The FReeper Foxhole Remembers 376th Heavy Bombardment Group (1942-1945)- Nov. 12th, 2003

Remarkable!!

G'morning, SAM!

Thanks, SAM and snippy. Ploesti was the finest hour of the Army Air Forces. The greatest number of Medals of Honor ever awarded in a single engagement to flyers.

G'morning! I'm afraid of planes too. I always was, but 9/11 just made it worse. I was afraid that if I quit concentrating the plane would fall from the sky. Every little noise would freak me out. Hubby would have to explain every whhhhr and creak to me. Now, I think evryone looks suspicious. He is on a trip now; I'll feel better when he calls from his hotel room.

Morning snippy! Guess what? The hobbit lass came home from school with an adopted soldier. Well, his name anyway. Her class adopted a county soldier to send letters and presents to. Last year the school had a drive to send stuff to the guradsmen, but this year they're sponsoring local guys individually. Cool, eh? We're going to get a Christmas stocking and stuff it for him. I sent a note asking the teacher where he was stationed and if he knew his likes, so we can choose well.

Great reading today, SAM. Thanks

Morning Glory Snip & Sam~

Out of the loins of the pregnant 1st Provisional Bomb Group came the 376th Bombardment Group, sired by the now-famous Halpros. It was a lusty, husky, trouble-making, and highly destructive infant.

LOL! What a discription! The personalities of the pilots and crew that flew these "monsters" were a perfect fit.

On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on November 12:
1651 Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primer Sueno)
1790 Letitia Christian Tyler 1st wife of President Tyler
1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)
1817 Bahá'u'lláh (Mirza Husayn Ali) founded Bahá'ís faith
1833 Aleksandr Borodin Russia, composer (Robert LeDiable)
1840 Auguste Rodin France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)
1841 Lord Rayleigh England, physicist/chancellor of Cambridge (1908-14)
1866 Sun Yat-sen father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)
1889 DeWitt Wallace St Paul MN, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)
1903 Jack Oakie Sedalia MO, actor (Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award)
1908 Harry A Blackmun Illinois, Supreme Court justice (1970- )
1912 Alphonse [Tuffy] Leemans NFL fullback (NY Giants)
1914 Roberto Cavanagh Argentina, polo (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 Sylvi Saimo Finland, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1952)
1915 Roland Barthes French literary critic (L'Empire des Signer)
1918 Jo Stafford Coalinga CA, singer (I'll Never Smile Again)
1920 Richard Quine Detroit, actor (Clay Pigeon)
1922 Kim Hunter Detroit MI, actress (Planet of the Apes, Lilith)
1929 Grace Kelly Phil, Monaco princess/actress (Philadelphia Story, Rear Window)
1934 Ann Flood Jamaica NY, actress (As the World Turns, Edge of Night)
1934 Charles Manson [No Name Maddox], Cincinnati OH, criminal (Tate-Labianco)
1935 Jerry Douglas actor (John-Young & Restless)
1937 Ina Balin actress (Danger in Paradise)
1937 Richard H Truly Fayette Miss, Rear Adm USN/astro (STS T-2, T-4, 2, 8)
1939 Lucia Popp Uhorsk Ves Czechoslovakia, soprano (Die Zauberflute)
1943 Brian Hyland Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini)
1945 Al Michaels Brooklyn, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football)
1945 Neil Young Canada, singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
1961 Nadia Comaneci Onesti Romania, gymnast (Oly-gold-1976, 80) (or 11/12)
1967 Charlie Pennaelino Queens NY, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way)
1973 Melanie Gaffin Santa Monica CA, actress (Cheryl-Whiz Kids)
1975 Angela Watson actress (Karen Foster-Step by Step)
1989 Paul Jessup actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)
1989 Ryan Jessup actor (Mikie-Baby Talk)

Deaths which occurred on November 12:
1035 Canute "The Great" King of the Danes (1016-1035), dies at 41
1558 Rabbi Shalom Shakna ben Joseph founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva, dies
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1777 Rev. Benjamin Russen hanged at Tyburn, England for rape
1889 Robert Browning, English poet (Ring & Book), dies at 77
1939 Douglas Fairbanks, actor (Zorro, 3 Musketeers, Robin Hood), dies at 56
1962 Sid Tomack actor (Jim Gillis-Life of Riley, My Friend Irma)
1987 Roger Lewis aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1990 Eve Arden actress (Our Miss Brooks), dies at 82
1971 David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
2000 Actor George Montgomery died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 84.

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 HUNTING PETER M
[REMAINS RETURNED 11/13/65]
1966 FROSIO ROBERT CLARENCE---WARRINGTON FL.
1966 JONES JAMES GRADY---BIRMINGHAM AL.
1967 CAYCE JOHN D.---SAN ANTONIO TX.
1967 ROARK JAMES D.---ABINGDON VA
1969 BODAHL JON KEITH---BOISE ID.
1969 DENNANY JAMES E.---MATTAWAN MI.
1969 HELMICH GERALD ROBERT---MANCHESTER NH.
1969 SMITH HARRY WINFIELD---BATON ROUGE LA.
1969 TUCCI ROBERT L.---DETROIT MI.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
324 -BC- Origin of Era of Alexander
295 Origin of Era of Ascension
607 Boniface III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1098 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara, Syria
1428 Siege of Orléans Begins The siege of Orléans lasted until Joan of Arc persuaded King Charles VII of France to send an army to relieve the city in April.
1474 Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilia & Aragon
1492 A sailor on board the Pinta sighted land early in the morning, and a new era of European exploration and expansion began.
1533 Juan Diego said he saw the Virgin Mary on a hill near Mexico City; Our Lady of Guadalupe became the patron saint of all Latin America by 1910.
1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1792 In Vienna, Ludwig Van Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
1800 Washington DC established as capital of US
1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris). He also designed the garment that bears his name
1873 Bay District Race Track opens
1892 Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1892 Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football
1910 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1915 Britain annexes Gilbert & Ellice Islands
1917 Father Edward J. Flanagan, a thirty-one-year-old Irish priest, founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb A home for troubled and neglected children, and a half-dozen boys enter to seek a better life.
1918 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
1919 Ross & Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1921 Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green
1925 Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo, CA
1927 Trotsky expelled from Soviet CP; Stalin becomes undisputed dictator
1928 British steamer "Vestris" capsizes & sinks off Virginia, kills 110
1931 NHL's Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto, Leafs beat Black Hawks 2-1
1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken
1933 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
1933 Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1936 1st TV Gardening show
1936 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1939 Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands
1940 Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in New York City swap call letters
1944 German battleship "Tirpitz" sunk off Norway
1946 1st driv-up bank window established (Chicago)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released
1947 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yards) vs Chicago Cards
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL
1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
1955 Date returned to in "Back to the Future" & "Back to the Future II"
1955 E Arcaro, E Sande & G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1960 Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1975 Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired after 36 years
1977 Ernest N Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest (Dutch) Morial
1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1980 US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1981 1st balloon crossing of the Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Oakland A's)
1982 Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as Soviet leader
1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 NJ Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1984 Paul McCartney releases "We All Stand Together"
1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1985 STS 61-B vehicle moves to the launch pad
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1989 Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1991 "Full House" 100th episode-The twins are born
2000 A divided U.S. Supreme Court reversed a state court decision for recounts in Florida's contested election, effectively transforming George W. Bush into the president-elect. (The high court agreed, 7-to-2, to reverse the Florida court's order of a state recount and voted 5-to-4 that there was no acceptable procedure by which a timely new recount could take place.)

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Austria : Republic Day (1918)
Bermuda : Rememberance Day
Saudi Arabia : Coronation Day
Taiwan : Sun Yat Sen's Birthday (1866)
Women's Organizations : Elizabeth Cady Stanton Day (1815)
West Germany : Repentance Day (Wednesday)
England : Lord Mayor's Day (Saturday)
US : Operating Room Nurse Week (Day 4)
Aviation History Month

Religious Observances
Old RC : Commemoration of Martin I, pope (649-55)
RC : Memorial of St Josaphat Kuncevyc, bishop/martyr
Ang : Commemoration of Charles Simeon, priest

Religious History
1556 Dutch Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.'
1701 The Carolina Assembly passed a Vestry Act making the Church of England the official religion of the Carolina Colony. (Strong opposition by Quakers and other resident Nonconformists forced the colony's proprietors to revoke their legislation two years later.)
1818 Birth of Henri F. Hemy, English church organist. Of his several original compositions, best known is the tune ST. CATHERINE, to which we commonly sing the hymn, "Faith of Our Fathers."
1899 American evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody, 62, began his last evangelistic campaign in Kansas City, Missouri. Becoming ill during the last service, Moody was unable to complete his message, and died a few days later, on Dec 22.
1954 American Presbyterian missionary Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'Loyalty to organizations and movements has always tended over time to take the place of loyalty to the person of Christ.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."

Question of the day...
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Murphys Law of the day...
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

oddment and exotica fact #98,761...
Des Moines has the highest per capita Jello consumption in the U.S

Good Morning Radu.

Good Morning Snippy

Mash the pic

Morning E.G.C. Got the windows update. Foggy and cool here this morning.

1933 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken

It's an Otter's tail.

Good Morning Mayor.

Thanks aomagrat. Never knew we had a USS NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Good broadside shot.

That had to be something. Seeing those B-24's in low level raids.

HI Feather

Morning Prof Engineer. I guess they just couldn't figure out how to make the B-24 a tail-dragger.

Hi Manna!

Morning SCDogPapa.

You got that right. I've never seen a real live B-24 but I have been on a B-17. How they got 10 men into those planes and have them fly into what they faced is remarkable.

Morning SAM!