Tuesday, August 21, 2007
I've got a bunch of these I hadn't posted:
Airmen Missing in Action from Vietnam War are Identified
On Jan. 3, 1971, these men crewed an F-4E Phantom II aircraft departing Korat Royal Thai Air Force Base on a nighttime strike mission of enemy targets in Savannakhet Province, Laos. Shortly after Ayres initiated a target run, the crew of other aircraft in the flight observed a large explosion. No one witnessed an ejection or heard beeper signals, and communication was lost with the aircraft. Hostile activity in the area prevented search and rescue attempts...
Soldiers Mia From Vietnam War Are Accounted For
...On Jan. 5, 1968, these men crewed a UH-1D helicopter that was inserting a patrol into Savannakhet Province, Laos. As the aircraft approached the landing zone, it was struck by enemy ground fire, causing it to nose over and crash. There were no survivors. All attempts to reach the site over the next several days were repulsed by enemy fire...
Soldier Missing In Action From The Korean War Is Identified
...In November 1950, Bunchuk was assigned to Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division then occupying a defensive position southwest of Unsan, North Korea near a bend in the Kuryong River known as the Camel’s Head. On Nov. 1, parts of two Chinese Communist Divisions struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. In the process, the 3rd Battalion was surrounded and effectively ceased to exist as a fighting unit. Bunchuk was one of the more than 350 servicemen unaccounted-for from the battle at Unsan...
Air Force Pilot Missing From Vietnam War Is Identified
On June 2, 1967, Rockett and his co-pilot, Capt. Daniel L. Carrier, crewed the number two aircraft in a flight of two F-4Cs flying an armed reconnaissance mission over Quang Binh Province, North Vietnam. During their bomb run, anti-aircraft ground fire was observed, but Rockett reported that his aircraft was not hit. When the lead aircraft completed its bomb run, the flight leader told Rockett to return to base, but moments later, he saw a large fireball in his rear-view mirror. He made several radio calls to Rockett, but did not hear or see anything from the aircraft. Due to the dangerous location, there were no further search and rescue attempts...
Sorry, it is off the topic, but there was some interest in Joachim Martillo's background.
Based on his own writing, it seems he is an Arab, not a sephardy Jew.
If you go to Google groups and type in Martillo Ajami you'll be able to find a lot of interesting messages from the past.
Here is a message I refer to:
In fact, considering one culture superior to another is perfectly
reasonable. Only bigoted ignorantsia who intend to dump on modern
Western Yankee Enlightenment-based culture claim "moral" equivalence of
all cultures and in fact even these yo-yos refrain from making this
claim about Nazi culture or Stalinist culture not to mention Aztec
culture in which human sacrifice also played a major part. In fact,
Yankees had to modify traditional German and Japanese culture in major
ways in order to render their nations reasonable members of the world
community. Unfortunately, for the dogmatic multiculturalists most
people know rather too much about these disgusting cultures to tolerate
the usual multiculturalist claim.
Unfortunately, most people don't seem to know much about E.Asian
(chopstick) culture or Arab/Islamic culture, but as a person of Syrian
Arab Muslim background whose family has traded in E. Asia for
centuries, I know a heap about both culture spheres and they both are
essentially piles of shit. When someone points to some feature of
Arab/Islamic culture or to some feature of E. Asian culture and claims
that this feature is of value, almost invariably this feature has no
origin in traditional Arab/Islamic culture or in traditional E. Asian
culture but in fact this feature is a result of Western influence or
domination. The world needs more Yankee imperialism to completely
eradicate these mindlessly stupid cultures. The world would become a
much better place for everybody.
Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami
Hi, I was recently cleaning out my grandfathers house and found a metal bracelet with maj. Alton Rocketts Jr.'s name on it with the date 6-2-67. Was wondering if there is any family that would want it. My email is Koriannie86@yahoo.com