To All
. Good Friday morning May 22. It is starting out cooler today and the skies are now clear and we will hit 80 around 1 The forecast is for a lot of clear skies and lower temps over the next week .
I have to drag out my flight gear and make sure all the zippers work so I can put it all on and off up on the flight deck of the USS Midway on Sunday. The only thing I am missing is one of my leg restraints that walked away a couple years ago. If any one has one I would be happy to receive it. Otherwise I do not clank as well when I walk…..skip
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This day in Naval and Marine Corps History (thanks to NHHC)
Go here to see the director’s corner for all 97 H-Grams
Here is a link to the NHHC website: https://www.history.navy.mil/
May 22
1943 During the battle to protect British Royal Convoy (ON 184) in the North Atlantic, TBFs from (VC 9) based on board USS Bogue (ACV 9) sink German submarine (U 569) and damage (U 305).
1967 New York City reaches an agreement to purchase the New York Naval Shipyard, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, after it was closed in 1966.
1968 USS Scorpion (SSN 589) is lost with her crew south-west of the Azores. In late Oct. 1968, her remains are found on the sea floor more than 10,000 feet below the surface by a deep-submergence vehicle towed from USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11).
1986 Military Sealift Commands USNS Sgt. William R. Button (T-AK 3012) is christened and launched. The ship serves as one of 17 Container and Roll-on/Roll-off vessels for the Navy and is part of the 36 ships in the Prepositioning Program.
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Today in World History May 22
1246 Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France.
1455 King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses.
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1843 The first major wagon train to the northwest departs from Elm Grove, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail.
Although U.S. sovereignty over the Oregon Territory was not clearly established until 1846, American fur trappers and missionary groups had been living in the region for decades, to say nothing of the Native Americans who had settled the land centuries earlier. Dozens of books and lectures proclaimed Oregon’s agricultural potential, piquing the interest of white American farmers. The first overland immigrants to Oregon, intending primarily to farm, came in 1841 when a small band of 70 pioneers left Independence, Missouri. They followed a route blazed by fur traders, which took them west along the Platte River through the Rocky Mountains via the easy South Pass in Wyoming and then northwest to the Columbia River. In the years to come, pioneers came to call the route the Oregon Trail.
In 1842, a slightly larger group of 100 pioneers made the 2,000-mile journey to Oregon. The next year, however, the number of emigrants skyrocketed to 1,000. The sudden increase was a product of a severe depression in the Midwest combined with a flood of propaganda from fur traders, missionaries, and government officials extolling the virtues of the land. Farmers dissatisfied with their prospects in Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, hoped to find better lives in the supposed paradise of Oregon.
1856 U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler.
1863 Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins.
1868 The "Great Train Robbery" takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana.
1872 The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners.
1882 The United States formally recognizes Korea.
1908 The Wright brothers register their flying machine for a U.S. patent.
1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers.
1947 The Truman Doctrine brings aid to Turkey and Greece.
1967 The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers.
1972 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified.
1985 Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108.
1990 In the Middle East, North and South Yemen merge to become a single state.
1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance on The Tonight Show on NBC, after 30 years as the program's host.
2004 An EF4 tornado with a record-setting width of 2.5 miles wipes out Hallam, Nebraska, killing 1 person.
2004 Fahrenheit 9-11, directed by Michael Moore, becomes the first documentary ever to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
2010 Following a 200-year search for the tomb of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus his remains are reburied in Frombork Cathedral
2011 An EF5 tornado kills at least 158 people in Joplin, Missouri, the largest death toll from a tornado since record-keeping began in 1950.
2015 The Republic of Ireland, long known as a conservative, predominantly Catholic country, becomes the first nation in the world to legalize gay marriage in a public referendum.
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May 21
Hello All,
Thanks to Dan Heller and the Bear
Links to all content can now be found right on the homepage http://www.rollingthunderremembered.com. If you scroll down from the banner and featured content you will find "Today in Rolling Thunder Remembered History" which highlights events in the Vietnam war that occurred on the date the page is visited. Below that are links to browse or search all content. You may search by keyword(s), date, or date range.
An item of importance is the recent incorporation of Task Force Omega (TFO) MIA summaries. There is a link on the homepage and you can also visit directly via https://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/task-force-omega/. There are 60 summaries posted thus far, with about 940 to go (not a typo—TFO has over 1,000 individual case files).
If you have any questions or comments about RTR/TFO, or have a question on my book, you may e-mail me directly at acrossthewing@protonmail.com. Thank you Dan
Thanks to Micro
To remind folks that these are from the Vietnam Air Losses site that Micro put together. You click on the url elow and get what happened each day to the crew of the aircraft. ……Skip
For Friday May 22..
May 22: https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1774
This following work accounts for every fixed wing loss of the Vietnam War and you can use it to read more about the losses in The Bear’s Daily account. Even better it allows you to add your updated information to the work to update for history…skip
Vietnam Air Losses Access Chris Hobson and Dave Lovelady’s work at: https://www.VietnamAirLosses.com.
This is a list of all Helicopter Pilots Who Died in the Vietnam War . Listed by last name and has other info https://www.vhpa.org/KIA/KIAINDEX.HTM
MOAA - Wall of Faces Now Includes Photos of All Service members Killed in the Vietnam War
(This site was sent by a friend . 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
AUGUST 15, 2022
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From the archives
Thanks to Dr.Rich
Good Mornin’ from Allen Airways!
MiG Killers
The first of these victorious engagements took place on Jun. 20, 1965, when a flight of Skyraiders from the Strike Squadron 25 (VA-25) Fist of the Fleet, took off from the USS Midway (CVA-41) supporting the rescue of a downed USAF pilot in the northwest corner of North Vietnam were attacked by a flight of MiG-17s.
The two enemy jets launched missiles and fired with their cannons against the two A-1Hs, but both Skyraiders’ pilots, Lt. Charles W. Hartman III, flying A-1H BuNo 137523, radio callsign “Canasta 573,” and Lt. Clinton B. Johnson, flying A-1H BuNo 139768, callsign “Canasta 577,” evaded them before and maneuvered to shoot down one of the MiGs with their 20 mm cannons.
Lt. Johnson described this engagement in Donald J. McCarthy, Jr. book “MiG Killers A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories in Vietnam 1965-1973“ as follows: “I fired a short burst at the MiG and missed, but got the MiG pilot’s attention. He turned into us, making a head-on pass. Charlie and I fired simultaneously as he passed so close that Charlie thought I had hit his vertical stabilizer with the tip of my tail hook. Both of us fired all four guns. Charlie’s rounds appeared to go down the intake and into the wing root, and mine along the top of the fuselage and through the canopy. He never returned our fire, rolled, inverted, and hit a small hill, exploding and burning in a farm field.”
The subsequent MiG kill of this engagement was shared by both Hartmann III and Johnson.
The second victory of the propeller-driven Skyraider against a North Vietnamese MiG-17 jet fighter, took place on Oct. 9, 1966 and involved four A-1Hs launched from the deck of the USS Intrepid (CV-11) in the Gulf of Tonkin flying as “Papoose flight.”
The flight was from the Strike Squadron 176 (VA-176) Thunderbolts and it was led by Lt. Cdr. Leo Cook, with Lt. Wiley as wingman, while the second section was led by Lt. Peter Russell with Lt. William T. Patton as wingman.
It was during the RESCAP (the REScue Combat Air Patrol, a mission flown to protect the downed pilots from ground threats) flight, that the “Spads” (as the Skyraiders were dubbed by their pilots) were attacked by four MiG-17s. This engagement ended with one Fresco confirmed as being shot down, a second as probably shot down and a third heavily damaged.
According to McCarthy, the MiG-17 kill was awarded to “Papoose 409,” the A-1H BuNo 137543, flown by Lt. Patton who, after having gained a position of advantage on one of the MiGs, opened fire with his four guns, hitting the tail section of the enemy jet. Patton followed the MiG which descended through the cloud deck and when Papoose 409 emerged from the clouds he spotted the enemy pilot’s parachute.
This made the Skyraider the last piston engine aircraft to shoot down a jet fighter in history.
By the way there is an F-4 on the flight deck of the USS Midway painted in in two different squadron colors showing that the USS Midway shot down the first and the last Migs of the Vietnam War.
As a note on a Tuesday Vic Kovalesky shot down the last Mig of the war without his regular Rio who had the duty that day. Two days later as my escort for the last Alpha strike just south of Hanoi he got hit on the egress just north of Vinh but we made it to the water and was picked up almost before they got wet. So when they got back to the Midway he got stoned by the ready room for poor judgement.
BTW Vic lives about a mile from my Son in Boise Idaho and we always meet up when I go there.
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Some bits Thanks to 1440
Good morning, it's Friday, May 22. The world's most powerful rocket may (or may not) have a test flight today.
Starship Test Flight
SpaceX today will attempt to launch an uncrewed test flight of Starship Version 3, its largest and most powerful rocket yet. The announcement comes after the company canceled a planned test flight yesterday at the last minute.
The Elon Musk-owned company is competing with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to create the spacecraft that will carry NASA astronauts to the moon's surface—a mission currently planned for 2028. SpaceX launched a combined 11 test flights of its first and second Starship versions from April 2023 to October 2025, with mixed results. Version 3, which features lighter engines, will deploy 22 mock satellites and relight an engine in space before splashing into the Indian Ocean. Musk ultimately aims to make Starship fully reusable and catch it with mechanical arms—a feat that would dramatically reduce launch costs. Watch the first successful test of the arms here.
The test flight comes days after SpaceX confirmed plans to go public next month, with a potentially record-setting valuation between
Minnesota Fraud Sentencing
The ringleader of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme in Minnesota, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to over 41 years in prison yesterday. Bock siphoned more than $240M in pandemic-era food assistance via her Feeding Our Future network.
Officials have called the scheme the US’ largest case of pandemic-era fraud; collectively, the amount of stolen taxpayer money—including Bock’s food aid scheme, daycares, and other social service programs—reportedly exceeds $1B. Citing the fact that most of the defendants are of Somali descent, President Donald Trump launched an immigration enforcement operation this year that led to the deaths of two US citizens. He also froze roughly $10B in federal funding to Minnesota and four other Democratic-led states. See an explainer on the fraud and fallout here.
More than 100 people have been indicted in ongoing investigations. That includes 15 people charged yesterday for allegedly defrauding more than $90M, much of it from Medicaid, via autism and home health clinics.
In The Know
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> Democratic National Committee releases unfinished, 192-page autopsy report it commissioned analyzing the 2024 presidential election failure amid pressure from party members; DNC chair says report includes unverified information (More) | Read the report
In-Depth
> The Monastery That Built an NBA Legend
ESPN | Ramona Shelburne. NBA superstar Victor Wembanyama spent time at a Chinese monastery, meditating, learning kung fu, and (kind of) eating a vegetarian diet. His mentors say the transformation shows on the court. (Read)
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Over 65% of species change their behavior when humans are present.
Newly discovered green spider has a smiley face on its back.
Hot-dog-eating champion will be on probation while defending his title.
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How Egypt's Great Pyramid was designed to survive earthquakes.
Record 274 people climb Mt. Everest in a single day.
Historybook: (First) first lady of the US Martha Washington dies (1802); The Associated Press is founded (1846); Poet Langston Hughes dies (1967); Supermodel Naomi Campbell born (1970); Manchester Arena bombing kills 22 following Ariana Grande concert (2017).
"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
- Martha Washington
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Thanks to Interesting Facts
Canned food was invented before the can opener.
On January 5, 1858, Ezra J. Warner of Connecticut invented the can opener. The device was a long time coming: Frenchman Nicolas Appert had developed the canning process in the early 1800s in response to a 12,000-franc prize the French government offered to anyone who could come up with a practical method of preserving food for Napoleon’s army. Appert devised a process for sterilizing food by half-cooking it, storing it in glass bottles, and immersing the bottles in boiling water, and he claimed the award in 1810. Later the same year, Englishman Peter Durand received the first patent for preserving food in actual tin cans — which is to say, canned food predates the can opener by nearly half a century.
Though he didn't initially know why his method of storing food in glass jars and heating them worked, years of experimentation led Appert to rightly conclude that “the absolute deprivation from contact with the exterior air” and “application of the heat in the water-bath” were key. He later switched to working with cans himself. Before Warner’s invention, cans were opened with a hammer and chisel — a far more time-consuming approach than the gadgets we’re used to. Warner’s tool (employed by soldiers during the Civil War) wasn’t a perfect replacement, however: It used a series of blades to puncture and then saw off the top of a can, leaving a dangerously jagged edge. As for the hand-crank can opener most commonly used today, that wasn’t invented until 1925.
Numbers Don’t Lie
Sale price of Andy Warhol’s “Small Torn Campbell’s Soup Can”
$11.7 million
Cans of soup sold in America in 2018
420 million+
I love Campbell Chicken Noodle Soup….skip
Number of aluminum cans recycled per minute
113,200
Different types of can openers
17
John Steinbeck wrote a novel set on a street lined with canneries.
And it's called — you guessed it — Cannery Row. The actual location in Monterey, California, was called Ocean View Avenue until 1958, when it was formally changed to Cannery Row in honor of the 1945 novel about a group of people living on the street during the Great Depression. Steinbeck, who set most of his work in central California, describes the street as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream” in the book’s first sentence. After reaching its peak during the first half of the 20th century, the sardine-cannery hotbed fell victim to intense overfishing and the last cannery closed in 1973. The area is now a historic tourist attraction complete with sea lions.
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From the archives
Thanks to Carl. I agree with this and still have my first .22 bolt action Winchester model 69 that I got around 1956. My dad would not let me get the automatic one that shot with each pull of the trigger because he said that it will not teach you how to shoot just how to shoot at the target by pulling the trigger faster. In the third grade at Sandia Base in Albuquerque New Mexico my dad enrolled me in an NRA sponsored course to learn firearm safety and to shoot. I came across my graduation picture of that a few years ago and the rifle was almost as tall as I was. The patch was a large round patch with a red background with a white Atom Bomb explosion in the Middle and Sandia Gun club around the edge. I always take a .22 pistol to the range and sort of warm up with it and it helps me settle down before I start throwing the heavier caliber rounds down range that are much more expensive these days.. Skip
.22 RENAISSANCE | Massad Ayoob
(I grew up with a .22LR on our farm. The first gun I bought after commissioning was a Ruger .22LR Single Six Pistol with a .22Mag interchangeable cylinder! A fun plinking pistol and still have it!)
https://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/MassadAyoob/22-renaissance/?mc_cid=026fa9185f&mc_eid=69b89c44b2
22 RENAISSANCE
By Massad Ayoob on May 21, 2022
The .22 rimfire has always been uber-popular: low cost, light recoil, relatively quiet report. Today, events have conspired to make it more relevant than ever.
The estimated ten million first-time gun owners who’ve “joined the club” in the last couple of years constitute a pool of new shooters both broad and deep. All the above advantages apply. The less the kick of the gun hits hand or shoulder, the less the startling crack of a gunshot assails the ears – and the less the practice session impacts the pocketbook! – the easier it is for those new shooters to learn the fundamentals of marksmanship and the safe handling of loaded firearms.
For us regular shooters, the .22 is as relevant as it has always been. No, it doesn’t let us practice recoil control to fully prepare for serious use of our more powerful rifles or pistols. But for “aim, hold, squeeze” practice in putting bullets where we want them to go, the .22 is absolutely relevant. For defensive handguns, drills such as draw to the shot practice with a gun the same size and shape out of the same holster, everything is the same except for recoil recovery for second and subsequent rounds. Cost? You’re doing well to find 9mm cartridges for 35 cents apiece, and figure way more per high power rifle rounds, but you can find .22 Long Rifle ammo for roughly a dime a shot.
My late first wife was a big fan of lever action Winchester rifles, and had quite a collection of them. The one she was most likely to actually SHOOT was the .22 Long Rifle version, the Winchester 94/22. She got along well with my current spouse, the Evil Princess, and one of the several things they had in common in addition to bad taste in husbands was that they’d spend more time shooting a .22 than a larger caliber gun. By actual count, the EP has put more rimfire rounds through her multiple Ruger 10/22 rifles and our Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22 than centerfire rounds through the “evil black rifles.” She has a couple of Ruger LCP .380s for when she “dresses like a girl” and needs to conceal something smaller than her usual 9mm, so there’s a .22 caliber LCP for cheap, high-volume draw-and-fire practice with the mouse gun. On my side of the house, there are .22 conversion units for several of the service pistols, and understudy .22 revolvers for the assorted six-shooters, too.
And, let us not forget, .22s are FUN. In dark times, it’s easy to remember that safe fun is a perfectly good reason to own firearms…and the more you can shoot them, the more fun they are to own.
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Some bits Thanks to 1440
Good morning, it's Friday, May 22. The world's most powerful rocket may (or may not) have a test flight today.
Starship Test Flight
SpaceX today will attempt to launch an uncrewed test flight of Starship Version 3, its largest and most powerful rocket yet. The announcement comes after the company canceled a planned test flight yesterday at the last minute.
The Elon Musk-owned company is competing with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to create the spacecraft that will carry NASA astronauts to the moon's surface—a mission currently planned for 2028. SpaceX launched a combined 11 test flights of its first and second Starship versions from April 2023 to October 2025, with mixed results. Version 3, which features lighter engines, will deploy 22 mock satellites and relight an engine in space before splashing into the Indian Ocean. Musk ultimately aims to make Starship fully reusable and catch it with mechanical arms—a feat that would dramatically reduce launch costs. Watch the first successful test of the arms here.
The test flight comes days after SpaceX confirmed plans to go public next month, with a potentially record-setting valuation between
Minnesota Fraud Sentencing
The ringleader of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme in Minnesota, Aimee Bock, was sentenced to over 41 years in prison yesterday. Bock siphoned more than $240M in pandemic-era food assistance via her Feeding Our Future network.
Officials have called the scheme the US’ largest case of pandemic-era fraud; collectively, the amount of stolen taxpayer money—including Bock’s food aid scheme, daycares, and other social service programs—reportedly exceeds $1B. Citing the fact that most of the defendants are of Somali descent, President Donald Trump launched an immigration enforcement operation this year that led to the deaths of two US citizens. He also froze roughly $10B in federal funding to Minnesota and four other Democratic-led states. See an explainer on the fraud and fallout here.
More than 100 people have been indicted in ongoing investigations. That includes 15 people charged yesterday for allegedly defrauding more than $90M, much of it from Medicaid, via autism and home health clinics.
In The Know
Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> Two-time NASCAR champion Kyle Busch dies at age 41 after being hospitalized with a severe illness; no cause of death had been given as of this writing (More)
Science & Technology
> Rare exoplanet with earthlike temperatures revealed to have an atmosphere rich in methane, a finding that could deepen astronomers' understanding of Earth’s atmosphere (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Federal arts commission approves President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot-tall, white-and-gold Triumphal Arch near Washington, DC
> Democratic National Committee releases unfinished, 192-page autopsy report it commissioned analyzing the 2024 presidential election failure amid pressure from party members; DNC chair says report includes unverified information (More) | Read the report
In-Depth
> The Monastery That Built an NBA Legend
ESPN | Ramona Shelburne. NBA superstar Victor Wembanyama spent time at a Chinese monastery, meditating, learning kung fu, and (kind of) eating a vegetarian diet. His mentors say the transformation shows on the court. (Read)
Etcetera
Over 65% of species change their behavior when humans are present.
Newly discovered green spider has a smiley face on its back.
Hot-dog-eating champion will be on probation while defending his title.
Sex dates back up to 10 million years earlier than thought.
How Egypt's Great Pyramid was designed to survive earthquakes.
Record 274 people climb Mt. Everest in a single day.
Historybook: (First) first lady of the US Martha Washington dies (1802); The Associated Press is founded (1846); Poet Langston Hughes dies (1967); Supermodel Naomi Campbell born (1970); Manchester Arena bombing kills 22 following Ariana Grande concert (2017).
"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
- Martha Washington
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This day in American Military History
May22
1843 – A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri. Known as the “Great Emigration,” the expedition came two years after the first modest party of settlers made the long, overland journey to Oregon. After leaving Independence, the giant wagon train followed the Sante Fe Trail for some 40 miles and then turned northwest to the Platte River, which it followed along its northern route to Fort Laramie, Wyoming. From there, it traveled on to the Rocky Mountains, which it passed through by way of the broad, level South Pass that led to the basin of the Colorado River. The travelers then went southwest to Fort Bridger, northwest across a divide to Fort Hall on the Snake River, and on to Fort Boise, where they gained supplies for the difficult journey over the Blue Mountains and into Oregon. The Great Emigration finally arrived in October, completing the 2,000-mile journey from Independence in five months. In the next year, four more wagon trains made the journey, and in 1845 the number of emigrants who used the Oregon Trail exceeded 3,000. Travel along the trail gradually declined with the advent of the railroads, and the route was finally abandoned in the 1870s.
1863 – U.S. Grant’s second attack on Vicksburg, Miss., failed and a siege began.
See the MOH LIST BELOW
1912 – First Lieutenant Alfred A. Cunningham, the first Marine officer to be assigned to “duty in connection with aviation” by Major General Commandant William P. Biddle. Cunningham reported for aviation training at the Naval Aviation Camp at Annapolis, Maryland, and Marine aviation had its official beginning.
1943 – Admiral Dontiz orders all U-boat patrols in the north Atlantic to break off operations against the convoys. The submarine losses have grown too high. This decision effectively ends the battle of the Atlantic with an Allied victory. Some boats are moved south to the Caribbean and to waters off the Azores.
1944 – US 5th Army forces continue to advance. The US 2nd Corps (Keyes) advances north along the coast and Route 7. The French Expeditionary Corps
1944 – An American submarine detects the concentration of the Japanese fleet around Tawitawi.
1944 – Japanese forces attack US positions around Aitape. American forces make some withdrawals.
1944 – U.S. and British aircraft begin a systematic bombing raid on railroads in Germany and other parts of northern Europe, called Operation Chattanooga Choo-Choo. The operation is a success; Germany is forced to scramble for laborers, including foreign slave laborers, to repair the widespread damage exacted on its railway network.
1945 – Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS, is captured by a British patrol at Bremervorde, near Hamburg. He initially claimed to be a rural policeman named Heinrich Hitzinger but under interrogation he removed the black eye patch he was wearing and put on his familiar glasses before admitting his true identity.
1945 – President Truman reports to Congress on the Lend-Lease program. He announces that up to March 1945, Britain had received supplies worth $12,775,000,000 and the Soviets $8,409,000,000. Reverse Lend-Lease, mostly from Britain has been worth almost $5,000,000,000 in the same period.
1945 – On Okinawa, American forces enter Yonabaru and capture Conical Hill. Heavy rains begin that hamper offensive operations for the coming weeks.
Remember this one has been going non stop since 1 April and still has about a month to go..skip
1945 – Elements of the US 24th Division reach Tambongan on Mindanao.
1945 – Operation Paperclip begins. United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S. evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1947 – In an effort to fight the spread of Communism, the U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs an act into law that will later be called the Truman Doctrine. The act grants $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, each battling an internal Communist movement.
1947 – The 1st US ballistic missile was fired.
1952 – Major General William K. Harrison succeeded Admiral C. Turner Joy as Senior U.N. Command Delegate for armistice negotiations.
1958 – Naval aircraft F4D-1 Sky Ray sets five world speed-to-climb records.
1969 – In Phubai, South Vietnam, Major General Melvin Zais, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, says his orders were ‘to destroy enemy forces’ in the Ashau valley and Apbia mountain from 10-20 May and says that he did not have any orders to reduce casualties by avoiding battles. Apbia mountain has been dubbed ‘Hamburger Hill’ due to high casualties on both sides. The US military command in Saigon states that the recent battle for Apbia mountain is an integral part of the policy of ‘maximum pressure’ that it has been pursuing for the last six months and confirms that no orders have been received from President Nixon to modify the basic strategy.
1969 – The lunar module of Apollo 10 separated from the command module and flew to within nine miles of the moon’s surface in a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing.
1970 – The White House announces the US is prepared to continue air cover, if needed, for South Vietnamese forces that are considered almost certain to remain in Cambodia after US troops are withdrawn.
1972 – President Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for a summit with Soviet leaders. Although it was Nixon’s first visit to the Soviet Union as president, he had visited Moscow once before–as U.S. vice president. As Eisenhower’s vice president, Nixon made frequent official trips abroad, including a 1959 trip to Moscow to tour the Soviet capital and to attend the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Sokolniki Park. Soon after Vice President Nixon arrived in July 1959, he opened an informal debate with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev about the merits and disadvantages of their governments’ political and economic systems. Known as the “Kitchen Debate” because of a particularly heated exchange between Khrushchev and Nixon that occurred in the kitchen of a model U.S. home at the American fair, the dialogue was a defining moment in the Cold War. Nixon’s second visit to Moscow in May 1972, this time as president, was for a more conciliatory purpose. During a week of summit meetings with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet officials, the United States and the USSR reached a number of agreements, including one that laid the groundwork for a joint space flight in 1975. On May 26, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), the most significant of the agreements reached during the summit. The treaty limited the United States and the USSR to 200 antiballistic missiles each, which were to be divided between two defensive systems. President Nixon returned to the United States on May 30.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
1863 – U.S. Grant’s second attack on Vicksburg, Miss., failed and a siege began.
99 MOH Citations: for Gallantry in the charge of the “volunteer storming party.”
At Vicksberg Miss on 22 May 1863
ALBERT, CHRISTIAN
Rank and organization: Private, Company G, 47th Ohio Infantry. Place and date: At Vicksburg, Miss., 22 May 1863. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio. Date of issue: 10 August 1895. Citation: Gallantry in the charge of the “volunteer storming party.”
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS MANY MOH FOR ONE BATTLE In a losing effort or any effort…… skip
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for May 22, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD “PHIL” MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
22 May
1908: Roy Knabenshue's three-man airship made its first ascent at Toledo, Ohio, with the owner, Charles K. Hamilton, and George Duesler aboard. (24)
1912: 1Lt Alfred A. Cunningham reported for “duty in connection with aviation” to the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He thus became the Marine Corps' first aviator and the fifth in the Navy. As such, today is the birthday of Marine Corps aviation. (10)
1917: Curtiss schools at Newport News and Miami stopped training civilian pilot candidates for Air Service Signal Officers, Reserve Corps. The students were assigned to cadet schools at several universities. (24)
1934: MACKAY TROPHY. Capt Westside T. Larson received the 1933 trophy for developing procedures for instrument takeoffs and landings on land and sea and instrument flying over water. (4) (11) 1941: The Curtiss Hawk 87A Warhawk first flew.
1946: Majs F. T. Caschman and W. E. Zims in a Sikorsky set a 703.6-mile distance record for helicopters. Technicians at White Sands launched the first WAC Corporal E. It was the first US ballistic missile to use a guidance system (a ground-controlled radar system). (6)
1951: KOREAN WAR. In close air support sorties, Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers inflicted some 1,700 casualties on enemy forces, one of the highest daily totals thus far. (28)
1952: KOREAN WAR. Fifth Air Force flew 472 fighter-bomber sorties at the Kijang-ni industrial area near Pyongyang to destroy more than 90 percent of the complex, which produced hand grenades, small arms, and ammunition. (28) An Air Force Aerobee rocket carried two monkeys and two mice to a height of about 38 miles. These astronauts returned to earth safely. (16) (24)
1958: Over a two day period, Maj E. N. LeFaivre (USMC) piloted an F4D-1 at NAMTC Point Mugu to five world records in speed of climb to 3,000, 6,000, 12,000, and 15,000 meters with marks of 44.392, 66.095, 90.025, 111.224, and 156.233 seconds.
1964: Through 5 June, to combat the effects of the volcanic eruptions of Mount Irazu in Costa Rica, eight C-133s and five C-124s airlifted flood control equipment and personnel. (18)
1966: The US Army claimed 21 world records for its OH-6A light observation helicopter. Flights at Edwards AFB resulted in 12 speed records, with three each for distance, climbing, and sustained altitude. The records were submitted to the FAI in Paris.
1967: Two F-111As showed their long-range capabilities by flying from the US to Europe without refueling or external tanks.
1976: TYPHOON PAMELA. Through 15 June, after a typhoon struck Guam, MAC airlifted engineering repair teams and 2,650 tons of cargo, including generators, vans, utility vehicles, and communications equipment to Andersen AFB in 24 C-5, 83 C-141, 3 C-130 and 1 commercial missions. (18) (21)
1990: McDonnell Douglas pilot Larry Walker and Maj Erwin Jenschke landed the NF-15B STOL Maneuvering Technology Demonstrator in 1,650 feet at Edwards AFB. The Pratt and Whitney two-dimensional, thrust-reversing engine nozzles were used to stop the aircraft. (20)
1993: Lt Cmdr Kathryn P. Hire, the Navy’s first woman to be assigned to a combat unit, flew her first mission in a Lockheed P-3C Update III Maritime Patrol Aircraft. (20)
2002: The X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV), designated Blue, flew for the first time at Edwards AFB over an oval shaped track for 14 minutes at 7,500 feet and 195 knots. It was the first unmanned aircraft designed for autonomous combat operations. (3) (21)
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H-Gram 091: 50th Anniversary of the SS Mayaguez Crisis
21 May 2021
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