Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 31, 1943. Debut of the F6F.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 31, 1943. Debut of the F6F.: 

Tuesday, August 31, 1943. Debut of the F6F.

Grumman F6Fs made their combat debut.

The fighter was a leap in Navy fighter technology, joining the Corsair as a new generation of flattop launched fighter aircraft.  The plane would be responsible for approximately 2/3s of the Japanese aircraft shot down by the U.S. Navy during World War Two.

The carrier born first use was in a day-long raid on Marcus Island.

Radar equipped F6F's would remain in service until 1954, completing their service as night fighters.

On the same day, the 14th Air Force bombed Gia Lam, Co Bi, Ichang Airfiled, Stonecutters Island and the Yoyang rail yards.  The 5th Air Force hit trages in Saint George Channel and the Dutch East Indes.

To Denver and back.

Air Tractor at Natrona County International Airport.

Denver International Airport.

Wind farm north of Glenrock/Casper.

Bar Nunn, Wyoming.

 

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 22, 1923. Air Mail.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, August 22, 1923. Oaths of Office, Air Ma...: 

Tuesday, August 22, 1923. Oaths of Office, Air Mail, No French Concessions, Japanese Navy Disaster, Societal Shifts.

Mail was getting speedier.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, August 14, 1943. US Aviation Insignia Change Again.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, August 14, 1943. Rome declared an open ...: 

U.S. aviation insignia changed again, albeit slightly.

By NiD.29 - Bell, Dana (1995) Air Force Colors Volume 1 1926–1942, Carrollton: Squadron Signal Publications ISBN: 0-89747-316-7.US Navy F6F Hellcat USMC F4U Corsairaccording to Section 40.1.1.2 Color of MIL-STD-2161A (AS), the colors of this insignia are established as FED-STD-595 red 11136 white 17925 blue 15044. The visualization of the colors comes from this siteElliot, John M. (1989) The Official Monogram US Navy & Marine Corps Aircraft Color Guide Vol 2 1940–1949, Sturbridge, MA: Monogram Aviation Publications ISBN: 0-914144-32-4., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3330877

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5 August 1943: Women Airforce Service Pilots

5 August 1943: Women Airforce Service Pilots

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, August 5, 1943. WASPs.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, August 5, 1943. WASPs.: 

Thursday, August 5, 1943. WASPs.

While by this point, this story is now confusing because of predecessor organizations, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) were officially formed.

WASP wings.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, July 27, 1943. Storms.

Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, July 27, 1943. Storms.: 

Tuesday, July 27, 1943. Storms.

Major Joseph Duckworth, together with Lt. Ralph O'Hair, of the U.S. Army Air Force flew an AT-6 into the eye of a hurricane, becoming the first people to do so on purpose.

Duckworth was an advocate for training on instruments.  He had been an Army Air Corps flyer, originally starting in 1927, and recalled to service during World War Two.

The hurricane bore the name The Surprise Hurricane due to weather censoring during World War Two, which the storm would end due to killing 19 people and causing $17,000,000 in damage.

Croatia became a republic, for a time, after Prince Aimone, the Duke of Astsoria, who had been made king of Croatia by Mussolini, resigned, deciding that desertion was the better part of valor.

The Fascist Grand Council and the Fascist Party were abolished.

Sarah Sundin notes, on her blog:

Today in World War II History—July 27, 1943: Flight nurse Lt. Ruth Gardiner (805th MAETS) is killed in a plane crash in Naknek, Alaska; the first US Army nurse to die in WWII.

She also notes the horrific Hamburg firestorm of the night of July 27, 1943, which resulted from the RAF's Operation Gomorrah bombing raid that evening.

Unloading a P-47 at Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, July 27, 1923. Martin MS-1s.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, July 27, 1923. Casper living on Tulsa Time?: 

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.

The Imperial Japanese Navy would, in turn, use submarine born monoplanes to attack the U.S. West Coast, albeit with no success.

UFOs? Me'h

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.

Some Gave All: The Crew of the B-17F, "The Casper Kid".

Some Gave All: The Crew of the B-17F, "The Casper Kid".:   

The Crew of the B-17F, "The Casper Kid".

 

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.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, July 18, 1943. Blimp attack.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, July 18, 1943. Alexander appointed governo...: The U.S. airship K-74 depth charged the German U-134, which returned fire with its 20mm deck guns. The K-74 was shot down.  The unsuccessful attack was the only such instance of an airship attacking a submarine during World War Two.

K class airship.