To All,
.Good Thursday morning 14 November. .
The older dog went to the Vet yesterday and now has a diagnosis and some meds. He has double pink eye and something else.
The new toilet got installed yesterday by a professional in about a half hour.
I had a good blood draw after the first one did not do well at the VA.. My doctor here dug around my wrist again with her needle. Not fun but done until next week when she also has to dig around for a sample to send into the lab to see what happens next. I can't wait….NOT.
Thanks to all of you that have sent contributions and I received a few more yesterday to keep the list running. I will continue trying to contact each of you on the phone to personally thank you. I have the computer I just have to return to the Geek Squad to get it running correctly.
Make it a GREAT Day
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 84 H-Grams .
This day in Naval and Marine Corps History .
November. 14 1864 During the Civil War, Acting Master Lothrop Wight and Acting Ensign Frederick W. Mintzer explore Confederate naval dispositions above Dutch Gap on James River, Va. Work on the Dutch Gap would allow Union gunboats to bypass the obstructions at Trents Reach. Wight and Mintzer provide valuable information regarding the positions of the Confederate ships and troops.
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president to visit a foreign country while in office, traveling to Panama onboard USS Louisiana (BB 19).
1910 Civilian Eugene Ely pilots the first aircraft to take-off from a warship, USS Birmingham (CL 2) at Hampton Roads, Va.
1943 USS Narwhal (SS 167) delivers 46 tons of ammunition and stores, disembarks a Navy officer at Nasipit, Mindanao and embarks 32 evacuees, which include eight women, two children, and a baby, who are transported to Darwin, Australia.
1944 USS Jack (SS 259) attacks a Japanese convoy off Cape Padaran, French Indochina and sinks the freighter Hinaga Maru, while USS Raton (SS 270) attacks a Japanese convoy off the northwest coast of Luzon and sinks the merchant tanker No.5 Unkai Maru. Lastly, USS Ray (SS 271) sinks Japanese Coast Defense Vessel No.7 65 miles northwest of Cape Bolinao.
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THIS DAY IN WORLD HISTORY `14 NOVEMBER
1501 Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon.
1812 As Napoleon Bonaparte's army retreats from Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.
1851 Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick is published in New York.
1882 Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie.
1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.
1910 Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk.
1921 The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas.
1922 The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House.
1930 Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamagushi.
1935 Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated.
1940 German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war.
1951 French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam.
1951 The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact.
1960 New Orleans integrates two all-white schools.
1960 President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings.
1961 President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000.
1963 Greece frees hundreds who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944-1950.
1963 Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast.
1965 The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops.
1968 Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed.
1969 The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy.
1979 US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage.
1982 Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released by communist authorities after 11 months confinement; he would win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and be elected Poland's president in 1990.
1984 The Space Shuttle Discovery's crew rescues a second satellite.
1990 Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany sign a treaty officially making the Oder-Neisse line the border between their countries.
1995 Budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress forces temporary closure of national parks and museums; federal agencies forced to operate with skeleton staff.
2001 Northern Alliance fighters take control of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
2008 First G-20 economic summit convenes, in Washington, DC.
2012 Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip.
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Thanks to the Bear. .
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER ….
. rollingthunderremembered.com .
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. ……Skip
From Vietnam Air Losses site for Thursday November 14
November 14: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=2659
God Bless Joe
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear's Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip Vietnam Air Losses Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War . Listed by last name and has other info https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature.
https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )
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THE SECOND ONE FROM SHADOW
CUNEO'S LONGEST NIGHT
Before I start… I was wrong about Hartley's first name… It was Bill (I knew that)… I
just screwed up, but at least I suspected I was screwing up… That's why the disclaimer.
Two days after the ill-fated patrol… The 105 Battery at Cam Lo was being re-located. As
was normal, when we moved out of a place, everything was being broken down, waste
and debris buried… wire was being rolled up, etc. The 105 cannons were being helo
lifted out as I recall… some may, have been towed.
On the day in question… I believe there were only three 105's still there, after the last
lift. Alpha had removed much of the wire surrounding the perimeter and I believe in most
places there was only one strand of concertina in place. We had a section of 81MM
mortars out there with them. I think the mess tent was still up, but a lot of others were
pulled down in anticipation of moving the next day or so. Thank God the Command
bunker was still up and functioning.
As the sun went down, it had been a day like so many others… Much busy work, no
contact with the enemy. I'm sure the Company was still thinking about Hartley's and the
others deaths. It takes a while to get such a loss out of your system… You don't show it
overtly… or even talk about it much…. But the thoughts are still there.
As routine as the day had been…. This was to be a night… unlike any other.
I'm gonna use times, based on a thirty some year memory… I don't have any official logs
or any other data to go by… So don't harangue me if I'm off an hour or two.
I believe it was around 0130 or so, that I received the call that Cam Lo was being hit.
Looking to the southwest, we could see the flares from the mortars. In the distance we
could also hear the rattle of heavy automatic weapons fire and explosions…
Occasionally, we could see tracers ricocheting in the air… It was immediately obvious,
that this was not an ordinary probe and mortar attack… like we'd become used to.
I came up on the radio as Permission 6… this was to let everyone know that the Battalion
Commander was up on the net. I had rigged my PRC-25 with a speaker when in the rear,
so Westerman could hear what was going on as soon as I did.
In the bunker at Cam Lo was Don Cuneo and one other radio operator… There may have
been another… I'm not sure. For the life of me I've wracked my brain and can't
remember the other RO's name. I apologize to him for leaving him out.
Their initial reports were startling… The perimeter had been breached and the bad guys
were running all over the place.
What we able to glean… in bits and pieces (These guys were running the company net
too and were incredibly busy)… was that the attack had started as a mortar barrage. Then
sappers, under the cover of their own mortars, came into the wire to blow it up and
provide lanes of access. They concentrated on the automatic weapons and machine gun
positions. I can't remember what officer was in the bunker… if there was one… But
Cuneo and the other RO were up to their asses in alligators.
Things were getting worse by the minute and they asked for all the help we could give.
Westerman… to his credit… asked Regiment for permission to mount a relief column on
6X's right away. Regiment nixed the idea… fearing an ambush of such a relief in the
dark. As horrible as it sounds… Alpha would be on its' own.
I kept talking to them and trying to assure them that we were doing everything we
could… That we'd be coming as soon as possible. We then got word that our mortar guys
had burnt up 2 tubes already. They were practically vertical… as I remember… and they
would fire two rounds of HE, then one of illum… as fast as they could.
About 45 minutes after the attack started, we got the first good news. The Regimental
FAC discovered that an AC-47 Gunship, call sign "Spooky"… was operating not far from
Cam Lo and had requested he be moved over to support Alpha. He got approval and help
was on the way. I called Don and told him "Spooky" was on the way.
"Spooky" was an old military version of the DC-3… Some genius (I mean that in a good
way) had come up with the idea to mount several 7.62 mini-guns (A modern version of
the Gatling Gun) on one side of the plane and it would go into a low orbit around a point
on the ground and lay down a withering amount of fire. They also carried a prodigious
amount of flares. It was the one weapon… that was probably conceived for just such an
occasion.
No one… who has ever witnessed one of these aircraft in action at night…( I ONCE WATCHED ONE WORK THE SOUTGH END OF THE AIR FIELD AT DANANG ONE NIGHT AND IT WAS AWSOME…SKIP} will ever
forget it… It was not just a visual feast… but the noise assaulted your senses as well…
As long red tendrils of flame (tracers) unbroken… reached out from the plane to the
ground below… seconds later you'd hear this deep… guttural… brrrrruup, brrrrruup…
brrrrrrrruuup… as thousands of rounds of 7.62 went through the Gatlings. The sight and
sound were of another world… it was like a hose of fire. And that sound…. It is like no
other I've ever heard. No wonder it would later become affectionately known by the
grunts as… "Puff… the Magic Dragon".
It was surely an ancient, fire-breathing dragon of mythical proportions… breathing hell
fire …on the enemy down below
This next part, once again, I'm relating something I got from a conversation over 35
years ago. So bear with me if I'm a little off.
If I recall correctly, Don Cuneo was the primary FAC radioman… He was used to talking
to aircraft. He and the other RO were juggling two different radio nets and trying to keep
up with what was going on around them. "Spooky" presented an additional problem…
They couldn't communicate with him from inside the bunker. Now I don't know whether
this was because their outside antenna was destroyed… or not hooked up… or that the
sand bags just interrupted their signal… Regardless one of them had to go out into the
maelstrom.
I keep thinking… in my mind… that they flipped to see who was going out (That may be
legend… but I also think I remember them using something like a C-Ration lid for a
coin). What ever… Don got the nod… Probably because he was the FAC RO. What
happened next would make a great action movie scene.
The bunker had the typical "L" shaped entry. Cuneo crawls out and sits with his back
against the bunker, radio and pistol between his legs, next to the entrance. He gets
"Spooky" on the radio and starts directing flares and suppression fire around the
perimeter… based on information being yelled back and forth from those inside the
bunker. Shit is flying everywhere… By this time, Alpha had been completely over-run.
In the middle of all this, Don is sitting there… when this NVA with an AK-47 comes
running around the bunker and stops… about two feet from Don, he's right next to him.
(I'm sure at this point… Don's heart probably went up into his throat) At the same instant
GySgt Weinbar comes running around the other side of the bunker with his M-14 about
15 feet from Don. (Weinbar was a real character, red headed with a handle bar mustache
at the time, very well liked by all) Evidently, neither Weinbar or the NVA had noticed
Cuneo sitting there… But they had seen each other…
Don was about to be witness to a modern version, of the shoot out at the OK Corral…
Weinbar reacts immediately and raises his M-14 and fires an entire magazine (20 rounds)
at the NVA, who was standing next to Don. The NVA almost simultaneously, fires his 30
round magazine… at Weinbar… Both of them completely missed at point blank range…
In the twilight of the flares they're staring at each other in disbelief… When Cuneo
reaches out and shoots the NVA from about a foot away.
Weinbar nods, reloads and goes off looking for more infiltrators. I'm sure I've left out a
nuance or two… but again, I'm trying to re-construct a conversation from long ago. The
next morning I remember seeing one of the dead NVA near the bunker and he was
wrapped in TNT charges… I wondered if this was the guy Don shot, but I never asked
him. But if he was… I've often wondered if the whole belt would have gone off if Don
had hit the TNT.
The fight raged on until just before dawn, when the NVA finally withdrew… Because of
the valiant efforts of Don Cuneo, his fellow RO's and a whole host of Alpha's grunts…
who kept their heads and wits about them… when it appeared their world was coming to
an end… They prevailed in the end.
I hate body counts… But in this case it should be noted… When we arrived there just
after dawn… Over 87, enemy dead lay within Alpha's perimeter… Only God knows…
how many lay in the area around them… cut down by "Spooky". Three Marines died that
night, one of them possibly by our own folks because of the way he was dressed…
(Shorts and T-shirt with no helmet.) Two of the Marines were from the 105 battery… A
sapper had dropped a satchel charge into their foxhole.
In front of one of the machine guns laid 12 bodies, between the gun and the wire… less
than 10 feet away. Another group lay on the wire itself. There were other scenes similar
to this, all around the perimeter. This was in close, savage fighting.
Alpha requited themselves for Hartley's death two days before… against an
overwhelming force. One lone company of Marines… against a Regiment of NVA
Regulars. As far as I'm concerned… They were hero's all.
A short note about the NVA… Through documents we were able to prove this was part of
the same outfit, which had ambushed us two days before. One of the NVA dead was
carrying a wooden rifle… just a silhouette of the real thing. We were told this was in
punishment for having lost his real rifle… and that to make up for it… he had to
participate in the assault and capture a real weapon to replace the one he lost. There were
a lot of weapons captured here… far more than normal. Virtually all the weapons were
brand-new… some still had preservative on them.
Many of the sappers had blocks of TNT… each was wrapped in oil paper and tied with
bamboo in an intricate pattern… They could run along and pull one from their belt and it
armed the fuse as they pulled it away. They dropped them in foxholes and tents all over
the compound… One can conjure up visions of Jim Brown in the Dirty Dozen… running
along and dropping grenades in pipes. Except this time, it was the bad guys doing it.
I'd also like to comment about the mindset of those of us who were watching and
listening… from miles away… and helpless to do anything… other than to stay calm, reassure
and try to think of any and everything we could to help. It is an agonizing,
frustrating experience.
In reality, we did what little we could… But these men prevailed because they were
warriors… They had the mettle, the courage and the will to see it through. I have often
joked about the fact that on the longest night of Cuneo's life…. The voice he kept
hearing… was mine… I thank God it was not the last...
I'm still proud of you… Marine.
More later… Shadow
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Humor from the archives
. 7 Translation Mistakes That Almost Ruined Everything
TRANSLATION BLUNDERS
Amateurish translations can be a recipe for disaster, especially when international politics or your business future are at stake!
Traduttore, traditore! is an old Italian saying that roughly means "translators are traitors". However this saying has nothing to do with wartime propaganda or chauvinistic sentiments, and it's instead a rather lighthearted take on the inherent difficulty of a translator's line of work .
You might wonder, how bad can you make things with a bad translation? Well, there's no need to wonder, the profession is full of hysterical stories about the craziest translation blunders that almost managed to ruin whole thriving businesses and reputations.
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Pepsi's Black magic
Around the 1960s, Pepsi decided to expand its business to China only to find a literal linguistic barrier that almost ruined the whole venture . At the time, Pepsi's slogan in English-speaking countries was "Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation". However, when directly translated into Chinese, the slogan read something like "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead", turning the favorite cola of millions into a powerful dark magic concoction that - as one could expect - wasn't very well received by the Chinese population, who just happen to hold their deceased ancestors in great esteem.
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The mighty… Rabbit' of 'Olland?
When Napoleon's brother was crowned king of Holland in 1806, he was eager to please the local populace and quickly decided to change his name to something more fitting, from Ludovic to Lodewijk. However, he was such a bad speaker of Dutch that, during the coronation ceremony, he ended up declaring himself the "Rabbit of 'Olland", instead of "King of Holland".
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Exploding pens may get you pregnant
This one is absolutely hilarious, and just like the Pepsi gaffe, it shows the dangers of localizing new products when you aren't fully aware of the language . When Parker Pens decided to expand its business into Mexico, it mistranslated the company's current slogan "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you" - surprising by itself, since I would expect that to be the bare minimum in order to have a working pen - into "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant", due to a confusion with the similarity between the false cognates "embarazar" (get pregnant) in Spanish and "embarrass" in English.
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The hilarious Polish adventures of Jimmy Carter
. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In 1977, during a trip to Poland, U.S. President Jimmy Carter took an involuntary part in a series of incredibly funny translation fails . His amateur interpreter was terribly bad at speaking Polish - and even understanding English very well apparently - because when the president mentioned that he had left the U.S. that morning, the interpreter said to the Polish audience that "he had left his country, never to return". To make matters even worse, Carter's enthusiastic appeal to the Polish people was mistranslated again and the interpreter said that the president wanted to "get to know the Poles carnally".
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"Turn It Loose"
When beer brand Coors tried to get into the Spanish market, it failed to hire a decent translator, since the company's tagline "Turn It Loose" was translated into something akin to "Suffer From Diarrhea", something you definitely don't want to see in a beer can from overseas.
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General Flatulence
When General Electric released a new partnership brand in France under the acronym GPT, no one realized that, in French, this acronym can be read as "J'ai pété," or "I farted." You can imagine that if they just hired a French teenager, they would have discovered their mistake soon enough , saving themselves a lot of time and money.
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A Swedish non-prescription drug used to alleviate stomach pains called Samarin wanted to market its product to Arabic countries with a text-free three-panel comic strip that showed a man with a hurting stomach in its first picture, the same man drinking Samarin in the second, and a happy and healthy man in the last one. But they forgot to take into account that in the Arab world people read both books and comic strips from the right to the left! So, not even avoiding text whatsoever saved them from screwing up their new business expansion
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From the archives thanks to Mike
Images from Washington Captured the Golden Age of Aviation in Glorious Black and White
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.thanks to History Facts
Betsy Ross probably didn't make the first American flag.
U.S. HISTORY
I n 1777, Congress passed a resolution dictating that the official flag of the newly founded United States would consist of 13 white stars against a blue background, and 13 alternating red and white stripes. According to popular myth, the first American flag was subsequently created by Philadelphia resident Elizabeth "Betsy" Ross. There's just one problem with this common narrative: There's no evidence that it's actually true.
The claim that Betsy Ross made the first American flag didn't surface until 1870 — nearly a century after the nation's founding — in a speech Ross' grandson William Canby delivered to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Canby said that his grandmother would often recount a story of the time she received a visit from George Washington, who presented her with a proposed design of 13 stripes and 13 six-pointed stars, and asked if she could create a flag based on the sketch. According to Canby, Ross agreed, and even came up with the idea to give the stars five points instead of six, and to arrange them in a circle.
Canby's story was compelling, and the speech was widely circulated in popular newspapers. Before long, it became accepted as fact that Ross created the first American flag. However, although Canby produced affidavits from Ross' daughter and granddaughter corroborating the tale, he never offered any concrete evidence — including, crucially, the flag itself. (In fact, there's no evidence of any American flag that can be traced back to Ross.) Over the years, historians have called Canby's account into question, and while it's been established that Ross did sew flags for the Pennsylvania Navy, some historians suggest the original Stars and Stripes was actually created by Francis Hopkinson, a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress. They cite a bill that Hopkinson sent to the Congress in 1780, asking for payment for designing "the flag of the United States of America." But this theory also remains unconfirmed, as the Congress refused to pay Hopkinson for his services, claiming he "was not the only one consulted." To date, the true origin of the American flag remains a mystery.
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Thanks to Shadow.THIS IS THE SECOND ONE
. Unusual one today. Most of you on the List know all about my aviation stories… but very few know about my life as a Grunt in Vietnam. I have frequently pointed out that I have a thousand fond memories of aviation (my first love) but very few of my time as a ground pounder in Vietnam. Last night a dear friend called to wish me Happy Birthday. His name is Dan McMahon, my first company commander in Vietnam. In my mind Dan is a national Hero. It was his leadership that kept two companies together during a fierce ambush by a regiment of North Vietnamese. He and I had already survived hell in a small place, but in his finest hour I was not physically, but in constant contact via radio.
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From the archives in case you need it and forgot these
Thanks to Interesting Facts
10 Surprising Household Uses For WD-40
Not only is WD-40 one of the most recognizable brands at the hardware store — it's also one of the most versatile, acting as a lubricant, rust preventer, and moisture displacer. Besides these uses, however, WD-40 also comes in handy in several unlikely situations. Here are 10 surprising household uses for WD-40.
Remove Chewing Gum
Getting chewing gum stuck on the bottom of your shoe or in your hair is incredibly annoying. Thankfully, WD-40's lubricating ability makes removing the sticky mass a breeze. Spray the sole of your shoe with WD-40 and let sit for several seconds before wiping away the gum's sticky residue. The same logic applies to your hair, but be extra careful as you don't want to accidentally get WD-40 in your eyes.
A car windshield
Clean Bird Droppings Off Your Car
You often can't avoid getting bird waste on your car, especially if you live around many trees. That's where WD-40 comes to the rescue. Spray the dried gunk with WD-40, let it sit for 60 seconds, then wipe it off, leaving the car looking as good as new. Consider keeping a small can of WD-40 in your glove compartment for easy clean-up on the go.
Separate Stuck LEGO Bricks
Being a parent comes with a unique set of challenges, and one of them is getting those pesky LEGO bricks unstuck from each other. If you have two bricks that won't budge, spray the pieces with WD-40 and wait several seconds before easily pulling them apart.
Break-in Baseball Gloves
One of the best methods to break in a new baseball glove involves WD-40. Spray the glove with the product, place a baseball in the palm, fold the glove sideways, and then secure it with a rubber band overnight. The oils from the WD-40 will help loosen stiff leather and get the mitt ready for play.
Remove Crayon Markings
Stubborn crayon drawings on your walls can be easily removed with WD-40. Spray the marks before letting the WD-40 sit for several minutes. The colorful crayon marks will wipe off, restoring the wall to its pristine condition.
Revive Patio Furniture
Rather than buying a new patio furniture set, you can restore that grimy old set with WD-40. Spray the product onto a cloth and wipe the dirt off the furniture. While it may take a little elbow grease to get the job done, it'll be well worth it when your furniture looks as good as new.
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Slide Off Tight Jewelry
Tight jewelry can quickly go from being uncomfortable to a real problem. With a quick spray of WD-40, you can sufficiently lubricate fingers and wrists, allowing stuck jewelry to slide off without hurting you or ruining the accessory.
Wipe Away Bathroom Grime
WD-40 is a jack-of-all-trades for cleaning the bathroom without being as harsh as many other chemical bathroom cleaners. Spray the product on soap scum, dirty grout, or anywhere else in the bathroom that needs cleaning. After letting it sit for a few minutes, wipe away the dirt, leaving the bathroom sparkling clean.
Waterproof Your Shoes
If it's raining or snowing and you don't have a pair of waterproof shoes, simply spray your leather shoes with WD-40. The coating will act as a waterproof barrier that prevents any moisture from seeping in. However, only spray dark-colored leather, as lighter-colored shoes will stain.
Remove Decals and Stickers
WD-40 is the perfect tool for removing decals without relying on a sharp razor blade, from weathered bumper stickers to stubborn wall decorations. Spray the stuck decal and wait a few minutes before easily wiping away the residue with a paper towel.
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This Day in U S Military History
November 14
1910 – Civilian Eugene Ely, was the first to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship, USS Birmingham (CL-2) . He flew from the Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk. It was a Curtiss plane flown by Eugene Ely, a company exhibition pilot, that made the first successful takeoff from a Navy ship.
1942 – Off the coast of Guadalcanal, Admiral Tanaka turns south with his destroyers and transports and comes under heavy air attack from both Henderson Field and planes from the USS Enterprise. Seven of the transports and two warships are lost. He continues his advance throughout the night and manages to sail his remaining transports to Tassafaronga. However, more of the Japanese troops are killed by air attack while disembarking. Meanwhile, the second battle of Guadalcanal gets underway shortly before midnight. The Japanese covering force supporting the convoy, led by Admiral Kondo ( with the battleship Kirishima, four cruisers and nine destroyers), encounters US Task Force 64, under the command of Admiral Lee ( with the battleships Washington and South Dakota and four destroyers). The battle begins with damage to the South Dakota. It is forced from the battle. A seven minute burst of fire from the USS Washington sinks the Kirishima. Control of the seas around Guadalcanal is passing to the Americans. Supply problems are mounting for the Japanese, who will now be forced to make considerable use of submarines to transport supplies. Already many of the Japanese troops are ill and hungry.
1965 – In the first major engagement of the war between regular U.S. and North Vietnamese forces, elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) fight a pitched battle with Communist main-force units in the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands. On this morning, Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore's 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry conducted a heliborne assault into Landing Zone X-Ray near the Chu Pong hills. Around noon, the North Vietnamese 33rd Regiment attacked the U.S. troopers. The fight continued all day and into the night. American soldiers received support from nearby artillery units and tactical air strikes. The next morning, the North Vietnamese 66th Regiment joined the attack against the U.S. unit. The fighting was bitter, but the tactical air strikes and artillery support took their toll on the enemy and enabled the 1st Cavalry troopers to hold on against repeated assaults. At around noon, two reinforcing companies arrived and Colonel Moore put them to good use to assist his beleaguered soldiers. By the third day of the battle, the Americans had gained the upper hand. The three-day battle resulted in 834 North Vietnamese soldiers confirmed killed, and another 1,000 communist casualties were assumed. In a related action during the same battle, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, was ambushed by North Vietnamese forces as it moved overland to Landing Zone Albany. Of the 500 men in the original column, 150 were killed and only 84 were able to return to immediate duty; Company C suffered 93 percent casualties, half of them deaths. Despite these numbers, senior American officials in Saigon declared the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley a great victory. The battle was extremely important because it was the first significant contact between U.S. troops and North Vietnamese forces. The action demonstrated that the North Vietnamese were prepared to stand and fight major battles even though they might take serious casualties. Senior American military leaders concluded that U.S. forces could wreak significant damage on the communists in such battles–this tactic lead to a war of attrition as the U.S. forces tried to wear the communists down. The North Vietnamese also learned a valuable lesson during the battle: by keeping their combat troops physically close to U.S. positions, U.S. troops could not use artillery or air strikes without risking injury to American troops. This style of fighting became the North Vietnamese practice for the rest of the war.
1969 – Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the moon, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr.; Richard F. Gordon, Jr.; and Alan L. Bean aboard. President Richard Nixon viewed the liftoff from Pad A at Cape Canaveral. He was the first president to attend the liftoff of a manned space flight. Thirty-six seconds after takeoff, lightning struck the ascending Saturn 5 launch rocket, which tripped the circuit breakers in the command module and caused a power failure. Fortunately, the launching rocket continued up normally, and within a few minutes power was restored in the spacecraft.On November 19, the landing module Intrepid made a precision landing on the northwest rim of the moon's Ocean of Storms. About five hours later, astronauts Conrad and Bean became the third and fourth humans to walk on the surface of the moon. During the next 32 hours, the two astronauts made two lunar walks, where they collected lunar samples and investigated the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, an unmanned U.S. probe that soft-landed on the moon in 1967. On November 24, Apollo 12 successfully returned to Earth, splashing down only three miles from one of its retrieval ships, the USS Hornet.
1971 – Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I) was an unmanned NASA space probe that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the Mariner program. Mariner 9 was launched toward Mars on May 30, 1971 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet — only narrowly beating the Soviet's Mars 2 and Mars 3, which both arrived within a month. After months of dust storms it managed to send back clear pictures of the surface. Mariner 9 returned 7329 images over the course of its mission, which concluded in October 1972.
2001 – United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1378 which included "Condemning the Taliban for allowing Afghanistan to be used as a base for the export of terrorism by the al-Qaeda network and other terrorist groups and for providing safe haven to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and others associated with them, and in this context supporting the efforts of the Afghan people to replace the Taliban regime". The United Nations World Food Programme temporarily suspended activities within Afghanistan at the beginning of the bombing attacks but resumed them after the fall of the Taliban.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*BAUER, HAROLD WILLIAM
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: 20 November 1908. Woodruff, Kans. Appointed from: Nebraska. Citation: For extraordinary heroism and conspicuous courage as Squadron Commander of Marine Fighting Squadron 212 in the South Pacific Area during the period 10 May to 14 November 1942. Volunteering to pilot a fighter plane in defense of our positions on Guadalcanal, Lt. Col. Bauer participated in 2 air battles against enemy bombers and fighters outnumbering our force more than 2 to 1, boldly engaged the enemy and destroyed 1 Japanese bomber in the engagement of 28 September and shot down 4 enemy fighter planes in flames on 3 October, leaving a fifth smoking badly. After successfully leading 26 planes on an over-water ferry flight of more than 600 miles on 16 October, Lt. Col. Bauer, while circling to land, sighted a squadron of enemy planes attacking the U.S.S. McFarland. Undaunted by the formidable opposition and with valor above and beyond the call of duty, he engaged the entire squadron and, although alone and his fuel supply nearly exhausted, fought his plane so brilliantly that 4 of the Japanese planes were destroyed before he was forced down by lack of fuel. His intrepid fighting spirit and distinctive ability as a leader and an airman, exemplified in his splendid record of combat achievement, were vital factors in the successful operations in the South Pacific Area.
CAPTAIN ED W. FREEMANUnited States Army; for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Captain Ed W. Freeman, United States Army, distinguished himself by numerous acts of conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary intrepidity on 14 November 1965 while serving with Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). As a flight leader and second in command of a 16-helicopter lift unit, he supported a heavily engaged American infantry battalion at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, Republic of Vietnam. The unit was almost out of ammunition after taking some of the heaviest casualties of the war, fighting off a relentless attack from a highly motivated, heavily armed enemy force. When the infantry commander closed the helicopter landing zone due to intense direct enemy fire, Captain Freeman risked his own life by flying his unarmed helicopter through a gauntlet of enemy fire time after time, delivering critically needed ammunition, water and medical supplies to the besieged battalion. His flights had a direct impact on the battle's outcome by providing the engaged units with timely supplies of ammunition critical to their survival, without which they would almost surely have gone down, with much greater loss of life. After medical evacuation helicopters refused to fly into the area due to intense enemy fire, Captain Freeman flew 14 separate rescue missions, providing life-saving evacuation of an estimated 30 seriously wounded soldiers — some of whom would not have survived had he not acted. All flights were made into a small emergency landing zone within 100 to 200 meters of the defensive perimeter where heavily committed units were perilously holding off the attacking elements. Captain Freeman's selfless acts of great valor, extraordinary perseverance and intrepidity were far above and beyond the call of duty or mission and set a superb example of leadership and courage for all of his peers. Captain Freeman's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.
MARM, WALTER JOSEPH, JR.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant (then 2d Lt.), U.S. Army, Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). place and date: Vicinity of la Drang Valley, Republic of Vietnam, 14 November 1965. Entered service at: pittsburgh, pa. Born: 20 November 1941, Washington, pa. G.O. No.: 7, 15 February 1967. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. As a platoon leader in the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), 1st Lt. Marm demonstrated indomitable courage during a combat operation. His company was moving through the valley to relieve a friendly unit surrounded by an enemy force of estimated regimental size. 1st Lt. Marm led his platoon through withering fire until they were finally forced to take cover. Realizing that his platoon could not hold very long, and seeing four enemy soldiers moving into his position, he moved quickly under heavy fire and annihilated all 4. Then, seeing that his platoon was receiving intense fire from a concealed machine gun, he deliberately exposed himself to draw its fire. Thus locating its position, he attempted to destroy it with an antitank weapon. Although he inflicted casualties, the weapon did not silence the enemy fire. Quickly, disregarding the intense fire directed on him and his platoon, he charged 30 meters across open ground, and hurled grenades into the enemy position, killing some of the 8 insurgents manning it. Although severely wounded, when his grenades were expended, armed with only a rifle, he continued the momentum of his assault on the position and killed the remainder of the enemy. 1st Lt. Marm's selfless actions reduced the fire on his platoon, broke the enemy assault, and rallied his unit to continue toward the accomplishment of this mission. 1st Lt. Marm's gallantry on the battlefield and his extraordinary intrepidity at the risk of his life are in the highest traditions of the U.S. Army and reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of his country.
CRANDALL, BRUCE P.
Rank and Organization: Major, U.S. Army, Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Place and dates: Ia Drang Valley, Republic of Vietnam, 14 November 1965. Place and date of birth: Olympia, Washington, 1933. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Major Bruce P. Crandall distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism as a Flight Commander in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). On 14 November 1965, his flight of sixteen helicopters was lifting troops for a search and destroy mission from Plei Me, Vietnam, to Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. On the fourth troop lift, the airlift began to take enemy fire, and by the time the aircraft had refueled and returned for the next troop lift, the enemy had Landing Zone X-Ray targeted. As Major Crandall and the first eight helicopters landed to discharge troops on his fifth troop lift, his unarmed helicopter came under such intense enemy fire that the ground commander ordered the second flight of eight aircraft to abort their mission. As Major Crandall flew back to Plei Me, his base of operations, he determined that the ground commander of the besieged infantry batallion desperately needed more ammunition. Major Crandall then decided to adjust his base of operations to Artillery Firebase Falcon in order to shorten the flight distance to deliver ammunition and evacuate wounded soldiers. While medical evacuation was not his mission, he immediately sought volunteers and with complete disregard for his own personal safety, led the two aircraft to Landing Zone X-Ray. Despite the fact that the landing zone was still under relentless enemy fire, Major Crandall landed and proceeded to supervise the loading of seriously wounded soldiers aboard his aircraft. Major Crandall's voluntary decision to land under the most extreme fire instilled in the other pilots the will and spirit to continue to land their own aircraft, and in the ground forces the realization that they would be resupplied and that friendly wounded would be promptly evacuated. This greatly enhanced morale and the will to fight at a critical time. After his first medical evacuation, Major Crandall continued to fly into and out of the landing zone throughout the day and into the evening. That day he completed a total of 22 flights, most under intense enemy fire, retiring from the battlefield only after all possible service had been rendered to the Infantry battalion. His actions provided critical resupply of ammunition and evacuation of the wounded. Major Crandall's daring acts of bravery and courage in the face of an overwhelming and determined enemy are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for November 14, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
14 November
1910: Eugene Ely, a Curtiss test pilot, made the first takeoff from a navy vessel. He took off from a platform built on the deck of the USS Birmingham, while anchored off Hampton Roads, and flew to Willoughby Spit on the opposite shore. The plane dropped and touched the water before Ely regained control. (10) (24)
1932: Roscoe Turner used a Wedell-Williams plane to set a cross-country, East-West record from Floyd Bennett Field to Burbank in 12 hours 33 minutes. He stopped twice enroute. (9)
1938: In a meeting with his military leaders, President Roosevelt called for an Air Corps with 20,000 airplanes. (21)
1941: ACFC's military air transport service linked Washington DC with Cairo, Egypt, when Col Caleb V. Haynes and Maj Curtis E. LeMay flew Maj Gen George H. Brett, Chief of the Air Corps, in a B-24 on the first 26,000-mile round trip to Basra, Iraq. (2)
1943: Ninety B-25s from Twelfth Air Force carried out the first US AAF raid on Bulgaria. The aircraft dropped 135 tons of bombs on Sofia. (24)
1946: Majs D. H. Jensen and W. C. Dodds in a Sikorsky R-5A helicopter set FAI duration, distance, and speed records of 9 hours 57 minutes over 621.369 miles at 66.642 MPH without a payload.
1949: The USAF made its first quantity procurement of production Boeing B-47s. (12)
1950: KOREAN WAR. 15 MiG-15s attacked and damaged two of 18 B-29s bombing the bridges at Sinuiju. (28)
1955: SECAF Donald A. Quarles established the Air Force Ballistic Missile Committee as the major decision-making body for the Air Force ballistic missile program. (6)
1966: The first jet landing on Antarctica took place as a MAC C-141 successfully completed a 2,140-mile flight from Christchurch, New Zealand, to McMurdo Station, with Capt Howard Geddes from the 86 MAS at Travis AFB at the controls. (5) (16)
1969: APOLLO XII: The second manned lunar landing mission, started when Charles (Pete) Conrad, Jr., Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Alan L. Bean, launched from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V. Bean and Conrad flew their lunar landing module on 19 November to the surface and landed at the Ocean of Storms about 600 feet from Surveyor III. They lifted off on 20 November after both men walked on the moon. The Apollo landed in mid-pacific on 24 November. The 244- hour, 36-minute trip set a duration record. (9) (26)
1973: The US ended its airlift support to Israel. In the 32-day operation during the Yom Kippur War, MAC airlifted 22,318 tons of supplies. 1974: McDonnell-Douglas delivered the first F-15 to TAC. President Gerald R. Ford accepted it at Luke AFB for the 58th Tactical Fighter Training Wing (TFTW). (12)
1981: After its second mission, Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly landed the Space Shuttle Columbia at Edwards AFB. (3) Exercise BRIGHT STAR. MAC conducted the longest nonstop parachute assault mission ever. Using 24 aircraft, MAC airdropped 858 Egyptian and American troops and 172 tons of cargo in the desert southwest of Cairo. After a 13-hour flight for the aircraft, the drop took place within six seconds of the scheduled time. (2)
1982: Through 19 November, the 527 TFTS Aggressor Squadron deployed three of its F-5 Tigers to Eskisehir AB, Turkey, for the first dissimilar air combat tactics training with Turkey's Force. (16) (26)
1989: McDonnell-Douglas delivered the first F/A-18D Hornet, a two-seat operational trainer, to the Navy at the Naval Air Test Station, NAS Patuxent River. (8: Feb 90)
1991: A C-5 from the 436 MAW carried 50 tons of medical and relief supplies to Freetown, Sierra Leone. (16)
1997: On the east side of Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards AFB, construction began on a launch pad for the Lockheed Martin X-33 VentureStar subscale technology demonstrator. The facility would raise the X-33 to a vertical position for launch; after which, it would reach 60 miles in altitude and Mach 13 in speed by using liquid hydrogen and oxygen powered engines. (3)
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