westside T. Larson received the 1933 trophy for developing procedures for instrument takeoffs and landings on land and sea and instrument flying over water. (4) (11) 1941: The Curtiss Hawk 87A Warhawk first flew.
1946: Majs F. T. Caschman and W. E. Zims in a Sikorsky set a 703.6-mile distance record for helicopters. Technicians at White Sands launched the first WAC Corporal E. It was the first US ballistic missile to use a guidance system (a ground-controlled radar system). (6)
1951: KOREAN WAR. In close air support sorties, Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers inflicted some 1,700 casualties on enemy forces, one of the highest daily totals thus far. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force flew 472 fighter-bomber sorties at the Kijang-ni industrial area near Pyongyang to destroy more than 90 percent of the complex, which produced hand grenades, small arms, and ammunition. (28) An Air Force Aerobee rocket carried two monkeys and two mice to a height of about 38 miles. These astronauts returned to earth safely. (16) (24)
1958: Over a two day period, Maj E. N. LeFaivre (USMC) piloted an F4D-1 at NAMTC Point Mugu to five world records in speed of climb to 3,000, 6,000, 12,000, and 15,000 meters with marks of 44.392, 66.095, 90.025, 111.224, and 156.233 seconds.
1964: Through 5 June, to combat the effects of the volcanic eruptions of Mount Irazu in Costa Rica, eight C-133s and five C-124s airlifted flood control equipment and personnel. (18)
1966: The US Army claimed 21 world records for its OH-6A light observation helicopter. Flights at Edwards AFB resulted in 12 speed records, with three each for distance, climbing, and sustained altitude. The records were submitted to the FAI in Paris.
1967: Two F-111As showed their long-range capabilities by flying from the US to Europe without refueling or external tanks.
1976: TYPHOON PAMELA. Through 15 June, after a typhoon struck Guam, MAC airlifted engineering repair teams and 2,650 tons of cargo, including generators, vans, utility vehicles, and communications equipment to Andersen AFB in 24 C-5, 83 C-141, 3 C-130 and 1 commercial missions. (18) (21)
1990: McDonnell Douglas pilot Larry Walker and Maj Erwin Jenschke landed the NF-15B STOL Maneuvering Technology Demonstrator in 1,650 feet at Edwards AFB. The Pratt and Whitney two-dimensional, thrust-reversing engine nozzles were used to stop the aircraft. (20)
1993: Lt Cmdr Kathryn P. Hire, the Navy's first woman to be assigned to a combat unit, flew her first mission in a Lockheed P-3C Update III Maritime Patrol Aircraft. (20)
2002: The X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV), designated Blue, flew for the first time at Edwards AFB over an oval shaped track for 14 minutes at 7,500 feet and 195 knots. It was the first unmanned aircraft designed for autonomous combat operations. (3) (21)
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