To All,
Good Wednesday Morning April 10, 2024. A beautiful day is starting and we are supposed to reach 79 today. The Bobcat came the other night but could not get in the cage. Time to get out the cross bow.
I hope your midweek is a good one.
Regards,
Skip
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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 April 10
1941 USS Niblack (DD 424) picks up three boatloads of survivors from Dutch freighter Saleier, which was sunk the previous day by a German U-boat. The destroyer detects a submarine preparing to attack and drives it off with a depth charge attack. It is the first action between American and German forces in World War II.
1942 USS Thresher (SS 200) torpedoes and sinks Japanese merchant cargo ship Maru six miles north of Oshima, near the entrance to Tokyo Bay, Honshu, Japan.
1944 TBM bombers and FM-2s aircraft (VC 58) from USS Guadalcanal (CVE 60) sink German submarine U 68 off Madeira Island.
1963 During diving tests, USS Thresher (SSN 593) is lost with all hands east of Cape Cod, Mass., including commanding officer and 17 civilian technicians.
1966 During the Vietnam War, the river patrol boats (PBRs) of River Patrol Force commence operations on inland waters of South Vietnam.
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This Day in World History April 10
1790 The U.S. patent system is established.
1809 Austria declares war on France and her forces enter Bavaria.
1862 Union forces begin the bombardment of Fort Pulaski in Georgia along the Tybee River.
1865 At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issues his last orders to the Army of Northern Virginia.
1866 The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is formed.
1902 South African Boers accept British terms of surrender.
1912 The Titanic begins her maiden voyage which will end in disaster.
1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby.
1930 The first synthetic rubber is produced.
1932 Paul von Hindenburg is elected president in Germany.
1938 Germany annexes Austria.
1941 U.S. troops occupy Greenland to prevent Nazi infiltration.
1945 In their second attempt to take the Seelow Heights, near Berlin, the Red Army launches numerous attacks against the defending Germans. The Soviets gain one mile at the cost of 3,000 men killed and 368 tanks destroyed.
1945 Allied troops liberate the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald north of Weener, Germany.
1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play major league baseball as he takes the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1971 The American table tennis team arrives in China.
1972 B-52s begin bombing North Vietnam »
1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir.
1981 Imprisoned Irish Republican Army hunger striker Bobby Sands is elected to the British Parliament.
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OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT Thanks to the Bear
Skip… For The List for the week beginning Monday, 8 April 2024 through Sunday, 14 April 2024… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT (1968-1972)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post of 30 June 2019…
B-52 Operation MENU targeting leaked to NVN… No surprises…?…
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
From Vietnam Air Losses site for "Wednesday 10 April
1. https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=2532
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 Service members 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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Thanks to PATRIOTIC TIMES
CHINESE IMMIGRANT EXPOSES TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHINESE SPIES LYING DORMANT IN AMERICA – THANKS TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER
jessicacApril 9, 2024News5 Commentson Chinese Immigrant Exposes Tens of Thousands of Chinese Spies Lying Dormant in America – Thanks to the Southern Border
A Chinese national headed towards America's southern border for an easy entry into the country revealed that the United States has already been infiltrated by tens of thousands of CCP spies sent here to steal technology and military secrets.
While traveling north from Colombia, the man was interviewed by Muckraker journalists and spelled out exactly how the Chinese have been using Biden's wide open border to EASILY wage a shadow war on America.
He noted that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government have become reliant on stealing high tech research from America, including top-secret military tech.
"Chinese government always steal high technology such as semiconductor field and military field," he said. "And they continue to steal high technology for national defense purposes by any means necessary. They steal the technology from America to achieve success.
The man also continues stating that prior to being sent over to spy on the United States, the people of China are taught to HATE America and everything it stands for.
"They teach Chinese people to hate America, you know? Like what you said about homosexuality, drug use, and so on. Everything bad is attributed to America, while China is portrayed as good. That's how it is."
This particular individual claimed that he was heading for America to escape the authoritarian CCP – not that America is any different with Chinese puppet Joe Biden at the helm.
"I want to break away from China's authoritarian regime. There is no democracy or freedom. There is no rule of law in the country," he said.
Back in 2017 it was revealed that the Chinese had already successfully planted 25,000 spies in America with a multi-billion dollar budget to work with.
Seven years later and with a border that is WIDE OPEN that number is likely to be MUCH HIGHER – and we can thank Joe Biden for that.
There have been countless videos of military-aged Chinese nationals coming across the southern border which many suspect are secretly members of the People's Liberation Army of China infiltrating the country for some kind of ground operation.
Retired Air Force Gen. Blaine Holt recently warned that, "as we speak, these actors are training, making plans and obtaining weapons, watching our patterns, and learning our vulnerabilities."
By intentionally leaving our southern border exposed, Biden has left us vulnerable to foreign invaders from some of our worst enemies abroad – from the CCP to terrorist syndicates like ISIS.
We've already seen instances of some of those potential CCP spies being activated.
One recent example was at a Marine Corps base in Twentynine Palms, California where a Chinese national was caught trespassing on the base – and then REFUSED to leave.
The Chinese have been trying to bring down America for quite some time and the Biden presidency has made it incredibly easy for them to do that from the inside!
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From the Archives. Where is he when we need him the most
Thanks to Carl
Ronald Reagan and the Blind Children: A Story of Character - American Thinker
(After he died in 2004, it was delightful listening to many of the unknown stories about the kindness and compassion displayed by RR, many times out of sight of the press. He was such a wonderful, caring and thoughtful person! We sure need him now!) https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/ronald_reagan_and_the_blind_children_a_story_of_character.html
April 10, 2022
Ronald Reagan and the Blind Children: A Story of Character By George P. Harbison
One of the best examples I know of a story about the importance of character is one involving our 40th president, Ronald Wilson Reagan. It is a compelling and inspiring story.
In the midst of the 1976 Republican presidential primary campaign, Reagan was preparing to make a campaign speech in the parking lot of a shopping mall in North Carolina. Just before the speech was about to begin, a woman approached Reagan's assistant press secretary, Dana Rohrabacher, and asked him if it would be possible for Governor Reagan to spend a few minutes with a group of blind children she had escorted to the event. Rohrabacher conveyed the request to Mike Deaver, Reagan's campaign chief of staff.
Reagan overheard the exchange between his two staff members and agreed to meet the children, but only if the press contingent was not present when the meeting took place. Reagan did not want to be accused of staging a potentially poignant event for political gain, but he really wanted to meet the children. Rohrabacher said later, "Can you imagine that? He was in the middle of a presidential campaign, and the press would have gone wild for a photo of him with a group of blind kids. But Reagan wanted this to be between him and the kids."
Deaver concocted a plan in which he would escort Reagan in the direction of the campaign bus after the speech concluded. This action, it was hoped, would lead the press corps to believe that the candidate was leaving for the next campaign stop and thus get them to board their vehicles and depart. Reagan would then circle back and meet the children in the privacy of the area behind the podium.
The plan worked.
Rohrabacher described what happened next. "The press guys all went back to their buses, and I brought the lady with the blind kids back behind the podium. There were six or seven kids, real sweet little kids about eight or nine or ten years old. Since there was a lot of background noise — Reagan bent down, close to the kids, to talk to them. But somehow I could see him thinking that that wasn't enough. So after the kids had asked him a couple of questions, he said, 'Well, now I have a question for you. Would you like to touch my face so you can get a better understanding of how I look?' The kids all smiled and said yes, so Reagan just leaned over into them, and one by one these little kids began moving their fingers over his face to see what he looked like.
"The only picture of that scene is the picture in my mind," Rohrabacher said. "But I can still see those kids, touching Ronald Reagan's face and smiling these really big smiles."
Readers may have difficulty reconciling this tender scene with visions of Reagan, the fierce cold warrior who stared down tyrants and worked fervently and relentlessly to defeat an evil empire and its hideous ideology. Actually, the apparent dichotomy is not hard to reconcile at all.
Ronald Reagan, perhaps more than any president since the early days of our republic, understood the fundamental right of (and basic human need for) freedom. To Reagan, freedom was the oxygen upon which the fire of life depended. Hand-in-hand with this understanding was his clear vision and appreciation of fundamental human rights and needs. Reagan's character and innate moral compass directed him to work tirelessly to break down all barriers to basic human rights and freedoms wherever he found them.
To the blind children, this meant offering up his face to their touch so that they could compensate for their physical disability and thus "see" him and get to know him.
To America, this meant enacting legislation as president to reduce high individual income tax rates and rein in stifling business regulation in order to re-ignite the moribund U.S. economy. By any measure Reagan's economic policies, all based on his desire to enhance basic individual economic freedoms, worked spectacularly well in growing the economy, bringing down inflation, and lowering unemployment, thus improving the economic well-being of a broad cross-section of the American populace.
To the rest of the world, this meant leading the fight against communism, an ideology that crushed the human spirit and laid waste to the individual freedoms, aspirations and dreams of billions of people around the globe.
Unlike the circumstances of the blind children, the suffering and misery brought about by communism were entirely the result of human design and intention. This infuriated Ronald Reagan to his core. There was genuine, palpable anger in his voice when he famously beseeched Mikhail Gorbachev (in perhaps the greatest spoken words of the twentieth century) to "tear down this wall!" while standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 12, 1987.
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, followed in late 1991 by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Burdened already by its stark incompatibility with human nature, Soviet communism's ultimate demise was hastened by the courageous actions and principled leadership of Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa, and Pope John Paul II. The free world rejoiced as a billion human beings were freed from the shackles of a morally repugnant and evil ideology.
In 2011, in honor of his 100th birthday, statues of Ronald Reagan were unveiled in Hungary, Poland and Georgia, and a street was named after him in the Czech Republic. The people of these former Soviet- controlled nations fully recognize, understand, and appreciate the important and transformative nature of Reagan's principled character, his love of freedom, and his steadfast opposition to communism.
On June 5, 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th president of the United States, ended his long goodbye when he succumbed to the ravages of Alzheimer's disease. His inspiring, remarkable journey through life profoundly impacted millions of people throughout the second half of the 20th century, from seven blind children in a North Carolina parking lot in 1976 to millions of newly-freed Eastern Europeans in 1991.
Indeed, and beyond any doubt, Ronald Reagan proved that character and freedom are intractably intertwined.
Author's Note: Peter Robinson (the Reagan speechwriter who wrote the famous "Tear down this wall!" speech) wrote about Reagan's meeting with the blind children in his book How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life. The quotes above attributed to Dana Rohrabacher were taken from this book.
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: Aging Ain't For Sissies!
Some humor Thanks to Newell
Skip,
I always enjoy the irreverent humor that balances THE LIST's serious content. Yesterday "Aging" one-liners prompted a host of smiles. So, here's some additional "Elderly truths softened by punchlines." to share at your discretion with our LIST compatriots.
Newell
I thought growing old would take longer!
An older person telling a young person to calm down is lot like trying to baptize a maddened cat.
My doctor asked if anyone in my family suffered from mental illness. I said "No, we all seem to enjoy it."
Went grocery shopping while hungry. Now I'm the proud owner of Aisle 6.
Just once, I want a username and password prompt to say, "close enough."
I'm a multitasker. I can listen, ignore and forget all at the same time.
Went to an antique show.A few people started bidding on me.
I don't admit that I look worn out, but I also don't get near the curb on trash day.
People who wonder if the wine-glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The wine-glass is refillable.
I thought the dryer made my clothes shrink. Turns out it was the refrigerator.
Strive to be the kind of woman, who when your feet hit the floor first thing in the morning, the devil says, "Oh-oh, here she comes again."
Retired: I'm under new management. See spouse for details.
I don't have grey hair. I have wisdom highlights.
Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done.
I don't trip and fall. I do random gravity checks.
My heart says, "pie and ice cream." But my jeans say, "please, please, please eat a salad!"
My spouse says I have two faults.I don't listen and … uh, …something else.
Never laugh at your spouse's choices. You have been one of them.
Common sense is not a gift. It's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't use it.
Growing older, I've noticed that some people are like clouds.Once they disappear it's a beautiful day.
We were born long ago: naked, wet and hungry.
Then things got a lot worse.
My body is becoming a temple: ancient, crumbling and perhaps cursed or haunted.
If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
I'd grow my own food if only I could find bacon seeds.
Losing weight doesn't seem to be working for me. So from now on I'm going to concentrate on getting taller.
One minute you're young and fun. The next minute, you're turning down the car stereo to see better.
Day 12 without chocolate … lost hearing in my left eye.
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
The Real Story Behind the "Happy Birthday" Song
Its power is in its simplicity. With only six notes, six words, and four lines — three of them the same — "Happy Birthday" is one of the most universal songs on the planet. Yet for something so straightforward, the celebratory tune has a surprisingly complicated history.
The song has been passed down for generations, with many people learning the tune just by listening to family and friends sing it at parties. But the way that it spreads so organically is what made the tune's copyright a subject of debate that was only legally settled in 2015.
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A Pair of Innovative Sisters Wrote the Song
Born in Kentucky in 1868, Patty Smith Hill was known for breaking the mold when it came to early childhood education. Instead of structured learning, she championed a more natural method of kindergarten focused on children's instincts and creativity.
Meanwhile, her sister Mildred J. Hill, born in 1859, was just as forward-thinking in the world of musicology. While she was also a composer and performer, the elder Hill focused her musical studies on Black spirituals, often writing about the subject using the pen name "Johnan Tonsor."
Together, the Hill sisters wrote the song "Good Morning to All." Three of the four lines were just that, while the third line was "Good morning, dear children." "She was the musician and I was, if it is not using too pretentious a word, the poetess," Patty said of their process in 1934, adding that Mildred, who also taught, would perfect the melody by trying it out on her young students. They included it in a songbook, Song Stories for Kindergarten, which they published in 1893.
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The Song Began to Morph
Over time, the lyrics changed and the tune began to be used as a celebratory birthday song — the version that we know today. How exactly that happened is unknown, but by 1924, it appeared in another songbook edited by Robert Coleman with the Hill sisters' original lyrics as the first verse and "Happy birthday to you" as the second.
The tune soon grew in popularity and started to appear more in print. But the Hills never copyrighted the "Happy birthday" version of the lyrics. Patty later said, "I was never a money-grubber."
When it appeared in Irving Berlin's 1933 Broadway musical As Thousands Cheer, however, Mildred and Patty's youngest sister, Jessica, stepped in and filed a court case saying her family was owed royalties. The lawsuit was settled and the Hills were eligible for payment whenever the song was used. Then, in 1935, the Hills registered their work through the Clayton F. Summy Company with the now-famous birthday lyrics.
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More Questions Emerge
That was far from the end of the saga, though. The company they registered with was sold off — twice — and in 1988, the song eventually fell into the library of Warner Music Group's publishing arm Warner-Chappell, which was estimated to receive about $2 million a year from the song's usage, well into the 2010s.
But it wasn't long before questions were raised as to whether the song still qualified for copyright. Some believed the rights expired in 1949 since it was written in the 1890s, while others doubted that the Hills even wrote the birthday lyrics. Others believed it wouldn't go into the public domain until 2030.
Even so, to avoid having copyright fees slapped on them, TV shows and films would often come up with alternative ways to capture the song. Restaurants even started to make up their own birthday tunes so there wasn't any possibility of having to pay up. After all, when it was used, the fee could vary, costing as much as $10,000.
And even with the questions over the song's authorship, Warner-Chappell still owned the rights. "The truth is it kind of doesn't matter," WNYC's On the Media reported. "Copyright law isn't an ironclad dictate, like the border of a country. It's a lot more like land claims in the Wild West. You own what you can defend. Warner Music Group is a behemoth. No one's ever seriously challenged it over 'Happy Birthday.'"
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A Final Ruling
In 2013, a filmmaker named Jennifer Nelson filed another lawsuit after paying $1,500 to use the song in her documentary. Two years later, her lawyers found a piece of evidence that changed everything: A version of the song in an old songbook from 1922 published without a copyright notice.
The long saga ended in 2016, as Warner Music Group agreed to pay back $14 million in settlement claims to those who had been charged to use the song since 1949. The song also had to be acknowledged as part of the public domain.
More than a century after the Hill sisters wrote the song that would inspire a cultural phenomenon, it finally became fair use.
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Thanks to Runt….A wild ride to be sure
Skip,
Enjoyed the Metroliner/C-119 stories of fun landings. Thought I would share what turned out to be a very high speed taxi in an F-4.
I was the F-4 WSM stationed at NAS North Island (the depot and lead engineering activity). We were well into the F-4 J to S SLEP program. As a little background the NADEP is a Navy Industrial Funding activity. This means the money flow is based on specific production objectives that were quarterly targets. To oversimplify, every Quarter the NALC would schedule completions, and if targets weren't met we would lose money for the next quarter which would result in forced layoffs. At that time there were 6800 employees and seven unions so politics was involved.
It was late Friday afternoon on the last day of the Quarter and we were one jet short. I got a call from the test line telling me they had a first flight ready to test. A first flight was just that and after roughly 9 months being spread out all over North Island then finally reassembled with a new radar, maneuvering slats and a huge steel band aid under the wing. So far no big deal. I grabbed Rug Bag, my RIO who was also the NATOPS and Instrument Check evaluator, which was good because both of mine had lapsed. We knew it was verboten but things were a little looser not being in an Operational Squadron so we both agreed it was a go. Now comes the "questionable" part; typical late Spring weather with an 800' solid overcast and we would be landing after dark. I lost count as to how many rules we were breaking. I asked the tower for a RWY 18 departure as it would avoid the normal RWY 27 departure with a 90 degree turn to avoid Pt. Loma.
Finally we are pointed South ready to go. Normal pre-takeoff procedures. Pushed the throttles to Mil and started the roll and pushed past the detent for the reheat. Things were looking good and were fine until somewhere around 100 kts the jet took a hard pitch to starboard and I am looking at the GCA shack. Still not sure what happened but I had to get the nose back down the runway. Pulled left motor to idle and took the right out of burner, full left aileron and rudder with heavy foot on the left brake. Rug Bag wants to pull the curtain but I said no. Eventually got the damn thing stopped and engines shutdown. Crash crew put the pins in. Finally stopped the knees knocking and egreesed the jet. Took two hours to move the jet as I had welded the left brake somehow without blowing the tire. They had to use tilly to move it.
Fortunately this was the lead engineering activity so we were able to finally figure out what happened. Seems as somehow stray voltage had caused a hardover of the nose gear which resulted in our adventure. Not quite a runway excursion as we ended up about a 100' short of the GCA shack pointed right at it. My career had flashed before my eyes but turns out we were heroes to the 6800 employees for trying to make their production numbers and saving the aircraft. We choose to keep the lapsed NATOPS and Instrument lapses to ourselves so the Skipper just said good job!
We were young and dumb and invincible or so we thought.
Runt
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From the Archives
Thanks to Dr. Rich
Thanks to Beau ...
OBITUARY WILLIAM 'BILLY' WAUGH
William "Billy" Waugh, a decorated Special Forces veteran and CIA operative whose more than five decades of missions included a firefight in Vietnam that left him near death, hunting Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and tracking the terrorist mastermind "Carlos the Jackal," died last week at 93.
His death Tuesday was confirmed in a statement by the U.S. military's 1st Special Forces Command, but no additional details were given.
Waugh's mix of combat valor and covert credentials made him a hallowed figure among military groups and the intelligence community, honored for generation-spanning service from the Korean War in the 1950s to Afghanistan after 9/11.
Even his boyhood was part of the lore: how he tried to hitchhike from Central Texas to Los Angeles during World War II on rumors that California would allow 16-year-olds to enlist. He was just 15 and made it as far as New Mexico before being picked up by police and sent back home, according to his telling.
"It began there," he said of his desires to join the military.
Waugh's accounts — many confirmable and others not — served as a firsthand guide through some of the successes and failures overseen by Pentagon commanders and CIA intelligence chiefs.
In the early 1960s in Vietnam, he helped train local counterinsurgency units in South Vietnam and Laos that proved loyal but insufficient against the North Vietnamese. Later, he was among the first group to execute a "HALO" parachute drop: exiting the aircraft at high altitudes and deploying the chute at the last moment to limit the chances for detection.
In 1965, U.S. forces and local militia were dispatched to attack North Vietnamese troops in the stronghold Bong Son. Waugh's team expected a few hundred North Vietnamese fighters. Instead, there were more than 4,000, Waugh recounted.
Nearly out of ammunition, Waugh was hit in the knee by machine-gun fire, and then in the foot and ankle. A bullet, tearing through the bamboo cover, gouged a 2-inch gash in his forehead.
"It immediately started to bleed like an open faucet," Waugh wrote in a 2004 memoir, Hunting the Jackal , co-authored with Tim Keown. "It sounds like the punchline to a bad joke, but you know it's a bad day when the best thing about it is getting shot in the head."
North Vietnamese soldiers assumed Waugh was dead. They took his equipment, watch and uniform, leaving him naked. That's how he was found by his unit. He was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart, among his many decorations. His commander, Capt. Paris Davis, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in that fight.
"I'm a pioneer of the modern warfare era," Waugh said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press. "If I'd been living in olden days, I would have been at the Alamo or across the Rockies."
In the early 1990s, U.S. intelligence services stepped up surveillance of Osama bin Laden, who had shifted to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after years in Afghanistan in the U.S.-backed fight against the occupying Soviet military.
Waugh said he was so close to bin Laden at times that "I could have killed him with a rock."
On another surveillance mission in Khartoum, the target was Venezuela-born terrorist leader Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as "Carlos the Jackal," who was blamed for a series of assassinations, bombings and attacks, including a raid on OPEC headquarters in 1975. In 1994, "the Jackal" was captured and sent to France for trial.
After 9/11, Waugh was part of the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region.
A 2019 book by Annie Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish , recounted many of Waugh's missions as part of larger narrative on CIA operations.
William Dawson Waugh was born Dec. 1, 1929, in Bastrop, and enlisted in the Army in 1948 after graduating from high school. His mother, he said, finally forgave him for his earlier hitchhiking escapade. "She was an explorer-type lady herself," he said.
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Thanks to Dr.Rich…I had never heard a thing about this one…A well kept secret…skip
When 7 B-52 Bombers Went On a Secret Mission
Was not aware this took place, quite a mission, TK
https://youtube.com/shorts/CvWZl2D2NUM?si=-70JXlT2ggeC7krH
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This Day in U S Military History…….April 10
1790 – U.S. patent system was established. The Patent Board was made up of the Secretary of State, Secretary of War and the Attorney General and was responsible for granting patents on "useful and important" inventions. In the first three years, 47 patents were granted. Until 1888 miniature models of the device to be patented were required.
1865 – At Appomattox Court, Va, General Robert E. Lee issued Gen Order #9, his last orders to the Army of Northern Virginia. Seneca Indian Ely Parker was at his general's side at Appomattox. "After four years of arduous service, marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them…I determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen…I bid you an affectionate farewell."
1942 – The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. During this infamous trek, known as the "Bataan Death March," the prisoners were forced to march 85 miles in six days, with only one meal of rice during the entire journey. By the end of the march, which was punctuated with atrocities committed by the Japanese guards, hundreds of Americans and many more Filipinos had died. The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. Within a month, the Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the U.S. and Filipino defenders of Luzon were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. For the next three months, the combined U.S.-Filipino army, under the command of U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright, held out impressively despite a lack of naval and air support. Finally, on April 7, with his army crippled by starvation and disease, Wainwright began withdrawing as many troops as possible to the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay. However, two days later, 75,000 Allied troops were trapped by the Japanese and forced to surrender. The next day, the Bataan Death March began. Of those who survived to reach the Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan, few lived to celebrate U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's liberation of Luzon in 1945. In the Philippines, homage is paid to the victims of the Bataan Death March every April on Bataan Day, a national holiday that sees large groups of Filipinos solemnly rewalking parts of the death route.
1945 – On Okinawa, after a massive preparatory barrage, the US 96th Infantry Division seizes part of Kakazu Ridge.
1945 – The Allies liberated their first Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald, north of Weimar, Germany
1945 – On Luzon, the advance of US 14th Corps reaches Lamon Bay and the coastal town of Mauban is captured.
1945 – German Me 262 jet fighters shot down ten U.S. bombers near Berlin.
1963 – The USS Thresher nuclear-powered submarine failed to surface 220 miles east of Boston, Mass., in a disaster that claimed 129 lives. The second USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. Her loss at sea in the North Atlantic during deep-diving tests approximately 220 miles east of Boston, Massachusetts was a watershed event for the U.S. Navy, leading to the implementation of a rigorous submarine safety program known as SUBSAFE. Judging by the 129 crew members and shipyard personnel who were killed in the incident, historic context and significance, the sinking of Thresher was then, and remains today, the world's worst submarine disaster. As the first nuclear submarine lost at sea, its disappearance generated international shock and sympathy.
1972 – Although the U.S. command refuses to confirm publicly the location of targets, U.S. B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam for the first time since November 1967. The bombers struck in the vicinity of Vinh, 145 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone. It was later acknowledged publicly that target priority during these attacks had been given to SAM-2 missile sites, which had made raids over North Vietnam increasingly hazardous. U.S. officials called Hanoi's SAM-2 defenses "the most sophisticated air defenses in the history of air warfare." These defenses consisted of advanced radar and lethally accurate air defense missiles.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
GLOVER, T. B.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Troop B, 2d U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Mizpah Creek, Mont., 10 April 1879; at Pumpkin Creek, Mont., 10 February 1880. Entered service at:——. Birth: New York, N.Y. Date of issue: 20 November 1897. Citation: While in charge of small scouting parties, fought, charged, surrounded, and captured war parties of Sioux Indians.
BULKELEY, JOHN DUNCAN
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Commander, Commander of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, U.S. Navy. Place and date: Philippine waters, 7 December 1941 to 10 April 1942. Entered service at: Texas. Born: 19 August 1911, New York, N.Y. Other awards: Navy Cross, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star, Legion of Merit. Citation: For extraordinary heroism, distinguished service, and conspicuous gallantry above and beyond the call of duty as commander of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, in Philippine waters during the period 7 December 1941 to 10 April 1942. The remarkable achievement of Lt. Comdr. Bulkeley's command in damaging or destroying a notable number of Japanese enemy planes, surface combatant and merchant ships, and in dispersing landing parties and land-based enemy forces during the 4 months and 8 days of operation without benefit of repairs, overhaul, or maintenance facilities for his squadron, is believed to be without precedent in this type of warfare. His dynamic forcefulness and daring in offensive action, his brilliantly planned and skillfully executed attacks, supplemented by a unique resourcefulness and ingenuity, characterize him as an outstanding leader of men and a gallant and intrepid seaman. These qualities coupled with a complete disregard for his own personal safety reflect great credit upon him and the Naval Service .
When I was at CNAP I MET Admiral Bulkeley a number of times when he came to do INSERV inspections on Aircraft carriers. I followed him from the depths of the ship to the tallest places on the ship and he did not miss a thing and when the debrief came he pulled no punches with anyone in the room. He was quite a man. He even stole me from CNAP for two weeks once to help with the inspection he did on SPAWAR. He had a ton of energy and a lot of sea stories that he told me as he drove us into SPAWAR each morning from the BOQ. …..SKIP
*DURAN, JESUS S.
Rank and Organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company E, 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division. Place / Date: April 10, 1969, Ph Romeas Hek, Cambodia. Born: July 26, 1948, Juarez, Mexico. Departed: Yes (02/17/1977). Entered Service At: CA. G.O. Number: . Date of Issue: 03/18/2014. Accredited To: . Citation: In the course of the third phase of the Vietnam War, then-Spc. 4 Jesus S. Duran distinguished himself on April 10, 1969, as a machine-gunner on a search and clear operation. His actions saved several wounded Americans and led to the enemy's retreat.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for April 10, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
10 April
1915: The first Junior Military Aviator test issued. (24)
1931: Lt Wilfred J. Paul demonstrated the airship subcloud observation car at Langley Field. (24)
1945: About 50 German jets shot down 10 American bombers near Berlin. This was the largest loss of the war to jets in a single mission. (4) (24)
1953: The USAF decided to adopt SAGE (MIT's Lincoln Laboratory electronic defense system) instead of the Air Defense Integrated System (ADIS) development. (24)
1959: Northrop's YT-38 Talon prototype, a replacement for the T-33 training jet, flew its first flight at Edwards AFB. (7) (3)
1961: The USAF issued a requirement for the Titan II. (6)
1963: Capt Wylie H. Drummond flew his Boeing 707-123 to a new record for commercial jets by flying from Los Angeles IAP to Idlewild Airport, N.Y., in 3 hours 38 minutes. He averaged 680.9 MPH over the 2,474-mile route.
1966: Aviatrix Geraldine Mock set a world nonstop distance record for women, flying 4,515.93 miles from Honolulu to Columbus in 31 hours in a single-engine Cessna 206.
1967: Operation POKER DICE. SAC accomplished the beddown of B-52s at U-Tapao with the first 3 aircraft arriving during the day. Later in the day, the B-52s from U-Tapao flew their first bombing mission in the Vietnam War. Combat sorties averaged three hours in duration as compared to 12 hours for Guam-based aircraft. (16) (17)
1970: PROJECT PACER BRAVO. ATC shipped 872 trainers under this program to support an Improvement and Modernization Program for the Vietnamese Air Force. (16)
1972: B-52s resumed deep bombing raids into North Vietnam, halted since November 1967. (16) (26)
1973: First flight of the T-43A navigation trainer, or military version of Boeing's advanced 737-200 aircraft. (20) Through 30 April, USAFE hosted the first overseas deployment of the new AWACS. (16)
1974: Operation NIMBUS STAR. USAFE C-130 Hercules aircraft, crews, and communicators supported this operation to sweep the Suez Canal free of mines and other obstacles to navigation. (16) (26)
1975: Rockwell's B-1 Lancer achieved supersonic speeds for the first time in a test flight near Edwards AFB. (3)
1994: Operation DENY FLIGHT. Two USAF F-16s attacked a Bosnian Serb command post at Gorazde following an attack on UN personnel. This attack was the first close air support mission in this operation and the first air-to-ground bombing in NATO history. (16) Through 14 April, Air Mobility Command C-141s evacuated 242 American citizens and other foreigners from Rwanda while airlifting Belgian forces on 12 C-5 missions from Belgium to Kenya for possible military intervention in Rwanda. After an airplane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi crashed suspiciously, violence in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, erupted and claimed tens of thousands of lives. (18)
2007: A 167th Airlift Wing crew (West Virginia ANG) flew the unit's first C-5 Galaxy operational mission, delivering two CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters and over 60 Marines to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Djibouti. (32)
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