To All,
Good Sunday Morning October 6, 2024. The trip went well and it was good to have time with my son and his family. We made the trip in two days and all went well. Great country to travel. Lots of flat land and some mountain passes. Yesterday was entertaining . Got to the airport with plenty of time to be ready and the flight was delayed for a couple hours. It got better and we finally got aboard and were all settled in and the engines were started and as we went to push back we stopped and the pilot said we were delayed. Apparently the weather in San Diego had backed up aircraft for many miles. So we sat for a while and then they said they were going to let us off and about 20 people had left when thet called them back and we settled in to leave when they shut down again. They waited again and finally they said we were going to get off but everyone had to take all their carry on bags with them. So we were all back in the terminal for quite a while with one small place selling drinks and snacks. They had us all get in line by seating and they started boarding. In the airplane they went over all the preflight stuff again and it looked like we were going to go..BUT NOT SO FAST. Thet shut down the engines again and we waited and then they started up and away we went. It disrupted all the thing my wife had scheduled so on the way home we stopped by the store and bought a bunch of food stuff and finally headed for home.
But all went well. While I was gone we had visits from coyotes, bobcats and a possum. But all the chickens were fine.
It is good to be home. I hope you all had a great Bubba Breakfast.
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.
October 6
1884 - Department of the Navy establishes the Naval War College at Newport, RI (General Order 325).
1940 - Fourth group of 8 U.S. destroyers involved in Destroyers for Bases Deal are turned over to British authorities at Halifax, Canada.
1943 - In night Battle of Vella Lavella, 3 U.S. destroyers attack 9 Japanese destroyers to stop evacuation of Japanese troops from Vella Lavella., Solomon Islands
1958 - USS Seawolf (SSN-575) completes record submerged run of 60 days, logging over 13,700 nautical miles.
1962 - Commissioning of USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25), first nuclear-powered destroyer
1987 - Destruction of 3 Iranian small boats
1997: NASA astronaut Cmdr. Wendy B. Lawrence returns from mission STS-86 Atlantis, the seventh mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. The mission began Sept. 25, 1997.
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This Day in World History October 6
1014 The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title "Slayer of Bulgers" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops.
1536 William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France.
1696 Savoy Germany withdraws from the Grand Alliance.
1788 The Polish Diet decides to hold a four year session.
1801 Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland.
1847 Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is published in London.
1866 The Reno brothers--Frank, John, Simeon and William--commit the country's first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana netting $10,000.
1927 The first "talkie," The Jazz Singer, opens with popular entertainer Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past.
1941 German troops renew their offensive against Moscow.
1965 Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.
1966 Hanoi insists the United States must end its bombings before peace talks can begin.
1969 Special Forces Captain John McCarthy is released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges.
1973 Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1981 Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists. He is succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak.
1987 Fiji becomes a republic independent of the British Commonwealth.
1995 Astronomers discover 51 Pegasi is the second star known to have a planet orbiting it.
2000 Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milosevic and Argentina's vice-president Carlos Alvarez both resign from their respective offices.
2007 Explorer and author Jason Lewis becomes the first person to complete a human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED Thanks to the Bear … Bear🇺🇸⚓️🐻
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
Thanks to the Bear
. From the archives of rollingthunderremembered.com
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
. 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
(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 3 -6 October
3-Oct: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1375
4-Oct: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1378
5-Oct: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=3026
6-Oct: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=3028
Vietnam Air Losses
Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
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This Week in U S Military History
This Week in American Military History: From the Battle of Saratoga to the relief of the "Lost Battalion and the Deeds of Sargent York Thanks to Thomas W. Smith
Oct. 7, 1777: Continental forces under the command of Gen. Horatio Gates decisively defeat British forces under Gen. John "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga (also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights).
According to the National Parks Service, "This crucial American victory renewed patriots' hopes for independence, secured essential foreign recognition and support, and forever changed the face of the world."
But the war is far from over.
Oct. 7, 1780: Three years to the day after Second Saratoga, patriot militia forces armed with rifles, knives, and tomahawks decisively defeat musket-armed Loyalist militia under the command of British Army Maj. Patrick Ferguson (who will be killed in the fighting) in the bloody Battle of King's Mountain on the N.C.-S.C. border.
Among the patriots is John Crockett, father of Davy Crockett.
Oct. 7, 1918: Nearly two weeks into the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I, the U.S. Army's 82nd Division (destined to become the famed 82nd Airborne Division) battles its way toward -- and successfully relieves -- the now famous "Lost Battalion" (combined elements of three battalions of the 77th Infantry Division, which had been surrounded during a German counterattack).
For days without blankets and overcoats, always running short of ammunition and medical supplies (the wounded often patched up with bloody bandages removed from the dead), and with little food and nearly no water; the "Lost Battalion" -- under the command of Maj. (future lieutenant colonel) Charles S. Whittlesey -- had refused to surrender. Responding to a German surrender-demand, Whittlesey allegedly replied, "Go to hell!" Some reports suggest he said, "Come and get us."
Whittlesey and two of his officers -- Captains George McMurtry and Nelson Holderman -- will receive the Medal of Honor.
Oct. 7, 2001: Post 9/11 America goes on the offensive against terrorists when U.S. and allied forces launch a massive retaliatory air and naval strike against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan.
Oct. 8, 1918: The day following the relief of the "Lost Battalion,"
Private First Class (future U.S. Army sergeant and future colonel in the Tennessee State Guard) Alvin C. York captures "the whole damned German Army."
In the action for which he will receive both the Medal of Honor and the French Croix de Guerre, York leads a seven-man team of doughboys against a strong enemy position. The team kills at least 25 Germans and captures four officers, 128 soldiers, and over 30 machineguns.
York, an expert rifleman from the Tennessee backcountry (yes, the home of John and son, Davy, Crockett), will later describe the action as something akin to a Tennessee turkey shoot: "Every time one of them raised his head, I just teched him off," he said.
French Marshall Ferdinand Foch will tell York, "What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe."
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From the archives
Thanks to Glenn
The 1st gulf air war---unfathomable
I cannot imagine the level of planning, training,
pre-positioning of assets that went into this.
this video is astonishing in its detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxRgfBXn6Mg
Glenn
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
. 7 Features You Didn't Know Your Car Had
Cars really have one job: Getting you from point A to point B. But there are plenty of conveniences that can make your journey a little easier - some obvious, some a little more subtle. Nothing's a replacement for driving safely and watching the road, of course, but some features are designed to give you a little backup. Others are just convenient, like special hidey-holes. Not sure what that dash light or that button on your key fob does? These seven stealthy features could make you feel like you have a brand-new car.
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Gas Tank Side Indicator
It can be hard to remember what side your gas cap is on, especially in a car you're not used to driving. Fortunately, there's usually a pretty easy way to tell: In many cars, there's a little arrow next to the gas symbol on your fuel gauge that points to the side of the car that should be facing the pump. This tiny, easy-to-miss feature can save you a whole lot of awkwardness pulling a rental car into the gas station. Even if you're pretty sure your car doesn't have it, double-check - it's sneaky!
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Tire Pressure Monitor
If you're used to driving a car from before 2008, there's a new standard dash light that may look unfamiliar: a yellow exclamation point in the middle of what looks like two parentheses with a dotted line below. It's supposed to look like a cross section of a tire, and that light tells you that your tire pressure is low. Some cars have more fully featured tire pressure monitors that show all four wheels.
The dash light is designed to illuminate when at least one of your tires is 25% below the recommended tire pressure. If you're seeing it, either check your tire pressure or head to a tire store - many of them will check for free. (But remember that you should be checking your tire pressure monthly anyway; tire pressure can become dangerously low before this light comes
on.)The indicators became mandatory in American vehicles after the United States Congress passed the TREAD act; the bill was from 2000, but the requirement didn't kick in until 2008. Some car manufacturers got a head start and started including them in 2006 or 2007 models, too.
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Stability Control
Do you sometimes see a dash light that looks like a car with wiggly lines underneath it? That means you have an electronic stability control (ESC) system, sometimes called vehicle stability control, electronic stability program, or dynamic control system. It closely monitors your steering to determine when your car might be out of control, and softly adjusts the brakes on each wheel to compensate for over- or understeering and to prevent rollovers.
If you see the dash light flickering, chances are the system has been activated and is trying to keep your car on track, or driving conditions are just slippery. If it's steady, it could mean the system is malfunctioning.
Some cars have a button that can turn it off.
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Backup Mechanical Keys
If you drive a newer car, chances are you're not turning a key in the ignition. Key fobs have become the standard way to unlock vehicles, which is convenient until your key battery dies or you have some other kind of tech malfunction.
The good news is that you might have a lower-tech backup plan built right in. Many key fobs have little mechanical keys hidden inside that you can usually release by pressing or sliding a small button, although you may have to check the owner's manual to figure it out. Some key slots are better hidden than others; yours could be right next to the unlock button on the door, underneath the door handle, or under some sort of cap.
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Secret Storage Compartments
Whether you have something to hide or you're just trying to squeeze a little extra storage out of your vehicle, it's worth looking for secret pockets of space.
Some Toyota Prius models have storage underneath the floor of the trunk. The Buick Enclave has both subfloor storage and a false floor under the center console. The Infiniti G35 had a flap in the rear armrest with a small compartment behind it. Some Volkswagen models even have a little drawer under the driver's seat that's perfect for documents.
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Blind Spot Monitoring
The rear sides of your car are called "blind spots" for a reason - they're really hard to see, and even if you dutifully check them before changing lanes, accidents can happen. Some newer cars (and some not-so-new luxury
vehicles) come with blind spot monitors (BSMs) that let you know when a car's occupying this sneaky spot next to you. Some of these monitors are more obvious than others. It could be lights on your side mirrors, dashboard, or the pillar between your driver's side window and your windshield. A few cars even have audible warnings if your turn signal is on but the lane next to you is occupied.
Even lower-end cars have BSMs now, but some higher-end indicators go above and beyond and steer your car away. A couple of trucks even have BSMs that extend to the trailers they're towing. Just make sure to keep using your eyes - the monitors aren't foolproof, and often miss vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists.
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Shortcut for Rolling Down Your Windows
If you look at your key fob, you're probably not going to see a button that rolls down your windows, but that doesn't mean it can't do it. Check your manual, because sometimes a specific key sequence can lower all your windows from outside the vehicle so you can cool it down on a hot day. It's not just newer models, either - cars more than a decade old have this function, too.
Even if you're not planning on using this feature, you should at least figure out how not to do it by accident.
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From the archives
Thanks to Carl well worth the repeat
October - A Month For Remembering What We've Lost
By Don Feder
October 03, 2019
October always makes me think of loss. In much of the country, we lose green grass, leaves, flowers, soft breezes and warm, sunny days. They'll all be back in the spring, of course.
But I also think about what we've lost as a country and a society – things that may never come back. Gone are the days when:
1. People who walked in front of you in stores said, "Excuse me, please."
2. Movies relied on plot and character development, instead of computer-generated images, crashing cars, exploding buildings and severed limbs.
3. Sex in the cinema was a kiss on the lips and dialogue wasn't a constant stream of obscenities.
4. Young women didn't consider it the height of fashion to stick metal in their faces, a la the bride of Frankenstein. Young men didn't wear their hair in styles that defied both gravity and taste.
5. Only sailors, Marines and wrestlers had tattoos.
6. Kids played outdoors in every season.
7. A hand-held electronic device wasn't a life-support system.
8. Children had imaginations and didn't constantly whine that they were bored.
9. 30-year-olds didn't want to be children.
10. Children didn't want to be 30-year-olds.
11. People did something called "reading," with things like books, magazines and newspapers.
12. If you wanted to insult someone, you had the decency to do it in person or on the phone, instead of posting or Tweeting.
13. We treated the flag with a kind of reverence.
14. Homosexuals were mostly characters in French novels who didn't have parades.
15. Muslims were Arabs who rode across the desert in flowing white robes and did things with rugs, instead of with IEDs.
16. People who entered the country illegally didn't have rights.
17. We did everything reasonable to keep people from entering the country unlawfully and didn't feel guilty about it. If anyone had called it "racist," we would have fallen on the floor laughing.
18. Immigrants were expected to learn our language and identify with our country.
19. We blamed criminals for crime, instead of blaming firearms.
20. The culture didn't constantly try to make Caucasians feel guilty about being white. Tell a farmer who survived the Dust Bowl about "white privilege."
21. We were bored with three channels in black and white, instead of 156 channels (including one on house-hunting in Pago Pago) on a 72" flat screen TV.
22. The most violent things on television were "The Amazing Adventures of Superman" and "The Lone Ranger."
23. Democrats were patriots.
24. Couples had children, instead of pets with pedigrees.
25. Divorce in the family was spoken of in hushed tones.
26. Killing a child in utero or on the delivery table wasn't celebrated as a right.
27. Men didn't want to be women and women didn't want to be men.
28. We weren't forced to pretend that a man who thought he was a woman in fact was one by virtue of his delusion.
29. Masculinity was admired and relied on (especially in times of war) instead of being condemned as toxic.
30. Women were called ladies and men gentlemen, based not on sex but behavior.
31. Virgins past the age of 17 weren't viewed as side-show attractions. Premarital abstinence was something to be prized, not scorned.
32. People didn't demand that others' views be banned for hurting their precious feelings.
33. Teachers were educators, as opposed to political commissars in charge of indoctrination.
34. Schools taught history, English and math, instead of multiculturalism, condoms and safe injection.
35. The wealthy were admired instead of being vilified.
36. We saved S&H Green Stamps, instead of saving the planet.
37. You didn't have to say that America is the greatest country on earth – because no one doubted it.
38. The word "community" actually meant something. It referred to a locality, instead of a grudge.
39. People didn't feel guilty about saying "Merry Christmas."
40. Celebrities didn't begin public appearances by telling us how much they hated the president of the United States.
41. Insufferably arrogant adolescents weren't constantly parading their ignorance in the streets, making absurd demands and assaulting passersby in the name of tolerance.
42. We didn't blame someone or something else for all of our failures – the 1%, the invisible ceiling, white privilege, the patriarchy, our parents, the culture, etc. We took responsibility.
43. People got married instead of getting a "partner."
44. We didn't feel compelled to document every second of our lives, as if they were as important as the revelation at Sinai or the deliberations of the Second Continental Congress.
45. People didn't think they had a right to everything under the sun.
46. People were grateful for what they had, instead of resentful for what they lacked.
47. Whining wasn't considered a sign of sensitivity.
48. We didn't listen to snotty, 15-year-olds from socialist countries lecture us about how we had stolen their future. To quote the Queen of Thornes in "Game of Thrones," speaking to another mouthy brat: "Are you through? Good. Now let the grownups talk."
49. We respected cops, firemen and the clergy, while understanding that (like the rest of us) they were human.
50. People didn't substitute a belief in astrology or UFOs or crystals for a belief in God.
Due to the natural cycle, warm weather, flowers and green grass will all come back in the spring. Sadly, the culture doesn't work like nature. Civilizations don't have a recurring cycle. What was won't necessarily be again.
In "South Pacific," Mitzi Gaynor sings about being a "cockeyed optimist."
I'm not one of those.
Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant.
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This Day in U S Military History
October 6
1884 – Department of the Navy establishes the Naval War College at Newport, RI. Secretary of the Navy William E. Chandler signed General Order 325, which began by simply stating: "A college is hereby established for an advanced course of professional study for naval officers, to be known as the Naval War College." The order went on to assign "the principal building on Coaster's Harbor Island, Newport, R.I."—the Newport Asylum for the Poor, built in 1820—to its use and "Commodore Stephen B. Luce . . . to duty as president of the college." Such were the humble beginnings of what is now the oldest continuing institution of its kind in the world.
1924 – Marines from the gunboat Asheville landed in Shanghai and withdrew on October 24th. Landings by Marines continued at ports Shanghai, Tientsin, and Chinwangtao from forces of the Asiatic Fleet of ships stationed in those waters until the arrival of the 4th Marine regiment in 1927 for permanent shore based duty.
1943 – In night Battle of Vella Lavella, 3 U.S. destroyers attack 9 Japanese destroyers to stop evacuation of Japanese troops from Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands. The Eighth Fleet assigned Rear Admiral Baron Matsuji Ijuin to this mission and gave him a force completely out of proportion to the 589 troops he was charged to rescue: a support group of six destroyers and two transport groups, one of three transport destroyers and the other of four subchasers and twenty barges. His destroyers departed Rabaul on the morning of the 6th while the barges sailed from Buin at 1653 that afternoon. The Japanese movement down the Slot was reported, but Admiral Wilkinson only had three destroyers available to intercept, Squadron 4 led by Captain Frank Walker. Admiral Wilkinson mustered these while he detached another group of three under Captain Harold Larson from convoy duty. The two squadrons were ordered to rendezvous off Marquana Bay, Vella Lavella Island. Walker's group sailing around the north side of the island while Larson's approached up the west coast from the south. Japanese aircraft detected Walker's approach at around 1940 and marked his progress with flares and floatlights. Ijuin split his support group into two divisions. With four ships he pushed ahead to the waters off Marquana Bay while Captain Hara, with Shigure and Samidare and the three transport destroyers, tarried to meet the barges coming up from Buin at 9 knots. Ijuin knew the Allies had wind of his approach and hoped to confuse them as to his size and dispositions. He was also hoping to set Hara up to make a surprise flank attack. At about 2200 Ijuin received a report from one of his aircraft that he was facing four cruisers and three destroyers, according to Hara's account of the battle. Morison has the report as one cruiser and four destroyers. Hara explains his old commander's conduct of this battle with this sighting report and the fact he was exhausted from sustained duty. The Japanese had come to respect radar controlled gunfire, particularly as delivered by the Brooklyn class light cruisers, "a cruiser packs ten times the firepower of a destroyer and Ijuin must have been thinking of this". Morison treats Ijuin sarcastically (he was a baron and the son of a prominent admiral during the Russo-Japanese War): "Was Ijuin following his habit of fleeing, even when lightly opposed?" At 2210 Ijuin ordered Hara to join him as quickly as possible. The three transport destroyers, Fumizuki, Matsukaze and Yunagi turned back, although the barges continued toward Horaniu. At 2229 Ijuin turned his four destroyers from a westerly heading to the northwest. At 2230 Isokaze reported the first visual sighting of the American force. Captain Walker, leading Selfridge, Chevalier and O'Bannon got radar readings on a Japanese force 10 miles north, northeast just after the Japanese made visual contact. This was apparently the retiring transport group. Larson's group, Ralph Talbot, Taylor and LaVallette were still some twenty miles south and Walker could not raise them on TBS. Although Wilkinson had advised him the Japanese force consisted of nine destroyers, Walker elected to pile in and engage rather than wait forty minutes for reinforcements. At 2235 Ijuin turned east and then southeast. The barges were steaming southwest about 20 miles from their destination. Hara's group was northwest of Ijuin, heading south. He could not see Ijuin's column so he requested that Isokaze hang a blue light on her stern. There was a quarter moon low in the sky and scattered mist and squalls made visibility uncertain. At 2240 Ijuin was heading south-southwest. Hara had closed to within five miles of Ijuin. At this same time Walker was shaping a course directly toward the Japanese. Their respective courses would take the Japanese across the American T. However, Ijuin, thinking to make a torpedo attack, miscalculated the distance. When he discovered the Americans were further off then he thought, he ordered a simultaneous turn 45 degrees to port at 2245. Three minutes later, his ships executed a 90 degree turn to port to a southeastly heading, all this to close range. The Americans were less than 12,000 yards away at this point and the range was closing rapidly at 1,300 yards a minute. In response to Ijuin's turn left, Walker turned his column right to the west. These complicated maneuvers erased Ijuin's initial advantage and in fact placed his four ships in a difficult position. They were sailing parallel in echelon with Akigumo furthest ahead and most distant from the Americans, followed by Isokaze, Kazagumo and finally Yugumo, only 3,300 yards from Selfridge. At 2255 as they passed, the three American destroyers launched 14 torpedoes. At 2256 they opened fire. When Walker commenced fire only Yugumo could reply as she was masking her comrades from the enemy. She turned toward the Americans at 2255 and had eight torpedoes in the water a minute after the Americans launched theirs. Her movement cleared Kazagumo's line of fire so she opened up with her guns shortly after. Ijuin swung his ships back into column and headed south, away from the action. All but Yugumo. She, being nearest to the Americans, was punished by the combined fire of eighteen 5″ guns. At least five hits left her drifting, without rudder control. But she obtained her revenge at 2301 when one of her torpedoes struck Chevalier and exploded her forward magazine, ripping off her bow all the way aft to her bridge. Two minutes latter, O'Bannon, charging through the smoke lingering from her gunnery, collided with Chevalier. The two ships were locked together until O'Bannon was able to back clear. She was fortunate that Ijuin had turned away, but the damage she sustained was enough to remove her from the action. At 2303, just as this was happening, one of the slower American torpedoes struck Yugumo and finished her off. She sank seven minutes later. While Yugumo was being picked off and Ijuin was tearing south, Shigure and Samidare continued on their southwesterly course past the Americans until 2259 when they turned sharply to the northwest. Hara was maneuvering for a good torpedo solution. He was approximately 11,000 yards west of Walker's lead ship when Selfridge, now a one ship task force, shifted fire to Shigure. The time was 2304. However, both Shigure and Samidare had already emptied their tubes in the direction of Selfridge some three minutes before just after they made their turn. As the Japanese torpedo men struggled to reload for a second attack, Selfridge's shells began straddling Shigure. At 2306.5, before Selfridge could damage her target, the battle effectively ended when one of the torpedoes fired six minutes before exploded against Selfridge's port side and left her dead in the water. Larson's group charging up from the south was still twenty minutes out. Shortly before 2313 aircraft advised Ijuin of this reinforcement. Believing he would be facing more cruisers, Ijuin turned his column away to the northwest. At 2317 his ships fired a parting torpedo salvo from 24 tubes at the two crippled American destroyers 16,000 yards to the northeast, but none found targets. Hara who had been sailing northwest since 2259 fell in behind Ijuin; they collected the destroyer transports which had been lingering off Shortlands and returned to Rabaul.
1949 – American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted of being Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. Iva Toguri was an American stranded in Japan at the outbreak of World War II. She was forced to broadcast propaganda to the Allied troops for Japan. In these radio programs, she taunted the troops and played music from home. She took the name Orphan Ann on the program, Zero Hour. "Tokyo Rose" is a myth: Iva Toguri, like other women who also broadcast Japanese propaganda to Allied troops, was never referred to as Rose or Tokyo Rose. It was a name given by the Allies to the various female Japanese broadcasters. But it has been used since the war primarily to refer to Iva Toguri D'Aquino. After the war, she was convicted of treason and imprisoned, released early for good behavior. She maintained her innocence, asserting that she had not said the words used to convict her, and that she had remained a loyal American. Though forced to broadcast to the troops, she claimed that she, with the help of American POWs assigned to the radio broadcasts, made herself and her words purposefully ridiculous. She had refused to give up her American citizenship, despite pressure and even punishment from the Japanese who forced her into the broadcasting role. In the 1970s a public campaign brought to light the testimony of the POWs who worked with her and supported her story. The testimony of the witnesses against her was questioned. Eventually she was pardoned by President Gerald Ford. After her imprisonment she returned to Chicago where her family owned a store. She continued to work at the store into her eighties.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
October 6
*BLECKLEY, ERWIN R. (Air Mission)
Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps, 130th Field Artillery, observer 50th Aero Squadron, Air Service. Place and date. Near Binarville, France, 6 October 1918. Entered service at: Wichita, Kans. Birth: Wichita, Kans. G.O. No.: 56, W.D., 1922. Citation: 2d Lt. Bleckley, with his pilot, 1st Lt. Harold E. Goettler, Air Service, left the airdrome late in the afternoon on their second trip to drop supplies to a battalion of the 77th Division, which had been cut off by the enemy in the Argonne Forest. Having been subjected on the first trip to violent fire from the enemy, they attempted on the second trip to come still lower in order to get the packages even more precisely on the designated spot. In the course of his mission the plane was brought down by enemy rifle and machinegun fire from the ground, resulting in fatal wounds to 2d Lt. Bleckley, who died before he could be taken to a hospital. In attempting and performing this mission 2d Lt. Bleckley showed the highest possible contempt of personal danger, devotion to duty, courage, and valor.
*GOETTLER, HAROLD ERNEST (Air Mission)
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, pilot, U.S. Army Air Corps, 50th Aero Squadron, Air Service. Place and date: Near Binarville, France, 6 October 1918. Entered service at: Chicago, Ill. Born: 21 July 1890, Chicago, Ill. G.O. No.: 56, W.D., 1922. Citation: 1st. Lt. Goettler, with his observer, 2d Lt. Erwin R. Bleckley, 130th Field Artillery, left the airdrome late in the afternoon on their second trip to drop supplies to a battalion of the 77th Division which had been cut off by the enemy in the Argonne Forest. Having been subjected on the first trip to violent fire from the enemy, they attempted on the second trip to come still lower in order to get the packages even more precisely on the designated spot. In the course of this mission the plane was brought down by enemy rifle and machinegun fire from the ground, resulting in the instant death of 1st. Lt. Goettler. In attempting and performing this mission 1st. Lt. Goettler showed the highest possible contempt of personal danger, devotion to duty, courage and valor.
PECK, ARCHIE A.
Rank and organization: Private, U.S. Army, Company A, 307th Infantry, 77th Division. Place and date: In the Argonne Forest, France, 6 October 1918. Entered service at: Hornell, N.Y. Birth: Tyrone, N.Y. G.O. No.: 16, W.D., 1919. Citation: While engaged with 2 other soldiers on patrol duty, he and his comrades were subjected to the direct fire of an enemy machinegun, at which time both his companions were wounded. Returning to his company, he obtained another soldier to accompany him to assist in bringing in the wounded men. His assistant was killed in the exploit, but he continued on, twice returning safely bringing in both men, being under terrific machinegun fire during the entire Journey.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 6, 2020 FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
6 October
1912: Lt John H. Towers (USN), flying the Curtiss A-2, took off from the water at Annapolis on 6- hour, 10-minute, 35-second flight that set a new US endurance record for planes of any type. (24)
1913: Capt Charles DeForest Chandler and Lt Thomas DeWitt Milling, who qualified with Lt Henry H. Arnold as Military Aviators on 5 July 1912, received their badges. There were only two badges struck at that time. (24)
1918: MEDALS OF HONOR. Near Binarivelle, France, 1Lt Harold E. Goettler with the 50th Aero Squadron and 2Lt Erwin P. Bleckley (Kansas National Guard), flying as an observer, tried to drop supplies to a surrounded US Army battalion in the Argonne Forest (the famous lost battalion). They flew as low as possible to deliver the supplies more precisely, but enemy ground fire brought their plane down. Lt Goettler died instantly. Both men received the Medal of Honor. (4) (21)
1923: Lt Al J. Williams (USN) flew a Curtiss Racer (R2C-1) at St Louis to world records of 243.8 MPH for 100 kilometers and 243.7 MPH for 200 kilometers. (24)
1928: Goodrich Zeppelin Corporation received Navy contracts for two 6,500,000 cubic-foot rigid airships, ZRS-4 and ZRS-5 that became the USS Akron and USS Macon. (24)
1945: Norway and the US signed a civil air transport pact that gave each nation the right to transit and nontraffic stops. (24)
1950: KOREAN WAR. FEAF dispatched 18 B-29s to attack an enemy arsenal at Kan-ni, N. Korea, while issuing a new interdiction plan to cancel attacks on bridges south of Pyongyang and Wonsan. The USAF took control of Kimpo Airfield from the USMC. (28)
1955: The DoD awarded a contract to the Glenn L. Martin Company, as primary contractor, to build a rocket for launching an earth satellite. General Electric Company subcontracted to build the rocket motor. (24)
1959: From Vandenberg AFB, an RAF crew completed the first combat training launch of a Thor IRBM successfully. (6)
1961: In a hardened, 165-foot deep ICBM silo near Denver, the 724 SMS of Lowry AFB received the Air Force's first Titan I missile. This silo was the first of its kind. (6)
1966: Lockheed-Georgia Company engineers, Dr. W. C. J. Garrard, George K. Williams, and William W. Williams, received the Wright Brothers Medal for the Society of Automotive Engineers for their report on soft- and rough-field landing gear.
1969: B-57s DEPART SOUTHEAST ASIA. With the inactivation of the 8th Tactical Bombing Squadron, its B-57s light bombers were ferried to the US for storage. The first aircraft left Phan Rang, South Vietnam, today. (17)
1975: PROJECT COIN: Through 2 December, C-130s delivered 7,597 tons of critical supplies and over 2 million gallons of petroleum products to Alaska at Point Barrow, Lonely, Okiktok, and Barter Island. Contract aircraft flew another 453.8 tons of oversize steel pipe from Elmendorf to Lonely and 2,981.5 tons of supplies from Lonely and Point Barrow. (18)
1983: The 42 BMW at Loring AFB reached a limited operational capability with B-52Gs and the AGM-84 Harpoon anti-shipping missile. The first flight tests with the Harpoon took place on 15-28 March on the Pacific Missile Test Range. (1)
1999: At Grand Forks AFB, contractors imploded the first of 450 Minuteman III ICBM silos to be destroyed under the START I. (21)
2004: The Navy version of the Global Hawk, designated N-1, flew for the first time. The Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration vehicle made a four-hour sortie from its production facility in Palmdale to the AFFTC at Edwards AFB. (3)
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