The FReeper Foxhole Remembers the Battle of Imjin River/Kapyong (4/22/51) - April 22nd, 2003

http://members.tripod.com/~Glosters/Imjin.html ^

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning SAM, everyone.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Feather.

[snippy_about_it]

Morning Jen, Sam.

Thank you for the history this morning.

Regardless of the conflicting views on the military aspects of the battles (I know these must be studied), the acts of the individual soldier certainly are not conflicted.

This slice of history you've shared shows the honor and courage of these fighting men beyond doubt for me.

Good read.

[SAMWolf]

Thank you Snippy.

[Darksheare]

I'm in.
You have an answer for the dimensional door question waiting for you at yesterday's thread.

[beachn4fun]

Good morning Sam and all. I have "great" relatives in Havelock. My Great-Uncle is a retired Marine. Thanks for the pics.

[beachn4fun]

Sam.... I think your sign is kewl!

[SAMWolf]

Morning beachn4fun. I thank your Great-Uncle for his service to our country.

DoughtyOne made the sign for the Foxhole shortly after we opend. We also have a FReeper Foxhole Truck but I try to use it only on the shorter threads becasue it's animated and takes a while to load if the opening posts are too long.

[manna]

Present!

[SCDogPapa]

Mornin' Valin,,

[DuncanWaring]

I'd like to emphasize this entry:

1870 Nikolai Lenin [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov] Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist

The hundredth anniversary of his birth was the first Earth Day.

What a peculiar coincidence.

Not!

[Valin]

Yes it is. :-)
Seems to happen every day. And I'm going to call that a good thing.

Valin..serving all our wiseass needs since 1948.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Now there's one for the record books. Margaret Pereira was born both in 1928 and 1929!

[Valin]

Her mother isn't going to soon forget that one. :-)

[SCDogPapa]

"Seems to happen every day. And I'm going to call that a good thing. "

Yep,,and if it don't happen,,,we are in trouble! lol!

[Valin]

Seem to be working out pretty good for me...so far.

[SAMWolf]

Current Military News
Miltary Families at Easter

Colt Ozmen, 20-month-old son of Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Jeff Ozmen, thinks twice about hugging an Easter Bunny bigger than his dad. Petty Officer Ozmen is a corpsman assigned to Fort Detrick, Md. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney, blows a whistle to start the 2003 White House Easter Egg Roll. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


A young boy assists conjurer Eric Henning in a magic trick. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


Five-year-old Hannah Walker gets an egg up in the air as she “rolls” it down the White House lawn. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


Two-year-old Michael Bufkin contemplates which end of his marshmallow bunny to bite next. Children who completed the Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn received the bunnies. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


Children prepare to roll their eggs down the White House lawn. The American Egg Board colored 5,400 boiled eggs for this year’s Easter Egg Roll. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


Children prepare to roll their eggs down the White House lawn. The American Egg Board colored 5,400 boiled eggs for this year’s Easter Egg Roll. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


Victoria Ann Hartel, 14-month-old daughter of Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Hartel, looks to be having a bunny of a day. Petty Officer Hartel is assigned to Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem


Four-year-old Lexi Rhem pets a magician’s bunny while her sister, 10-year-old Monica Ollander, looks on. The girls’ dad, Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sam Rhem, is assigned to Fort Belvoir, Va. AFPS photo by Kathleen T. Rhem

[Light Speed]

Fritz-X Guided Bomb

Ruhrstahl FX-1400 Fritz-X Guided Bomb

The Fritz-X was a 1400 kg (3,300 lb) armor-piercing bomb with control fins and a radio data link usually launched from Do 217 and He 177 bombers. This weapon was the first operational guided bomb and proved quite effective.
Released from an altitude of 16,000 to 20,000ft (4875 - 6095 m) the bomb reached a terminal velocity approaching sound. Half of the pre-production Fritz X bombs hit within a 197 in ( 5m square. ) III/KG 100, formed from Lehr und Erprobungskommano 21, was the first unit to use the Fritz-X. Equipped with Do 217K-2s each plane could carry two of the guided bombs on ETC 2000/XII racks.
On September 9, 1943 two hits scored on the Italian battleship Roma sent her to the bottom. The Italia, also part of this fleet sailing out to surrender to the Allies, was hit and severely damaged. A British battleship, the Warspite was knocked out of the war for a year when a single Fritz-X penetrated all six decks and blew a hole through the bottom. The new weapon also sank the cruiser Spartan and damaged the cruisers Savannah and Uganda. Aggressive fighter patrols and electronic jamming disrupted the control signals from the launch aircraft to the bomb. A total of 1,386 Fritz-X bombs were manufactured, 602 of these being expended in tests.

Designer office: Dr. Kramer's DVL (Deutsche Versuchsanstalt ftir Luft.fahrt)
Structure: special anti-armor steel of great thickness Tail unit: cruciform section strengthened by a twelve-sided perimeter. It had a two-axis guideable fin, actuated by Wagner electrical controls.
Powerplant: None in first versions. Several accelerator rockets of solid propellant were foreseen.
Equipment: Radio-link system Kehl/Strassburg (FuG203 and FuG230)
Warhead: 320 kg of Amatol
Length: 3.26 m (10 ft. 8 1/2 in.)
Span: (elevator) 1.35 m (4 ft. 5 in.)
Maximum diameter: 0.56 m (1 ft. 10 in.)
Launch weight: (unpropelled version) 1570 kg (3,454 lb.)
Maximum speed: 1035 km/h (630 MPH)
Range: 5 km (2.69 nm)
Number of units built: 1,386

[snippy_about_it]

Such cuties! :)

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for finding the additional infor on the Fritz-x and the Savannah. The forerunner of the anti-shipping missle.