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Good Tuesday morning August 29, 2023
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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History Thanks to NHHC
August. 29
1861 During the Civil War, Seaman Benjamin Swearer lands with troops from the steam sloop of war, Pawnee, and takes part in the capture of Fort Clark, at Hatteras Inlet, N.C. He serves throughout the action and has the honor of being the first man to raise the flag on the captured fort. For his gallant service throughout the action, he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
1862 The gunboat, USS Pittsburgh, supports Army troops landing at Eunice, Ark., during the Civil War.
1915 After pontoons are brought to Hawaii from the west coast, and following extensive additional diving work, the submarine USS F-4 is raised from the bottom and taken into Honolulu Harbor for dry docking. Previously, in March 1915, during a routine dive a few miles off Honolulu, F-4 sinks in 51 fathoms of water, with the loss of her 21 crewmembers.
1916 High waves force armored cruiser USS Memphis aground at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killing 33 men. Lt. Claud A. Jones rescues crewmen from the dying ship's steam-filled engineering spaces. Years later, in Aug. 1932, Jones receives the Medal of Honor for his actions.
1944 USS Jack (SS 259) attacks Japanese convoy H3 and sinks minesweeper W28 and army cargo ship, Mexico Maru, northwest of Menado, Celebes.
1944 PBY aircraft sink Japanese sailing vessel, Toyokuni Maru, at the entrance to Ambon Bay.
1998 USS Decatur (DDG 73) is commissioned at Portland, Ore., before arriving at its homeport of Naval Station San Diego. The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is the fifth U.S. Navy ship named for Commodore Stephen Decatur.
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Today in World History August 29
70 The Temple of Jerusalem burns after a nine-month Roman siege.
1526 Ottoman Suleiman the Magnificent crushes a Hungarian army under Lewis II at the Battle of Mohacs.
1533 In Peru, the Inca chief Atahualpa is executed by orders of Francisco Pizarro, although the chief had already paid his ransom.
1776 General George Washington retreats during the night from Long Island to New York City.
1793 Slavery is abolished in Santo Domingo.
1862 Union General John Pope's army is defeated by a smaller Confederate force at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
1882 Australia defeats England in cricket for the first time. The following day a obituary appears in the Sporting Times addressed to the British team.
1942 The American Red Cross announces that Japan has refused to allow safe conduct for the passage of ships with supplies for American prisoners of war.
1945 U.S. airborne troops are landed in transport planes at Atsugi airfield, southwest of Tokyo, beginning the occupation of Japan.
1949 USSR explodes its first atomic bomb, "First Lightning."
1950 International Olympic Committee votes to allow West Germany and Japan to compete in 1952 games.
1952 In the largest bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force bomb Pyongyang, North Korea.
1957 US Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 after Strom Thurmond (Sen-D-SC) ends 24-hour filibuster, the longest in Senate history, against the bill.
1960 US U-2 spy plane spots SAM (surface-to-air) missile launch pads in Cuba.
1964 Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330).
1965 Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5, marking the first time the US set an international duration record for a manned space mission.
1966 The Beatles give their last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco).
1968 Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president at their Chicago convention.
1977 Lou Brock (St Louis Cardinals) breaks Ty Cobb's 49-year-old career stolen bases record at 893.
1986 Morocco's King Hassan II signs unity treaty with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, strengthening political and economic ties and creating a mutual defense pact.
1991 USSR's parliament suspends Communist Party activities in the wake of a failed coup.
1992 Thousands of Germans demonstrate against a wave of racist attacks aimed at immigrants.
1995 NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
2003 A terrorist bomb kills Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the Shia Muslim leader in Iraq, and nearly 100 worshipers as they leave a mosque in Najaf where the ayatollah had called for Iraqi unity.
2005 Rains from Hurricane Katrina cause a levee breech at the Industrial Canal in New Orleans, causing severe flooding.
2012 The Egyptian Army's Operation Eagle results in the deaths of 11 suspected terrorists and the arrest of another 23.
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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 29 August 1968… Six great tales of sacrifice and heroism…
Thanks to Micro
August 29th: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=233
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 Brett
Geopolitical Futures:
Keeping the future in focus
Daily Memo: Israel-Libya Meeting Triggers Protests
The Libyan government denied that the meeting was planned.
By: GPF Futures
Backlash. Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush was suspended after Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said he had met with her in Italy and discussed possible cooperation on humanitarian issues, agriculture and water management. The two countries do not have diplomatic relations and Libya does not recognize Israel. The Libyan Foreign Ministry called the meeting, which sparked small protests in the war-torn country, "an unprepared, casual encounter." Israel, for its part, said the meeting was planned.
South China Sea. The U.S., Japan, Australia and the Philippines conducted joint military exercises in the South China Sea. The drills included ship-to-ship replenishment operations and involved the Japanese navy's largest vessel, the Izumo. Meanwhile, two F-35 fighter jets from Japan's Air Self-Defense Force arrived at an air force base in northern Australia on Saturday, the first time Japan has deployed this type of aircraft abroad.
Meeting in Beijing. Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao met with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in Beijing on Monday. Raimondo also held talks with other Chinese officials on the same visit and stressed the importance of the two countries having a stable economic relationship.
Russian shipment. Russia sent a cargo train headed for Saudi Arabia through Iran for the first time. The shipment, which includes 36 containers, will pass through Iranian territory as part of the International North-South Transport Corridor – a route that will reduce customs tariffs for exporters by almost half. This comes after Iran and Saudi Arabia restored diplomatic ties earlier this year.
Partners. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev welcomed Turkey's chief of General Staff, Metin Gurak, on an official visit on Monday. They discussed growing cooperation on defense and other issues.
Large drills. Turkey and the United States held their largest joint military exercises in seven years. The drills included Turkey's F-16 fighters and U.S. F-18s, as well as the U.S. Navy's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford.
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Thanks to Carl
An interesting Read
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/08/27/the-african-origin-of-the-slave-trade/
The African Origin of the Slave Trade
August 27, 2023
Paul Craig Roberts
For decades liberals have beat into the heads of white Americans that they are racists responsible for enslaving blacks. The insistence on white racism was music to the ears of black activists….. Read the rest in the URL; ABOVE
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From the Archives
Thanks to Doctor Rich from many years ago. The speeds below are all slower then what They are doing now.
Acceleration explained ........
* One Top Fuel dragster outfitted with a 500 cubic-inch replica Dodge (actually Keith Black, etc) Hemi engine makes more horsepower (8,000 HP) than the first 4 rows of cars at NASCAR's Daytona 500. Under full throttle, a dragster engine will consume 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded Boeing 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate but with 25% less energy being produced. A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster's supercharger. With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lockup at full throttle.
* At the stoichio metric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases. Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. Which is typically the output of an electric arc welder in each cylinder.
Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way thru the run, the engine is 'dieseling' from compression and the glow of the exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with enough sufficient force to blow the cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half !!
Dragsters reach over 300 MPH +... before you have completed reading this sentence.
In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, a dragster must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before reaching half-track, at launch the acceleration approaches 8 G's.
Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid for, the pit crew is working for free, & NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run will cost an estimated $1,000 per second.
0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run)
0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run)
6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land)
6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin 'chutes at 300 MPH
An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . .
quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle....or snapping your fingers !!
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta).
The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66' of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher).
Let's now put this all into perspective:
Imagine this ..... You are driving a new $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z-06.
Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to 'launch' down a quarter-mile s trip as you pass.
You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard, on up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH.... The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that exact moment.
The dragster departs & starts after you. You keep your foot buried hard to the floor, and suddenly you hear an incredibly brutally screaming whine that seares and pummels your eardrums & within a mere 3 seconds the dragster effortlessly catches & passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it – from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH.....and it not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the planet when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race !!!!
That, my friends.....is acceleration.
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Thanks to Interesting Facts...BUTTONS
Royal Air Force WWII uniforms included a pants button that served as a compass.
Tiny, hidden survival tools packed into the waistband of your pants may sound like something fantastical from a spy movie, but in the case of British wartime pilots, they were a reality. During World War II, the Royal Air Force sent its aviators skyward with all the tools they'd need to complete a mission, along with a few that could help them find their way home if they crash-landed behind enemy lines. One of the smallest pieces of survival gear pilots carried was a compass built into the button of their trousers.
Three months after entering World War II, the British military launched its MI9 division, a secret intelligence department tasked with helping service members evade enemy forces or escape capture. Between 1939 and 1945, masterminds at MI9 created a variety of intelligence-gathering and survival tools for troops, such as uniform-camouflaging dye shaped like candy almonds, ultra-compressed medications packed inside pens, and button compasses. The discreet navigational tools were typically made from two buttons, the bottom featuring a tiny needle. When balanced on the spike, the top button acted as a compass that rotated with the Earth's poles; two dots painted on the metal with luminous paint represented north, and one indicated south.
MI9 distributed more than 2.3 million of its button compasses during the war. They could be paired with secretive maps that were smuggled to captured service members inside care packages delivered to prisoner-of-war camps. Often printed on silk for durability and waterproofing, the 44 different maps (sent to different camps based on location) were tucked discreetly into boot heels and board games. The ingenuity worked — by the war's end, MI9 was credited with helping more than 35,000 Allied soldiers escape and make their way home.
Some American colonists were banned from wearing fancy buttons.
Buttons can be an innocuous way to add panache to a piece of clothing … unless you were a colonist living in Massachusetts during the 17th century, that is. Choosing the wrong type of buttons for your garment during that time could have landed you in court and required paying a fine. Puritans in Massachusetts during the 1600s were ruled by a series of sumptuary laws, aka legal codes that restricted how people dressed and interacted with society based on moral or religious grounds. Massachusetts passed its first sumptuary law in 1634, prohibiting long hair and "new fashions" (aka overly swanky clothes), and five years later even banned short-sleeved garments. By 1652, the colony further restricted lower-wage earners from wearing "extravagant" accessories such as silks, fine laces, and gold or silver buttons, unless they had an estate valued at more than 200 British pounds — more than $38,000 in today's dollars. However, the law did include some loopholes: Magistrates, public officers, and militia members (and their families) were free to choose buttons and other adornments without fear of penalty, as were the formerly wealthy and those who had advanced education.
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Thanks to Carl
(Click on the Twitter link to see a photo of the "blade dump"!)
August 28, 2023
Modest Texas town repurposed into a dumping ground for expired wind turbine blades
By Olivia Murray
"What's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine."
Sweetwater is a unique place with a special history, dating back to the days before the American settlers; the name of this small town in central Texas is itself, derived from a word of the Kiowa Indians. The Kiowa were a nomadic tribe that often hunted through "Mobeetie" or in English, "sweet water" but eventually, the tribe was brought to heel by a federal military under the command of Ulysses S. Grant, during the conflict known as the Red River War — Grant didn't get the moniker Mr. Lincoln's Butcher for nothing!
Speaking of subjugation … from an article out at Texas Monthly four days ago:
Officials in Sweetwater say an out-of-state company has made their town a dump for the seldom-seen trash created by renewable energy.
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Sweetwater has unwittingly become home to what is possibly the world's largest collection of unwanted wind turbine blades.
For anyone who doesn't already know, wind turbine blades at this point in time, can't be recycled, so ordinarily, these expired blades wind up in landfills. According to a study published in June of this year in the Scientific Reports journal, around 2.4% of turbine blades must be decommissioned every year, and per the United States Geological Survey, there are more than 70,800 wind turbines registered in the country. So, assuming each turbine has three blades on it, that means that roughly 5,100 blades every year, just in the U.S., become literal garbage (although arguably, they always were). Blades can weighanywhere from 5,200 pounds each, to as much as 27,000 — that makes for between 27 million and 138 million pounds of trash bound for landfills annually.
Back to Sweetwater. In 2017, a Washington-state company called Global Fiberglass Solutions came along, promising an exciting new way to repurpose the blades, and since then, GFS has been dumping the blades in the far-off land of Texas. According to the Texas Monthly article, the managing director himself admitted that only a fraction of the stockpile had ever been "recycled."
Also from the article was the testimony of Pamala Meyer, a resident of Sweetwater:
When forklifts deposited the first of these in a field behind the apartment complex where Pamala Meyer lives … she wasn't initially bothered. But then the blades … kept coming. Each was cut into thirds, with each segment longer than a school bus. Thousands arrived over several years, eventually blanketing more than thirty acres, in stacks rising as high as basketball backboards. Every few dozen feet, a break among the stacks leads into an industrial hedge maze.
I assumed the "eyesore" turbines couldn't look worse than when they were erect and functioning, but boy was I wrong! This is an old X (formerly Twitter) post, which shows you how long this has been a problem for the people of Sweetwater: https://twitter.com/SRSroccoReport/status/1429235805310963718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1429235805310963718%7Ctwgr%5E962e348b71fa335d4bc6d9871135c3e181cbd35e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2023%2F08%2Fmodest_texas_town_repurposed_into_a_dumping_ground_for_expired_wind_turbine_blades.html
But the green aristocrats can't be bothered with the concerns of the little guy, they're on a mission to save humanity! (The irony is painful.) Lastly:
Sweetwater isn't the only place Global Fiberglass has stockpiled blades. It has a total of 1,300 in Newton, Iowa, and two other cities in that state, according to the state's Department of Natural Resources. After an investigation, the agency concluded in 2021 there was no recycling going on, nor was any likely to happen. It declared the company to be running an unpermitted dump.
A dump. Leftists skirting regulations, contaminating the environment and polluting the landscape, all the make a buck. Classic.
Walter Bagehot, although not consistently reliable mind given his asinine issues with the U.S. constitution (he denigrated the document as"inflexible" … which was the point), did however accurately articulate what the residents of Sweetwater now experience; he once said, "You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor."
Green aristocrats live and die by exploitation, and nowhere is that more obvious than their approach to policy and civic life; they don't even have to have political control, their presence in a community alone brings tyranny!
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Form the archives
Thanks to Carl I think. Maybe some information is better left unsaid
http://www.anh-usa.org/what-if-beer-companies-told-the-truth/
August 27, 2013
What if Beer Companies Told the Truth? Would some of their labels say, "Brewed with pure Rocky Mountain spring water, GMO corn syrup, and fish bladder"?
If you like to kick back now and then with a cold one, you may not have given much thought to what's in the bottle or can. Perhaps you were reassured by ads with wholesome images of sparkling mountain streams and barley rippling in the breeze, or by slogans like "Budweiser: The Genuine Article."
The reality is far less appetizing. The list of legal additives to beer includes:
MSG
Propylene glycol (it helps stabilize a beer's head of foam, though in high quantities it can cause health problems)
High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
Calcium disodium EDTA
Caramel coloring
FD&C blue 1, red 40, and yellow 5
Insect-based dyes
Glyceryl monostearate
Isinglass (see below)
You're unlikely to see any of these industrial-sounding ingredients on a label, because listing ingredients in beer is voluntary. And when ingredients are listed, it may be a partial list—which is even more deceptive than having no list at all.
Several beers, for example, contain HFCS, most of which is genetically modified (GMO), and isinglass, a clarifying agent made from the swim bladder of fish. But check most beer websites and they'll tell you their "key ingredients" are "roasted, malted barley, hops, yeast, and water." Perhaps the HFCS and isinglass were not "key" enough to merit inclusion on this list?
Some brands with less-than-wholesome ingredients:
Newcastle uses artificial caramel color to simulate the golden brown color that is supposed to come from toasted barley. "Caramel color" sounds innocuous, right? But it's manufactured by heating ammonia and sulfites under high pressure, which may create carcinogenic compounds.
Miller Light, Coors, Corona, Fosters, Pabst, and Red Stripe use corn syrup, and Molson-Coors acknowledged that some of their corn is GMO.
Budweiser, Bud Light, Bush Light, and Michelob Ultra use dextrose (made from corn).
Anheuser-Bush uses corn.
The labeling regulations are confusing and capricious. Food is regulated by the FDA, and requires a Nutrition Facts panel, but alcohol is regulated by the US Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). Unless it's beer made with something other than malted barley, and then it's regulated by the FDA and must carry a Nutrition Facts panel. States also have their own regulations, which can supersede those of TTB, but not of the FDA.
Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University, explained on her blog why we still don't know the ingredients in alcoholic beverages. In short, TTB has been procrastinating since 2007 on completing their rules for labeling of alcoholic beverages.
People with allergies to genetically modified corn are taking a chance when drinking beer, as there is no requirement that GMO ingredients be identified on the label. We told you early this year about the dangers of GMOs, and in 2011 about the dangers of sugar, especially fructose. So genetically modified fructose carries a one–two punch, and may be one of the more toxic foods that can be hiding in your food or drink—with nothing about it on the label.
Unfortunately for those with a sweet tooth, eschewing HFCS for plain old cane sugar may not be that much of an improvement. A recent study of mice fed a mixture of fructose and glucose showed that even moderate amounts of sugar shorten life span (females fed sugar died twice as fast) and hamper reproduction (males were less likely to hold territory and sired fewer offspring).
While it certainly has its health benefits, and studies suggest that people who drink a little live a bit longer, alcohol—even without unsavory additives—has more negatives than plusses. It introduces what is treated as a poison by your body and stresses the entire gastrointestinal system, from mouth to colon, making cancer possibly more likely, especially in the esophagus. It may increase the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, and cirrhosis of the liver.
Not ready to give up the occasional brewski? According to the Food Babe, Sierra Nevada, Heineken, and Amstel Light are good choices, as they use only non-GMO grains and no artificial ingredients, stabilizers, or preservatives. German beers are subject to the "Reinheitsgebot" law mandating that beer be produced using only water, hops, yeast, malted barley, or wheat—you won't have to guess what's in them.
An obvious choice is certified organic beer, which cannot include GMOs and other harmful additives by law. And then there are the microbreweries. Many craft beer companies will give you a complete list of ingredients if you ask. Be warned, however: large beer companies are buying up microbreweries one by one, as Molson-Coors did with Blue Moon and Anheuser-Busch did with Goose Island Brewery.
The healthiest of all alcoholic beverages is not beer at all, but red wine. It naturally contains resveratrol, which appears to have anti-aging, cancer-preventing, cardio-protective, neuro-protective, and anti-diabetic effects. It's also an anti-inflammatory and an antiviral to boot. As we noted in a recent article, red wine can also help clear bad bugs from your stomach. Cheers!
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This Day in U S Military History
August 29
1778 – The Battle of Rhode Island, also known as the Battle of Quaker Hill and the Siege of Newport, took place. Continental Army and militia forces under the command of General John Sullivan were withdrawing to the northern part of Aquidneck Island after abandoning their siege of Newport, Rhode Island, when the British forces in Newport sortied, supported by recently arrived Royal Navy ships, and attacked the retreating Americans. The battle ended inconclusively, but the Continental forces afterward withdrew to the mainland, leaving Aquidneck Island in British hands. The battle took place in the aftermath of the first attempt at cooperation between French and American forces following France's entry into the war as an American ally. The operations against Newport were to have been made in conjunction with a French fleet and troops; these were frustrated in part by difficult relations between the commanders, and a storm that damaged both French and British fleets shortly before joint operations were to begin. The battle was also notable for the participation of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, a locally recruited segregated regiment of African Americans. It was the only major military action to include a racially segregated unit on the American side in the war.
1949 – The USSR successfully detonated its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. It was a copy of the Fat Man bomb and had a yield of 21 kilotons known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
1952 – In the largest bombing raid of the Korean War, 1,403 planes of the Far East Air Force bombed Pyongyang, North Korea.
1958 – Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colo.
1962 – A US U-2 flight saw SAM launch pads in Cuba.
1965 – Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after eight days in space.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
JONES, CLAUD ASHTON
Rank and organization: Commander, U.S. Navy. Born: 7 October 1885, Fire Creek, W.Va. Accredited to: West Virginia. (1 August 1932.) Citation: For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession as a senior engineer officer on board the U.S.S. Memphis, at a time when the vessel was suffering total destruction from a hurricane while anchored off Santo Domingo City, 29 August 1916. Lt. Jones did everything possible to get the engines and boilers ready, and if the elements that burst upon the vessel had delayed for a few minutes, the engines would have saved the vessel. With boilers and steam pipes bursting about him in clouds of scalding steam, with thousands of tons of water coming down upon him and in almost complete darkness, Lt. Jones nobly remained at his post as long as the engines would turn over, exhibiting the most supreme unselfish heroism which inspired the officers and men who were with him. When the boilers exploded, Lt. Jones, accompanied by 2 of his shipmates, rushed into the fire rooms and drove the men there out, dragging some, carrying others to the engine room, where there was air to be breathed instead of steam. Lt. Jones' action on this occasion was above and beyond the call of duty.
*McVElGH, JOHN J.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U .S. Army, Company H, 23d Infantry, 2d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Brest, France, 29 August 1944. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth: Philadelphia, Pa. G.O. No.: 24, 6 April 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty near Brest, France, on 29 August 1944. Shortly after dusk an enemy counterattack of platoon strength was launched against 1 platoon of Company G, 23d Infantry. Since the Company G platoon was not dug in and had just begun to assume defensive positions along a hedge, part of the line sagged momentarily under heavy fire from small arms and 2 flak guns, leaving a section of heavy machineguns holding a wide frontage without rifle protection. The enemy drive moved so swiftly that German riflemen were soon almost on top of 1 machinegun position. Sgt. McVeigh, heedless of a tremendous amount of small arms and flak fire directed toward him, stood up in full view of the enemy and directed the fire of his squad on the attacking Germans until his position was almost overrun. He then drew his trench knife. and single-handed charged several of the enemy. In a savage hand-to-hand struggle, Sgt. McVeigh killed 1 German with the knife, his only weapon, and was advancing on 3 more of the enemy when he was shot down and killed with small arms fire at pointblank range. Sgt. McVeigh's heroic act allowed the 2 remaining men in his squad to concentrate their machinegun fire on the attacking enemy and then turn their weapons on the 3 Germans in the road, killing all 3. Fire from this machinegun and the other gun of the section was almost entirely responsible for stopping this enemy assault, and allowed the rifle platoon to which it was attached time to reorganize, assume positions on and hold the high ground gained during the day.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for August 29, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
29 August
1916: Congress voted a $3.5 million budget to buy naval aircraft and equipment. This act created a permanent Navy Flying Corps with 150 officers and 350 enlisted men for the Navy and Marine Corps. The Navy then ordered 60 planes, including 30 Curtiss floatplanes. (10)
1938: Maj Alexander de Seversky set an east-to-west transcontinental speed record of 10 hours 2 minutes 55.7 seconds in a 2,457-mile flight. (9) (24)
1952: The SM-62 Snark completed its first test at the Air Force Missile Test Center, Cape Canaveral. (12) KOREAN WAR/SORTIE RECORD. Far East Air Forces fighter-bombers set a new 24-hour record by sending 854 Fifth Air Force sorties against Pyongyang, N. Korea. At the request of the U.S. State Department, Far East Air Forces conducted the largest air attack to date as a show of force during a visit by China's premier, Chou En-lai, to the Soviet Union. The State Department hoped the attack would lead the Soviets to pressure the Chinese into accepting an armistice rather than expend further communist resources in the war. Far East Air Forces aircraft, protected by USAF F-86 Sabres and RAAF Meteors, flew nearly 1,400 air-to-ground sorties. This closely coordinated attack destroyed 56 buildings and damaged 33 others. (17) (28)
1954: Flying a Sikorsky XH-39, Army Warrant Officer Billy I. Webster set a helicopter speed record of 156.005 MPH over a 3-kilometer course at Windsor Locks, Conn. (24)
1968: President Johnson signed Executive Order 11424 to give flight pay and incentive pay for hazardous duty to military personnel flying spacecraft.
1969: TAC received its first production-model A-7D attack aircraft. A C-5A Galaxy completed its first inflight refueling successfully. (3) PEACE SPECTATOR PROGRAM. The USAF delivered the first six F-4D Phantoms to the South Korean Air Force at Taegu AB. (17)
1970: The Army's Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system completed its first full-scale test, when a Spartan area defense interceptor missile launched from Kwajalein Atoll intercepted a Minuteman I reentry vehicle launched from Vandenberg AFB. (6) The Douglas DC-10 tri-jet, ended its first flight at Edwards AFB, where it underwent FAA certification tests. (3)
1984: Rockwell International's chief test pilot, T. D. Benefield died when B-1A number two crashed near Boron, Calif. (12) The last OV-10 Broncos left USAFE's Sembach AB, Germany, after a decade of operations in Europe for George AFB. (16) (26)
1990: The combined Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics team unveiled its YF-22A Advanced Tactical Fighter in ceremonies at Lockheed Plant 10 in Palmdale. (20)
1998: The Global Hawk UAV reached 61,000 feet on an 8-hour mission over Edwards AFB and China Lake. The flight doubled the number of hours flown in its previous three tests and reached 10,000 feet higher. (3)
2003: At Edwards AFB, F/A-22 Raptors flew a four-ship formation, a first for the new fighter, to test the Intra-Flight Data Link. The new link allowed pilots to share flight data with other aircrews automatically without using radios. Three other F/A-22s were also in the air at the same time for their initial operational testing and evaluations, the first time seven Raptors were airborne simultaneously. (3)
2005: HURRICANE KATRINA. With 145 mph winds and torrential rains, Katrina came ashore near Buras, La., and then crossed the coast of Mississippi and Alabama to devastate low-lying coastal areas and obliterate the south's transportation, communication, and electricity networks. On 30 August, the protective levees around New Orleans gave way, allowing water from Lake Pontchartrain to flood the city and trap residents by the tens of thousands. From 30 August through the last mission on 10 October, AMC and its AFRC- and ANG-gained units flew 38 C-5, 69 C-17, 63 C-130, 5 C-141, 2 C-9, and 28 commercial relief missions in the region to move 5,191 short tons of cargo, 13,717 passengers, and 1,794 patients. Additionally, to help maintain law and order in New Orleans, AMC carried 82d Airborne Division troops at Fort Bragg, N. C., from nearby Pope AFB. Two C-130 flights and 13 commercial missions returned Fort Bragg's soldiers to Pope on 30 September and 1 October. (22) The AFFTC flew two sorties from Keesler AFB to test the WC-130J's modified propeller under severe weather conditions. Testers flew repeatedly into Hurricane Katrina as it approached New Orleans. Katrina virtually destroyed Keesler AFB shortly afterwards. (3)
2006: The 11th Intelligence Squadron's activation at Hurlburt Field, Fla., gave the Air Force Special Operations Command its first intelligence squadron. The squadron received the mission to process, exploit and disseminate to commanders information on terrorists and their operations gathered by the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles and other airborne intelligence and surveillance sources. The 3rd Special Operations Squadron at Creech AFB, Nev., operated the medium-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted Predator. (AFNEWS, "New Intel Squadron Turns an Aerial Eye on Terrorists," 29 Aug 2006)
2007: 100th F-22 Delivered. Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne accepted this milestone aircraft (Tail No. 05-0100) for the 90th Fighter Squadron at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, in a brief ceremony. (AFNEWS, "100th F-22 Delivered," 4 Sep 2007.)
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