To All,
Good Wednesday morning October 4, 2023
A bit of history and some tidbits
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Thanks to Carl The modern version of Duck and Cover .How many of you got under your desk in grade school?
This is today
On Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 2:20 p.m. EDT, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert.
2 Very Ominous Events That Are Going To Happen This Week TODAY
By Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
October 4, 2023
The first of these "tests" will happen in Russia on Tuesday. Vladimir Putin has ordered the very first "nationwide nuclear attack exercise" in the entire history of his country, and that is making headlines all over the globe…
Russia will stage its first nationwide nuclear attack exercise across 11 time zones in preparation for potential nuclear war.
The second ominous event that I wanted to discuss is the "Nationwide Emergency Alert Test" that will happen just one day after the Russians conduct their ""nationwide nuclear attack exercise". On Wednesday afternoon, televisions, radios and phones all over the entire country will suddenly come alive at 2:20 PM eastern time…
Get ready to not freak out. On Wednesday, Oct. 4 at 2:20 p.m. EDT, every TV, radio and cellphone in the United States should blare out the distinctive, jarring electronic warning tone of an emergency alert.
It's a test – only a test.
Officially, the trial is called the Nationwide Emergency Alert Test. You know it's a test and not an actual emergency because it's accompanied by an explanation of the test.
Even if your phone is set to silent mode, you will still hear a very loud alarm…
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Today in Naval and Marine Corps History thanks to NHHC
October 4
1821 Lt. Robert F. Stockton sails aboard USS Alligator from Boston to West Africa, to suppress the African slave trade and select and acquire territory to resettle former slaves in their native continent. The land eventually purchased by Stockton and Dr. Eli Ayers of the American Colonization Society becomes the Republic of Liberia.
1943 TBF and F4F aircraft from VC-9 based onboard USS Card (CVE 11) attack four German submarines -- U-460, U-264, U-422, and U-455 -- north of the Azores. Also on this date, PV 1 aircraft from VB-128 sink German submarine U-336 southwest of Iceland.
1943 Aircraft from USS Ranger (CV 4) attack convoys in the harbor of Bod, Norway during Operation Leader, sinking German tankers, steamships, and freight barges. This mission is the only Navy carrier operation in northern European waters during World War II. USS Corry (DD 463) provided escort support.
1944 Pfc. Wesley Phelps, while serving with the First Marines on Peleliu Island, immediately rolls onto a grenade after it is thrown into a foxhole he shares with another Marine, saving his comrade's life. For his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" he is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
1976 USS Jonas Ingram (DD 938) rescues seven survivors of a Finnish motor craft that sank in the Baltic Sea.
1991 USS Arkansas (CGN 41), USNS Sioux (T-ATF 171), USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG 34) and Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 6 (HS 6) rescue personnel on merchant ships in three different rescue operations in the Arabian Sea.
1998 U.S. and Algerian navies conduct the first bilateral exercise - a search and rescue operation involving USS Mitscher (DDG 57) -- since Algerian independence in 1962.
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Today in World History October 4
1777 At Germantown, Pa., British General Sir William Howe repels George Washington's last attempt to retake Philadelphia, compelling Washington to spend the winter at Valley Forge.
1795 General Napoleon Bonaparte leads the rout of counterrevolutionaries in the streets of Paris, beginning his rise to power.
1861 The Union ship USS South Carolina captures two Confederate blockade runners outside of New Orleans, La.
1874 Kiowa leader Satanta, known as "the Orator of the Plains," surrenders in Darlington, Texas. He is later sent to the state penitentiary, where he commits suicide October 11, 1878.
1905 Orville Wright pilots the first flight longer than 30 minutes. The flight lasted 33 minutes, 17 seconds and covered 21 miles.
1914 The first German Zeppelin raids London.
1917 Battle of Broodseinde near Ypres, Flanders, a part of the larger Battle of Passchendaele, between British 2nd and 5th armies and the defenders of German 4th Army; most successful Allied attack of the Passchendaele offensive.
1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting the heads of 4 US presidents on Mount Rushmore.
1940 Germany's Adolf Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass.
1941 Willie Gillis Jr., a fictional everyman created by illustrator Norman Rockwell, makes his first appearance, on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post; a series of illustrations on several magazines' covers would depict young Gillis throughout World War II.
1943 US captures the Solomon Islands in the Pacific.
1957 Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the "space race." The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. In 1958, it reentered the earth's atmosphere and burned up.
I remember sitting in class when the teacher told us about this
1963 Hurricane Flora storms through the Caribbean, killing 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope ever to visit the US and the Western hemisphere.
1968 Cambodia admits that the Viet Cong use their country for sanctuary.
1972 Judge John Sirca imposes a gag order on the Watergate break-in case.
1976 In Gregg v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court lifts the ban on the death sentence in murder cases. This restores the legality of capital punishment, which had not been practiced since 1967. The first execution following this ruling was Gary Gilmore in 1977.
1985 Free Software Foundation founded to promote universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software.
1992 Mozambique's 16-year civil war ends with the Rome General Peace Accords.
1993 Russia's constitutional crisis over President Boris Yeltsin's attempts to dissolve the legislature: the army violently arrests civilian protesters occupying government buildings.
2004 SpaceShipOne, which had achieved the first privately funded human space flight on June 21, wins the Ansari X Prize for the first non-government organization to successfully launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space.
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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 4 October 1968…
Short night: Beethoven, brandy, the back deck, the stars over the Wasatch and thoughts of those we left behind…
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Thanks to Micro
From Vietnam Air Losses site for Wednesday October 4
October 4: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=831
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
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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Thanks to Carl well worth the repeat
October - A Month For Remembering What We've Lost
By Don Feder
October 03, 2019
October always makes me think of loss. In much of the country, we lose green grass, leaves, flowers, soft breezes and warm, sunny days. They'll all be back in the spring, of course.
But I also think about what we've lost as a country and a society – things that may never come back. Gone are the days when:
1. People who walked in front of you in stores said, "Excuse me, please."
2. Movies relied on plot and character development, instead of computer-generated images, crashing cars, exploding buildings and severed limbs.
3. Sex in the cinema was a kiss on the lips and dialogue wasn't a constant stream of obscenities.
4. Young women didn't consider it the height of fashion to stick metal in their faces, a la the bride of Frankenstein. Young men didn't wear their hair in styles that defied both gravity and taste.
5. Only sailors, Marines and wrestlers had tattoos.
6. Kids played outdoors in every season.
7. A hand-held electronic device wasn't a life-support system.
8. Children had imaginations and didn't constantly whine that they were bored.
9. 30-year-olds didn't want to be children.
10. Children didn't want to be 30-year-olds.
11. People did something called "reading," with things like books, magazines and newspapers.
12. If you wanted to insult someone, you had the decency to do it in person or on the phone, instead of posting or Tweeting.
13. We treated the flag with a kind of reverence.
14. Homosexuals were mostly characters in French novels who didn't have parades.
15. Muslims were Arabs who rode across the desert in flowing white robes and did things with rugs, instead of with IEDs.
16. People who entered the country illegally didn't have rights.
17. We did everything reasonable to keep people from entering the country unlawfully and didn't feel guilty about it. If anyone had called it "racist," we would have fallen on the floor laughing.
18. Immigrants were expected to learn our language and identify with our country.
19. We blamed criminals for crime, instead of blaming firearms.
20. The culture didn't constantly try to make Caucasians feel guilty about being white. Tell a farmer who survived the Dust Bowl about "white privilege."
21. We were bored with three channels in black and white, instead of 156 channels (including one on house-hunting in Pago Pago) on a 72" flat screen TV.
22. The most violent things on television were "The Amazing Adventures of Superman" and "The Lone Ranger."
23. Democrats were patriots.
24. Couples had children, instead of pets with pedigrees.
25. Divorce in the family was spoken of in hushed tones.
26. Killing a child in utero or on the delivery table wasn't celebrated as a right.
27. Men didn't want to be women and women didn't want to be men.
28. We weren't forced to pretend that a man who thought he was a woman in fact was one by virtue of his delusion.
29. Masculinity was admired and relied on (especially in times of war) instead of being condemned as toxic.
30. Women were called ladies and men gentlemen, based not on sex but behavior.
31. Virgins past the age of 17 weren't viewed as side-show attractions. Premarital abstinence was something to be prized, not scorned.
32. People didn't demand that others' views be banned for hurting their precious feelings.
33. Teachers were educators, as opposed to political commissars in charge of indoctrination.
34. Schools taught history, English and math, instead of multiculturalism, condoms and safe injection.
35. The wealthy were admired instead of being vilified.
36. We saved S&H Green Stamps, instead of saving the planet.
37. You didn't have to say that America is the greatest country on earth – because no one doubted it.
38. The word "community" actually meant something. It referred to a locality, instead of a grudge.
39. People didn't feel guilty about saying "Merry Christmas."
40. Celebrities didn't begin public appearances by telling us how much they hated the president of the United States.
41. Insufferably arrogant adolescents weren't constantly parading their ignorance in the streets, making absurd demands and assaulting passersby in the name of tolerance.
42. We didn't blame someone or something else for all of our failures – the 1%, the invisible ceiling, white privilege, the patriarchy, our parents, the culture, etc. We took responsibility.
43. People got married instead of getting a "partner."
44. We didn't feel compelled to document every second of our lives, as if they were as important as the revelation at Sinai or the deliberations of the Second Continental Congress.
45. People didn't think they had a right to everything under the sun.
46. People were grateful for what they had, instead of resentful for what they lacked.
47. Whining wasn't considered a sign of sensitivity.
48. We didn't listen to snotty, 15-year-olds from socialist countries lecture us about how we had stolen their future. To quote the Queen of Thornes in "Game of Thrones," speaking to another mouthy brat: "Are you through? Good. Now let the grownups talk."
49. We respected cops, firemen and the clergy, while understanding that (like the rest of us) they were human.
50. People didn't substitute a belief in astrology or UFOs or crystals for a belief in God.
Due to the natural cycle, warm weather, flowers and green grass will all come back in the spring. Sadly, the culture doesn't work like nature. Civilizations don't have a recurring cycle. What was won't necessarily be again.
In "South Pacific," Mitzi Gaynor sings about being a "cockeyed optimist."
I'm not one of those.
Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant.
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Thanks to Eagle
Dont know if you saw this one or not. Retention is hard enough already. Announced last week. SIGH !!!!
"United Airlines has launched the United Military Pilot Program, an initiative affording full-time, active-duty U.S. military pilots access to conditional job offers as United SIC's (First Officers). The program is unique insofar as it provides participants employment assurance while they complete their military service and work toward meeting all United hiring requirements."
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Thanks to Eagle
On Oct 3, 2023, at 5:51 PM, Barrett Tillman <btillman63@hotmail.com> wrote:
Apparently the casualty count has been upped:
EXCLUSIVE: 55 Chinese sailors are feared dead after nuclear submarine 'gets caught in a trap intended to snare British and US vessels in the Yellow Sea'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589429/chinese-sailors-trap-yellow-sea.html
Uh ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Tam
The captain of the Chinese PLA Navy submarine '093-417' is understood to be among the deceased, as were 21 other officers.
Officially, China has denied the incident took place. It also appears Beijing refused to request international assistance for its stricken submarine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589429/chinese-sailors-trap-yellow-sea.html
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
The first-ever speeding ticket was issued to a driver going 8 miles an hour.
Walter Arnold probably didn't think he'd be making history when he took his "horseless carriage" (read: automobile) for a spin through the humble English village of Paddock Wood on January 28, 1896, but make history he did — by traveling at an absolutely blinding pace of 8 miles per hour on the main thoroughfare. And while you may find it difficult to believe that a bicycle-riding constable was able to catch up to him, the ensuing low-speed pursuit led to Arnold paying the first-ever speeding ticket.
Speeding wasn't all he was charged with. Arnold was cited on four counts: using a "locomotive without a horse" (the nerve!) on a public road, operating said contraption with fewer than three people, failing to clearly display his name and address on that absolute manifestation of speed, and, last but not least, traveling at a higher velocity than 2 miles per hour. Arnold, one of England's first car dealers, was driving a Benz that fateful day and paid the equivalent of more than $300 in today's money for his quartet of criminality. However, a few months later he began marketing his own Arnold Motor Carriage, a variant on the very Benz he was driving, to the public. Whether the whole thing was a publicity stunt or a mere coincidence has never been settled.
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In Finland, speeding tickets are based on your income.
Not for nothing has Finland been called the "home of the $103,000 speeding ticket." The Nordic country, as well as a few others in Europe — Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and France — eschew the flat-rate system in favor of "day fines" that work on a sliding scale, leading to a famous case in which a high-earning Nokia executive was ordered to pay the equivalent of $103,600 for driving 47 miles per hour in a 31 mile-per-hour zone. The world record for the largest speeding fine, however, belongs to a repeat offender in Switzerland, who had to pay the princely sum of $290,000 for blazing through a 50 mile-per-hour zone near the village of St. Gallen at 85 miles per hour in a red Ferrari.
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This Day in U S Military History
4 OCTOBER
1943 – U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
1943 – Aircraft from USS Ranger sink 5 German ships and damage 3 in Operation Leader, the only U.S. Navy carrier operation in northern European waters during World War II. Ranger departed Scapa Flow with the Home Fleet 2 October to attack German shipping in Norwegian waters. The objective of the force was the Norwegian port of Bodö. The task force reached launch position off Vestfjord before dawn 4 October completely undetected. At 0618, Ranger launched 20 Dauntless dive bombers and an escort of eight Wildcat fighters. One division of dive bombers attacked the 8,000-ton freighter LaPlata, while the rest continued north to attack a small German convoy. They severely damaged a 10,000-ton tanker and a smaller troop transport. They also sank two of four small German merchantmen in the Bodö roadstead. A second Ranger attack group of 10 Avengers and six Wildcats destroyed a German freighter and a small coaster and bombed yet another troop-laden transport. Three Ranger planes were lost to antiaircraft fire. On the afternoon of 4 October, Ranger was finally located by three German aircraft, but her combat air patrol shot down two of the enemy planes and chased off the third.
Ranger returned to Scapa Flow 6 October.
1957 – The Space Age and "space race" began as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik (traveler), the first man-made space satellite. The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. The event was timed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. In 1958, it reentered the earth's atmosphere and burned up. It was followed by 9 other Sputnik spacecraft.
2004 – Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, one of the original Mercury astronauts who pioneered human space exploration, died. He was 77. One of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Cooper piloted the final flight of the Mercury program, the United States' first manned spaceflight program. An Oklahoman, Cooper was born March 6, 1927, in Shawnee. Cooper was a World War II veteran. He joined the Marines and transferred to the Air Force in 1949. He earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1956 and served as a test pilot in the Flight Test Division at Edwards Air Force Base. Cooper was selected as a Mercury astronaut in April 1959. On May 15, 1963, Cooper piloted the "Faith 7" spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission that lasted 34 hours and 20 minutes. In 1965 he served as command pilot of the Gemini 5 mission. He and Charles Conrad established a new space endurance record by traveling more than 3.3 million miles in an elapsed time of 190 hours, 56 minutes, and proved that humans could survive in a weightless state for the length of a trip to the moon. It also tested a new power source for future flights – fuel cells. During a 1995 reunion of surviving Mercury astronauts, Cooper was asked who was the greatest fighter pilot he ever saw, Cooper answered, "You're looking at him!"
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Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
MADISON, JAMES JONAS
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve Force. Born: 20 May 1884, Jersey City, N.J. Appointed from: Mississippi. Citation: For exceptionally heroic service in a position of great responsibility as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, when, on 4 October 1918, that vessel was attacked by an enemy submarine and was sunk after a prolonged and gallant resistance. The submarine opened fire at a range of 500 yards, the first shots taking effect on the bridge and forecastle, 1 of the 2 forward guns of the Ticonderoga being disabled by the second shot. The fire was returned and the fight continued for nearly 2 hours. Lt. Comdr. Madison was severely wounded early in the fight, but caused himself to be placed in a chair on the bridge and continued to direct the fire and to maneuver the ship. When the order was finally given to abandon the sinking ship, he became unconscious from loss of blood, but was lowered into a lifeboat and was saved, with 31 others, out of a total number of 236 on board.
MORELOCK, STERLING
Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Army, Company M, 28th Infantry, 1st Division. Place and date: Near Exermont, France, 4 October 1918. Entered service at: Oquawka, Ill. Birth: Silver Run, Md. G.O. No.: 43, W.D., 1922. Citation: While his company was being held up by heavy enemy fire, Pvt. Morelock, with 3 other men who were acting as runners at company headquarters, voluntarily led them as a patrol in advance of his company's frontline through an intense rifle, artillery, and machinegun fire and penetrated a woods which formed the German frontline. Encountering a series of 5 hostile machinegun nests, containing from 1 to 5 machineguns each, with his patrol he cleaned them all out, gained and held complete mastery of the situation until the arrival of his company commander with reinforcements, even though his entire party had become casualties. He rendered first aid to the injured and evacuated them by using stretcher bearers 10 German prisoners whom he had captured. Soon thereafter his company commander was wounded and while dressing his wound Pvt. Morelock was very severely wounded in the hip, which forced his evacuation. His heroic action and devotion to duty were an inspiration to the entire regiment.
*ROBERTS, HAROLD W.
Rank and organization: Corporal, U.S. Army Company A, 344th Battalion, Tank Corps. Place and date: In the Montrebeau Woods France 4 October 1918. Entered service at: San Francisco, Calif. Birth: San Francisco, Calif. G.O. No.: 16, W.D., 1919. Citation: Cpl. Roberts, a tank driver, was moving his tank into a clump of bushes to afford protection to another tank which had become disabled. The tank slid into a shell hole, 10 feet deep, filled with water, and was immediately submerged. Knowing that only 1 of the 2 men in the tank could escape, Cpl. Roberts said to the gunner, "Well, only one of us can get out, and out you go," whereupon he pushed his companion through the back door of the tank and was himself drowned.
*MENDOZA, MANUEL V.
Rank and Organization: Staff Sergeant. U.S. Army. Company B, 250th Infanry. 88th Infantry Division. Place and Date: October 4, 1944, Mt. Battaglia, Italy. Born: June 15, 1922, Miami, AZ . Departed: Yes (12/12/2001). Entered Service At: Phoenix, AZ. G.O. Number: . Date of Issue: 03/18/2014. Accredited To: Arizona. Citation: Then-Staff Sgt. Manuel Mendoza is being recognized for his actions on Oct. 4, 1944, in Mt. Battaglia, Italy, where he is credited with single-handedly breaking up a German counterattack
*PHELPS, WESLEY
Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Born: 12 June 1923, Neafus, Ky. Accredited to: Kentucky. 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 Peleliu Island, Palau Group, during a savage hostile counterattack on the night of 4 October 1944. Stationed with another marine in an advanced position when a Japanese handgrenade landed in his foxhole Pfc. Phelps instantly shouted a warning to his comrade and rolled over on the deadly bomb, absorbing with his own body the full, shattering Impact of the exploding charge. Courageous and indomitable, Pfc. Phelps fearlessly gave his life that another might be spared serious injury, and his great valor and heroic devotion to duty in the face of certain death reflect the highest credit upon himself and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 4, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
4 October
1909: Wilbur Wright flew from Governor's Island out past the Statue of Liberty, up the Hudson to Grant's Tomb, and back to the island during New York's Hudson-Fulton celebration. The original plans called for Wright to make a 10-mile or 1-hour long flight around the Statue of Liberty and Glenn Curtiss to make a 20-mile round-trip flight past Grant's Tomb. When Curtiss could not make the flight due to high winds, Wright added the flight past Grant Tomb. He also added a canoe to the Wright Flyer for an emergency water landing. (24)
1919: In a supercharged Lepere-Liberty 400, Maj Rudolph W. Schroeder and Lt G. A. Elfrey set a world two-man altitude record of 31,821 feet at Dayton. (9)
1945: FIRST AROUND-THE-WORLD FLIGHT FOR A CARGO AIRCRAFT. A Douglas C-54 Skymaster from the Army's ATC completed the first global flight for a cargo-type aircraft by flying 23,279 miles in 149 hours 44 minutes, including 33 hours 21 minutes on the ground by the time it landed in Washington DC. (9) (24)
1946: PACUSAN DREAMBOAT. Through 6 October, Col Clarence S. Irvine flew the B-29 "Pacusan Dreamboat" to a nonstop, unrefueled distance record of 9,500 miles by flying from Honolulu to Cairo, Egypt, in 39 hours 36 minutes. The flight took the plane over Arctic regions to test the crew through hazardous weather with complicated navigation and communication problems. (http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1847)
1949: C-82s dropped an entire field artillery battery by parachute at Fort Bragg. (16) (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. FEAF gained operational control of all land-based aircraft in Korea, including USMC squadrons at Kimpo. Anticipating the acquisition of enemy air installations, FEAF stopped most attacks on airfields south of the 40th parallel. (28)
1957: The Soviets launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. This event shocked America into creating its own space program. (12)
1959: The Air Force successfully fired Little Joe, carrying a Mercury capsule mockup, in an operational test of launch and destruction procedures. (24)
1962: The first F-4C to enter the USAFE inventory arrived at RAF Bentwaters. (4)
1967: SECDEF Robert McNamara refused to develop the WS-120A advanced ICBM; however, he directed an examination of hard rock silos for the Minuteman III. (6)
1974: A C-130H aircraft, with a composite reinforced center wing, flew its first flight. Lockheed delivered the plane to the USAF on 23 October 1974. (12)
1980: PRINSENDAM FIRE/MACKAY TROPHY. When the Dutch tourist ship caught fire 125 miles away from Yukataga, Alaska, the 71 ARRS at Elmendorf AFB coordinated an effort with USAF, US Coast Guard, and Canadian forces to rescue the 519 passengers. Capt John J. Walters and his crew flew their HH-3 Jolly Green Giant helicopter to rescue 61 passengers and crewmen from the burning liner. Walters airlifted the people from lifeboats to a nearby supertanker. For his rescue, Walters received the Mackay Trophy. (2) (18) (21)
1983: The 7 BMW at Carswell AFB sent B-52D (55-0674) to the aircraft storage center at DavisMonthan AFB. It was the last B-52D to be stored; however, seven other bombers remained at Carswell and Andersen AFBs until February 1984 while display facilities were prepared. (1) Through 5 October, four CH-3 helicopters from the 302d Special Operations Squadron rescued 57 residents from flood waters around Maricopa, Ariz. (16)
1989: Operation DEEP FREEZE. A C-5B landed in Antarctica for the time to resupply the National Science Foundation's research station at McMurdo Sound. The 60 MAW aircraft brought 84 tons of cargo, including two Bell UH-1N helicopters and 72 passengers to the station. It also landed on a 76-inch thick ice runway without skis. A KC-10 refueled the C-5 to make the trip possible. (18) (20) MACKAY TROPHY. A 96 BMW B-1B crew landed their aircraft successfully despite a retracted nose gear. No crewmen were injured and the aircraft only sustained minimal damage. For this achievement, the crew earned the 1989 Mackay Trophy. (21)
1995: Hurricane Opal damaged Eglin AFB and Hurlburt Field with winds over 110 mph. Most aircraft escaped by flying to other bases. (26)
2001: AFFTC conducted a dual Global Hawk UAV ground test run for the accelerated Replace on Station (ROS) effort. The test demonstrated the ability of two UAVs to provide continuous round-the-clock airborne reconnaissance. The Global Hawks flew concurrently and sequentially to collect imagery under the control of one mission control element. (3)
2006: USAF officials announced proposed locations for the F-35A Lightning II: Eglin AFB for primary maintenance and flight training; Nellis AFB and Edwards AFB for flight-testing; and Hill AFB, Kadena AB, Shaw AFB and McEntire ANGB, S. C., for operational squadrons. The announcement initiated environmental studies. (SAF/PAO Press Release, "Air Force Proposes Initial Joint Strike Fighter Locations," 4 Oct 2006)
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