Posted on 06/25/2004 12:02:52 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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Good Morning Mayor. Enjoying Aeronaut's sunrise and your coffee today.
On this Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on June 25:
1373 Johanna II, Queen of Naples (1414-35)
1813 William Hugh Keim, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1823 James Dunwody Bulloch, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1901
1852 Antonio Gaud¡ Spanish architect (Sagrada Familia, Barcelona)
1864 Walther Hermann Nernst Prussian physical chemist (Nobel 1920)
1865 Robert Henri US painter, leader of the Ashcan school
1886 Henry (Hap) Arnold commanding general, US Army Air Force in WW II
1887 George Abbott Forestville NY, producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
1894 Hermann Oberth Germany, founded modern astronautics
1900 Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, royal relative
1903 George Orwell England, satirist/author (Animal Farm, 1984)
1907 J Hans D Jensen Germany, physicist (atomic nuclei-Nobel 1963)
1924 Sidney Lumet Phila, director (Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe)
1925 Clifton Chenier blues singer (Bayou Blues, Bon Ton Roulet)
1925 June Lockhart NYC, actr (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction)
1925 Robert Venturi US, architect (Levittown NY, Las Vegas)
1933 Gary Crosby Calif, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase)
1942 Patrick Michael Mitchell Ottawa, one of FBI's most wanted
1942 Willis Reed basketball hall-of-famer center (NY Knicks)
1945 Carly Simon NYC, singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain)
1949 Jimmie Walker Bronx NY, comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease)
1949 Phyllis George-Brown Denton Tx, Miss America (1971)/sportscaster
1963 George Michael England, rocker (Wham-I Want Your Sex)
1963 Mike Myers Canada, comedian (SNL-Wayne's World)
1979 Brandi Lynn Burkhardt, Miss Maryland Teen USA (1997)
That is a beautiful sunrise!
Good morning PE.
< There's none better. :-)
Air Power |
The F-84, conceived as a jet successor to the P-47, was the USAF's first post-war fighter. The prototype's initial flight was on February 28, 1946, and by the time production ceased in 1953, approximately 4,450 "straight-wing" F-84s (in contrast to the swept-wing F-84F) had been built. Many were supplied to allied nations under the Mutual Assistance Program. During its service life, it became the first USAF jet fighter capable of carrying a tactical nuclear weapon. The Thunderjet pioneered aerial refueling for fighter aircraft when aircraft from the 31st Fighter Escort Wing flew nonstop from Turner AFB, Georgia, to the Far East as part of Operation Fox Peter One in 1952.
The Thunderjet earned distinction as the USAF first post WWII fighter and the first single-seat fighter-bomber with nuclear capability. The F-84 gained its reputation during the Korean War where it performed low level interdiction missions. The Thunderjet displayed a wingspan of 36 feet five inches, a height of 12 feet one inch, a length of 38 feet six inches, and a weight of 15,227 pounds. The $212,000 Thunderjet reached a top speed of 620 MPH with a range of 1,485 miles and a top ceiling of 43,240 feet.
The Thunderjet saw extensive use during the Korean War, primarily for ground attack and interdiction missions. Almost daily, the F-84s attacked enemy railroads, bridges, supply depots and troop concentrations with bombs, rockets and napalm.
Under protective cover from the air, U.N. land forces withdrew successfully to a defensive line across Korea south of the 38th Parallel. A new military strategy was then adopted--maintain superiority in the air while inflicting maximum damage to the enemy on the ground, thereby making war so costly that he would request an armistice.
Much of the success of this new strategy depended upon close air support to U.N. troops. Daily, USAF fighters attacked every conceivable type of target on the front lines and in rear areas with machine guns, rockets, high explosive bombs, and fire bombs. At the same time, they pounded the North Korean rail and road networks to isolate Communist troops from their supply sources, attacks so devastating that traffic in North Korea could move only at night.
The first combat use of air-to-air refueling of USAF fighter airplanes took place on May 29, 1952 when twelve F-84E's of the 159th Fighter-Bomber Squadron flew a bombing mission from Itazuke Air Base in Japan against targets at Sariwon, North Korea.
The planes were refueled by KB-29 tankers after they had bombed their targets and were homeward bound. By July 4, 1952, three more of these "Operation Hightide" missions had been flown. The F-84Es had probes sticking out in front of their tip tanks for use with drogues trailing on hoses from the KB-29s.
Specifications:
Contractor: Republic
Purpose: Air support and low-level interdiction missions
Crew: One
Engine: One Allison J35 jet engine with 4,900 lbs. of thrust
Cost: $212,000
Dimensions:
Wing Span: 36 feet, 6 inches
Length: 38 feet, 6 inches
Height: 12 feet, 7 inches
Weight: 15,227 lbs.
Performance:
Maximum speed: 620 mph
Cruising speed: 485 mph
Range: 1,485 miles
Service Ceiling: 43,240 feet
Armaments:
Six .50-caliber machine guns
Eight 5-inch rockets or 2,000 lbs. of bombs
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THE 7TH IS MADE UP OF PHANTOMS - 12/06/63
Written by: Rod Serling
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Cast: Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Randy Boone, Robert Bray, Wayne Mallory, Greg Morris, Jeffrey Morris, Lew Brown
Those of us in the USAF who were fortunate enough not to be stationed in Korea, loved to visit there. Great shopping, great bars, great women. Those who were stationed there were not as fortunate. Blazing hot in the summer, freezing in the winter, raw sewage in the ditches, kimchee (fermented cabbage) everywhere.
Except for the kimchee, you described almost any US overseas military base. ;-)
I dunno. At Shemya, Alaska (Westernmost of the Aleutian islands,) the sewage freezes instantly before it can stink.
I don't even want to know how cold that is. BBRRRRRRRR
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1?file=segment_smith
Task Force Smith:
General MacArthur intended Task Force Smith as "an arrogant display" of American military power. Numbering only 540 troops, most with little training and no combat experience, Task Force Smith was destroyed by NKPA troops who commanded a considerable advantage in numbers and armor.
For the next month, NKPA troops crushed small and inadequately prepared American troops and forced their retreat south. Despite the shocking losses of both men and morale, the U.S. contingent bought sufficient time for a troop buildup around the port of Pusan in the southeastern corner of the peninsula.
Battle of Osan: They told us to get out of there
http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent1?file=smith_osan
Clarence Mehlhaff, 24th Division, 63rd Field Artillery, Camp Okata, Japan
July 5, 1950
Osan
Took us 12 hours to get to Pusan. From Pusan, they put us on flat cars. From there, we left and we went to Taejon. When we got to Taejon, we had to get all of our equipment off the train, off the flat cars, and we had to move the vehicles up the road until we got up the next morning, which was on the 5th of July, to Osan.
That's where we put in two howitzers on the side of the roads, artillery howitzers. Some of us, I believe it was Wilson and myself, with two other guys -- the first sergeant gave us the bags of bazooka shells and the bazooka to go out a couple of hundred yards out in the front to see if and when the tanks were coming and if there was any infantry out there. We spent half a day out there until we got called back. The infantry was coming back at the same time. They told us to get out of there because they couldn't hold three division of North Koreans.
So we came back to a little village which had a school house. We spent the night at the school house. The next day, we moved on to P'yong Tek. That's where the real battle really started, Pyong Tek. We lost ten men the first night; they were FO [forward observer] parties. We moved back, we kept moving back because we couldn't hold them, until we got to the Kung river. We set up there. We were in that position three days, firing our howitzers. I'll tell you, they were hot. Not only the howitzers were hot -- the guys were all hot because the temperature was 120 degrees, and in fox holes and all that. We were there three days.
And then the enemy came across. The infantry could not hold because they had lost so many men already ... All the guys got slaughtered that way. This is why they started after us, being the artillery. We didn't know they were coming at us until it was too late. They hit us on two sides. Like I said, I was a machine gunner that day. I had two other guys with me. It was like an outpost. The guys across, over on the other hill -- it wasn't really a hill, it was just a bank, where the water flowed past the side of them there -- they had a hole dug there to set up their machine gun. That's where they hit those guys over there, when they swept around the whole company. When they hit, it wiped out quite a bit. They hit not only the howitzers; all the ammunition trucks were blowing up at the same time. It killed some of our men, and also it was killing the enemy. Because they really had come in too close. They threw mortars in and they blew up all the trucks. They went through A Battery and B Battery, and Headquarters; part of Headquarters and Service got out better than A and B Batteries. Because they had a better chance of getting out from where they were at.
... Col. Dawson was battalion commander at that time. The day before this happened, he got blood poisoning in his hand or something. They evacuated him, and Col. Dressler took over the battalion. When we got hit, he jumped into a foxhole and there was another corporal that jumped in from his CP right behind him. They both got killed in that battle.
Hi Feather!
she sent Sarah many tapes & DVDs for our wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Hospital arrived yesterday afternoon.
Sarah is taking them today or tommorrow to the day room, when she goes to therapy!!!!!
the wounded GIs will be ESTATIC to have something to watch!!!!
free dixie,sw
she sent Sarah many tapes & DVDs for our wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Hospital arrived yesterday afternoon.
Sarah is taking them today or tommorrow to the day room, when she goes to therapy!!!!!
the wounded GIs will be ESTATIC to have something to watch!!!!
free dixie,sw
she sent Sarah many tapes & DVDs for our wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Hospital arrived yesterday afternoon.
Sarah is taking them today or tommorrow to the day room, when she goes to therapy!!!!!
the wounded GIs will be ESTATIC to have something to watch!!!!
free dixie,sw
she sent Sarah many tapes & DVDs for our wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Hospital arrived yesterday afternoon.
Sarah is taking them today or tommorrow to the day room, when she goes to therapy!!!!!
the wounded GIs will be ESTATIC to have something to watch!!!!
free dixie,sw
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