To All,
Good Thursday Morning August 22.Overecast and foggy here this morning. I hope you all have a good day.
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
Today in Naval and Marine Corps History
August. 22
1912 The Dental Corps is established by an Act of Congress.
1942 USS Blue (DD 387) is torpedoed by Japanese destroyer, Kawakaze, off Guadalcanal. She was scuttled by her crew the following day.
1944 Submarines Haddo (SS 255) and Harder (SS 257) encounter three Japanese escort vessels off the mouth of Manila Bay. Haddo sinks Sado 35 miles west of Manila; Harder sinks Matsuwa and Hiburi about 50 miles west-southwest of Manila.
1945 The Japanese of Mille Atoll, Marshall Islands, surrenders on board USS Levy (DE 162), the first Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
1956 A P4M Mercator, while on night patrol out of Iwakuni, Japan, reported it is under attack by aircraft over international waters, 32 miles off the China coast, and is not heard from again. Carrier and land-based air and surface ships, searching for the plane, found wreckage, empty life rafts, and the bodies of two crew members.
1980 USS Passumpsic (AO 107), guided by (P 3) aircraft from Patrol Squadron 1 and 26 (VP 1 and VP 26), rescues 28 Vietnamese refugees off Saigon.
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This day in World History August 22
1350 John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France.
1485 Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth. This victory establishes the Tudor dynasty in England and ends the War of the Roses.
1642 Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham.
1717 The Austrian army forces the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans.
1777 With the approach of General Benedict Arnold's army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandons Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada.
1849 The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies.
1911 The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913.
1922 Michael Collins, Irish politician, is killed in an ambush.
1942 Brazil declares war on the Axis powers. She is the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe.
1945 Soviet troops land at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China.
1945 Conflict in Vietnam begins when a group of Free French parachute into southern Indochina, in response to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh.
1952 Devil's Island's penal colony is permanently closed.
1956 Incumbent US President Dwight D. Eisenhower & Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco.
1962 OAS (Secret Army Organization) gunmen unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the incident inspires Frederick Forsyth's novel, The Day of the Jackal.
1962 The world's first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga.
1968 First papal visit to Latin America; Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota.
1969 Hurricane Camille hits US Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.421 billion in damages.
1971 Bolivian military coup: Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez ousts leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres and assumes power.
1971 FBI arrests members of The Camden 28, an anti-war group, as the group is raiding a draft office in Camden, NJ.
1972 International Olympic Committee votes 36–31 with 3 abstentions to ban Rhodesia from the games because of the country's racist policies.
1975 US President Gerald Ford survives second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal.
1983 Benigno Aquino, the only real opposition on Ferdinand Marcos' reign as president of the Philippines, is gunned down at Manila Airport.
1989 First complete ring around Neptune discovered.
1995 During 11-day siege at Ruby Ridge, Id., FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi kills Vicki Weaver while shooting at another target.
2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended for refusing to comply with federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building's lobby.
2005 Art heist: a version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2007 Most runs scored by any team in modern MLB history as the Texas Rangers thump the Baltimore Orioles 30-3.
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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?
(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 22 August
22-Aug: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1314
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 Boysie ..and Dr.Rich
In case you ever wondered??
JUST PLAIN NEAT INFORMATION
Glass takes one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
When a person dies hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
If you stop getting thirsty , you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.
Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals. (note from Sandy - perhaps because zero wasn't considered a number in Roman times. That happened in middle ages)
Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.
The song Auld Lang Syne is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year.
Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent. Drinking a glass of water before you eat may help digestion and curb appetite.
Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450F.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
In ancient Greece , tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted.
Warner Communications paid 28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday, which was written in 1935!
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.
In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed.
Strawberries and cashews are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside.
Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year.
The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.
Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off.
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
Tater Tots were invented to reduce waste.
If Tater Tots are your favorite fast-food side, you have the ingenuity of two brothers — Golden and Francis Nephi Grigg — to thank. However, when the pair invented the crispy potato composites in the 1950s, they didn't set out to change snack food history. Instead, their potato creation came from a quest to reduce the amount of food waste produced at their frozen foods plant.
Before becoming successful spud salesmen, Golden and Francis sold frozen corn. Around 1949, they decided to diversify into other fruits and vegetables, and converted a factory in Ontario, Oregon (on the border with Idaho), into a potato-processing plant they were later able to purchase. In 1952, the Griggs launched the Ore-Ida brand, which became popular for its frozen french fries. The crispy potato spears were a hit among home cooks at a time when prepared meals and frozen foods were becoming more widely available thanks to postwar technology.
The downside to booming french fry sales, however, was the waste left behind. Initially, the Griggs sold vegetable byproducts to farmers as livestock feed, but they soon looked for a way to nourish humans instead. They began experimenting with chopping up the potato scraps, mixing them with flour and spices, then shaping the result into a rectangle with the help of a simple, homemade plywood mold. The first Tater Tots — named, by one account, after an employee won a contest by suggesting "tater" for potato and "tot" for small — debuted in 1956. At first, shoppers seemed skeptical of the inexpensive scrap-based snack, but after prices were raised slightly to suggest an air of sophistication, Tater Tots quickly found a permanent home in frozen food aisles, where they continue to reign today.
"Tater Tot" is a trademarked name.
Tater Tot producer Ore-Ida's name is a nod to Oregon and Idaho two potato-growing states.
Numbers Don't Lie
Acres of U.S. farmland used for potato growing in 2020
1 million
Rough percentage of the annual U.S. potato crop used for french fries, tots, chips, and other processed foods
60
Purchase price of Ore-Ida paid by Heinz in 1965 (about $286 million today)
$30 million
Year the first Tater Tot Festival was held in Ontario, Oregon (the birthplace of tots)
2021
Acres of U.S. farmland used for potato growing in 2020
1 million
Rough percentage of the annual U.S. potato crop used for french fries, tots, chips, and other processed foods
60
Miners traded gold for potatoes during the Klondike gold rush.
Between 1848 and 1855, an estimated 300,000 people made their way to California, hoping to strike it rich by mining the supposedly plentiful gold just beneath the Earth's surface. Unfortunately, many miners at the time faced a common foe: malnutrition. Food costs were often inflated in remote mining towns, and nutritious fresh food was generally hard to come by, meaning many miners had limited diets of shelf-stable goods like bread, salt pork, and beans. For gold hunters who trekked farther north to Alaska for the Klondike gold rush, which kicked off in 1896, that often meant an increasing risk of scurvy — a vitamin C deficiency that can cause fatigue and tooth loss, among other effects. Scurvy could be remedied with potatoes, a vegetable that Klondike miners could more easily source than many other fresh produce items. However, shortages and unscrupulous peddlers increased the price of potatoes, forcing many prospectors to trade their hard-won gold for spuds in an effort to ward off the effects of the illness.
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Thanks to John
https://youtu.be/hiKvrdguRPA?si=U-IFRhSVvAEux7uZ
The link you sent for the women throwing a ball up did not have the video.
Here it is on You Tube.. Amazing
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Thanks to Todd ...and Dr.Rich
New 'Marine One' Flies President for First Time After 20-Year Search
Sam LaGroneNovember 20, 2018
A Sikorsky VH-92A lands at the White House during a test on September 22, 2018. The VH-92A will become the new presidential transport helicopter, replacing an aging fleet of VH-3D and VH-60N helicopters. Naval Air Systems Command Photo
The Marines flew a U.S. president in a new helicopter for the first time in decades.
On Monday, a VH-92A Patriot assigned to the "Nighthawks" of Marine Helicopter Squadron (HMX) One flew President Joe Biden from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Solider Field to speak at the Democratic National Convention.
The VH-92A is the first new platform designated to use the "Marine One" callsign since the 1989 introduction of the VH-60 White Hawk executive transport and more than 60 years since the better known VH-3 Sea King took over the role as the presidential helicopter.
The current VH-3D variant, modified several times, has been the primary presidential helicopter since the Gerald Ford administration.
Biden's Chicago trip comes after a more than two-decade gestation period for a new presidential helicopter.
Earlier this month, Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky delivered the last of 23 planned VH-92As, a variant of the S-92 commercial helicopter, to the Marines, according to a statement from Naval Air Systems Command.
"Sikorsky's highly-skilled employees have shown their ability to innovate, manufacture and deliver these next-generation VH-92A presidential helicopters that will be operating worldwide in support of presidential missions well into the future," Richard Benton, Sikorsky vice president and general manager, said in a Monday Lockheed statement.
The Pentagon has spent more than 20 years trying to replace the VH-3D after starting the VXX program in 2002. In 2005, Naval Air Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for 28 VH-71 Kestrels, variants of the AgustaWestland AW101, for the presidential helo mission. The program was canceled in 2009 over cost overruns.
NAVAIR awarded helicopter builder Sikorsky the initial contract for the first six presidential helicopter in 2014 for $5 billion. The first variant flew in 2017.
After the first flight, "the helicopter subsequently failed to meet reliability, availability, and maintenance thresholds, and although it was credited with achieving initial operational capability on 28 December 2021, it was not approved for presidential transport because of problems with the encrypted communication system and other issues," wrote Norman Polmar for Proceedings in February.
While the airframes are similar to their military counterparts, the presidential helicopters are heavily modified to include, "ballistic armor, radar jamming and deception systems to deter antiaircraft missiles, hardened electronics against a nuclear electromagnetic pulse, and encrypted telecommunication and videoconferencing systems," Polmar wrote.
In addition to reliability and communication system problems, the heat from VH-92A also can damage landing surfaces – including the White House South Lawn, according to a 2020 Government Accountability Office report.
"In a September 2018 training event, the Navy found that VH-92A's exhaust damaged a [White House] landing zone. Program officials stated that the training event did not represent a typical operational scenario since the lawn was exposed to the helicopter's exhaust for a longer period than it would be under normal operating conditions," reads the report.
As to when a VH-92A will make its debut as "Marine One" at the While House is still an open question.
The Marines told Flight Global in April, "VH-92A tasking for presidential support will be at the discretion of the White House Military Office."
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Thanks to Mike
Skip, in reference to the blurb about John Glenn in The List 6925, recommend the book "Wingmen, the Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" by Adam Lazarus. Excellent book on both Glenn and Williams.
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Thanks to Barrett
Skip, a bit more esoterica. Hammann's action in August 1918 was before all the other Great War MoHs—entirely in September-October including the USMC DH-4 crew. So a golden winger was the first airman awarded The Big One.
DD-412 was sunk when the Jap sub torpedoed Yorktown CV5 at Midway. Hammann was secured alongside providing power for the DC gang.
Barrett
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Thanks to David .... scary!!
We had a neighbor when we lived in Los Angeles who was a Ball Gun Turret operator in WWII. He had a lot of stories and was lucky to survive.
Inside the B-17 Ball Turret (youtube.com)
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Thanks to History Facts
6 Empires That Changed the World
Much of human history has been defined by the actions of around 50 to 70 empires that once ruled large swathes of people across vast chunks of the globe. Each of these empires, whether large or small, for ill or for good, has influenced world history. It's hard to say which has had the greatest impact on society — it is, after all, somewhat subjective and hard to measure — but some have undeniably shaped the course of human history, forever and irrevocably. Here are six such empires, from the mighty Persians to the globe-spanning British.
Persian Empire
Around 550 BCE, Cyrus II of Persia — later to be known as Cyrus the Great — conquered a number of neighboring kingdoms, including Media and Babylon, and brought them together under his control. In so doing, he founded the first Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire. Centered in modern-day Iran, it became one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Egypt and the Balkans to parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. For more than two centuries, the empire was a global center of culture, religion, science, arts, and technology. But then came the Persian ruler Xerxes, whose failed invasion of Greece in 480 BCE brought about a period of decline. Weakened, the Persian Empire eventually fell in 330 BCE at the hands of the invading armies of Alexander the Great of Macedonia.
Roman Empire
Following a period of unrest and civil wars — including the assassination of Julius Caesar — the Roman Republic came to an end and Augustus Caesar was crowned the first ruler of the new Roman Empire in 27 BCE. At its height in 117 CE, Rome controlled all the land from Western Europe to the Middle East, and was the most powerful political and military entity the world had yet seen. The impact of the Roman Empire on the modern world is hard to overstate. Our art, architecture, laws, technology, and engineering — even the very words we speak — have all been heavily influenced by the ancient Romans. But even an empire as mighty as Rome was destined to fall. A series of Gothic invasions heralded a general decline, and in 476 CE, the Western Roman Empire fell. The Eastern Roman Empire — also known as the Byzantine Empire — remained until 1453, but the glory days of the Roman Empire had reached their end.
Han Dynasty
Founded in 206 BCE and established by a commoner named Liu Bang, the Han dynasty was the second great imperial dynasty of China. It spanned more than four centuries and is considered a golden age in Chinese history. Despite much political turbulence, the dynasty helped cement Confucianism as the state religion and opened up a world-changing trade route with Europe: the Silk Road. The Han dynasty is also known for its many innovations that shaped the world as we know it today. Developments in everything from record-keeping to agriculture and health care had a global impact, while inventions such as the rudder, the blast furnace, the wheelbarrow, suspension bridges, and paper forever changed the way we live.
Mongol Empire
At the height of its powers, the Mongol Empire covered around 9 million square miles, making it the largest contiguous land empire the world has ever seen. The empire was founded by Genghis Khan, a former tribal leader, in 1206. Genghis' early victories gave him control of the whole of what is now Mongolia. He and his fearsome armies then engaged in a period of aggressive expansion that conquered most of Eurasia, leaving a trail of ruin in its wake. But the Mongol Empire was far more complex than its notorious hordes would suggest. Under Genghis and his successors, the Mongols reformed his people's laws, created a military-feudal form of government, and enhanced trade (including along the Silk Road) throughout his conquered territories. His armies, meanwhile, were quick to adopt advanced technologies of the time, such as powerful siege weapons and possibly gunpowder, while perfecting their mounted hit-and-run tactics. The Mongols were also innovators who, through their expansion, helped introduce military technology to new lands, including their famed composite bow and stirrups.
Ottoman Empire
From humble beginnings as a provincial principality in Anatolia (part of modern-day Turkey), the Ottoman Empire rose to become one of the most powerful and long-lasting empires in history, spanning an incredible six centuries from the early 1300s to the aftermath of World War I. The Islamic superpower ruled large swathes of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and North Africa, and reached the height of its powers under the appropriately named Suleiman the Magnificent. Suleiman, who ruled the empire from 1520 to 1566, brought about a golden age of geographic expansion, trade, economic growth, and huge cultural and artistic developments, while forging an empire that embraced ethnic diversity and religious tolerance.
British Empire
The British Empire remains the largest empire the world has ever seen. Beginning with overseas colonies in the Americas in the 16th century, British expansion then accelerated in the 18th century, particularly in Asia. With the aid of the London-based East India Company, the empire established trading posts around the world, which in turn developed into a worldwide system of dependencies, including colonies and protectorates. At its height in the early 20th century, the British Empire covered around 25% of the world's land surface, including large parts of North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia. In 1913, it ruled over some 412 million inhabitants in its entirety — about 23% of the world's population at the time. Such a vast territory was unsustainable, however, and, as more and more nations fought for their independence, the empire began to crumble. But the influence of the British Empire upon the world was massive — and remains a hugely controversial subject. Once a source of pride in Britain, the nation's imperial past is now more often seen as a dark and often brutal period of colonialism. Since the decline of the empire, more than 60 countries have gained their independence from the United Kingdom.
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Thanks to Strayburst
The OH-6, Anybody Fly One?I've heard of aircraft that suffered from underpowered engines, but has an aircraft ever suffered from an overpowered engine?
Lots of good answers for this already, but I would like to add the Hughes OH-6 Cayuse:
These were used by the US army in Vietnam as scout helicopters (better known as "Loach" or LOH for Light Observation Helicopter). Also made famous by Magnum P.I. as this is basically the same craft Magnum's buddy T.C. flew for his Island Hopper sight-seeing business.
Anyhow, my dad flew Scout Loaches in Vietnam during the war and he said that if you really gave 'er the beans, it was capable of accelerating so violently in an upwardly direction that the weight of your flight helmet would drag your head down so hard that it took some pretty intense neck effort just to keep your head level.
More importantly to our question, this maneuver would immediately cause the little light indicating steel shavings in the transmission to light up as the transmission began eating itself alive in response to your ham-fisted flying.
If that's not over-powered, I don't know what is. He says he only ever did it twice. Once when he was hovering low over a rice paddy picking up some guys while bullets were ripping through the fuselage and splashing in the water all around and another time when he got shot through the calf.
Scout pilots were basically BAIT. They'd fly around in an area until they got shot at and then they'd drop smoke and the Cobras would come in and blow the hell outta the place.
My dad said the trick was to never fly through the same spot/same direction twice or the enemy would be waiting, ready to shoot at you. He said that when he got shot, it was the only time he didn't follow his own advice and flew through the same area in a similar direction.
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
Oceans have lakes and rivers.
The Earth's oceans are just as dynamic a landscape as the bits of rock that peek above its surface. Our seas are home to the world's longest mountain chain, its deepest trenches, and other impressive natural structures that boggle the mind. The ocean is even home to its own underwater lakes and rivers. When seawater seeps up from the seafloor, it mixes with the salt layers above and creates a depression in the seabed, where this heavy, dense, and briny mixture rests. Some of these depressions can be more like puddles than proper lakes, stretching only a few feet across, but others can be many miles wide or long, and even feature their own underwater waves. And like lakes and rivers on land, these underwater features also have coastlines and animals that rely on these salty seas within seas to survive.
Some 94% of the world's wildlife can be found in the oceans. However, the oceans contain just 1% of life overall as measured by biomass (tons of carbon); plants, which mostly live on land, account for more than 82% of biomass. Humans, meanwhile, comprise just 0.01% of biomass.
These aren't the only types of "rivers" found in the world's oceans. Where some of the world's major rivers (including the Amazon and Congo) meet the sea, an underwater current of silt and sand can create massive channels that move more sediment in a few weeks than all the world's regular rivers combined can move in a year. Although these are massive undersea structures, scientists discovered them only 40 years ago with the advent of sonar mapping, and many mysteries still surround them. In fact, some oceanographers have said that we know more about the surface of Mars than the depths of the Earth's oceans, and less than 19% of the ocean floor has been mapped in detail. Which raises the question: What other amazing aquatic wonders have yet to be discovered?
Numbers Don't Lie
Estimated height (in feet) of the underwater Denmark Strait cataract, the tallest waterfall in the world
11,500
Length (in miles) of the mid-ocean ridge system, the longest mountain chain on Earth
40,390
Year the first submarine was built, which dove under the River Thames
1620
Year Charles Wyville Thomson led the first deep-sea expedition, aboard the HMS Challenger
1872
In 2012, director James Cameron completed the first solo dive to the deepest point on the Earth's seabed.
An estimated 80% of all volcanic eruptions occur underwater.
Volcanic eruptions are some of the most dramatic geologic events that humans can witness, but a large majority of them actually happen without us noticing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that 80% of all volcanic eruptions occur underwater — but these explosive Earth burps don't work the same way as their land-based relatives. Because the weight of the water above these volcanoes creates such high pressure, submarine volcanoes rarely truly explode. Instead they create what's called "passive lava flows" along the seafloor, which over the course of millions of years can form volcanic island chains such as Hawaii. These submarine volcanoes that never peak above sea level are known as seamounts, and their lava-churning drama occurs out of sight and (for most of us) out of mind.
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This Day in U S Military History
1950 – During the fighting at the "Bowling Alley" near Tabudong, North Korean Lieutenant Colonel Chong Pong UK, commander of the artillery regiment supporting the North Korean 13th Division, surrendered to the ROK 1st Division. Chong, the highest-ranking communist prisoner to date, gave precise information on the location of his artillery. Eighth Army immediately launched air and artillery strikes on the enemy guns. Chong had defected in protest against what he felt was an unfair reprimand by the 13th Division commander.
1967 – Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General John P. McConnell, states before a Senate Subcommittee that adopting a graduated bombing policy in North Vietnam was a mistake. Three days later, Secretary of Defense McNamara admitted that the bombing of North Vietnam had not materially affected Hanoi's "warmaking capability."
1968 – For the first time in two months, Viet Cong forces launch a rocket attack on Saigon, killing 18 and wounding 59. Administration officials denounced the attack as a direct repudiation of President Johnson's speech of August 19, in which he appealed to the North Vietnamese to respond favorably to his limitation of the air campaign north of the DMZ.
1994 – The Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea and the CCCS Louis S. Ste Laurent became the first "North American surface ships" to reach the North Pole. An HH-65A from Aviation Training Center Mobile, detached to the Polar Sea, became the first U.S. (and also Coast Guard) helicopter to reach the pole as well.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
CLlFFORD, ROBERT T.
Rank and organization: Master-at-Arms, U.S. Navy. Born: 1835, Pennsylvania. Accredited to: Pennsylvania. G.O. No.: 45, 31 December 1864. Citation: Served on board the U.S.S. Shokokon at New Topsail Inlet off Wilmington, N.C., 22 August 1863. Participating in a strategic plan to destroy an enemy schooner, Clifford aided in the portage of a dinghy across the narrow neck of land separating the sea from the sound. Launching the boat in the sound, the crew approached the enemy from the rear and Clifford gallantly crept into the rebel camp and counted the men who outnumbered his party 3 to 1. Returning to his men, he ordered a charge in which the enemy was routed, leaving behind a schooner and a quantity of supplies.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for August 22, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
22 August
1909: FIRST INTERNATIONAL FLYING MEET
1909: Through 29 August, in the Le Grande Semain d'Aviation de Champagne Flying Meet at Rheims, France, Glenn H flew one of his planes to win two first prizes ($5,000 and $2,000) and a second prize ($600) for speed. The Gordon-Bennett Race for speed was the most prestigious event in the meet. The top speed in the meet was 45.7 MPH. With close to 500,000 spectators. It set the standard for all future air shows of the time. To meet the challenge, special grandstands were constructed along with numerous restaurants, a barbershop, and even press facilities.
1917: Air-to-ground radiotelephones went into production.
1923: Lt Harold R. Harris (pilot) and Lt Muir Fairchild (copilot) flew the XNBL-1 Barling Bomber, the Army's first long-range night bomber, in its first flight at Wright Field. (21)
1938: Civil Aeronautics Act became effective to coordinate all nonmilitary aviation under the CAA. (20) (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. Chinese anti-aircraft gunners fired across the Yalu River at RB-29s flying border reconnaissance. This was the first hostile Chinese action against UN aircraft. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. On successive nights, three C-47s flew 60-minute voice broadcast sorties near the front lines, indicating a greater emphasis by UN Command on psychological war. (28)
1955: First run on the 120-foot Daisy track held to study human tolerance to short-duration G-forces.
1959: Through 20 September, Peter Gluckmann used a Meyers 200 Airplane to complete a solo, 22,800-mile round-the-world flight from San Francisco and back in 29 days. (9) (24)
1963: Above Edwards AFB, NASA test pilot Joseph A. Walker flew the X-15 to new records of 354,000 feet (67 miles) in altitude and 3,614 MPH. It was Walker's last X-15 free flight and the highest altitude achieved during the X-15 program.
1988: Through 6 October, aircrews flew 1 C-5, 1 C-130, and 29 C-141s to carry 2,497 Army firefighters and 420 tons of equipment to Bozeman, Mont., and West Yellowstone, Wyo., to fight a forest fire in Yellowstone National Park that had engulfed over 582,000 acres. (18)
1990: President George Bush called-up 200,000 ANG and AFRES personnel for Operation DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. (18)
1997: A C-5 aircrew from Dover AFB delivered a NASA satellite from Andrews AFB to Kagoshima, Japan, after a 16-hour flight. The $250 million satellite for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission was the first joint space project between the US and Japan. (22)
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