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rWotD Episode 2855: 55th Air Refueling Squadron Welcome to Random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia’s vast and varied content, one random article at a time.The random article for Wednesday, 26 February 2025 is 55th Air Refueling Squadron.The 55th Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It formerly operated both the combat crew training school and central flight instructor course for Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma.The squadron's first predecessor was the 755th Bombardment Squadron, which was first activated in July 1943. After training with Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations, where it participated in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. Following V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States, where it began training with Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, but was inactivated in October 1945.The 55th Air Refueling Squadron was activated in 1950 as a Boeing KB-29 air refueling unit. It flew these early tankers until inactivating in 1954. The squadron was again activated in 1955 with Boeing KC-97 tankers, primarily supporting the Boeing B-47 Stratojets of the 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing. It was again inactivated in 1963. The squadron was activated in the training role at Altus in 1994, continuing its mission until inactivating in 2009.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:00 UTC on Wednesday, 26 February 2025.For the full current version of the article, see 55th Air Refueling Squadron on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm long-form Ruth.

Este es el relato de la última misión de la tripulación del Memphis Belle, un Boeing B-17 que en mayo de 1943 se convirtió en el primer bombardero pesado fuerzas aéreas del ejército de Estados Unidos para completar 25 misiones sobre Europa y regresar a los Estados Unidos. La película de color de 16 mm llena de dramáticas batallas reales fue realizada por tres directores de fotografía, incluyendo el primer teniente Harold J. Tannenbaum. Tannebaum, un veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial, que murió en acción durante el rodaje sobre Francia el 16 de abril, 1943. La película fue dirigida por el Mayor William Wyler, narrada por Eugene Kern, y tenía escenas en su estación, RAF Bassingbourn, fotografiada por el director de fotografía de Hollywood, capitán William H. Clothier. Se hizo bajo los auspicios de la First Motion Picture Unit, parte de las Fuerzas Aéreas del Ejército de Estados Unidos. La película en realidad representa la penúltima misión de la tripulación, el 15 de mayo de 1943, y fue hecho como una inspiración moral de la capacidad para el frente interno, mostrando el valor de los hombres que tripulaban estos bombarderos.

"Masters Of The Air" premiered on Apple TV+ at the beginning of the year, earning strong reviews for its storytelling, performances, and incredible craftsmanship, rightfully earning its place alongside the legendary WWII miniseries "Band of Brothers" (2001) and "The Pacific" (2010). Based on the 2007 book by Donald L. Miller, the show follows the actions of the 100th Bomb Group, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber unit in the Eighth Air Force in eastern England during World War II. Actor Callum Turner, who plays Major John "Bucky" Egan, Visual Effects Supervisor Xavier Matia Bernasconi, and Virtual Production Executive Steve Jelly were all kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their work on the show. Please be sure to check out the limited series, which is available to stream in full on Apple TV+ and is up for your consideration in all Emmy categories. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taylor reviews the war drama miniseries, Masters of the Air, which was created by John Shiban and John Orloff for Apple TV+. It is based on the 2007 book of the same name by Donald L. Miller and follows the actions of the 100th Bomb Group, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber unit in the Eighth Air Force in eastern England during World War II. The series recounts the story of the 100th Bomb Group during World War II and follows bomber crews on dangerous missions to destroy targets inside German-occupied Europe. The show portrays the intensity of war, the dangers that the airmen face, and the friendships and relationships that develop. The series stars Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Barry Keoghan, Nikolai Kinski, Sawyer Spielberg and Stephen Campbell Moore. Follow us on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepotentialpodcast/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thepotentialpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/thepotentialpodSupport us on Patreon:patreon.com/thepotentialpodcastThanks to our sponsor: BetterHelp BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of therapy with BetterHelp by going to https://betterhelp.com/potential ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The oldest Boeing B-52 Stratoforetress in the world, 52-0003 "The High and Mighty One", has just been lovingly restored at the Pima Air and Space Museum and is now on public display once again. On our recent visit, Matt and aircraft designer Joe Wilding (who is also a fabulous Damcasteer on Patreon) were allowed to crawl around the aircraft and check out the time capsule that is the X-15 Mothership.Get the latest from the Pima Air and Space Museum through the links below:★Visit the Pima Air and Space Museum's website here: https://pimaair.org/★Learn more about the Titan Missile Museum here: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/★Find out who is in the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame here: https://pimaair.org/about-us/arizona-aviation-hall-of-fame/★Want to know how the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum is progressing? Find out more here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/★Become a Damcasteer today on Patreon! Join from just £3+VAT a month to get ad-free episodes, chat with Matt and grab some merch. Click here for more info: https://www.patreon.com/thedamcastersThe Damcasters © 2024 by Matt Bone is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Derrick Beeler, David Rowe and Dave Gorman cover The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress..... Topics discussed: The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress..... Bloopers Leave a voicemail or text feedback for The History Of Aviation Podcast @ 615-813-5180 Email audio or recoded feedback for The History Of Aviation Podcast @ hoapod1@gamil.com Links mentioned in this episode: https://history-of-aviation-podcast.zencast.website/ https://www.instagram.com/historyofaviationpodcast/ https://twitter.com/HistoryOfAVIAT https://www.facebook.com/Historyofaviationpodcast https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81736430 David Rowe's Website: https://www.aerowephile.com/ This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Masters of the Air est désormais terminée ! Dans ce second volet, Simon Desplanque revient sur la manière dont l'USAAF est sortie de l'impasse dans laquelle elle se trouvait mi-1943 avant de dresser un bilan de l'efficacité des opérations de bombardements stratégiques. Il revient ensuite sur le quotidien des équipages de bombardiers B-17 et B-24 et propose une analyse critique de la dernière série co-réalisée par Tom Hanks et Steven Spielberg.Avec Simon DesplanqueSuivez le podcast ! Il est désormais sur X/Twitter : @20MPC_podcast ainsi que sur Instagram : @20mpc_podcast  Générique : Léopold Corbion (15 Years of Reflection)Bibliographique indicativeBernard, Vincent, "Bombardements alliés sur l'Allemagne : Instruments de la victoire ou ravageurs inutiles?", Aérojournal, n°70, avril/mai 2019, pp. 66-77."Boeing B-17 Fortress, 1935-1942 : du Pacifique à l'Europe", Aérojournal, hors-série n°15, juillet-août 2013"Boeing B-17 Fortress, 1943-1945 : The Mighty Eight", Aérojournal, hors-série n°18, juillet-août 2014Pons, Grégory, 8th Air Force : les groupes de bombardiers lourds américains en Angleterre de 1942 à 1945, Paris : Histoire et Collections, 2006.Military Aviation History et Rex's Hangar : deux chaînes YouTube consacrées à l'histoire de l'aviationHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

No hay que esperar hasta la aparición de los artefactos atómicos para que se forme esta idea en los estados mayores de las principales potencias, sino que ya en la Primera Guerra Mundial se intentó y teorizó el bombardeo pesado a ciudades como una forma de disuasión. También en los años 30, fieles a la visión de Giulio Douhet, las potencias se dotaron de flotas de bombarderos que en teoría podían destruir la capital del enemigo, creando una derrota psicológica en la retaguardia que haría que el estado bombardeado cayese moralmente de una forma en que no tuviesen más remedio que rendirse. Pero en la 2GM, las ciudades en Europa fueron bombardeadas y no caía la moral, y el pueblo resistía a pesar de los bombardeos de día y de noche a Londres o a Berlín. El gran avance fue la de la construcción del entonces bombardero super-pesado Boeing B-29, que probó su valía arrasando ciudades japonesas, y creando enormes torbellinos de fuego que quemaban todo a su paso. El arte de destruir y matar masivamente evolucionaba como arma disuasoria, pero todavía quedaba por llegar la madre de todas las bombas: Little Boy en Hiroshima, y Fat Man en Nagasaki. Te lo cuenta el Gran Esaú Rodríguez y Dani CarAn que hace las dramatizaciones. 🔗 Enlaces para Listas de Episodios Exclusivos para 💥 FANS 👉 CB FANS 💥 https://bit.ly/CBPListCBFans 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS Antes de la 2GM https://bit.ly/CBPListHis1 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS 2ª Guerra Mundial https://bit.ly/CBPListHis2 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS Guerra Fría https://bit.ly/CBPListHis3 👉 Histórico 📂 FANS Después de la G Fría https://bit.ly/CBPListHis4 Casus Belli Podcast pertenece a 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte de 📀 Ivoox Originals. 📚 Zeppelin Books (Digital) y 📚 DCA Editor (Físico) http://zeppelinbooks.com son sellos editoriales de la 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Estamos en: 🆕 WhatsApp https://bit.ly/CasusBelliWhatsApp 👉 X/Twitter https://twitter.com/CasusBelliPod 👉 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉 Instagram estamos https://www.instagram.com/casusbellipodcast 👉 Telegram Canal https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👉 Telegram Grupo de Chat https://t.me/casusbellipod 📺 YouTube https://bit.ly/casusbelliyoutube 👉 TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@casusbelli10 👉 https://podcastcasusbelli.com 👨💻Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/casusbellipod ⚛️ El logotipo de Casus Belli Podcasdt y el resto de la Factoría Casus Belli están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎵 La música incluida en el programa es Ready for the war de Marc Corominas Pujadó bajo licencia CC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ El resto de música es bajo licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o SGAE SGAE RRDD/4/1074/1012 de Ivoox. 📧¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com ¿Quieres anunciarte en este podcast, patrocinar un episodio o una serie? Hazlo a través de 👉 https://www.advoices.com/casus-belli-podcast-historia Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Ce vendredi 15 mars marquera la diffusion du dernier épisode de la série Masters of the Air. Présentée comme la suite de Band of Brothers et The Pacific, celle-ci revient sur le quotidien des membres de la 8th Air Force qui, entre 1942 et 1945, étaient chargés de frapper, en Allemagne et dans le reste de l'Europe occupée, des installations cruciales pour l'effort de guerre nazi, en application de la doctrine du bombardement stratégique. En quoi consistait cette dernière ? Dans quelle mesure ces raids ont-ils été efficaces ? Avec quelles conséquences pour les populations civiles ? Et quel était le quotidien de ces équipages ? Autant de points sur lesquels Simon Desplanque revient dans cette fresque en deux épisodes consacrée au corps d'armée US le plus meurtri de toute la Seconde Guerre mondiale.Avec Simon DesplanqueSuivez le podcast ! Il est désormais sur X/Twitter : @20MPC_podcast ainsi que sur Instagram : @20mpc_podcast  Générique : Léopold Corbion (15 Years of Reflection)Bibliographique indicativeBernard, Vincent, "Bombardements alliés sur l'Allemagne : Instruments de la victoire ou ravageurs inutiles?", Aérojournal, n°70, avril/mai 2019, pp. 66-77."Boeing B-17 Fortress, 1935-1942 : du Pacifique à l'Europe", Aérojournal, hors-série n°15, juillet-août 2013"Boeing B-17 Fortress, 1943-1945 : The Mighty Eight", Aérojournal, hors-série n°18, juillet-août 2014Pons, Grégory, 8th Air Force : les groupes de bombardiers lourds américains en Angleterre de 1942 à 1945, Paris : Histoire et Collections, 2006.Military Aviation History et Rex's Hangar : deux chaînes YouTube consacrées à l'histoire de l'aviationHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

In this episode, we visit the American Air Museum at Duxford for a hotly contested debate: which was the best WW2 heavy bomber?Was it the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress or was it the Consolidated B-24 Liberator?The museum is home to the biggest collection of American military aircraft on public display outside the USA.And it is the only place in the UK where you can stand side by side between a Fortress and a Liberator.We discuss the merits – and sometimes fatal flaws – of both iconic planes with museum curator Dr Hattie Hearn.We debate their armaments, their bomb loads – and the ability of each aircraft to successfully complete a mission and return home.And we find out what it was like for the crew during combat – including inside the ball turret.The museum stands as a memorial to the 30,000 American servicemen and women who died while flying from Britain between 1942 and 1945.Their names appear on a special digital Roll of Honour, which draws names and photographs from the museum archive into the exhibition space. Please do subscribe to the Mighty Eighth Podcast wherever you listen to your podcasts – and if you like what you hear, please do leave us a review.To contact Johann and Mike, please email johann@ruralcity.co.uk.You can also contact us via our website at www.mighty8thpodcast.com and on X at www.twitter.com/mighty8thpod.With very special thanks to the American Air Museum for welcoming us and allowing us to record this episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Convair B-58 Hustler is regarded as one of the USAF's missteps in strategic bomber design from the 1950s and 60s. The claims that it was expensive and dangerous to fly led to its removal from service in the 1970s in favour of the Boeing B-52. But is that really the case? Former B-58 Navigator/Bombardier Col. Geroge Holt Jr. Rtd. joins us to reflect on his time on the Hustler and do some well-needed myth-busting.★You can buy George's book, The B-58 Blunder: How the U.S. Abandoned its Best Strategic Bomber, at Amazon.★US Link: https://www.amazon.com/B-58-Blunder-Abandoned-Strategic-Bomber/dp/B0BSJJPKXF/ ★UK Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/B-58-Blunder-Abandoned-Strategic-Bomber/dp/0692478817 ★Fancy becoming a Damcasteer? Join the fun on Patreon! Join from just £3+VAT a month to get ad-free episodes, chat with Matt and grab some merch. Click here below for more info: https://www.patreon.com/thedamcastersPlease check out the latest from our sponsor, the Pima Air and Space Museum, through the links below:★Visit the Pima Air and Space Museum's website here: https://pimaair.org/★Learn more about the Titan Missle Museum here: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/★Find out who is in the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame here: https://pimaair.org/about-us/arizona-aviation-hall-of-fame/★Want to know how the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum is progressing? Find out more here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/The Damcasters © 2022 by Matt Bone is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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On Friday October 4th, 1957 the U.S. received confirmation of the USSR's launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial earth orbiting satellite. It was a polished metal sphere twenty-three inches in diameter with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. Its radio signal was easily detectable by amateur radio operators. Its sixty-five degree orbital inclination gave it a flight path that completely covered all parts of the inhabited earth. While traveling at peak speed, the satellite took 96.20 minutes to complete each orbit. It transmitted on the bandwidth of roughly twenty and forty megahertz. These signals were monitored throughout the world and continued for twenty-one days until the transmitter's batteries died on October 26th. The satellite's success was unanticipated by the U.S., setting the space Race into orbit as part of the Cold War. That same day, Bring Crosby signed on with The Ford Road Show for five minutes over CBS, announced by Ken Carpenter. The next Wednesday, October 9th, The Lovell Telescope was activated in Cheshire, England, while a Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber crashed in Orlando, Florida killing all four military officers on board. On October 10th, a nuclear reactor fire on the north-west coast of England released radioactive material into the air, as President Eisenhower hosted breakfast at the White House with Ghanese minister to France, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, who'd been recently refused at a Howard Johnson's in Delaware because of his race. The next day an IBM computer at MIT Computation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts calculated the last stage of the R-7 Semyorka rocket that carried Sputnik 1. On Saturday October 12th, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, arrived in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, for a royal visit. On the fourteenth, the Queen opened the Canadian Parliament, the first monarch to do so.

This week, Derrick Beeler, David Rowe and Dave Gorman cover The Eurocopter MH-65 Dolphin and The Boeing B-29 Superfortress DOC arrival at McGhee Tyson Airport........ Topics discussed: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress DOC arrival at McGhee Tyson Airport. The Eurocopter MH-65 Dolphin. Leave a voicemail or text feedback for The History Of Aviation Podcast @ 615-813-5180 Email audio or recoded feedback for The History Of Aviation Podcast @ hoapod1@gamil.com Links mentioned in this episode: https://history-of-aviation-podcast.zencast.website/ https://www.instagram.com/historyofaviationpodcast/ https://twitter.com/HistoryOfAVIAT https://www.facebook.com/Historyofaviationpodcast https://www.patreon.com/user?u=81736430 David Rowe's Website: https://www.aerowephile.com/ This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

Did you know that a Boeing B-50 Superfortress once discarded an atomic bomb over the St. Lawrence River? Strap in for an enlightening discussion that questions the adequacy of our governing bodies, stresses the importance of transparency, and underscores the crucial role of oversight in society.In todays episode, we share a  riveting tale of a 1950s broken arrow incident awaits you, as we uncover the details of this chilling event that was shrouded in secrecy by US and Canadian officials for over three decades. Our guide for todays nugget of wisdom is Hampton Sides' superb account of the Korean War in On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest BattleKey Points from the Episode:We shine a spotlight on the shocking frequency of such incidents, with 32 recorded since the 1950s, raising critical questions about the safety and security of those who fall within the shadows of these decisions. We also cast a critical gaze on the state of Congressional oversight. Can we truly say there is any? With a robust defense that seems to border on opacity, we question the lack of transparency and the secrets that remained buried for over 30 years. Listen in as we probe into the happenings three decades later and whether lessons have been drawn from these harrowing events. Other resources: Almanac of Broken Arrow eventsMore goodnessGet your FREE Academy Review here!Want to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bumps**, we appreciate it greatly, thank you so much!Because we care what you think about what we think and our website, please email David@teammojoacademy.com, or if you want to leave us a quick FREE, painless voicemail, we would appreciate that as well.

In this episode we are joined by 99-year-old Lester Kappel. He worked for Pan Am during World War II beginning in early 1942 until mid 1946. He was stationed for the majority of World War II in Casablanca with the African-Orient division of Pan Am under the Air Transport Command. Lester provides a unique perspective of what it was like to be working for the airline during wartime in support of Allied forces that utilized Pan Am's vast global network and resources making it a vital lifeline of resupply. He began his time with Pan Am as one of the airline's esteemed mechanics and worked exclusively in 1942 on the celebrated Boeing B-314 Flying Boats and then later expanded his skills during the war to the engines of land-based planes. Lester was at the airport and saw President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plane when he came to Casablanca in January of 1943 to meet with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Watch the Pan Am 1945 post-war film called, Clippers at War, to learn more about the airline's contribution to the war effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvElNiAsC_YAfter leaving Pan Am after the war, Lester Kappel worked in the family printing business for 30 years, while also serving as a volunteer firefighter on Long Island beginning in 1958.In the 1980s, he sold the company and began working for the local library where he worked for over 30 years up until recently. During Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Lester literally did not stop helping his Long Island neighbors until he was dehydrated and had to be taken to the hospital.Today, Lester is revered by family, friends, library patrons, and firefighters alike. He is a great supporter of the Pan Am Museum and has donated items that are proudly on display in our public exhibits.Visit Us for more Pan Am History! Support the Podcast!Donate to the Museum!Visit The Hangar online store for Pan Am gear!Become a Member! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!--------------------A very special thanks to Mr. Adam Aron, Chairman and CEO of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., and  Pan Am Brands for their continued and unwavering support! 

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Last time we spoke about the landing at Amchitka and the invasion of the Russell Islands. The Aleutian island campaign saw a lot of action when the allies decided to investigate whether Amchitka island would be suitable for a new airfield and what the Japanese intentions were with it. A race began between the two, but it would be the Americans who would seize the island and begin the process of building up an airfield upon it. Then over in the south Pacific, the Japanese had finished up Operation KE and with it had used and abandoned the Russell Islands. The allies quickly launched an invasion of the islands prompting the Japanese to send some air raids, but all for naught. Now with the Russells in hand, the Americans had a launching point to attack New Georgia. Yet today we are going to jump into one of the major naval battles of 1943. This episode is the battle of the Bismarck Sea. Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  Last time we were in New Guinea the forces of Brigadier Moten had arrived in the nick of time to save Wau from the main Japanese thrust.The Australians were pouring reinforcements and supplies via transport aircraft daily. On January 31st 35 aircraft had made 71 trips, the next day 40 aircraft made 53 trips. This allowed the Kanga force to increase to 3000 men and receive heavy equipment necessary to smash the Japanese. Facing larger numbers and possible encirclement, Major General Toru Okabe had to order his men to withdraw. With that order came the lost hope of capturing Wau it seemed. By February the 1st, Moten had 201 officers and 2965 soldiers of all ranks at his disposal. He began sending patrols across the Black Cat trail and the Jap trail. He quickly surmised the Japanese threat was strongest in the Crystal Creek area where they had established a headquarters The Australians neutralized the crystal Creek area and began pushing the Japanese towards Mubo. By late February the Australians controlled the area from Waipali to Buibaining and a large part of the Mubo valley. Nerve wrecking patrols set off multiple ambushes and skirmishes for countless days. The Australian high command could only authorize such limited activity as they did not yet possess sufficient numbers to undertake further major offensive operations. Moten was awarded a bar to his distinguished service order for “his high order of leadership and control at Wau”. While the Australians were tossing all they could via aerial transport, the Japanese attempted to thwart this. Aerial strikes were sent to hit the airstrip at Wau, but the typically terrible New Guinea weather hampered the Japanese. Aircraft dispatch from Rabaul were unable to locate Wau through the torrential weather and would return back without any success. Then on February 6th, 8 P-39's of the 40th fighter Squadron were escorting 5 Dakota transports incoming to Wau when they sighted 24 Japanese aircraft. Captain Thomas Winburn led the P-39s to engage the enemy claiming to have downed 11 Zeros and a Sally. Simultaneously 8 P-40's of the 7th fighter squadron were escorts other Dakota's inbound for Wau when they sighed 12 Japanese bombers attempted to bomb the airstrip. The Dakota's were turned back at the last second as the P-40's engaged the bombers claiming to have downed 7 aircraft. On the ground at the airstrip in Wau were 4 Dakota's while 5 circled its skies hoping to land after the combat was over. Second Lt Robert Schwensen was circling around in his Dakota and was shot down by a Japanese bomber, he alongside 4 other crew died. Another grounded Dakota was damaged and a CAC Wirraway was destroyed by a bomber. The increased aerial pressure prompted Major General Ennis Whitehead over in Port Moresby to order 3 squadrons to join the battle for Wau's skies. P-38's of the 39th and 9th fighter squadrons and P-40's of the 41st fighter Squadron intercepted a Japanese fighters and bombers claiming to have shot down over 23 aircraft. The Japanese were decisively losing the war of the skies, showcasing the limitations of their offensive capabilities in the area. Now while the Japanese surprise attack against Wau had failed and they had been pushed back heavily, all was not lost for the Japanese. They still held some high ground around Waipali and Guadagasal. Yet in order to turn things around, Major General Toru Okabe would require significant reinforcements to defeat Moten's 17th Brigade. Things were extremely chaotic at this time for the Japanese high command. The battle for guadalcanal collapsed, leading to Operation KE which involved a major shuffling of troops all over the place. They first ordered Lt General Jusei Aoki's 20th division to depart Korea for Guadalcanal and for Lt General Heisuke Abe's 41st division to depart China for Rabaul. Lt General Hitoshi Imamura commander of the Japanese 8th area army at Rabaul ordered Lt General Hatazo Adachi's 18th army to secure Wewak, Tuluvu and Madang in New Guinea. Adachi was the one who ordered Major General Toru Okabe, commander of the 51st division and the 102nd infantry regiment to capture Wau in order to further secure Lae and Salamaua. However with the conclusion of Operation KE, the focus was reshifted from the Solomons to New Guinea. General Imamura and Vice admiral Gunichi Mikawa, the commander of the south east area fleet developed a plan to move the 18th army HQ and the rest of the main body of the 51st division from Rabaul to Lae. They would also follow this up by moving the remaining forces of the 20th division to Madang. The first movement was set for the 3rd of march and the second for march 10th. It was to be a very risky plan, as the allies held aerial supremacy. The 18th army held some war games indicated the operation would lose around 4 out of 10 transports and upto 40 aircraft. They believed the operation stood a 50/50 chance of success and there were limited alternatives. If they tried to land all the forces simply at Madang, the men would have to march over 230 km's over swamplands, mountains and jungle terrain. It seems the Japanese were beginning to acknowledge their lack of success at logistics as this course of action was deemed impossible.  Over on the Australian side, General MacKay sent word to Blamey that he feared the Japanese would make a second attempt to capture Wau. He reasoned that even with the projected arrival of reinforcements in the form of the 4th and 15th brigades, they would still be outnumbered by the Japanese. MacKay estimated the Japanese held around 7500 men in the Lae-Salamaua area while they held onto their position in the Mubo region. Because of this, he had restricted activity to patrolling to not allow for any gaps allowing an opening against Wau so that more men could be brought over for its defense. Despite the enormous success in transporting men to the area, supply continued to be a major issue. There was a major increase in the number of aircraft at the Dobodura airfields thanks to the capture of Buna allowing for men and materials to be tossed to Wau, but in early February General Whiteheads confided to MacKay that 2 of his squadrons of 18 aircraft were pressed to their limits and the bad weather was greatly reducing their ability to deliver the men and supplies. Whitehead predicted, correctly that the bad weather would continue for the next 6 weeks, which left typically 2 hour windows for the deliveries per day. Attempting to improve the situation General Blamey had begun the construction of a Jeep trail all the way back in January from Bulldog to Way. But during the process the surveyors quickly discovered the terrain was extremely formidable and the job would take many months. Native carriers performed the lionshare of work as the 68 mile trail would end up taking 4 months to complete. Now during the campaign for Buna-Gona, the allies owed much of their success largely due to their control of the air, and this as we can see at Wau continued to be a vital factor. The Japanese of course held their large air and naval base at Rabaul and since the early days of the war remained an ongoing threat to air and sea supremacy in the region. Blanche Bay in Rabaul provided the Japanese with one of the best natural harbors in the south pacific. It is encircled by hills, is around 6 miles long and 2 and one half miles wide. It alongside 3 other harbors provided an anchorage for a large body of ships, as many as 60 by some accounts. The Japanese had built up the harbors and their defenses to more than 300 antiaircraft guns. By the fall of 1943 the Japanese had almost 100,000 men stationed at Rabaul, the vast majority being army troopers. The Southern fleet force had around 21,000 men under the command of Vice admiral Jinichi Kusaka. Air strength at Rabaul depending on reinforcements provided by the combined fleet, but in early 1943 they held a significant enough number to pose a major threat to the allied operations, if utilized properly. General MacArthur was deeply concerned about Rabaul, despite having the number in theory to negate its threat. MacArthur consistently pushed for an invasion of eastern New Britain in early 1943 and disagreed on using airpower to negate Rebaul. Then during the bloody campaign against Buna-Gona he declared the decision to bypass Rabaul would “go down in history as one of times greatest military mistakes”. THEN later on he would agree that bypassing Rabaul was a good strategy and that it had largely been done because of his advisement. Basically what I am saying is MacArthur is full of shit and more worried about his autobiographies that actual decisions. Regardless of that, MacArthurs early suggestions indicated Rabaul was vitally important and needed to be neutralized. This is sort of a no brainer as you can imagine, it was one of Japan's largest naval air force bases covering all major operations in the eastern and central solomons. Fortunately for the allies there was no unified command at Rabaul. As we all know the IJA and IJN did not get along very well and Rabaul's operations is a great example of it. The IJA had fewer aircraft based regularly at Rabaul although its responsibility was to cover New Guinea. Throughout 1943 the IJN's air forces were primarily concerning themselves with the Solomons, which would eventually see them losing nearly 400 aircraft and irreplaceable pilots for all their efforts. Because of the catastrophe of the Guadalcanal campaign, Rabaul was largely neutralized by US bombers from the solomons. By mid February Imamura and Kusaka recognized the need to reinforce Lae. They had sent a 3 ship convoy on the 19th which went unmolested to Wewak and this emboldened them to brave the allied aerial supremacy. Thus on February 28th a convoy of 16 ships commanded by Rear Admiral Masatomi Kamura departed Rabaul. 6 transports, a oil tanker and their destroyer escorts would be combat loaded so that supplies and the men could be off loaded quickly to minimize turnaround time. Almost 7000 men, mostly from the 115th regiment of the 51st division and some SNLF were crowded onto the transports guarded by an escort force of 8 destroyers. Lt General Hatazo Adachi and his staff were on board accompanied by Lt General Hidemitsu Nakano and his staff. The planned route was to go along the northern coast of New Britain through the Bismarck Sea, to Cape Gloucester and then through the Vitiaz strait to the Huon Gulf. The Japanese commanders believed their movement would be masked by the terrible weather.  Allied command began detecting signs of a major convoy operation in early february. On february 14th aerial photographs taken over Rabaul indicating over 79 vessels at port, including 45 merchant ships and 6 transports. It was clear to allied command a convoy was going to be dispatched, but its destination was unknown. Two days later naval codebreakers at FRUMEL in Melbourne and Washington DC decyphered some coded messages revealing the Japanese were going to send the convoy to Wewak, Madany and Lae. Other intercepted coded messages from the Japanese 11th air fleet to the convoy indicated they would reach Lae by March the 5th or by latest 12th. Another aerial reconnaissance over Rabaul on the 22nd indicated 59 merchant vessels were at harbor. Kenney read the Ultra intelligence to General MacArthur on the 25th and the prospect of 7000 Japanese being landed at Lae certainly disturbed him. Kenney then sent word to Whitehead of the proposed convoy date and warned him the Japanese would most likely perform a pre-convoy aerial strike. Kenney urged he cut back on the transport hours so the aircraft could be made ready the moment the convoy appeared. Kenney would fly over to Port Moresby on the 26th to speak to Whitehead personally and the two generals concluded the Japanese convoy was going to go through the Vitiaz strait.  Now in the south west pacific conventional strategic bombing was not really on the menu as industrial targets in Japan were obviously too far away. Thus since the early days of the way, the primary mission of the allied bomber force in the region was to intercept Japanese supply lines, particularly their sea lanes. Some 416 sorties were flown in January of 1943, resulting in only 2 ships sunk and 3 ships damaged, clearly the allied tactics needed revamping. Captain Bill Garing of the RAAF, part of Kenney's staff, held considerable experience in air to sea operations and he began to recommend that Japanese convoys should be met with simultaneous attacks from different altitudes and directions. This led allied air force brains to come up with some innovative tactics. In February of 1942 the RAAF began experimenting with “skip bombing”. Skip bombing was an anti-ship technique used primarily by the British and Germans in the atlantic. It involved flying ones aircraft just a dozen feet above the sea level towards a target whereupon bombers would release their bombs, which ideally would ricochet across the surface of the water to hit the sides of the ships or explode overhead, IE “skipping”. If you play world of warships, you know exactly what I am talking about, nasty stuff. Another similar technique involved bombs taking a low altitude between 200-500 feet and dropping around mast height, approximately 10-15 feet and 600 yards from their target, IE “Mast height bombing”. This when performed well would see the bombs smash into the sides of a ship. These two techniques paired with slow fuse bombs would see considerable use in an event we are about to jump into. Now Kimura envisioned, by taking the route along the northern coast, that this would put enough distance between the convoy and allied reconnaissance aircraft until they reached Vitiaz strait. Kimura took the destroyer Shirayuki as his flagship to command the operation. Destroyer Tokitsukaze would carry General Adachi and destroyer Yukikaze would carry General Nakano. The idea was that upon arrival at Lae the ships would anchor 600 or so meters apart along the shoreline due west of the airfield around the mouth of the Busu river. They would use a smoke screen to cover the anchorage to make their unloading activity to hinder aerial attacks as well. A escort of 40 IJN and 6 IJA aircraft would provide aerial protection for the convoy from 5am to 6pm each day it operated.  General Blamey wrote “every effort will be made by our own air force to deal with the enemy as he approaches”. Thus Generals Blamey and MacArthur tossed the job to General Kenney, the commander of allied air forces. Kenney had at his disposal the RAAF under air vice marshall William Bostock and the 5th air force led by Brigadier general Ennis Whitehead. In total 154 fighters, 34 light bombers, 41 medium bombers and 39 heavy bombers available for combat operations in New Guinea. The 5th air force was subdivided into two commands: the V fighter command  led by Brigadier General Paul Wurtsmith consisting of 95 fighters, some P-39's, P-38's and P-40s. Then there was V bomber command led by Brigadier General Howard Ramey which had 28 worn out B-26's, 27 B-25's, 55 B-17's and 60 B-24's. Alongside this Kenney and Whitehead had at their disposal the 3rd attack groups of light bombers, nicknamed the Grim Reapers which included a squadron of A-20 Bostons equipped with 4 .50 caliber guns and long range fuel tanks. You see the A-20 Bostons usually were equipped with .30 caliber machine guns and could not fly across the Owen stanley range from Port Moresby, but Kenney was very keen on the “attack aviation” concept which focused on using low-level strafing and bombing methods. Alongside the grim reapers was 2 squadrons of B-25's that had been modified by Major Paul Pappy Gunn, the same man who had altered the Grim reapers. The B-25's had their lower turrets and tail guns removed and instead had 4 .50 caliber machine guns installed in the nose and another 4 in the forward firing chin blisters. With the top turret firing its guns forward, the aircraft boasted an extraordinary strafing firepower and on top of that still carried 6 100 pound bombs and 60 23 pound fragmentation bombs. The fragmentation bombs were outfitted with small parachutes so they could be used for low-level bombing of airfield without damaging the aircraft trying to drop them. Honestly try to imagine this goliath beast firing those .50 cals, would have been like torrential rain of lead.  All of these modifications would allow aircraft like the B-25 to be much more capable of pulling off the masthead bombing technique without the need for a bombardier, which ironically was in opposition to their original role of carrying out bombardier assisted missions from altitude. The Australians could also count on the support of the No. 9 Group led by Captain William Garing consisting of 59 fighters, 26 light medium bombers and 2 heavy bombers; the no 73 wing of Hudson bombers, P-40 Kittyhawks and Beaufort bombers operating at Port Moresby and the no 71 Wing of Wirraways, A-20's and Beaufighters operating out of Milne Bay. So needless to say a lot of allied airpower was on hand. Now as I had mentioned prior, allied attempts to hit Japanese shipping, particularly that coming out of Rabaul had not shown much results in the past. So in order to increase the success of hitting this convoy, Garing persuaded Whitehead to rehearse a plan for the attacks, integrating all available aircraft. This specifically included performing the bomb skipping a masthead bombing techniques. Garing's idea was to get all the aircraft to gather over Cape Ward Hunt at 9:30am so they could get themselves over the enemy convoy by 10am all at once to completely overwhelm the enemy escorting aircraft and anti-aircraft defenses. Two rehearsals were carried out, with the 2nd one turning out to be “damn good”.   On March the first at 2am the Convoy departed Rabaul. The convoy slowly made its way across the Bismarck Sea undetected as for the past two days major tropical storms had been occurring since February the 27th. However on March the 1st there was a clearing and a crew of patrolling B-24 Liberators managed to spot the convoy. They reported the sighting, prompting a dispatch of 8 B-17 to be sent to the location, but they failed to relocate the convoy. The Destroyer Tokitsukaze then intercepted an allied message stating their convoy had been spotted. This prompted Kimura to put the forces on full alert. General Adachi who was onboard the Tokitsukaze was uncensored by the report stating it was all part of the plan. His reasoning was that the allies were always going to find them, but with the terrible weather it would be unlikely they could manage to perform a decent attack.   At dawn on march the 2nd, a force of 6 RAAF A-20 Bostons coming out of Ward's Strip at Port Moresby performed an air strike against Lae to hinder its use to the fighter escorts for the convoy. At 10am another B-24 liberator found the convoy, prompting another order for 8 B-17's to be sent to attack. They would soon be followed up an hour later by a group of 20 B-17's. The B-17's planned to rendezvous with some P-38's of the 9th fighter squadron, but they arrived too early to the convoy's location and thus had to face the Japanese escort fighters on their own until the P-38's eventually arrived to the scene. The first group of 8 B-17's made their runs at the convoys through anti-aircraft fire and Zero fighters. They dropped 1000 lb bombs from 5000 feet claiming 5 critical bomb hits and sinking 3 merchant ships. The Kyokusei Maru was hit and sunk carrying 1200 IJA troops. The second group of B-17's then showed up and luckily for them, 12 P-38's had managed to haul it quickly enough to escort them in the nick of time to make their bombing runs. The B-17's claimed to have sunk 4 enemy ships, but in reality only damaged two transports, the Teiyo Maru and Nojima. 8 Japanese fighters were shot down with 13 others damaged at the cost of 9 B-17's damaged in return. While the Kyokusei Maru was sinking, the destroyers Asagumo and Yukikaze managed to rescue 950 troops out of the water alongside 2 mountain guns. Because destroyers are fast, the two ships opted detach from the convoy and haul it over to Lae to drop off the survivors before trying to regroup to reperform their escort duties. The survivors and General Nakano would be brought to Lae by the end of the day and the two destroyers turned around to rejoin the convoy by daybreak. Throughout the rest of the day the convoy would be subjected to multiple heavy bomber attacks. 11 B-18s made an evening strike inflicting minor damage to another transport. The days efforts saw the convoy zigzagging to save its life from high level bombing and this led it to be stretched out for 20km. Rather bizarrely, the Japanese fighter escorts showed little aggression towards the American heavy bombers and departed rather early from the days action. During the night PBY Catalina's from the No 11 RAAF squadron began shadowing the convoy. One PBY flown by Flight Lt Terry Duigan received a message from HQ to shadow the convoy in order to guide a strike of torpedo bombers, which did not make sense, so he discarded it. However the message as he would later find out, was not necessarily for him, but rather to trick the enemy. The allied intelligence officers back at HQ were certain the Japanese were listening in on their radio traffic so they began sending false messages. Early the next day, Admiral Kimura made what would be a disastrous decision, ordering his ships to mark the time and circle in the dark. This process cost the convoy 2 hours of night cover and the reasons behind the decision are quite unknown. It is theorized Kimura was trying to make sure his convoy would appear to the destination at the same time their fighter escort would show up for the daily activity. In any case, Kimura's convoy would not see their escort nor stormy weather at sunrise to their dismay. Sunrise on march the 3rd saw a beautiful sunny day, a terrible omen. The convoy was now within striking distance of Milne Bay and 8 Bristol Beaufort Torpedo bombers of the No 100 RAAF squadron took off at 4am. Only 2 Beauforts would make it to the convoy and fail to cause any damage. The Japanese commanders however were now alerted by the presence of torpedo bombers, so they began maneuvers, turning the beam of their ships to the enemy aircraft, exposing the full length of their ships to strafing.    At 5:10am, 4 Australian A-20's performed an airstrike against Lae, catching several grounded planes that were needed to escort the convoy. At 8:30am, a striking force of 90 aircraft consisting of a squadron of B-17's, 4 squadrons of B-25's including some grim reapers, a squadron of Beaufighters, a squadron of A-20's and 2 squadrons of P-38 lightnings. The striking group departed Port Moresby and headed for Cape Ward Hunt while 22 A-20 Bostons of No 22 RAAF squadron attacked Lae to reduce the convoys air cover. The striking group took up their practiced formation with the B-17's leading the echelon at 7000 feet, the B-25's behind them at 4000 feet, the Beaufighters at 500 feet, some other B-25's designated to perform low level bombing at around 700 feet and the P-38 lightings hanging above at 12,000 feet.   At 10am, 13 B-17s reached the convoy first and began bombing them from 7000 feet causing the convoy to zigzag, dispersing their formation and reducing the concentration of their anti-aircraft fire considerably. The B-17's attracted the Zero fighter escort, but were quickly pounced upon by the P-38 lightnings. One B-17 was shot apart by a Zero and its crew took to parachuting. The parachuting men were fired upon by Zero fighters and when they hit the water some Zero's continued to strafe them. Although the B-17's inflicted no damage, 7 Zero's would be shot down by the P-38s reducing the convoy's protection.   Meanwhile the Beaufighters were coming in just above the waves making it look like they were Beaufort torpedo bombers. Admiral Kimura ordered his ships to maneuver so their beams were towards the enemy expecting torpedo runs and this exposed his ships to the Beaufighters strafing runs. The Australian pilots began to open up with their 6 .303 machine guns and 4 20mm Hispano cannons. The combination unleashed a carnage seeing rivers of fire erupt across the lengths of the ships. Some vessels were stopped dead in the water as a result of their officers being cut down to pieces across their bridges. Much of the convoys anti-aircraft positions were destroyed by the strafing. After the first strafing run, B-17's and B-25s began to make their bombing runs rather unexpectedly, leaving the BEaufighters scrambling to flying as the bombs were literally falling down around them. Out of 37 bombs dropped by the 90th attack Squadron Grim reapers, 17 were claimed as direct hits. 12 A-20 bostons from the 89th bomb squadron claim while performing low level bombing that 11 out of 20 bombs made hits. The B-25's of the 405th bomb squadron dropped 35 500 lb bombs from low level and claimed 4 direct hits, these bombs had 5 second delay fuses. The bombing runs caused massive chaos amongst the convoy, so much so that pilots claimed to have seen 2 japanese vessel collide into another. The modified grim reappears strafed the convoy during all of the runs. A squadron leader named Brian Blackjack Waler recalled this “I was observing it from the side and all these ships - honestly, I've never seen anything like it. Dozens of planes all going in at zero feet. In fact, I could see a Beaufighter and a B-25 both going in at the same target and I thought, get out one of you!” The assortment of differing aircraft were coming in at all sorts of angles and all sorts of altitudes, many low.    Garrett Middlebrook, a co-pilot in one of the B-25s, described the ferocity of the strafing attacks: “They went in and hit this troop ship. What I saw looked like little sticks, maybe a foot long or something like that, or splinters flying up off the deck of ship; they'd fly all around ... and twist crazily in the air and fall out in the water. Then I realized what I was watching were human beings. I was watching hundreds of those Japanese just blown off the deck by those machine guns. They just splintered around the air like sticks in a whirlwind and they'd fall in the water.” The Shirayuki was the first ship to be hit, by a combination of strafing and bombing attacks. Just about all of the men on her bridge were strafed, including Kimura who was wounded. She received a bomb hit that stated a magazine explosion breaking her stern off and causing her to sink. Her crew transferred to the Shikinami as the Shirayuki was scuttled. The Tokitsukaze was hit fatally and her crew had to abandon her. The Arashio was strafed violently causing her to collide with the transport Nojima disabling both ships. Both ships would be abandoned as the allies strafed and bombed them sinking Nojima eventually. The remaining destroyers struggled to save survivors in the water.   By 10:15, all 7 of the transports had been hit and we're sinking 100km's southeast of Finschhafen. After midway a second series of attacks were made by B-17's and A-20's who strafed and bombed the Asashio while she was trying to rescue survivors. The 4 remaining destroyers withdrew up the Vitiaz strait and were joined by the destroyer Hatsuyuki coming from Long Island. The Hatsuyuki and Uranami brought 2700 survivors back to Rabaul while the 3 other destroyers continued picking up survivors and would eventually bring them to Kavieng by march 5th. During the night of march 3rd, a force of 10 PT boats led by Lt Commander Barry Atkins made an attempt to finish off the convoy alongside some B-17's and Beaufighters. 2 of the PT boats hit submerged debris and were turned back, but the other 8 continued and arrived off Lae in the early hours of March 4th. Atkins spotted a fire that turned out to be the transport Oigawa Maru. Pt-143 and PT-150 fired torpedoes at it, further crippling and eventually sinking the transport. The Asashio was hit by a B-17 with a 500 bomb bomb as she was grabbing survivors and sunk. Amongst the 4 surviving destroyers it would only be the Yikikaze that went undamaged. The PT boats and allied aircraft attacked the Japanese rescue vessels and survivors clinging to rafts or floating in the sea. The decision to attack the survivors was highly unpopular amongst the pilots and sailors but was deemed necessary on the grounds the rescued Japanese were most likely going to be landed for military duty if not attacked.  One Japanese survivor wrote in his diary of the ordeal “The Boeing B-17 is most terrifying. We are repeating the failure of Guadalcanal. Most regrettable!” Many allied pilots were sicked by these actions.   One pilot recalled "as per instructions, we flew around to see if some ships were still afloat. Some were sinking and burning--we san a lifeboat with about 20 people. I thought these poor guys. But we had a job to do because if they got to shore, they were going to kill our guys. So I came around and strafed them. One of the cruel things of war which had to be done"   Another pilot recounted this “At the briefing, Australian officer had told us we must not permit a single enemy to reach the shores of New Guinea. They explained the suffering, agony, and loss by our troops in having to hunt down and kill a suicidal Jap”. It is estimated around 352 Japanese troops were killed during these attacks adding to the 2890 casualties suffered during the battle. Another 224 survivors in the water would be rescued by the I-17 and I-26 shuffled over to various nearby islands such as Goodenough island. Of the 116 Japanese that would be landed on Goodenough island, 72 would be killed with 42 captured and 2 missing.   Officials at the Advanced air echelon at Port Moresby went through the claims of their pilots and sailors and believed a great number of ships had been destroyed. Their conclusion was that 12 transports, 3 cruisers and 7 destroyers had been sunk, which MacArthur readily believed, although a report would later come out to claim the number was actually 4 destroyers and 8 transports. Later the Japanese would admit that 3000 soldiers had been killed during the battle, but this did not count the hundreds of sailors lost on the ships, nor the pilots in the aircraft. MacArthur would make a commendation on march the 4th for all the air force units in New Guinea stating “it cannot fail to go down in history as one of the most complete and annihilating combats of all time. My pride and satisfaction in you is boundless” Kenney added to it stating “tell the whole gang that I am so proud of them I am about to blow a fuse”. MacArthur would also at the offset claim they had caused 15,000 enemy casualties describing the battle as a decisive aerial engagement for the southwest pacific theater. And it certainly was a decisive victory, it was a devastating loss for Japan that showcased Japan was no longer capable of being on the offensive. I will finish off the tale of the battle of the Bismarck sea with a account from Reiji Masuda, a crewman aboard the destroyer Arashio, as it leaves a vivid and harrowing account of the attack.   They would come in on you at low altitude, and they'd skip bombs across the water like you'd throw a stone. That's how they bombed us. All seven of the remaining transports were enveloped in flames. Their masts tumbled down, their bridges flew to pieces, the ammunition they were carrying was hit, and whole ships blew up. . . . They hit us amidships. B-17s, fighters, skip-bombers, and torpedo bombers. On our side, we were madly firing, but we had no chance to beat them off. Our bridge was hit by two five-hundred-pound bombs. Nobody could have survived. The captain, the chief navigator, the gunnery and torpedo chiefs, and the chief medical officer were all killed in action. The chief navigator's blackened body was hanging there, all alone. Then a second air attack came in. We were hit by thirty shells from port to starboard. The ship shook violently. Bullet fragments and shrapnel made it look like a beehive. All the steam pipes burst. The ship became boiling hot. We tried to abandon ship, but planes flying almost as low as the masts sprayed us with machine-guns. Hands were shot off, stomachs blown open. Most of the crew were murdered or wounded there. Hundreds were swimming in the ocean. Nobody was there to rescue them. They were wiped out, carried away by a strong current running at roughly four or five knots. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The battle of the Bismarck sea proved the Japanese were indeed incapable of being on the offensive, the allies were now in the driving seat. It also showcased war produces wild innovations that can prove quite deadly. 

Let's welcome a new program to the podcast, Ceiling Unlimited. Two episodes; 1) Flying Fortress -- aired November 11, 1942; 2) Air Transport Command -- November 16, 1942.Flying Fortress --about the Boeing B-17 bomber. Air Transport Command -- the story of cargo transport is revealed through the conversation of three elderly veterans.: : : : :My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- DRAMA X THEATER -- SCI FI x HORROR -- COMEDY x FUNNY HA HA -- VARIETY X ARMED FORCES.Subscribing is free and you'll receive new post notifications. Also, if you have a moment, please give a 4-5 star rating and/or write a 1-2 sentence positive review on your preferred service -- that would help me a lot.Thank you for your support.https://otr.duane.media | Instagram @duane.otr

A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra were participating in the Air Force's Wings Over Dallas air show when they collided mid-air.This accident brings up the importance of good situational awareness and maintaining an effective lookout.Support the showEmail: info@trentrobinsonaviation.com.au Facebook: http://www.facebook.com.au/trentrobinsonaviation Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trent_robinson_aviation YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flighttrainingaustraliaPodcast Episodes: http://www.flighttrainingaustralia.com.au

Tane Casserley is our guest today on the Outdoor Adventure Series. Tane is a Research, Resource Protection, and Permitting Coordinator at the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and Mallows Bay - Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. He is responsible for developing programs to address commercial and recreational uses in and around the sanctuaries.Tane has led NOAA archaeological expeditions in the Florida Keys, the Great Lakes, California, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, and USS Monitor. He's participated in projects including a sunken Boeing B-29 Superfortress in Lake Mead, a Civil War blockade runner in Bermuda, USS Arizona, and was most recently part of an expedition to RMS Titanic. Tane's projects have used technical diving, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and manned submersibles.Topics We Discussed The 2022 telepresence expedition to USS Monitor and helping to create VR video experiences at both Monitor and Mallows Bay.Reaching new and diverse audiences? Using shipwrecks like the Monitor or the Ghost Fleet wrecks at Mallows Bay as a gateway to discuss larger topics like marine habitat and climate change.Aha MomentSeeing that both an 80-year-old and an 8-year-old's eyes light up when you share an interesting piece of information about the sanctuary.Insight2goA quote from the documentary, Descendant, a documentary on the slave ship Clotilda, "I don't want the momentum of the story just to be focused on the ship; it's not all about that ship."Media & Resourceshttps://3d-shipwreck-data-viewer-noaa.hub.arcgis.com/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article261885685.htmlhttps://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article261885685.htmlNext Steps To learn more about the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and Mallows Bay - Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary, visit their websites at https://monitor.noaa.gov/  and https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/mallows-potomac/Click here to learn more and plan your visit to, The Mariners' Museum and Park.Click here to learn more and plan your visits to the North Carolina Aquariums, including Roanoke Island, and the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum - HatterasClick here to learn more about the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.The Outdoor Adventure Series is a Podcast Production of Fox Coaching, Inc. 

Fotograf Jakub Vaněk umí fotografovat letadla nejenom ze země, ale také ze vzduchu. Říká se tomu odborně Air2Air neboli z letadla do letadla. Jeho neslavnější fotografie dvou míjejících se letadel z roku 2006 si prohlédlo na zahraničních webech přes 700 tisíc lidí. „Když se člověk dostane na palubu tankovacích letadel, tak může fotografovat i neviditelná letadla,“ popisuje fotograf, který fotil například bombardér Boeing B-17.Všechny díly podcastu Host Lucie Výborné můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.

Welcome to the forty-fourth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! We are fast approaching 15,000 downloads! The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress may have the distinction of flying and fighting for 100 years. The military continues adding new equipment and missions to a platform created for the nuclear Cold War of the 1960s. Colonel Chris "Chico" Anderson joins the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast telling us how the B-52 BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fellow in polite company) continues to be one of the most potent and relevant aircraft in the US Air Force inventory. Chico tells us about Close Air Support and Joint Fires developed on the fly over Afghanistan to Hurricane Relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. Southern Command has now added another mission to the BUFF because of the sensors onboard... a laser-targeting pod hunting drug runners! This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is supported by the book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit. Fuel is a weapon! Tanker Pilot gives a behind-the-scenes view of planning and executing global air operations from nuclear alert missions in the Cold War to passing over 417 MILLION pounds of jet fuel in the 2003 Shock and Awe campaign over Iraq. Tanker Pilot allows this show to keep going so buy a copy available in all four formats on Amazon: hardback, softback, Kindle, and Audible. On a recent show with MH-47 Chinook pilot Alan Mack, he mentioned his book RAZOR 03: A Nightstalker's Wars would be published soon. RAZOR 03 is OUT and available on Amazon!  Thanks for downloading and listening to this and previous episodes of the show, found on my website at markhasara.com. Please share all episodes with your family and friends, a new episode is posted every week. On next week's show, we discuss adversary tactics and training with one of the world's experts who flew Russian MiG-21s and MiG-23s in the US Air Force out of Area 51... the world-famous 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Red Eagles! Thanks for downloading and listening to Lessons from the Cockpit and we'll talk to you next week! 

Welcome to the forty-fourth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! We are fast approaching 15,000 downloads! The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress may have the distinction of flying and fighting for 100 years. The military continues adding new equipment and missions to a platform created for the nuclear Cold War of the 1960s. Colonel Chris "Chico" Anderson joins the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast telling us how the B-52 BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fellow in polite company) continues to be one of the most potent and relevant aircraft in the US Air Force inventory. Chico tells us about Close Air Support and Joint Fires developed on the fly over Afghanistan to Hurricane Relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. Southern Command has now added another mission to the BUFF because of the sensors onboard... a laser-targeting pod hunting drug runners! This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is supported by the book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit. Fuel is a weapon! Tanker Pilot gives a behind-the-scenes view of planning and executing global air operations from nuclear alert missions in the Cold War to passing over 417 MILLION pounds of jet fuel in the 2003 Shock and Awe campaign over Iraq. Tanker Pilot allows this show to keep going so buy a copy available in all four formats on Amazon: hardback, softback, Kindle, and Audible. On a recent show with MH-47 Chinook pilot Alan Mack, he mentioned his book RAZOR 03: A Nightstalker's Wars would be published soon. RAZOR 03 is OUT and available on Amazon! Thanks for downloading and listening to this and previous episodes of the show, found on my website at markhasara.com. Please share all episodes with your family and friends, a new episode is posted every week. On next week's show, we discuss adversary tactics and training with one of the world's experts who flew Russian MiG-21s and MiG-23s in the US Air Force out of Area 51... the world-famous 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Red Eagles! Thanks for downloading and listening to Lessons from the Cockpit and we'll talk to you next week!

Welcome to the forty-fourth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! We are fast approaching 15,000 downloads! The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress may have the distinction of flying and fighting for 100 years. The military continues adding new equipment and missions to a platform created for the nuclear Cold War of the 1960s. Colonel Chris "Chico" Anderson joins the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast telling us how the B-52 BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fellow in polite company) continues to be one of the most potent and relevant aircraft in the US Air Force inventory. Chico tells us about Close Air Support and Joint Fires developed on the fly over Afghanistan to Hurricane Relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. Southern Command has now added another mission to the BUFF because of the sensors onboard... a laser-targeting pod hunting drug runners! This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit is supported by the book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit. Fuel is a weapon! Tanker Pilot gives a behind-the-scenes view of planning and executing global air operations from nuclear alert missions in the Cold War to passing over 417 MILLION pounds of jet fuel in the 2003 Shock and Awe campaign over Iraq. Tanker Pilot allows this show to keep going so buy a copy available in all four formats on Amazon: hardback, softback, Kindle, and Audible. On a recent show with MH-47 Chinook pilot Alan Mack, he mentioned his book RAZOR 03: A Nightstalker's Wars would be published soon. RAZOR 03 is OUT and available on Amazon!  Thanks for downloading and listening to this and previous episodes of the show, found on my website at markhasara.com. Please share all episodes with your family and friends, a new episode is posted every week. On next week's show, we discuss adversary tactics and training with one of the world's experts who flew Russian MiG-21s and MiG-23s in the US Air Force out of Area 51... the world-famous 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron Red Eagles! Thanks for downloading and listening to Lessons from the Cockpit and we'll talk to you next week! 

B-29 był najpotężniejszym, użytym na polu walki, bombowcem II wojny światowej. Jego zaawansowanie techniczne i możliwości operacyjne były poniekąd emanacją zdolności amerykańskiego przemysłu. B-29 użyto w walce przeciwko Japonii, oraz, o czym mniej się pamięta, Tajlandii (która była Japonii sprzymierzeńcem). Trudno znaleźć w historii wojen przypadek równie potężnej oraz skutecznej projekcji siły, jaką zwłaszcza w 1945 roku zaprezentowały te bombowce nad Japonią. Kulminacją pożogi, śmierci i zniszczenia, jaką niosły ze sobą B-29, stało się jedyne jak do tej pory użycie na polu walki broni nuklearnej. Jeżeli podoba Ci się odcinek możesz nas wesprzeć w serwisie Patronite.pl:

On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city. This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Great Tokyo Air Raid in Japan. Bombs dropped from 279 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers burned out much of eastern Tokyo. More than 90,000 and possibly over 100,000 Japanese people were killed, mostly civilians, and one million were left homeless, making it the most destructive single air attack in human history. The Japanese air and civil defenses proved largely inadequate; 14 American aircraft and 96 airmen were lost. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945) License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0;

In 1943, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was flying from Oregon to Nebraska and, when it wasn't heard from it was presumed lost. Search and rescue efforts commenced in several mountain ranges in Wyoming before a couple of cowboys found the shiny metal wreckage in the Big Horns. The mountain was renamed in honor of the wreckage's salvage. HOST Deborah Cobb (debbie@cobbwebb.media) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/w5podcast/support

On February 2, 1960, a group of college students decided to stage a sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were tired of not being served just because of the color of their skin, and they wanted to make a statement without violence. It was an important moment in the fight for desegregation. What else was being reported on that day? SOURCES “Advertisement: Smell-O-Vision (Page 2).” Mirror News (Los Angeles, California), February 2, 1960. www.newspapers.com. Associated Press. “B-52 Crash Kills Seven Crewmen.” Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, New Mexico), February 2, 1960. www.newspapers.com. Associated Press. “Woman Thought Drowned Is Object Of Hunt.” The Fresno Bee (Fresno, California), February 2, 1960. www.newspapers.com. “Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, March 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress. Brantley, Bill. “Hartford City Classroom Slayer Ends Life With Murder Weapon.” The Muncie Star (Muncie, Indiana), February 3, 1960. www.newspapers.com. “'Dead' Wife's Story Puzzles Officials.” Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), February 4, 1960. www.newspapers.com. “Freedom Struggle: Woolworth's Lunch Counter - Separate Is Not Equal.” Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Accessed March 11, 2022. https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html. History.com Editors. “Greensboro Sit-In.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, February 4, 2010. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in. Pett, Saul. “Strange Story Found In Teacher Slayings.” The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana), February 7, 1960. www.newspapers.com. United Press International. “Greensboro Store Hit By Sitdown.” The Durham Sun (Durham, North Carolina), February 2, 1960. www.newspapers.com. United Press International. “Missing Woman Hinted Alive.” Redlands Daily Facts (Redlands, California), February 2, 1960. www.newspapers.com. United Press International. “Principal Kills Two Instructors.” The Childress Index (Childress, Texas), February 2, 1960. United Press International. “Principal Kills Two Instructors.” The Childress Index (Childress, Texas), February 2, 1960. www.newspapers.com. SOUND SOURCES Al Jolson. “I'll Say She Does.” www.pixabay.com/music. Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies. “Cold Winter Blues.” www.pixabay.com/music. Sophie Tucker. “Reuben Rag.” www.pixabay.com/music.

Tal vez pensando más en Masters of the Air, repasamos este clásico de cine de aviación de la Segunda Guerra Mundial con un reparto muy coral. La tripulación de un bombardero Boeing B-17 cumple la última misión, que hará cumplir el cupo de 25 para volver a casa a los diez tripulantes, pero resulta ser la más dura de las misiones. Primero la parte cinéfila con 📽️ Imanol López , y 👨‍🚀 Dani para la histórica. Además, a 📽️ Imanol lo encontrarás en el blog Todo sobre mi Cine Bélico https://todosobremicinebelico.blogspot.com/ Mi Cine Bélico es un programa mensual de Casus Belli. Produce 🛠️ PodFactory http://podfactory.es Casus Belli Podcast pertenece a 🏭 Factoría Casus Belli. Casus Belli Podcast forma parte de 📀 Ivoox Originals. 👉https://podcastcasusbelli.com 👉En Facebook, nuestra página es @casusbellipodcast https://www.facebook.com/CasusBelliPodcast 👉En Instagram estamos como @casusbellipodcast https://www.instagram.com/casusbellipodcast 👉En Twitter estamos como @casusbellipod @CasusBelliPod 👉Telegram, nuestro canal es @casusbellipodcast https://t.me/casusbellipodcast 👨‍💻Nuestro chat del canal es https://t.me/aviones10 ⚛️ El logotipo de Carros 10 y de la Factoría Casus Belli están diseñados por Publicidad Fabián publicidadfabian@yahoo.es 🎵 La música incluida en el programa es Ready for the war de Marc Corominas Pujadó bajo licencia CC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ El resto de música es bajo licencia privada de Epidemic Music, Jamendo Music o SGAE. de Ivoox. 📧¿Queréis contarnos algo? También puedes escribirnos a casus.belli.pod@gmail.com Si te ha gustado, y crees que nos lo merecemos, nos sirve mucho que nos des un like, ya que nos da mucha visibilidad. Muchas gracias por escucharnos, y hasta la próxima. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Here are the sources and timestamps in this episode[00:00] INTRO[01:26] METASUPPORT [2:22] Dysevidentia on Patreon - https://patreon.com/DysevidentiaCONTACT [2:25] Dysevidentia subreddit on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Dysevidentia/CONTACT [2:27] At Dysevidentia on Twitter - https://twitter.com/dysevidentiaCONTACT [2:27] The Dysevidentia Server  on Discord - https://discord.gg/EZtcgdsCDACONTACT [2:30] Dysevidentia on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBbU3rnK52CXUkK0cJ-o29gCONTACT [2:38] Dysevidentia by email - Contact@dysevidentia.com[03:02] COVID MINUTESOURCE [3:46] The vaccination rate is largely unchanged, still hovering around 76% in the US - https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/SOURCE [4:45] CDC Reports over 1 million excess deaths during the pandemic - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/us-excess-deaths-pandemic-cdcSOURCE [8:37] Guns cure covid in a Petri dish - https://xkcd.com/1217/SOURCE [13:01] Livestream abortion to shutdown debate - https://www.her.ie/news/activist-takes-abortion-pill-on-live-tv-during-debate-546643[13:38] WHAT IS "BIRDS AREN'T REAL?"BULLSHIT SOURCE [16:24] Birds Aren't Real Official Webpage - https://birdsarentreal.com/BULLSHIT MERCH [17:42] Mako's personal favorite - https://birdsarentreal.com/products/i-want-to-disbelieve-hoodieBULLSHIT SOURCE [18:41] Birds Aren't Real History - https://birdsarentreal.com/pages/the-historyBULLSHIT SOURCE [19:00] Time Cube is something like a conspiracy from the early days of the internet, Clearly mental illness - https://timecube.2enp.com/SOURCE [23:51] No waffle house in Nevada - https://locations.wafflehouse.com/SOURCE [23:59] Wiki Area 51 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51SOURCE [26:34] Richard Feynman worked on the manhattan project but never enlisted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Manhattan_ProjectSOURCE [30:20] Wiki B-52 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_StratofortressSOURCE [32:48] CIA World Factbook Veitnam - https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/vietnam/SOURCE [36:53] Anti Semitism unites many conspiracy theories, 79% of antivax groups spread them - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/anti-semitism-lurks-behind-modern-conspiracy-theories-1.4485495SOURCE [36:53] There is a Wikipedia page for "Antisemitic Canard" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic_canardSOURCE [37:04] Qanon is quite antisemitic - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/25/qanon-conspiracy-theory-explained-trump-what-isSOURCE [40:23] Poe's Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_lawSOURCE [41:09] Older Survey (2004) showing 46% of Americans were Young Earth Creationists - https://ncse.ngo/creationists-how-many-who-and-whereSOURCE [41:09] Fuck loads of American's are Creationist - https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-many-creationists-are-there-in-america/[41:40] SPONSORSPONSOR [42:18] Use code “evidence” to get 10% off a new gaming computer - https://www.abkkustomz.com/[42:46] HOW DID IT START, WHERE IS IT GOING?SOURCE [43:11] WhoIs BirdsArentReal - https://www.whois.com/whois/birdsarentreal.comSOURCE [43:34] BirdsArentReal Twitter - https://twitter.com/BirdsArentRealSOURCE [43:46] Google Trends for “Birds Aren't Real” in the US - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=Birds%20arent%20realSOURCE [43:48] Google Trends for “Birds Aren't Real” worldwide - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=Birds%20arent%20realSOURCE [46:58] Wayback for the domain - http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://birdsarentreal.com/SOURCE [49:42] Birds Aren't Real subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentRealSOURCE [50:07] Is the “Birds Aren't Real” subreddit sarcastic? - https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/controversial/?sort=controversialSOURCE [50:30] For example one controversial discussion - https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/comments/qe2xci/guys_pls_tell_me_this_sub_is_satire_i_am_gonna/SOURCE [50:30] Another controversial discussion - https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal/comments/khs1as/this_sub_is_sarcastic_right/SOURCE [53:46] Leader of Viral 'Birds Aren't Real' Movement Swears He's Not Joking - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/leader-of-viral-birds-aren-t-real-movement-swears-he-s-not-joking/ar-BB1eGVUbSOURCE [55:43] Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/technology/birds-arent-real-gen-z-misinformation.html[57:47] IS THERE ANY TRUTH TO IT?SOURCE [59:15] The Drone Bird Company - https://www.thedronebird.com/SOURCE [1:03:55] China launches high-tech bird drones to watch over its citizens - https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-...

Former double agent Naveed Jamali is joined by Newsweek's senior foreign policy writer Tom O'Connor, to talk about B-52 Bombers new Lease on life amid U.S. tensions with China and Russia: newsweek.com/cold-war-bomber-b-52-gets-new-lease-life-amid-us-tensions-china-russia-1659367See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode, Talking Schmutz chat with Jenn Whittaker about her Screenplay about the “Enola Gay.” The famous Boeing B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan! On the 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we talk with Jenn a true expert on the events about these historic events and current events as well. […] The post Talking Schmutz: Jenn Whittaker – Enola Gay and Pearl Harbor 80th Anniversary appeared first on Radio Influence.

On this episode, Talking Schmutz chat with Jenn Whittaker about her Screenplay about the “Enola Gay.” The famous Boeing B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan! On the 80th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we talk with Jenn a true expert on the events about these historic events and current events as well. […] The post Talking Schmutz: Jenn Whittaker – Enola Gay and Pearl Harbor 80th Anniversary appeared first on Radio Influence.

This episode of All Things Judicial features a 2016 interview with the late North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge E. Maurice Braswell. Braswell served as a tail gunner and bombardier in a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress named the "Flaming Arrow" that recorded 41 bombing missions against the Axis Powers during World War II. Judge Braswell recounts several near misses and the harrowing experience of crash landing and being captured as a POW behind enemy lines. Through it all, Braswell shunned the the title of hero and instead embodied a life of service to his country and home state of North Carolina."In our generation, there was nothing but a great over-pouring of patriotism and willingness to go to war with Japan and Germany after Pearl Harbor. We felt like we were just doing our duty and being made a hero is still foreign to me in spite of awards," Judge Braswell said on the podcast. "If I could be of service to my state, I was going to do it. If I could be of service to my family and fellow man, I'm happier doing that."After the war, Judge Braswell served as an assistant district attorney and superior court judge in Cumberland County, and served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Braswell died in January 2017 and the new Cumberland County Courthouse was named in his honor. This interview is an excerpt of a 2016 interview produced for the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism's Historical Video Series. The full interview is available on the NCcourts YouTube channel. See additional pictures of Judge Braswell on his profile in the Veterans History Project through the Library of Congress.

In May 1944, the US unveiled a new weapon, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber. It was bigger and faster than the B-17, it had a greater range, and it could carry a heavier bomb load (8-10 tons). Despite many early problems, by early 1945, B-29s were causing heavy damage on Japanese cities in the firebombing campaign led by General Curtis LeMay. In this episode, James and Scott discuss the controversial policy of firebombing, including its background, its execution, and its results.

Desde la aparición de la bomba atómica, existió una carrera por crear bombarderos más rápidos, más veloces y que volasen más rápido para poder atacar en profundidad a sus enemigos. Por fortuna, nunca cumplieron la misión para la que se construyeron. Pero para lo que si servirían es para mantener desde el principio esta Doctrina de la Mutua Destrucción Asegurada, que por una parte hizo que la seguridad del planeta pendiera de un hilo, y por otra evitó una guerra entre bloques. Hoy te traemos los 5 bombarderos más representativos de este período llamado Guerra Fría: Consolidated B-36, Tupolev Tu-16, Avro Vulvan, Tupolev Tu-95 y Boeing B-52. No están todos, pero sí es la mejor selección que se puede encontrar. Te lo cuenta

28 tháng 7 là ngày gì? Hôm nay là ngày sinh của MC Quyền Linh SỰ KIỆN 1995 – Việt Nam gia nhập ASEAN. 1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600.000 người đến dự lễ hội nhạc Rock tại Watkins Glen International. 1935 – Chuyến bay đầu tiên của máy bay ném bom Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. 1933 – Quan hệ ngoại giao giữa Liên Xô và Tây Ban Nha được thiết lập. 2018 - Wendy Tuck người Úc trở thành nữ thuyền trưởng đầu tiên giành chiến thắng trong Cuộc đua thuyền buồm vòng quanh thế giới Clipper . Ngày lễ và kỷ niệm Ngày viêm gan thế giới Sinh 1804 – Ludwig Feuerbach, nhà triết học người Đức (m. 1872) 1987 - Pedro , cầu thủ bóng đá Tây Ban Nha. Mặc dù thuận chân phải, Pedro có thể chơi bóng tốt bằng chân trái. Ngoài ra, anh còn nổi tiếng với những pha chọn vị trí tốt và có khả năng sút nhanh, mạnh, đặc biệt từ khoảng cách xa. Tại đội tuyển Tây Ban Nha, Pedro có trận đấu đầu tiên vào tháng 5 năm 2010 và đã giành được danh hiệu vô địch World Cup 2010 và Euro 2012. 1954 – Hugo Chávez, tổng thống Venezuela 1969 Quyền Linh, diễn viên, là một diễn viên điện ảnh, diễn viên hài, nghệ sĩ kịch nói và người dẫn chương trình người Việt Nam. Từ năm 1992 cho đến nay, Quyền Linh đã tham gia diễn xuất trong hàng trăm phim điện ảnh lẫn truyền hình và được coi là một trong những diễn viên được yêu thích nhất tại Việt Nam. Ngoài công việc là một diễn viên, Quyền Linh còn là một MC khi đảm nhiệm hàng chục gameshow và chương trình truyền hình các loại. Riêng gameshow Vượt lên chính mình do Quyền Linh làm đạo diễn và MC đã giành được 5 giải Mai Vàng từ năm 2005 - 2008. Anh cũng là nghệ sĩ giành được nhiều giải Mai Vàng nhất từ trước đến nay với tổng cộng 6 giải. Mất 1527 - Rodrigo de Bastidas , nhà thám hiểm người Tây Ban Nha, thành lập thành phố Santa Marta (sinh năm 1460) Chương trình "Hôm nay ngày gì" hiện đã có mặt trên Youtube, Facebook và Spotify: - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aweekmedia - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AWeekTV - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6rC4CgZNV6tJpX2RIcbK0J #aweektv # HugoChávez # LudwigFeuerbach # QuyềnLinh # ASEAN # Pedro #28thang7 Các video đều thuộc quyền sở hữu của Adwell jsc, mọi hành động sử dụng lại nội dung của chúng tôi đều không được phép. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message

Historias del B-17 que hicieron memorable su participación en la Guerra y uno de los Bombarderos más producidos.

La historia detrás de uno de los bombarderos más conocidos y producidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" es el primer avión desarrollado por Boeing para su uso en guerra. Su gran rendimiento, blindaje y la capacidad de defenderse desde diversos flancos con sus ametralladoras; hicieron confirmar que no se habían equivocado al nombrarlo "Fortaleza Aérea" o "Fortaleza Volante"

The city of Rexburg approved to construct a new playground at the city's nature park, the man accused of causing a wildland fire north of a Yellowstone national park has pleaded not guilty, a World War Two, Boeing B-17 Fortress bomber will be visiting the Pocatello AV Center next week, and Idaho State University broke ground for an 11-and-a-half-million dollar alumni center today.

World War II was the first major conflict that saw the use of strategic bombers. In the months immediately after the war, the US saw the need for an advanced bomber to replace the bombers which were developed during the war. Moreover, they wanted something bigger, faster, and that used newly developed jet engines.  The end result of the process was the B-52 bomber which had its first flight in 1952.   Learn more about Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, the plane which is still in service today, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sign up for the Travel Photography Academy: http://TravelPhotographyAcademy.com -------------------------------- Associate Producer Thor Thomsen   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere   Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EEDailyPodcast/ Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/

Out of the gloom of thick cloud, through their windscreens, the pilots suddenly saw the tops of pine trees but it was too late to pull up. They ploughed through them as the branches smashed into the left wing shattering the navigation light. One of the passengers onboard was the President of the airline, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker... this is his story. An Eastern Airlines DC3   Atlanta had poor weather and it was close to midnight when the aircraft crashed   Eddie Rickenbacker   The findings of the inquiry   Racing in San Francisco   Rickenbacker becomes CO of the 94th, the Hat in the Ring gang   After receiving many decorations, Rickenbacker returns to the US a hero   The Rickenbacker motor company   Rickenbacker survives a second crash, this time in a Boeing B-17   Capt. E.V. "Eddie" Rickenbacker wearing the Congressional Medal of Honor   Images published under Creative Commons Licence with thanks to Jack Delano, the Library of Congress, CAB, SF Public Library, NARA, Rickenbacker Motors, the USAFand the USAAF.

Hello Everyone, My name is S. Aaron, and I am the sole creator and proprietor of Canto34 Studios. I am so excited to finally get this story out to the world, after sitting on it, writing it, and rewriting it for a little over nine years. Since I was a boy, I was obsessed with World War II, and specifically, the Air War fought over Europe. I was just 5 years old when I first watched the 1991 movie, Memphis Belle, and that began my life-long obsession with all things World War II and anything to do with the Boeing B-17 Bomber. My sole purpose in telling this story is to give glory and honor to the brave young men who gave everything they could, in order to serve their country.  This type of warfare is sadly forgotten in History books and public media, but it was vicious, cruel, dangerous, and outright suicidal. However, these 18-23-year-old kids from all around American volunteered to do the job that ultimately allowed the Allies to be able to invade Europe and bring the war to an end. The men, the 300th bombardment group, and the airfield described in this story are all fictional, but please keep in mind that the men, bombardment group, locations, events, stories, and lives described in this story are based on real men, bombardment groups, locations, events, stories, and lives. In the last nine years, I've interviewed a dozen veterans of the 8th Air Force and asked each one if they felt comfortable having their story shared with the public, and every one of them said something to the effect of, "Sure, as long as my name isn't mentioned, I don't want to be seen as some kind of hero, I was just doing my job." So many of these veterans don't want to be displayed as the hero's they are, and so, I decided to honor their wishes.I look forward to seeing you and hearing from you all in July, and I hope you all enjoy this story, as much as I enjoyed writing it. -S. Aaron Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/snafupod)

Here on the Fighter Pilot Podcast it’s once again Bomber Month ( https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/bombermonth/ ) ! First up this year is the venerable Boeing B-29 Superfortress ( https://www.boeing.com/history/products/b-29-superfortress.page ) and joining us is Allen Benzing of the Commemorative Air Force B-29 / B-24 Squadron ( https://www.cafb29b24.org/ ) based in Dallas, Texas. Once an enlisted U.S. Air Force ( https://www.af.mil/ ) airman, Al worked his way up through civilian flying and is now a Superfortress aircraft commander and instructor for the CAF. Not only that but he knows a thing or two about the B-29's role in WW2 and shares it here with guest host Trevor Boswell. Check out the CAF's B-29 tour schedule here ( http://www.airpowertour.org/ ). Bumper music by Jaime Lopez / announcements by Clint Bell ( https://www.clintbellproductions.com/ ). This episode was produced by our friends at The MuscleCar Place Podcast Network ( http://www.themusclecarplace.com/ ). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This week on the World of Aviation, Al Malmberg visits with Brigadier General (ret) Paul Tibbets IV. He was involved in Operation Allied Force, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He was also one of just a few pilots qualified to fly all three of the U.S. Air Forces strategic bombers, the B-1 Lancer, Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit and the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Join us Sunday mornings at 10:05 for the World of Aviation on AM 1280 The Patriot. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on Sojourner Truth: This week, millions in Japan and around the world are marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities amid the height of World War 2. On August 6, U.S. Boeing B-29 Superfortress plane unleashed a uranium bomb, known as Little Boy, on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, another U.S. plane launched a plutonium implosion bomb, known as Fat Man, on Nagasaki. The two nuclear bombings killed up to 226,000 people, a majority of whom were innocent people. Most died upon impact, but a significant number of people also continued to pass away in the months following the attack from radiation exposure, severe burns and blood loss. Both cities were almost entirely razed to the ground. To this day, people in the area are still affected by radiation exposure. The twin bombings were and still remain the only time that a world power used nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Today, 75 years later, the threat of a renewed nuclear war continues to loom over our heads. The arms control era that started after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union may soon be coming to an end. The New START Deal of 2011, the last major pact constraining the U.S. and Russia " which together hold 91 percent of the world's nuclear warheads " is set to end on February 5, 2021. The treaty's goal is to limit the size of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the two largest in the world. With the deadline for renegotiation just six months away, fears are beginning to surface of increased nuclear tensions. Currently, nine countries have nuclear weapons: the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. This comes as the Donald Trump administration continues to ramp up economic and diplomatic aggression against China, which is now a global superpower.

Today on Sojourner Truth: This week, millions in Japan and around the world are marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities amid the height of World War 2. On August 6, U.S. Boeing B-29 Superfortress plane unleashed a uranium bomb, known as Little Boy, on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, another U.S. plane launched a plutonium implosion bomb, known as Fat Man, on Nagasaki. The two nuclear bombings killed up to 226,000 people, a majority of whom were innocent people. Most died upon impact, but a significant number of people also continued to pass away in the months following the attack from radiation exposure, severe burns and blood loss. Both cities were almost entirely razed to the ground. To this day, people in the area are still affected by radiation exposure. The twin bombings were and still remain the only time that a world power used nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Today, 75 years later, the threat of a renewed nuclear war continues to loom over our heads. The arms control era that started after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union may soon be coming to an end. The New START Deal of 2011, the last major pact constraining the U.S. and Russia " which together hold 91 percent of the world's nuclear warheads " is set to end on February 5, 2021. The treaty's goal is to limit the size of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the two largest in the world. With the deadline for renegotiation just six months away, fears are beginning to surface of increased nuclear tensions. Currently, nine countries have nuclear weapons: the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. This comes as the Donald Trump administration continues to ramp up economic and diplomatic aggression against China, which is now a global superpower.

Today on Sojourner Truth: This week, millions in Japan and around the world are marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities amid the height of World War 2. On August 6, U.S. Boeing B-29 Superfortress plane unleashed a uranium bomb, known as Little Boy, on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, another U.S. plane launched a plutonium implosion bomb, known as Fat Man, on Nagasaki. The two nuclear bombings killed up to 226,000 people, a majority of whom were innocent people. Most died upon impact, but a significant number of people also continued to pass away in the months following the attack from radiation exposure, severe burns and blood loss. Both cities were almost entirely razed to the ground. To this day, people in the area are still affected by radiation exposure. The twin bombings were and still remain the only time that a world power used nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Today, 75 years later, the threat of a renewed nuclear war continues to loom over our heads. The arms control era that started after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union may soon be coming to an end. The New START Deal of 2011, the last major pact constraining the U.S. and Russia " which together hold 91 percent of the world's nuclear warheads " is set to end on February 5, 2021. The treaty's goal is to limit the size of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the two largest in the world. With the deadline for renegotiation just six months away, fears are beginning to surface of increased nuclear tensions. Currently, nine countries have nuclear weapons: the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. This comes as the Donald Trump administration continues to ramp up economic and diplomatic aggression against China, which is now a global superpower.

Today on Sojourner Truth: This week, millions in Japan and around the world are marking the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities amid the height of World War 2. On August 6, U.S. Boeing B-29 Superfortress plane unleashed a uranium bomb, known as Little Boy, on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, another U.S. plane launched a plutonium implosion bomb, known as Fat Man, on Nagasaki. The two nuclear bombings killed up to 226,000 people, a majority of whom were innocent people. Most died upon impact, but a significant number of people also continued to pass away in the months following the attack from radiation exposure, severe burns and blood loss. Both cities were almost entirely razed to the ground. To this day, people in the area are still affected by radiation exposure. The twin bombings were and still remain the only time that a world power used nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Today, 75 years later, the threat of a renewed nuclear war continues to loom over our heads. The arms control era that started after the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union may soon be coming to an end. The New START Deal of 2011, the last major pact constraining the U.S. and Russia " which together hold 91 percent of the world's nuclear warheads " is set to end on February 5, 2021. The treaty's goal is to limit the size of the U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, the two largest in the world. With the deadline for renegotiation just six months away, fears are beginning to surface of increased nuclear tensions. Currently, nine countries have nuclear weapons: the U.S., U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea. This comes as the Donald Trump administration continues to ramp up economic and diplomatic aggression against China, which is now a global superpower.

Runter kommen sie alle. Wer länger oben bleibt, bricht Rekorde! Also schickte die US-Luftwaffe eine Boeing B-50 A auf den ersten Nonstop-Flug um die Welt.

Bomber Month ( https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/bombermonth/ ) continues with the mighty Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. ( https://www.boeing.com/defense/b-52-bomber/ ) This week, Mr. Ken Katz, a former ( https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/bombermonth/ ) U.S. Air Force ( https://www.af.mil/ ) flight test engineer who literally wrote the book ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0897476875/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0897476875&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=d7b2415357646089ee2d05d3c6fb7ea2&tag=ftrpltpdcst18-20 ) on the B-52, joins us to talk all about the mighty "BUFF" including the several variants, its many weapons, and most impressively--how it may end up being the first military aircraft to fly operationally for 100 years. Episode artwork adapted by Janek Krause. Bumper music by Jaime Lopez / announcements by Clint Bell ( https://www.clintbellproductions.com/ ). This episode was produced by our friends at The MuscleCar Place Podcast Network ( http://www.themusclecarplace.com/ ). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Here on the Fighter Pilot Podcast it's Bomber Month ( https://www.fighterpilotpodcast.com/bombermonth/ ) ! First up is the venerable Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress ( https://www.boeing.com/history/products/b-17-flying-fortress.page ) and joining us is Mr. Mike Rowland, former curator of the Museum of Aviation ( https://www.museumofaviation.org/?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=Cox+Media ) at Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia where a B-17 is being meticulously restored. Also joining us on this episode is retired U.S. Air Force ( https://www.airforce.com/ ) Lieutenant Colonel Crawford Hicks ( https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/local/wwii-vet-receives-prisoner-of-war-medal/93-f31d5c86-b961-485f-a894-944ff7fb3c2c ) , a former WWII B-17 pilot who was shot down on his 10th mission in the European Theater and held prisoner ( https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/356458 ) until the end of hostilities. Bumper music by Jaime Lopez / announcements by Clint Bell ( https://www.clintbellproductions.com/ ). This episode was produced by our friends at The MuscleCar Place Podcast Network ( http://www.themusclecarplace.com/ ). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Delta Air Lines officially announced on 30th September that it will relocate from Shanghai Pudong International Airport Terminal 1 to the new S1 satellite hall. The relocation of Delta Air Lines is coordinated with China Eastern Airlines to create a more seamless and convenient transit and travel experience for passengers alliance-wide. In the future, all Delta flights can be bridged to a S1 Terminal gate, thus completely abandoning the need to take the shuttle bus, which greatly enhance passengers’ boarding experience. Changes to Departure & Arrival Flow At Shanghai PVG: Delta Air Lines currently operates four direct flights to major US hub airports from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, flights run daily to and from Detroit, Seattle, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Through strategic cooperation with China Eastern Airlines, Delta Air Lines provides passengers with more than 1,350 domestic codeshare flights per week, covering more than 40 cities in China. Through the deployment of Delta and China Eastern Airlines in the S1 satellite hall, passengers will enjoy a smooth and seamless experience, whether it is an international transfer or a domestic transfer. On July 27, 2015, Delta Air Lines invested approximately 3.489 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$450 million, 2.75 billion RMB) to acquire 3.55% stake in China Eastern Airlines on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. This investment was the largest foreign investment in Delta’s history. The total investment was expected to account for approximately 10% of China Eastern Airlines’ H shares in Hong Kong and 3.55% of the total share capital. Delta will then have the right to obtain an observer seat on CEA’s board of directors. After the share purchase, Delta Air Lines became the largest external shareholder of China Eastern. “Delta is committed to continuously investing to improve customers’ on-the-ground and in-flight experience,This move is part of our broader strategy to collaborate with China Eastern to better address the growing needs of the U.S.-China market.” Wong Hong, Delta’s President – Greater China and Singapore. The Chinese market is vital for Delta’s long-term global expansion strategy. Ten years ago, Delta did not fly to any destinations directly from the United States to China. And today, Delta Air Lines has six direct routes between China and the United States, including Seattle to Shanghai and Beijing, Detroit to Shanghai and Beijing, and Los Angeles to Shanghai, as well as direct flights from Atlanta to Shanghai started in July 2018. Delta is serving the Chinese market with a generation of new aircrafts, such as the A330-900-NEO that provides passengers with a variety of travel options in four different cabin classes. In addition, Delta deploys their flagship Airbus A350 planes on flights between Detroit and Los Angeles to Shanghai. At the end of the year, the newly retro-fitted Boeing B-777 aircraft will fly between Shanghai and Atlanta. By then, all of Delta’s Sino-US routes will be carried out by the newly-configured aircraft models, bringing the best service concepts Delta has to offer to all passengers across the pacific ocean. All models serving Shanghai are also equipped with a new generation of Delta One® Suites Business Class and Delta Premium Select premium economy class products. Eyeing Further Strategic Expansion: Delta Air Lines plans to connect its Minneapolis-St. Paul hub and China for the first time in 2020, with a proposed route to Shanghai operated with its state-of-the-art Airbus A350-900 aircraft, which currently subject to government approvals from the United States and China. Delta Air Lines’ Routes From Shanghai Pudong International Airport Shanghai ​(PVG)​ — Atlanta ​(ATL)​ Non-stop Delta Air Lines 7,688 mi Shanghai ​(PVG)​ — Detroit ​(DTW)​ Non-stop Delta Air Lines 7,161 mi Shanghai ​(PVG)​ — Los Angeles ​(LAX)​ Non-stop Delta Air Lines 6,508 mi Shanghai ​(PVG)​ — Seattle/Tacoma ​(SEA)​ Non-stop De...

Michael Pohorilla, 95, of New Albany flew 35 combat missions over German-held territory as a first lieutenant and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress navigator in World War II. He was based in Great Britain as a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ Eighth Air Force. The 10-man crew on his bomber ranged from 18 to 22 years old, “barely out of high school,” he said. “When you’re young, you think you’re invincible. ... Just a few microseconds in combat and you become very, very humble,” he said. “God was my co-pilot, no question about it.” Pohorilla was born in eastern Pennsylvania and graduated from Girard College, a 12-grade school in Philadelphia that had about 1,600 students when he attended. “I got a first-class education there,” he said, consisting of college-preparatory classes in the mornings and vocational classes in the afternoons. The vocational classes covered such topics as carpentry, electrical work and printing. “The philosophy was, when you left the school, you could earn a living,” he said. “It was a school far ahead of its time.” A fellow Girard student who was a year behind Pohorilla was Russell Johnson, who also became a bomber crewman. A bombardier and navigator in a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Johnson flew 44 combat missions in the Pacific. Long after the war, Johnson became famous portraying Professor Roy Hinkley in the TV comedy “Gilligan’s Island.” “He was a nice guy,” Pohorilla said. Pohorilla was a 17-year-old listening to a football game on the radio when he learned the Japanese had attacked the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. The New York Giants were playing a Sunday afternoon home game at the Polo Grounds when Pohorilla heard background voices on the radio mentioning an unnamed general and the mayor. “You knew something was going on,” he said. An announcer soon told listeners the news that Japan had attacked Hawaii, Pohorilla said, “and that was it.” His father was a World War I veteran, injured during a poisonous-gas attack in France, and his two brothers served in the Navy in World War II. At age 18, Pohorilla said, “I saw everybody around me was going” into the military. Pohorilla wanted to be a pilot, he said. “Flying was the thing to do back in those days. ... I was interested in flying,” he said. First came Army basic training in Miami. “Basic training was tough,” he said. After training in Florida, he next was posted at several locations in the south. “The south was a bit of culture shock,” he said, because of a level of segregation he had not seen in Pennsylvania. “Separate drinking fountains and the like were kind of alien to you growing up and what you were used to,” he said. Next came the military’s aviation cadet program, designed to produce at least 100,000 pilots a year. “The future, of course, meant invading Europe. We also had a lot of air crews required for the Pacific area, as well,” Pohorilla said. The training was patterned after the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and “the discipline was pretty harsh. ... We had to toe the mark until we finally started to get into airplanes and start flying a bit,” he said. He made his first solo flight at Souther Field near Americus, Georgia, and in May 1944 received orders to ship out for England. He was based with the 385th Bombardment Group, stationed about 40 miles east of Cambridge. He and seven other men lived in a Quonset hut, a prefabricated structure made of corrugated steel.  It was equipped with a pot-bellied stove, which, he said, “never got us warm in England.” Using a 30-gallon oil drum, some copper tubing and used motor oil, the men improvised a drip system to feed oil into the stove. After that, “the pot-bellied stove was red hot at times,” he said.  Not long after his arrival in England, the Germans began sending V-1 flying bombs across the channel. The “buzz bombs,” as they were known, carried 1,000 pounds of explosives powered by a crude jet engine, Pohorilla said. The V-1 wasn’t very accurate, he said. The Germans’ goal was to “hopefully, knock out something but (mostly) to frighten the population.” Although buzz bombs hit his base once or twice, he said, the Americans’ morale was unaffected. “They sounded like a real freight train coming by, real loud,” he said. “As long as you could hear that noise, you knew we were safe. ... When the noise stopped, then it headed for the earth. ... Loud boom afterwards.”  A typical bombing mission started at 5 a.m., Pohorilla said. While the Royal Air Force bombed cities at night, “we bombed specific targets. Our mission was to destroy the industrial complex, and we did a pretty good number on that,” he said. The Americans made daylight raids, concentrating on such targets as German railroad yards and Germany’s synthetic-oil industry.  At the time, Pohorilla weighed 135 pounds, he said. His flying gear included four or five layers of clothing, an armored flak jacket, a heated suit and flight coveralls. After he put it all on, he said, he weighed about 160 pounds.  “I looked like the Michelin Man (and) waddled around,” he said.  Flying at 25,000 feet, he said, was a challenge. “We were fighting Mother Nature as much as we were fighting the enemy,” he said. At that altitude, the temperature was 40 degrees below zero, he said. The crew wore oxygen masks and were told that without the masks, their life expectancy would drop to about two minutes at high altitude.” Every five minutes, the plane did a crew check. Crewmen responded by saying, “Tail gunner, OK. Waist gunner, OK. Ball turret, OK,” etc., he said. During one crew check, Pohorilla failed to respond because his oxygen mask had frozen and he passed out. The bombardier rushed over and turned Pohorilla’s oxygen flow to 100%, and Pohorilla regained consciousness. Pohorilla’s unit made repeated attacks on plants where the Germans had converted coal to synthetic fuel. One of the larger such plants was near Leipzig, Germany. The plant was protected by about 500 anti-aircraft cannons when Pohorilla’s unit bombed it in September 1944. When his unit returned in November, he said, the Germans had 1,000 such guns at the site. “So it’s inevitable on the bomb run that you’re going to get hit. And we did get hit,” he said. The right starboard engine – one of four on the plane – was disabled, he said, but the plane stayed in formation. Pohorilla said the B-17s usually flew in formations of 32 to 36 planes, providing two significant advantages. One, he said, is the formation could bring to bear a total of 420 .50-caliber machine guns against any attacking fighter planes. The second is it allowed the planes to place their bombs in a circle only 1,000 feet wide. Along with the formation, Pohorilla’s plane completed its attack. But because it was flying on only three engines, it was burning its fuel at a high rate. The formation next headed west, with plans to turn north over the Ardennes forest – along the Belgium-German border – to return to base. Because of its low fuel, Pohorilla and his crewmen threw everything out of the plane “that wasn’t nailed down,” he said. The pilot decided to head west, with hopes of making it to Dover, England. They didn’t make it. When it was clear the plane couldn’t cross the English Channel, the pilot ordered the crew to prepare to bail out. By that point, the plane was only 1,000 feet above the ground, making a parachute escape a risky proposition. When the crewmen refused to jump, Pohorilla told the pilot he’d have to land the plane. Without lowering the landing gear, the pilot crash-landed in a freshly plowed beet field in Belgium, with “dirt flying all over the place,” Pohorilla said. With its fuel exhausted, the plane landed without a fire breaking out, and the crew jumped clear with no injuries. Picked up by a British truck, the crew was taken to Allied-controlled Brussels, where they were billeted in a hotel. “We were there for three days. I can’t remember a damned thing, but I know we had a hell of a good time,” Pohorilla said. The crash occurred on the plane’s 18th mission, which meant the crew was only halfway through its 35-mission tour. The Eighth Air Force originally sent airmen home after 25 bombing missions. When long-range U.S. fighter planes became available to protect the bombers, that limit was increased to 30 and then 35 missions, Pohorilla said. Because of his success, he was part of a group known as the Lucky Bastard Club – an informal group based on the statistic that the average life expectancy of a bomber-crew member’s life was 15 missions. His crew was given a week off back in England, making several sight-seeing stops, including a night at an old manor house outside Oxford. “I stayed in Lady Evelyn’s room that night,” Pohorilla said. “Lady Evelyn wasn’t there, though, unfortunately.” If his plane had crash-landed three weeks later, he said, it would have had to fly over the Battle of the Bulge, which by then was in full swing. With one exception, the crew on Pohorilla’s plane survived the war. One gunner, 18 years old, was flying as a substitute on another B-17 that had gone down with its crew. Pohorilla completed 35 missions and returned to the United States in February 1945. “It was big relief, of course,” he said, but he still was qualified to fly, and Germany and Japan were not yet defeated. The Germans’ surrender was announced in May 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August. Pohorilla earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, married Ellen in 1947 and had two sons. His wife died in December 2000. Among his postwar employers was Rohm and Haas Co., a chemical company founded in Germany. Pohorilla is a VFW member and on the board of directors of the Motts Military Museum in Groveport, which, he said, helps educate visiting groups of school students about history. His decorations include the Air Medal with silver cluster, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three battle stars, the Presidential Unit Citation and the World War II Victory Medal.  His advice to veterans is to “marry a good person. I married a great person. Keep your mind busy, your body busy. ... Just stay active and be a good citizen. Love the country.” This podcast was hosted and produced by Scott Hummel, ThisWeek Community News assistant managing editor, digital. This profile was written by Paul Comstock.

Barn finds are all the rage these days, so you’ll want to hear our interview with Hot Rod contributor Ryan Brutt, who has found everything from Dodge Dudes to Boeing B-17s tucked away in barns and fields. The guys also catch up with MegaRaptor creator Jeremy Dixon and find out what awaits at the next level when your Raptor just doesn’t turn heads anymore. Also, did Ford just fire a shot over Ram’s bow with a new Super Duty Tremor package?

Greg, Brian, and Colin talk the stunning defeat of an employee backed climate change mitigation initiative brought before King Bezos at the annual Amazon shareholder meeting, MacKenzie signs the Giving the Pledge, and the Seattle Times covers the consecration of a hallowed machine of death, a Boeing B-52 Superfortress, by Washington's own Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis at the Museum of Flight's Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park.

Außerdem: Ergänzung des Brexit-Deals: Die Statements von May und Juncker aus der Nacht. Abschied von der Politik: Sahra Wagenknecht zieht sich zurück. Absturz bei Boeing: Börsen-Reporterin Sophie Schimansky über die Spekulationen um die Boeing 737 Max 8.

Jerry Vance of Hilliard is a 75-year-old Vietnam War veteran who served two tours in Thailand as a U.S. Air Force pilot. The first in 1968-69 was part of a 60-day temporary-duty assignment with the Young Tigers aerial refueling wing stationed in U-Tapao, about 87 miles southeast of Bangkok near the Gulf of Thailand. As a Young Tiger, Vance flew Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers, which were responsible for refueling the U.S. military’s tactical fighter aircraft in midair, usually after the fighter’s aircraft strike on a target and while en route back to the base. “It was really a busy, rewarding job to give them what they needed to get their mission done,” he said. Vance pointed out that each aircraft has to be refueled at a different speed. For example, he said, a Republic F-105 Thunderchief supersonic fighter-bomber has to be refueled at a faster speed than a North American F-100 Super Sabre supersonic jet fighter. “We were in orbit most of the time in Thailand just to keep our positions, and they would come and find us,” he said. The fighter always comes up from behind, he said. Even if a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress subsonic strategic bomber were approaching from the front, the B-52 would fly overhead and return to the rear of the KC-135 refueler, he said. Vance also said it was never just one aircraft being fueled per flight. “It was a minimum two, sometimes four you’re refueling,” he said. “So they just took turns.” The biggest challenges – or “most exciting times,” as Vance describes it – were in inclement-weather conditions. Vance returned to the United States for a few years, learning how to fly Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters – commonly known as Hueys – while in Little Rock, Arkansas. His second tour in Thailand was in 1973-74, this time in Nakhon Phanom, just west of the Makong River in eastern Thailand. As part of the 21st Special Operations Squadron stationed at the Royal Thai Air Force Base, Vance was flying Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters. The transition from southern Thailand to the United States and back to eastern Thailand wasn’t so difficult, he said. “The big shock is switching over from a fixed-wing airplane to a rotary-wing airplane,” he said. The mission there, he said, was to take people and supplies into “places Nixon said we never flew.” “We would take anywhere from five to 50 people in the back of our helicopter; we would take them out in the middle of nowhere; we would put them on the ground,” he said. “We’d leave them there one, two, three days, depending on what the mission was, and then we’d come back and pick them up – always in a different spot.” After the war, Vance remained in the Air Force until 1987 and spent time at the Hickam Air Force Base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, helping to recover space capsules. He later moved to the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, training pilots to fly Sikorsky HH-53 "Super Jolly Green Giant" helicopters. Vance’s decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal with three clusters, the Air Medal with Silver Oak Leaf Cluster, the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Air Force Achievement Medal, the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, the National Defense Medal, the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with device and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. Vance was born in Pensacola, Florida, and moved to Pickaway County, Ohio, when he was 4. He graduated from Darby Township High School (now Westfall) and attended Ohio State University and the University of Southern California, earning his bachelor’s degree at Ohio State and master’s degree at USC. Vance joined Ohio State’s ROTC pilot-training program. He and his wife, Connie, have two sons, Jeff (Lora) and David (Rebekah); a grandson, Jarod; two granddaughters, Emily and Sara Rowe; and two great-granddaughters, Lilly and Delilah. This podcast was produced by Scott Hummel, ThisWeek assistant managing editor, digital.

Runter kommen sie alle. Wer länger oben bleibt, bricht Rekorde! Also schickte die US-Luftwaffe eine Boeing B-50 A auf den ersten Nonstop-Flug um die Welt. Autor: Herbert Becker

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." In August 1939, Influential army figures and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and Italy in September 1940 and make preparations for war. The newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto reluctantly orders the planning of a pre-emptive strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor, believing that Japan's best hope of achieving control of the Pacific Ocean is to annihilate the fleet at the outset of hostilities. Meanwhile, in Washington, American military intelligence has managed to break the Japanese Purple Code, allowing the Americans to intercept secret Japanese radio transmissions indicating increased Japanese naval activity. Monitoring the transmissions are U.S. Army Col. Bratton and U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Kramer. At Pearl Harbor itself, Admiral Kimmel and General Short do their best to enhance defenses which include increasing naval patrols around Hawaii and calling for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers to patrol offshore to provide early warning of any enemy presence. Short recommends parking all aircraft at the base on the runways and not dispersed around the edges of the airfield to avoid sabotage by enemy agents Information Sourced from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tora!_Tora!_Tora!Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#Military_planning Isoroku Yamamoto-山本 五十六-Yamamoto Isoroku, was a Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Navy and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until his death. Yamamoto held several important posts in the Imperial Japanese Navy , and undertook many of its changes and reorganizations, especially its development of naval aviation. He was the commander-in-chief during the decisive early years of the Pacific War and therefore responsible for major battles, such as Pearl Harbor and Midway. He died when American code breakers identified his flight plans and his plane was shot down. His death was a major blow to Japanese military morale during World War II Body Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto#cite_note-3 https://youtu.be/H_xoByhDdEE Public Access America 
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Lance welcomes US Airforce Maj. (Ret) Terry Pappas, in town for the 2017 Wings Over Houston Airshow, with tales about flying the SR-71 Blackhawk, the Boeing B-52, and working with aviation legends.

...During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. In the final year of the war, the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This was preceded by a U.S. conventional and firebombing campaign that destroyed 67 Japanese cities. The war in Europe had concluded when Nazi Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945. The Japanese, facing the same fate, refused to accept the Allies' demands for unconditional surrender and the Pacific War continued. The Allies called for the unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being "prompt and utter destruction". The Japanese response to this ultimatum was to ignore it. By August 1945, the Allies' Manhattan Project had produced two types of atomic bombs, and the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was equipped with the specialized Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Super fortress that could deliver them from Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Orders for atomic bombs to be used on four Japanese cities were issued on July 25. On August 6, the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type (Little Boy) bomb on Hiroshima, and American President Harry S. Truman called for Japan's surrender, warning it to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Three days later, on August 9, a plutonium implosion-type (Fat Man) bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Within the first two to four months following the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings had killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable military garrison. Japan announced its surrender to the Allies on August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war. On September 2, the Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender, effectively ending World War II. The justification for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is still debated to this day. Information Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

FIFI WWII Boeing B 29 Bomber Superfortress takes flight with Kelly Golden's Uncle Richard

El Memphis Belle fue uno de los 12.750 Boeing B-17 construidos en los EE.UU. El Memphis Belle era un B-17 de los primeros diseños, un B-17 modelo F 10-BO que fueron construidos para misiones de bombardeo por la Boeing Aicraft Company. El Memphis Belle tuvo el número de serie Nº 41-24485 y fue construido en julio de 1942. Una vez completado fue asignado al Grupo de bombardeo pesado nº 91 de la Octava Fuerza Aérea de la USAF y fue enviado al campo de Dow Field en Bangor, Maine donde fue recibido por su tripulación. Desde esta base fue trasladado a la ciudad de Memphis para completar el entrenamiento y preparación para ser enviado a teatro de operaciones en Europa. El capitán Robert T. Morgan bautizó a su fortaleza volante como Memphis Belle en honor de una novia de nombre Margaret Polk, a quien había conocido camino a Memphis. El logo de la figura femenina pin-up en el morro fue creado por el artista George Petty y pintado por Tony Starcer. Cabe señalar que la extendida costumbre de pintar chicas y bautizar a sus aviones con nombres femeninos era una forma de amuleto de la buena suerte para los aviadores en aquella época. Desde Memphis, el Memphis Belle y su tripulación lo volaron en octubre de 1942 a través del Atlántico hasta una base temporal en Prestwick, Escocia. Desde esta base fue asignado al Escuadrón 324 de bombardeo pesado estacionado en Bassingbourn, Inglaterra siendo esta su base de operaciones.1En esta base, su capitán adoptó un perro de la base como mascota, un terrier escocés al que llamaron Stuka.

El Memphis Belle fue uno de los 12.750 Boeing B-17 construidos en los EE.UU. El Memphis Belle era un B-17 de los primeros diseños, un B-17 modelo F 10-BO que fueron construidos para misiones de bombardeo por la Boeing Aicraft Company. El Memphis Belle tuvo el número de serie Nº 41-24485 y fue construido en julio de 1942. Una vez completado fue asignado al Grupo de bombardeo pesado nº 91 de la Octava Fuerza Aérea de la USAF y fue enviado al campo de Dow Field en Bangor, Maine donde fue recibido por su tripulación. Desde esta base fue trasladado a la ciudad de Memphis para completar el entrenamiento y preparación para ser enviado a teatro de operaciones en Europa. El capitán Robert T. Morgan bautizó a su fortaleza volante como Memphis Belle en honor de una novia de nombre Margaret Polk, a quien había conocido camino a Memphis. El logo de la figura femenina pin-up en el morro fue creado por el artista George Petty y pintado por Tony Starcer. Cabe señalar que la extendida costumbre de pintar chicas y bautizar a sus aviones con nombres femeninos era una forma de amuleto de la buena suerte para los aviadores en aquella época. Desde Memphis, el Memphis Belle y su tripulación lo volaron en octubre de 1942 a través del Atlántico hasta una base temporal en Prestwick, Escocia. Desde esta base fue asignado al Escuadrón 324 de bombardeo pesado estacionado en Bassingbourn, Inglaterra siendo esta su base de operaciones.1En esta base, su capitán adoptó un perro de la base como mascota, un terrier escocés al que llamaron Stuka.

El Boeing B-29 Superfortress fue un bombardero pesado cuatrimotor de hélices empleado principalmente por Estados Unidos en la última parte de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en la Guerra de Corea, no obstante permaneció en servicio en varias funciones durante los años 1950. La Real Fuerza Aérea Británica utilizó el B-29 bajo la designación Washington, y la Unión Soviética construyó un copia sin licencia con el nombre de Tupolev Tu-4. El apodo Superfortress deriva de su bien conocido predecesor B-17 Flying Fortress. El diseño del B-29 dio lugar a una serie de bombarderos, aviones de reconocimiento, entrenadores y aviones cisterna fabricados por Boeing, incluyendo la variante actualizada B-50 Superfortress. A continuación, siguieron su estirpe los modelos de reacción de Boeing B-47 Stratojet y B-52 Stratofortress.

El Boeing B-29 Superfortress fue un bombardero pesado cuatrimotor de hélices empleado principalmente por Estados Unidos en la última parte de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en la Guerra de Corea, no obstante permaneció en servicio en varias funciones durante los años 1950. La Real Fuerza Aérea Británica utilizó el B-29 bajo la designación Washington, y la Unión Soviética construyó un copia sin licencia con el nombre de Tupolev Tu-4. El apodo Superfortress deriva de su bien conocido predecesor B-17 Flying Fortress. El diseño del B-29 dio lugar a una serie de bombarderos, aviones de reconocimiento, entrenadores y aviones cisterna fabricados por Boeing, incluyendo la variante actualizada B-50 Superfortress. A continuación, siguieron su estirpe los modelos de reacción de Boeing B-47 Stratojet y B-52 Stratofortress.

Boeing B-17 touch-n-gos at IWA from Trevor Smith on Vimeo.Podcast Download:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13836556/b17touchngo.mp4I was driving (Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010) to Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport where I go to school back from lunch and looked up and saw the B-17G Sentimental Journey fly over the car on final a few hundred feet off the ground doing touch-n-gos. The plane is based at Falcon Field (FFZ), just to the north of IWA, and operated by the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force I've never see a B-17 flying before and it was quite a sight.The video in the podcast feed is a lower quality the one found on the blog so it can be viewed on an ipod 

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