The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Ann Story, Ethan Allen & The Green Mountain Boys - July 16th, 2003

http://www.vuhs.org/project/story.htm ^

[manna]

Present!

[snippy_about_it]

Well it was very interesting to see, but three jars of ash were missing they said. LOL.


They showed lots of short films of the blow out and there is a lot of regrowth happening. We will post pictures Friday.

[PhilDragoo]

The Ethan Allen homestead is a historic house museum located in a 284-acre public park. It was part of a 1,000-acre farm where Vermont’s Revolutionary War hero settled with his family.

USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608)

Yo, Friedrich Baum, can your baum do this?

Frigate Bird was the only US test of an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead. This test involved firing a Polaris A2 missile from a ballistic missile submarine. The missile was launched by the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) at 13:18 (local) [6 May 1962 ]from a position 1500 nm east-northeast of Christmas Island. The re-entry vehicle (RV) and warhead flew 1020 nm downrange toward Christmas Island before re-entering the atmosphere 12.5 minutes later, and detonating in an airburst at 11,000 feet. The system tested was a combination of a Polaris A2 SLBM, and a W-47Y1 warhead in a Mk-1 RV. The Mk-1 RV had a beryllium heat-sink heat shield, and with the 717 lb warhead had a gross weight of 900 lb. The missile/RV demonstrated an accuracy on the order of 2200 yards. This warhead had a yield-to-weight ratio of 1.84 kt/kg, but the higher yield Y2 variant tested in Dominic Harlem doubled the yield and nearly doubled tht YTW ratio to 3.61 kt/kg.

This flag was believed to have been carried by Ethan Allens' men during the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, NY in 1775.

A few bars of the above.

Pvt.Abel Pratt

NH, Cont'l Green Mountain Boys at Ticonderoga. In the Quebec, Canada Expedition. Service to 1780. Born 1757. Died 1840 in Edwards. Buried Payne Cemetery.

[SAMWolf]

Evening PhilDragoo.

Thanks for all the info on the USS Ethan Allen.

I like the patch for the 134th Fighter Squadron, must be an older version since it sure wouldn't be PC today.

[PhilDragoo]

From the post:

While being towed to England by a single tugboat through the Bermuda Triangle, she broke tow and disappeared the night of November 6, 1951. No trace of her or the 8 men onboard was ever found.

From another list:

Sold for scrapping 1951, broke tow in storm off Azores 4 Nov 1951, lost without trace.

[There's a two-day worm hole.]

Commemorative Medal of the Royal Visit to Brazil

As a result of an invitation by the Brazilian President, King Albert I and Queen Elisabeth boarded the Brazilian dreadnought "Sao Paulo", the first large vessel to put into a Belgian port after the First World War, on 1 September 1920. After his return to Belgium, King Albert I instituted a bronze commemorative medal on 25 November 1920. Recipients were officers and crew of the "Sao Paulo" as well as Belgian and Brazilian civilians on board the battleship during the voyage.

It should be noted that the crown suspension on this medal is solid and that restrikes are known to exist with an open crown as in the picture below.

Minas Gerais [class sister to Sao Paulo]

Built by Armstrong, Elswick. Laid down 17 April 1907, launched 10 Sept 1908, completed 6 Jan 1910. Overhauled post WWI. Reconstructed 1935-1937, converted to oil fuel, 2 4.7 inch AA added. Sold 1953, scrapped 1954.

Minas Gerais passing under Stevenson's bridge at Newcastle, UK, for final fitting-out at Armstrong's Walker yard. Her tripod mast has been folded down to permit passage under the bridge.

Minas Gerais in 1942.

Note the clock-like dial of the Minas Gerais' Way-Back Machine [at top of tripod mast].

This enabled the Minas Gerais to go forward and backward in time [the like device on Sao Paulo was frozen in the forward position, hence that vessel will reappear in 2051].

Sao Paulo in early 1927 in appearance after overhaul in USA of 1918-1920. Note a range clock picked out below the foretop and rotating rangefinders of American manufacture fitted on the two superimposed turrets.

[For security purposes the Way-Back Machine was disguised as a "range clock". An early black program.]

[PhilDragoo]

SAMs stopped this project.

Per Amy Waters Yarsinske, No One Left Behind: The Commander Michael Scott Speicher Story, a SAM did not stop Speicher.

The most likely source of the air to air missile was an F-15 shooting [a new and still classified AMRAM] at a Mig-25.

The coverups and CYAs and stonewalling would gag a maggot.

Apparently the Mig-25 was developed to get the B-70. Mig Pilot is John Baron's story of Lt. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko defecting to Japan with a Mig-25 September 6, 1976.

[SAMWolf]

LOL! Good stuff Phil.

[SAMWolf]

It'd just make the Speiche story even worse if it ended up that he was shot down in a "friendly fire" incident.

[PhilDragoo]

I'm not finished with the book. The Air Force had loose ROE's and wasn't in the habit of sharing intel with the Navy--so as not to share the glory.

The limited damage and lack of SAM sightings indicates air to air--and the only bandit was the Mig-25 that blew through the squadron of HARM-hauling Hornets.

The Hornets were forbidden to shoot at the Mig--the AWACS said it was bogey not bandit, unidentified not enemy.

Somebody shot--and the rush to classify Speicher as KIA was not based on any evidence.

The book is like running in water in a dream--every ruling is Kafkaesque. Hence, it ain't no quick read--more like eating ground glass.

[SAMWolf]

Makes you wonder if what really happened will ever come out in the maine stream.