To All
Good Thursday Morning February 15, 2024. .The weather continues to be great. Yesterday the green cans got emptied and I filled them all up again along with five large grey cans. Busy day today with in house projects and classe this evening starting at 5. Escrima tonight so it will be entertaining and loud.
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History (thanks to NHHC)
Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/
This day in Naval and Marine Corps History
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1778—Continental ship, Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones, receives the first official salute to a U.S. Stars and Stripes flag by a foreign government (the French fleet) at Quiberon, France.
1813—The frigate Essex, commanded by Capt. David Porter, becomes the first U.S. Navy warship to round Cape Horn and enter the Pacific Ocean.
1814—The frigate Constitution, commanded by Capt. Charles Stewart, captures the British Lovely Ann off Guiana, the first of four during a five-day period.
1945—USS Gato (SS 212) sinks Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No.9 in the Yellow Sea and USS Hawkbill (SS 366) sinks Japanese auxiliary submarine chasers Cha 4 and Cha 114 in the Java Sea.
1945—Water Tender Second Class Elmer C. Bigelow heroically fights a blaze after USS Fletcher (DD 445) is hit by enemy shelling. Bigelow dies the next day from his injuries. He is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity." USS Bigelow (DD 942) is named in his honor in 1957.
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This Day in World History
1349.. 2,000 Jews are burned at the stake in Strasbourg, Germany.
1400.. The deposed Richard II is murdered in Pontefract Castle in Yorkshire.
1549.. Maximilian II, brother of the Emperor Charles V, is recognized as the future king of Bohemia.
1779.. American Loyalists are defeated by Patriots at Kettle Creek, Ga.
1797.. The Spanish fleet is destroyed by the British under Admiral Jervis (with Nelson in support) at the battle of Cape St. Vincent, off Portugal.
1848.. James Polk becomes the first U.S. President to be photographed in office by Matthew Brady.
1859.. Oregon is admitted as the thirty-third state.
1870.. Esther Morris becomes the world's first female justice of the peace.
1876.. Rival inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both apply for patents for the telephone.
1900.. General Roberts invades South Africa's Orange Free State with 20,000 British troops.
1904.. The "Missouri Kid" is captured in Kansas.
1912.. Arizona becomes the 48th state in the Union.
1915.. Kaiser Wilhelm II invites the U.S. Ambassador to Berlin in order to confer on the war.
1918.. Warsaw demonstrators protest the transfer of Polish territory to the Ukraine.
1920.. The League of Women Voters is formed in Chicago in celebration of the imminent ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote.
1924.. Thomas Watson founds International Business Machines Corp.
1929.. Chicago gang war between Al Capone and George "Bugs" Moran culminates with several Moran confederates being gunned down in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
1939.. Germany launches the battleship Bismarck.
1940.. Britain announces that all merchant ships will be armed.
1942.. Japanese paratroopers attack Sumatra. Aidan MacCarthy's RAF unit flew to Palembang, in eastern Sumatra, where 30 Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed A-28 Hudson bombers were waiting.
1945.. 800 Allied aircraft firebomb the German city of Dresden. Smaller followup bombing raids last until April with a total death toll of between 35,000 to 130,000 civilians.
1945.. The siege of Budapest ends as the Soviets take the city. Only 785 German and Hungarian soldiers managed to escape.
1949.. The United States charges the Soviet Union with interning up to 14 million in labor camps.
1955.. A Jewish couple loses their fight to adopt Catholic twins as the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to rule on state law.
1957.. The Georgia state senate outlaws interracial athletics.
1965.. Malcolm X's home is firebombed. No injuries are reported.
1971.. Moscow publicizes a new five-year plan geared to expanding consumer production.
1973.. The United States and Hanoi set up a group to channel reconstruction aid directly to Hanoi.
1979.. Armed guerrillas attack the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
1985.. Vietnamese troops surround the main Khmer Rouge base at Phnom Malai.
1989.. Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini charges that Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, is blasphemous and issues an edict (fatwa) calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie.
On this day in World history .
1876: Inventors Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applied separately for patents related to the telephone. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually ruled Bell the rightful inventor.
1929: The "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" took place in Chicago. Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone were killed.
1946: ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled.
The device, built at the University of Pennsylvania, was the world's first general purpose electronic computer.
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OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT Thanks to the Bear
Skip… For The List for the week beginning Monday, 12 February 2024 and ending Sunday, 18 February 2024… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT (1968-1972)
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post for 5 May 2019… "Ho Chi Minh Trail Reviewed: Vietnam Death March," by Keith B. Richling (Washington Post, 26 April 1990)
Thanks to Micro
To remind folks that these are from the Vietnam Air Losses site that Micro put together. You click on the url below and can read what happened each day to the aircraft and its crew. ……Skip
A bunch of hero helo pilots and crews did some great work.
From Vietnam Air Losses site for "Thursday 15 February
15: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1554
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.
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 . 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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From the Archives
. The Spatula Act
It was rumored that the 'split a raw egg with knife act' could only be seen in the Jinjiang Hotel in old Shanghai, and only one master could do the stunt. Before Nixon visited China in 1972, General Al Haig first came to Shanghai and requested to see the act. At that time, almost no one knew what it was all about. See this video today and realize what an amazing act it is!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPnUfYRK2g
Remember today is Valentine's Day.
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. Earth's moon is shrinking. Here's what scientists say that could mean
By Jacopo Prisco, CNN
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As the moon's core cools and shrinks, its surface develops creases that create "moonquakes" as well as landslides, a new study says. Here is a composite image of the moon with data from 1994.
As the moon's core cools and shrinks, its surface develops creases that create "moonquakes" as well as landslides, a new study says. Here is a composite image of the moon with data from 1994. NASA
A region of the moon that's at the center of a new international space race because it may contain water ice could be less hospitable than once thought, new research has found.
Interest in the lunar south pole spiked last year, when India's Chandrayaan-3 mission made the first successful soft landing in the area, just days after Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashed en route to attempt the same feat. NASA has selected the region as the landing site for its Artemis III mission, which could mark the return of astronauts to the moon as soon as 2026, and China also has plans to create future habitats there.
Ex-NASA astronaut explains why the moon's south pole is of special interest
But now a study funded by NASA is ringing an alarm bell: As the moon's core gradually cools and shrinks, its surface develops creases — like a grape shriveling into a raisin — that create "moonquakes" that can last for hours, as well as landslides. Much like the rest of the natural satellite's surface, the area of the south pole that is the subject of so much interest is prone to these seismic phenomena, potentially posing a threat to future human settlers and equipment.
"This is not to alarm anyone and certainly not to discourage exploration of that part of the south pole of the moon," said the study's lead author, Thomas R. Watters, a senior scientist emeritus in the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, "but to raise the caution that the moon is not this benign place where nothing is happening."
Finding the source of moonquakes
The moon has shrunk by about 150 feet in circumference over the last few million years — a significant number in geological terms but too small to cause any ripple effect on Earth or to tidal cycles, according to researchers.
On the lunar surface, however, it's a different story. Despite what its appearance might suggest, the moon still has a hot interior, which makes it seismically active.
"There is an outer core that's molten and is cooling off," Watters said. "As it cools, the moon shrinks, the interior volume changes and the crust has to adjust to that change — it's a global contraction, to which tidal forces on the Earth also contribute."
Because the moon's surface is brittle, this pulling generates cracks, which geologists call faults. "The moon is thought of as being this geologically dead object where nothing has happened for billions of years, but that couldn't be more far from the truth," Watters said. "These faults are very young and things are happening. We've actually detected landslides that have occurred during the time that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been in orbit around the moon."
.The "Moon Sniper" robotic explorer landed 180 feet (55 meters) shy of its target.
What you should know about the moon area where Japan's lander touched down
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, launched in 2009, and it's mapping the moon's surface with various instruments. In the new study, published January 25 in The Planetary Science Journal, Watters and his colleagues used data collected by LRO to link a powerful moonquake — detected with instruments left by Apollo astronauts more than 50 years ago — to a series of faults in the lunar south pole.
"We knew from the Apollo seismic experiment, which were four seismometers that operated for a period of about seven years, that there were these shallow moonquakes, but we didn't really know what the source was," Watters added. "We also knew that the largest of the shallow moonquakes detected by the Apollo seismometers was located near the south pole. It kind of became a sort of a detective story to try to figure out what the source was, and it turns out that these young faults are the best suspect."
The strongest recorded quake was the equivalent of magnitude 5.0. On Earth, that would be considered moderate, but the moon's lower gravity would make it feel worse, Watters said.
"On the Earth, you have a much stronger gravity keeping you attached to the surface. On the moon, it's much smaller, so even a little bit of ground acceleration is going to potentially pop you off your feet, if you're walking along," he said. "That kind of shaking can really start throwing things around in a low G environment."
Moonquakes: Short-term vs. long-term implications
The findings of the study will not affect the Artemis III landing region selection process, and that's due to the scope and duration of the mission, according to study coauthor and NASA planetary scientist Renee Weber.
"This is because estimating how often a specific region experiences a moonquake is difficult to do accurately, and like earthquakes, we can't predict moonquakes," Weber said. "Strong shallow moonquakes are infrequent and pose a low risk to short-term missions on the lunar surface."
artemis ii crew
NASA's most high-risk endeavor in decades and other boundary-pushing space missions planned for 2024
NASA has identified 13 Artemis III candidate landing regions near the lunar south pole, she added, using criteria such as the ability to land safely in the region, the potential to meet science objectives, launch window availability and conditions such as terrain, communications and lighting. As part of the mission, two astronauts will spend about a week living and working on the lunar surface.
However, Weber said, for a long-term human presence on the moon, the site selection process could indeed factor in geographic characteristics such as proximity to tectonic features and terrain.
Moonquakes could indeed be a problem for future manned landing missions, said Yosio Nakamura, a professor emeritus of geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, who was among the researchers who first looked at the data collected by the Apollo seismic stations.
However, Nakamura, who was not involved with the study, disagrees about the cause of the quakes, and said Apollo data shows the phenomena originate tens of kilometers below the surface.
"We still don't know what causes shallow moonquakes, but it is not the sliding fault near the surface," he said. "Regardless of what causes those quakes, it is true that they pose a potential threat to future landing missions, and we need more data about them."
AS17-152-23272 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program. While astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander, and Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Challenger" to explore the Taurus-Littrow region of the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "America" in lunar orbit.
Abandoned Apollo 17 lunar lander module is causing tremors on the moon
Regardless of the underlying cause, the potential danger moonquakes pose to astronauts will be limited by the fact that — at least in the near future — humans will be on the moon for short periods of time, a few days at most, according to Allen Husker, a research professor of geophysics at the California Institute of Technology who was also not involved with the study.
"It is very unlikely that a large moonquake will happen while they are there. However, it is good to know that these seismic sources (causing the quakes) exist. They can be an opportunity to better study the moon as we do on the Earth with earthquakes," Husker said. "By the time there is an actual moon base, we should have a much better idea of the actual seismic hazard with upcoming missions."
That sentiment is shared by Jeffrey Andrews-Hanna, an associate professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona, who also didn't participate in the work. "Moonquakes are an incredible tool for doing science," he said in an email. "They are like flashlights in the lunar interior that illuminate its structure for us to see. Studying moonquakes at the south pole will tell us more about the Moon's interior structure as well as its present-day activity."
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Thanks to Dan .... and Dr. Rich
Die Hard Fan
A man had 50-yard-line tickets for the Super Bowl. As he sat down, he noticed that the seat next to him was empty.
He asked the man on the other side of the empty seat whether anyone was sitting there.
"No," the man replied, "The seat is empty."
"This is incredible," said the first man.
"Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world and not use it?"
The second man replied, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to me. I was supposed to come with my wife, but she passed away. This will be the first Super Bowl we haven't been together since we got married in 1967."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. But couldn't you find someone else -- a friend or relative, or even a neighbor to take the seat?"
The man shook his head. "No, they're all at the funeral."
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A bit of history from the archives from a year ago
. Thought about this just a few hours ago !! … Is there a self destruct in Sidewinder and other missiles if you miss - over friendly territory??
Else SNAFU!! - RS]
They have yet to find that missing active missile
Tam
REVEALED: Air Force's $400k F-16 jet missile MISSED its first attempt to shoot down Lake Huron UFO - as it's revealed the 'small metallic balloon' gunned down near Michigan had PAYLOAD underneath and flew over 'sensitive sites….
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From the archives from Skip
Little Barbarians
This one reminds me of a woman who came to my class one day many years ago. With her was a 10 year old boy with a sour disposition. She asked me if I taught discipline in my classes. (My first thought was that was you job Maam) Instead II told her that the martial arts is built on discipline and we would tell him the rules and he would abide by them. A couple weeks later she started coming in and telling me all the things he was doing at home. I would talk to him and give him my best look and ask him about what he did. It finally got to the point where he was doing well and liked what he was learning so if I threatened to not allow him to do them he would straighten up real fast. Then one day she brought in his little sister and the whole thing started over again. By the end of a couple of months they were doing well and the mother was amazed. Their grades in school went up and home was good. They had been with me for about 3 years when the mother came in and said they had to move to another state because of the father's job. I was sad to see them go. Roll it forward about 4 years and she showed up with the boy who was older but the same boy I had seen on the first day. He did not last but about two weeks and was gone. I never saw him or his sister again. Roll forward about 14 years and I was in the class and getting things ready when I heard a young woman talking to a young man and telling him that this was the place where she had trained. I asked her when she had been there and she told me that she and her brother had trained and then had to leave. I knew who she was and asked her why she did not come back when she moved back to town and she said since her brother did not want to go back she could not. It was great to she had turned into a nice respectable young lady. Her brother not ao much.
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Our Little Barbarians - American Thinker
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/02/our_little_barbarians.html
Our Little Barbarians
By Selwyn Duke
Recently, an establishment called Nettie's House of Spaghetti in New Jersey announced they will no longer allow children under 10 to dine at their restaurant.
The move caused controversy, with some respondents applauding the policy and others accusing Nettie's staff of being "child haters." But the top commenter at MSN.com summed the issue up succinctly:
"We don't hate your kids," she wrote. "We hate your parenting."
Congratulations, madam, you won the Internet today.
If this seems a tempest in a teapot, know that it has implications for our entire society, because it reflects a deadly modern problem:
Too many Americans are failing to civilize their children.
It should be obvious that no restaurant would take such a decision lightly, as you want as many customers as possible coming through your doors. But Nettie's management explained on social media that while they love kids, because of the "noise levels, lack of space for high chairs, cleaning up crazy messes, and the liability of kids running around the restaurant, we have decided that it's time to take control of the situation."
O.K., a parenting pro tip: If your kids are running around a restaurant as if it's a playground, you're doing it wrong.
My parents took me to eateries for as long as I can remember. Yet it never occurred to me, ever, to bound about and treat the establishment like an amusement park. It's not that I was a saint; in fact, I had a bit of a temper and a low threshold for frustration. But my mother (this was her domain) enforced discipline and behavior standards. So certain actions were just beyond consideration.
Speaking of which, consider the 2018 video below of a young boy, 10 to 12 years old, getting in a grown man's face, refusing to relent, finally throwing punches at him and then — upon getting pushed to the ground when the victim finally defends himself — crying like a baby and acting aggrieved.
No well-raised child would even think in his wildest dreams about initiating violence with an adult stranger. What's more, that the boy was so shocked at receiving a mild comeuppance indicates that consequences for misbehavior were alien to him. Why, he might even have gotten away with hitting his parent (I'm guessing there was no father around).
As should be obvious, I'm not criticizing the "youth" with a fuddy-duddy, "Kids today!" lament; in fact, many of the people responsible for their behavior are my age or older. The point is this:
If you're wondering why our civilization is in steep decline, coming apart at the seams, with liberty imperiled, this is the reason.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom," Benjamin Franklin observed. "As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." Failing to recognize this truth is deadly. President Ronald Reagan once warned that "[f]reedom is never more than one generation away from extinction"; focusing on freedom, however, as so many today do exclusively, is to put the cart before the horse. For Reagan's statement is only true insofar as virtue is never more than one generation away from extinction.
"Virtue" is the word, too. No, this has nothing to do with "virtue-signaling," an appealing but misguided term that simultaneously flatters leftists and demeans a noble, necessary and divine concept (so I instead say "value-signaling"). Leftists are opponents of "virtue," which is defined as that set of "objectively good moral habits"; in reality, liberals have traditionally called their faux virtue "values," though it actually is vice.
Now, babies are born little barbarians; some even describe them as tiny "sociopaths." Regardless, parents' job is to civilize them, make them the kind of people who can sustain civilization. This involves modeling virtue and cultivating it, the latter via moral teaching; incentivizing good behavior; and, yes, punishing misbehavior.
The last concept is especially unfashionable today (except when punishing politically disfavored people for politically incorrect "transgressions" {i.e., "hate" crimes}; then the punishment can't be harsh enough). But there's a reason why the Bible tells us, "Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him."
The point is that if the above civilizing process is effected successfully, the child will have sound moral habits. Moreover, after being repeatedly compelled to act rightly, he will perhaps learn that it feels better to be good than bad — and then voluntarily choose to be good.
Saving or Scuttling Civilization
Ancient Greek philosopher Plato spoke about this when saying that a child should ideally be raised in an atmosphere of nobility and grace (i.e., our modern culture's antithesis) so that he can develop an "erotic" — as in emotional, not sexual — attachment to virtue. Once accomplished, he'll be more likely to accept the dictates of reason upon reaching the age of reason.
Tragically, though, far easier is "developing" (our fallen state makes this personal slouch toward Gomorrah natural) in children an erotic attachment to vice. In fact, our society, with its sexually, ideologically and morally corruptive schooling and entertainment, appears as if it's designed to do just that. Then when the child reaches the age of reason, he'll be quite unreasonable. He'll have misbegotten emotional attachments that will — and this must be understood — correlate with evil ideologies. The consequence?
Well, if you want to know why leftists generally cannot be reasoned with — why you can marshal the facts and present an airtight argument and they'll just dismiss it with an emotion-driven response — the aforementioned is the explanation. They have an emotional attachment to evil.
By the way, the "age of reason" is considered seven, and with good justification: "Show me a child at seven and I'll show you the man," the old Jesuit saying informs, expressing a developmental reality. Consequently, there isn't much time to mold that little sociopath into a saint.
So take heed, because the brats running around in restaurants today will be running, and ruining, the country tomorrow — and those who've not mastered themselves will be mastered by tyrants.
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Thanks to George
The List 6738
About a month ago I was at our local VA for my annual "oil change and tire rotation" and while I was waiting for an Rx fill at the Pharmacy I was challenged by this little old lady behind a walker demanding "where were you at and when?" I responded and then told her "I remember you, you were the nurse who was at Lai Khe, We met here two years ago." Lucy had been a Young nurse, based where no woman should be, in the Central Highlands, and she had worked alongside Martha Raye, and also had gone bar hopping with her while on leave. Martha's specialty was visiting the isolated boondock camps generally not considered safe for USO visits.
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Thanks to History Facts
A Great Dane named Juliana was awarded a medal during WWII.
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WORLD HISTORY
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JULIANA THE GREAT DANE
Animals have played pivotal roles on the front lines of many battles throughout history. Horses, elephants, and even dolphins have been employed for their strength, intelligence, and adaptability. During World War II, one brave animal stood out as a hero for using an unlikely defense tactic against the enemy: her urine. Juliana was the name of a Great Dane who had even greater instincts. In April 1941, amid the ongoing German bombing campaign known as the Blitz, explosives rained down across the U.K. When a bomb fell through the roof of the house where Juliana lived with her owner, the fast-acting pooch made her way over to the incendiary device and extinguished its flame by urinating on it. Juliana's bravery earned her a medal from the Blue Cross, a U.K. animal welfare charity.
Juliana's story came to light years later when a portrait of the plucky pup was found at a property belonging to a relative of Juliana's owner — a plaque affixed to the painting told her unlikely tale. Elsewhere in the house, a Blue Cross Medal with the dog's name was also discovered, and in an even more surprising turn, this one happened to be for a second heroic achievement. In 1944, three years after defusing a bomb, Juliana saved her owner's life once again, when she managed to alert him to the fire that was tearing through his shoe shop. In 2013, the mementos were sold at auction for £1,100, or about $1,900 today.
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This Day in U S Military History
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1945 – 521 American heavy bombers flew daylight raids over Dresden, Germany following the British assault. The firestorm killed an estimated 135,000 people. At least 35,000 died and some people place the toll closer to 70,000. The novel "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut was set in Dresden during the firebombing where he was being held as a prisoner of war. US B-17 bombers dropped 771 more tons on Dresden while P-51 Mustang fighters strafed roads packed with soldiers and civilians fleeing the burning city.
1945 – American USAAF B-24 and B-29 bombers raid Iwo Jima in preparation for the landings later in the month. They drop a daily average of 450 tons of bombs over the course of 15 days (6800 tons).
1945 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially beginning U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relations.
1949 – The United States charged the USSR with interning up to 14 million in labor camps.
1951 – Operation ROUNDUP officially concluded and the 30-day battle of Wonju began as the 2nd Infantry Division repelled repeated attacks from seven Chinese divisions.
1953 – U.S. Air Force Colonel Royal N. "The King" Baker, 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, downed his tenth enemy aircraft and became the third double ace of the war. (An ace has five enemy kills.) His F-86 Sabre was called "Angel Face & the Babes."
2007 – Operation Imposing Law, also known as Operation Law and Order, Operation Fardh al-Qanoon or Baghdad Security Plan(BSP), a joint Coalition-Iraqi security plan conducted throughout Baghdad, begins. Under the Surge plan developed in late 2006, Baghdad was to be divided into nine zones, with Iraqi and American soldiers working side-by-side to clear each sector of Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents and establish Joint Security Stations so that reconstruction programs could begin in safety. The U.S. military commander in Iraq, David Petraeus, went so far as to say Iraq would be "doomed" if this plan failed. Numerous members of Congress stated the plan was a critical period for the U.S. presence in Iraq.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken this Day
ARTHER, MATTHEW
Rank and organization: Signal Quartermaster, U.S. Navy. Born: 1835, Scotland. Entered service at: Boston, Mass. G.O. No.: 17, 10 July 1863. Citation: Served on board the U.S.S. Carondelet at the reduction of Forts Henry and Donelson, 6 and 14 February 1862 and other actions. Carrying out his duties as signal quartermaster and captain of the rifled bow gun, S/Q.M. Arther was conspicuous for valor and devotion, serving most faithfully, effectively and valiantly.
IRWIN, BERNARD J. D.
Rank and organization: Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army. Place and date: Apache Pass, Ariz., 13-14 February 1861. Entered service at: New York. Born: 24 June 1830, Ireland. Date of issue: 24 January 1894. Citation: Voluntarily took command of troops and attacked and defeated hostile Indians he met on the way. Surgeon Irwin volunteered to go to the rescue of 2d Lt. George N. Bascom, 7th Infantry, who with 60 men was trapped by Chiricahua Apaches under Cochise. Irwin and 14 men, not having horses began the 100-mile march riding mules. After fighting and capturing Indians, recovering stolen horses and cattle, he reached Bascom's column and help break his siege.
BONNEY, ROBERT EARL
Rank and organization: Chief Watertender, U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Hopkins. Place and date: Aboard U.S.S. Hopkins, 14 February 1910. Entered service at: Nashville, Tenn. Birth: Tennessee. Citation: While serving on board the U.S.S. Hopkins, Bonney displayed extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on the occasion of the accident to one of the boilers of that vessel, 14 February 1910.
CLARY, EDWARD ALVIN
Rank and organization: Watertender, U.S. Navy. Born: 6 May 1883, Foxport, Ky. Accredited to: Kentucky. G.O. No.: 59, 23 March 1910. Citation: On board the U.S.S. Hopkins for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession on the occasion of the accident to one of the boilers of that vessel, 14 February 1910.
*BIGELOW, ELMER CHARLES
Rank and organization: Watertender First Class, U.S. Naval Reserve. Born: 12 July 1920, Hebron, 111. Accredited to. Illinois. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving on board the U.S.S. Fletcher during action against enemy Japanese forces off Corregidor Island in the Philippines, 14 February 1945. Standing topside when an enemy shell struck the Fletcher, Bigelow, acting instantly as the deadly projectile exploded into fragments which penetrated the No. 1 gun magazine and set fire to several powder cases, picked up a pair of fire extinguishers and rushed below in a resolute attempt to quell the raging flames. Refusing to waste the precious time required to don rescue-breathing apparatus, he plunged through the blinding smoke billowing out of the magazine hatch and dropped into the blazing compartment. Despite the acrid, burning powder smoke which seared his lungs with every agonizing breath, he worked rapidly and with instinctive sureness and succeeded in quickly extinguishing the fires and in cooling the cases and bulkheads, thereby preventing further damage to the stricken ship. Although he succumbed to his injuries on the following day, Bigelow, by his dauntless valor, unfaltering skill and prompt action in the critical emergency, had averted a magazine explosion which undoubtedly would have left his ship wallowing at the mercy of the furiously pounding Japanese guns on Corregidor, and his heroic spirit of self-sacrifice in the face of almost certain death enhanced and sustained the highest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life in the service of his country.
*SITMAN, WILLIAM S.
Rank and organization: Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army, Company M, 23d Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Chipyong-ni, Korea, 14 February 1951. Entered service at: Bellwood, Pa. Birth: Bellwood, Pa. G.O. No.: 20, 1 February 1952. Citation: Sfc. Sitman distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against an armed enemy of the United Nations. Sfc. Sitman, a machine gun section leader of Company M, was attached to Company I, under attack by a numerically superior hostile force. During the encounter when an enemy grenade knocked out his machine gun, a squad from Company I, immediately emplaced a light machine gun and Sfc. Sitman and his men remained to provide security for the crew. In the ensuing action, the enemy lobbed a grenade into the position and Sfc. Sitman, fully aware of the odds against him, selflessly threw himself on it, absorbing the full force of the explosion with his body. Although mortally wounded in this fearless display of valor, his intrepid act saved 5 men from death or serious injury, and enabled them to continue inflicting withering fire on the ruthless foe throughout the attack. Sfc. Sitman's noble self-sacrifice and consummate devotion to duty reflect lasting glory on himself and uphold the honored traditions of the military service.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS ., FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
1914: Lt Townsend F. Dodd and Sgt Herbert Marcus set an official nonstop American duration and distance record for pilot and passenger when they flew a Burgess H tractor 244.18 kilometers in 4 hours 43 minutes. (5)
1931: Congress created the Air Mail Flyers Medal of Honor, retroactive to 15 May 1918. (24)
1932: WOMEN'S EVENT. Using a Lockheed Vega, Ruth Nichols set a new world altitude record of 19,928 feet for diesel-powered aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. (24)
1939: In Boeing's XB-15, Major Caleb V. Haynes flew from Langley Field, Va., to Chile in 29 hours 53 minutes flying time with 3,250 pounds of medical supplies for earthquake victims. (24)
1945: 450 B-17s staged a follow-up raid on Dresden, Germany. (4)
1951: The Republic F-84F Thunderstreak with a Wright J-65 Sapphire engine made its first flight at Edwards AFB. (5)
1955: The Killian Report from the Technological Capabilities Panel of the Science Advisory Committee, Office of Defense Management, recommended assigning the highest national priority to the ballistic missile program. It also urged the simultaneous development of intermediate-range ballistic missiles. (6)
1983: Operation EARLY CALL. In Egypt, the Strategic Air Command's KC-10 demonstrated its dual importance as a tanker and a cargo carrier in operational activities through 24 February,. Three 3 KC-10s at Cairo West Airport refueled the E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft that monitored Libyan air traffic and Libyan preparations for a possible attack on Sudan. In the 10-day deployment, the KC-10s flew 21 sorties to refuel American and Egyptian aircraft and transported 832 passengers and 1,340 tons of cargo. (18)
1989: In its first launch, the McDonnell-Douglas Delta II space booster lifted the first operational NAVSTAR Block II GPS satellite into orbit. (20)
1991: An unusual air-to-air victory occurred, when Capts Tim Bennett and Dan Bakke of the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing from Seymour-Johnson AFB, N. C., shot down an Iraqi helicopter with a GBU-10 laser-guided bomb dropped from their F-15E. (20)
1996: Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. A Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System E-8A flew its 50th mission in support of Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR, surpassing the E-8s record of 49 missions in Operation DESERT STORM. (26)
2003: Global Hawk (AV-7), a first production-representative sample, landed at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, Calif., after its maiden flight from Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. It was the last advanced concept technology platform, but the first vehicle that incorporated all of the improvements made in the platform to date. (3)
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