The Federal Archives list these photos of a Martin MS-1 that the Navy was experimenting with. The concept was to carry the biplane on a submarine, something that proved viable, and while the U.S. Navy gave up on it by World War Two the Japanese did not.
David Shorter@davidshorter 8h
What is happening now in Congress is unbelievable. A holographic principle of multi-dimensionality is being proposed to explain how UAP are here. AOC just told that UAP are monitoring our military training, and disrupting. I've taught UFO studies for 20 years. This is huge. 1/10
Unbelievable is the key word there.
The US government wasn't able to keep the secret on how to make the atomic bomb. . . or anything else. Do we seriously believe that it would be able to keep secrets on alien spacecraft secret?
Or that a civilization so intelligent that it could cover vast distances of space, would smack into the earth routinely by accident?
Or that we're so important, that they'd bother to check in on narcissistic us?
Or that such a civilization would send biologically manned craft at all? Heck, we live in the age in which Ukraine sends drones to smack into Russian buildings in Moscow. What sort of advance culture wouldn't just send a drone and ask it to report back?
Far more likely is a large disinformation campaign.
M'eh.
This is a new memorial in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, dedicated to the crew of the "Casper Kid", a B-17F that went down in what would have been an incredibly remote lonely spot on February 25, 1943.
In recent years, there's been a dedicated effort in Central Wyoming to memorialize the crews who did in aviation accidents during the Second World War. This is the second such memorial I'm aware of (there may be more) which is dedicated to the crew of an airplane that was flying out of the Casper Air Base, which is now the Natrona County International Airport. Both accidents memorialized so far were winter accidents which resulted in the loss of an aircraft in remote country.
We don't tend to think of those lost in training accidents as war dead, but they were. And there are a lot of them.
The most dangerous major airline in the world, Aeroflot, saw its birth when its predecessor, Dobrolet, began operations with a flight from Moscow to Nizhny.
Maugham was from Logan Utah and joined the Army as a pilot during World War One. His career would span through World War Two.
Today in World War II History—June 28, 1943: Royal Air Force bombs Cologne, Germany, heavily damaging the cathedral and ending the Battle of the Ruhr—total of 872 British bombers have been lost.
The Germans completed the eradication of the Jewish population of Stanislav (Ivano-Frankivsk) in Ukraine.
The "Battle of Bamber Bridge" occurred in the UK when white Military Police intervened in a pub which had stretched out drinking hours for black US troops and then attempted to cite one for improper uniform. Shots were ultimately fired and one of the soldiers was killed.
The Smith-Connoally Act was passed, which allowed the government to seize industries threated by strikes. It went into law over President Roosevelt's veto.
The men were undergoing training. A memorial service will be held for them today in Summerville.
Classified as a medium bomber, the Ventura is one of the numerous Allied warbirds that are now basically forgotten, in spite of having received widespread use. It was an adaptation of a civilian airliner.
Sarah Sundin notes, on her blog:
Today in World War II History—June 25, 1943: 80 Years Ago—June 25, 1943: Bob Hope begins his first major USO tour; he will spend 11 weeks touring England, North Africa, and Sicily.
