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To All,
.Good Monday morning August 11… clear and 68 now climbing to 85 by 2.
The funeral for Chip is at 1230 this afternoon. I just received this obit…skip
Obit here:
https://www.santafefuneralsnm.com/obituaries/frank-meyers
Chip flew the last F-8J to the bone yard. It was the one I flew in VF-211 and still had my name on the side.
Somewhere I still have a copy of the picture that was in the Jet Journal the NAS Miramar paper skip
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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 92 H-Grams
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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 92 H-Grams
August 11
1861 USS Penguin, commanded by Cmdr. John L. Livingston, engages blockade-runner Louisa during the Civil War. The blockade-runner hits a sandbar near Cape Fear, N.C., and sinks
1877 Prof. Asaph Hall of the U.S. Naval Observatory discovers the first of two satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, using the largest refractor of the time, a USNO 26-inch (66-cm) telescope.
1898 During the Spanish-American War, USS Cushing (TB 1), USS Gwin (TB 16), and USS McKee (TB 18) captured and burned the Spanish schooner Jover Genard at Carendas, Cuba.
1943 Aircraft from Composite Squadron One (VC 1) based onboard USS Card (CVE 11) sinks German submarine, (U 525), about 376 miles west-southwest of Corvo Island, Azores.
1960 USNS Haiti Victory (T-AK 238), using Navy helicopters and frogmen, recover Discoverer 13 satellite capsule in the Pacific Ocean, the first recovery of a U.S. satellite from orbit.
2001 USNS Benavidez (T-AKR 306) is christened and launched at New Orleans, La. The Bob Hope-class large, medium-speed roll-on/roll-off ship is part of Military Sealift Commands prepositioning program that serves as dry cargo surge sealift carriers.
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Today in World History: August 11
0991 Danes under Olaf Tryggvason kill Ealdorman Byrhtnoth and defeat the Saxons at Maldon.
1492 Rodrigo Borgia is elected to the papacy as Pope Alexander VI.
1792 A revolutionary commune is formed in Paris, France.
1856 A band of rampaging settlers in California kill four Yokut Indians. The settlers had heard unproven rumors of Yokut atrocities.
1862 President Abraham Lincoln appoints Union General Henry Halleck to the position of general in chief of the Union Army.
1904 German General Lothar von Trotha defeats the Hereros tribe near Waterberg, South Africa.
1906 In France, Eugene Lauste receives the first patent for a talking film.
1908 Britain's King Edward VII meets with Kaiser Wilhelm II to protest the growth of the German navy.
1912 Moroccan Sultan Mulai Hafid abdicates his throne in the face of internal dissent.
1916 The Russia army takes Stanislau, Poland, from the Germans.
1929 Babe Ruth hits his 500th major league home run against the Cleveland Indians.
1941 Soviet bombers raid Berlin but cause little damage.
1942 The German submarine U-73 attacks a Malta-bound British convoy and sinks HMS Eagle, one of the world's first aircraft carriers.
1944 German troops abandon Florence, Italy, as Allied troops close in on the historic city.
1965 A small clash between the California Highway Patrol and two black youths sets off six days of rioting in the Watts area of Los Angeles.
1972 The last U.S. ground forces withdraw from Vietnam.
1975 US vetoes admission of North and South Vietnam to UN.
1978 Funeral of Pope Paul VI.
1984 Carl Lewis wins four Olympic gold medals, tying the record Jesse Owens set in 1936.
1988 Al Qaeda formed at a meeting in Peshawar, Pakistan.
1989 Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings around Neptune.
1990 Troops from Egypt and Morocco arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the international operation to prevent Iraq from invading.
1999 A tornado in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah, kills one person.
2003 NATO assumes command of the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, its first major operation outside Europe.
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Rollingthunderremembered.com .
August 11
Thanks to Dan Heller and the Bear
Links to all content can now be found right on the homepage http://www.rollingthunderremembered.com. If you scroll down from the banner and featured content you will find "Today in Rolling Thunder Remembered History" which highlights events in the Vietnam war that occurred on the date the page is visited. Below that are links to browse or search all content. You may search by keyword(s), date, or date range.
An item of importance is the recent incorporation of Task Force Omega (TFO) MIA summaries. There is a link on the homepage and you can also visit directly via https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/task-force-omega/. There are 60 summaries posted thus far, with about 940 to go (not a typo—TFO has over 1,000 individual case files).
Thanks to Micro
From Vietnam Air Losses site for "for 11 August .
11-Aug: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=216
Vietnam Air Losses Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady's work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
(This site was sent by a friend . The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature. https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ )
By: Kipp Hanley
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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--Back to School
On the first day of school, what did the teacher say her three favorite words were?
June, July, and August.
On the first day, what did the buffalo say at school drop-off?
Bison.
What is Harry Potter's favorite school subject?
Defense against the dark arts?
No, it's spelling.
Punny Book Title:
"Walking to School" by Misty Buss.
"When Does School Start?" by Wendy Belrings.
A teacher caught a student passing notes in class, but the student didn't get in trouble.
It was music class.
Teacher: Class, we will have only half a day of school this morning.
Class: Hooray!
Teacher: We will have the other half this afternoon.
What kind of school do you go to if you're…
…an ice cream man? Sundae school.
…a giant? High school.
…a surfer? Boarding school.
…King Arthur? Knight school.
What's the difference between a teacher and a train?
A teacher says, "Spit out that gum!" and a train says, "Chew! Chew!"
Why did the kid cross the playground?
To get to the other slide.
Meeting with her physically challenged students, the teacher assured them that most people are handicapped in some way.
"Look at me," I said. "My eyes are so bad, I need to wear glasses. Because I can barely hear, I need a hearing aid. And look at my ears—they're much bigger than they should be."
From the back, a boy added, "And your nose too."
While reviewing math symbols with his second-grade pupils, the teacher drew a greater-than (>) and a less-than (<) sign on the chalkboard and asked, "Does anyone remember what these mean?"
A boy confidently raised his hand. "One means fast-forward and the other means rewind."
Thank goodness my school days are far behind me.
Have a great week,
Al
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. Thanks to Dr. Rich and Billy
Good Mornin' — EYE CANDY con't…
Thanks to the contributions of William B "Bill" Scott noted author/test pilot & all-round good guy. His books are terrific reads. Some are shown below. His book about "Earthquake" Titus is especially good. Brigadier General Robert F. "Earthquake" Titus is a fascinating history of one of aviation's greatest. This coming December he'll turn 98! I've included a mention of Chris Hobson's book "Vietnam Air Losses" as well.
"Billy, I've scribbled a couple more books, since we were last in contact. Cover images are attached, FYI. Gen. Bob "Earthquake" Titus lives here in COS, A "Reader's Digest" version of his amazing career was featured this week in Vintage Aviation News:"
Korea 1951 — Bob "Earthquake" Titus and his P-51 "Mustang"
"And per our telecon today:
* WESTERN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT
Canadair CL-600 Challenger Flight Test Accident April 3, 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCfkISxzTDI
* Hangar Flying, -- RPM: Routine, Professionalism & Magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycZi-WbvlzQ
Cheers,
Bill"
William B. Scott
EARTHQUAKE: Fighter Pilot | Test Pilot | Leader
Combat Contrails: Vietnam
The Permit
License to Kill: The Murder of Erik Scott
Video: "License to Kill"
SETP's review in its "Cockpit" Journal:
Here's a tremendous book by Chris Hobson published in 2001 in the UK.
Vietnam Air Losses
From Skip
The Vietnam Air losses book noted below has been put into a web site by Dave Lovelady and is available below in the list every day along with a note on an aircrew what was shot down on that day also available each day in the List
The Bear's Rolling Thunder and Commando Hunt are also available each day. The access is printed in the List each day.
Both of these men have spent many months and years making this information available to all at no cost
Regards,
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One can readily see from the extensive Bibliography the breadth and depth of the research that has gone into the book. Still, a great deal is not known about some of the events, and we are hoping that those that were there and have first-hand accounts will share them with us. Those that we feel add to the history will be added to the database, along with the original text.
With gratitude, it should be noted that Rear Admiral Jeremy "Bear" Taylor, USN (Ret.), who has a magnificent website at Rolling Thunder Remembered, suggested that Chris Hobson's book (Vietnam Air Losses, United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia 1961-1973) was worthy of obtaining a copy. He suggested a few sources for tracking down used books. That search revealed that readers were being "gouged." The used copies were selling for many times the original price, up to as much as $896 through Amazon. The median price seemed to be at least $100 above the original price.
The information in the book is a treasure, particularly for the descendants, children and now grandchildren, of those that fought the air war. Sometimes, family lore and legend simply don't do justice to the memory of loved ones, nor are family members and friends able to fully appreciate the incredible bravery evidenced many times every day as men did their duty. In addition, unless one is a scholar of the war, willing to research and analyze without preconceived bias, it is difficult to conclude what really happened in the Vietnam War. Certainly, many history books and documentaries are inaccurate. And, unfortunately, there has been so much misinformation about the people that fought the war that often children and grandchildren won't ask veterans to tell their stories. Those veterans are too often reticent to lead the conversation, so the subject doesn't come up. But, if you get them at a military unit reunion or at a VFW or American Legion hall, the memories flood out. It's a shame that families may be the last to know.
Because such valuable information should not have to be paid for, particularly exorbitant sums, nor diligently searched for around the world, I contacted Chris and asked him if I could put the information online. He not only readily agreed to the project, but he asked if he could update the information. In the 18 years since publication, a great deal of additional information has been revealed, most notably the identification of remains through advances in DNA and the hard work of the search and excavation teams.
Accordingly, the information on this site has been updated substantially by Chris during 2019, and we hope to add more information as it comes available.
This site is an attempt to make all the information in Vietnam Air Losses available to a wide audience at no cost to them. It is most appropriate that I include Chris's Introduction from the book:
The Vietnam War is far enough in the past to be considered history yet recent enough to still have a deeply personal effect on millions of Americans, whether they be veterans, relatives of the dead and missing, or simply US citizens. There is a growing wealth of literature on the war, especially in recent years as the pain of the war recedes and the development of the Internet has given an added impetus to publishing.
As an aviation enthusiast and historian, the Vietnam War and its place in the development of air power technology, tactics and doctrine has always fascinated me. Virtually every available aircraft type and every weapon in the US arsenal, with the notable exception of nuclear weapons, was used during the war. The variety of aircraft and the multitude of roles, tactics and operations makes the Vietnam air war well worth studying. Yet perhaps because of its very specific nature, fought over mountainous or jungle terrain in a little known country against a shadowy enemy, the military lessons of the air war are sometimes intangible and difficult to relate to present day air power. Hopefully, this book may, in some small way, make the air war over Southeast Asia less intangible and may point the way to further research to ensure that the lessons of the air war are not forgotten.
In reporting the facts of the war I have tried to steer clear of the politics of Vietnam, unless they have a direct effect on the air war. Being neither an American nor a serviceman I do not feel qualified to comment on the political issues or higher strategy involved nor is any such comment necessary in a work of this nature. This history is about men, aircraft and air operations. The more strategic aspects of the war have already been covered by many excellent authors in a host of publications. I have culled the information presented in this book from a variety of sources, both official and unofficial. Some of the sources disagree on minor points, and certain information, such as that relating to many of the men listed as missing in action, may be regarded as speculative. However, I take full responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies contained in the book.
I am very aware of the sensitivity of writing about events that are so recent and in particular about the people mentioned, the memory of whom is still fresh in the minds of loved ones, friends and colleagues. It is not my intention to characterise or criticise any individual in any way and it is certainly not my intention to cause pain to relatives and friends of the deceased listed in these pages.
A number of people have assisted in the research and production of this book. My wife Alison has helped greatly by compiling the index of personnel and by providing support when needed and my son Jonathan has helped with my numerous IT and Internet-related queries and problems. Sincere thanks are also due to Robert Daley and Peter Bird for their assistance in providing information on the C-130 Hercules and C-7 Caribou respectively. It is thanks to dedicated men such as these that superb websites on a whole variety of subjects are now available on the Internet.
This book was inspired, at least in part, by one of the men mentioned in the text, Lieutenant Colonel Harold Eugene Johnson. I knew Harry Johnson when he was a USAF exchange officer at the Royal Air Force Staff College in the late 1970s. His experience as a Wild Weasel electronic warfare officer made him a valuable asset as a military instructor but his experience as a prisoner of war made him something even more special. This book is dedicated to the dignity, bravery and sacrifice of the thousands of men like Harry Johnson who fought the war in the skies over Southeast Asia.
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From the archives
Thanks to Dick
From my friend, Bob
Subject: Fwd: How WWII ended with a Battle between Sailing Ships
For those of us who THOUGHT we knew our Naval history, a new one!
How World War II ended with a battle between sailing ships
The war was over. Japan had surrendered on August 15. There was no need for any more violence in the Pacific Ocean. But on August 21, a Japanese crew that did not yet know World War II was officially over launched an attack that would be the final battle of the war.
It was also the last battle between two ships under sail. And the last fight where an American crew would board another vessel, like in the early days of the American Navy.
This is the story of the last naval battle of World War II..
The American military had naval operations going on in China even before World War II. When the war broke out, that continued, hoping to disrupt Japanese operations in China and the surrounding seas. Navy Lieutenant Livingston Swentzel and Marine Lieutenant Stewart Pittman were in China for that very reason. Soon after Japan surrendered, they were on their way to Shanghai. They were in command of two Chinese junks, traditional sail-powered ships that between them were outfitted with more modern weapons: a 50 caliber and 30 caliber machine gun, two bazookas, multiple small arms and many, many grenades. Swentzel led one ship, Pittman commanded the other. The total crew wasn't big, seven Americans in all plus 20 Chinese guerillas who had been fighting the Japanese occupation.
The morning of August 21, they weren't expecting combat on their voyage. But they stumbled upon another junk, which suddenly turned and opened fire. It was a Japanese ship. The American and Chinese forces had twice the ships but the enemy junk was filled with 83 Japanese sailors, armed with six machine guns, 100 rifles, and most dangerously, a 75mm howitzer. That howitzer blasted to life, tearing apart the foremast of Swentzel's junk and also damaging its rudder. The battle was on.
In true naval tradition, Swentzel raised the American flag and he and Pittman's ships went on the counteroffensive. The American and Chinese forces unleashed their full arsenal, closing in on the Japanese-crewed ship. Swentzel's junk was damaged, but Pittman's was at full capacity and got up close and personal with the enemy.
The American and allied crews then started throwing their grenades at the Japanese vessel, using the explosives as cover to prepare a boarding party. Pittman and a few of his compatriots then leapt aboard the Japanese ship, guns at the ready. But it was already over. In 45 minutes the Chinese and American force had killed 44 Japanese sailors, wounded another 35 and captured the enemy ship. Their losses were much fewer: four Chinese sailors were killed, five were wounded and one American was wounded in the fight. In less than an hour, they had won the last naval battle of World War II. The Americans had ended the war with the brand new, destructive force of the atomic bomb, but the fighting ended in a throwback to naval warfare from the age of sails and cannons. Pittman's boarding party took the Chinese junk as a prize. The three ships then completed the voyage to Shanghai.
For their efforts, Swentzel was awarded the Navy Cross and Pittman a Silver Star.
That is how World War II finally ended. After the atomic bombs, after the unconditional surrender of Japan, three small ships ended the conflict with a boarding party.
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Thanks to Burt ... and Dr. Rich
Steven Wright Quotes
The Quotes of Steven Wright:
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
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Thanks to John…This is one I never heard before…..skip
Skip,
Pretty interesting. I didn't know that the B-29 that dropped the second atomic weapon diverted to Okinawa.
John
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
7 of History's Strangest Coincidences
In their 1989 paper "Methods for Studying Coincidences," math professors Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller defined a coincidence as a "surprising concurrence of events, perceived as meaningfully related, with no apparent causal connection."
It's an apt definition, but it doesn't quite do justice to those coincidences that tie together people and places in a way that almost makes you wonder whether something supernatural is going on. Here are seven such coincidences — some of historical significance, others just downright mind-blowing — that have rational people questioning the odds of just how things could have unfolded that way.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Both Died on the 50th Anniversary of Independence Day
Founding Fathers John Adams and Thomas Jefferson seemingly shared some kind of cosmic connection. After striking up a friendship at the 1775 Continental Congress, they teamed up to draft the Declaration of Independence, concurrently served in Europe as American diplomats, and became the second and third U.S. Presidents, respectively, before partisan fighting drove them apart. But they reignited a regular correspondence in their golden years through the cusp of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration on July 4, 1826. That day, as he lay on his deathbed, Adams reportedly delivered his final words, "Thomas Jefferson survives," not realizing his old friend and former rival had passed away a few hours earlier.
John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved the Life of Abraham Lincoln's Son
It may seem off-kilter to conflate the names Booth and Lincoln for a story with a happy ending, but that's what happened during a near-disaster at a crowded New Jersey train platform around late 1863. Then a student at Harvard, Robert Todd Lincoln found himself pressed against a train that suddenly lurched forward and spun him onto the tracks before a quick-reacting good samaritan hauled him to safety. Lincoln immediately recognized his savior as the famous actor Edwin Booth, though it took a congratulatory letter from a mutual friend for Booth to realize that he had rescued President Abraham Lincoln's oldest son. Regardless, any goodwill between the two families soon vanished when Booth's pro-Confederate younger brother, John Wilkes Booth, fatally ambushed the President in April 1865.
Mark Twain Entered and Exited the World With Halley's Comet
Two weeks after Halley's Comet passed its November 1835 perihelion — the point of orbit closest to the sun — a boy named Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. Clemens went on to worldwide fame as Mark Twain, but there was no slowing the passage of time, and in 1909, the septuagenarian author told his biographer that he expected an astronomical bookending to his days. "It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet," he revealed. "The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" The Almighty must have listened, and on April 21, 1910, one day after Halley's Comet again reached its perihelion, Twain died from a heart attack at age 74.
The Car That Brought About WWI Also Predicted Its End
It was the event that triggered World War I, yet also seemingly carried a harbinger for when peace would return to the land. On June 28, 1914, Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were shot at point-blank range by Bosnian revolutionary Gavrilo Princip as they rode through Sarajevo in their touring car. While onlookers converged on the dying royals and their assassin, no one could have grasped the significance of the car's license plate, which read AIII 118. Read another way, with the I's switched to 1's and slight changes in spacing applied, and you have 11/11/18 — the date of Armistice Day, which formally ended the Great War.
Wilmer McLean Hosted the First Major Battle and Formal Conclusion of the Civil War
Northern Virginia plantation owner Wilmer McLean was happy to cede his grounds to pro-slavery Confederates for what became the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861. However, he was tired of the destruction by the time his plantation was again used for the follow-up battle in August 1862, and he moved his family south to the isolated village of Appomattox Court House the following year. Turns out he didn't get quite far enough away from the action, as an aide to General Robert E. Lee requested the use of McLean's new residence for a surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865.
Two Versions of "Dennis the Menace" Surfaced on the Same Day
On March 12, 1951, "Dennis the Menace" appeared for the first time in the British weekly comic magazine The Beano. That same day, "Dennis the Menace" debuted in 16 American newspapers. Was it the same character arriving in different countries by way of an international distribution deal? Nope. The British Dennis, drawn by David Law, was dark-haired, scowling, and known to deliberately stir up trouble; American Dennis, from the hand of Hank Ketcham, was blonde, friendly, and more likely to foul things up through good intentions turned sour. It was reported that neither artist initially was aware of the other's work, and apparently, neither cared about any sort of copyright infringement, as both the British and American Dennis went on to long, successful runs in their respective countries.
The "Jim Twins" Led Remarkably Similar Lives
Finally, there's the case of James Springer and James Lewis, identical twins who went their separate ways as infants through adoption yet went on to live eerily similar lives before reuniting at age 39. Each grew up with a brother named Larry, had a pet dog named Toy, went into law enforcement, and named his first-born son James Allan (with slightly different spellings). And even if you chalk some of those matches up to genetic disposition, it doesn't quite explain how each twin somehow married a woman named Linda before following with a second wife named Betty, or how both settled on the same vacation spot at a small beach in St. Petersburg, Florida, more than 1,000 miles away from where they were separately reared in Ohio.
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Thanks to YP and Shadow
Wot a privilege to know and associate with!
Y'all musta been a pair.
YP
From Shadow
Dear Black,
You write better than I do! On top of that, I could never come close to your incredible Naval Aviation experiences. You were the man! A man's man.. a woman's dream. I knew you were a handsome SOB…. But one day I was talking to a female salesperson when you walked by and out into the hangar. When the door closed, she sighed and said…o "Every time I see that man, I can feel it in my bra"! No wonder the waitress at McGuire's came back to "card" you before delivering your beer! She just wanted a closer look. I think you're probably the only 0-6 to get carded by any bartender or waitress to make sure you were 21! And then there were the ladies at Base Ops at Tinker. When "Spock" called me to inquire as to your whereabouts… I told him I'd talked to you that morning at Hill AFB and you were on your way to NAS Memphis, via Tinker for fuel… you might catch him there. A half hour later, Spock calls back and says, "You're not gonna believe this one. I called Base Ops at Tinker and a woman answered the phone. I told her I was looking for a Marine Colonel, flying a Navy F-18. He may be in a green or blue flight suit". The women replies… "We have an F-18 out there, but that was no Colonel flying it, that is about the best looking young Lieutenant I ever saw… every woman in the office is going Ga-Ga over him"! Spock said, "That's him"!
There is so much more… Damn we had a ball at Black Shadow! Love you Black, best years of my life with you at my side!
Shadow
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Thanks to Micro
Ronald Reagan pushing back hard.
https://x.com/mihaschw/status/
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This Day in U S Military History 11 August
1945 – US Secretary of State, James Byrnes, replies to the Japanese offer to surrender with a refusal to make any compromise on the demand for unconditional surrender. His note states that the Allies envisage an unconditional surrender as one where the emperor will be "subject to" the supreme commander of the Allied powers and the form of government will be decided the "will of the Japanese people."
1950 – Maj Vivian Moses became the first casualty of Marine Air Group 33. He crash-landed his F-4U Corsair in a rice paddy after being hit with ground fire and was thrown from the cockpit. Knocked unconscious, Moses drowned minutes before an air rescue team could get to him.
1960 – USNS Longview, using Navy helicopters and frogmen, recovers a Discover satellite capsule after 17 orbits. This is first recovery of U.S. satellite from orbit.
1965 – What should have been a routine traffic stop in the Watts neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles developed into one of the worst racial riots in American history. Tensions between the African American community and city law enforcement erupted into war-like acts as snipers and arsonists attacked the police and fire department personal sent to quell the disturbance. In one of the largest deployments of aid to civil authority in American history up to that time, 12,758 California Guardsmen, drawn from two divisions (7,560 men from the 40th Armored and 5,198 from the 49th Infantry), were put on the streets to help restore order and protect people and property. Air Guard units from California and Arizona flew a total of 18 C-97 and five C-119 transport aircraft to airlift the 49th Division's men from Northern California to the LA area. While a number of Guardsmen returned sniper fire, it remains unclear if any civilians were killed by the Guard. After six days and nights of terror the city's streets were restored to peace, but at a very high cost; 34 dead (no Guardsmen), more than 1,000 injured (including several Guardsmen), 4,000 arrested and over 1,000 buildings destroyed. Government and civic leaders, including some in the black community, praised the Guardsmen for their courage, devotion to duty and fair treatment of citizens regardless of race. Four Guardsmen were award the California Military Cross for bravery.
1967 – For the first time, U.S. pilots are authorized to bomb road and rail links in the Hanoi-Haiphong area, formerly on the prohibited target list. This permitted U.S. aircraft to bomb targets within 25 miles of the Chinese border and to engage other targets with rockets and cannon within 10 miles of the border. The original restrictions had been imposed because of Johnson's fear of a confrontation with China and a possible expansion of the war.
1972 – The last U.S. ground combat unit in South Vietnam, the Third Battalion, Twenty-First Infantry, departs for the United States. The unit had been guarding the U.S. air base at Da Nang. This left only 43,500 advisors, airmen, and support troops left in-country. This number did not include the sailors of the Seventh Fleet on station in the South China Sea or the air force personnel in Thailand and Guam.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
*WHEAT, ROY M.
Rank and organization: Lance Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, Company K, 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Place and date: Republic of Vietnam, 11 August 1967. Entered service a*: Jackson, Miss. Born: 24 July 1947, Moselle, Miss. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. L/Cpl. Wheat and 2 other marines were assigned the mission of providing security for a Navy construction battalion crane and crew operating along Liberty Road in the vicinity of the Dien Ban District, Quang Nam Province. After the marines had set up security positions in a tree line adjacent to the work site, L/Cpl. Wheat reconnoitered the area to the rear of their location for the possible presence of guerrillas. He then returned to within 10 feet of the friendly position, and here unintentionally triggered a well concealed, bounding type, antipersonnel mine. Immediately, a hissing sound was heard which was identified by the 3 marines as that of a burning time fuse. Shouting a warning to his comrades, L/Cpl. Wheat in a valiant act of heroism hurled himself upon the mine, absorbing the tremendous impact of the explosion with his body. The inspirational personal heroism and extraordinary valor of his unselfish action saved his fellow marines from certain injury and possible death, reflected great credit upon himself, and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
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From Alvin York's Action to a Pillar of Purple Fire by W. Thomas Smith Jr.
08/10/
This Week in American Military History:
Aug. 8, 1918: Cpl. (future Sgt.) Alvin York captures "the whole damned German Army" – actually 132 German soldiers – in an action for which he will receive the Medal of Honor.
Aug. 9, 1945: The second – and thus far, last – atomic bomb used in war is dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
The bomb, code-named Fat Man, detonates approximately 1,840 feet above Nagasaki between the city's two Mitsubishi plants.
New York Times science writer William L. Laurence, an observer flying on the mission, will write:
"A tremendous blast wave struck our ship and made it tremble from nose to tail. This was followed by four more blasts in rapid succession, each resounding like the boom of cannon fire hitting our plane from all directions.
"Observers in the tail of our ship saw a giant ball of fire rise as though from the bowels of the earth, belching forth enormous white smoke rings.
Next they saw a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward with enormous speed."
Aug. 12, 1898: Hostilities are suspended between the United States and Spain with the signing of an armistice all but ending the war (which will formally end within the year).
Spain basically caves, relinquishing "all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba." Puerto Rico and other Spanish-held islands in the West Indies are ceded to the U.S.
Manila will fall to American forces the next day.
Aug. 14, 1942: U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Elza E. Shahan, flying a P-38 Lightning, scores the first American aerial victory in the European theater of operations when he finishes off a previously damaged German Focke-Wulf FW 200 Condor near Iceland.
(The 21st-century F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter is the namesake of the famous World War II-era P-38.)
Aug. 14, 1945: Nearly 47 years to the day after Spain hoists the white flag to American forces, Japan surrenders unconditionally to the same.
World War II is over.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for 11 August, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
11 August
1906: Mrs. C. J. S. Miller became the first woman in the US to fly as an airship passenger. Her husband, Major Miller of Franklin, Pa., owned the 40-horsepower 22,500-cubic-foot airship. (24)
1910: Armstrong Drexel, an American, flew a Bleriot airplane to a FAI altitude record of 6,605 feet at Lanark, Scotland. (9)
1944: Eighth Air Force sent 956 heavy bombers, escorted by 578 fighters, to attack transportation facilities and military targets in eastern France. (4)
1950: KOREAN WAR. C-119 Flying Boxcars began airlifting trucks from Tachikawa AB to Taegu. (28
1950: Air Force detachable fuselage transport XC-120, built by Fairchild, completed its maiden flight. The Fairchild XC-120 Packplane was an American experimental modular aircraft first flown in 1950. It was developed from the company's C-119 Flying Boxcar and was unique in the unconventional use of removable cargo pods that were attached below the fuselage, instead of possessing an internal cargo compartment.
1954: The Air Force issued a requirement for the Atlas ICBM. (6)
1960: Navy frogmen recovered a 300-pound capsule ejected by Discoverer XIII. This marked the first recovery of an object ejected by an orbiting satellite. When the capsule came down outside the designated area, the planned aerial retrieval had to be abandoned. (16) (24)
1961: Aerojet-General Corporation fired an Aerobee rocket in a test basin at Azuza, Calif. This test included the first successful underwater launching of a liquid-fueled rocket. (24)
1962: The 1608th Transport Wing at Charleston AFB received the first C-130E Hercules for the MATS. (18)
1972: Northrop's Hank Chouteau flew F-5E international fighter on its first flight. This flight marked the beginning of Northrop's development, test, and evaluation program. (3)
1972: Northrop F-5E Tiger II flew for the first time. This upgrade included more powerful engines, larger fuel capacity, greater wing area and improved leading-edge extensions for better turn rates, optional air-to-air refueling, and improved avionics including air-to-air radar. Primarily used by American allies, it remained in US service to support training exercises. It has served in a wide array of roles, being able to perform both air and ground attack duties; the type was used extensively in the Vietnam War. A total of 1,400 Tiger IIs were built before production ended in 1987.
1977: Testing at Luke AFB revealed that the Missile-X buried trench basing mode could not withstand explosive pressures. This led the USAF to switch to a hybrid trench-basing concept. (6)
1978: In the Double Eagle II balloon, Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman completed the first balloon crossing of the Atlantic. They flew 3,100 miles from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, France. (21)
1993: Through 15 August, three C-5s from the 436 AW airlifted 190 tons of bridge components from England to Nepal after a flood washed out bridges there. (16)
1994: GLOBAL ENTERPRISE. Through 14 August, in an ACC power-projection exercise, two Rockwell B-1Bs from Ellsworth AFB, S. Dak., flew to Europe, across the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and around the Arabian Peninsula to land at a staging base in Southwest Asia. After a crew change, the B-1s then flew back to Ellsworth through Japan and over the Aleutians. The 37.3 hours for the total flight and 24 hours for the first leg were the longest flights to date by the B-1B. (20)
2003: A C-9A Nightingale (No. 68-10959) assigned to the 375 AW at Scott AFB performed the last scheduled C-9 aeromedical evacuation mission. The aircraft airlifted one litter patient, a few space-available travelers, and several soldiers wounded in Iraq to their home stations in the US in a 5.6-hour mission. (22)
2004: AFFTC conducted the final evaluation sortie on a new F-16 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) targeting system at Edwards AFB. The testers used a South Carolina ANG Block 50 F-16 to expedite the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) improvement. (3)
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