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To All
Good Wednesday Morning January 14, 2026. It is a clear and beautiful morning here today and cool with a high of 81 by 2..Winds are..light. I got a lot done in the yard yesterday and filled up 4 large green cans and all my old grey cans and that made a small dent in leaf population.
The big Bobcat came around last night but we managed to get rid of him. I am thinking about getting my cross bow out and practicing..
Sorry things are late today. I have a ton of projects on my list today. The garbage man should be here shortly which will free up 4 green cans for more leaves. Another run to storage with a load of Christmas stuff will free up more room in the house. And at least one run to the grocery store.
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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 94 H-Grams.
January. 14
1863—Navy General Order 4, signed by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, announces the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, which is signed on Jan. 1, 1863.
1943—USS Gudgeon (SS 211) lands six men, 2,000 pounds of equipment, and supplies on Negros Island, Philippines, during the first resupply mission for a submarine.
1944—Five Navy submarines sink five different Japanese vessels in and around the Pacific Ocean. USS Albacore (SS 218) sinks Japanese destroyer Sazanami 300 miles off Yap; USS Scamp (SS 277) sinks the tanker Nippon Maru off Sorol Island; USS Guardfish (SS 217) sinks tanker Kenyo Maru southeast of Palau; USS Seawolf (SS 197) sinks tanker Yamazuru Maru off Okinawa; and USS Swordfish (SS 193) sinks transport Yamakuni Maru off Hachijo Jima.
1945—USS Cobia (SS 245) sinks the Japanese minelayer Yurijima off the east coast of Malaya.
2006—Amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD 17) is commissioned at Naval Station Ingleside, TX. It is the first ship to be named after the city of San Antonio and the lead ship of its class of amphibious transport docks.
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Today in World History January 14
1236 Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence.
1526 Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy.
1797 Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.
1858 Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera.
1864 Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi.
1911 The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company.
1915 The French abandon five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons.
1916 British authorities seize German attaché Franz von Papen's financial records confirming espionage activities in the U.S.
1917 A Provisional Parliament is established in Poland.
1920 Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded.
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government.
1943 Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war.
1943 Italian occupation authorities refuse to deport Jews living in their territories in France.
1969 A blast on the U.S. carrier Enterprise in the Pacific results in 24 dead and 85 injured.
1980 The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan.
2000 UN tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to prison for up to 25 years; they were charged with killing some 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993.
2004 The Republic of Georgia restores the "five cross flag" as its national flag after some 500 years of disuse.
2005 Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan.
2010 Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda terrorist group.
2011 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, flees to Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime.
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On January 14, 1784, the Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence.
In the document, which was known as the Second Treaty of Paris because the Treaty of Paris was also the name of the agreement that had ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, Britain officially agreed to recognize the independence of its 13 former colonies as the new United States of America.
Lessons of the Revolution
In addition, the treaty settled the boundaries between the United States and what remained of British North America. U.S. fishermen won the right to fish in the Grand Banks, off the Newfoundland coast, and in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Both sides agreed to ensure payment to creditors in the other nation of debts incurred during the war and to release all prisoners of war. The United States promised to return land confiscated during the war to its British owners, to stop any further confiscation of British property and to honor the property left by the British army on U.S. shores, including Negroes or slaves. Both countries assumed perpetual rights to access the Mississippi River.
Despite the agreement, many of these issues remained points of contention between the two nations in the post-war years. The British did not abandon their western forts as promised and attempts by British merchants to collect outstanding debts from Americans were unsuccessful as American merchants were unable to collect from their customers, many of whom were struggling farmers.
In Massachusetts, where by 1786 the courts were clogged with foreclosure proceedings, farmers rose in a violent protest known as Shay's Rebellion, which tested the ability of the new United States to maintain law and order within its borders and instigated serious reconsideration of the Articles of Confederation.
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. From the archives ….I think most of them are in there…skip
Thanks to Bob
Life In 79 Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-A4LzA08po
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Thanks to Felix ...
I met Willie Sharp many years ago at an F-8 Crusader reunion and we shared email for many years. Take the time to watch this video..Skip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ipdrtrhvrk
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A bit of US History
1784 Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolution
On January 14, 1784, the Continental Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the War for Independence. In the document, which was known as the Second Treaty of Paris because the Treaty of Paris was also the name of the agreement that had ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, Britain... read more
1969 Explosion rocks USS Enterprie
1875 Albert Schweitzer born
1954 Marilyn Monroe marries Joe DiMaggio
1970 Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their final concert
1639 The first colonial constitution
1920 Dodge co-founder dies
1973 Miami Dolphins win Super Bowl VII to cap NFL's only perfect season
1942 FDR orders "enemy aliens" to register
1943 FDR becomes first president to travel by airplane on U.S. official business
1980 Gold prices soar
1963 George Wallace inaugurated as Alabama governor
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From the Archives
Thanks to Dutch and Marathon and to Cowboy who found the URL so it would fit in the List
Sex Lives of the Golden Girls
Too funny not to pass on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPQalSoZiE
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Thanks to the Bear. We will always have the url for you to search items in Rolling Thunder
OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER …
. rollingthunderremembered.com .
Thanks to Micro
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From Vietnam Air Losses site for ..January 14
January 14: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=3103
.this one needs to be revised
Vic was my escort on the Last North Vietnam Alpha strike from USS Midway. It was to hit a large Radar site at Bithwong (spelling is off I am sure) Just south of Hanoi. We had to wait until the smoke cleared and then got a good shot of the damage. Going out was a treat. After a fair bit of flack over the target we ran into a lot on our run to the coast. If fact in between Vinh and Than Hua it was like a WWII flight with all the black and brown pufs all around us. In the turn to head straight for the coast we got a lot more of it and Vic crossed underneath me to my starboard side and was smoking and NORDOwhen he came out beside me. And I had to put out my speed brakes to stay with him and crossed to his starboard side. We had been doing about 550 and we slowed way down and a lot of the stuff was coming up in front of us. I could see the coast just over my nose; Back up a couple months and we had an A-3 land well right of the center line and took out all the Big mothers Helos so there were no more to go inland.
I called Red Crown and told them what was going on and told them that I thought we were going to make it to the coast and gave them TACAN range and bearing as we slowed down. We crossed the coast and right after that I watched Vic give the ejection signal to his RIO and out they went. I was still giving range and .was circling down and saw a helo go into a hover over the RIO and then another one for Vic. As soon as we had launched the USS Midway had turned south were quite a way down there I think I remember about a 100 miles so I headed down there climbing high and then pulling back the power for a straight in. It was about sundown and a couple guys let me know that it was getting dark and since we did not fly at night it would be some fun. I made it ok . Vic and his RIO spent some time on the Destroyers and then made it home. You saw from the write up His regular RIO had the duty when he got the last Mig but was with him when he got shot down. After he returned to the boat he got stoned in the ready room for poor judgement.
Vic remains a good friend and lives about a mile from my son in Idaho so we get together every time I go up to see my son.
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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.
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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
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Servicemembers Killed in the Vietnam War
The site works, find anyone you knew in "search" feature. https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/
Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
By: Kipp Hanley
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. Thanks to Dutch
Israel's battle for the Golan Heights ...
How did 100 Israeli tanks beat the entire Syrian Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okhd_ijkI6k
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. Thanks to Micro
Amazing
This is the most interesting English Lesson I have had to date.
Did you know "listen" and "silent" use the same letters?
Do you know that the word "racecar" spelled backward still spells "racecar"?
And that "eat" is the only word that if you take the first letter and move it to the last, it spells its past tense "ate"?
Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in "illegal immigrants" and add just a few more letters, it spells: "Go home you free-loading, benefit- grabbing, resource-sucking, non-English-speaking asses and take those other hairy-faced, sandal-wearing, bomb-making, camel-riding, goat-shagging, raggedy-ass bastards with you."
How weird is that?
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. Thanks to Ed
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I'd like to add to Micro's stories of this morning about Dave "Red Flash" Walker, the man we referred to as "The Inimitable Red Flash" or just "Flash".
Dave and I were first tour pilots in VF-92 during the '69 and '70 Westpac cruises aboard Enterprise and America. We became good pals during that time and stayed in touch until his untimely passing in April 2001.
Dave's near "missing movement" is just one of many classic tales involving Red Flash. That incident occurred during our '69 Enterprise cruise. We were at Cubi Point after our last line period on the day before we were to begin our journey home. That evening we held our end of cruise LSO party at the Red Horse Cat House, hosted by the CAG 9 LSOs and funded by all the fines we LSOs had collected during the cruise. Red Flash, like many others, figured he had all the way to California to sober up so it was going to be a night to remember. And it was … except that Red Flash forgot to go "boc sheep" and went to the un-airconditioned Cubi BOQ instead to sleep it off. Fortunately he wasn't alone. He was with Kit "Smutt" Coyle who woke up the next morning just in time to collect Red Flash and head to the ship. One problem: Smutt couldn't wake Red Flash up. He tried everything with no luck. Finally Smutt had an idea. He had his dopp kit, his cigarettes and his lighter with him. He dug his can of Right Guard out of his dopp kit, pointed it close to Red Flash's naked pink butt cheek and fired up his lighter right next to the spray. That did it … Red Flash woke up instantly. What had happened to Red Flash's clothes is lost to history but he did make it back to the ship wrapped in a BOQ bed sheet. When he reached the quarterdeck with Smutt he couldn't remember what to say but he rallied and said "my name is Red Flash … take me to America". Red Flash's burned butt cheek healed just fine … but it took time and since we had to stand Alert Five watches for a time on the way back, Red Flash got himself a light duty chit. He couldn't stand the Alert Five but he could sit in the Ready Room and throw spitballs at the rest of us as we headed up to the flight deck to stand ours. And he didn't miss any movies either.
What a great guy … I still miss him.
Ed Flynn
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So that we do not forget…..If you have not read" Bloody Sixteen" you need to read about USS Oriskany in Vietnam.
Thanks to Brown Bear
We were young once . . .
12 January 1968 . . . 52 years ago! The USS Oriskany, with Air Wing SIXTEEN embarked, departed Yankee Station and Operation Rolling Thunder. It was a bittersweet "goodbye!" We had just lost our 93rd aircraft, and almost our 74th pilot when Magic Stone Denny Weichmann was hit on a final "routine" Steel Tiger mission into Laos. He nursed his burning Skyhawk across Vietnam and stayed with it long enough to get within range of rescue forces. Denny barely made it back to Oriskany as we steamed northeast off Yankee towards Yokosuka . . . and the way home.
Operation Rolling Thunder had been a really tough show for the "O" Boat. Between 2 March '65 and 12 January '68, Air Wing SIXTEEN had 242 aircraft hit by enemy fire. 62 were lost; 29 A-4 Skyhawks, 23 F-8 Crusaders, 9 A-1 Skyraiders, and 1 A-3 Skywarrior. Of our 180 aircraft that suffered battle damage but recovered safely; 91 were A-4s, 50 F-8s, 38 A-Ds, and 1 A-3. We also suffered 31 operational losses; 13 A-4s, 8 F-8s, 5 A-Ds, 3 UH-2s, 1 A-3, and 1 E-1. After one particular bad day, one of our leaders (believe it was Old Salt ONE Bryon Compton) was heard to say, "If this keeps up, we'll rotate this whole damn Air Wing!" In fact, we did just that! Our designated combat squadrons had a authorized manning level of 72 pilots. We had lost 56 brave souls killed in combat, and as we sailed away from Yankee Station and Rolling Thunder, we left behind 12 POWs and 5 MIAs.
Thirty years later, I flew over North Vietnam again. That time with my Hungarian Bride in a chartered brand new Boeing 777, with British pilots and Chinese crew, enroute to an assignment in Bangkok. From 37,000 feet, the Hanoi mid-afternoon weather looked much the same, broken clouds and haze. However, there was a high cirrus layer; and, as I stared out the first class cabin window, I saw the faces of KIA roommates Norm Levy and Ed Van Orden, and there was wingman Bill McWilliams, 3 of the 73 we had left behind on Yankee in '68. Gone and totally forgotten by the America they died for, but not by those of us who led them into the fight or fought on their wings, and certainly not by the loving God who called them to His paradise. Tears were running down my cheeks and the cute Chinese Stew with the bottle in her hand was apologizing, "Sorry, Sir, is our champagne that bad?"
Hal Moore said it best: "Were young once . . ."
Very Respectfully,
Brown Bear aka Dick Schaffert
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Thanks to Dan
The anti-aircraft stories in the List #7414 reminded me of an incident I was involved in, near the abandoned USMC base Vandenburg,( HE MIGHT MEAN VANDEDRGRIFTH) in Quang Tri Province, in 1971.
I was the new Aircraft Commander of an AH-1G Cobra Attack Helicopter, in an Air Cavalry Troop. We operated in a "Pink Team", consisting of a Huey (high overhead to maintain radio contact with the unit HQ in Quang Tri), a light observation helicopter (LOH - an OH-6, hovering a few feet above the terrain/trees), and two Cobras (providing gun cover for the LOH).
As the new aircraft commander, my sole function was to remain 180 degrees opposite the other Cobra (who was the team lead), in order to roll in for a rocket/gun run, as the other Cobra broke out and returned to the orbiting altitude. As the LOH hovered wherever he needed to go, the two Cobras adjusted their orbit to stay over the LOH.
Having explained all that, as the "new guy", I was trying to stay in position and actually hit what I aimed rockets at, all the while listening to the running commentary of the LOH pilot, who reported everything he saw. Meanwhile, my front seat gunner was writing down everything the LOH pilot said.
While maintaining that magic 180 degree out position, I was constantly looking at the other Cobra to verify its position. While doing so, suddenly the vertical fin (and tail rotor) of the other Cobra disintegrated in a heavy burst of anti-aircraft fire. The other Cobra pilot (who, up to that moment was the team lead) called "going down". Almost instantly that Cobras left-hand orbit got tighter and tighter, until it spiraled down with the nose pointed at the ground, leveled out for a few seconds, then crashed into the ground.
Then several things happened. As it crashed, the tail boom broke off from the body of the aircraft, and the main rotors wrapped around the sides of the aircraft. Both pilots attempted to open their doors (both of which open up, not out), but were temporarily trapped by the main rotor blades blocking their doors. However, now that the main rotor system was no longer attached to the transmission, there was no load on the engine. The engine accelerated until it exploded. Until that moment, the air conditioning system was accelerating along with the engine and was probably attempting to cool everything E/O Khe Sanh.
Suddenly, the front seat gunner escaped from the damaged Cobra and began to run away from the aircraft. He had only gotten a few yards when suddenly he collapsed onto the ground. My first thought was that he had been shot by the NVA, so I rolled in and fired rockets in several likely NVA positions to keep their heads down.
This all happened in a couple of minutes and several things occurred to me. Even though I was a brand new Aircraft Commander, I had instantly been catapulted to Team Lead. Now it was my job to sort this mess out.
I directed the Huey to land and rescue the downed crew, and told them to contact the operations guys at Quang Tri. They immediately landed and were able to pry the Team Lead out of the back seat of the Cobra. Then, when they ran around to the other side of the Cobra to rescue the front seat gunner, they discovered that he was uninjured. The only reason he fell to the ground, was that, while attempting to run away, he tripped over the skids of the downed Cobra, which had separated from the aircraft at impact.
The entire incident probably took only several minutes. I went from "New Guy" to "Team Lead" in one afternoon. Needless to say, everybody wanted to buy me a drink that night!
Dan
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. Thanks to History Facts
The world's largest underground city housed more than 20,000 people.
DERINKUYU CAVE CITY
Building an 18-level underground city may sound like the project of an advanced future society, but the world's largest underground metropolis was actually constructed around 1200 BCE. The ancient subterranean city of Elengubu, now called Derinkuyu, lies in the semi-arid region of Cappadocia in modern-day Turkey. Tourists can meander tunnels and walk among subterranean rooms, stables, schools, wineries, and even a chapel — all underground. At its peak, during Islamic raids on the Byzantine Empire in the seventh century, Derinkuyu housed up to 20,000 people. While the origin of the site remains a mystery, experts theorize that the Hittites, a superpower of the Bronze Age, likely built the first few levels while under attack from the Phrygians, who expanded the project when they moved into Central Anatolia after the Hittites' collapse. Although the Phrygians were skilled architects, the surrounding landscape also aided in this ambitious construction effort. Due to the area's semi-arid nature, Cappadocia's soil is easily malleable and its rock easily moldable. Three volcanoes — Mount Erciyes, Mount Hasan, and Mount Melendiz — formed the region millions of years ago, and the pyroclastic material found in the area could be carved with simple tools and little effort. Today, for 60 Turkish lira (about $2), visitors can once again descend into this subterranean world and experience life underground.
By the Numbers
Distance (in feet) of the world's deepest human-dug hole
40,229
Maximum length (in hours) humans will sleep without exposure to daylight
30
Running time (in minutes) of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, featuring the underground city of Petra
127
Year SubTropolis, an underground industrial park in Missouri, opened for business
1964
DID YOU KNOW?
The world's largest cave was discovered by accident.
The world's largest cave is Hang Sơn Đoòng ("Mountain River Cave"), located in Vietnam's Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. Encompassing an incredible 1.35 billion cubic feet, this cave is so big that it contains its own weather system (clouds included), especially during Vietnam's warm and muggy spring months, when moisture forms at the cave's mouth. Despite its immense size, Hang Sơn Đoòng was not discovered until 1990, and only then by accident. A local named Ho Khanh was exploring the jungle for timber and food when he unexpectedly spotted the gaping maw of a limestone cliff with clouds billowing out of it. As the site seemed too perilous to explore, Khanh moved on and promptly forgot its location. It wasn't until a later conversation with two members of a British cave expedition that Khanh realized what he'd discovered. It took him almost two decades to relocate the cave, but in 2009, he led a team of experts and surveyors to the site of his discovery
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. This Day in U S Military History January 14
1861 – Union troops garrison Fort Taylor in Key West, Florida. In reaction to Florida's secession, Capt. John Brannon occupied the fort, placing it in Union hands. Key West was an important outpost for the Union because numerous blockade-running ships were detained at Key West harbor and guarded by Fort Taylor's cannons. The 10-inch Rodman and Columbiad cannons at the fort had a range of three miles. This was an impressive deterrent to the Confederate navy, preventing them from attempting to take the fort or the island of Key West. Proving to be a severe loss for the South, Fort Taylor remained in Union hands throughout the Civil War. By the time the three-story fort was finally finished in 1866 (21 years after it was begun), there were many impressive features included. Items such as sanitary facilities flushed by the tide and a desalination plant which produced drinking water from the sea were available as early as 1861. A total of 198 guns and a large supply of ammunition were on hand to secure the fort.
1911 – The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company. A 26,000 ton Wyoming class battleship, she was built at Camden, New Jersey. Commissioned in September 1912, she spent her first seven years of service with the Atlantic Fleet. In 1913, Arkansas cruised in the Mediterranean, and in 1914 she participated in the U.S. intervention in Mexico. During July-December 1918, she operated with the British Grand Fleet as World War I approached and reached its conclusion. Transiting the Panama Canal in July 1919, Arkansas joined the Pacific Fleet, remaining there for two years before returning to the Atlantic. She carried Naval Academy midshipmen on cruises to Europe in 1923 and 1924, and to the west coast in 1925. After the latter voyage, the battleship underwent extensive modernization, receiving new oil-fired boilers, additional deck armor and a changed appearance, with only one smokestack and "basket" mast in place of the previous two of each. Through the next two decades, Arkansas primarily served in the Atlantic area, making annual Midshipmen's cruises to Europe in 1929-31 and 1934-37. In 1932-34, she operated along the west coast on training operations, a mission that largely occupied her through the 1930s. After war broke out in Europe in 1939, Arkansas continued her training duties, and, as relations with Germany deteriorated, took part in "operations short of war". In the summer of 1941, she escorted occupation forces to Iceland and was present when President Roosevelt met Prime Minister Churchill at the Atlantic Charter Conference. Once the United States formally entered the war in December 1941, Arkansas was employed escorting Atlantic convoys, as well as continuing her training work. An overhaul in March-June 1942 again changed her appearance, with a new tripod foremast replacing the previous "basket" type. Her combat experience began in June 1944, when she used her twelve-inch guns to support the Normandy invasion and in bombardments of German defenses at Cherbourg. In August, she participated in the invasion of Southern France. Arkansas went to the Pacific in November 1944 and crossed the ocean to the war zone early in the next year. In February-May 1945, she supported the conquests of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Once Japan had surrended, she transported veterans home from bases in the Pacific. By now thoroughly obsolete, the old battleship was assigned a final mission, to serve as a target ship for atomic bomb tests at Bikini, in the Marshalls. She survived the initial test, an air-burst, but was anchored in close proximity to the bomb used in the 25 July 1946 underwater shot. Arkansas was engulfed in the column of water driven up by the powerful blast and quickly sank. She remains on the bottom of Bikini Atoll to this day.
1945 – The US 1st Army achieves an advance 2 miles toward St. Vith in continuing attacks. British forces attacking southward from Laroche link up with elements of US 3rd Army advancing northwest from Bastogne
1945 – The US 8th Air Force resumes strategic operations after a month-long pause caused by the Battle of the Bulge. Some 600 B-17 and B-24 bombers strike oil targets and encounter heavy resistance from Luftwaffe fighters.
1968 – U.S. joint-service Operation Niagara is launched to support the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh. The Khe Sanh base was the westernmost anchor of a series of combat bases and strongholds that stretched from the Cua Viet River on the coast of the South China Sea westward along Route 9 to the Laotian border. Intelligence sources revealed that the North Vietnamese Army was beginning to build up its forces in the area surrounding Khe Sanh. Operation Niagara was a joint U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps air campaign launched in support of the marines manning the base. Using sensors installed along the nearby DMZ and reconnaissance flights to pinpoint targets, 24,000 tactical fighter-bomber sorties and 2,700 B-52 strategic bomber sorties were flown between the start of the operation and March 31, 1968, when it was terminated. This airpower played a major role in the successful defense of Khe Sanh when it came under attack on January 21 and was subsequently besieged for 66 days until finally broken on April 7.
1969 – 25 crew members of the U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise were killed and 85 injured in an explosion that ripped through the ship off Hawaii.
2005 – The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan near the Xanadu region. This was the first landing ever accomplished in the outer solar system. It touched down on land, although the possibility that it would touch down in an ocean was also taken into account in its design. The probe was designed to gather data for a few hours in the atmosphere, and possibly a short time at the surface. It continued to send data for about 90 minutes after touchdown. It remains the most distant landing of any man-made craft.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
ANDERSON, EVERETT W.
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company M, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Place and date: At Crosbys Creek, Tenn., 14 January 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth: Louisiana. Date of issue: 3 December 1894. Citation: Captured, single-handed, Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert B. Vance during a charge upon the enemy.
ELISE, WILLIAM
Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company K, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry. Place and date: At, Ark., 14 January 1865. Entered service at: Little Rock, Ark. Birth: England. Date of issue: 8 March 1865. Citation: Remained at his post after receiving three wounds, and only retired, by his commanding officer's orders, after being wounded the fourth time.
HOWARD, SQUIRE E.
Rank and organization: First Sergeant, Company H, 8th Vermont Infantry. Place and date: At Bayou Teche, La., 14 January 1863. Entered service at: Townshend, Vt. Birth: Jamaica, Vt. Date of issue: 29 January 1894. Citation: Voluntarily carried an important message through the heavy fire of the enemy to bring aid and save the gunboat Calhoun.
PALMER, WILLIAM J.
Rank and organization. Colonel, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Place and date: At Red Hill, Ala., 14 January 1865. Entered service at. Philadelphia, Pa. Born. 16 September 1836, Leipsic, Kent County, Del. Date of issue. 24 February 1894. Citation: With less than 200 men, attacked and defeated a superior force of the enemy, capturing their fieldpiece and about 100 prisoners without losing a man.
*WARREN, JOHN E., JR.
Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, Company C, 2d Battalion, (Mechanized), 22d Infantry, 25th Infantry Division. Place and date: Tay Ninh Province, Republic of Vietnam, 14 January 1969. Entered service at: New York, N.Y . Born: 16 November 1946, Brooklyn, N.Y. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. 1st Lt. Warren, distinguished himself at the cost of his life while serving as a platoon leader with Company C. While moving through a rubber plantation to reinforce another friendly unit, Company C came under intense fire from a well-fortified enemy force. Disregarding his safety, 1st Lt. Warren with several of his men began maneuvering through the hail of enemy fire toward the hostile positions. When he had come to within 6 feet of one of the enemy bunkers and was preparing to toss a hand grenade into it, an enemy grenade was suddenly thrown into the middle of his small group. Thinking only of his men, 1st Lt. Warren fell in the direction of the grenade, thus shielding those around him from the blast. His action, performed at the cost of his life, saved 3 men from serious or mortal injury. First Lt. Warren's ultimate action of sacrifice to save the lives of his men was in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit on him, his unit, and the U.S. Army.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for January 14, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
14 January
1943: The Casablanca Conference opened, where plans for a combined bomber offensive against Germany were established. Lt Gen Ira C. Eaker promoted a daylight-bombing offensive for U. S. forces. (5) (21)
1945: B-29s based in China bombed an enemy airfield on Formosa, while 54 Superfortresses hit the important airfield at Kagi. (24)
1957: The USAF signed a $74 million contract on the F-102A Delta Dagger supersonic all-weather jet. (4)
1960: In Florida, Eglin AFB conducted the first test launch of a rocket-borne transmitter. (6)
1961: Maj William R. Payne flew a 43rd Bombardment Wing B-58 Hustler from Carswell AFB, Tex., in a flight that broke three records. Over a 1,000-kilometer course without a payload and with payloads of 1,000 and 2,000 kilograms, the B-58 averaged 1,284.73 miles per hour. Major Payne later won the Thompson Trophy, an annual award for supremacy in closed circuit flying. (1)
1977: The Department of Defense directed the Air Force to begin full-scale production of the Air Launched Cruise Missile. (6)
1999: The National Air and Space Administration delayed the first X-33 flight for 18 months, following the failure of its liquid hydrogen tank. This action basically ended the development of the single-stage-to-orbit X-33 project at Edwards AFB, Calif., as a Space Shuttle replacement. (3)
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