Good Monday Morning August 19. Well the week is off to an interesting start. I was working on the final stages of today's List when something I opened brought forth bells whistles and threats that they were going to destroy my computer so I did a hard shutdown. The computer came back up but much was gone from the List so I had to track it down and it is now about a half hour later. I hope your week starts off better than this and oh by the way the pool was over three feet down and I have been putting water back in for a couple hours and have a lot to go. I may have to take a loan out to pay my water bill. I may have to limit the use of the pool to those over 70.
Warm Regards,
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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/. Go here to see the director's corner for all 83 H-Grams
This Day in Navy and Marine Corps History:
Aug. 19
1812 The frigate USS Constitution captures the frigate HMS Guerriere, off Halifax, Nova Scotia after an intense battle.
1818 Capt. James Biddle, as commanding officer of USS Ontario, takes possession of Oregon Territory for United States.
1936 Lt. B. L. Braun, pilot, completes test bombing against the submarine USS R-8 (SS 85) off the Virginia capes, sinking the old submarine and proving the value of properly armed aircraft in antisubmarine warfare.
1943 USS Finback (SS 230) sinks the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser (No.109) off the eastern Celebes.
1981 Two F-14 Tomcats of VF-41 shoot down two Libyan (Su 22) Sukhoi aircraft over international waters. Flying off USS Nimitz (CVA(N) 68), the Tomcats are on a reconnaissance mission for a missile-firing exercise being conducted by U.S. ships from two carrier battle groups when they are fired on by the Libyan planes.
2000 USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) is commissioned at Naval Station Norfolk. The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the first ship named for Marine Private First Class Oscar P. Austin, who earned the Medal of Honor, posthumously, for his "indomitable courage, inspiring initiative and selfless devotion to duty" after he twice threw himself between a North Vietnamese weapon and a wounded comrade on Feb. 23, 1969.
2017 A team of civilian researchers led by entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announces they found the wreck of World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA 35), which was lost July 30, 1945, in 18,000 feet of water. About 800 of the ship's 1,196 Sailors and Marines survived the sinking, but after four to five days in the water - suffering exposure, dehydration, drowning, and shark attacks - only 316 survived.
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Today in World History August 19
1493 Maximilian succeeds his father Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor.
1587 Sigismund III is chosen to be the king of Poland.
1692 Five women are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being convicted of the crime of witchcraft. Fourteen more people are executed that year and 150 others are imprisoned.
1772 Gustavus III of Sweden eliminates the rule of parties and establishes an absolute monarchy.
1779 Americans under Major Henry Lee take the British garrison at Paulus Hook, New Jersey.
1812 The USS Constitution earns the nickname "Old Ironsides" during the battle off Nova Scotia that saw her defeat the HMS Guerriere.
1914 The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) lands in France.
1934 38 million Germans vote to make Adolf Hitler the official successor to President von Hindenburg.
1936 Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is shot by Franco's troops after being forced to dig his own grave.
1942 A raid on Dieppe, France by British and Canadian commandos is repulsed by the German Army.
1944 In an effort to prevent a communist uprising in Paris, Charles De Gaulle begins attacking German forces all around the city.
1950 Edith Sampson becomes the first African-American representative to the United Nations.
1957 The first balloon flight to exceed 100,000 feet takes off from Crosby, Minnesota.
1965 US forces destroy a Viet Cong stronghold near Van Tuong, in South Vietnam.
1974 US Ambassador to Cyrus Rodger P. Davies assassinated by a sniper of Greek Cypriot paramilitary group EOKA-B during a demonstration outside the embassy in Nicosia.
1976 Gerald R Ford, who had become President of the United States after Richard Nixon resigned, wins Republican Party's presidential nomination at Kansas City convention.
1987 Hungerford Massacre in the UK; armed with semi-automatic rifles and a handgun Michael Ryan kills 16 people before committing suicide. In response, Parliament passed the Firearms (Amendment) Act of 1988 banning ownership of certain classes of firearms.
1988 Cease fire begins in 8-year war between Iran and Iraq.
1991 Communist hard-liners place President Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest in an attempted coup that failed two days later.
2002 A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 Shmuel Hanavi bus bombing: suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, some of them children, and wounds 130. Islamist militant group Hamas claims responsibility for the attack.
2004 Google Inc. stock begins selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market, with an initial price of $85; the stock ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.
2005 Toronto Supercell: A series of thunderstorms spawn several tornadoes and cause flash floods in Southern Ontario. Losses exceed $500 million Canadian dollars, the highest ever in the province.
2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends; the last US combat brigade, 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, leaves the country. Six brigades remain to train Iraqi troops.
1909 First race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT Thanks to the Bear
Skip… For The List for the week beginning Monday, 19 August 2024 and ending Sunday, 25 August 2024… Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT (1968-1972)…
From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com post of 19 August 1969..
As more than half-a-million young Americans departed the scene of the historic 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, N.Y. to resume their protests of the Vietnam war in their respective hometowns in America, nearly 250 caskets containing the remains of the brave young men who had perished on the battlefields of Southeast Asia during the week of Woodstock were arriving home from the war. Alas, the war had more than three years and twenty thousand American KIAs to go. Remember?
https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/commando-hunt-and-rolling-thunder-remembered-week-forty-one-18-24-august-1969/OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT (1968-1972)
(Please note the eye-watering ongoing revamp of the RTR website by Webmaster/Author Dan Heller, who has inherited the site from originators RADM Bear Taylor, USN, Retired, and Angie Morse, "Mighty Thunder")…
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. .Micro is the one also that goes into the archives and finds these inputs and sends them to me for incorporation in the List. It is a lot of work and our thanks goes out to him for his effort.
From Vietnam Air Losses site for "for 18 and 19 August
18-Aug: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=750
19-Aug: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=2981
Vietnam Air Losses Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War . Listed by last name and has other info https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
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Thanks to Al ----This one pushed Al to over 600 in my file for Monday Morning Humor--skip
Monday Morning Humor--Back to School
On the first day of school, what did the teacher say her three favorite words were?
June, July, and August.
Luke comes home from his first day of school, and his mother asks, "What did you learn today?"
"Not enough," Luke replies. "They said I have to go back tomorrow."
Books never written:
"Walking to School" by Misty Buss.
"When Does School Start?" by Wendy Belrings.
A man dug a tunnel out of jail and came up on a preschool playground. "I'm free! I'm free!" he yelled.
"Big deal," said a little boy. "I'm 4."
What kind of school do you go to if you are…
An ice cream man? Sundae school.
A giant? High school.
A surfer? Boarding school.
King Arthur? Knight school.
A teacher asked her students to use the word "beans" in a sentence.
"My father grows beans," said one girl.
"My mother cooks beans," said a boy.
A third student spoke up, "We are all human beans."
Teacher: Can anyone give me a sentence with a direct object?
Student: You are pretty.
Teacher: What's the direct object?
Student: A good report card.
Knock, knock
Who's there?
Noah.
Noah who?
Noah more summer – it's time for school!
Knock, knock
Who's there?
Felix.
Felix who?
Felix-cited about school today!
Parent: What happened at school today?
Child: In class, we played a guessing game.
Parent: But I thought you had a math exam?
Child: That's right!
Teacher: What did you do this weekend?
Student: I did some baking.
Teacher: Lovely, what did you bake?
Student: Synonym rolls just like grammar used to make!
Walking through the hallways at our middle school, I saw a new substitute teacher standing outside his classroom with his forehead against a locker. I heard him mutter, "How did you get yourself into this?"
Knowing he was assigned to a difficult class, I tried to offer moral support. "Are you okay?" I asked. "Can I help?"
He lifted his head and replied, "I'll be fine as soon as I get this kid out of his locker."
During my first meeting with my physically challenged students, I assured them that most people are handicapped in some way. "Look at me," I said. "My eyes are so bad, I need to wear glasses. Because I can barely hear, I need a hearing aid. And look at my ears—they're much bigger than they should be."
From the back, a boy added, "And your nose too."
While reviewing math symbols with my second-grade pupils, I drew a greater-than (>) and a less-than (<) sign on the chalkboard and asked, "Does anyone remember what these mean?"
A boy confidently raised his hand. "One means fast-forward and the other means rewind."
We should never stop learning but I am so glad I don't go to school anymore,
Al
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I do not remember this happening before and I lived at a lot of Air Force, Army and Navy bases in my life…..Skip
Thanks to Brett
Guards, vehicle exchange gunfire at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland
U.S. Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with at least one occupant of a vehicle who opened fire at an entrance to Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland early Saturday, according to a spokesperson for the base.
Guards returned fire after gunfire erupted from a passing vehicle at a base entrance around 4:30 a.m., public affairs chief Stefanie Antosh told the San Antonio Express-News. No injuries were reported.
It was not known how many rounds were fired, how many shooters there were or what their motive was, Antosh said.
"We don't know what, if anything, started it," Antosh said. "But it wasn't an active threat to the installation, and there is no active threat to the installation."
Antosh did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press for more information.
The entrance was closed for several hours after the shooting, but the base was not locked down, according to Antosh.
San Antonio police also responded to the shooting and helped collect evidence.
A police spokesperson did not immediately respond to phone calls and an email for information.
In addition to Lackland, Joint Base San Antonio includes Randolph Air Force Base, Fort Sam Houston and the Camp Bulllis training camp.
Lackland is home to more than 24,000 active duty members and 10,000 Department of Defense civilians, according to the base website.
It includes the 37th Training Wing; 149th Fighter Wing; 59th Medical Wing; the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency; 24th Air Force Wing, 67th Network Warfare Wing; the Cryptologic Systems Group; the National Security Agency; and 70 associated units
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Skip, a short tribute to Limerick Laureate Jack Woodul for THE LIST.
Thanks to Newell
ODE TO LISTS
A toast to Jack's limerick slickery,
And his hose-clamp medical gimmickery.
A cervical save,
Upon which to rave.
'Twas a word salad of clever trickery!
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Thanks to History Facts
"SOS" doesn't actually stand for anything.
After more than a century of use as a maritime distress signal, "SOS" has become shorthand for just about any emergency. You may have heard that it stands for "save our ship" or "save our souls," but that's actually a backronym, or an acronym made up after the fact. The letters in "SOS" didn't initially stand for anything; they were originally chosen because they form a sequence of Morse code that can be transmitted more quickly than others.
Morse code (named for Samuel Morse) is a way of transmitting phrases with light flashes or electrical pulses; each letter and numeral has its own sequence of between one and five short bursts (known as "dots" or "dits") and long bursts ("dashes" or "dahs"). In 1901, inventor Guglielmo Marconi created a radio transmitter that could send Morse code signals across the Atlantic, allowing ships to communicate with other vessels and land-based stations. British operators were already using "CQ," or "seeking you," as a signal to alert all stations, so Marconi's wireless company recommended "CQD," or "seeking you, distress," as an emergency signal. Meanwhile, the United States usually used "NC," the Germans used "SOE," and Italians used "SSSDDD." But the problem with all of these is they required brief pauses between the letters.
Delegates at the 1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference suggested a simpler, more standardized distress call. The letters "S" and "O" — three dots and three dashes, respectively — are extremely simple and easy to understand without any spaces, so "SOS" could be transmitted on a quick, continuous loop. Most countries officially adopted the code in 1908 and, even though the U.S. was not among them, an American ship was the first to use the signal when its propeller snapped. "CQD" remained popular with the British even after other countries had adopted "SOS," and when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, it signaled for help with both "SOS" and "CQD." By that time, the backronym had already taken hold. During the British government inquiry on the Titanic disaster, Attorney General Rufus Isaacs was under the impression that "SOS" stood for "save our souls."
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Thanks to Brett
Stand-up America Foundation, exposed
Truly frightening information if accurate. Unfortunately this tracks with what we see underway in our country. Clearly the Dims have a very effective political machine in place otherwise they could never have simply unseated a sitting potus and sent in an alternative candidate that no one had voted for. The Rs don't seem to be so well organized. Very troubling.
The Stand Up America US Foundation intelligence team has been deep-diving into "who is really running the US government." The team in charge operates behind closed doors at the White House. Obama is the in-place leader who controls and directs operations daily. Like Spectre in a James Bond movie, the team controls much of the country and the world. They (coordinated by Susan Rice) are responsible for creating Biden' and Harris' daily schedule, daily talking points, and policy statements. Also, it is closely tied to the communist Democrat Party to provide "Talking Points of the Day" and confidential talking points to the media and Wall Street supporters.
For three weeks, the United States of America, the supposed sole remaining global superpower, has operated in a bizarre state of suspended animation. Indeed, the world has continued spinning (out of control, I might add). However, few seem to be interested in President Biden's effective expulsion from the reelection race by his fellow Democrat Party elites. Since then, he has been kept mostly out of the public spotlight. Meanwhile, his vice president, Kamala Harris, who has succeeded him as the presumptive Democrat Party presidential candidate, is anywhere but in Washington.
"The Council" (Deep State) and everything that stems from it have been in control of the United States for the past fifty years, with the sole purpose of siphoning our nation's wealth. Our founders designed our constitutional government and the federal workforce to protect our wealth and the 'public good' of the American people. However, the Council's mission is to crush and obliterate it.
They employ the tools of indictments, obstruction, and government agencies they have weaponized to attack their enemies under false pretenses of law. They alone decide who will be the victors and the vanquished in politics, business, the economy, media, elections, and education, and they do so with complete amorality.
Exposing this dark organization by name, their corruption, and their means of control, as well as identifying how to dismantle their illegitimate power, is the first step in restoring the United States of America as a constitutional republic.
We have now been able to identify these team members by name, thanks to Greg Stenstrom. Intelligencer, July 20, 2024
You would think the President of the United States would be at its head, but remember, presidents come and go. Only a few presidents have had a significant impact on the operation.
The Council;
Michael Horowitz
FBI Director Christopher Wray
Attorney General Merrick Garland
Jeffrey Ragsdale (Office of Professional Responsibility)
Corey Amundson (DOJ)
Lisa Monaco (Deputy US Attorney)
Marshall Miller
Every government agency and branch, with the exception of the US Supreme Court, is under the influence of the Council, an "untouchable," legislatively codified sui generis organization.
From their perspective, they own the United States of America. It is "theirs," and "they" are its self-appointed stewards. They view anyone who is not "theirs" as either a "useful idiot," a "useful innocent," or a piece of human chattel that they can discard into necro (death)-politics. They view the rest of us as expendable "carbon units," assigning positive and negative values based on our relative usefulness to them. This is their language.
The Council Emeritus:
William Barr (former Attorney General)
Jeffrey Rosen (former US Attorney General)
Andrew McCabe (traitor and former FBI director)
Robert Mueller (former FBI director)
James Comey (former FBI director)
Eric Holder (former AG)
Susan Rice
Their construct of reality is more akin to the way a corporate industrial farm executive, in suit and tie, looks upon the stewardship of livestock, or how most humans think of ants. If something is harvestable and profitable, that respective "carbon unit" has a positive value. If something has a negative value, it is of no consequence starved or butchered.
To simplify this construct, a "war" between "good" and "evil" is correct. "The Council" does not operate in the sense of morality and spiritualism.
Unmasking the "Council's" operations and deceptions will reveal that, from their perspective, there is no "heaven," "hell," or divine accountability. "This" is it. "This" is all there is. There is nothing beyond our earthly dimension of concern for them, any more than there might be for a lizard.
Do not trouble yourself yet with the "why" and pathology. When someone treats you like livestock, it is first necessary for your immediate survival to Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act ("OODA"). Unless you prefer to be a well-behaved, sheered sheep on your way to the slaughterhouse.
For this treatise and exposé, it is sufficient that these arch-nemeses of the Constitution have names and faces. The first phase in the deconstruction of "The Council" is exposing its key players and how they operate.
A root cause analysis of the reasons for "why things are the way they are" in the United States of America is that the subject (root) and the ultimate goal of these self-entitled "stewards" is maintaining "state capture and finishing the job" of self-serving objectives for an elite class, euphemized as "progressive social reconstruction," to ensure their harvest and wealth extraction machine remains uninterrupted.
The proposition of this treatise, hypothesis, and exposé is that "The Council," otherwise known as the "CIGIE," controls the United States of America. While the CIGIE proper and its Political Arm, Infiltrator Arm, Business Arm, Propaganda Arm, and Entertainment Arm will first ignore this premise. When it takes hold with its target audiences, it cannot get around a basic "litmus test" for nearly every ailment in our nation.
In the future, pick any person, event, issue, indictment, investigation, or incident that has created turmoil in the United States of America.
Whether a Person of Interest (POI) is a politician, federal judge, senior public official, or even a "ally" or "enemy" of President Trump (as one example), the hand of "The Council" will ultimately surface through even the most basic Internet sleuthing and the "behavioral control" and shaping of Google and emerging artificial intelligence search engines
All roads lead back to "The Council," its arms (tentacles), and those they control through threats of investigation, indictment, and prosecution, or conversely, the obstruction of investigations.
The "forcing function" is the threat or obstruction of investigation by "The Council."
One corollary variant to this "litmus test" contradicts the basic assumption that "The Council" relies on competent and capable people. While this is most often true for critical path items and issues that cannot be mismanaged, one of the objectives of maintaining "state capture" is to instill an emotion of despair and futility in government. To achieve this, "The Council" delights in installing inept, foolish, and clownish government officials to frustrate the citizenry. And the Biden administration has plenty.
The Political Arm of The Council
Joe Biden (possibly removed)
Barack Obama (Barry Soetoro)
Senator Chuck (cheese) Schumer
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Senator Mitch McConnell
Congressman Jerry Nadler
Congressman Jamie Raskin
Hillary Clinton
The Intelligence Arm of the Council
John Brennan (former CIA Director)
General James Clapper (former Dir. National Intelligence)
Leon Panetta (former CIA/DOD Chief)
General Mike Hayden (CIA)
The Business Arm of The Council
Bill Gates
Mark Zuckerberg
George & Eric Soros
Michael Bloomberg
Tom Steyer
The Propaganda Arm of The Council
Norm Eisen (Special Counsel)
Jay Carney (WH Press Secretary)
Jen Psaki (WH Press Secretary)
Karine Jean-Pierre (WH Press Secretary)
The Entertainment Arm of The Council
Oprah Winfrey
Harvey Weinstein
Rachel Maddow
The View
"The Council" and its minions have shown they intend to steal the upcoming November 2024 elections. Elections are only one facet and one of their many objectives, just as identifying and selecting the "leaders" of the herd is one of the tasks of farm management for them.
However, our elections and our primitive drive for self-actualization and self-governance are the biggest threat to them and among "The Council's" most significant vulnerabilities. To those who presume to protest against their operations, January 6th was 'designed' by The Council as a threat to citizens to prevent future protests.
The greatest enigma and threats they face are "outsiders" who have not grasped the fact that "The Council" effectively controls the United States of America and the world.
Addle-brained Joe Biden unwittingly but concisely communicated that memo in his 2020 statement that his team had created "the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
Biden campaign aides for months have bragged they have a superior ground operation across the country, but especially in the six to eight battleground states that likely will decide the election. On the call with donors Monday, Biden reminded them he has an infrastructure already in place.
Whether this is predictable political bravado that runs desperately against polls and facts or prescient forewarning, the mechanisms for massive election fraud and another stolen election in 2024 have been well-honed in key swing states and targeted pivot counties developed over the past four years.
The four essential components needed to carry out election fraud in the November 2024 presidential election are:
1. Violating federal and state election laws to introduce compromised electronic election machines and software.
2. Violating federal and state election laws to insert millions of fraudulent "no excuse" mail-in ballots of unqualified electors (voters) into election tabulations.
3. Violating federal and state election laws to use "centralized counting centers" to cover up and obfuscate massive election fraud.
4. Continuing to use lawfare, censorship, and media smearing to suppress anyone who might challenge massive election fraud.
The fix is in. At least that is what they believe. However, the situation is far from over. There are hundreds of millions of noble American patriots who will take a stand against corruption. Remember, it is easier to avoid propaganda, than to resist it. Turn off mainstream media and turn on independent media and honest journalists.
More info: https://standupamerica.com/about-us/
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This Day in U S Military History…….19 August
1919 – "The Marines' Hymn" was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1942 – A major raid by mainly Canadian Forces (2nd Canadian Division, under General Roberts), with a British commando component (Nos. 3 & 4 commandos under Lord Lovat) and 50 American Rangers, is staged on the French coast, at Dieppe. Its function is to test German coastal defenses and gather intelligence. The raid goes badly and there is much controversy about it, including the cancellation and remounting of the raid, the inaccurate intelligence concerning German defensive positions and the lack of bomber support for the raid. In all there are 3600 casualties on the Allied side. 106 aircraft, one destroyer, 30 tanks and 33 landing craft are also lost. German casualties are light, 600 men and 50 tanks.
1942 – 19 US Marines died during a commando raid on Makin atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The raid was 2,000 miles behind enemy lines and 9 Marines were left behind. The 1943 movie, "Gung Ho," was based on the raid and starred Randolph Scott as Lt. Col. Evans Carlson, leader of the raid. In 2001 the bodies of 13 Marines, who died on Makin, were reburied at Arlington National Cemetery.
1943 – Italians have approached the Allies about negotiating a surrender. General Bedell Smith, General Eisenhower's Chief of Staff, and General Strong, his chief of intelligence areeive to continue talks with approaches to the British ambassador, Sir Samuel Hoare. The leading Italian representative is General Castellano.
1944 – Elements of the US 3rd Army reach the Seine River at Mantes Grassicourt. There is heavy fighting between Falaise and Argentan.
1944 – Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1945 – Japanese representatives of the government arrive in Manila to conclude the surrender of the remaining Japanese troops and receive instructions on the plans for the occupation of Japan and the signing of the surrender documents. Meanwhile, General MacArthur ordered a halt to all amphibious landing operations.
1981 – 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 over the Gulf of Sidra.
2010 – The last US combat brigades departed Iraq in the early morning. Convoys of US troops had been moving out of Iraq to Kuwait for several days, and NBC News broadcast live from Iraq as the last convoy crossed the border. While all combat brigades left the country, an additional 50,000 personnel (including Advise and Assist Brigades) remained in the country to provide support for the Iraqi military.
2014 – In what may be considered the first attack of the Islamic State on the United States, IS releases a video that shows the apparent beheading of American journalist James Foley, and threatens the life of another American journalist if President Barack Obama doesn't end military operations in Iraq. Foley had disappeared form northwest Syria on 22 November 2012 while working for the US-based online news outlet GlobalPost. The other journalist, still in captivity, is Steven Sotloff, kidnapped form the Syria-Turkey border region in 2013. Sotloff is a contributor to Time and Foreign Policy magazines.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
BROWN, CHARLES
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company C, 50th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Weldon Railroad, Va., 19 August 1864. Entered service at:——. Birth: Schuylkill County, Pa. Date of issue: 1 December 1864. Citation: Capture of flag of 47th Virginia Infantry (C.S.A.).
CAYER, OVILA
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company A, 14th U.S. Volunteers. Place and date: At Weldon Railroad, Va., 19 August 1864. Entered service at:——. Birth: Canada. Date of issue: 15 February 1867. Citation: Commanded the regiment, all the officers being disabled.
HOTTENSTINE, SOLOMON J.
Rank and organization: Private, Company C, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Petersburg and Norfolk Railroad, Va., 19 August 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth: Lehigh County, Pa. Date of issue: 2 February 1865. Citation: Captured flag belonging to a North Carolina regiment, and through a ruse led them into the arms of Federal troops.
MARTIN, SYLVESTER H.
Rank and organization. Lieutenant, Company K, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Weldon Railroad, Va., 19 August 1864. Entered service at:——. Birth: Chester County, Pa. Date of issue: 5 April 1894. Citation: Gallantly made a most dangerous reconnaissance, discovering the position of the enemy and enabling the division to repulse an attack made in strong force.
TAYLOR, WILLIAM
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Co. H, and 2d Lt. Co. M, 1st Maryland Inf. Place and date: At Front Royal, Va., 23 May 1862. At Weldon Railroad, Va., 19 August 1864. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Washington, D.C. Date of issue: 2 August 1897. Citation: When a sergeant, at Front Royal, Va., he was painfully wounded while obeying an order to burn a bridge, but, persevering in the attempt, he burned the bridge and prevented its use by the enemy. Later, at Weldon Railroad, Va., then a lieutenant, he voluntarily took the place of a disabled officer and undertook a hazardous reconnaissance beyond the lines of the army; was taken prisoner in the attempt.
WOODS, BRENT
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company B, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: New Mexico, 19 August 1881. Entered service at: Louisville, Ky. Birth: Pulaski County, Ky. Date of issue: 12 July 1894. Citation: Saved the lives of his comrades and citizens of the detachment.
*NAKAE, MASATO Another Nise from the 442 Private Masato Nakae distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 19 August 1944, near Pisa, Italy. When his submachine gun was damaged by a shell fragment during a fierce attack by a superior enemy force, Private Nakae quickly picked up his wounded comrade's M-1 rifle and fired rifle grenades at the steadily advancing enemy. As the hostile force continued to close in on his position, Private Nakae threw six grenades and forced them to withdraw. During a concentrated enemy mortar barrage that preceded the next assault by the enemy force, a mortar shell fragment seriously wounded Private Nakae. Despite his injury, he refused to surrender his position and continued firing at the advancing enemy. By inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy force, he finally succeeded in breaking up the attack and caused the enemy to withdraw. Private Nakae's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.
*FRATELLENICO, FRANK R.
Rank and organization Corporal, U.S. Army, Company B, 2d Battalion, 502d Infantry, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Place and date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam, 19 August 1970. Entered service at: Albany, N.Y. Born: 14 July 1951, Sharon, Conn. Citation: Cpl. Fratellenico distinguished himself while serving as a rifleman with Company B. Cpl. Fratellenico's squad was pinned down by intensive fire from 2 well-fortified enemy bunkers. At great personal risk Cpl. Fratellenico maneuvered forward and, using hand grenades, neutralized the first bunker which was occupied by a number of enemy soldiers. While attacking the second bunker, enemy fire struck Cpl. Fratellenico, causing him to fall to the ground and drop a grenade which he was preparing to throw. Alert to the imminent danger to his comrades, Cpl. Fratellenico retrieved the grenade and fell upon it an instant before it exploded. His heroic actions prevented death or serious injury to 4 of his comrades nearby and inspired his unit which subsequently overran the enemy position. Cpl. Fratellenico's conspicuous gallantry, extraordinary heroism, and intrepidity at the cost of his life, above and beyond the call of duty, are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
PLESS, STEPHEN W.
Rank and organization: Major (then Capt.), U.S. Marine Corps, VMD-6, Mag-36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. Place and date: Near Quang Nai, Republic of Vietnam, 19 August 1967. Entered service at: Atlanta, Ga. Born: 6 September 1939, Newman, Ga. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a helicopter gunship pilot attached to Marine Observation Squadron 6 in action against enemy forces. During an escort mission Maj. Pless monitored an emergency call that 4 American soldiers stranded on a nearby beach were being overwhelmed by a large Viet Cong force. Maj. Pless flew to the scene and found 30 to 50 enemy soldiers in the open. Some of the enemy were bayoneting and beating the downed Americans. Maj. Pless displayed exceptional airmanship as he launched a devastating attack against the enemy force, killing or wounding many of the enemy and driving the remainder back into a treeline. His rocket and machinegun attacks were made at such low levels that the aircraft flew through debris created by explosions from its rockets. Seeing 1 of the wounded soldiers gesture for assistance, he maneuvered his helicopter into a position between the wounded men and the enemy, providing a shield which permitted his crew to retrieve the wounded. During the rescue the enemy directed intense fire at the helicopter and rushed the aircraft again and again, closing to within a few feet before being beaten back. When the wounded men were aboard, Maj. Pless maneuvered the helicopter out to sea. Before it became safely airborne, the overloaded aircraft settled 4 times into the water. Displaying superb airmanship, he finally got the helicopter aloft. Major Pless' extraordinary heroism coupled with his outstanding flying skill prevented the annihilation of the tiny force. His courageous actions reflect great credit upon himself and uphold the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for 19 August, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
19 August
1910: Through 28 August, Glenn H. Curtiss gave the first real flying exhibition at Sheepshead Bay Track, Brooklyn. (24)
1928: Arthur Goebel and Harry Tucker used a Lockheed Vega monoplane to fly Los Angeles to Curtiss Field, Long Island. They set a new cross-country record of 18 hours 58 minutes. (9) (24)
1938: The first transcontinental nonstop flight by a B-18 bomber traveled from Hamilton Field to Mitchel Field in 15 hours 18 minutes. (24)
1940: North American B-25 Mitchell bomber first flew. (12)
1942: 2Lt Sam F. Junkin became the first active duty American pilot to shoot down a German fighter over Europe while giving air support to a commando raid on Dieppe, France. (4)
1950: KOREAN WAR. Aided by air strikes, U.S. troops drove N. Korean forces near the Yongsan bridgehead back across the Naktong River to end the Battle of the Naktong Bulge. Sixty-three B-29s attacked the industrial and port area of Chongjin in NE Korea, while nine B-29s from the 19 BG dropped 54 tons of 1,000-pound bombs on the west railway bridge at Seoul. Moreover, 37 USN dive bombers from two carriers followed up the USAF attack. Afterwards, aerial reconnaissance revealed the collapse of two spans. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Far East Air Forces aircraft dropped general warning leaflets over Pyongyang concerning the next night's attacks. (28)
1957: Project MAN HIGH II. Through 20 August Maj David G. Simons set a FAI altitude record of
101,516 feet for manned balloon flight. He ascended at Crosby, Minn., and landed at Elm Lake, S.Dak., after being airborne for 32 hours. (9)
1959: Discoverer VI, a USAF satellite, launched into a polar orbit from the Pacific Missile Range. Its instrument capsule was not recovered. (24)
1960: MACKAY TROPHY. Capt Harold E. Mitchell piloted a Fairchild C-119 to make the first aerial retrieval of an orbited capsule. Discoverer XIV, which launched on 18 August, ejected the capsule. For this aerial recovery, the 6593d Test Squadron (Special) received the Mackay Trophy. (See 11 August 1960) (16) (24) (26)
1964: A Thor-Delta rocket carried the Hughes SYNCOM III communications satellite into space. After several weeks of minor maneuvering, the satellite achieved a near-perfect stationary position above the equator and International Date Line. That achievement made SYNCOM III the world's first geostationary satellite. (16) (26)
1970: At Minot AFB, the first Minuteman III ICBMs went on alert with the 741 SMS. (6) 1972: Through 20 August, MAC HH-3 Jolly Green Giant and HH-43 Huskie helicopters rescued 748 Koreans from flood waters in the Osan area after 18 inches of rain fell in less than 30 hours. (16) (26)
1974: Through 20 August, 3 C–141s carried 600 tents and 15,000 blankets into Bangladesh after severe floods. (18)
1976: Operation PAUL BUNYAN. Through 21 August, following the murder of 2 American Army officers in the Demilitarized Zone by North Koreans, MAC used 11 C-141 missions to airlift 212 F-4 air and ground crewmembers and 132 tons of their equipment from Kadena AB to Kunsan AB. Later, 3 C-5 and 13 C-141 missions airlifted an F-111 force of 348 people and 299 tons of cargo from Idaho to Taegu AB. With KC-135 refuelings, the C-5s flew their missions nonstop. Two more C-141 missions moved 38 passengers and 26 tons of ammunition from Eglin AFB to Osan AB. (18)
1984: TYPHOON KELL. Through 20 August, two C-141s from Twenty-Second Air Force evacuated 382 US military and civilian personnel from Johnson Island to avoid the typhoon. (16) (26)
Somewhere in my storage is a small key ring with a very small piece of material in cased in clear plastic. It is a piece of the outer skin of what was caught that day. This was at Vandenberg AFB…..skip
FAMOUS FLIGHTS: First mid-air recovery of an object returning from Earth orbit
Capt. Harold Mitchell piloted a Fairchild C-119 to make the first aerial retrieval of an orbited capsule. A Thor Agena A with Discoverer 14 launched on 18 August and ejected the Corona Mission 9009 film capsule the next day. The capsule contained the first reconnaissance photos from space. For this aerial recovery, the 6593d Test Squadron (Special) received the Mackay Trophy.
The Corona program was managed by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force. The first 13 missions failed to return any usable imagery. Unsuccessful launches, orbits not achieved, camera malfunctions, spacecraft errors, and missed recoveries plagued the program.
The first CORONA images were grainy and of limited utility, but quality–and intelligence value–improved rapidly. Within a few months, CIA photo interpreters had dispelled both the missile gap and the bomber gap. They found that Soviets were, in fact, significantly behind the US in development of a workable ICBM and that the Soviets were building up a strategic bomber force but were devoting most of their resources to missile production. In just a few weeks, CORONA photography had eliminated the Soviet intelligence dilemma that had haunted the US for a decade. (CIA Image)
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