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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History Thanks to NHHC
September 3
1782 The man-of-war ship America is given to France to replace the French ship, Magnifique, which ran aground and was destroyed Aug. 11 while attempting to enter Boston harbor. The ship symbolizes the appreciation for France's service to America and her sacrifices during the American Revolution.
1783 The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the American Revolution. The United States is acknowledged as a sovereign and independent nation.
1925 The rigid airship, USS Shenandoah (ZR 1), crashes near Byesville, Ohio. There were fourteen casualties including the Commanding Officer, Lt. Zachary Lansdowne. Twenty-nine crew members survive.
1944 A PB4Y-1 Liberator plane launches to attack German submarine pens on Helgoland Island. The pilot, Lt. Ralph Spading, sets the radio controls and parachutes out of the Liberator, which is then controlled as a drone by Ensign J.M. Simpson in a PV-1.
1945 The surrender of the Bonin Islands takes place on board USS Dunlap (DD 384) off Chichi Jima. Lt. Gen. Yoshio Tachibana, the local commander, signs the surrender documents. He is later convicted and executed for a particularly gruesome series of war crimes perpetuated against U.S. aviators who had been captured in the area during 1944-45.
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Today in World History September 3
September 3
1189 After the death of Henry II, Richard Lionheart is crowned king of England.
1260 Mamelukes under Sultan Qutuz defeat Mongols and Crusaders at Ain Jalut.
1346 Edward III of England begins the siege of Calais, along the coast of France.
1650 The English under Cromwell defeat a superior Scottish army under David Leslie at the Battle of Dunbar.
1777 The American flag (stars & stripes), approved by Congress on June 14th, is carried into battle for the first time by a force under General William Maxwell.
1783 The Treaty of Paris is signed by Great Britain and the new United States, formally bringing the American Revolution to an end.
1838 Frederick Douglass escapes slavery disguised as a sailor. He would later write The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, his memoirs about slave life.
1855 General William Harney defeats Little Thunder's Brule Sioux at the Battle of Blue Water in Nebraska.
1895 The first professional American football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania between the Latrobe Young Men's Christian Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe wins 12-0.
1914 The French capital is moved from Paris to Bordeaux as the Battle of the Marne begins.
1916 The German Somme front is broken by an Allied offensive.
1918 The United States recognizes the nation of Czechoslovakia.
1939 After Germany ignores Great Britain's ultimatum to stop the invasion of Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe.
1939 The British passenger ship Athenia is sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic, with 30 Americans among those killed. American Secretary of State Cordell Hull warns Americans to avoid travel to Europe unless absolutely necessary.
1943 British troops invade Italy, landing at Calabria.
1944 The U.S. Seventh Army captures Lyons, France.
1945 General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese commander of the Philippines, surrenders to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Baguio.
1967 Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam.
1969 Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam, dies.
1976 The unmanned US spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars, takes first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
1981 Egypt arrests some 1,500 opponents of the government.
1989 US begins shipping military aircraft and weapons to Columbia for use against that country's drug lords.
1994 Russia and China sign a demarcation agreement to end dispute over a stretch of their border and agree they will no longer target each other with nuclear weapons.
2001 Protestant loyalists in Belfast, Ireland, begin an 11-week picket of the Holy Cross Catholic school for girls, sparking rioting.
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A NYT OpEd provides a definitive snapshot of America in September 1968…
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From Vietnam Air Losses site for Saturday, Sep[tember 2
September 3rd: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1928
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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7 Interesting Facts About Ancient Pyramids
Few monuments capture the public imagination quite like pyramids. These feats of engineering teach us about cultures that lived long before us — not just their art and innovations, but their everyday lives.
Just how old is the earliest pyramid? How did Egyptians start building their iconic smooth-sided pyramids? What are we still discovering within them? From the towering Great Pyramids of Giza to the complex stepped pyramids of Mesoamerica, these seven facts reveal just how mind-blowing pyramids really are.
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Egyptian Pyramids Were Rarely Just Pyramids
View of an Egyptian room inside an Egyptian temple.Credit: Quintanilla/ Shutterstock
In Egypt, these triumphs of architecture — reserved for royal tombs — were the main buildings of larger complexes. Typically, the complex also included an attached mortuary temple with shrines, an open courtyard, and chapels, staffed in perpetuity, with an offering table.
Ancient Egyptians also buried pits full of boats around these monuments to help ensure smooth sailing into the afterlife. One of the more impressive boats was uncovered in 1954 next to the Great Pyramid of Khufu — sometimes referred to as just the Great Pyramid. The 144-foot-long, 4,600-year-old ship was buried in more than 1,200 pieces stashed underneath stone blocks.
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The Great Pyramids of Giza Created Whole Cities Around Them
Morning light on pyramids in Egypt.Credit: sculpies/ iStock
Building pyramids as large as the Great Pyramids of Giza was a major undertaking, and required a lot of labor — especially the Great Pyramid of Khufu which, at 481 feet high, was the tallest building in the world for thousands of years. (The date of its construction is debated, but may have begun around 2550 BCE.)
Archaeologists have uncovered two "towns" around the Great Pyramids that not only housed pyramid-builders, but bakers, carpenters, weavers, stoneworkers, and others that supported day-to-day life. Some lived in family dwellings with their own courtyards and kitchens, while others, likely itinerant workers, slept in something more like a barracks. There is so much we don't know about these areas, but one thing's for sure: Based on animal bones and pottery found around the site, everyone there was very well-fed… and had plenty of beer to drink.
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The First Known Pyramid Is 4,700 Years Old
Step Pyramid of Zoser in Saqqara, Egypt.Credit: Moonstone Images/ iStock
Djoser's Step Pyramid, built sometime between 2667 and 2648 BCE, is considered the oldest pyramid, although it doesn't have the smooth sides we associate with Egyptian pyramids today. Previously, pharaohs had been buried underneath mastabas — structures that look like single plateaus. The Step Pyramid stacked multiple mastabas on top of one another, creating the tapered effect. It's located Saqqara, a necropolis about 15 miles south of Cairo.
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Pyramids in Egypt Used to be Bright and Shiny
Famous Egyptian Pyramids of Giza.Credit: romeovip_md/ Shutterstock
We picture pyramids now as immense buildings of sandy-colored stone, but when they were originally constructed, they were adorned in polished limestone. These casing stones needed to be individually cut to a specific angle and sanded until they shone. Many of these outer layers were knocked loose by an earthquake or dismantled for building other things.
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Sudan Has More Than 200 Pyramids
Meroe pyramids in Sudan.Credit: Galyna Andrushko/ Shutterstock
Egypt has around 140 pyramids that we know about, but to the south, present-day Sudan has more than 200 of them.
Until the mid-20th century, many archaeologists viewed these sites as extensions of Egypt, rather than part of a unique cultural heritage. But Sudan's pyramids, most of them located in Meroe, are much smaller and steeper, surrounded by their own collections of chapels and monuments, and are unique to Nubian culture.
For what it's worth, Egyptian-style pyramids are all over the place, including Italy and Greece. Pyramids more broadly, however, take many different forms.
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The Americas Contain More Pyramids Than the Rest of the World Combined — Including the Biggest One of All
Ruins of the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico.Credit: Leonid Andronov/ Shutterstock
In ancient Mesoamerica, a region spanning from much of modern-day Mexico through most of Central America, peoples such as the Inca, Aztec, Maya, and Olmec had their own style of pyramid dating back to about 1000 BCE — and they built a lot of them. Unlike Egypt, they weren't used exclusively for tombs.
The most well-known Mesoamerican pyramids are the ones in Teotihuacan, an Aztec city near present-day Mexico City. The Pyramid of the Sun, the largest of the structures, and nearby Pyramid of the Moon were both constructed by putting rubble inside a set of retaining walls, building adobe brick around it, then casing in limestone. The Pyramid of the Sun hides an extra secret: another pyramid, accessible through a cave underneath. These pyramids were built between 1 and 200 CE, although the pyramid inside the cave is even older.
The Great Pyramid in La Venta, an ancient Olmec civilization by present-day Tabasco, Mexico, is much different: It's essentially a mountain made of clay. Later Olmec pyramids were also earth mounds, only faced with stone in a stepped structure.
The largest pyramid on the planet by volume, not height, is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, or Tlachihualtepetl, in Mexico. It dates back to around 200 BCE, and is essentially six pyramids on top of one another. Later civilizations expanded on previous construction, taking care to preserve the original work. It's made of adobe bricks and, whether accidentally or through a deliberate effort from the locals, eventually became covered in foliage and was later abandoned. When Spanish invaders, led by Hernan Cortez, came through, murdered 3,000 people, and destroyed more visible structures, they thought Tlachihualtepetl was part of the natural topography and let it be.
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We're Still Finding New Stuff Inside Pyramids
Two rows of Egyptian Hieroglyphics.Credit: ajiravan/ iStock
The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the tallest of the Great Pyramids, has been the topic of rigorous study for more than a thousand years — but we're still finding out what's inside, including whole new chambers. The Scan Pyramids project, a collaboration between Egyptian, French, and Japanese research institutions that started in 2015, uses updated cosmic ray technology for a noninvasive peek inside.
So far, they've found two previously unidentified areas: a corridor on the north face of the pyramid and a "big void" above the Grand Gallery. The void is at least 100 feet long and has a similar cross-section as the Grand Gallery, which connects various areas of the pyramid, including the burial chamber.
A team of American researchers hopes to use even more advanced technology to try to get a full three-dimensional image of the big void. Whether it's a structural element or a whole new chamber, it could provide a wealth of information on how the pyramids were built.
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Stratfor - The Weekly Rundown: The Africa Climate Summit, the G-20 Summit in New Delhi
RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL SHAPE THE COMING WEEK
KEY DEVELOPMENTS WE'RE TRACKING
The Africa Climate Summit. Thousands of African delegates are expected to attend the 2023 climate summit in the Kenyan capital to discuss financing mechanisms, relief measures for environmental disasters, and regional coordination on issues like food insecurity and drought. African leaders will also likely seek to align their priorities ahead of the September U.N. Climate Ambition Summit in New York and the November COP28 summit in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, in a bid to break from disappointments at previous global conferences — which have produced disappointing results for African countries hoping to obtain external financing for their green transitions. While some new financing commitments may emerge from the global conferences, underinvestment will remain a constraint on Africa's energy transition in the years to come.
Russia and Turkey try to forge a new grain deal. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sept. 4 will meet in the Russian city of Sochi to discuss a possible resumption of Black Sea grain exports. Turkey wants to find a way to bring down sky-high food prices, and to take diplomatic credit for doing so. Russia meanwhile hopes to use the talks to find a way to boost Russia's agricultural trade without offering concessions to Ukraine. If the talks succeed, many countries will hail Russo-Turkish cooperation. But if they fail, Turkey may seek other ways to bring down food prices, such as by encouraging grain ships to test the Russian naval blockade.
The G-20 Summit in New Delhi. India will host the multilateral forum Sept. 9-10 in what is likely to be a summit defined by global divisions between the West on the one hand and China and Russia on the other. Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the summit, and reports suggest Chinese President Xi Jinping will also skip. Beyond discussing climate change, debt and sustainable energy, the G-20 summit will serve as an opportunity to exhibit India's emerging economy, investment opportunities and tourism sector. Of the many side meetings likely to occur, perhaps the most important is a potential face-to-face between U.S. President Joe Biden and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as the United States seeks to bring about Israeli-Saudi normalization.
ASEAN holds its biannual summit. Indonesia will host the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit from Sept. 7-8, the second summit of 2023. While the summit will likely fail to make progress on alleviating civil conflict in Myanmar and territorial disputes in the South China Sea, ASEAN will likely coordinate on food and energy security, still a concern a year and a half following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. ASEAN is also looking to bolster its cross-border transaction mechanisms such that ASEAN members can conduct cross-border transactions in local currencies as opposed to the dollar or other foreign currencies.
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What Russia and North Korea Stand to Gain From an Arms Deal
North Korea's potential provision of weapons to Russia's war effort in Ukraine could bolster Moscow's long-term arms procurement and provide Pyongyang with key imports and a chance to balance ties with Russia against China. On Aug. 30, U.S. National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby announced the United States had intelligence that North Korea and Russia were in high-level discussions for the former to sell weapons to the latter for its war in Ukraine. Kirby added that these negotiations may continue for months and could include North Korea providing Russia with multiple types of artillery ammunition and raw materials. This comes after North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jung-Un in mid-August urged his top officials to expand the country's weapons production capacity after touring munitions factories. In Ukraine, the Russian army is in need of greater supplies of artillery (of all kinds) to credibly threaten future offensives and mobilization measures.
Germany's Push to Plug Its Labor Shortages With Foreigners Risks Backfiring
The German government's proposed overhaul of citizenship rules is part of a broader push to attract and assimilate more foreign workers as a way to plug Germany's labor and skills shortages, which are set to only grow in the coming years due to the country's aging population. But Berlin's efforts risk backfiring by accelerating the rise of far-right, xenophobic parties. On Aug. 23, the German government approved a draft law reforming the country's citizenship rules that aims to facilitate the naturalization of foreigners and their assimilation into the country. The bill will now face a vote in the German Bundestag, which could take place shortly after lawmakers return from summer recess on Sept. 5. If approved by the parliament, the reform will reduce the residence requirements for citizenship from eight to five years for everyone, and to only three years for people who have very advanced German language skills, exceptional academic or professional careers, and/or are involved in volunteer/social work. Other proposed measures include allowing the holding of multiple passports, simpler language requirements for foreign-born residents over 67 years old, and swifter routes to citizenship for migrants' children. On the other hand, people who are dependent on state support or who were convicted of hate crimes will not be eligible to apply for citizenship.
What Sets Gabon's Coup Apart From Africa's Other Recent Coups
The fallout from Gabon's coup will likely be relatively limited as the military will probably sustain oil and gas exports, even as the pledged transition period will not necessarily lead to democratic processes and risks incentivizing more coups across central Africa. On Aug. 30, a group of military officers calling themselves the Committee of Transition and Restoration of Institutions announced that they had seized power and deposed President Ali Bongo, just hours after he was declared the winner of Gabon's Aug. 26 presidential election. The officers said that they represented all of Gabon's security and defense forces, and that they acted in response to Gabon's ''severe institutional, political, economic and social crisis.'' Coup leaders also announced the dissolution of the government, the Senate, the National Assembly and the Constitutional Court, as well as the closure of the country's borders ''until further notice.'' Bongo is reportedly being kept under house arrest with his family, although one of his sons has apparently been arrested for ''high treason.'' Gunfire erupted briefly in the capital of Libreville after the officers announced the coup, but no major security incidents arose before hundreds of people then turned out to celebrate the announcement. Later on Aug. 30, soldiers on national television named General Brice Oligui Nguema as the transition's leader.
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From 2 years ago today so that we do not forget.
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Gentlemen… Shoshana Bryen is in a class with V.D. Hanson as a historian and commentator on national security… this column is a keeper… and I love her conclusion that …"…there is nothing the civilians or military higher-ups can say that will make Americans believe they knew what they were doing. Resignations are in order."… read and weep for our country… and the world… Bear PS… I count more than 170 aircraft and helicopters now in the Taliban Ai Force…
First, remember our troops, living and dead, who served the United States in Afghanistan since 2001. They are owed our gratitude for their steadfast presence in a difficult country and our help as they and their families, and the families of the dead, navigate the emotionally terrible terrain of a defeat inflicted not by the enemy, but by our government's failure to plan properly for the end of their mission. If it was time for the U.S. to leave, then so be it. But there is nothing the civilians or the military higher-ups can say that will make Americans believe they knew what they were doing. Resignations are in order.
Spare a moment, too, for the 182,071 soldiers in the Afghan Army and Air Force and the 118,628 members of the police and paramilitary security forces serving as of July 2021. Yes, the Afghan force collapsed — but only after the U.S. withdrew its air power and intelligence capabilities, both of which the Afghans had relied upon under our tutelage.
Second, retire the word "privilege" as used in the U.S. to denigrate those perceived to have some inborn, unearned advantage. Whatever your color, race, or sex; whether you are the sixth great-grandchild of slave or fifth great-grandchild of Chinese railroad slaves or the second-generation Vietnamese refugees or the remnants of the Holocaust — if you live in the United States today, you are privileged. You have the advantages of freedom, liberty, and a Constitution. You have access to education, food, medicine, and bathrooms. If you doubt your privilege, watch CNN.
Third, consider the extraordinary arsenal supplied by the United States to our ostensible enemy, the Taliban. Conveniently scattered in U.S. bases around the country, in Kunduz, Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Lashkar Gah, Kandahar, Gardez, and Kabul, the U.S. Government Accountability (?!) Office (USGAO) and the special inspector general for Afghan reconstruction (SIGAR) report the following hardware losses:
22,174 Humvees
637 MIII7 vehicles
155 MXX Pro mine-proof vehicles
169 armored personnel carriers
8,000 trucks
42,000 pickup trucks & SUVs
64,363 machine guns162,043 radios
16,035 night vision goggles
358,530 assault rifles
126,295 pistols
176 artillery pieces
33 MI17 helicopters
33 UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters
43 MD-530 helicopters
4 C-130 transport planes
23 Embraer EMB 314/A29 Super Tucano planes
28 Cessna 208s
10 Cessna AC-208 strike aircraft
That leads to a fourth thing. The American withdrawal from Afghanistan was ill-timed, was poorly planned and executed, and will have repercussions with America's allies and adversaries. The British Parliament, according to The Daily Telegraph, "holds the president in contempt." Indeed, it did, voting unanimously to condemn both President Joe Biden and British P.M. Boris Johnson for their failures.
This, then, is an opportunity to remind our British friends — and ourselves — that a disastrous military defeat is not necessarily permanent or even precedent-setting.
In 1915, British forces attempted to take the Gallipoli Peninsula from the Turks and the Germans in World War I. "Gallipoli" in England, even today, is a metaphor for disaster. Defeat is defeat is defeat, and Gallipoli ranks as one of the great ones. The British pulled out in November 1915 — successfully, actually, surprising their enemies with their sudden disappearance. But they left behind enough kit to stupefy even Gen. Otto Viktor Karl Liman von Sanders, the German commander, who wrote in his memoir, Five Years in Turkey:
The booty at the south group was extraordinary. Wagon parks, automobile parts, mountains of arms, ammunition and entrenching tools were collected ... most of the tent camps and barracks had been left standing in part with all their equipment. Many hundreds of horses lay in rows, shot, or poisoned, but quite a number of horses and mules were captured and turned over to the Turkish artillery ... the immense booty of war material was used for the Turkish armies. Many shiploads of conserved, flour and wood were removed to Constantinople. What the ragged and insufficiently nourished Turkish soldiers took away, cannot be estimated.
Sound familiar? This is not (only) to dump on the British — among the best of our allies, mistreated by the Biden administration that failed to coordinate with any of the Europeans who have been with us in Afghanistan from the beginning. It is to say that the allies went up from there and won WWI — with our help. Leading to Dunkirk in 1940. Leading to the remarkable manifestation of British will — the evacuation of 338,226 British and French soldiers in part through the efforts of the flotilla of merchant marine, fishing and pleasure craft, lifeboats, and yachts that answered the call. (Google Digital Dunkirk for the 2021 analogy.) It was after Dunkirk that Winston Churchill said, "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations."
The war was won by the determination of allied leaders and their armies — including America's Greatest Generation — largely supplied by the American home front, full of Americans who knew how important victory was and who were determined to get there.
The open question is whether the United States and its allies have the determination to look the defeat in Kabul in the eye and start to plan for the next, essential battles.
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View the Latest Edition of "This Week @NASA" (published Sept. 1, 2023)
Folks –
This week….USING THE LONG WEEKEND…to be timely!
Crew 7 launched and safely made it to the ISS – 7 crews on reusable Falcon 9 rocket….reusable…NEVER accomplished (or attempted!) by NASA. Shuttle? Refurbishable – and an ENORMOUS job at that between flights. We showed the way – then stopped. Golly, what were we thinking? We SHOULD have gon on to the horizontal – horizontal ascent – descent mode and made space CHEAP! We got to vertical ascent / horizontal (shuttle flew back horizontally – gliding) descent…..but stopped. Oh, well….
Idalia from space – DANG that looks bad! We think we are going to "control climate change"….idiots, no, more like IDIOTS!! If we could control climate, we should fund stopping hurricanes, but alas, that would hike the proverbial skirt of the climate change liars….the LAST thing they want! The shear energy in a storm of that size DWARFS any thinkable thermonuclear warhead. Think about that….God designed this earth as an integrated system and some 'tards think they can show him up! I say – stick to learning about this beautiful planet, and accept wit humility humanity could NEVER design this place….it is worth appreciating and living according to that belief.
LRO- mapping the moon – enough said in the video…..water….precious!! the Sahara desert 50,000 years ago was a lush forest – what happened? CO2 and climate change? Hardly! The earth continues to evolve, change and age. But the point of the LRO data is finding water – the most important thing on the planet – because if you have to bring it the logistics are almost impossible. We develop as a fetus in it, we drink it, we are 72% water, and when we are in it we feel calmness. Oh BTW the water to rocket fuel, it goes like this:
IN GREEN:
Astronauts breath, create the CO2, hydrolyze water into H2 and O2, and magic, rocket fuel, Ch4 or natural gas.
Lastly, as we devolve into senseless class and racial warfare at the hands of the dimwitcraps, it is good to remember there WAS a time of prejudice in the country but we have moved up and away from it. NASA lead that effort in the government circle, and proud to say that having worked with numerous astronauts, NONE of this senselessness EVER got into our work. I feel humbled and honored to have been a part of that and thank God and those who helped me see this dream come to fruition.
OUTSIDE READING:
Artemis:
NO SPACE SUIT??? Not for long!:
Are they OUT THERE???:
Enjoy!
Tom
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The Untold Story of the Blue Angels Visit to Moscow with John "Gucci" Foley | NEW INTERVIEW - YouTube In what was once thought to be an impossibility, the Blue Angels made history in 1992 by becoming the first United States flight team to fly over the skies of Moscow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcNvX5SiABY
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B-52 Lands at Former Loring AFB Maine - August 11, 2022
I was at Loring when the B-36 was there and was there when the first B-52s showed up. A bit of my childhood remembered. Did the 6th and part f the 7th grade there. Two winters that provided me with enough snow to last a lifetime. I specifically remember seeing a B-52 going overhead with a giant parachute behind it. Had no idea why he had it out but it was low and loud and had its gear down and it was not a normal path for them to fly. We lost two of them that winter. I know because Three classmates left school because their fathers had been killed in the crashes.
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This Day in U S Military History
September 3
1777 – The American flag is flown in battle for the first time, during a Revolutionary War skirmish at Cooch's Bridge, Maryland. Patriot General William Maxwell ordered the stars and strips banner raised as a detachment of his infantry and cavalry met an advance guard of British and Hessian troops. The rebels were defeated and forced to retreat to General George Washington's main force near Brandywine Creek in Pennsylvania. Three months before, on June 14, the Continental Congress adopted a resolution stating that "the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white" and that "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." The national flag, which became known as the "Stars and Stripes," was based on the "Grand Union" flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend. With the entrance of new states into the United States after independence, new stripes and stars were added to represent new additions to the Union. In 1818, however, Congress enacted a law stipulating that the 13 original stripes be restored and that only stars be added to represent new states. On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all public buildings across the country. In the years after the first Flag Day, several states continued to observe the anniversary, and in 1949 Congress officially designated June 14 as Flag Day, a national day of observance.
1782 – As a token of gratitude for French aid during American Revolution, the U.S. gives America (first ship-of-the-line built by U.S.) to France to replace a French ship lost in Boston.
1783 – The Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War. The Treaty of 1783, which formally ended the American Revolution, is also known as the Definitive Treaty of Peace, the Peace of Paris and the Treaty of Versailles. Under the treaty, Great Britain recognized the independence of the United States. The treaty bears the signatures of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay.
1864 – President Lincoln ordered a 100-gun salute at the Washington Navy Yard at noon on Monday, the 5th of September, and upon receipt of the order, at each arsenal and navy yard in the United States "for the recent brilliant achievements of the fleet and land forces of the United States in the harbor of Mobile and in the reduction of Fort Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan. The President also proclaimed that on the following Sunday thanksgiving should be given for Rear Admiral Farragut's victory at Mobile and for the capture of Atlanta by General Sherman. These events, said Lincoln, "call for devout acknowledgment to the Supreme Being in whose hands are the destinies of nations
1939 – In response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany. The first casualty of that declaration was not German-but the British ocean liner Athenia, which was sunk by a German U-30 submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and belligerent. There were more than 1,100 passengers on board, 112 of whom lost their lives. Of those, 28 were Americans, but President Roosevelt was unfazed by the tragedy, declaring that no one was to "thoughtlessly or falsely talk of America sending its armies to European fields." The United States would remain neutral. As for Britain's response, it was initially no more than the dropping of anti-Nazi propaganda leaflets-13 tons of them-over Germany. They would begin bombing German ships on September 4, suffering significant losses. They were also working under orders not to harm German civilians. The German military, of course, had no such restrictions. France would begin an offensive against Germany's western border two weeks later. Their effort was weakened by a narrow 90-mile window leading to the German front, enclosed by the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium-both neutral countries. The Germans mined the passage, stalling the French offensive.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*OUELLETTE, JOSEPH R.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company H, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Yongsan, Korea, from 31 August to 3 September 1950. Entered service at: Lowell, Mass. Birth: Lowell, Mass. G.O. No.: 25, 25 April 1951. Citation: Pfc. Ouellette distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy in the Makioug-Chang River salient. When an enemy assault cut off and surrounded his unit he voluntarily made a reconnaissance of a nearby hill under intense enemy fire to locate friendly troop positions and obtain information of the enemy's strength and location. Finding that friendly troops were not on the hill, he worked his way back to his unit under heavy fire. Later, when an airdrop of water was made outside the perimeter, he again braved enemy fire in an attempt to retrieve water for his unit. Finding the dropped cans broken and devoid of water, he returned to his unit. His heroic attempt greatly increased his comrades' morale. When ammunition and grenades ran low, Pfc. Ouellette again slipped out of the perimeter to collect these from the enemy dead. After collecting grenades he was attacked by an enemy soldier. He killed this enemy in hand-to-hand combat, gathered up the ammunition, and returned to his unit. When the enemy attacked on 3 September, they assaulted his position with grenades. On 6 occasions Pfc. Ouellette leaped from his foxhole to escape exploding grenades. In doing so, he had to face enemy small-arms fire. He continued his resistance, despite a severe wound, until he lost his life. The extraordinary heroism and intrepidity displayed by Pfc. Ouellette reflect the highest credit on himself and are in keeping with the esteemed traditions of the military service.
*WATKINS, TRAVIS E.
Rank and organization: Master Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company H, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division Place and date: Near Yongsan, Korea, 31 August through 3 September 1950. Entered service at: Texas. Birth: Waldo, Ark. G.O. No.: 9, 16 February 1951. Citation: M/Sgt. Watkins distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy. When an overwhelming enemy force broke through and isolated 30 men of his unit, he took command, established a perimeter defense and directed action which repelled continuous, fanatical enemy assaults. With his group completely surrounded and cut off, he moved from foxhole to foxhole exposing himself to enemy fire, giving instructions and offering encouragement to his men. Later when the need for ammunition and grenades became critical he shot 2 enemy soldiers 50 yards outside the perimeter and went out alone for their ammunition and weapons. As he picked up their weapons he was attacked by 3 others and wounded. Returning their fire he killed all 3 and gathering up the weapons of the 5 enemy dead returned to his amazed comrades. During a later assault, 6 enemy soldiers gained a defiladed spot and began to throw grenades into the perimeter making it untenable. Realizing the desperate situation and disregarding his wound he rose from his foxhole to engage them with rifle fire. Although immediately hit by a burst from an enemy machine gun he continued to fire until he had killed the grenade throwers. With this threat eliminated he collapsed and despite being paralyzed from the waist down, encouraged his men to hold on. He refused all food, saving it for his comrades, and when it became apparent that help would not arrive in time to hold the position ordered his men to escape to friendly lines. Refusing evacuation as his hopeless condition would burden his comrades, he remained in his position and cheerfully wished them luck. Through his aggressive leadership and intrepid actions, this small force destroyed nearly 500 of the enemy before abandoning their position. M/Sgt. Watkins' sustained personal bravery and noble self-sacrifice reflect the highest glory upon himself and is in keeping with the esteemed traditions of the U.S. Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for September 3, 2022 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
3 September
1908: Orville Wright flew the Wright Flyer on its first test flight at Fort Myer, Va. (12)
1925: The Navy's dirigible, Shenandoah, collapsed in a storm over Ava, Ohio, killing 14 of 43 passengers, including Lt Cmdr Zachary Lansdowne, the commander. The event later led Brig Gen William "Billy" Mitchell to charge the War and Navy Departments with incompetency and an almost treasonable administration of the national defense. In response to that charge, President Calvin Coolidge ordered Mitchell's court-martial. (21) (24)
1932: Maj James H. Doolittle flew a Granville Gee Bee Monoplane with a Wasp engine at an average speed of 294 MPH to set a Federation Aeronautique Internationale record for 3 kilometers at Cleveland, Ohio. (9) (24)
1945: Maj G. E. Cain flew an Air Transportation Command C-54 Skymaster with movies of Japan's surrender on a record 31-hour, 25-minute flight from Tokyo to Washington. (9)
1947: A. Paul Mantz flew a North American P-51 from New York, N. Y., to Burbank, Calif., to set Federation Aeronautique Internationale records for distance and speed: 2,453.8 miles in 7 hours 4 seconds at 350.49 MPH. (9)
1950: KOREAN WAR. USN Task Force 77 withdrew its carriers from the Pusan area for replenishment and movement north to strike communications targets. That action left all close air support responsibility with Far East Air Forces. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Through 4 September, B-29s flew 52 effective sorties, the monthly high and all but two against the Chosin hydroelectric power plant complex. (28)
1954: Maj J. L. Armstrong flew an F-86 Sabre 649.46 MPH at Dayton, Ohio, to set a record over a 500-kilometer closed course. (24)
1963: National Air and Space Administration test pilot Milton O. Thompson landed the wingless M-2 "Flying Bathtub," a lifting reentry glider, after a C-47 dropped it from 13,000 feet.
1964: A two-stage, 7-foot monorail sled set a 4,200-MPH land speed record in a 16-second ride at the AF Missile Development Center.
1965: Test pilot Donald F. McCusker landed a Gemini-type craft after a 4-1/2 minute flight. In this first successful manned free flight of a paraglider, McCusker demonstrated an ability to guide a spacecraft to a preselected landing site. Brenda Bogan set a record of 9,770 feet at Anoka, Minn., for subclass AX-3 hot air balloons (400-600 cubic meters). (9)
1974: FORCE MODERNIZATION PROGRAM. The Strategic Air Command took its last Minuteman I off alert with the 90th Strategic Missile Wing at Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyo., for its conversion to the Minuteman III. (1) (16)
1976: The Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars. (8: Sep 90)
1980: The flight test program for the B-52 Offensive Avionics System (OAS) started at the Boeing facility in Wichita, Ks. (3)
1983: Operation RUBBER WALL. Through 25 September, the Military Airlift Command flew 85 C-141 Starlifter, 24 C-5 Galaxy, and 4 C-130 Hercules missions to move 4,000 tons of supplies from the US to support US Marines in Lebanon. (16)
1987: First flight of a production McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C.
1996: The 11th Reconnaissance Squadron at Nellis AFB, Nev., began operating the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle above Bosnia-Herzegovina. (21)
1999. Capt Julie Hudson of the 175th Wing (Maryland Air National Guard) qualified as the Guards's first fully combat ready female A-10 fighter pilot. (32)
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