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Good Friday Morning June 30, 2023.
I hope that you all have a great weekend.
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This was sent by a Navy Seal to our F-8 group and if anyone can help they can contact me and I will send him the information. Skip
Hello!
My name is William Taylor Harvey. I am the grandson of William "Bill" Harvey by the same name. He died while flying an F8 on Oct 14 1963 while serving on the USS Saratoga (CV-60)
My father died recently and as I was searching through old documents, I have been trying to discover more of my grandfather's life and service. Not much was talked of him due to my dad being 2 years old when he passed.
I am currently serving in the USN in the Teams. I will gladly pay if anyone in the organization can find additional information on my grandfather and his service. Anything would be greatly appreciated whether it be pictures, contacts that knew him, etc. I have his old flight jacket that shows patches from the VF32.
Thank you for your time.
-William Harvey
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On This Day in Naval and Marine Corps History June 30
1815
In the last naval action of the War of 1812, the sloop of war, USS Peacock, commanded by Capt. Lewis Warrington, comes across the British cruiser HMS Nautilus in the Straits of Sunda. The cruiser's crew informed Capt. Warrington of the Treaty of Ghent. Suspicious, he wants . to strike colors. Refusing to do so, Peacock broadsides her, killing or wounding 15. Boarding the vessel, Capt. Warrington discovers the treaty is true and releases HMS Nautilus and repairs the ship.
1942
USS Plunger (SS 179) sinks Japanese freighter No.5 Unkai Maru off the China coast near Shanghai.
1943
In Operation Toenails, Task Force 31, commanded by Rear Adm. Richmond K. Turner, lands the New Georgian Occupation Force, consisting of the U.S. Armys 172nd Infantry, 43rd Division on Rendova Island. Task Force 31 is supported by land-based aircraft and destroyer gunfire. The troops land without opposition.
1945
USS Baya (SS 318) and USS Capitaine (SS 336) attack the Japanese Makassar to Surabaya convoy MASU 705 and engage escorting submarine (Ch 5) and later sink cargo vessel Bandai Maru.
1951 A group of stranded Japanese soldiers who refuse to believe World War II ended in 1945, surrender to Lt. Cmdr. James B. Johnson, USS Cocopa (ATF 101) on Anatahan Island in the northern Marianas.
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Today in World History: June 30
1520 Montezuma II is murdered as Spanish conquistadors flee the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan during the night. See more below
1857 Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London--his first public reading.
1859 Jean Francois Gravelet aka Emile Blondin, a French daredevil, becomes the first man to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1908 A mysterious explosion, possibly the result of a meteorite, levels thousands of trees in the Tunguska region of Siberia with a force approaching twenty megatons.
1934 Adolf Hitler orders the purge of his own party in the "Night of the Long Knives."
1936 Margaret Mitchell's novel, Gone With the Wind, is published.
1948 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrate their invention, the transistor, for the first time.
1960 Alfred Hitchcock's film, Psycho, opens.
1971 Three Soviet cosmonauts die when their spacecraft depressurizes during reentry.
Montezuma's death
June 30, 1520: Faced with an Aztec revolt against their rule, forces under the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan at heavy cost. Known to the Spanish as La Noche Triste, or "the Night of Sadness," many soldiers drowned in Lake Texcoco when the vessel carrying them and Aztec treasures hoarded by Cortés sank. Montezuma II, the Aztec emperor who had become merely a subject of Cortés in the previous year, was also killed during the struggle; by the Aztecs or the Spanish, it is not known.
Tenochtitlan was founded in 1325 A.D. by a wandering tribe of hunters and gatherers on islands in Lake Texcoco, near the present site of Mexico City. In only one century, this civilization grew into the Aztec Empire, due largely to its advanced system of agriculture. The empire came to dominate central Mexico and by the ascendance of Montezuma II in 1502 had reached its greatest extent, reaching as far south as perhaps modern-day Nicaragua. At the time, the empire was held together primarily by Aztec military strength, and Montezuma II set about establishing a bureaucracy, creating provinces that would pay tribute to the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan. The conquered peoples resented the Aztec demands for tribute and victims for the religious sacrifices, but the Aztec military kept rebellion at bay.
Meanwhile, Hernán Cortés, a young Spanish-born noble, came to Hispaniola in the West Indies in 1504. In 1511, he sailed with Diego Velazquez to conquer Cuba and twice was elected mayor of Santiago, the capital of Hispaniola. In 1518, he was appointed captain general of a new Spanish expedition to the American mainland. Velazquez, the governor of Cuba, later rescinded the order, and Cortés sailed without permission. He visited the coast of Yucatan and in March 1519 landed at Tabasco in Mexico's Bay of Campeche with 500 soldiers, 100 sailors, and 16 horses. There, he won over the locals and was given an enslaved woman, Malinche—baptized Marina—who later bore him a son. She knew both Maya and Aztec and served as an interpreter. The expedition then proceeded up the Mexican coast, where Cortes founded Veracruz, mainly for the purpose of having himself elected captain general by the colony, thus shaking off the authority of Velazquez and making him responsible only to King Charles V of Spain.
At Veracruz, Cortés trained his army and then burned his ships to ensure loyalty to his plans for conquest. Having learned of political strife in the Aztec Empire, Cortés led his force into the Mexican interior. On the way to Tenochtitlan, he clashed with locals, but many of these peoples, including the nation of Tlaxcala, became his allies after learning of his plan to conquer their hated Aztec rulers. Hearing of the approach of Cortes, with his frightful horses and sophisticated weapons, Montezuma II tried to buy him off, but Cortes would not be dissuaded. On November 8, 1519, the Spaniards and their 1,000 Tlaxcaltec warriors were allowed to enter Tenochtitlan unopposed.
Montezuma suspected them to be divine envoys of the god Quetzalcoatl, who was prophesied to return from the east in a "One Reed" year, which 1519 was on the Aztec calendar. The Spaniards were greeted with great honor, and Cortés seized the opportunity, taking Montezuma hostage so that he might govern the empire through him. His mistress, Marina, was a great help in this endeavor and succeeded in convincing Montezuma to cooperate fully.
In the spring of 1520, Cortés learned of the arrival of a Spanish force from Cuba, led by Panfilo Narvaez and sent by Velazquez to deprive Cortés of his command. Cortés led his army out of Tenochtitlan to meet them, leaving behind a garrison of 80 Spaniards and a few hundred Tlaxcaltecs to govern the city. Cortés defeated Narvaez and enlisted Narvaez' army into his own. When he returned to Tenochtitlan in June, he found the garrison under siege from the Aztecs, who had rebelled after the subordinate that Cortés left in command of the city massacred several Aztec chiefs, and the population on the brink of revolt. On June 30, under pressure and lacking food, Cortés and his men fled the capital at night. In the fighting that ensued, Montezuma was killed—in Aztec reports by the Spaniards, and in Spanish reports by an Aztec mob bitter at Montezuma's subservience to Spanish rule. He was succeeded as emperor by his brother, Cuitlahuac.
During the Spaniards' retreat, they defeated a large Aztec army at Otumba and then rejoined their Tlaxcaltec allies. In May 1521, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlan, and after a three-month siege the city fell. This victory marked the fall of the Aztec empire. Cuauhtemoc, Cuitlahuac's successor as emperor, was taken prisoner and later executed, and Cortés became the ruler of vast Mexican empire.
The Spanish conquistador led an expedition to Honduras in 1524 and in 1528 returned to Spain to see the king. Charles made him Marques del Valle but refused to name him governor because of his quarrels with Velazquez and others. In 1530, he returned to Mexico, now known as New Spain, and found the country in disarray. After restoring some order, he retired to his estate south of Mexico City and sent out maritime expeditions from the Pacific coast. In 1540, he returned to Spain and was neglected by the court. He died in 1547.
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25 of Our Most Fascinating Facts About the Human Body
It's easy to take our bodies for granted, but they're home to an array of wonders. Consider, for example, that our eyes can see distant galaxies, our hair contains traces of gold, and our veins could stretch for 60,000 miles if laid end to end — that's enough to go around the world twice. Below, we've gathered some of our most fascinating facts about the human body from around the website. They just might help you see your anatomy in a whole new, and more wondrous, light.
Thanks to interesting Facts...I could not resist this one since we all have a body and most of us do not know much about how it works. skip
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You Can Grow New Brain Cells
Humans are born with about 100 billion brain cells. Until the 1990s, most scientists believed 100 billion was all we'd ever have. Growing new neurons would interrupt communication among our existing brain cells and short-circuit the whole system — or so the theory went. Then, a 1998 study found evidence that humans could generate new cells in the brain's hippocampus, an area associated with learning and memory. More recent studies have largely supported the idea, and suggest that we might be able to make up to 1,500 neurons a day. Though research continues, neurogenesis is good news: Growing fresh neurons may make our brains more resilient against Alzheimer's, depression, anxiety, and other disorders.
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12% of People Dream in Black and White
While most people dream in full color, around 12% of the population is tuned to Turner Classic Movies (so to speak), and often experiences dreams in only black and white.
The analogy to television is an apt one, as researchers discovered in 2008 that people under the age of 25 almost never dreamed in monochrome, while members of the boomer generation and older had dreams devoid of color roughly a quarter of the time. Although it is difficult to prove definitively that TV is to blame, the number of people who reportedly dream in grayscale has slowly fallen over the decades.
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You're Taller in the Morning
Gravity is an essential force on Earth: It keeps the planet in orbit at a safe and comfortable distance from the sun, and even holds our atmosphere in place. It does have a downside, however: It weighs down the human body, making us a tiny bit shorter by the end of the day. From the moment we climb out of bed in the morning, gravitational forces push down on us, applying downward pressure on our joints, compressing our spines, and causing our organs to settle. All that strain adds up, enough to shrink a body by 1 centimeter. Gravity is at work whether we're sitting or standing, but at bedtime, our bodies get a slight reprieve as lying down redirects the force. Sleeping horizontally gives our spines and joints time to decompress and gain back the height lost during the day, making us once again slightly taller by morning.
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Your Eyes Actually See Things Upside-Down
Much of the work of perceiving the world around us actually takes place in the brain. In a way, our eyes act as a camera, and our brains as a kind of "darkroom" that develops that information into what we call our vision. One of the most perplexing aspects of this dual relationship is that the images projected onto our retina are actually upside-down. Because the cornea — the transparent part of the eye covering the iris and pupil — is a convex lens, when light enters the cornea, it's flipped upside down. It's the brain's job to translate this inverted information, as well as two 2D images, one from each eye, into one cohesive 3D image.
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Your Hair Contains Traces of Gold
A woman sitting on a swing looking over the water.Credit: Day2505/ Shutterstock
Gold is present in low levels throughout the Earth; it's been found on every continent except Antarctica, as well as in the planet's core, the oceans, plants, and in humans, too. The average human body of about 150 pounds is said to contain about .2 milligrams of gold, which we excrete through our skin and hair. Babies less than 3 months old tend to have more gold in their manes than older people, thanks to the precious metal being passed along in human breast milk. And while no one's suggesting we should mine the gold in hair or breast milk (as far as we know), researchers are studying whether gold — and other metals — might be recovered from human waste.
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Your Skull Never Stops Growing
By the time most of us reach age 20 or so, the bones in our body are pretty much done growing. The growth plates that caused us to put on inches in our youth are now hardened bone, and in fact, adults tend to drop an inch or two in height as worn-out cartilage causes our spines to shrink over time. However, there are a few bones that buck this biological trend. Skulls, for example, never fully stop growing, and the bones also shift as we age. A 2008 study from Duke University determined that as we grow older, the forehead moves forward, while cheek bones tend to move backward. As the skull tilts forward, overlying skin droops and sags.
The skull isn't the only bone that has a positive correlation with age. Human hips also continue to widen as the decades pass, meaning those extra inches aren't only due to a loss of youthful metabolism. In 2011, researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine discovered that hips continue to grow well into our 70s, and found that an average 79-year-old's pelvic width was 1 inch wider than an average 20-year-old's.
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Gray Is the World's Rarest Eye Color
Human eyes are entirely unique; just like fingerprints, no two sets are alike. But some genetic anomalies create especially unlikely "windows" to the world — like gray eyes. Eye experts once believed that human eyes could appear in only three colors: brown, blue, and green, sometimes with hazel or amber added. More recently, the ashy hue that was once lumped into the blue category has been regrouped as its own, albeit rarely seen, color. Brown-eyed folks are in good company, with up to 80% of the global population sporting the shade, while blue eyes are the second most common hue. Traditionally, green was considered the least common eye color, though researchers now say gray is the most rare, with less than 1% of the population seeing through steel-colored eyes.
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You Breathe Primarily Out of One Nostril at a Time
The human nose can smell up to 1 trillion odors, trap harmful debris in the air before it enters your lungs, and affect your sex life. But arguably its most important job is to condition the air you breathe before that air enters your respiratory tract. This means warming and humidifying the air before it passes to your throat and beyond. To do this, the nose undergoes a nasal cycle in which one nostril sucks in the majority of the air while the other nostril takes in the remaining portion. A few hours later (on average), the nostrils switch roles. This cycle is regulated by the body's autonomic nervous system, which swells or deflates erectile tissue found in the nose.
Although we don't notice this switch throughout the day, if you cover your nostrils with your thumb one at a time, you'll likely observe that air flow through one is significantly higher than the other. This is also why one nostril tends to be more congested than the other when you have a cold.
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The Human Eye Can See Objects Millions of Miles Away
A man standing on a rock with a dog.Credit: Melinda Nagy/ Shutterstock
While the majority of us wouldn't consider our vision to be extraordinary, the human eye can see much farther than most of us realize. That's because our ability to perceive an object is based not only on its size and proximity, but also on the brightness of the source. Practically speaking, our sight is hindered by factors such as atmospheric conditions and the Earth's curvature, which creates the dropoff point of the horizon just 3 miles away. However, a trip outside on a clear night reveals the true power of our vision, since most of us are able to make out the faint haze of the Andromeda galaxy some 2.6 million light-years into space.
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You Might Be Glowing Right Now
Bioluminescence, the strange biology that causes certain creatures to glow, is usually found at the darkest depths of the ocean where the sun's light doesn't reach. While these light-emitting animals seem otherworldly, the trait is actually pretty common — in fact, you're probably glowing right now. According to researchers at Tohoku Institute of Technology in Japan, humans have their own bioluminescence, but at levels 1,000 times less than our eyes can detect. This subtle human light show, viewable thanks to ultra-sensitive cameras, is tied to our metabolism. Free radicals produced as part of our cell respiration interact with lipids and proteins in our bodies, and if they come in contact with a fluorescent chemical compound known as fluorophores, they can produce photons of light. This glow is mostly concentrated around our cheeks, forehead, and neck, and most common during the early afternoon hours, when our metabolism is at its busiest.
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The Space Between Your Eyebrows Is Called the "Glabella"
You know hands, shoulders, knees, and toes (knees and toes), but has anyone ever introduced you to the glabella? This isn't some hidden-away body part like the back of the elbow or something spleen-adjacent — it's smack dab in the middle of your face. Latin for "smooth, hairless, bald," the glabella is the small patch of skull nestled in the middle of your two superciliary arches (also known as your eyebrow ridges). Many people know of the glabella because of the wrinkles, or "glabellar lines," that can appear in the area.
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We Have Wisdom Teeth Because Our Ancestors Had to Chew More
Early humans were hunter-gatherers who survived on leaves, roots, meat, and nuts — things that required a lot of crushing ability. The more grinding teeth you have, the easier it is to eat tough foods. As humans evolved, they began to cook their food, making it softer and easier to chew. Having three full sets of molars became unnecessary.
Early humans also had larger jaws than we do today, which were able to support more teeth. Over time, as the need for super-powerful jaws decreased, human jaws got smaller. But the number of teeth stayed the same. That's why today, many people need to get their wisdom teeth removed in order to create more space. Yet because wisdom teeth aren't necessary for modern humans, they may someday cease to exist at all.
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Some People Can See 100 Million Colors
Researchers estimate that some 300 million people around the world are colorblind, most of them male. On the opposite end of the spectrum are those with an exceedingly rare genetic condition that allows them to see nearly 100 million colors — or 100 times as many as the rest of us. It's called tetrachromacy, or "super vision," and it's the result of having four types of cone cells in the retina rather than the usual three. (Cones help our eyes detect light and are key to color vision.) Because of the way the condition is passed down via the X chromosome, the mutation occurs exclusively in women.
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It's a Myth That You Use Only 10% of Your Brain
Maybe you've heard peppy TED Talk speakers say that our brains have limitless potential… if only we could employ them to their fullest extent. They might have been referring to the myth that we use just 10% of our brain power at a given time. This old chestnut probably grew from a 1907 article for the journal Science by William James, one of the founders of modern psychology. "Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake… we are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources," he wrote. Dale Carnegie cited James in How to Win Friends and Influence People, his 1936 self-help bestseller. Eventually, someone — it isn't clear who — claimed we were ignoring 90% of our mental powers. But there's no scientific basis for the belief.
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Babies Are Born With Almost 100 More Bones Than Adults
Babies pack a lot of bones in their tiny bodies — around 300, in fact, which is nearly 100 more than adult humans have. The reason for this is biologically genius: These extra bones, many of which are made entirely or partly of cartilage, help babies remain flexible in the womb and (most crucially) at birth, making it easier for them to pass through the birth canal. As a baby grows into childhood and eventually early adulthood, the cartilage ossifies while other bones fuse together. This explains the "soft spots" in a baby's skull, where the bones have yet to fuse completely.
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Thumbs Have Their Own Pulse
If you've ever seen someone track their pulse (in real life or on a crime drama), you'll notice that the index and middle fingers are always pressed on the neck's carotid artery, which is responsible for transporting blood to the brain. There's a reason why doctors (and actors who play doctors on TV) use these fingers and not, say, their thumbs. While your thumb is good for many things, taking your pulse isn't one of them. Unlike the other four digits, the thumb has its own exclusive artery, the princeps pollicis, which makes it biologically unreliable as a pulse reader — because you'll feel it pulse instead of the artery in your neck.
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You Have Far More Than Five Senses
We've all heard that we have five senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. That idea goes back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle — but it's wrong. Modern science has identified as many as 32 senses, by looking at receptors in our bodies with the job of receiving and conveying specific information. Senses you might not know you have include your vestibular sense, which controls balance and orientation; proprioception, which governs how our bodies occupy space; thermoception, which monitors temperature; nociception, our sense of pain; and many more.
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Cilantro Tastes Like Soap to Some People Because of Their Genes
Many gourmands enjoy topping their fish, salads, and soups with a smattering of cilantro, while the herb makes others feel like they're biting into a bar of Ivory Spring. The reason appears to be a matter of genetics. One 2012 study showed that people equipped with certain olfactory receptor genes are more prone to detecting cilantro's aldehydes, compounds also commonly found in household cleaning agents and perfumes. While the percentage of the population that suffers from this fate tops out at about 20%, the resulting taste is apparently awful enough to spark passionate responses of the sort found on Facebook's I Hate Cilantro page, which has more than 26,000 likes at the time of writing.
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Body Language Is Largely Universal
All humans demonstrate the same expressions for emotions the world over, according to body language expert David Matsumoto. That's because we all generally have the same facial muscles and structure, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, or culture. However, culture helps determine what emotions are expressed when — and how those expressions are perceived.
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Your Veins Could Stretch 60,000 Miles
There are some surprising lengths packed inside the human body. The small intestine, for example, could stretch 22 feet end to end (though hopefully it never has to). Not to be outdone, our nerves could stretch 37 miles if laid end to end. However, none of this compares to our circulatory system. According to the British Heart Foundation, the veins in an adult human could stretch an astonishing 60,000 miles — that's farther than it takes to circumnavigate the globe twice. Capillaries, which transport blood between arteries and veins, make up 80% of this length.
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The Hand Has the Most Bones of Any Body Part
There are 206 bones in the average adult human body, and our hands take up the lion's share. Each hand is home to 27 bones, along with 34 muscles and 123 ligaments. Some experts estimate that a quarter of the motor cortex, the part of the brain responsible for voluntary movement, is devoted to the manipulation of our hands alone.
Although hands are impressive structures, they only just beat our feet by one bone. Because Homo sapiens' primate ancestors walked on all fours, human hands and feet developed in similar ways. In fact, almost every bone in the palm is arranged in a pattern similar to the metatarsals in the foot. The only exception is a bone located at the edge of the wrist called the pisiform, which attaches various ligaments and tendons.
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Babies Perceive the Color Red First
After birth, a baby mostly sees in black and white — and that's only the beginning of its problems. A newborn's vision is also incredibly fuzzy, and limited to around 8 to 12 inches from its face during the first few weeks of life. Whereas average human sight is considered 20/20, it's estimated that a newborn's vision lies somewhere between 20/200 and 20/400. Because red has the longest wavelength (at 700 nanometers), the color doesn't scatter easily, and it's the first hue capable of being detected by a baby's reduced visual range. Fortunately, most babies have attained most of the normal human visual faculties within a year from birth.
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Your "Funny Bone" Is Not a Bone
Your "funny bone," named as such for its location near the humerus bone — "humorous," get it? — is not really a bone at all. Rather, it's part of the ulnar nerve, which runs from your neck all the way to your hand. Nerves are usually protected by bone, muscle, and fat, so they can perform their bioelectrical functions undisturbed, but a small part of the ulnar nerve in the back of the elbow is a little more exposed. There, the nerve is protected only by a tunnel of tissue, known as the cubital tunnel, so when you hit your "funny bone," the ulnar nerve presses against the medial epicondyle (one of the knobby ends of the humerus bone), which in turn sends a painful sensation throughout your lower arm and hand. And because the nerve gives feeling to the pinky and ring fingers, those two digits may feel particularly sensitive compared to your other three fingers.
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Everyone Has a Unique Tongue Print
Our tongues, like our fingerprints, are specific to each individual. That's right — people have tongue prints, which vary from one person to another due to both shape and texture. And perhaps surprisingly, the organ has been gaining some popularity as a method for biometric authentication. Where fingerprints can be altered, eyes affected by astigmatisms or cataracts, and voices changed just by the all-too-common cold, the human tongue is relatively protected from external factors. Sticking out one's tongue for a print also involves a layer of conscious control and consent that goes beyond what's required for retinal scans or even fingerprinting, which could make it a more appealing biometric tool. In fact, these "lingual impressions" may be so advantageous over other forms of authentication that some researchers have started investigating the idea of a tongue print database, using high-resolution digital cameras to record every ridge, line, and contour of that muscular organ in our mouths.
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The Longest Case of Hiccups Was 68 Years
The involuntary spasmodic interruptions known as hiccups usually last only a few minutes. Then there's the strange case of Charles Osborne, who was afflicted with a continuous case of hiccups for 68 years — recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest case of hiccups in history.
Osborne's story began with an accident on June 13, 1922, in which he accidentally slipped and fell. His doctor later said he popped a blood vessel in his brain the size of a pin, and theorized that Osborne must have damaged the incredibly small area of the brain that controls and inhibits hiccups. Osborne's diaphragm spasmed 20 to 40 times a minute, on average, during his waking hours — meaning he hiccuped roughly 430 million times throughout his life. To cope with this never-before-seen disorder, Osborne learned breathing techniques that effectively masked his constant hiccuping. Although he traveled the world in search of a cure — even offering $10,000 to anyone who could find one — the best he could do was cope with the affliction. Finally, in 1990, his diaphragm suddenly ended its 68-year-long spasmodic episode on its own. Osborne died less than a year later, but he was at least able to experience the final days of his life sans hiccups.
When I was in the hospital a few years ago I had this problem. As soon as I woke up from the surgery I started having the hiccups. After about 6 days it was really getting me down. Then late one night a doctor came in and said try this.( they had already tried many things) He gave me a pill and within a few minutes they went away. My father once had them for a couple of weeks in his late 80s…(You can bet that I have the name of that pill written down)..Skip
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From the archives "Tanker Posit!!!""
Thanks to Dan
Air Refueling Story
Skip,
I just got this email from Gary Leuders, who was a deadheading crewmember on the KC-135 involved in this triple aircraft refueling mission. He took the photo's which recorded the historic event. The KC-135 has just been acquired by the National Museum of the Air Force, at Wright-Patterson AFB, at Dayton, Ohio, and all the aircraft crewmembers involved in the refueling mission have been invited to a ceremony to be held at the museum, in the fall.
Some of your readers might know the crewmembers of these aircraft, or be interested in attending the ceremonies.
Dan
P.S.: Gary is now retired as a Standardization Pilot with American Airlines.
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From: Gary Lueders <mtnbikergary@gmail.com>
To: Dan -- OBP <bresnahanz@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Air Refueling Story
YES, that's the mission on which I was an eyewitness as a deadheading crewmember.
Interesting to read it from the Navy's perspective.
The special event's coordinator at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton contacted me regarding photos I took on that flight. The museum just acquired the KC-135 (tail #60-0329). At an event this fall, they plan to get her pilots, John Casteel & copilot Dick Trail (callsign Brown Anchor 21), together with KA-3B pilot John Wunsch (callsign Holly Green 899) and KA-3B pilot Don Alberg (callsign Holly Green 898). Also included will be the F-8 Crusader pilot Chip Harris (callsign Pageboy 441).
I think my photos will be on display. Gary
On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:04 AM <bresnahanz@aol.com> wrote:
Don't know if I have sent this to you before:
"During the major strike against the Kep Airfield of 31 May 1967, CDR John WUNSCH was flying a KA-3B as flight leader of the airborne tanker support forces, which included two KA-3Bs and two A-4s. His crew consisted of LTJG Thomas PARNELLA and AOC James RILEY. His wing aircraft was piloted by LCDR Donald ALBERG with crewmen LTJG Frank STUART and AE2 Larry DAVIS. The strike group consisted of twenty-four jet aircraft, attacking a heavily defended target deep within the hostile territory of North Vietnam. En route to the target, all strike aircraft, CDR WUNSCH's KA-3B and the A4 tankers were topped off from LCDR ALBERG's KA-3B, now dry and detached to return to the USS Bon Homme Richard to hot fuel and return immediately. As the strike group coasted-in, CDR WUNSCH topped off the A-4 tankers and established a tanker station just off the coast-out point of the strike group.
"On approach to the target, the strike group sustained hits and battle damage, and one A-4 was critically damaged (this was VA-212's LCDR ARVIN CHAUNCEY), forcing the pilot to eject some seventy miles inland. (SEE RTR for 31 May 2017 and Ripple Salvo #452 for DETAILS) A Search and Rescue effort was immediately initiated over the downed pilot. CDR WUNSCH quickly and correctly analyzed the situation, requested all possible tanker assistance and immediately placed his other tankers in optimum position and posture. The inflight refueling of the mass egress of the strike aircraft was quickly and expeditiously handled by CDR WUNSCH, who judiciously dispatched the A-4 tankers to refuel numerous damaged aircraft en route to the carrier. He remained on station to refuel stragglers and many of the strike aircraft, now diverted from return to the carrier to Rescue Combat Air Patrol. Many refueling evolutions were completed successfully without voice communications; one of which was later learned to be the strike leader, who was quite low on fuel, without a radio, and had no oil pressure (indicated).
"During this hectic time, CDR WUNSCH suffered a fuel system malfunction, in that he could not transfer fuel from his auxiliary tank to his main cells. This meant that he could still transfer fuel from this tank to another aircraft but was unable to use it himself. Although his own fuel was dropping below that required to return to the carrier, he refused to abandon the twelve aircraft still involved in the SAR, realizing his was the only tanker on the station. Disregarding his own dilemma, he remained on station until he had less than fifteen minutes fuel remaining before engine starvation. At this time his wingman, LCDR ALBERG, returned on station. Since CDR WUNSCH could not ascertain if the ship had a ready deck for him or that more tankers were to be launched and since he was still capable of giving away fuel, he elected to remain on station after refueling from LCDR ALBERG.
"From all indications, the SAR effort would continue for some time and he foresaw the need for both tankers, with flights of jets cycling between the tankers and the SAR scene. Normally, additional fuel was available to be augmented from tanker aircraft from other carriers, but the Task Force demand was so heavy for SAR aircraft that none was available for either CDR WUNSCH or LCDR ALBERG. Soon both aircraft were extremely low on fuel and found themselves once again in extremis just off the coast of the northeast corner of North Vietnam.
"An Air Force KC-135 (TO THE RESCUE) operating in the area was switched to aid the USS Bon Homme Richard tankers, but at this time it was determined that LCDR ALBERG had insufficient fuel remaining to even effect a rendezvous with the KC-135. CDR WUNSCH shared his rapidly dwindling fuel supply with LCDR ALBERG and a rendezvous with the KC-135 was effected with only three minutes fuel remaining at hook-up. After receiving a total of 2300 pounds of fuel CDR WUNSCH unplugged and LCDR ALBERG commenced refueling. Just then a flight of two F-8E Crusaders coasted out at low state. CDR WUNSCH immediately began to refuel one of them. LCDR ALBERG extended his drogue while still plugged into the KC-135, and refueled the other F-8 aircraft. This evolution again placed CDR WUNSCH in the position of having less than five minutes fuel remaining in his own aircraft, but he persisted until both fighter aircraft had been fueled before replenishing his own tanks.
"In the total evolution, the tankers led by CDR WUNSCH and crew and his wingman, LCDR ALBERG and crew, refueled over 41 aircraft, transferred 80,000 pounds of fuel and were instrumental in saving eleven aircraft. Twelve jet aircraft from the original strike group were involved in the SAR for approximately 1.5 hours and all recovered aboard the USS BON HOMME RICHARD."….. End quote… The "Proposed Citation" for a DFC for "the Red Baron" concluded with: "Commander WUNSCH's leadership and professional performance under extremely trying condition surmounted an unexpected and critical situation in aerial tanking. His quick thinking, resourcefulness, courage, and devotion to duty with disregard for his personal safety were in keeping withe the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."
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Thank to Dr. Rich. If you have never seen or heard about this it happened almost 30 years ago in 1994.
Czar Five Two - FUBAR One ....
https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/bud-holland/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182AepOJjMs
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Interesting note from Barrett from a year ago.
G'day Skip:
Sidebar:
First flight of the Hellcat 25 June 42 shoulda been a Clue to those um historians who insist the F6F was developed to oppose the Zero. Fact is-was, Grumman got the contract a year previous, when the Mitsubishi A6M was almost wholly unknown (Jane's All the World's Aircraft only referenced a new Japanese CV VF with retractable gear). And the Aleutians Zero was not recovered until July, only test flown months later.
However, comma: I've run the numbers, and the Hellcat destroyed Japanese airpower. Credited with nearly as many shootdowns as the Army Air Forces combined in the Pacific and China theaters.
As ever
BT
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From the archives
If you have been to the Wall then you know what a powerful place it is and the emotions that you have are overwhelming. Especially when you reach out and touch a name…..skip
Thanks to Chuck
Faces Never Forgotten with Joe Galloway
This is a really good video and worth your time to watch.
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Subject: Faces Never Forgotten with Joe Galloway
If you served in Viet Nam...or know someone who did, this is worth watching...it's moving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA9Dp1S3Ez4
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This Day in US Military History…….June 30
1815 – USS Peacock takes HMS Nautilus, last action of the War of 1812.
1834 – Congress placed the Marine Corps under Navy jurisdiction.
1865 – Eight alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln were found guilty after kangaroo court-martial and brutal treatment by military officers.
1943 – General Douglas MacArthur launches Operation Cartwheel, a multi-pronged assault on Rabaul and several islands in the Solomon Sea in the South Pacific. The joint effort takes nine months to complete but succeeds in recapturing more Japanese-controlled territory, further eroding their supremacy in the East. The purpose of Cartwheel was to destroy the barrier formation Japan had created in the Bismark Archipelago, a collection of islands east of New Guinea in the Solomon Sea. The Japanese considered this area vital to the protection of their conquests in the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. For the Allies, Rabaul, in New Britain, was the key to winning control of this theater of operations, as it served as the Japanese naval headquarters and main base. On June 30, General MacArthur, strategic commander of the area, launched a simultaneous attack, on New Guinea and on New Georgia, as a setup and staging maneuver for the ultimate assault, that on Rabaul. The landing on New Georgia, led by Admiral William Halsey, proved particularly difficult, given the large Japanese garrison stationed there and the harsh climate and topography. Substantial reinforcements were needed before the region could be controlled, in August. One consequence of Cartwheel was a lesson in future strategy. By establishing a "step-by-step" approach to invasion, the Allies unwittingly gave the Japanese time to regroup and establish their next line of defense. The Allies then decided that a new strategy was to be deployed, that of leaving certain islands, or parts thereof, to "wither on the vine," rather than waste valuable time and manpower in fighting it out for marginal gains. A leapfrogging strategy was then employed by MacArthur, whereby he left in place smaller Japanese strongholds in order to concentrate on "bigger fish."
1944 – The American 5th Amphibious Corps has captured over half of Saipan. Fighting north of Mount Tipo Pale and Mount Tapotchau continues. Death Valley and Purple Heart Ridge are cleared.
1945 – On Okinawa, American forces complete mopping-up operations (June 23-30) in which 8975 Japanese are reported killed and 2902 captured. Remember that this battle atarted on 1 April
1946 – The general World War II demobilization task was completed with all Separation Centers decommissioned, resulting in a reduced Coast Guard personnel to 23,000 officers and enlisted personnel from a wartime peak of about 171,000 on 30 June 1945.
1946 – The U .S. Navy returned the Coast Guard's eleven air stations to the operational control of the Coast Guard.
1948 – Bell Labs introduced the point-contact transistor in the New York Times on p.46 as a replacement for the vacuum tube. Bell Labs had kept it secret for six months. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley demonstrated their invention, the transistor, for the first time. John Pierce (d.2002) proposed the name.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
BRONNER, AUGUST F.
Rank and organization: Private, Company C, 1st New York Artillery. Place and date: At White Oak Swamp, Va., 30 June 1862. At Malvern Hill, Va., 1 July 1862. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Germany. Date of issue: Unknown. Citation: Continued to fight after being severely wounded.
HOWARD, HENDERSON C.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company B, 11th Pennsylvania Reserves. Place and date: At Glendale, Va., 30 June 1862. Entered service at: Indiana, Pa. Birth:——. Date of issue: 30 March 1898. Citation: While pursuing one of the enemy's sharpshooters, encountered 2 others, whom he bayoneted in hand-to-hand encounters; was 3 times wounded in action.
KING, RUFUS, JR.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 4th U.S. Artillery. Place and date: At White Oak Swamp Bridge, Va., 30 June 1862. Entered service at: New York. Birth: New York. Date of issue: 2 April 1898. Citation: This officer, when his captain was wounded, succeeded to the command of two batteries while engaged against a superior force of the enemy and fought his guns most gallantly until compelled to retire.
LEVY, BENJAMIN
Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 1st New York Infantry. Place and date: At Glendale, Va., 30 June 1862. Entered service at: ——. Birth: New York, N.Y. Date of issue: 1 March 1865. Citation: This soldier, a drummer boy, took the gun of a sick comrade, went into the fight, and when the color bearers were shot down, carried the colors and saved them from capture.
McMAHON, MARTIN T.
Rank and organization: Captain, and aide_de_camp U.S. Volunteers Place and date: At White Oak Swamp, Va., 30 June i862. Entered service at: California. Born: 21 March 1838, Canada. Date of issue: 10 March 1891. Citation: Under fire of the enemy, successfully destroyed a valuable train that had been abandoned and prevented it from falling into the hands of the enemy.
UHRL, GEORGE
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Light Battery F, 5th U.S. Artillery. Place and date: At White Oak Swamp Bridge, Va.. 30 June 1862. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Germany. Date of issue: 4 April 1898. Citation: Was 1 of a party of 3 who, under heavy fire of advancing enemy, voluntarily secured and saved from capture a field gun belonging to another battery, and which had been deserted by its officers and men.
MULLER, FREDERICK
Rank and organization: Mate, U.S. Navy. Born: 29 March 1861, Copenhagen, Denmark. Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 45, 30 April 1901. Citation: On board the U.S.S. Wompatuck, Manzanillo, Cuba, 30 June 1898. Serving under the fire of the enemy, Muller displayed heroism and gallantry during this period.
THOMPKINS, WILLIAM H.
Rank and organization: Private, Troop G, 10th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Tayabacoa, Cuba, 30 June 1898. Entered service at: Paterson, N.J. Birth: Paterson, N.J. Date of issue: 23 June 1899. Citation. Voluntarily went ashore in the face of the enemy and aided in the rescue of his wounded comrades; this after several previous attempts at rescue had been frustrated.
WANTON, GEORGE H. (First black man to receive Medal of Honor ) Rank and organization: Private, Troop M, 10th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Tayabacoa, Cuba, 30 June 1898. Entered service at: Paterson, N.J. Birth: Paterson, N.J. Date of issue: 23 June 1899. Citation: Voluntarily went ashore in the face of the enemy and aided in the rescue of his wounded comrades; this after several previous attempts at rescue had been frustrated.
FADDEN, HARRY D.
Rand and organization: Coxswain, U.S. Navy. Born: 17 September 1882, Oregon. Accredited to: Washington. G.O. No.: 138, 31 July 1903. Citation: On board the U.S.S. Adams, for gallantry, rescuing O.C. Hawthorne, landsman for training, from drowning at sea, 30 June 1903.
*LONG, DONALD RUSSELL
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Troop C, 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 1st Infantry Division. place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 30 June 1966. Entered service at: Ashland, Ky. Born: 27 August 1939, Blackfork, Ohio. G.O. No.: 13, 4 April 1968. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Troops B and C, while conducting a reconnaissance mission along a road were suddenly attacked by a Viet Cong regiment, supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and machine guns, from concealed positions astride the road. Sgt. Long abandoned the relative safety of his armored personnel carrier and braved a withering hail of enemy fire to carry wounded men to evacuation helicopters. As the platoon fought its way forward to resupply advanced elements, Sgt. Long repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire at point blank range to provide the needed supplies. While assaulting the Viet Cong position, Sgt. Long inspired his comrades by fearlessly standing unprotected to repel the enemy with rifle fire and grenades as they attempted to mount his carrier. When the enemy threatened to overrun a disabled carrier nearby, Sgt. Long again disregarded his own safety to help the severely wounded crew to safety. As he was handing arms to the less seriously wounded and reorganizing them to press the attack, an enemy grenade was hurled onto the carrier deck. Immediately recognizing the imminent danger, he instinctively shouted a warning to the crew and pushed to safety one man who had not heard his warning over the roar of battle. Realizing that these actions would not fully protect the exposed crewmen from the deadly explosion, he threw himself over the grenade to absorb the blast and thereby saved the lives of 8 of his comrades at the expense of his life. Throughout the battle, Sgt. Long's extraordinary heroism, courage and supreme devotion to his men were in the finest tradition of the military service, and reflect great credit upon himself and the U.S. Army.
Thanks to Dr.Rich
Last WW-II Medal of Honor recipient passed on a year ago today ...
Martha had a wonderful segment on Woody today … "Where do we get such men…" has to be part of his story.
I'd recommend starting at 6:10 and skip the Milley intro ...
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVpESggbFE>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVpESggbFE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixVpESggbFE>
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for June 30 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR June 30 THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
30 June
1917: Lt Col William "Billy" Mitchell relieved Maj Townsend F. Dodd as Aviation Officer, American Expeditionary Force. (24)
1928: The US won the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race for the third successive time at Detroit. In the two-day event, Capt William E. Kepner and Lt W. O. Eareckson, the pilot and aide, respectively, won the trophy permanently after the 460-mile flight. (24)
1941: Turboprop engine project initiated as a joint Army-Navy effort. The Navy gave a contract to Northrop Aircraft Corporation to build a gas turbine, weighing less than 3,215 pounds that would develop 2,500 HP.
1950: KOREAN WAR. 3 BG B-26s strafed, bombed, and rocketed enemy troops and traffic in the Seoul area. One flight hit a stalled enemy column. Fifteen B-29s attacked railroad bridges, tanks, trucks, and troop concentrations on the north bank of the Han River near Seoul. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. The 315th Air Division had only 28 of 71 C-119 transportst operational in June. To remedy the problem, Air Materiel Command prodded C-119 manufacturers to speed up the delivery of spare parts to Japan, while the Tactical Air Command sent newer-model Flying Boxcars to the Far East, and the 403d Troop Carrier Wing transferred the troubled C-119s to the US. Far East Air Forces flew 170 leaflet, nineteen voice broadcasts, and 129 flare-dropping sorties, in addition to search and rescue missions. (28)
1965: The XB-70 flew at a speed of Mach 2.85 (1,870 MPH) at an altitude of 68,000 feet. In a 104-minute flight, covering 2,035 miles, the aircraft flew for 50 minutes at twice the speed of sound. The C-141 set an unofficial world record for paradrops when it delivered two pallets totaling 64,630 pounds. Project ORION. The USAF terminated its nuclear propulsion aircraft project. The 800th and last Minuteman I ICBM became operational at Francis E. Warren AFB. (12)
1966: CONAC announced the greatest record of productive airlift in the history of AFRES flying units. Reservists flew 14,234 missions in 83,097 flying hours to airlift 20,522 tons of cargo and 58,722 passengers in FY1966. (16)
1967: First production model of F-4E Phantom (USAF version), featuring a multiple barrel 20mm cannon in addition to missile armament, made its initial flight at McDonnell Douglas' St. Louis plant.
1968: Lockheed Georgia Company test pilot Leo J. Sullivan flew the C-5A Galaxy, the world's largest aircraft at the time, on a 94-minute maiden test flight from Dobbins AFB, Ga. (12)
1970: During FY1970, the AFRES supported MAC's airlift requirements in SEA by flying 419 missions to deliver 4,900 tons of cargo. (16) Operation FREEDOM DEAL. After US ground operations ceased in Cambodia, air strikes continued in interdiction efforts against North Vietnames sanctuaries under the name Freedom Deal. (17)
1971: SAC's 340 BG at Carswell AFB received the last FB-111 fighter-bomber (SN 68-291). (1)
1973: Deputy SECDEF William C. Clements, Jr., canceled the Subsonic Cruise Armed Decoy (SCAD) program. (1) (6)
1975: The last Hound Dog missiles were removed from alert. (6) The USAF retired its last Douglas C-47A Skytrain (Gooney Bird) to the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB. Douglas Aircraft delivered the first aircraft in 1941. (8: June 90)
1977: President James E. Carter terminated the B-1 bomber program to produce the ALCM. (1) (6)
1978: SAC took the last GAM-72A Quail missiles off alert. (6)
1982: Rockwell International rolled out the Space Shuttle Challenger. 1983: The 401 TFW flew the last F-4D Phantom training sortie in Europe. (16)
1985: At Vandenberg AFB, AFSC conducted the final Peacekeeper test launch from an above ground pad. (16)
1992: AMC withdrew the last nuclear artillery shells, Lance missile warheads, and naval depth bombs from overseas to support President George H. W. Bush's Nuclear Forces Initiative of 7 September 1991. (18)
1995: Operation QUICK LIFT. Through 10 August, 27 C-5s and 53 C-141s airlifted 4,742 British and Dutch military personnel and 1,504 tons of cargo to Croatia to support this UN action. (16)(18)
1996: Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. Through 31 August, 4 KC-135R tankers from the 905 AREFS at Grand Forks AFB flew to Doha, Qatar, to join an Airpower Expeditionary Force (AEF) of 34 aircraft (4 tankers and 30 fighters). The AEF provided land-based air forces to augment US forces already supporting the operation. The deployment also gave the USAF an opportunity to work and train with coalition partners in the Persian Gulf region. (18)
1999: Orbital Sciences Corporation's X-34, a reusable launch vehicle demonstrator, made its first captive-carry flight on a modified L-1011 jetliner for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB. The flight marked the space agency's first rocket plane test effort since the X-15 program ended in 1968. (3)
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