That'll buff right out.
Posted on 10/25/2018 7:34:46 AM PDT by fugazi
Today's post is in honor of Capt. Jeb F. Seagle, who was killed in action during Operation URGENT FURY on this day in 1983. The 30-year-old attack helicopter pilot from Lincolnton, N.C. was serving in Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (HMM-261), 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.
1812: The frigate USS United States under the command of Capt. (future commodore) Stephen Decatur – hero of Tripoli and said to be the U.S. Navy’s own Lord Nelson – captures the Royal Navy frigate HMS Macedonian under the command of Capt. John Carden in a brisk fight several hundred miles off the Azores.
1925: The court martial of Col. William "Billy" Mitchell, America's chief aviation officer during World War I and considered to be the "Father of the U.S. Air Force", begins in Washington, D.C.. The outspoken Mitchell is charged with multiple counts of insubordination due to his criticism of Navy leadership for investing in battleships instead of aircraft carriers and the handling of numerous fatal aviation incidents. Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, one of Mitchell's 12 judges, refers to his assignment as "one of the most distasteful orders I ever received."
1942: On Guadalcanal, Japanese forces launch a series of full-frontal assaults to retake Henderson Field. The defending Marines - led by Lt. Col. B. Lewis "Chesty" Puller - and soldiers kill upwards of 3,000 Japanese troops at the cost of only 80 Americans. Sgt. John Basilone became a Marine legend during the battle, fighting off wave after wave of Japanese soldiers for two days despite being incredibly outnumbered.
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Incredible story.
I vacationed down there many times. WAS a beautiful place then.
Guess who said it.
I was stationed at Naval Hospital, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico at that time (LCDR, MC, USNR) and we received all the casualties American, Granadian, and Cuban. I actually received the first to arrive, a Army helicopter pilot in septic shock who was a double amputee as a result of his plane being shot down. It was a short but intense military operation.
I landed at Rosey Roads that day after dropping off some Rangers at Pt. Salines.
Thank you for your service sir
No kiddin! C130 pilot?
That'll buff right out.
Nav. Somebody has to tell the pilots what to do! :)
Rumor at the hospital was that you guys had confiscated cases of Cuban fire arms and secured them on the plane as evidence that this was not simply a “construction project” on the airfield down there.
:)
Thank you!!
That sounds like the losses incurred by Taffy 3. But there is a whole lot more to that story.
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