Remembering When
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997
Updated: Spt 21, 2004
Don Putnam donput@juno.com
It Happened During the Korean War , in the Month Of November 1950 / 1953
November 8, 1950 : 1st Lt.Russell J. Brown,jr., flying a Lockheed F-80
Shooting Star, downs a North Korean MiG-15 in history's first all-jet
aerial combat.
November 30,1951 : Maj. George A Davis,jr., becomes the first USAF ace of
two wars--World War II ( seven ) and Korea ( fourteen ).
November 1, 1952 : The United States tests its first thermonuclear device
at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. The device, code name "Mike" has a
yield of 10.4 million tons of TNT, 1000 times more powerful then the bomb
dropped on Hiroshima in World War II.
November 22,1952 : While leading a flight of four Lockheed F-80s on a
mission to dive bomb enemy gun positions that were harassing friendly
ground troops near Sniper Ridge, North Korea, Maj. Charles J Loring,jr.'s
aircraft is hit repeatedly as he verifies the position of the enemy guns.
His aircraft badly damaged, he turns and deliberately crashes into the
gun positions, destroying them completely. For his selfless action, Major
Loring is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
November 1,1953 : The Air Reserve Personnel Center is established at
Lowry, AFB CO.
November 6, 1953 : A Boeing B-47 Stratojet is flown from Limestone
(later Loring) AFB ME, to RAF Brize Norton, England, in four hours,
fifty-three minutes to establish a new transatlantic speed record from
the continental U.S.
November 20, 1953 : NACA test pilot Scott Crossfield becomes the first
pilot to exceed Mach 2. His Douglas D-588-II Skyrocket research plain is
dropped from a Navy P2B-1S (B-29) at ann altitude of 32.000 feet over
Edwards AFB, CA.
If you would like to add or share an experience , yours or someone else's
send it to me, I will include it next month, or the month it took place
Best Regards to all.. Have a Happy Thanksgiving Holiday!
