The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Hurricanes vs Spitfires (1936-1945) - Jan.27th, 2005

Aviation History. | November 1994 | David Alan Johnson

[SAMWolf]

Morning alfa6.

[SAMWolf]

Morning E.G.C.

Less fog this morning. We got to see some sun yesterday afternoon.

[GailA]

Good morning..lots of beautiful sunshine this morning

[shield]

Good Morning...Sam

[SZonian]

Good morning SAM and snippy.

Excellent read, thanks!

Cheers!

[SAMWolf]

Christianity in modern America . . . tends to be easy, upbeat, convenient, and compatible. It does not require self-sacrifice, discipline, humility, an otherworldly outlook, a zeal for souls, a fear as well as love of God. There is little guilt and no punishment, and the payoff in heaven is virtually certain.

It's a shame, I noticed that in the Catholic Church. I call it "Religion Lite", seems even the Church is afraid to speak out against the world's evils.

[SAMWolf]

Nice photos! Some of the sharpest pics I've seen.

[SAMWolf]

Morning GailA.

I don't think we'll be seeing any sunshine until late in the day. :-(

[SAMWolf]

Morning shield.

[SAMWolf]

Morning SZonian

[The Mayor]

"Religion Lite"

I like that and it's right on the money..

If the church had done it's job over the years we wouldn't be where we are today.
That statement is all inclusive not just the catholic.

[SAMWolf]

WING CDR. LANCE C. WADE, RAF

Described in "Fighter Aces of the USA" by Toliver and Constable, as "A distinguished American fighter ace who epitomized perhaps more than any other American airman the wartime accords between Britain and the United States".

Lance Wade was born in Broaddus, Texas, in 1915. He joined RAF in Canada in Dec. 1940. Arrived in Egypt as a Hurricane I pilot September 1941, and was posted to 33 Sqn. His first kills were 2 Fiat CR-42s 18 Nov. Made ace 24 Nov. He Began flying Hurricane Mk IIs in Apr 1942, when he was awarded the DFC. His had 13 victories as of September 1942.

He spent the next several months back in US on various RAF projects including evaluating some American fighters at Wright Field.

He returned to combat as a Flight Leader in 145 Sqn with a bar to his DFC, flying Spitfire Mk.Vs. Promoted to Sqdn. Ldr., he had a busy 60+ days, as by end of April his score was 21, by then flying Spitfire Mk. IXs. Sqn moved to Italy, and Wade got 2 FW190s as a Spitfire VIII pilot 2 Oct, and his last claims were 3 FW190s damaged 3 Nov.

Wade became a Wing Cdr and joined the staff of the Desert Air Force but was there only briefly, as he was killed in a flying accident 12 January 1944 at Foggia.

In 30 combats in which he made claims he was credited with 23 victories (including 2 shared), 1 probable, and 13 damaged. Also 1 dest. and 5 dmgd on the ground. All by age 28.

Wing Commander Wade usually is listed with 25 victories but official RAF records show that he had 22 solo victories and half each of two more for a total of 23.00, not counting one probable.

Whether his score is 25, or 23 victories, he is still the leading American fighter ace to serve exclusively in any foreign air force.

Since he never transferred to the USAAF, or any other American Air service, W/Cmdr. Wade never got the publicity that other American Aces received. In fact not many Americans know of his exploits. It is hoped that this little effort will help in rectifying that oversight.

[SAMWolf]

There was something to be said for the old "Fire and Brimstone".

[Valin]

One This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on January 27:
1546 Joachim III Frederick elector (Brandenburg)
1556 Abbas I "the Great", shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austria, musical prodigy/composer (Figaro)
1808 David F Strauss Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life)
1822 Thomas Leiper Kane Brevet Major General (Union volunteers),died in 1883
1826 Richard Taylor Lieutenant-General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1828 Samuel Allen Rice Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1830 William Henry Fitzhugh Payne Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1832 Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], author (Alice in Wonderland)
1834 Robert Sanford Foster Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1850 Samuel Gompers (labor union leader: 1st president of the American Federation of Labor [AFL])
1859 Kaiser Wilhelm II Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
1885 Jerome Kern New York City NY, Broadway composer (Showboat, Roberta)
1900 Hyman G Rickover US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy)
1901 Art Rooney NFL team owner (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1908 William Randolph Hearst Jr newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
1918 Elmore James musician (Dust My Broom)
1919 David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno CA, (Alvin & Chipmunks)
1921 Donna Reed Denison IA, actress (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)
1930 Bobby "Blue" Bland Rosemark TN, blues singer
1934 Julian Ogilvie Thompson CEO (De Beers)
1936 Troy Donahue New York City NY, actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye)
1940 Brian T O'Leary Boston MA, astronaut
1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)
1964 Bridget Fonda Los Angeles CA, actress (Scandal, Single White Female)
1981 Jon "Kid Jonny" Lang Fargo ND, blues musician

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Deaths which occurred on January 27:
0672 Vitalianus pope (657-72)/saint, dies
0847 Sergius II pope (844-47), dies
1164 Abraham ibn Ezra poet/philosopher, dies
1731 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori Italian piano builder, dies at 75
1816 Samuel Hood 1st Viscount Hood/admiral, dies
1851 John James Audubon conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65
1901 Giuseppe Verdi Italian composer (Rigoletto/Traviata/Aïda), dies in Milano at 87
1954 Paul-Marie Masson composer, dies at 71

1967 Roger B Chaffee astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire
1967 Virgil I (Gus) Grissom astronaut, dies at 41 in Apollo I fire
1967 Edward Higgins White II Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies in Apollo I fire at 36

1972 Mahalia Jackson gospel singer (He Got the Whole World), dies at 60
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant US football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1986 L Ron Hubbard novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74
1993 Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49
1994 Claude Akins actor (Rio Bravo, Lobo), dies of cancer at 75
1994 Eddie Calhoun jazz Bassist, dies at 72

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1968 CORDOVA ROBERT J.---BOYS TOWN NE.
1969 CONGER JOHN E.---LEBANON OH.
1973 HALL HARLEY H.---VANCOUVER WA.
[KIENTZLER TOLD HALL KILLED REMAINS RETURNED 6/95]
1973 KIENTZLER PHILLIP A.---POWAY CA
[03/27/73 RELEASED BY PRG]
1973 MORRIS GEORGE W. JR.---ALHAMBRA CA.
["GOOD CHUTE, POSS VOICE CONTACT"]
1973 PETERSON MARK A.---CANTON OH.
["GOOD CHUTE, POSS VOICE CONTACT"]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0672 St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1662 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1671 Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1785 1st US state university chartered, Athens GA
1823 President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee
1870 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle IN)
1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1888 National Geographic Society organizes (Washington DC)
1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant PA
1894 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1900 Social Democrat Party of America (Eugene V. Debs party) holds 1st convention
1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY)
1915 US Marines occupy Haiti
1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1918 "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
1940 -17ºF (-27ºC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreibér warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
1942 -19ºF (-27.4ºC), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850
1943 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed

1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)

1948 1st tape recorder sold
1951 US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1963 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-ME) tries for Republican Presidential bid
1965 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite

1967 Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee

1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad
1969 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria
1973 US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war
1976 Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara
1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court

1990 Dissolution of Polish communist party (what days we live in)

1991 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)
1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1996 Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day
1998 Shaken by scandal, Pres. Clinton made his State of the Union address and proposed bolstering Social Security with the current surplus, improving schools by reducing class size and building more, raising the minimum wage, and making child care more available for low-income families before cutting taxes or increasing spending. He also issued a warning to Sadam Hussein of Iraq and asked Congress to support NATO expansion.....an end to traffic jams, hard butter, and phone calls while you're in the shower.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Mauritius : Cavadee
Vietnam : Vietnam Peace Day (1973)
Scotland : Up Helly Aa'
US : "Weird Al" Yankovic Day
National Retail Bakers Month

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Religious Observances
Buddhist-Laos : Buddhist Holiday
Christian : Devote of Monte Carlo
Lutheran : Commemoration of Lydia, Dorcas & Phoebe
Roman Catholic : Feast of St Julian
Anglican, Old Roman Catholic : Commemoration of John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Angela Merici, virgin (opt)
Moslem : A Night of Remembrance (Sha'ban 14, 1414 AH)

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Religious History
1343 Clement VI's bull "Unigenitus" officially ratified the belief that Indulgences owed their potency to the Pope's dispensation of the accumulated merit of the Church. (In 1518 Cardinal Thomas Cajetan accused German reformer Martin Luther, 32, of challenging the validity of this Catholic doctrine.)
1774 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'If my labours should be in vain for the people, the Lord gives me a gracious reward in my own soul.'
1839 Birth of John Julian, famed English authority on sacred music. His undoubted masterwork is the monumental "Dictionary of Hymnology" which he published in 1892 (later revised, updated and reissued in 1957).
1842 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Call upon the name of the Lord. Your time may be short... The longest lifetime is short enough. It is all that is given you to be converted in. They are the happiest who are brought soonest to the bosom of Jesus."
1972 In Columbia, the white and black United Methodist conferences of South Carolina -- separated since the Civil War -- voted in their respective meetings to adopt a plan of union.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

[Valin]

I recall some drag racers using them.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, folks.

Our ISP is contuining to experience problems with it's primary database server. Once again for the second morning in a row during my first trip to the Internet, the computer stopped opening webpages.

Five minutes later I tried logging back in and wound up getting "Error Message 718".

This kept up until around 7:30 AM CST when Finally I was able to get back on.

Hopefully will have this issue resolved soon.

How's it going, Snippy?

[SAMWolf]

1967 Roger B Chaffee astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire
1967 Virgil I (Gus) Grissom astronaut, dies at 41 in Apollo I fire
1967 Edward Higgins White II Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies in Apollo I fire at 36

[skeeter]

Sidney Camm, the guy who did the Hurricane, is the guy who did the Harrier. Harrier was his last production machine.

That really illustrates the steep curve of warplane development, or of aviation in general. Hard to fathom these days that there were men who began in biplanes & finished in 747s.

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies. Flag-o-Gram.

[SAMWolf]

Morning PE.

Sad and yet still stirring Flag-O-Gram.