Good Monday Morning October 28, 2024. Well I did buy a new computer and it looks great.
It has a small problem in that it can't use my outlook with roadrunner because it requires a password that was done 15 years ago and I have no idea about what it could be. I talked with Spectrum yesterday and they have come up with a plan of sorts but I have to take the computer back to the Geek Squad and see if it will work. The old computer got a heart start and seems to be working but I have to get back to the Geeks to see what they can do.
I sent a couple of items to cowboy from my Iphone and he sent them out Sunday. I hope you were able to read them ok. They are classics
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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 84 H-Grams I hope you all enjoyed the newest H-Gram 84
Today in Naval and Marine Corps History .
October 28
1812
During the War of 1812, the brig Argus, commanded by Commodore Arthur Sinclair, captures the British merchant brig Fly in the North Atlantic.
1882
Orders are issued for the first Naval Attache, Lt. Cmdr. French E. Chadwick, to be sent to London.
1943
Lt. Franklin M. Murray, in a TBF Avenger, and Ensign Gerald L. Handshuh, in an FM-2 Wildcat, from Composite Squadron (VC) 1 on USS Block Island (CVE 21), sink German submarine U-220 east of Newfoundland.
1944
USS Gleaves (DD 423), while operating off the Franco-Italian coast, bombards German troop concentrations, barracks, and gun emplacements. Enemy shore fire at the destroyer is inaccurate, but Gleaves achieves excellent return fire results.
1952
The XA3D-1 bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons made its first flight. Skywarriors also later served in reconnaissance, electronic warfare, and tanker configurations.
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Today in World History October 28
0312 Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge.
0969 After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch.
1216 Henry III of England is crowned.
1628 After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces.
1636 Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass.
1768 Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans.
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively--a job which was previously done by hand.
1863 In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the "cracker line." They fail.
1886 The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe's Island, by President Grover Cleveland
1901 Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington's visit to the White House kill 34.
1904 The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints.
1914 George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process.
1914 The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug.
1919 Over President Wilson's veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment.
1927 Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight.
1940 Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania.
1944 The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk.
1960 In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians" from the Soviet bloc.
1962 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1965 Construction completed on St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world's tallest arch.
1971 Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket.
1982 The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party wins election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco.
2005 Libby "Scooter" Lewis, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigns after being indicted for "outing" CIA agent Valerie Plame.
2007 Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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Thanks to the Bear. We will always have the url for you to search items in Rolling Thunder
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OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER (1965-1968)…
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I have provided access to archive entries covering Commando Hunt operations for the period November 1968 through mid-September 1969. These posts are permanently available at the following link.
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Thanks to Micro
To remind folks that these are from the Vietnam Air Losses site that Micro put together. You click on the url below and get what happened each day to the crew of the aircraft.
From Vietnam Air Losses site for October 26-28
26-Aug: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=2988
27-Aug: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=2989
28-Aug: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=231
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
Monday Morning Humor--Halloween
Can you identify the following Halloween candy treats? (Answers below)
1. A famous swashbuckling trio of old.
2. Indian burial grounds
3. Galaxy
4. What bees make
5. Round flotation device
6. Twin letters
7. Red Planet
8. Not laughing out loud
9. Can't hold on to anything
10. A famous author
11. Famous former baseball player
12. Famous New York Street
13. A sweet sign of affection
14. A favorite day of working people
15. Nut happiness
16. Pleasantly plumb
17. Two female pronouns
18. A feline
19. Single women look for him
20. Sun explosion
21. Bite with a crunch noise
22. Dry cow
23. Children of the cane
24. A lottery amount
25. Lactic flops
26. Determines who wins the game
27. Home of movie stars
28. Superman's favorite hangout
Two men were walking home after a Halloween party and decided to take a shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the cemetery, they were startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows.
Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of the headstones.
"Holy cow, Mister," one of them said after catching his breath. "You scared us half to death -- we thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late at night?"
"My family are such fools!" the old man grumbled. "They misspelled my name and here I have to correct it!"
Scary stories…
A husband kills his wife while their five year old son was still sleeping. The weird thing was that kid didn't ask for his mom even three days after she went missing.
Finally, the father said, "Is there something that you want to ask me?"
His son replied, "I just wonder, why mom is always standing BEHIND YOU."
I woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, I thought it was the window until I heard it come from the mirror again.
I begin tucking my son into bed and he tells me, "Daddy, check for monsters under my bed."
I look underneath for his amusement and see him.. another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, "Daddy, there's somebody on my bed."
The last thing I saw was my alarm clock flashing 12:07 before she pushed her long rotting nails through my chest, her other hand muffling my screams.
I sat bolt upright, relieved it was only a dream, but as I saw my alarm clock read 12:06, I heard my closet door creak open
Have a safe and happy Halloween,
Al
Candy Quiz Answers
1. Three Musketeers
2. Mounds
3. Milky Way
4. Bit O'Honey
5. Life Savers
6. M&Ms
7. Mars Bar
8. Snickers, Chuckles
9. Butterfingers
10. O'Henry
11. Babe Ruth
12. 5th Avenue
13. Candy Kiss
14. Pay Day
15. Almond Joy
16. Cunky
17. Hershey
18. Kit Kat
19. Mr. Goodbar, Millionaire, Sugar Daddy
20. Star Burst
21. Krackle, Crunch Bar
22. Milk Duds
23. Sugar Babies
24. $100,000 Bar
25. Milk Duds
26. Skor
27. Holywood
28. Clark Bar
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6 Deep Facts About the Color Black
The Black Death, aka bubonic plague, killed more than a third of medieval Europe's population. In folklore, it's unlucky for a black cat to cross your path, while witches who do evil are said to practice black magic. And you really don't want to run into the creature from the Black Lagoon. The color black has strong negative connotations in Western culture, but it wasn't always that way. Deep, dark black has a more colorful history than you might expect.
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Black Isn't Technically a Color
Picture a rainbow, which comprises the visible spectrum of light, and you'll notice that black isn't in it. Scientifically speaking, black is the absence of light, and because light is required for color, black contains no color. (Black's opposite, white, is the total of all colors of the visible spectrum.)
However, people usually think of black as a color in an artistic sense: as a pigment that absorbs visible light and reflects almost none, approximating the absence of light. Thus, the "black" we see is really a reflection of a mix of very dark colors. Here's another mind-bending fact: Nothing in nature can be pure, absence-of-light black except the inner reaches of a black hole.
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Human Use of Black Goes Way Back
Black is one of the most frequently used colors in prehistoric art; the other is a rusty red derived from iron oxide. About 35,000 years ago, people combined charcoal with locally available manganese oxide to paint incredibly detailed tableaux of horses, cave lions, woolly rhinoceroses, and other ice age animals in the Chauvet Cave in present-day southern France. The same black pigment was used to draw impressive sequences of animals in the nearby Lascaux caves about 17,000 years ago. Around 700 BCE, Corinthian artists invented a new style of vase painting by covering unfinished clay vessels in a coating called slip, etching designs, and then firing the vessel in a kiln so the slip turned shiny black. By 200 BCE, Chinese artists had developed a solid black ink made of soot and animal collagen that is still used today.
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The Color Black Is Linked to Evil
Before the Middle Ages in the West, the color black could symbolize positive notions of dignity and respect, as well as phenomena like evil, sin, disease, and death. But in the 12th century, a monastic dispute shifted black's association firmly into negative territory. Benedictine monks wore black robes to signify humility and called out Cistercian monks, who wore white robes, for being prideful. The debate got so heated that St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the Cistercians' leader, sent a letter to Benedictine abbot Peter the Venerable, arguing that black represented evil and hell and that white was the color of "purity, innocence and all the virtues."
The Renaissance kicked that association between black and evil into high gear, with artists painting scenes of hell in shades of black and characterizing the devil as wearing a black coat. In the following centuries, Christian leaders identified the color black with witchcraft and magic. On the other hand, in India and Pakistan today, young children and brides wear black dots on their faces as protection against the evil eye.
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Black Hasn't Always Been the Color of Mourning
Wearing black at funerals is another trend that emerged in Europe. Around the time of Queen Elizabeth I's lavish funeral in 1603, rich mourners wore black to symbolize their own wealth, since black clothing was expensive — it was time-consuming and difficult to dye from extracts of madder, woad, and various woods. Wearing black to mourn also reinforced social status, since sumptuary laws in England prohibited anyone but the nobility from wearing formal mourning attire. For many centuries, most common people wore wool or linen garments either bleached white or dyed brown. But as laws relaxed and clothing manufacture was industrialized in the 19th century, black cloth became cheaper and more accessible to other social classes.
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A 19th-Century Manual Helped Define Black
For 19th-century naturalists, one of the biggest challenges was accurately translating the colors in nature. You could say a bird's feather was black, but how would you describe the exact tone? Patrick Syme, a Scottish painter, attempted to standardize these hues with his 1814 manual, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, which built on an earlier work by the geologist A.G. Werner. In Syme's system, he named swatches of 110 colors and compared each of them to a plant, an animal, and a mineral. For example, "greyish black" is the black of basalt and water ouzels, while "velvet black" is comparable to moles, obsidian, and the "black of red and black West-Indian peas." This and later color charts gave scientists a new color vocabulary for defining the natural world.
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Vantablack Is One of the Blackest Blacks Ever Created
It's not the black of a black hole, but it's pretty close. Vantablack, the brand name of a line of coatings created by Surrey NanoSystems, once held the Guinness World Record as the darkest human-made substance. It reflects only 1% of the light it absorbs. When applied to a surface, it looks like a limitless flat void, even when it's painted on a three-dimensional object.
Vantablack's lack of luster makes it useful for calibrating light-sensitive instruments, including those used in space. It lost its world record in 2015, however, when researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology created a black from gold nanoparticles, dubbed Primalight, that reflects less than 1% of all light wavelengths
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From the List archives
Thanks to Dr. Rich
Follow-up .... Crazy Coincidence involving a 727 and DC-3 ...a
Thanks to John T. ...
1985 - American Airlines
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:15 AM Richard Sugden, MD <rsugden@tetondata.com> wrote:
Thanks to Shadow ...
Crazy Coincidence involving a 727 and DC-3
Years ago… think it was the late sixties, early 70's. There was a Western Airlines 727 flying from Dallas (I think) to San Diego…. Anyway at cruise altitude… around Lordsburg, New Mexico… the flight crew felt a sudden lurch and the flight engineers said… "We just lost number three"! And went through the procedures for engine loss. The crew discussed the problem and decided to continue on to San Diego on two engines… No Big Deal… the airplane flew fine on just two. Besides they had plenty of divert fields if they needed them enroute.
Meanwhile, back in the cabin… the guy sitting near the Number Three engine in the window seat is frantically trying to get the stewardess's attention. As he excitedly points out the window to show her… "Number Three is No Longer There… It's Gone! The Whole Damn Engine is GONE"!
She then races to the cockpit to inform the flight deck crew. As she burst into the cockpit she yells out… "We lost an engine"! The Engineer tells her they are fully aware of the situation and everything is under control… no big deal… the airplane flies fine on two engines. They are about to make a call over the PA system explaining that they'd suffered the loss of an engine, but no big deal, airplane flies fine on two… Go back and make the passengers at ease… tell them the 727 flies nicely on just two engines and we expect to arrive in San Diego "on time". She then screams… "But we've lost an engine"! They tell her to go back, calm down, everything is under control. The Captain then gets on the PA and announces that they've had a problem with an engine, but it is no big deal… the plane flies very well on two engines and everything is under control. Sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the flight.
Believe it or not… the Flight Crew was still unaware that the engine hadn't just shut down… the entire engine and nacelle had actually departed the airframe. Seems the engine had suffered a catastrophic seizure and as a result the shear bolts, attaching the nacelle to the airframe gave way (as designed) and it had departed, with engine still ensconced inside. They crew continued on, oblivious to the reality of the situation
It was only when they arrived in San Diego, during final approach, that upon landing, Lindberg Tower said to them… "Western, do you realize you've lost your number three engine"? The Captain was kinda perplexed as they hadn't declared an emergency… How'd the tower know they'd lost the engine. Just curious, he called the tower back and asked… "Thanks, we're aware of it… but how did you know (since they hadn't told anyone about the situation)"? Tower replied… "Because it isn't there… it's gone"! Well, you can imagine the consternation that occurred on the flight deck when they realized what a screw up they'd made.
A search was made for the missing engine and it was actually found in a pasture outside of Lordsburg… incredibly in the same pasture where a new DC-3… lost a propeller decades before… on its' inaugural flight from El Paso to Phoenix. What are the odds of both items falling to the same field in the middle of no where?
Writing this from memory… so some of the facts might not be totally accurate… but that's the way I remember it.
Shadow
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Thanks to 1440
. Israel Strikes Iran
Israel's airstrikes on Iran Saturday morning targeted military sites, including two secretive bases, satellite imagery shows. The attacks, which killed at least four soldiers, came in response to Iran firing around 200 missiles into Israel this month, most of which were intercepted. See a timeline of escalations here.
The attacks are the first Israel has acknowledged on Iranian soil. They came in waves, with jet fighters destroying portions of Iran's missile defense system, including those protecting Iranian oil facilities. Israel also struck three missile manufacturing bases and two military bases, including a former nuclear testing site.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel achieved all its objectives. The attacks steered clear of direct strikes on oil and nuclear facilities, which Iran warned could provoke a full-scale war.
Separately, Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza killed at least 33 people, per the Hamas-run Health Ministry. A truck-ramming attack in Tel Aviv killed one person and injured at least 30 more. See war updates here.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted three waves of strikes into Iran on October 25. The strikes were in response to the large-scale ballistic missile attack that Iran launched against Israel on October 1. The IDF targeted around 20 locations around Tehran and western Iran, including vital air defense assets and facilities tied to the Iranian drone and missile programs.[1] The IDF in particular struck four S-300 air defense batteries, which are Russian-made and the most advanced air defense system that Iran operates.[2] That the IDF hit these batteries highlights the relative vulnerabilities of the S-300, especially against advanced platforms like the F-35 fighter jet. The IDF separately struck prominent defense industrial sites, such as the Parchin and Khojir complexes outside Tehran.[3] These complexes are managed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Defense and Armed Forces Logistics Ministry. The regime uses these facilities to develop and manufacture advanced weapons systems, including solid-propellant ballistic missiles. Iran has used the Parchin complex previously for high explosives testing in support of its nuclear weapons program.[4] International inspectors found traces of uranium there in 2015, indicating that a larger quantity of uranium was there at some point, despite Iranian officials denying that the complex was involved in nuclear activities.[5] Although there are no known nuclear activities currently at the Parchin and Khojir complexes, the IDF strikes could impede Iranian progress toward a nuclear weapon, given the role that these complexes could play in building a delivery system.
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Thanks to Barrett
2003 The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial passenger flight from New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London's Heathrow Airport, traveling at twice the speed of sound.
I was fortunate to speak with Scott Crossfield a couple of times including a 1-to-1 showing him the Champlin VF Museum in the 80s. (Former LSO, he'd flown all the piston tailhook planes.) On the other occasion he was asked about the SST and said "There's no point flying from New York to London in 3 hours because your luggage still goes to Rio."
He also said-wrote that there will always be a need for manned aircraft "Because no other guidance system can be produced so cheaply by unskilled labor."
Barrett
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Thanks to Dr. Felix …
Pretty amazing! I love British understatement! This is really great, and a true story!!
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This Day in U S Military History…….28 October
1918 – World War I was reaching its climax as Allied forces all along the Western Front continue launching attacks against the German "Hindenburg Line". Used to keep the pressure on the Germans most of these attacks gain some ground but not all succeed. A case in point is the failed assault launched on this date by the 26th Division (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT) in a sector known to the French as the "Death Valley". But it is no wonder the assault failed. The division was very weak, having been in action almost daily, with little relief, since the start of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in late September. For instance, its 51st Brigade, composed of the 101st Infantry (MA) and the 102nd Infantry (CT), had only 15 officers and just over 800 men when their combined organizational strength should have been 6,100 men. The men were tired but when the order came to advance they moved out. Despite artillery support from the 101st Field Artillery (MA) and some French cannon, their attack failed to reach its goal and the survivors withdrew to their original jumping off point having lost an additional 150 men killed, wounded or missing. On November 1st the 26th Division was pulled out of Death Valley and sent to a rest area. It would see no more combat as the war ended on November 11th.
1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
1943 – The US 2nd Marine Parachute Battalion is landed by sea at Voza on Choiseul Island (Operation Blissful). They engage Japanese forces. This is a diversion from the intended attack on Bougainville.
1944 – The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flew from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk.
1944 – On Leyte, attacks by US 24th Corps around Dagami make slow progress and suffer heavy losses. To the north, the US 1st Cavalry Division (part of US 10th Corps) encounters heavy resistance near Carigara and is held up. At sea, carrier groups under the command of Admiral Davison and Admiral Bogan conduct air strikes.
1960 – In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charged that Cuba had been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians" from the Soviet bloc.
1962 – The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty. This ended nearly two weeks of anxiety and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union that came close to provoking a nuclear conflict.The consequences of the crisis were many and varied. Relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union were on shaky ground for some time after Khrushchev's removal of the missiles, as Fidel Castro accused the Russians of backing down from the Americans and deserting the Cuban revolution. European allies of the United States were also angered, not because of the U.S. stance during the crisis, but because the Kennedy administration kept them virtually in the dark about negotiations that might have led to an atomic war. Inside the Soviet Union, hard-liners were appalled at Khrushchev's withdrawal of the weapons. Two years later, in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin pushed him from power and proceeded to lead the Soviet Union on a massive military buildup. There was perhaps one positive aspect of the crisis. Having gone to the edge of what President Kennedy referred to as the "abyss of destruction," cooler heads in both nations initiated steps to begin some control over nuclear weapons. Less than a year after the crisis ended, the United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to end aboveground testing; in 1968, both nations signed a non-proliferation treaty.
1964 – U.S. T-28 airplanes flown by Thai pilots bomb and strafe North Vietnamese villages in the Mugia Pass area. North Vietnam charged publicly that U.S. personnel participated in the raids, but U.S. officials denied that any Americans were involved.
1965 – Viet Cong commandos damage and destroy a number of allied aircraft in two separate raids on U.S. air bases, including Chu Lai, on the coast of the South China Sea in Quang Tin Province, I Corps.
1985 – The leader of the so-called "Walker family spy ring," John Walker, pleaded guilty to giving U-S Navy secrets to the Soviet Union. John Walker was the KGB's most important spy in the United States in the 1970s. As a chief warrant officer in the US Navy, Walker had access to naval secrets and spied for the Soviet Union in exchange for money. After retiring, John Walker continued to spy with the help of family members still serving in the Navy until the FBI caught him. JUST GIVE ME A COUPLE MINUUTES IN HIS CELL PLEASE it will not take me long…….skip
1999 – Two Navy Blue Angel aviators, Kieron O'Connor (35) and Kevin Colling (32), were killed when their F/A-18 Hornet crashed during a training flight near Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. 23 pilots have died at shows or training since the group was formed in 1946.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
VEALE, MOSES
Rank and organization: Captain, Company F, 109th Pennsylvania Infantry. Place and date: At Wauhatchie, Tenn., 28 October 1863. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Born. 9 November 1832, Bridgeton, N.J. Date of issue: 17 January 1894. Citation: Gallantry in action manifesting throughout the engagement coolness, zeal, judgment, and courage. His horse was shot from under him and he was hit by 4 enemy bullets.
WOOD, H. CLAY
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 11th U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Wilsons Creek, Mo., 10 August 1861. Entered service at: Winthrop, Maine. Birth: Winthrop, Maine. Date of issue: 28 October 1893. Citation: Distinguished gallantry.
ALBEE, GEORGE E.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, 41st U.S. Infantry. Place and date: At Brazos River, Tex., 28 October 1869. Entered service at: Owatonna, Minn. Birth: Lisbon, N.H. Date of issue: 18 January 1894. Citation: Attacked with 2 men a force of 11 Indians, drove them from the hills, and reconnoitered the country beyond.
BREAULT, HENRY
Rank and organization: Torpedoman Second Class, U.S. Navy. Born: 14 October, 1900, Putnam, Conn. Accredited to: Vermont. G.O. No.: 125, 20 February 1924. Citation: For heroism and devotion to duty while serving on board the U.S. submarine 0-5 at the time of the sinking of that vessel. On the morning of 28 October 1923, the 0-5 collided with the steamship Abangarez and sank in less than a minute. When the collision occurred, Breault was in the torpedo room. Upon reaching the hatch, he saw that the boat was rapidly sinking. Instead of jumping overboard to save his own life, he returned to the torpedo room to the rescue of a shipmate whom he knew was trapped in the boat, closing the torpedo room hatch on himself. Breault and Brown remained trapped in this compartment until rescued by the salvage party 31 hours later. (Medal presented by President Coolidge at the White House on 8 March 1924.)
ADAMS, LUCIAN
Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, 30th Infantry, 3d Infantry Division. Place and date: Near St. Die, France, 28 October 1944. Entered service at: Port Arthur, Tex. Birth: Port Arthur, Tex. G.O. No.: 20, 29 March 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 28 October 1944, near St. Die, France. When his company was stopped in its effort to drive through the Mortagne Forest to reopen the supply line to the isolated third battalion, S/Sgt. Adams braved the concentrated fire of machineguns in a lone assault on a force of German troops. Although his company had progressed less than 10 yards and had lost 3 killed and 6 wounded, S/Sgt. Adams charged forward dodging from tree to tree firing a borrowed BAR from the hip. Despite intense machinegun fire which the enemy directed at him and rifle grenades which struck the trees over his head showering him with broken twigs and branches, S/Sgt. Adams made his way to within 10 yards of the closest machinegun and killed the gunner with a hand grenade. An enemy soldier threw hand grenades at him from a position only 10 yards distant; however, S/Sgt. Adams dispatched him with a single burst of BAR fire. Charging into the vortex of the enemy fire, he killed another machinegunner at 15 yards range with a hand grenade and forced the surrender of 2 supporting infantrymen. Although the remainder of the German group concentrated the full force of its automatic weapons fire in a desperate effort to knock him out, he proceeded through the woods to find and exterminate 5 more of the enemy. Finally, when the third German machinegun opened up on him at a range of 20 yards, S/Sgt. Adams killed the gunner with BAR fire. In the course of the action, he personally killed 9 Germans, eliminated 3 enemy machineguns, vanquished a specialized force which was armed with automatic weapons and grenade launchers, cleared the woods of hostile elements, and reopened the severed supply lines to the assault companies of his battalion.
*BROSTROM, LEONARD C.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company F, 17th Infantry, 7th Infantry Division. Place and date: Near Dagami, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 28 October 1944. Entered service at: Preston, Idaho. Birth: Preston, Idaho. G.O. No.: 104, 15 November 1945. Citation: He was a rifleman with an assault platoon which ran into powerful resistance near Dagami, Leyte, Philippine Islands, on 28 October 1944. From pillboxes, trenches, and spider holes, so well camouflaged that they could be detected at no more than 20 yards, the enemy poured machinegun and rifle fire, causing severe casualties in the platoon. Realizing that a key pillbox in the center of the strong point would have to be knocked out if the company were to advance, Pfc. Bostrom, without orders and completely ignoring his own safety, ran forward to attack the pillbox with grenades. He immediately became the prime target for all the riflemen in the area, as he rushed to the rear of the pillbox and tossed grenades through the entrance. Six enemy soldiers left a trench in a bayonet charge against the heroic American, but he killed 1 and drove the others off with rifle fire. As he threw more grenades from his completely exposed position he was wounded several times in the abdomen and knocked to the ground. Although suffering intense pain and rapidly weakening from loss of blood, he slowly rose to his feet and once more hurled his deadly missiles at the pillbox. As he collapsed, the enemy began fleeing from the fortification and were killed by riflemen of his platoon. Pfc. Brostrom died while being carried from the battlefield, but his intrepidity and unhesitating willingness to sacrifice himself in a l-man attack against overwhelming odds enabled his company to reorganize against attack, and annihilate the entire enemy position.
*OKUBO, JAMES K.
Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 28 and 29 October and 4 November 1944, in the Foret Domaniale de Champ, near Biffontaine, eastern France. On 28 October, under strong enemy fire coming from behind mine fields and roadblocks, Technician Fifth Grade Okubo, a medic, crawled 150 yards to within 40 yards of the enemy lines. Two grenades were thrown at him while he left his last covered position to carry back wounded comrades. Under constant barrages of enemy small arms and machine gun fire, he treated 17 men on 28 October and 8 more men on 29 October. On 4 November, Technician Fifth Grade Okubo ran 75 yards under grazing machine gun fire and, while exposed to hostile fire directed at him, evacuated and treated a seriously wounded crewman from a burning tank, who otherwise would have died. Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo'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.
*THORSON, JOHN F.
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Army, Company G, 17th Infantry, 7th Infantry Division. Place and date: Dagami, Leyte, Philippine Islands, 28 October 1944. Entered service at: Armstrong, lowa Birth: Armstrong, lowa. G.O. No.: 58, 19 July 1945. Citation: He was an automatic rifleman on 28 October 1944, in the attack on Dagami Leyte, Philippine Islands. A heavily fortified enemy position consisting of pillboxes and supporting trenches held up the advance of his company. His platoon was ordered to out-flank and neutralize the strongpoint. Voluntarily moving well out in front of his group, Pvt. Thorson came upon an enemy fire trench defended by several hostile riflemen and, disregarding the intense fire directed at him, attacked single-handed He was seriously wounded and fell about 6 yards from the trench. Just as the remaining 20 members of the platoon reached him, 1 of the enemy threw a grenade into their midst. Shouting a warning and making a final effort, Pvt. Thorson rolled onto the grenade and smothered the explosion with his body. He was instantly killed, but his magnificent courage and supreme self-sacrifice prevented the injury and possible death of his comrades, and remain with them as a lasting inspiration.
BURKE, LLOYD L.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company G, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. Place and date: Near Chong-dong, Korea, 28 October 1951. Entered service at: Stuttgart, Ark. Born: 29 September 1924, Tichnor, Ark. G.O. No.: 43. Citation: 1st Lt. Burke, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and outstanding courage above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy. Intense enemy fire had pinned down leading elements of his company committed to secure commanding ground when 1st Lt. Burke left the command post to rally and urge the men to follow him toward 3 bunkers impeding the advance. Dashing to an exposed vantage point he threw several grenades at the bunkers, then, returning for an Ml rifle and adapter, he made a lone assault, wiping out the position and killing the crew. Closing on the center bunker he lobbed grenades through the opening and, with his pistol, killed 3 of its occupants attempting to surround him. Ordering his men forward he charged the third emplacement, catching several grenades in midair and hurling them back at the enemy. Inspired by his display of valor his men stormed forward, overran the hostile position, but were again pinned down by increased fire. Securing a light machine gun and 3 boxes of ammunition, 1st Lt. Burke dashed through the impact area to an open knoll, set up his gun and poured a crippling fire into the ranks of the enemy, killing approximately 75. Although wounded, he ordered more ammunition, reloading and destroying 2 mortar emplacements and a machine gun position with his accurate fire. Cradling the weapon in his arms he then led his men forward, killing some 25 more of the retreating enemy and securing the objective. 1st Lt. Burke's heroic action and daring exploits inspired his small force of 35 troops. His unflinching courage and outstanding leadership reflect the highest credit upon himself, the infantry, and the U.S. Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for 28 October FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
1907: The first International Aeronautical Congress held at the Automobile Club of New York. (24)
1924: At 13,000 feet above Bolling Field DC, Army airplanes dropped electrified sand to break up cloud formations. (20)
1927: First international air-passenger station opened at Meacham Field, Key West. Pan American World Airways made the first flight from there to Havana, Cuba. Aeromarine Airways had started an international passenger service from Key West to Havana in late 1920. (See discussion on 1 November 1920).
1952: First flight of the Douglas XA3D-1 Skywarrior.
1959: From Wallops Island, NASA launched a 100-foot diameter inflatable aluminum-coated sphere to a height of 250 miles, where it inflated and was visible for hundreds of miles. (24) MACKAY TROPHY. Through 19 December, the 4520th Aerial Demonstration Team, better known as the Thunderbirds, toured the Far East, earning the trophy in the process. (26)
1973: First production-model T-43 arrived at Mather AFB. (16) (26)
1981: The US Senate agreed to sell five E-3As to Saudi Arabia. The E-3As assumed air defense surveillance from Elf One. (4)
1985: The first six female officers started initial qualification training for Minuteman crew duty. All six women previously worked with the Titan II system. They finished the class on 7 February 1986. (16)
1995: Operation VIGILANT SENTINEL. Through 18 December, the USAF tested its air expeditionary force concept by deploying F-16s from the 20 FW and 347th Wing to Bahrain. (21)
2002: Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. A C-141 arrived at Guantanamo Bay with the last group of Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees from Afghanistan for 2002. From 10 January to 28 October 2002, C-141s and C-17s flew 23 missions to carry 620 detainees from Kandahar to Guantanamo. (22)
2006: Through 29 October, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB flew the General Atomics Altair UAV to photograph and map the 62-square-mile Esperanza fire near Palm Springs. The Altair the flew at 43,000 feet above the fire area, where it sent 100 images and more than 20 data files in 16 hours by a real-time satellite link to the fire management team. (3)
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