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To All
Good Tuesday Morning January 27, 2026. .
Yesterday turned out to be a good day. Today is Clear and cool and no wind yet. I hope that your week is off to a good start. .Classes went well last night . I also hope that those of you that are in that storm are getting along and have heat and food. All the best .;
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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 28
Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/
Jan. 27
1778—During the American Revolution, the Continental sloop Providence, commanded by Capt. O. P. Rathburne, attacks New Providence Island, spikes the guns of the fort, captures small arms, holds off the sloop-of-war Grayton, and captures a privateer and five other vessels, while freeing 20 released American prisoners.
1942—Submarine Gudgeon (SS 211) becomes the first U.S. Navy submarine to sink an enemy Japanese submarine in action during World War II.
1945—Destroyer Higbee (DD 806) is commissioned. She is the first U.S. Navy combat ship to bear the name of a female member of the naval service.
1952—U.S. Navy carrier aircraft cut the Korean railroad, a constant target during the Korean War, in 165 places, a record for a single day's aircraft operations by Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 77).
1967—Tragedy strikes the Apollo space program when a flash fire occurs in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission. Three astronauts, Lt. Col. Virgil I. Grissom, a veteran of Mercury and Gemini missions; Lt. Col. Edward H. White, the astronaut who had performed the first United States extravehicular activity during the Gemini program; and (Navy LCDR) Roger B. Chaffee, an astronaut preparing for his first space flight, die in this tragic accident.
1973—The Paris Peace Accords are signed, ending U.S. participation in the Vietnam War.
1988 - About 400 Marines and sailors from the 2d Marine Division, 2d Marine Aircraft Wing, and 2d Force Service Support Group deployed for the Persian Gulf. The Contingency Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) CM 2-88 would relieve Contingency MAGTF 1-88 in the volatile Persian Gulf and provide the effective landing force capability to Joint Task Force Middle East.
Thanks to Ted
Skip,
It's not true that Ev Alvarez was the longest held POW in VN (and U.S. history), and we all should know that. Indeed, Ev does his best to disclaim the "longest held" title when asked, or is doing speaking engagements. Yes, he was the first pilot shot down over North Vietnam, and longest held there (although Floyd Thompson ended up there).
It's a notable disservice to the SpecOps soldier/pilot who was the longest held, and in gruesome circumstances, not to properly recognize him. Suggest we give credit where credit is due and correct the widespread, and accepted by many, falsehood about "longest held."
Cheers, Ted
1970 – U.S. Navy Lt. Everett Alvarez Jr. spends his 2,000th day in captivity in Southeast Asia. First taken prisoner when his plane was shot down on August 5, 1964, he became the longest-held POW in U.S. history. Alvarez was downed over Hon Gai during the first bombing raids against North Vietnam in retaliation for the disputed attack on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964."
"On March 26, 1964, the first U.S. service member imprisoned during the Vietnam War was captured near Quảng Trị, South Vietnam when an L-19/O-1 Bird Dog observation plane flown by Captain Richard L. Whitesides and Captain Floyd James Thompson was brought down by small arms fire. Whitesides was killed, and Thompson was taken prisoner; he would ultimately spend just short of nine years in captivity, making him the longest-held POW in American history. The first fighter pilot captured in North Vietnam was Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) Everett Alvarez, Jr., who was shot down on August 5, 1964, in the aftermath of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.[3]"
"Army Special Forces Capt. Floyd James Thompson, who was captured on March 26, 1964, was the longest-held POW. Navy Lieut. Junior Grade Everett Alvarez, Jr., shot down on August 5, 1964, was the first pilot to be captured in NVN."
"Floyd James "Jim" Thompson (July 8, 1933 – July 16, 2002) was a United States Army colonel. He was the longest-held American prisoner of war in U.S. history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in the jungle camps and mountains of South Vietnam and Laos, and in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War."
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This Day in World History…
January 27
1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II.
1825 Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears."
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies.
1900 Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels.
1905 Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties.
1916 President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program.
1918 Communists attempt to seize power in Finland.
1924 Lenin's body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin.
1935 A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates.
1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.
1941 The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington.
1943 The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden.
January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.
Auschwitz was really a group of camps, designated I, II, and III. There were also 40 smaller "satellite" camps. It was at Auschwitz II, at Birkenau, established in October 1941, that the SS created a complex, monstrously orchestrated killing ground: 300 prison barracks; four "bathhouses" in which prisoners were gassed; corpse cellars; and cremating ovens. Thousands of prisoners were also used for medical experiments overseen and performed by the camp doctor, Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death."
The Red Army had been advancing deeper into Poland since mid-January. Having liberated Warsaw and Krakow, Soviet troops headed for Auschwitz. In anticipation of the Soviet arrival, SS officers began a murder spree in the camps, shooting sick prisoners and blowing up crematoria in a desperate attempt to destroy the evidence of their crimes. When the Red Army finally broke through, Soviet soldiers encountered 648 corpses and more than 7,000 starving camp survivors. There were also six storehouses filled with hundreds of thousands of women's dresses, men's suits and shoes that the Germans did not have time to burn.
1959 NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight.
1965 Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon.
1967 Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft.
1973 A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam.
1978 The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois.
1985 Pope John Paul II says mass to one million in Venezuela.
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Thanks to the Bear and Dan Heller. We will always have the url for you to search items in Rolling Thunder
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To All
Thanks to the Bear
This great to watch…skip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQcxP70jNMY
Thanks to Micro
From Vietnam Air Losses site for ..January 27 . .
January 27: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=3107
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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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Hello Capitalists,
Here is everything you should be watching today:
• Gold makes history yet again and its scaring people
• US Government secures yet another stake in Rare Earths
• Nvidia pumps $2Billion into CoreWeave to keep the AI party going
• Bitcoin suffers its worst day of 2026
• Natural gas surges as winter storm hits
• Airlines start to pick up the pieces after winter storm Fern
Today's markets + assets:
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• ⚠️🔴CBOE VIX Volatility Index: 16.03 (⬇️ 0.64%)
• ✅ Gold: $5097.40(⬆️ 2.36%)
• ✅ Silver:$117.06 (⬆️ 15.53%)
• ✅ Bitcoin: $87,724 (⬆️ 1.60%)
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Thanks to the Daily Signal
My dad spent a year at an Air Force base in Thule Greenland in the late 50's. He did not talk about it at all…skip
. Robert Peters
Robert Peters is senior research fellow for Strategic Deterrence at The Heritage Foundation's Allison Center for National Security.
Greenland has been a national security concern of the United States since the 19th century. President Donald Trump is the most recent in a long line of American presidents expressing an interest in either acquiring Greenland or expanding the U.S. military footprint in Greenland in cooperation with Denmark.
Given Greenland's strategic location, Trump's interest is eminently rational—but the United States should address the valid security concerns raised by Trump without risking a breach with NATO.
American interest in Greenland goes back more than a century and a half. Secretary of State William Seward expressed interest in Greenland as early as the 1860s. American interest in purchasing territory from Denmark has a historical precedent, as the U.S. purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. The American military presence in Greenland dates to the 1940s, and President Harry S. Truman expressed an interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark after World War II.
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Need To Know
Social Media Addiction
Jury selection begins today in a high-profile case against Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. A 19-year-old identified as KGM and her mom are suing the companies, alleging they designed their platforms to be addictive, fueling KGM's mental health crisis.
KGM says she began using social media at age 10, alleging "addictive design," including frequent notifications, fostered her dependency on the platforms and contributed to her anxiety and depression. She also alleges that recommendation features suggested harmful body image content and led her to connect with predatory adults. Top executives, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are expected to appear before the court to rebut the claims. The companies are expected to, in part, rely on Section 230, a federal law protecting platforms from liability over content posted by their users.
The outcome of the case could influence more than 1,000 similar personal injury lawsuits. While Snap was originally one of the defendants, it settled last week for an undisclosed amount.
Dark Matter Map
Scientists have used data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to build one of the clearest maps of dark matter yet, offering insights into how this invisible material helped form galaxies, stars, and planets like Earth.
Webb spent 255 hours scanning a region of the constellation Sextans, identifying roughly 800,000 galaxies whose visible components are made of ordinary matter. Scientists then analyzed the images for warped shapes, clues to invisible dark matter whose gravity bends nearby light despite not emitting, absorbing, or reflecting it. The analysis revealed clusters of thousands of galaxies next to equally massive amounts of dark matter. The finding suggests dark matter pulled regular matter toward it, creating regions with enough ordinary matter for early galaxies to form. Helium and hydrogen from star formations then gave rise to planets.
NASA plans to investigate the fundamental properties and evolution of dark matter with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch by May 2027.
Last Hostage Recovered
Israel announced yesterday it has recovered the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack, a development seen as key to advancing the ceasefire process.
The remains of a 24-year-old special forces officer killed during the initial assault were identified after a military operation in a northern Gaza cemetery that involved exhuming and testing more than 250 bodies. The recovery completes Israel's effort to account for roughly 250 hostages abducted by Hamas, allowing focus to shift to the next phase of the US-brokered ceasefire plan, which took effect Oct. 10. That phase is expected to include reopening the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, installing a new governance structure, and disarming Hamas, which has ruled the territory for nearly 20 years.
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. The Muppet Show is nearing its return to the screen. "Isn't it wonderful being back in the theater?" Miss Piggy asks in the official trailer for an upcoming special edition of the series, which originally aired from 1976 to 1981. She goes on: "And giving the people what they truly want: Moi." The new trailer also teases that Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Rudolph, and Seth Rogen will appear in the TV special, airing Feb. 4 on ABC and Disney+. And in more Muppet news, a giant, 900-pound Kermit the Frog statue recently traveled from Hollywood to its new home at an Atlanta museum.
Long-Lost Portrait of Beloved Scottish Poet Debuts After 220 Years
Jane Barlow—PA Images/Getty Images
Robert Burns, regarded as the "national poet of Scotland," left the world with plenty of poems before he died at age 37 in 1796. However, the public had only one notable (but tiny) portrait of him, until recently.
A second portrait of the iconic poet surfaced more than 220 years after it was made, vindicating scholars who long believed Henry Raeburn — one of Scotland's revered artists — painted a version from the smaller original. "Burns fanatics were looking for it because it was described as a portrait of the greatest Scotsman painted by Scotland's greatest artist," William Zachs of Blackie House Library and Museum told The New York Times.
Burns fans got their wish when the 1803 painting was discovered during a home clearance and later purchased by Zachs at a London auction house last year for around $113,000, following a bidding war. "It was in an unusually good condition," said Emily Jenkins, the managing director of the studio that restored the piece.
Now on view at the National Galleries of Scotland, the portrait debuted just in time for Burns Night — a tribute held every Jan. 25 to honor the poet's birthday.
A Positive Attitude Could Boost the Effects of Vaccines, Study Finds
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Next time you get a vaccine, you may want to recall a happy memory or visualize what it would be like to get a promotion at work. That's according to a recent study suggesting thinking positively right after a shot might boost the immune system's antibody response.
Researchers trained 34 of 85 healthy adult volunteers to activate a reward region of the brain using upbeat mental strategies, such as recalling meaningful moments and imagining future successes, while lying in a brain scanner. The other participants received different training techniques or just spent time in the brain scanner.
After four training sessions, all participants received a hepatitis B vaccine, and researchers tested their blood to measure antibody levels. They found that participants who more strongly activated the reward region also showed a stronger immune response to the hepatitis B vaccine. "It's the first demonstration in humans, in what seems to be a causal manner, that if you learn how to recruit your reward system in the brain, the effectiveness of immunization increases," co-author Talma Hendler told The Guardian.
The findings could be useful in developing ways to help the immune system fight infections. That said, researchers stressed that "consciously generated positive expectations" are no substitute for traditional treatment: "The approach we tested is intended solely as a complementary tool that may enhance immune responsiveness to vaccination," added fellow co-author Nitzan Lubianiker. "It cannot, and is not meant to, replace vaccines or standard medical care
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Thanks to Brett
Some interesting reading
. Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2026 7:44 AM
A week old article on the Chinese leadership situation.....interesting read.....different than we;ve heard before
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Thanks to Barrell
. Here is some basic info on Greenland that just doesn't seem to be getting out and is being misrepresented.
You are all looking at Greenland Incorrectly. You need to view it from the top of the Earth like it's viewed in international diplomacy. It is WILDLY strategic and we need to be in control of it.
Also: You probably don't realize this but America has had as many as 50 military bases on Greenland. Really...50. Look it up. Post Cold War, most were abandoned. Now, only one main base remains: the [Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base), a crucial missile defense and space surveillance site, down from its high of numerous installations, including radar sites, airfields, and weather stations, most of which were closed or abandoned.
The United States has tried many times to get Greenland from Denmark. There is precedent for this. Don't forget, the US Virgin Islands used to be called the Danish West Indies until we bought them (FROM DENMARK) in the early 1900s.
This is classic Trump: Quiet leverage first. Strategic pressure second. Public resolve last. Greenland isn't about real estate. It is about Arctic dominance, energy security, missile defense, shipping lanes, rare earth minerals, and cutting off Russia and China at the knees before they lock down the North Atlantic and Arctic routes.
Whoever controls Greenland controls the high ground of the next century. Russia knows it. China knows it. That is why they are furious already.
For decades, America talked while our adversaries moved. Trump flips that script. He moves while others talk. Then he tells the world exactly what is happening.
If this deal gets done, it redraws the global chessboard overnight. NATO security hardens. Chinese expansion stalls. Russian Arctic ambitions shrink fast. Greenland will be America's unsinkable aircraft carrier in the North Atlantic. America First means thinking 20 years ahead, not reacting 20 years too late.
This is leadership. This is strategy. This is strength. You may DESPISE Trump, but he is a genius.... and he's absolutely right about Greenland. No, we're not going to be invading them, this is about negotiation, and I wouldn't want to be going up against Trump, would you?
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This Day in U S Military History
27 January
1778 – Marines landed at New Providence, Bahamas; the American flag flew over foreign soil for the first time. The first American soldiers sent forth from the fledgling nation's shores were a detachment of Marines. That amphibious raid–the first in what remains today a Marine specialty–aimed to seize guns and gunpowder from a British fort.
1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft built by Lockheed. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Named "fork-tailed devil" by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" by the Japanese, the P-38 was used in a number of roles, including dive bombing, level bombing, ground-attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance missions, and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings. The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations as the mount of America's top aces, Richard Bong (40 victories) and Thomas McGuire (38 victories). In the South West Pacific theater, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of United States Army Air Forces until the appearance of large numbers of P-51D Mustangs toward the end of the war. The P-38 was unusually quiet for a fighter, the exhaust muffled by the turbo-superchargers. The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in production throughout American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to Victory over Japan Day.
1942 – USS Gudgeon is first US sub to sink enemy submarine in action, Japanese I-173.
1943 – 8th Air Force bombers, dispatched from their bases in England, fly the first American bombing raid against the Germans, targeting the Wilhelmshaven port. Of 64 planes participating in the raid, 53 reached their target and managed to shoot down 22 German planes-and lost only three planes in return. The 8th Air Force was activated in February 1942 as a heavy bomber force based in England. Its B-17 Flying Fortresses, capable of sustaining heavy damage while continuing to fly, and its B-24 Liberators, long-range bombers, became famous for precision bombing raids, the premier example being the raid on Wilhelmshaven. Commanded at the time by Brig. Gen. Newton Longfellow, the 8th Air Force was amazingly effective and accurate, by the standards of the time, in bombing warehouses and factories in this first air attack against the Axis power.
1945 – The Ledo Road to China is finally cleared when Chinese troops from Burma and Yunnan province link up near Mongyu. General Sultan, who leads the British, American and Chinese in the area, has in fact announced the road as open on January 22nd. Sultan's forces are now moving south toward Mandalay and Lashio by several routes.
1967 – A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida, kills astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chafee. An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module was the probable cause of the fire. The astronauts, the first Americans to die in a spacecraft, had been participating in a simulation of the Apollo 1 launch scheduled for the next month. The Apollo program was initiated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) following President John F. Kennedy's 1961 declaration of the goal of landing men on the moon and bringing them safely back to Earth by the end of the decade. The so-called "moon shot" was the largest scientific and technological undertaking in history. In December 1968, Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to travel to the moon, and on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. walked on the lunar surface. In all, there were 17 Apollo missions and six lunar landings.
1973 – The Paris Peace Accords are signed by officials from the United States and North Vietnam, bringing an official end to America's participation in its most unpopular foreign war. The accords did little, however, to solve the turmoil in Vietnam or to heal the terrible domestic divisions in the United States brought on by its involvement in this Cold War battleground. Peace negotiations between the United States and North Vietnam had been ongoing since 1968. Richard Nixon was elected president that year, largely on the basis of his promise to find a way to "peace with honor" in Vietnam. Four years later, after the deaths of thousands more American servicemen, South Vietnamese soldiers, North Vietnamese soldiers, and Viet Cong fighters, the Paris Peace Accords were signed, and America's participation in the struggle in Vietnam came to a close. On the military side, the accords seemed straightforward enough. A cease-fire was declared, and the United States promised to remove all military forces from South Vietnam within 60 days. For their part, the North Vietnamese promised to return all American prisoners of war within that same 60-day framework. The nearly 150,000 North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam were allowed to remain after the cease-fire. The political side of the agreement was somewhat less clear. In essence, the accords called for the reunification of North and South Vietnam through "peaceful means on the basis of discussions and agreements between North and South Viet-Nam." Precisely what this entailed was left unsaid. The United States also promised to "contribute to healing the wounds of war and to postwar reconstruction of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam [North Vietnam] and throughout Indochina." Most Americans were relieved simply to be out of the Vietnam quagmire. The war against communism in Southeast Asia cost over 50,000 U.S. lives and billions of dollars, in addition to countless soldiers wounded in the line of duty. At home, the war seriously fractured the consensus about the Cold War that had been established in the period after World War II–simple appeals to fighting the red threat of communism would no longer be sufficient to move the American nation to commit its prestige, manpower, and money to foreign conflicts. For Vietnam, the accords meant little. The cease-fire almost immediately collapsed, with recriminations and accusations flying from both sides. In 1975, the North Vietnamese launched a massive military offensive, crushed the South Vietnamese forces, and reunified Vietnam under communist rule.
1977 – Pres. Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft evaders. No comment except four letter words…skip
1980 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper, the popular name given to the joint covert rescue. The "caper" involved CIA agents (Tony Mendez and a man known as "Julio") joining the six diplomats to form a fake film crew made up of six Canadians, one Irishman and one Latin American who were finishing scouting for an appropriate location to shoot a scene for the nominal science-fiction film Argo. The ruse was carried off on the morning of Sunday, January 27, 1980, at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. The eight Americans successfully boarded a Swissair flight to Zurich and escaped Iran.
2003 – During Operation Mongoose, when a band of fighters were assaulted by U.S. forces at the Adi Ghar cave complex 15 miles (24 km) north of Spin Boldak, 18 rebels were reported killed with no U.S. casualties. The site was suspected to be a base for supplies and fighters coming from Pakistan. The first isolated attacks by relatively large Taliban bands on Afghan targets also appeared around that time.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
ROBINSON, JAMES H.
Rank and organization: Private, Company B, 3d Michigan Cavalry. Place and date: At Brownsville, Ark., 27 January 1865. Entered service at: Victor, Mich. Birth. Oakland County, Mich. Date of issue: 4 April 1865. Citation: Successfully defended himself, single-handed against 7 guerrillas, killing the leader (Capt. W. C. Stephenson) and driving off the remainder of the party.
*EVANS, DONALD W., JR.
Rank and organization: Specialist Fourth Class, U.S. Army, Company A, 2d Battalion, 12 Infantry, 4th Infantry Division. Place and date: Tri Tam, Republic of Vietnam, 27 January 1967. Entered service at: Covina, Calif. Born: 23 July 1943, Covina, Calif. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. He left his position of relative safety with his platoon which had not yet been committed to the battle to answer the calls for medical aid from the wounded men of another platoon which was heavily engaged with the enemy force. Dashing across 100 meters of open area through a withering hail of enemy fire and exploding grenades, he administered lifesaving treatment to 1 individual and continued to expose himself to the deadly enemy fire as he moved to treat each of the other wounded men and to offer them encouragement. Realizing that the wounds of 1 man required immediate attention, Sp4c. Evans dragged the injured soldier back across the dangerous fire-swept area, to a secure position from which he could be further evacuated Miraculously escaping the enemy fusillade, Sp4c. Evans returned to the forward location. As he continued the treatment of the wounded, he was struck by fragments from an enemy grenade. Despite his serious and painful injury he succeeded in evacuating another wounded comrade, rejoined his platoon as it was committed to battle and was soon treating other wounded soldiers. As he evacuated another wounded man across the fire covered field, he was severely wounded. Continuing to refuse medical attention and ignoring advice to remain behind, he managed with his waning strength to move yet another wounded comrade across the dangerous open area to safety. Disregarding his painful wounds and seriously weakened from profuse bleeding, he continued his lifesaving medical aid and was killed while treating another wounded comrade. Sp4c. Evan's extraordinary valor, dedication and indomitable spirit saved the lives of several of his fellow soldiers, served as an inspiration to the men of his company, were instrumental in the success of their mission, and reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of his country.
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for January 27, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
27 January
1911: At an Aero Club show in San Diego, Calif., Lt Theodore G. "Spuds" Ellyson (U. S. Navy), a student at the nearby Curtiss School, took off in a Curtiss "grass cutter" plane to become the first Naval aviator. With a blocked throttle, this ground plane was not supposed to fly, and Ellyson was not proficient enough to fly. He slewed off left, cracking up the plane somewhat by making a wing-first landing. Ellyson wasn't injured, but from then on he was considered to have made his first flight. (21) (24)
1912: MACKAY TROPHY. Clarence H. Mackay established the Mackay Trophy. Aviators could compete for the trophy annually under rules made each year, or the War Department could award the trophy for the most meritorious flight of the year. (24)
1928: The Navy airship Los Angeles (ZR-3) landed on the carrier USS Saratoga at sea near Newport, R.I., to transfer passengers and take on fuel and supplies. (24)
1943: Eighth Air Force's 1st Bombardment Wing and 2nd Bombardment Wing conducted the first American bombing mission against Germany. In this mission, 53 B-17s and B-24s hit the naval base, the U-boat construction works, power plant, and docks at Wilhelmshaven. Two other bombers hit the submarine base at Emden. Afterwards, the bomber returned to the United Kingdom with the loss of three aircraft. (21) (24)
1954: Dr. Wernher von Braun and his team launched Redstone missile No. 2 from Cape Canaveral, Fla. (24)
1955: TRAINING IN FORMOSA. During the latter part of November 1954, the Commander-inChief of the Pacific Command invited Far East Air Forces to rotate fighter squadrons to bases on Formosa on a training and familiarization basis. The 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing completed its move to the island today. (17)
1967: APOLLO FIRE. USAF Lt Cols Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom and Edward White, and Navy Lt Cmdr Roger B. Chaffee died when their Apollo spacecraft caught fire at Cape Kennedy, Fla. They were rehearsing for a 21 February flight. (9)
1968: Operation COMBAT FOX: After North Korea seized the S. S. Pueblo on 23 January, the Military Airlift Command supported USAF and Army deployments from the U.S., Pacific, and Southeast Asia to South Korea and Japan. During the next three weeks, the Military Airlift Command moved 7,996 passengers and nearly 13,700 tons of cargo in over 800 missions to the region. (2) (17) (18)
1971: Cmdr Donald H. Lilienthal (USN) flew a P-3C Orion to a world speed record for heavyweight turboprops. Over 15-25 kilometers, he reached 501 miles per hour to break the Soviet I1-18's May 1968 record of 452 miles per hour. (5)
1973: VIETNAM PEACE ACCORDS. After the 11-day B-52 bombing campaign against Hanoi and Haiphong, North Vietnam signed a peace accord. (1) (2)
1977: A Delta booster launched the NATO III-B satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla. (5)
1982: At the Utah Test and Training Range, an Air Launched Cruise Missile coated with 3/4-inches of ice, showed its all-climate capabilities after its launch by a B-52G. (6)
1991: Operation DESERT STORM. After 10 days of aerial combat, US-backed coalition air forces attained air supremacy over the Iraqis. F-111 Aardvarks delivered guided bombs on the Al Ahmadi oil refinery to close oil manifolds opened by the Iraqis. This attack stopped the flow of crude oil, the biggest deliberate oil spill in history, into the Persian Gulf. (16) (21) (26)
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On This Day in Air Force History, 26 Jan:
1982: Maj Gen Michael Collins (USAF Reserve), a crewmember on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, flew his last mission as a USAF reserve officer in a F-16 at Edwards AFB.
Selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963, Collins flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10 in 1966, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed orbital rendezvous with two spacecraft and undertook two extravehicular activities (EVAs, also known as spacewalks). On the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he became one of 24 people to fly to the Moon, which he orbited thirty times. He was the fourth person (and third American) to perform a spacewalk, the first person to have performed more than one spacewalk, and, after Young, who flew the command module on Apollo 10, the second person to orbit the Moon alone.
After retiring from NASA in 1970, Collins took a job in the Department of State as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. A year later, he became the director of the National Air and Space Museum, and held this position until 1978, when he stepped down to become undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1980, he took a job as vice president of LTV Aerospace. He resigned in 1985 to start his own consulting firm. Along with his Apollo 11 crewmates, Collins was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2011. He died on April 28, 2021. (NASA Images)
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