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  1. CAC

    CAC Ace of Spades

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    It’s Australia Day here in Oz today…It’s also my birthday…A proud son to my Mother who was awarded the Order of Australia today for her services to nursing and health care (she was the first female paid ambulance officer in the NT) She’s a legend.

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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    My mom should have gotten a medal for putting up with me for 18 years.
     
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  3. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    Outstanding !

    And happy birthday!
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    From Wiki: File:USS Langley (CVL-27) and others enter Ulithi.jpg - Wikipedia

    The U.S. Navy Task Group 38.3 enters Ulithi anchorage in column, 2 December 1944, while returning from strikes on targets in the Philippines.

    Ships are (from front): USS Langley (CVL-27), USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), USS Washington (BB-56), USS North Carolina (BB-55), USS South Dakota (BB-57), USS Santa Fe (CL-60), USS Biloxi (CL-80), USS Mobile (CL-63), and USS Oakland (CL-95).
    Date 12 December 1944
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    Official US Navy photograph 80-G-301351; also U.S. DefenseImagery photo VIRIN HN-SD-97-00850
     
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  5. Half Track

    Half Track Well-Known Member

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    Thank you! Great information!
     
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    A-58 Cool Dude

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    Wasn’t it CV back then?

    I knew about the CVL and CV designations.
     
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    Habit. I ran with Midway when she was stationed at Yokosuka.
     
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    In four years with the Navy, I could never get orders to a ship. I wanted to see some of the World. I saw Washington DC, Bainbridge Maryland, Norfolk Virginia and Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Oh yeah, I took some weekend trips to Jamaica and Haiti on the USS Glover and USS Norris when they were there for fleet training. My wife back in Allentown, Pa. (I went home on leave in 1968 to marry her) and my mother were always praying that I never got orders to Vietnam. I was summoned down to personnel when I had a few months left with the Navy in Cuba and the Personnelman said that if I shipped over I would get, I think, around $3000 and get a ship. I did not have a critical rate. My wife said she wanted me back home, for good. I never saw much of the world, but 55 years later I still have her. I knew her since 1967. My only regret is that I didn’t stay in the active reserves for another 16 years. The pension, the pension.
     
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    I slept in 72 countries. I wish I still had my journals.
     
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    The Battle of the Bulge - CD2623E7-D40B-4E2F-8A2C-9C57EEE08CD2.jpeg December 16, 1944 - January 25, 1945
     
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    "The Bitter Wood".
     
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    One of my biggest regrets is not enlisting in 1973. Compounded by the fact my uncle said, "You'd have been a good fit and done well".
    As Life would have it, I'm alive, the Vietnam conflict was winding down and I've now been married (to the same woman!) for 48 years. Life takes many a turns but overall I couldn't have asked for a better life.
    Well, I could but I'd probably be regretting some dumb decisions.
     
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    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    AND it's rubble.

    The defense official said there was value in waiting to shoot down the balloon aside from just the safety of people on the ground, and indicated it had intelligence value to the U.S.

    "The surveillance balloon's overflight of U.S. territory was of intelligence value to us. I can't go into more detail, but we were able to study and scrutinize the balloon and its equipment, which has been valuable," the official said.

    Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed the Chinese surveillance balloon was taken down by a fighter aircraft as it drifted off the Carolina coast.

    "This afternoon, at the direction of President Biden, U.S. fighter aircraft assigned to U.S. Northern Command successfully brought down the high altitude surveillance balloon launched by and belonging to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the water off the coast of South Carolina in U.S. airspace," Austin said in a statement. "The balloon, which was being used by the PRC in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States, was brought down above U.S. territorial waters."

    Chinese balloon live updates: Balloon shot down in US airspace, official says
     
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    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    I hope my standing outside in minus zero temperatures, flipping China the finger, showed up on their down feed !
     
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    I hope you don't buy the horse hockey the DoD is shoveling trying to save face. They dithered initially, some wanting to down it, capture it intact, or do nothing. They came up with the BS excuse about fearing civilian damage if shot down, yet it has some of the lowest population density of any state. Montana officials were even calling for it to be shot down. Then it hit the news cycle and became a PR nightmare, and something had to be done. It gathered and likely transmitted the data it was after and by waiting to shoot it down after it had completed its transit, they could seemingly do something without arousing China's ire. There were sources that were tracking it online and delineating all the intel rich locations they overflew.
     
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    Is there a chance the Air Force 'might' have mitigated any surveillance capabilities of the so called weather balloon !
     
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    I have pictures taken from Victoria Peak back in the 80s. The number of really tall buildings around Wan Chai today is incredible.

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