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Good Sunday morning October 5. The day dawned overcast and is clearing up quickly and will hit 77 by 2 and stay sunny and clear all day. My son and I are making another run to Idaho with some goodies from his youth. Including a lot of NASCAR cars and a bunch of GI Joe vehicles and aircraft that are still in perfect condition. And maybe a few other things. Lots of items from the archives for your reading and viewing this morning.
Have 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 93 H-Grams
Today in Naval and Marine Corps History thanks to NHHC
1863 Confederate ship David severely damages ironclad steamer New Ironsides with a spar torpedo off Charleston, S.C. Though not sunk, she has to leave the blockade for repairs at Philadelphia, Penn.
1918 USS Mary Alice (SP 397) is sunk in a collision with USS O-13 (SS 74) in Long Island Sound. There are no casualties.
1942 PBY aircraft from Commander Aircraft South Pacific sink Japanese submarine 1-22 near Indispensable Strait, Solomon Islands. Also on this date, PBY aircraft from VP-73 sink German submarine U-582 south of Iceland.
1940 The Organized Naval Reserve is placed on short notice for call to active duty by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox.
1943 Task Force 14 (TF 14) performs raids on Wake Island. Rear Adm. Sakaibara Shigematsu then orders the execution of the 98 remaining civilians captured on Dec. 23, 1941 due to his fear they would escape and weaken his garrison.
1945 Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz is given a parade in his honor through downtown Washington, D.C. at the end of World War II.
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This Day in World History
October 5
1762 The British fleet bombards and captures Spanish-held Manila in the Philippines.
1795 The day after he routed counterrevolutionaries in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte accepts their formal surrender.
1813 U.S. victory at the Battle of the Thames, in Ontario, broke Britain's Indian allies with the death of Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, and made the Detroit frontier safe.
1821 Greek rebels capture Tripolitza, the main Turkish fort in the Peloponnese area of Greece.
1864 At the Battle of Allatoona, a small Union post is saved from Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's army.
1877 Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to Colonel Nelson Miles in Montana Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada falls 40 miles short.
1880 The first ball-point pen is patented on this day by Alonzo T. Cross.
1882 Outlaw Frank James surrenders in Missouri six months after brother Jesse's assassination.
1915 Bulgaria enters World War I on the side of the Central Powers.
1915 Germany issues an apology and promises for payment for the 128 American passengers killed in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania.
1921 The World Series is broadcast on radio for the first time.
1931 Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first heavier than air nonstop flight over the Pacific. Their flight, begun October 3, lasted 41 hours, 31 minutes and covered 5,000 miles. They piloted their Bellanca CH-200 monoplane from Samushiro, 300 miles north of Tokyo, Japan, to Wenatchee, Washington.
1938 Germany invalidates Jews' passports.
1943 Imperial Japanese forces execute 98 American POWs on Wake Island.
1947 US President Harry S Truman delivers the first televised White House address.
1948 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Ashgabat in the USSR kills tens of thousands; estimates range from 110,000 to 176,000.
1962 The first James Bond film, Dr. No starring Sean Connery, debuts.
1965 U.S. forces in Saigon receive permission to use tear gas.
1966 A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit. Radiation is contained.
1968 Police attack civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland; the event is considered to be the beginning of "The Troubles."
1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus debuts on BBC One.
1970 Members of the Quebec Liberation Front (QLF) kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, resulting in the October Crisis and Canada's first peacetime use of the War Measures Act.
1970 The US Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is established.
1986 Britain's The Sunday Times newspaper publishes details of Israel's secret nuclear weapons development program.
1988 Brazil's Constituent Assembly authorizes the nation's new constitution.
2000 Slobodan Milosevic, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, resigns in the wake of mass protest demonstrations.
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Rollingthunderremembered.com .
October 5
Thanks to Dan Heller and the Bear
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Thanks to Micro
From Vietnam Air Losses site for "for 5 October . …..
5-Oct: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=3026
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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From the archives
Thanks to Dick
FW: F-22 RAPTOR FREEFALL AT HUNTINGTON BEACH AIRSHOW 2023 - 4K
Some "Show-only" maneuvers... Not recommended for combat.
Subject: F-22 RAPTOR FREEFALL AT HUNTINGTON BEACH AIRSHOW 2023 - 4K
https://youtu.be/xvQUwmP0eXE?si=q1p6JagyUeQRsv8u
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From the archives
Some humor from Micro
A chuckle or two to get us through today.
Having plans sounds like a good idea until you have to put on clothes and leave the house.
It's weird being the same age as old people.
Life is like a helicopter. I don't know how to operate a helicopter.
Chocolate is God's way of telling us he likes us a little bit chubby.
It's probably my age that tricks people into thinking I'm an adult.
Marriage Counselor: "Your wife says you never buy her flowers. Is that true?"
Him: "To be honest, I never knew she sold flowers."
My wife asked me to take her to one of those restaurants where they make the food right in front of you. So I took her to Subway and that's how the fight started.
During the middle ages they celebrated the end of the plague with wine and orgies. Does anyone know if there is anything planned when this one ends?
I don't think the therapist is supposed to say "Wow," that many times in your first session but here we are…
I see people about my age mountain climbing; I feel good getting my leg through my underwear without losing my balance.
We can all agree that in 2015 not a single person got the answer correct to, "Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?"
So if a cow doesn't produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?
If you can't think of a word say "I forgot the English word for it." That way people will think you're bilingual instead of an idiot.
I'm at a place in my life where errands are starting to count as going out.
Cronacoaster Noun: The ups and downs of a pandemic. One day you're loving your bubble, doing work outs, baking banana bread and going for long walks and the next you're crying, drinking gin for breakfast and missing people you don't even like.
I'm at that age where my mind still thinks I'm 29, my humor suggests I'm 12, while my body mostly keeps asking if I'm sure I'm not dead yet.
Don't be worried about your smartphone or TV spying on you. Your vacuum cleaner has been collecting dirt on you for years.
I'm getting tired of being part of a major historical event.
I don't always go the extra mile, but when I do it's because I missed my exit.
How many of us have looked around our family reunion and thought, "Well aren't we just two clowns short of a circus?"
At what point can we just start using 2020 as profanity? As in: "That's a load of 2020." or "What in the2020." or "abso-2020-lutely."
You don't realize how old you are until you sit on the floor and then try to get back up.
We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
This is the day dogs have been waiting for. They realize their owners can't leave the house and they get them 24/7. Dogs are rejoicing everywhere. Cats are contemplating suicide.
If you are trying to impress me with your vehicle it better be a food truck.
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
World War I helped popularize candy bars.
Today's grocery stores are stocked with a seemingly endless variety of candy bars. This modern-day menagerie of chocolate treats can trace its origins back to World War I, when an increased demand for chocolate rations created a veritable candy bar boom. Chocolate bars were seen as an ideal source of sustenance for soldiers fighting abroad: They provided quick calories, were easy to transport across long distances, and catered to the sweet tooth many American GIs had developed overseas when they began to sample European sweets. In response to this sudden demand, the U.S. government began soliciting donations of 20-pound blocks of chocolate from American candymakers, which were then cut, individually wrapped, and distributed to GIs abroad.
By the end of World War I, American soldiers' love of chocolate bars had spread to become a nationwide sensation. In the 1920s, veterans and civilians alike eagerly sought out candy bars, particularly after Prohibition left them looking for pleasurable alternatives to alcohol. Candymakers across the country began developing different kinds of products. To stand out in a crowded market, these companies would experiment with a variety of ingredients, ranging from nougat to dehydrated vegetables. They also started giving their products catchy names designed to grab people's attention: The Charleston Chew, introduced in 1925, was named after the Charleston dance craze that was sweeping the nation at the time, and in 1921, Baby Ruth bars benefited from their association with baseball superstar Babe Ruth, though they were actually named after the late daughter of former President Grover Cleveland. The Lindy Bar, meanwhile, was named after famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, and there were also tasty treats named for Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, and Betsy Ross. By the end of the 1920s, more than 40,000 different candy bars were being produced in the United States.
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From the archives
THANKS TO Dr Rich
Thanks to Todd ...
Sergeant Leigh Ann Hester drove a humvee in a mounted column as it was ambushed by over 50 Iraqi insurgents. She stopped the vehicle and directed her gunner to return fire as bullets and RPGs rained down. Hester got out and fired M203 grenades into the enemy position, then attacked forward with her squad leader. They moved over the berm into the irrigation ditches of an orchard where the ambush originated. Hester worked with her squad leader to clear the ditches, personally eliminating 3 enemy at close quarters. Their assault into the teeth of the ambush disrupted the enemy's momentum and played a key role in stopping the attack.
For her initiative and heroic actions, Hester was awarded the Silver Star. She became the first woman to receive the award since WWII. She continued her service in the National Guard, deploying to Afghanistan for 18 months, and to the Virgin Islands in 2017 in the wake of Hurricane Maria. In civilian life, Hester serves as a police officer in her home state of Tennessee.
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From the archives
Thanks to Glenn
The 1st gulf air war---unfathomable
I cannot imagine the level of planning, training,
pre-positioning of assets that went into this.
this video is astonishing in its detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxRgfBXn6Mg
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
Napoleon's grandnephew created the forerunner of the FBI.
A grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother Jérôme, Charles Bonaparte lacked his famous relative's ambition for world domination yet displayed a talent for visionary authority that might have impressed the Little Corporal. In the late 19th century, Charles Bonaparte, then a lawyer from Baltimore, came into the orbit of fast-rising New York politician Theodore Roosevelt through their shared interest in civil service reform. Bonaparte later became President Roosevelt's secretary of the Navy and then attorney general, a position that thrust "Charlie the Crook Chaser" into the spotlight as a face of the administration's trust-busting efforts.
Behind the scenes, the attorney general fumed at the lack of an established investigative team within the Department of Justice, which often led to the borrowing of spare Secret Service agents from the Treasury Department for investigating cases that involved federal law. Congressional leaders also frowned on what they felt was becoming an overreach of the executive branch, and in May 1908, Congress passed a bill that halted the DOJ's ability to commandeer Secret Service personnel. Seizing the opportunity, Bonaparte culled together a "special agent force" of 31 detectives, and on July 26, 1908, he issued an order that directed DOJ attorneys to refer investigative matters to his chief examiner, Stanley Finch.
Bonaparte's oversight of this unit was short-lived, as he exited the federal government at the end of the Roosevelt administration in March 1909. Nevertheless, his special agent force remained in place under new Attorney General George Wickersham, who began referring to the group as the Bureau of Investigation. By 1935, the now-renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation was firmly embedded as a U.S. law-enforcement institution under Director J. Edgar Hoover, another authoritarian presence who surely would have piqued the interest of the former French emperor.
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Thanks to Mike
World Series Pitch - 20 Years Ago
If You Need A Patriotic Booster...
Most people are not aware that a Secret Service special agent dressed
as an umpire the night President Bush threw out the first pitch during
the 2001 World Series at Yankee Stadium. Great story!!! I'm
surprised that none of the newspaper guys ever picked up on the
"stranger" in the umpire's uniform.
Remember this was just after 9/11...This is our country
at one of its best moments. If you don't do anything else today,
just watch this . . . It's great and will make you proud to be an
American!!!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/bxR1tZ08FcI?rel=0
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A couple from the archives
Thanks to Clyde
About 28 mins of USN Aviation Carrier History.
U.S. NAVY 1969 AIRCRAFT CARRIER HISTORY FILM USS LANGLEY TO USS ENTERPRISE 21504
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Thanks to Carl
https://mailchi.mp/beyondbandofbrothers.com/the-mighty-periwinkle?e=eeed4d037b
Eric "Winkle" Brown, the Royal Navy's most decorated pilot
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This Week in U S Military History
This Week in American Military History: From the Battle of Saratoga to the relief of the "Lost Battalion and the Deeds of Sargent York Thanks to Thomas W. Smith
Oct. 7, 1777: Continental forces under the command of Gen. Horatio Gates decisively defeat British forces under Gen. John "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne in the Second Battle of Saratoga (also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights).
According to the National Parks Service, "This crucial American victory renewed patriots' hopes for independence, secured essential foreign recognition and support, and forever changed the face of the world."
But the war is far from over.
Oct. 7, 1780: Three years to the day after Second Saratoga, patriot militia forces armed with rifles, knives, and tomahawks decisively defeat musket-armed Loyalist militia under the command of British Army Maj. Patrick Ferguson (who will be killed in the fighting) in the bloody Battle of King's Mountain on the N.C.-S.C. border.
Among the patriots is John Crockett, father of Davy Crockett.
Oct. 7, 1918: Nearly two weeks into the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I, the U.S. Army's 82nd Division (destined to become the famed 82nd Airborne Division) battles its way toward -- and successfully relieves -- the now famous "Lost Battalion" (combined elements of three battalions of the 77th Infantry Division, which had been surrounded during a German counterattack).
For days without blankets and overcoats, always running short of ammunition and medical supplies (the wounded often patched up with bloody bandages removed from the dead), and with little food and nearly no water; the "Lost Battalion" -- under the command of Maj. (future lieutenant colonel) Charles S. Whittlesey -- had refused to surrender. Responding to a German surrender-demand, Whittlesey allegedly replied, "Go to hell!" Some reports suggest he said, "Come and get us."
Whittlesey and two of his officers -- Captains George McMurtry and Nelson Holderman -- will receive the Medal of Honor.
Oct. 7, 2001: Post 9/11 America goes on the offensive against terrorists when U.S. and allied forces launch a massive retaliatory air and naval strike against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network in Afghanistan.
Oct. 8, 1918: The day following the relief of the "Lost Battalion,"
Private First Class (future U.S. Army sergeant and future colonel in the Tennessee State Guard) Alvin C. York captures "the whole damned German Army."
In the action for which he will receive both the Medal of Honor and the French Croix de Guerre, York leads a seven-man team of doughboys against a strong enemy position. The team kills at least 25 Germans and captures four officers, 128 soldiers, and over 30 machineguns.
York, an expert rifleman from the Tennessee backcountry (yes, the home of John and son, Davy, Crockett), will later describe the action as something akin to a Tennessee turkey shoot: "Every time one of them raised his head, I just teched him off," he said.
French Marshall Ferdinand Foch will tell York, "What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all the armies of Europe."
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October 5
This Day in U S Military History
1775 – Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 2d Continental Congress used the word "Marines" on one of the earliest known occasions. It directed General George Washington to secure two vessels on "Continental risque and pay", and to give orders for the "proper encouragement to the Marines and seamen" to serve on the two armed ships.
1813 – The Battle of the Thames was decisive in the War of 1812. The U.S. victory over British and Indian forces near Ontario at the village of Moraviantown on the Thames River is known in Canada as the Battle of Moraviantown. Some 600 British regulars and 1,000 Indian allies under the command of Colonel Henry Procter and Shawnee leader Tecumseh were greatly outnumbered and quickly defeated by U.S. forces, an army of 3,500 troops, under the command of Maj. Gen. William Henry Harrison. The British army was retreating from Fort Malden, Ontario after Oliver Hazard Perry's victory in the Battle of Lake Erie. Tecumseh convinced Colonel Procter to make a stand at Moraviantown. The American army won a total victory. The British soldiers fled or surrendered. The Indians fought fiercely, but they lost heart and scattered after Tecumseh died on the battlefield. Richard Johnson probably killed the Indian leader. The Battle of the Thames was the most important land battle of the War of 1812 in the American Northwest. General Harrison's victory marked the end of Tecumseh's Confederacy and the downfall of the Indians in Ohio.
1857 – The City of Anaheim, California is founded. Founded by fifty German families in 1857 and incorporated as the second city in Los Angeles County on March 18, 1876,[1] Anaheim developed into an industrial center, producing electronics, aircraft parts and canned fruit. It is the site of the Disneyland Resort, a world-famous grouping of theme parks and hotels which opened in 1955, Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Honda Center and Anaheim Convention Center, the largest convention center on the West Coast.
1913 – Trial of OWL. The first airplane purchased by the U.S. Navy was a Curtiss Model E hydroaeroplane and was given the Navy designation A-1 in early 1911. The Navy purchased a second Model E in July 1911, with a more powerful 80-horsepower Curtiss OX engine, and designated it the A-2. It was also known as the OWL, standing for Over Water and Land. Modifications of the A-2 by the Navy led to re-designations of E-1 and later AX-1. These modifications, done at the Curtiss plant at Hammondsport, New York, included moving the seats from the lower wing to the float and enclosing the crew area with a fabric-covered framework, giving the aircraft the appearance of a short-hull flying boat. The OWL, with its modified float, was developed into a true flying boat (the entire fuselage being a hull as opposed to mounting the aircraft on a separate float) by Curtiss in 1912, first with the Model D Flying Boat, and then a refined version, the Model E. The Model E Flying Boat was the first truly practical flying boat. It was powered by either a 60- or a 75-horsepower Curtiss V8 engine. Both the U.S. Army and Navy purchased Curtiss Model E Flying Boats, the Navy designating it the C-1.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
DOSHIER, JAMES B.
Rank: Post Guide during Indian Wars. Place: Holliday Creek, Texas. Little Wichita River. Date: 5 October 1870. Entered service: Fort Richardson, Texas. Born: Warren County, Tennessee, 2 May 1820. G.O. No. Issue date: 19 November 1870. Issue place: Citation: Gallantry in action and on the march.
(In 1916, the general review of all Medals of Honor deemed 900 unwarranted. This recipient was one of them. In June 1989, the U.S. Army Board of Correction of Records restored the medal to this recipient.)
GRIMES, EDWARD P.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company F, 5th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Milk River, Colo., 29 September to 5 October 1879. Entered service at: Birth: Dover, N.H. Date of issue: 27 January 1880. Citation: The command being almost out of ammunition and surrounded on 3 sides by the enemy, he voluntarily brought up a supply under heavy flre at almost point blank range.
JOHNSON, HENRY
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company D, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At Milk River, Colo., 2 -5 October 1879. Entered service at: – – – – – -. Birth: Boynton, Va. Date of issue: 22 September 1890. Citation: Voluntarily left fortified shelter and under heavy fire at close range made the rounds of the pits to instruct the guards, fought his way to the creek and back to bring water to the wounded.
BALCH, JOHN HENRY
Rank and organization: Pharmacist's Mate First Class, U.S. Navy. Place and date: Vierzy, France, and Somme -Py, France, 19 July and 5 October 1918. Entered service at: Kansas City, Mo. Born: 2 January 1896, Edgerton, Kans. Citation: For gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, with the 6th Regiment, U.S. Marines, in action at Vierzy, on 19 July 1918. Balch unhesitatingly and fearlessly exposed himself to terrific machinegun and high -explosive fire to succor the wounded as they fell in the attack, leaving his dressing station voluntarily and keeping up the work all day and late into the night unceasingly for 16 hours. Also in the action at Somme -Py on 5 October 1918, he exhibited exceptional bravery in establishing an advanced dressing station under heavy shellfire.
ELLIS, MICHAEL B.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company C, 28th Infantry, 1st Division. Place and date: Near Exermont, France, 5 October 1918. Entered service at: East St. Louis, Ill. Born: 28 October 1894, St. Louis, Mo. G.O. No.: 74, W.D., 1919. Citation: During the entire day's engagement he operated far in advance of the first wave of his company, voluntarily undertaking most dangerous missions and single -handedly attacking and reducing machinegun nests. Flanking one emplacement, he killed 2 of the enemy with rifle fire and captured 17 others. Later he single -handedly advanced under heavy fire and captured 27 prisoners, including 2 officers and 6 machineguns, which had been holding up the advance of the company. The captured officers indicated the locations of 4 other machineguns, and he in turn captured these, together with their crews, at all times showing marked heroism and fearlessness.
*CORRY, WILLIAM MERRILL, JR.
Rank and organization: Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy. Place and date: Near Hartford, Conn., 2 October 1920. Born: 5 October 1889, Quincy, Fla. Accredited to: Florida. Other Navy award: Navy Cross. Citation: For heroic service in attempting to rescue a brother officer from a flame -enveloped airplane. On 2 October 1920, an airplane in which Lt. Comdr. Corry was a passenger crashed and burst into flames. He was thrown 30 feet clear of the plane and, though injured, rushed back to the burning machine and endeavored to release the pilot. In so doing he sustained serious burns, from which he died 4 days later.
*KRAUS, RICHARD EDWARD
Rank and organization: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Born: 24 November 1925, Chicago, Ill. Accredited to: Minnesota. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 8th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, Fleet Marine Force, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Peleliu, Palau Islands, on 5 October 1944. Unhesitatingly volunteering for the extremely hazardous mission of evacuating a wounded comrade from the front lines, Pfc. Kraus and 3 companions courageously made their way forward and successfully penetrated the lines for some distance before the enemy opened with an intense, devastating barrage of hand grenades which forced the stretcher party to take cover and subsequently abandon the mission. While returning to the rear, they observed 2 men approaching who appeared to be marines and immediately demanded the password. When, instead of answering, 1 of the 2 Japanese threw a hand grenade into the midst of the group, Pfc. Kraus heroically flung himself upon the grenade and, covering it with his body, absorbed the full impact of the explosion and was instantly killed. By his prompt action and great personal valor in the face of almost certain death, he saved the lives of his 3 companions, and his loyal spirit of self -sacrifice reflects the highest credit upon himself and the U.S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his comrades
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This Day in Aviation History" brought to you by the Daedalians Airpower Blog Update. To subscribe to this weekly email, go to https://daedalians.org/airpower-blog/.
Oct. 4, 1909
Wilbur Wright flew from Governor's Island out past the Statue of Liberty, up the Hudson to Grant's Tomb, and back to the island during New York's Hudson-Fulton celebration.
Oct. 5, 1918
The first sustained aerial resupply attempt was made when the 50th Aero Squadron began efforts to drop supplies and help locate the "Lost Battalion," elements of the 77th Division cut off from the allies.
Oct. 6, 1912
Lt. John H. Towers took off in A-2 (later AH-2) from the water at Greenbury Point, Md., at 6:50 a.m. and remained in the air 6 hours, 10 minutes, 35 seconds, setting a new American endurance record for planes of any type. Towers was Daedalian Founder Member #4093.
Oct. 7, 1913
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels appointed a board—dubbed the Chambers Board, after senior member Capt. Washington I. Chambers—to draw up "a comprehensive plan for the organization of a Naval Aeronautic Service." The board's members also included Cmdr. Carlo B. Brittain, Cmdr. Samuel S. Robison, Lt. Manley H. Simons, Lt. John H. Towers (Daedalian Founder Member #4093), Assistant Naval Constructor Lt. Holden C. Richardson (DFM #13115), and 1st Lt. Alfred A. Cunningham, USMC (DFM #4134). Following 12 days of deliberation the board submitted a report emphasizing the need for expansion and for the integration of aviation within the fleet. This was the first comprehensive program for an orderly development of naval aviation. The board's recommendations included establishing an aeronautic center at Pensacola, Florida, for flight and ground training and for the study of advanced aeronautical engineering; creating a central aviation office under the secretary to coordinate the aviation work of the bureaus; assigning a ship for training in operations at sea and to make practical tests of equipment necessary for such operations; and assigning one aircraft to every major combatant ship. The board requested $1,297,700 to implement the program. Cunningham was the first Marine Corps aviator and the first director of Marine Corps Aviation.
Oct. 8, 1969
Gen. Bruce K. Holloway, commander in chief of Strategic Air Command, accepted SAC's first FB-111A (No. 67-7193), the seventh FB-111A manufactured, at Carswell AFB, Texas, for the 340th Bomb Group. General Holloway was a Daedalian Life Member until his death in 1999.
Oct. 9, 1964
Tactical Air Command receives its first RF-4C aircraft on this date.
Oct. 10, 1911
Assistant Naval Constructor Lt. Holden C. Richardson, Daedalian Founder Member #13115, reported to the office of aviation at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Richardson became the Navy's first engineering and maintenance officer for aviation.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for October 5, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
5 October
1905: At Dayton, Orville Wright flew the Wright III, the first practical airplane, to a world distance and duration record of 24.2 miles in 38 minutes 3 seconds. (21)
1918: On a very limited scale, aircraft airlifted materiel and performed other mobility functions during World War I. Planes from the 50th Aero Squadron dropped supplies and aided in determining the location of the "Lost Battalion," elements of the 77th Division cut off from the Allies and besieged by the Germans during the Argonne Forest offensive. This was the first sustained effort at aerial resupply of a ground unit. (18)
1922: Lts John A. Macready and Oakley G. Kelly flew a Fokker T2 with a Liberty 375 HP engine to a 35-hour, 18-minute, 30-second endurance record at Rockwell Field. (24)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force combined attacks with US Navy aircraft against barracks and supplies of the Chinese 67th Army at Loeyang. (28)
1957: SECDEF Charles E. Wilson approved the first ICBM initial operational capability (IOC) program for four Atlas and four Titan I squadrons. (6)
1961: Lts Melvin E. Pollard and Craig V. Miller completed a 17-day experiment in an 8-foot by 12-foot steel cabin in an atmosphere of almost pure oxygen. In this bioastronautic study of mental and physical reflexes and processes, the two men alternately operated a behavior simulator control panel. (24)
1962: At the Douglas Aircraft plant in Sacramento, Saturn's six-engine Stage-IV made its first full-duration firing (7 minutes). (24)
1965: The USAF launched its first orbiting satellite. (4) Donald L. Piccard flew his Piccard Balloon to an altitude record of 15,691 for class AX-6 balloons (1200 to 1600 cubic meters) at El Mirage, Calif. (9)
1966: Deke Sonnichsen flew a Quick Silver Libra II Piccard Balloon from Mountain View to Los Altos, Calif., to set a FAI duration record of 1 hour 55 minutes 10 seconds for class AX-4 (600- 900 cubic meters) balloons. (9)
1968: The F-111B aircraft program ended.
1970: Mrs. Lois Elmstrom set a duration record of 2 hours 6 minutes at Lancaster, Calif., for class AX-5 (900-1,200 cubic meters) balloons in a Piccard Balloon. (9)
1973: Maj Michael V. Love flew the X-24B Lifting Body on its first glide flight. (3)
1984: FIRST SPACEWALK BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN. During the sixth Challenger Space Shuttle mission, astronauts recorded several firsts before returning to earth on 13 October: first seven-member crew; first walk in space by an American woman (Kathryn D. Sullivan, Mission Specialist); first flight by a Canadian Astronaut (Marc Garneau, Payload Specialist); and first time orbit took shuttle over Chicago during its landing reentry. Other crewmembers included Robert L. Crippen, Commander; Jon A. McBride, Pilot; Sally K. Ride, Mission Specialist; David C. Leestma, Mission Specialist; and Paul D. Scully-Power, Payload Specialist. It was also the first flight to include two women. (20)
1993: Operation RESTORE HOPE II. Through 13 October, 56 C-5 and C-141 missions moved 1,300 troops, 18 M1 Abrams tanks, 44 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, and 3,000 tons of equipment from the US to Somalia. Additionally, tankers flew 169 refueling missions to offload 13.4 million pounds of fuel to support the airlift. This action happened after a 15-hour battle between US Army Rangers and forces of Mohamed Farah Aideed. (16) (26)
2001: At Edwards AFB, an Air Force Test Pilot School F-16B (tail no. 78-0088) passed 6,000 flying hours. Lockheed Martin said the F-16 had the most flying hours of any F-16 in the world. (3)
2006: The 494th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron used the GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb for the first time in combat. A two-ship F-15E Strike Eagle formation carried the new air-to-ground bomb on a close-air support mission in Iraq. (AFNEWS Article, "ACC Declares Small Diameter Bomb Initially Capable," 5 Oct 2006)
2007: A CV-22 Osprey assigned to the 58th Special Operations Wing at Kirtland AFB, N. Mex., participated in the aircraft's first search and recovery mission. It responded to the fatal crash of a medical aircraft in the mountains of southern Colorado. Besides the CV-22, the response team included a pair of HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters and a MC-130P Combat Shadow to provide aerial refueling and mission control for the operation. (AFNEWS, "CV-22 Flies First Search and Recovery Mission," 25 Oct 2007)
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