To All,
Good Tuesday morning August 22,2023
I hope that your week is off to a good start.
The sun is out today and it is going to heat up bit each day for the next 9 days.
Regards,
Skip
Today in Naval and Marine Corps History
August. 22
1912 The Dental Corps is established by an Act of Congress.
1942 USS Blue (DD 387) is torpedoed by Japanese destroyer, Kawakaze, off Guadalcanal. She was scuttled by her crew the following day.
1944 Submarines Haddo (SS 255) and Harder (SS 257) encounter three Japanese escort vessels off the mouth of Manila Bay. Haddo sinks Sado 35 miles west of Manila; Harder sinks Matsuwa and Hiburi about 50 miles west-southwest of Manila.
1945 The Japanese of Mille Atoll, Marshall Islands, surrenders on board USS Levy (DE 162), the first Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
1956 A P4M Mercator, while on night patrol out of Iwakuni, Japan, reported it is under attack by aircraft over international waters, 32 miles off the China coast, and is not heard from again. Carrier and land-based air and surface ships, searching for the plane, found wreckage, empty life rafts, and the bodies of two crew members.
1980 USS Passumpsic (AO 107), guided by (P 3) aircraft from Patrol Squadron 1 and 26 (VP 1 and VP 26), rescues 28 Vietnamese refugees off Saigon.
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This day in World History August 22
1350 John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France.
1485 Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth. This victory establishes the Tudor dynasty in England and ends the War of the Roses.
1642 Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham.
1717 The Austrian army forces the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans.
1777 With the approach of General Benedict Arnold's army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandons Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada.
1849 The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies.
1911 The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913.
1922 Michael Collins, Irish politician, is killed in an ambush.
1942 Brazil declares war on the Axis powers. She is the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe.
1945 Soviet troops land at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China.
1945 Conflict in Vietnam begins when a group of Free French parachute into southern Indochina, in response to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh.
1952 Devil's Island's penal colony is permanently closed.
1956 Incumbent US President Dwight D. Eisenhower & Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco.
1962 OAS (Secret Army Organization) gunmen unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the incident inspires Frederick Forsyth's novel, The Day of the Jackal.
1962 The world's first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga.
1968 First papal visit to Latin America; Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota.
1969 Hurricane Camille hits US Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.421 billion in damages.
1971 Bolivian military coup: Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez ousts leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres and assumes power.
1971 FBI arrests members of The Camden 28, an anti-war group, as the group is raiding a draft office in Camden, NJ.
1972 International Olympic Committee votes 36–31 with 3 abstentions to ban Rhodesia from the games because of the country's racist policies.
1975 US President Gerald Ford survives second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal.
1983 Benigno Aquino, the only real opposition on Ferdinand Marcos' reign as president of the Philippines, is gunned down at Manila Airport.
1989 First complete ring around Neptune discovered.
1995 During 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge, Id., FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi kills Vicki Weaver while shooting at another target.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended for refusing to comply with federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building's lobby.
2005 Art heist: a version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 Most runs scored by any team in modern MLB history as the Texas Rangers thump the Baltimore Orioles 30-3.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 22 August 1968…
Ted Kennedy posts an "exit plan"…
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From Vietnam Air Losses site for Tuesday, August 22
August 22ndt: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=757
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 Interesting Facts…..SHARKS
Sharks have been on Earth longer than trees.
Some species of trees that line city streets predate the dinosaurs by millions of years, but when it comes to the truly ancient, you need to look to the oceans. Sea-dwelling creatures have a many-millions-of-years head start on any terrestrial life-forms. Take, for instance, the shark: This apex predator of the sea has been stalking the world's oceans for upwards of 450 million years. Meanwhile, the very first forests filled with Earth's very first trees, in the genera Wattieza and Archaeopteris, likely didn't sprout on land until the mid-Devonian period some 385 million years ago. However, it's worth noting that the animals some scientists consider the first "sharks" likely didn't look like the magnificent predators of today. First appearing in the Late Ordovician, these creatures sported shark-like scales, but likely didn't yet possess the species' most memorable trait — a terrifying set of teeth.
Surviving that long as a species is no easy feat. Only a few million years after the shark's appearance on the world stage, these proto-sharks (along with the rest of life on Earth) suffered through the Late Ordovician mass extinction. This event was the first of five major extinction events in Earth's history, and sharks survived them all; not even trees can add such an impressive accolade to their resume. So the next time you cross paths with a shark, whether behind the glass of an aquarium or on-screen in the act of devouring the residents of Amity Island, don't forget to marvel at this amazing animal's incredible story of survival.
Thanks to the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, a generation of people have grown up with the mistaken belief that sharks are man-eating monsters, intent on attacking anything that moves. Scientists have worked hard to dispel such myths about the ancient creatures, which roam every ocean and vary widely in size, shape, diet, habitat, and attitude. Here are a few facts about these fascinating fish.
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Sharks Are Older Than Trees
Sharks evolved more than 450 million years ago — long before trees or Tyrannosaurus rex appeared on Earth. The earliest sharks were probably toothless and, like today's sharks, had cartilaginous skeletons; they may have resembled fish called chimeras that still live in the deep ocean.
The first shark that really looked shark-like appeared around 380 million years ago in the Devonian period. Just a few million years later, a major extinction wiped out many species that competed with sharks, allowing them to evolve rapidly into numerous new shapes, sizes, and ecological niches — some of which are still around. One of the oldest species living today is the bluntnose sixgill shark, which evolved between 200 million and 175 million years ago in the early Jurassic epoch.
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We Have Learned a Lot From Shark Teeth
As cartilaginous fishes, sharks don't leave much behind when they die. Known shark fossils consist mainly of teeth and a handful of scales, vertebrae, and impressions left in rock. Even so, paleontologists have been able to identify about 2,000 species of extinct sharks just by examining differences in fossilized teeth. For example, the oldest shark teeth ever found came from an Early Devonian fish dubbed Doliodus problematicus; bits of its fossilized skeleton showed characteristics similar to bony fishes, while its teeth and jaw were more shark-like, confirming a theory that the species was an ancient ancestor of sharks.
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There Are More Than 500 Species of Sharks in the World
Sharks are categorized into nine taxonomic orders. To name a few of the most recognizable types, Carcharhiniformes, the order of ground sharks, encompasses over 290 species, including the bull shark, tiger shark, blue shark, hammerhead, and more. The great white shark, basking shark, and makos, as well as the aptly named goblin shark and other species, belong to Lamniformes — also known as mackerel sharks. The carpet shark order, Orectolobiformes, includes the whale shark, nurse shark, wobbegong, and others. In all, there are more than 500 species of sharks swimming the world's water.
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There's a Huge Size Difference Between the Largest and Smallest Sharks
With so many shark species swimming Earth's oceans, there's incredible variation in their sizes. The largest shark species living today is the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), a gentle, plankton-eating giant that can grow to 45 feet long or more and weigh 20 tons (the biggest accurately measured whale shark reached 61.7 feet!). They can be found in all of the world's tropical seas. The smallest known shark species, meanwhile, was discovered in 1985 off the coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Sea: The dwarf lantern shark (Etmopterus perryi) averages a length of just under 7 inches. It dwells in the ocean's twilight zone, about 1,000 feet below the surface, but sometimes feeds in the shallows and uses bioluminescent organs along its belly to camouflage itself against sunlit waters.
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Sharks Have a Sixth Sense
Like all fishes, sharks have a sensory organ called the lateral line running down the length of their bodies. The lateral line system involves exterior pores and specialized cells that can detect vibrations in water, which helps sharks locate prey from hundreds of feet away. In addition to sensing water movements, sharks can perceive electric fields surrounding other animals (the fields are caused by the animals' muscle contractions). This sixth sense, called electroreception, picks up electrical signals that sharks can use to home in on prey. Electroreception can also guide migrating sharks via Earth's electromagnetic fields.
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One Shark Species Can Live for Centuries
The slow-growing, Arctic-dwelling Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) is not only the longest-lived shark, but also holds the record for the longest-lived vertebrate on Earth. Unlike other sharks, Greenland sharks don't have cartilage that shows their growth over time, so scientists have had difficulty estimating their age accurately. In 2016, a study in the journal Science described how a team of biologists carbon-dated eye proteins, which build up continuously during the animals' lives, in several Greenland sharks. They found the individuals were an average of 272 years old when they died, and the results suggested that the sharks' maximum life span could be up to 500 years.
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You're More Likely To Be Killed by a Cow Than a Shark
Your risk of suffering a shark attack is practically nil. For its 2022 global summary, the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File confirmed 57 unprovoked shark bites in 2022, meaning they happened when humans were simply in the shark's natural habitat, and 32 provoked attacks, such as when people were feeding or harassing the fish. Forty-one of the unprovoked attacks occurred in the U.S., and one was fatal. Other animals are way more likely to kill you, including cows (which kill an average of 20 Americans a year, according to CDC data), hornets, bees, and wasps, (about 48 people a year) and dogs (around 19 a year).
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The Weekly Rundown: Lunar Landings, the BRICS Summit and a Host of Elections
What We're Tracking
South Africa hosts the BRICS summit. South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit Aug. 22-24 where expanding the group's membership will be near the top of the agenda. China has been pushing to add new members, which would increase BRICS' economic and political clout, and more than 40 countries have reportedly expressed an interest in joining the bloc. However, BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) disagree over steps forward with enlargement. India and Brazil have expressed skepticism of the China-backed expansion plans, with New Delhi arguing that democratic countries like Nigeria and Argentina should be on the short-list, while Brazil would prefer to only begin the process of selecting partner countries that could then ascend to membership in the future. Other key items that will be discussed during the summit include the creation of a new global payments system, as well as investment into Africa.
Zimbabwe holds general elections. Zimbabwe will hold general elections on Aug. 23, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be seeking reelection against opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. While some polls have predicted a close election and a potential runoff, a July 10 survey by the Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI), Afrobarometer's local partner, found that Mnangagwa leads Chamisa 35% to 27%. The ruling party will very likely rely on tactics like intimidation, violence, coercion, purging of voter rolls, state capture of the judiciary and non-compliance with regional election guidelines to secure a parliamentary majority and a second presidential term for Mnangagwa, portending continued economic stagnation in the coming years. This means that Zimbabweans will likely keep suffering from some of the highest food inflation in the world (264%), rampant unemployment and absence of basic services, while Western governments will likely keep avoiding investment in the country.
Guatemala and Ecuador hold elections. On Aug. 20, Guatemala will hold a presidential runoff and Ecuador will hold general elections. In Guatemala, former first lady Sandra Torres will face off against leftist lawmaker Bernardo Arevalo. Should Arevalo win, the country's political and economic elites may seek to prevent the new president from entering into office, which could lead to social unrest and U.S. sanctions. Ecuador, meanwhile, will vote for the president and all 137 members of the county's unicameral Congress, as well as on two environmentally-focused referendums. Ecuador's scattered political arena may lead to the emergence of an anti-establishment or extremist presidential candidate, while the simultaneous referendums could threaten the country's natural resource extraction industries.
India and Russia race to the lunar south pole. Russia and India are attempting soft landings at the lunar south pole, an area thought to be rich with water resources, with Russia's attempt coming as early as Aug. 21 and India's scheduled for Aug. 23. Thus far, no country has successfully landed near the moon's south pole and the mission is Russia's first lunar mission in almost 50 years. Should India succeed, it will become only the fourth nation to successfully perform a soft landing on the lunar surface. The two missions come as global powers eye lunar landings and lunar exploration as critical space exploration priorities as the concept of lunar and asteroid mining becomes more realistic, with both the United States and China aiming to send humans to the moon by the end of 2030. The United States' Artemis Accords signed with other countries also include the concepts of safety zones that many critics claim are just an excuse to divvy up lunar resources and claim control near landing sites. India and Russia are clearly behind the United States and China when it comes to the latest space race to explore the moon, but a successful landing near the lunar south pole will be a boon for their endeavors and a demonstration of their soft-landing capabilities.
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A SICKINING REMINDER from the archives
Thanks to Dutch
Their Blood on bumblingbiden's and HidetheWilly's hands
American mom trapped by Taliban describes horrific violence, pleads for Biden to solve evacuation crisis
Her brother, a former military translator and contractor, said at least two of his colleagues had been killed by Taliban fighters in the past two days
By Michael Ruiz , Sara Ballou | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: An American mom trapped in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is worried she'll never see her kids again and in hiding with family members and Afghan allies – unable to reach Kabul's U.S.-held airport for a chance at an evacuation, she said Saturday.
"I really have given up hope, given up on the hope of going to the airport," the woman, whose identity is being withheld due to concerns for her safety, told Fox News. "It's just not possible to make it through all those people."
She said there are as many as 20 Taliban checkpoints between her and the airport – and she's one of an uncertain number of American citizens trapped behind enemy lines.
Every moment that a car passes by, I feel like they are going to pull in and execute us. I don't know if I'm going to see my children again.
She was whipped by Taliban fighters on one attempt to get through, she said. A man standing near her was shot in the head on another try, leaving his wife and baby in tears. Since then, she's been in hiding.
TALIBAN GOING 'HOUSE TO HOUSE' IN AFGHANISTAN 'HANGING' PEOPLE WHO WORKED WITH US: SOURCE
"We are devastated," she said. "We're scared for our lives. Every moment that a car passes by, I feel like they are going to pull in and execute us. I don't know if I'm going to see my children again."
She said the situation was dire – even hopeless. She would rather commit suicide than allow the Taliban to capture her. And despite Taliban assurances to the U.S. that Americans would be allowed to pass through the checkpoints surrounding the airport, she said she fears showing her U.S. passport to militants who could be members of other terror groups, including ISIS and al Qaeda.
Please, Mr. President, please evacuate us. We need help.
"They're labeled as Taliban, but who really knows?" she said. "They don't have a uniform on, a proper military uniform or law enforcement, where you can recognize them. They're all armed."
She had a message for the president, speaking through tears: "Please, Mr. President, please evacuate us. We need help."
The White House did not immediately provide a response to this woman's plea.
AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL A 'STUPID PLAN' THAT ARMED TALIBAN WITH US WEAPONS AND ABANDONED ALLIES: FORMER STAFF SERGEANT
As of Saturday evening, she was in hiding with her aunt, a former Afghan parliament member, her uncle, as well as an undisclosed number of contractors and children.
Her brother, a former military translator and contractor who is now in the United Kingdom, said at least two of his colleagues had been killed by Taliban fighters in the past two days. And sources told Fox News earlier this week that three captured Afghan National Army commanders were hanged by the Taliban in Kabul as the militants were banging on doors, seeking out people who had worked with U.S. and coalition forces.
The traffic starts miles away from the airport. It's probably two, three miles, with thousands of people put together like little matchsticks with no space between them.
"They've been going to a lot of homes pulling out high-ranked Afghans, law enforcement, people who worked with the U.S. military or NATO," the woman said.
TALIBAN CLAIMS IT'LL BE MORE MODERATE, BUT KILLINGS CONITNUE IN AFGHANISTAN
In a 27-second audio recording sent to West Virginia Rep. Carol Miller's office, she can be heard struggling to speak through her tears.
"Hour by hour it's getting more difficult," she says, between sobs. "Even when the cars pass by I feel like they're gonna stop at the door out there and the Taliban out there are gonna come in and kill us."
"I'm really scared," she continued. "Please just, please help me."
In a separate message, she told Miller's office that she had "no hope" of seeing her children again.
The woman's husband, who is safely in Virginia with their children, told Fox News that the State Department has been of little assistance and that they are communicating primarily with Miller's office.
The congresswoman's office confirmed her status as an American citizen and helped connect Fox News with her to raise awareness of the severe threat to Americans and Afghan allies trapped behind Taliban lines.
The family also said they fear that the Taliban could impose an internet blackout – effectively shutting down all communications apps and hiding extremist activities from the rest of the world.
At that point, the woman's brother said the Taliban would "massacre of a lot of people."
"It's a devastating situation and deadly," the trapped woman told Fox News. "I'm terrified."
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on a conference call with U.S. senators Friday evening that the Pentagon was "exploring options" for how to evacuate American citizens, according to a source on the call. And the military sent three chinook helicopters outside the airport perimeter to retrieve 169 Americans at a rendezvous point Friday, authorities said, even after officials said they wouldn't be doing external rescue missions.
For non-Americans, however, "they'll have to figure out how to get to Kabul," Blinken said. There are tens of thousands of Afghan allies who worked with U.S. forces over the past two decades.
And if and when they reach Kabul – it's swarming with Taliban fighters dead-set on hunting down and killing them.
"The traffic starts miles away from the airport," the trapped American woman said. "It's probably two, three miles, with thousands of people put together like little matchsticks with no space between them."
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AND THEN THERE IS THIS ONE
Thanks to DR
Great story!! There are forces that want you to believe we are all just ugly and hateful. But we aren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaMkOES-y3Y
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This Day in U S Military History
1950 – During the fighting at the "Bowling Alley" near Tabudong, North Korean Lieutenant Colonel Chong Pong UK, commander of the artillery regiment supporting the North Korean 13th Division, surrendered to the ROK 1st Division. Chong, the highest-ranking communist prisoner to date, gave precise information on the location of his artillery. Eighth Army immediately launched air and artillery strikes on the enemy guns. Chong had defected in protest against what he felt was an unfair reprimand by the 13th Division commander.
1967 – Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General John P. McConnell, states before a Senate Subcommittee that adopting a graduated bombing policy in North Vietnam was a mistake. Three days later, Secretary of Defense McNamara admitted that the bombing of North Vietnam had not materially affected Hanoi's "warmaking capability."
1968 – For the first time in two months, Viet Cong forces launch a rocket attack on Saigon, killing 18 and wounding 59. Administration officials denounced the attack as a direct repudiation of President Johnson's speech of August 19, in which he appealed to the North Vietnamese to respond favorably to his limitation of the air campaign north of the DMZ.
1994 – The Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea and the CCCS Louis S. Ste Laurent became the first "North American surface ships" to reach the North Pole. An HH-65A from Aviation Training Center Mobile, detached to the Polar Sea, became the first U.S. (and also Coast Guard) helicopter to reach the pole as well.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CLlFFORD, ROBERT T.
Rank and organization: Master-at-Arms, U.S. Navy. Born: 1835, Pennsylvania. Accredited to: Pennsylvania. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: Served on board the U.S.S. Shokokon at New Topsail Inlet off Wilmington, N.C., 22 August 1863. Participating in a strategic plan to destroy an enemy schooner, Clifford aided in the portage of a dinghy across the narrow neck of land separating the sea from the sound. Launching the boat in the sound, the crew approached the enemy from the rear and Clifford gallantly crept into the rebel camp and counted the men who outnumbered his party 3 to 1. Returning to his men, he ordered a charge in which the enemy was routed, leaving behind a schooner and a quantity of supplies.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for August 22, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
22 August
1909: FIRST INTERNATIONAL FLYING MEET
1909: Through 29 August, in the Le Grande Semain d'Aviation de Champagne Flying Meet at Rheims, France, Glenn H flew one of his planes to win two first prizes ($5,000 and $2,000) and a second prize ($600) for speed. The Gordon-Bennett Race for speed was the most prestigious event in the meet. The top speed in the meet was 45.7 MPH. With close to 500,000 spectators. It set the standard for all future air shows of the time. To meet the challenge, special grandstands were constructed along with numerous restaurants, a barbershop, and even press facilities.
1917: Air-to-ground radiotelephones went into production.
1923: Lt Harold R. Harris (pilot) and Lt Muir Fairchild (copilot) flew the XNBL-1 Barling Bomber, the Army's first long-range night bomber, in its first flight at Wright Field. (21)
1938: Civil Aeronautics Act became effective to coordinate all nonmilitary aviation under the CAA. (20) (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. Chinese anti-aircraft gunners fired across the Yalu River at RB-29s flying border reconnaissance. This was the first hostile Chinese action against UN aircraft. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. On successive nights, three C-47s flew 60-minute voice broadcast sorties near the front lines, indicating a greater emphasis by UN Command on psychological war. (28)
1955: First run on the 120-foot Daisy track held to study human tolerance to short-duration G-forces.
1959: Through 20 September, Peter Gluckmann used a Meyers 200 Airplane to complete a solo, 22,800-mile round-the-world flight from San Francisco and back in 29 days. (9) (24)
1963: Above Edwards AFB, NASA test pilot Joseph A. Walker flew the X-15 to new records of 354,000 feet (67 miles) in altitude and 3,614 MPH. It was Walker's last X-15 free flight and the highest altitude achieved during the X-15 program.
1988: Through 6 October, aircrews flew 1 C-5, 1 C-130, and 29 C-141s to carry 2,497 Army firefighters and 420 tons of equipment to Bozeman, Mont., and West Yellowstone, Wyo., to fight a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park that had engulfed over 582,000 acres. (18)
1990: President George Bush called-up 200,000 ANG and AFRES personnel for Operation DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. (18)
1997: A C-5 aircrew from Dover AFB delivered a NASA satellite from Andrews AFB to Kagoshima, Japan, after a 16-hour flight. The $250 million satellite for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission was the first joint space project between the US and Japan. (22)
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