To All,
Good Monday morning September 18, 2023
I hope that you all had a great weekend
Regards
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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History Thanks to NHHC
September. 18
1860 The sloop of war, USS Levant, sails from Hawaii for Panama. She is never seen again. In June 1861 a mast and a part of a lower yardarm believed to be from USS Levant are found near Hilo. Spikes had been driven into the mast as if to a form a raft. Some rumors had her running aground on an uncharted reef off California; others had her defecting to the Confederacy.
1906 A Marine battalion from USS Dixie lands at Cienfuegos, Cuba to reinforce a party guarding American owned plantations, where tensions are still high from the stalled revolution attempt from
1936 Squadron 40-T, based in the Mediterranean, is established to protect U.S. interests and evacuate U.S. citizens around the Iberian Peninsula throughout the Spanish Civil War.
1943 U.S. Navy aircraft perform aerial raids on the Tarawa Makin Islands, where the aerial photography taken proves to be fruitful for the oncoming invasion of the islands.
1947 Pursuant to provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 of the previous July 26, the Department of the Air Force is established.
1993 USS Gladiator (MCM 11) is commissioned at Naval Station Newport, R.I. The 11th Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship is the third U.S. ship named Gladiator.
1993 USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) is commissioned at her homeport of Naval Station Norfolk. The guided-missile cruiser is the 26th in the Ticonderoga-class and the second Navy ship to be named after the famed Battle of Vella Gulf from the Solomons campaign of World War II.
2004 USS Chung Hoon (DDG 93) is commissioned. USS Chung Hoon is named in honor of Rear Adm. Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon, first Asian-American Naval Academy graduate and first Asian-American flag officer. During World War II, he was in command of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) when a kamikaze crashed into her in Apr. 1945.
2008 USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7) is christened and launched at San Diego, Calif. The dry cargo ship provides ammunition, food, repair, parts, stores and small quantities of fuel for the U.S. Marine Corps. The ship is named for Master Chief Carl Brashear, the first African American Master Diver in the U.S. Navy and the first amputee to be recertified as a diver after amputation.
2017 Hurricane Maria makes landfall with the Caribbean island of Dominica. Joint Task Force-Leeward Islands (JTF-LI) was established to support relief efforts in St. Martin and Dominica as requested by the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA). JTF-LI with the USS Wasp (LHD 1) assisted with the evacuation of
2018 American Citizens (AMCITs) from St. Martin and at least 178 AMCITs from Dominica. Additionally, the JTF-LI provided 83,020 gallons of potable water to St. Martin and assisted with distributing relief supplies to Dominica.
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This day in Air Force History
Today, (September 18th 1947) America commemorates the anniversary of the Air Force. Born of the revolutionary ideas of visionaries, America's Air Force was forged in 20th century combat. The occasion allows us to reflect on where we have been in a century of powered flight and five decades of space flight.
America's airmen survey the planet from airborne, space-based and cyber sensors. These airmen can cover the globe, watching, deterring and defeating enemies with speed, precision and lethality. They are equally capable of delivering humanitarian and disaster relief within hours to anyone in the world.
For the 21st century, we are again revolutionizing our Air Force by incorporating the lessons learned in a century of aerial warfare and by modernizing our force.
The nation requires an interdependent team of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who can defeat a broad range of threats. Your Air Force will continue to be a vital and decisive element of that team – flying, fighting and winning.
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Today in World History September 18
1758 James Abercromby is replaced as supreme commander of British forces after his defeat by French commander the Marquis of Montcalm at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War.
1759 Quebec surrenders to the British after a battle which sees the deaths of both James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm, the British and French commanders.
1793 George Washington lays the foundation stone for the U.S. Capitol.
1830 Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in the United States, loses a nine-mile race in Maryland to a horse.
1850 Congress passes the second Fugitive Slave Bill into law (the first was enacted in 1793), requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
1862 After waiting all day for a Union attack which never came at Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins a retreat out of Maryland and back to Virginia.
1863 Union cavalry troops clash with a group of Confederates at Chickamauga Creek.
1874 The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American West.
1911 Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff.
1914 The Irish Home Rule Bill becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
1929 Charles Lindbergh takes off on a 10,000 mile air tour of South America.
1934 The League of Nations admits the Soviet Union.
1939 A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier Courageous, killing 500 people.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the Senate without completing another senator's term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. Smith is also the only woman to be elected to and serve in both houses of Congress.
1960 Two thousand cheer Fidel Castro's arrival in New York for the United Nations session.
1961 UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Congo.
1964 U.S. destroyers fire on hostile targets in Vietnam.
1973 East and West Germany and The Bahamas are admitted to United Nations.
1975 Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by violent radical group SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army); she will later take part in some of the group's militant activities and will be captured by FBI agents.
1977 Voyager I takes first photo of Earth and the Moon together.
1980 Cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo, a Cuban, becomes the first black to be sent on a mission in space.
1998 ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is formed to coordinate unique identifying addresses for Websites worldwide.
2009 The US television soap opera The Guiding Light broadcasts its final episode, ending a 72-year run that began on radio.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
From Vietnam Air Losses site for Friday, September 15
Skip… For The List for Monday, 18 September 2023… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 18 September 1968… LBJ always believed that Rolling Thunder was vital in saving the "lives of my boys."…
Thanks to Micro
From Vietnam Air Losses site for Monday, September 18
September 18th: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1355
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
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Servicemembers Killed in the Vietnam War
(This site was sent by a friend last week and I forgot to forward. The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature. https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )
Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
By: Kipp Hanley
AUGUST 15, 2022
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Note from skip
My tale yesterday of the young F-8 driver getting lost on his first solo was incorrect in that he ended up ejecting in the Gulf of California not the Salton Sea. When I reread it later I realized it then a few of you let me know.
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Thanks to Al…these are great troday
Monday Morning Humor--I Was Thinking
I was thinking…
• One thing no one ever talks about when it comes to being an adult, is how much time we debate keeping a cardboard box because it's, you know…a really good box.
• Anyone remember the good ol' days, before Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter? When you had to take a photo of your dinner, then get the film developed, then go around to all your friends' houses to show them the picture of your dinner? No? Me neither. Stop it!
• Being a little older, I am very fortunate to have someone call and check on me everyday. He is from India and is very concerned about my car warranty.
• I may not have lost all my marbles yet, but there may be a small hole in the bag somewhere.
• If a cookie falls on the floor and you pick it up…that's a squat, right?
• My super power is holding onto junk for years and throwing it away a week before I need it.
• We keep a potato masher in a drawer because sometimes it's fun to not be able to open that drawer.
• I'm beginning to think that for some of you, the wheels on your bus do not go round and round.
• Do you ever feel like your body's "Check Engine" light has been on and you're still driving it like "Nah, it'll be fine"?
• It turns out that when asked who your favorite child is, you're supposed to pick one of your own. I know that now.
• Went to a store that had a sign that read, "We treat you like family!" Yup, not going in there again.
• I can't believe I forgot to go to the gym today. That's seven years in a row now.
• Elementary kids have iPhones. When I was a kid, I pit glue on my hands just so I could peel it off when it dried.
• My kids laugh because they think I'm crazy. I laugh because they don't know it's hereditary.
• I don't know how to use TikTok, but I can write in cursive, do long division, and tell time on clocks with hands…so there's that.
• You think you know stress? When I grew up, if you missed a TV show you just missed it. Forever.
• On the surface: Cool as a cucumber. On the inside: Squirrel in traffic.
• People will stop asking you questions if you answer back in interpretive dance.
• I'm so glad I was young and stupid before there were camera phones.
• How to parallel park: (1) Park somewhere else.
• Billion dollar idea: A smoke detector that shuts off when you yell, "I'm just cooking!"
• I choked on a carrot this afternoon and all I could think was, "I bet a donut wouldn't have done this to me."
• I burn about 2000 calories every time I put on fitted sheets by myself.
• I grew up living paycheck to paycheck, but through hard work and perseverance I now live direct deposit to direct deposit.
Submitted by Mike Ryan:
Important facts…
• Death is the number one killer in the world.
• Life is sexually transmitted.
• Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
• Men have two emotions: hungry and horny, and they can't tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eye, make him a sandwich.
• Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the internet and they won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years.
• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.
• All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
• In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.
• Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do today might burn your @$$ tomorrow.
• Don't worry about old age, it doesn't last that long.
Submitted by Mark Logan:
More thoughts…
• I never called you stupid, but when I asked you to spell "orange" and you asked me the fruit or the color, it kinda caught me off guard.
• I just posted a selfie and people to me to get well soon.
• My wife sent me a test, "Your great". So naturally, I wrote back, "No, you're great". She's been walking around all happy and smiling. Should I tell her I was just correcting her grammar or leave it?
• I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I had any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up to begin with.
• It's a shame nothing is built in the USA any more. I just bought a TV and it said "Built in antenna". I don't even know where that is.
• When I die, I want my last words to be, "I left a million dollars under the…"
• Can I order a replacement body please, this one is constantly malfunctioning?
• Men say women come with instructions…What's the point of that? You ever see a man actually read the instructions?
• Posted a photo of my clean house and it was flagged and removed as "Fake News".
• You know you've sunken to new lows when you refer to a trip to the supermarket as 'going out'.
Submitted by Dave Harris:
Thoughts…
• Get some roosters for eggs…and raise some bulls for milk…then you'll see that gender matters. Especially at milking time.
• Being white doesn't make you a racist and being black doesn't make you a slave. Being an idiot, however, comes in both colors.
• I see people my age out there climbing mountains and zip lining and here I am feeling good about myself because I got my leg through my underwear without losing my balance.
• Race matters only to racists. The rest of us care about character.
• Being twenty in the seventies was much more fun than being seventy in the twenties.
• Why don't the 99% of us who aren't offended by everything quit catering to the 1% who are.
• We are living in a generation that would unplug your life support, just to charge their cellphone.
• Maybe I was raised wrong, but I was taught if you wanted something you worked for it.
• Stop feeling so entitled! All you deserve is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Life (enjoy it). Liberty (preserve it). Pursuit of happiness (work for it).
Have a great week,
Al
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Thanks to Dr Rich and Michael
We lost anF-35?????
Missing F-35: US Military asks for public's help to find jet
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66841194
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These are great thanks to Dr. Rich for sending
Nostalgia …
Thanks to Jerry ...
[Doesn't seem that long ago though 🥴
It took three minutes for the TV to warm up?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance? And made with real Silver!
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny? Made with real copper! Looking to see if it was a 1943 copper penny!
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
Not to mention Cracker Jacks!
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it!
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car..to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a...'?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
as well as summers filled with bike rides, Hula hoops, and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a Double Dog Dare to pass it on. To remember what a Double Dog Dare is, read on. And remember that the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow knows, Nellie Bell, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles. Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...( Yukon 2-601). Or, some of us remember when there were just 4 numbers with no word prefix at all. And, nearly everyone had a party line.
Peashooters
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
S&H Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Do You Remember a Time When...Decisions were made by going
'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'? Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming,
'Do Over!'? 'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching The Fireflies Could Happily Occupy An Entire Evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
Having a Weapon in School meant being caught with a Slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The Worst Embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
Sent from Rich's iPhone - Please pardon any iSpell errors!
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X-15 Story
If you like the X-15, the link below is part of a series on it. The below story is taken from this page...
https://history.nasa.gov/hyperrev-x15/ch-6.html
As had happened in some other research aircraft programs, a fatal accident signaled the end of the X-15 program. On 15 November 1967 at 10:30 a.m., the X-15-3 dropped away from its B-52 mothership at 45,000 feet near Delamar Dry Lake. At the controls was veteran Air Force test pilot, Maj. Michael J. Adams. Starting his climb under full power, he was soon passing through 85,000 feet. Then an electrical disturbance distracted him and slightly degraded the control of the aircraft. Having adequate backup controls, Adams continued on. At 10:33 he reached a peak altitude of 266,000 feet. In the FRC flight control room, fellow pilot and mission controller Pete Knight monitored the mission with a team of engineers. Something was amiss. As the X-15 climbed, Adams started a planned wing-rocking maneuver so an on-board camera could scan the horizon. The wing rocking quickly became excessive, by a factor of two or three. When he concluded the wing-rocking portion of the climb, the X-15 began a slow, gradual drift in heading; 40 seconds later, when the craft reached its maximum altitude, it was off heading by 15°. As the plane came over the top, the drift briefly halted, with the plane yawed 15° to the right. Then the drift began again; within 30 seconds, the plane was descending at right angles to the flight path. At 230,000 feet, encountering rapidly increasing dynamic pressures, the X-15 entered a Mach 5 spin. 18
In the flight control room there was no way to monitor heading, so nobody suspected the true situation that Adams now faced. The controllers did not know that the plane was yawing, eventually turning completely around. In fact, control advised the pilot that he was "a little bit high," but in "real good shape." Just 15 seconds later, Adams radioed that the plane "seems squirrelly." At 10:34 came a shattering call: "I'm in a spin, Pete." A mission monitor called out that Adams had, indeed, lost control of the plane. A NASA test pilot said quietly, "That boy's in trouble." Plagued by lack of heading information, the control room staff saw only large and very slow pitching and rolling motions. One reaction was "disbelief; the feeling that possibly he was overstating the case." But Adams again called out, "I'm in a spin." As best they could, the ground controllers sought to get the X-15 straightened out. They knew they had only seconds left. There was no recommended spin recovery technique for the plane, and engineers knew nothing about the X-15's supersonic spin tendencies. The chase pilots, realizing that the X-15 would never make Rogers Lake, went into afterburner and raced for the emergency lakes, for Ballarat, for Cuddeback. Adams held the X-15's controls against the spin, using both the aerodynamic control surfaces and the reaction controls. Through some combination of pilot technique and basic aerodynamic stability, the plane recovered from the spin at 118,000 feet and went into a Mach 4.7 dive, inverted, at a dive angle between 40 and 45 degrees. 19
Adams was in a relatively high altitude dive and had a good chance of rolling upright, pulling out, and setting up a landing. But now came a technical problem that spelled the end. The Honeywell adaptive flight control system began a limit-cycle oscillation just as the plane came out of the spin, preventing the system's gain changer from reducing pitch as dynamic pressure increased. The X-15 began a rapid pitching motion of increasing severity. All the while, the plane shot downward at 160,000 feet per minute, dynamic pressure increasing intolerably. High over the desert, it passed abeam of Cuddeback Lake, over the Searles Valley, over the Pinnacles, arrowing on toward Johannesburg. As the X-15 neared 65,000 feet, it was speeding downward at Mach 3.93 and experiencing over 15 g vertically, both positive and negative, and 8 g laterally. It broke up into many pieces amid loud sonic rumblings, striking northeast of Johannesburg. Two hunters heard the noise and saw the forward fuselage, the largest section, tumbling over a hill. On the ground, NASA control lost all telemetry at the moment of breakup, but still called to Adams. A chase pilot spotted dust on Cuddeback, but it was not the X-15. Then an Air Force pilot, who had been up on a delayed chase mission and had tagged along on the X-15 flight to see if he could fill in for an errant chase plane, spotted the main wreckage northwest of Cuddeback. Mike Adams was dead, the X-15 destroyed. NASA and the Air Force convened an accident board.
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This Day in U S Military History…….18 September
1862 – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's army pulls away from Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and heads back to Virginia. The day before, Lee's force had engaged in the biggest one-day battle of the Civil War against the army of General George B. McClellan. The armies struggled to a standstill, but the magnitude of losses forced Lee to abandon his invasion of Maryland. The significance of the battle was not Lee's withdrawal, but McClellan's lack of pursuit. When Lee settled into a defensive line above Antietam Creek on September 16, he had only about 43,000 troops. McClellan had around 50,000 in position on September 17, with many more on the way. On September 18, the armies remained in their positions without fighting. By this point, Lee was highly vulnerable. His army had its back to the Potomac River, just a few miles away, and a quarter of his force had been lost in the previous day's battle. And after more than two weeks of marching, his men were tired. McClellan, on the other hand, welcomed an additional 12,000 troops on September 18, with another 24,000 who had seen little or no action the day before, to join his original force. But, although he outnumbered Lee's troops by almost three times, McClellan did not pursue Lee. In fact, despite constant urging from President Lincoln and Chief of Staff Henry Halleck, McClellan did not move toward Virginia for over a month. McClellan overestimated the size of Lee's force, assuming that Lee had nearly 100,000 troops in his command, and insisted that the fall of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, on September 15 allowed an additional 40,000 Confederate troops—in his inflated estimation—to fight at Antietam. It should be noted that while McClellan's soldiers were extremely fatigued after the Battle of Antietam, which was the bloodiest day of the war, it would be difficult to rally them for another attack; but certainly not impossible. Instead, Lee was allowed to escape with his command intact. A chance to destroy the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was lost, and the war lasted another two and a half years.
1931 – The Mukden Incident was initiated by the Japanese Kwangtung Army in Mukden. It involved an explosion along the Japanese-controlled South Manchurian Railway. It was soon followed by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the eventual establishment of the Japanese-dominated state of Manchukuo. The neutrality of the area, and the ability of Japan to defend its colony in Korea, was threatened in the 1920s by efforts at unification of China. Within three months Japanese troops had spread out throughout Manchuria, an occupation that finally ended at the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
DAY, MATTHIAS W.
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Las Animas Canyon, N. Mex., 18 September 1879. Entered service at: Oberlin, Ohio. Birth: Mansfield, Ohio. Date of issue: 7 May 1890. Citation: Advanced alone into the enemy's lines and carried off a wounded soldier of his command under a hot fire and after he had been ordered to retreat.
DENNY, JOHN
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Las Animas Canyon, N. Mex., 18 September 1879. Entered service at: 1867 Elmira, N.Y. Birth: Big Flats, N.Y. Date of issue: 27 November 189i. Citation: Removed a wounded comrade, under a heavy fire, to a place of safety.
EMMET, ROBERT TEMPLE
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Las Animas Canyon, N. Mex., 18 September 1879. Entered service at: New York, N.Y. Birth: New York, N.Y. Date of issue 24 August 1899. Citation: Lt. Emmet was in G Troop which was sent to relieve a detachment of soldiers under attack by hostile Apaches During a flank attack on the Indian camp, made to divert the hostiles Lt. Emmet and 5 of his men became surrounded when the Indians returned to defend their camp. Finding that the Indians were making for a position from which they could direct their fire on the retreating troop, the Lieutenant held his point with his party until the soldiers reached the safety of a canyon. Lt. Emmet then continued to hold his position while his party recovered their horses. The enemy force consisted of approximately 200.
JACKSON, ARTHUR J.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Place and date: Island of Peleliu in the Palau group, 18 September 1944. Entered service at: Oregon. Born: 18 October 1924, Cleveland Ohio. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on the Island of Peleliu in the Palau group, 18 September 1944. Boldly taking the initiative when his platoon's left flank advance was held up by the fire of Japanese troops concealed in strongly fortified positions, Pfc. Jackson unhesitatingly proceeded forward of our lines and, courageously defying the heavy barrages, charged a large pillbox housing approximately 35 enemy soldiers. Pouring his automatic fire into the opening of the fixed installation to trap the occupying troops, he hurled white phosphorus grenades and explosive charges brought up by a fellow marine, demolishing the pillbox and killing all of the enemy. Advancing alone under the continuous fire from other hostile emplacements, he employed similar means to smash 2 smaller positions in the immediate vicinity. Determined to crush the entire pocket of resistance although harassed on all sides by the shattering blasts of Japanese weapons and covered only by small rifle parties, he stormed 1 gun position after another, dealing death and destruction to the savagely fighting enemy in his inexorable drive against the remaining defenses, and succeeded in wiping out a total of 12 pillboxes and 50 Japanese soldiers. Stouthearted and indomitable despite the terrific odds. Pfc. Jackson resolutely maintained control of the platoon's left flank movement throughout his valiant 1-man assault and, by his cool decision and relentless fighting spirit during a critical situation, contributed essentially to the complete annihilation of the enemy in the southern sector of the island. His gallant initiative and heroic conduct in the face of extreme peril reflect the highest credit upon Pfc. Jackson and the U.S. Naval Service.
JOHNSON, OSCAR G.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company B, 363d Infantry, 91st Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Scarperia, Italy, 16-18 September 1944. Entered service at: Foster City, Mich. Birth: Foster City, Mich. G.O. No.: 58, 19 July 1945. Citation: (then Pfc.) He practically single-handed protected the left flank of his company's position in the offensive to break the German's gothic line. Company B was the extreme left assault unit of the corps. The advance was stopped by heavy fire from Monticelli Ridge, and the company took cover behind an embankment. Sgt. Johnson, a mortar gunner, having expended his ammunition, assumed the duties of a rifleman. As leader of a squad of 7 men he was ordered to establish a combat post 50 yards to the left of the company to cover its exposed flank. Repeated enemy counterattacks, supported by artillery, mortar, and machinegun fire from the high ground to his front, had by the afternoon of 16 September killed or wounded all his men. Collecting weapons and ammunition from his fallen comrades, in the face of hostile fire, he held his exposed position and inflicted heavy casualties upon the enemy, who several times came close enough to throw hand grenades. On the night of 1617 September, the enemy launched his heaviest attack on Company B, putting his greatest pressure against the lone defender of the left flank. In spite of mortar fire which crashed about him and machinegun bullets which whipped the crest of his shallow trench, Sgt. Johnson stood erect and repulsed the attack with grenades and small arms fire. He remained awake and on the alert throughout the night, frustrating all attempts at infiltration. On 17 September, 25 German soldiers surrendered to him. Two men, sent to reinforce him that afternoon, were caught in a devastating mortar and artillery barrage. With no thought of his own safety, Sgt. Johnson rushed to the shell hole where they lay half buried and seriously wounded, covered their position by his fire, and assisted a Medical Corpsman in rendering aid. That night he secured their removal to the rear and remained on watch until his company was relieved. Five companies of a German paratroop regiment had been repeatedly committed to the attack on Company B without success. Twenty dead Germans were found in front of his position. By his heroic stand and utter disregard for personal safety, Sgt. Johnson was in a large measure responsible for defeating the enemy's attempts to turn the exposed left flank
*MANN, JOE E.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company H, 502d Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. Place and date: Best, Holland, 18 September 1944. Entered service at: Seattle, Wash. Birth: Rearden, Wash. G.O. No.: 73, 30 August 1945. Citation: He distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty. On 18 September 1944, in the vicinity of Best., Holland, his platoon, attempting to seize the bridge across the Wilhelmina Canal, was surrounded and isolated by an enemy force greatly superior in personnel and firepower. Acting as lead scout, Pfc. Mann boldly crept to within rocket-launcher range of an enemy artillery position and, in the face of heavy enemy fire, destroyed an 88mm. gun and an ammunition dump. Completely disregarding the great danger involved, he remained in his exposed position, and, with his M-1 rifle, killed the enemy one by one until he was wounded 4 times. Taken to a covered position, he insisted on returning to a forward position to stand guard during the night. On the following morning the enemy launched a concerted attack and advanced to within a few yards of the position, throwing hand grenades as they approached. One of these landed within a few feet of Pfc. Mann. Unable to raise his arms, which were bandaged to his body, he yelled "grenade" and threw his body over the grenade, and as it exploded, died. His outstanding gallantry above and beyond the call of duty and his magnificent conduct were an everlasting inspiration to his comrades for whom he gave his life.
*ROAN, CHARLES HOWARD
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Born: 16 August 1923, Claude, Tex. Accredited to. Texas. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 18 September 1944. Shortly after his leader ordered a withdrawal upon discovering that the squad was partly cut off from their company as a result of the rapid advance along an exposed ridge during an aggressive attack on the strongly entrenched enemy, Pfc. Roan and his companions were suddenly engaged in a furious exchange of handgrenades by Japanese forces emplaced in a cave on higher ground and to the rear of the squad. Seeking protection with 4 other marines in a depression in the rocky, broken terrain, Pfc. Roan was wounded by an enemy grenade which fell close to their position and, immediately realizing the eminent peril to his comrades when another grenade landed in the midst of the group, unhesitatingly flung himself upon it, covering it with his body and absorbing the full impact of the explosion. By his prompt action and selfless conduct in the face of almost certain death, he saved the lives of 4 men. His great personal valor reflects the highest credit upon himself and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his comrades.
*WILLIAMS, DEWAYNE T.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps, Company H, 2d Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division. Place and date: Quang Nam Province, Republic of Vietnam, 18 September 1968. Entered service at: Saint Clair, Mich. Born: 18 September 1949, Brown City, Mich. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a rifleman with the 1st Platoon, Company H, in action against communist insurgent forces. Pfc. Williams was a member of a combat patrol sent out from the platoon with the mission of establishing positions in the company's area of operations, from which it could intercept and destroy enemy sniper teams operating in the area. In the night as the patrol was preparing to move from its daylight position to a preselected night position, it was attacked from ambush by a squad of enemy using small arms and hand grenades. Although severely wounded in the back by the close intense fire, Pfc. Williams, recognizing the danger to the patrol, immediately began to crawl forward toward a good firing position. While he was moving under the continuing intense fire, he heard one of the members of the patrol sound the alert that an enemy grenade had landed in their position. Reacting instantly to the alert, he saw that the grenade had landed close to where he was Lying and without hesitation, in a valiant act of heroism, rolled on top of the grenade as it exploded, absorbing the full and tremendous impact of the explosion with his body. Through his extraordinary initiative and inspiring valor in the face of certain death, he saved the other members of his patrol from serious injury and possible loss of life, and enabled them to successfully defeat the attackers and hold their position until assistance arrived. His personal heroism and devotion to duty upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for 18 September, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
18 September
1912: Lt Bernard L. Smith, the second Marine assigned for flight training, reported for instruction at the Naval Academy's Aviation Camp. Lt Alfred A. Cunningham provided his flight training. (10) (24)
1918: At Dayton, Maj Rudolph W. Schroeder flew a Bristol airplane to a 28,897-foot FAI altitude record. (9)
1919: Rolland Rohlf set a world altitude record of 32,450 feet in a Curtiss Triplane with a K12 engine (450 hp) at Garden City, N. Y. (9)
1943: A 3-carrier task force attacked Tarawa, Makin, and Abemama Atolls in the Gilbert Islands. (24)
1948: Convair test pilot Sam Shannon flew the XF-92 for the first time at Muroc Dry Lake. It was the first true jet-powered delta-wing aircraft. (21)
1950: The 92 BG and 98BG dispatched 42 B-29s to drop 1,600 bombs on enemy troop concentrations near Waegwan, South Korea. The raid allowed the Eighth Army to advance rapidly from the Pusan perimeter toward Seoul. (21) (28)
1954: The USAF assigned the first F-100A to TAC's 479th Fighter-Bomber Wing at George AFB. It arrived on 27 September.
1959: Vanguard III, the last Navy Vanguard project satellite, launched into an orbit expected to last 30 to 40 years. (24)
1962: NASA launched TIROS VI, a weather satellite on a three-stage Delta booster from Cape Canaveral. It started filming the earth's cloud cover on its second orbit. This was the sixth consecutive successful launch with the Delta booster. (24)
1963: The United Technology Center at San Jose, Calif., fired the Titan III booster, a solid fueled rocket motor with l,000,000 pounds of thrust.
1967: SECDEF Robert S. McNamara approved production of a "thin" Nike-X anti-ballistic missile to give regions in the US at least one battery of warhead interceptors.
1969: Atomic Energy Commission and NASA officials announced that end testing on the NERVA nuclear experimental rocket engine (XE) had ended at Jackass Flats, Nev. From March through 28 August, the engine accumulated 3 hours 48 minutes in operating time. George A. Stokes used a Semco balloon to set FAI duration and distance records of 51 minutes and 9.6 miles for subclass AX-3 hot air balloons (400-600 cubic meters) at Richmond, Va. (9)
1970: TAC's C-130 aircrews from Langley AFB, Dyess AFB, Pope AFB, and Forbes AFB conducted humanitarian airlift operations to Jordan. (11)
1980: An explosion destroyed Titan II Launch Complex 374-7, assigned to the 308 SMW at Little Rock AFB. One maintenance technician died in the accident. The event led to the inactivation of the entire Titan II system.
1982: Exercise DISPLAY DETERMINATION. Through 30 September, USAFE augmented the weak air defenses of Southern Italy by integrating E-3A Sentry AWACS capabilities into the existing ground systems. (16)
1984: FIRST SOLO ATLANTIC CROSSING BY BALLOON. Col Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., (USAF Retired) completed the first solo crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon. He lifted off from Caribou, Me., and flew to Savona, Italy, in 84 hours. His 3,550-mile flight set a balloon distance record. (21)
1986: Through 20 September, the 436 MAW sent two C-5s with 93 tons of medical supplies and food to Luzon, Philippines. President Acquino personally accepted the relief supplies at Andrews AFB. (16) (26)
1987: The Defense Acquisition Board approved six concepts for the Strategic Defense Initiative: a Ground Based Surveillance and Tracking System, Boost Surveillance and Tracking Systems, Space-based Surveillance and Tracking Systems, Battle Management/Command, Control and Communications System, Space-Based Interceptor, and Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interceptor.
1990: Through 28 September, the 436 MAW and 438 MAWs moved 107 pallets of tents, cots, and blankets as well as 360 passengers to Jordan. The supplies provided relief to 100,000 foreign workers from Kuwait, who fled to Jordan after Iraq's invasion. (16)
2000: At Edwards AFB, the Boeing X-32A Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator made its first flight. Boeing test pilot Fred Knox flew the aircraft on its 20-minute flight from Boeing's Plant 42 in Palmdale. (3) Maj Tom Currie flew the first CV-22 Osprey, the USAF's specialized version of the V-22, from the Bell Helicopter Flight Research Center at Arlington, Texas, to Edwards AFB to begin a twoyear test program. (3) (21)
2001: Operation NOBLE EAGLE. NORAD maintained constant combat air patrols over Washington DC and New York City with ANG fighters. Furthermore, NORAD maintained a pair of ANG fighters on alert at 26 locations for a quick response to any new threats. (32)
2007: The first C-5 (Tail No. 87-0035) fitted with Northrop-Grumann's AN/AAQ-24 Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure (LAIRCM) system made its inaugural flight. The countermeasures system protected large transports from missile attacks by detecting a missile launch, determining the validity of the threat, and activating a high-intensity system to track and defeat the threat. Lockheed Martin received the contract to install the kits on eight additional C-5Bs in February 2008. (22)
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