To All
Good Sunday morning July 5. It is almost clear and a cool 66 now. The clouds are clearing by 9 and we are heating up to 83 by 1
Yesterday was quite a day. Lots going on from President Trump’s speech to fireworks all over .
The entertainment value was high and I hope that you all enjoyed it.
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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
5 July
1801 David G. Farragut is born near Knoxville, Tenn. Known for the quote, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead during the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864, he is appointed vice admiral by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and is commissioned an admiral, the first-ever in the US Navy, by a Congressional Act in 1866.
1814 The sloop-of-war, USS Peacock, captures British vessels HMS Stranger, HMS Venus, HMS Adiona, and HMS Fortitude.
1859 Hawaiian bark Gambia, commanded by Capt. N.C. Brooks, discovers the Midway Islands. The islands are named "Middlebrook Islands." On Aug. 28, 1867, Capt. William Reynolds of the USS Lackawanna takes possession of the atoll for the U.S., making Midway the first offshore islands annexed by the U.S. government.
1862 The Navy Department is reorganized by act of Congress.
1942 USS Growler (SS 215) torpedoes and sinks the Japanese destroyer, Arare, in the Salmon Lagoon, off Kiska. In the attack, USS Growler damages destroyers Kasumi and Shiranui.
1944 USS Thomas (DE 102) and USS Baker (DE 190) from Task Group 22.5, sink German minelayer submarine (U 233) off Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Today in World History July 5
1776 The Declaration of Independence is first printed by John Dunlop in Philadelphia.
1806 A Spanish army repels the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1814 U.S. troops under Jacob Brown defeat a superior British force at Chippewa, Canada.
1832 The German government begins curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.
1839 British naval forces bombard Dingai on Zhoushan Island in China and occupy it.
1863 Federal troops occupy Vicksburg, Mississippi and distribute supplies to the citizens.
1892 Andrew Beard is issued a patent for the rotary engine.
1940 Marshal Henri Petain's Vichy government breaks off diplomatic relations with Great Britain.
1941 German troops reach the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union.
1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, begins.
1944 The Japanese garrison on Numfoor, New Guinea, tries to counterattack but is soon beaten back by U.S. forces.
1950 American forces engage the North Koreans for the first time at Osan, South Korea.
Just a note from 4 July
1942 the 8th Air Force flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British equipment. Only three of the six aircraft return to England. That was just the beginning. The 8th Air Force went on to lose more air crew than all the Marines lost in the Pacific campaign.
On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Réard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Réard dubbed “bikini,” inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week.
European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930s, but only a sliver of the midriff was revealed and the navel was vigilantly covered. In the United States, the modest two-piece made its appearance during World War II, when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material. Meanwhile, in Europe, fortified coastlines and Allied invasions curtailed beach life during the war, and swimsuit development, like everything else non-military, came to a standstill.
In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Réard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the “atom” and advertised it as “the world’s smallest bathing suit.” Réard's swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Réard promoted his creation as “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit.” Réard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll.
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July 5
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
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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. “Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: ‘For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.’”
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Thanks to Boris
The grandest “Dear John” letter in history:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation …
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour.”
Once retired, growing in years and firmly characterized in the “once weres” category, holidays and days off kinda loose something. But some things remain … taking a few minutes over morning coffee sitting out front with the dog and just reflecting on the focus of that particular holiday, be it Memorial Day, Veterans Day or Independence Day.
As a history reader and semi-writer, I have always been intrigued by the intersections of events that come from various sources some revealed years after the event or earlier histories. It’s why I still pick up new books on the long past Vietnam War, But that’s just a note in passing.
For today, the linked history and reflection concerns America’s birthday and the events of Christmas of ’76. Posted in 2010, some reflections:
We celebrate our country’s birthday in the warmth of summer recalling the day we declared our right as free and independent states, the day the signers pledged their lives, fortune and sacred honor, but we would do well to also recall a bitter cold Christmas night, a general and an army that made it so.
Happy Birthday America
Boris
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Thanks to the California Flyover
SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2026
Good Morning! On this day in 1968, The Doors took the stage at the Hollywood Bowl for a concert later hailed as one of their finest, captured on the live album Live at the Bowl '68.
As our nation commemorates its 250th birthday, we’ll be sending out shortened editions through Monday, July 6 so The California Flyover staff can celebrate the holiday with friends and family. Our regular edition will be back on Tuesday.
America just turned 250, and we invited the entire world to the party. For years, the world has been told that this country is angry, divided, and not what it used to be. Then over a million international visitors poured into our cities this summer for the World Cup, and they are seeing something completely different. Late-night Waffle House runs, brisket the size of a small child, and strangers going out of their way to help. A lot of them showed up braced for the worst and instead fell head over heels.
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Los Angeles ⛅ 82°/63° | San Luis Obispo ⛅ 76°/55° | San Francisco ⛅ 65°/56° | San Diego ⛅ 76°/64° | Sacramento ⛅ 87°/55° | Redding 🌩️ 97°/66° | Lake Tahoe ⛅ 73°/43° | San Jose ⛅78°/58° | Fresno ⛅ 100°/63° | Oakland ⛅ 68°/56° | Bakersfield ☀️ 99°/69° | Anaheim ⛅ 82°/63° | Santa Ana ⛅ 81°/65° | Riverside ☀️ 92°/64° | Palm Springs ☀️ 105°/80°
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The whole world came to America for the World Cup this summer, and over a million visitors are discovering why this country is truly one of a kind. (Watch Now)
Bakersfield Hosts California's Only US 250 Tour Stop
Thousands gathered at The Park at River Walk Friday as Bakersfield's Independence Day celebration became California's only stop on the nationwide U.S. 250 Tour honoring America's 250th anniversary.
The free event featured live music, historical reenactors, family activities, an interactive Benjamin Franklin hologram, and Freedom Village before the city's annual fireworks show lit up the night.
The coast-to-coast tour will visit all 50 states for America’s semiquincentennial, making Bakersfield one of the first communities in the nation to join the celebration.
California Rower Makes History
California adventurer Kelsey Pfendler has become the fastest solo rower to complete the journey from California to Hawaii, arriving on Oʻahu after 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes while also becoming the youngest person to cross the mid-Pacific Ocean alone.
Pfendler departed from Monterey in May and captured millions of views after a U.S. Coast Guard crew surprised her with a rendition of "Happy Birthday" during her 32nd birthday at sea.
Her record-breaking voyage capped a more than 2,400-mile crossing, marking a historic milestone in solo ocean rowing.
➤ Corning: A 7-year-old girl is recovering after a pack of dogs severely mauled her, prompting emergency surgery and an investigation that led authorities to seize six dogs. (More)
➤ Folsom: A skydiver carrying a giant American flag crashed after the flag caught in a tree during the Folsom Pro Rodeo but escaped injury and returned to jump again the next night. (See Video)
➤ Elk Grove: Federal agents arrested a 19-year-old TikToker accused of threatening to target power infrastructure on the Fourth of July after investigators linked him to a broader terrorism investigation.
➤ Shafter: Former ballet instructor and dance studio owner, Barbara Crettol, reflects on the dance studio that shaped generations of local students, inspired by a family legacy of military service, and community. (More)
➤ Central Coast: The California Highway Patrol is recruiting new officers for Central Coast assignments, offering starting salaries above $122,000, with higher pay available for applicants with college degrees. (More)
➤ Pismo Beach: Thousands celebrated Independence Day with one of the Central Coast's largest Fourth of July gatherings, filling the beach for fireworks and a weekend of holiday festivities. (More)
➤ San Marcos: Two homeowners are challenging their HOA after being ordered to remove American flags they've displayed for decades, arguing federal and California law protect their right to fly them. (More)
➤ Southern California: Comfortable temperatures and clearing skies are expected across Southern California through today, with warmer weather forecast to arrive starting tomorrow. (More)
➤ Palm Springs: The Palm Springs Air Museum celebrated Independence Day with a historic flyover, family activities, and a tribute marking 250 years of friendship between the United States and France.
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This Day in US Military History
JULY 5
1861 – The first large-scale engagement of the Civil War is fought in southwestern Missouri, signaling an escalation in the hostilities between the North and South. Missouri was the scene of some of the most bitter partisan fighting during the war. After the clash at Fort Sumter in April, the state was deeply divided. The Missouri State Guardsmen, a force of 6,000 men commanded by Confederate Governor Claiborne Jackson and Colonel Sterling Price, were poorly equipped and outfitted mostly in civilian clothing. Their Union counterpart was a force of 1,100, mostly German-Americans from St. Louis, commanded by General Franz Sigel. Sigel’s force occupied Springfield in late June, and then collided with the Confederates at nearby Carthage on July 5. Outnumbered, Sigel eventually withdrew, but was able to hold off several small attacks. By nightfall, the Union troops had retreated through Carthage and escaped a dangerous trap. Both sides declared victory, and losses were light: 13 Union men were killed and 31 were wounded, while 40 Confederates were killed and 120 were wounded. The forces remained in the area of Springfield, gathering strength over the next month. They would fight again in August at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri.
1943 – US invasion fleet (96 ships) sailed to Sicily.
1943 – On New Georgia, American force of regimental strength lands in the north at Rice Anchorage. Fighting on the Zanana-Munda track continues. During the night (July 5-6) Japanese destroyers bring nearly 3000 more troops to Vila. Admiral Ainsworth, with 3 cruisers and 4 destroyers, engages elements of the Japanese force and sinks one destroyer while losing the cruiser Helena.
1944 – The Japanese garrison on Numfoor, New Guinea, tried to counterattack but was soon beaten back by U.S. forces.
1944 – Elements of US 1st Army capture La Haye du Puits.
1945 – It is announced that General Spaatz will lead the US Strategic Air Force in the campaign against Japan.
1945 – Britain and the United States recognize a new Polish government of National Unity. Mikolajczyk, former leader of the London based Polish government in exile, is one of the deputy premiers.
1945 – US General Douglas MacArthur announced that the liberation of the Philippines from its Japanese occupiers was complete.
1946 – French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Reard dubbed “bikini,” inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week. European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930s, but only a sliver of the midriff was revealed and the navel was vigilantly covered. In the United States, the modest two-piece made its appearance during World War II, when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material. Meanwhile, in Europe, fortified coastlines and Allied invasions curtailed beach life during the war, and swimsuit development, like everything else non-military, came to a standstill. In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the “atom” and advertised it as “the world’s smallest bathing suit.” Reard’s swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Reard promoted his creation as “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit.” Reard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll. In planning the debut of his new swimsuit, Reard had trouble finding a professional model who would deign to wear the scandalously skimpy two-piece. So he turned to Micheline Bernardini, an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, who had no qualms about appearing nearly nude in public. As an allusion to the headlines that he knew his swimsuit would generate, he printed newspaper type across the suit that Bernardini modeled on July 5 at the Piscine Molitor. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters. Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. Spain and Italy passed measures prohibiting bikinis on public beaches but later capitulated to the changing times when the swimsuit grew into a mainstay of European beaches in the 1950s. Reard’s business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn’t a genuine bikini “unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.” In prudish America, the bikini was successfully resisted until the early 1960s, when a new emphasis on youthful liberation brought the swimsuit en masse to U.S. beaches. It was immortalized by the pop singer Brian Hyland, who sang “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini” in 1960, by the teenage “beach blanket” movies of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, and by the California surfing culture celebrated by rock groups like the Beach Boys. Since then, the popularity of the bikini has hardly diminished; though on beaches in Brazil and the Mediterranean today, many women favor the “monokini,” a swimsuit style that consists solely of a bikini bottom.
1952 – Kentucky’s 623rd Field Artillery Battalion, armed with eighteen 155mm towed howitzers, moves into this area in support of X Corps in holding operations against Communist Chinese assaults. During this period it will earn a Republic of Korea Unit Citation for its fire support of South Korea troops in repelling an enemy assault. In October the battalion, the last Guard artillery unit deployed to Korea, will see hard fighting and earns a Navy Unit Commendation embroidered PANMUNJOM for firing missions in support of the 1st Marine Division. The unit served again overseas in Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
1954 – The B-52A bomber made its maiden flight.
2000 – Coast Guard HH-65A CGNR 6539 rescued 51 persons from a burning oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The aircrew responded to the fire and safely airlifted 15 people to a nearby platform nine miles from the fire. They then evacuated another 36 people to awaiting boats. One of the 6539’s crew had landed on the platform to coordinate the rescue. As the helicopter returned to retrieve him, the rig exploded and sent a fireball 100 feet into the air. Unsure whether he survived, the 6539 flew into the thick, black column of smoke and safely rescued him. All four aircrew were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day There were none awarded
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for July 5, FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THANKS TO HAROLD “PHIL” MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
5 July
1911: The Chief Signal Officer approved the first flight form (Form N.277). Subsequently, the Army's Aviation School at Augusta inaugurated its use. (24)
1912: Capt Charles DeForest Chandler, Lts Thomas DeWitt Milling, and Lt Henry H. Arnold became the first qualified “Military Aviators.” They received their badges on 6 October. (11) (24)
1938: Richard C. DuPont set US glider altitude record of 6,806 feet at Elmira.
1943: The first turbo jet engine developed for the Navy, the Westinghouse 19A, completed its 100-hour endurance test. (24)
1944: Harry Crosby, company pilot, flew the Northrop MX-324, the first US rocket-powered aircraft, for the first time at Harper Dry Lake, Calif. (20)
1952: World record of 124 parachute jumps in one day set at Grand Prairie, Tx., by paratrooper Neal Stewart of Birmingham, Ala. (24)
1962: Flying from Hill AFB to Springfield, Minn., Capt Chester R. Radcliffe, Jr., piloted a H-43B Huskie to a world’s distance records of 900 miles. (24)
1970: Boeing received the first contract for the new AWACS that would serve as a combat direction center for ADC. (16) (26)
1974: The 555 TFS moved without personnel or equipment from Udorn RTAFB to Luke AFB to become the first F-15 Eagle squadron in the USAF. (16) (26)
1993: Through 12 July, AMC moved 334 US Army soldiers and 850 short tons of equipment from Germany to Macedonia on 15 C-5, 2 C-141, and 3 C-130 missions to help the UN prevent the spread of fighting in the former Yugoslavia. (16) (26)
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