JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 6:01:15 PM
Subject: Right
I wonder if this is where that guy painting the picture was standing?
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Subject: Re: Finally
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
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Kerry Burgess wrote:
It'll take damn near a century to get this unscrewed right.
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the worst time is seeing the plane flying over and waiting..........
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Jaws (1975)
Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
Brody: What happened?
Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte... just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin', so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, it was kinda like old squares in the battle like you see in the calendar named "The Battle of Waterloo" and the idea was: shark comes to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark... he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living... until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I know how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. Noon, the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us... he was a young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he come in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down and starts to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened... waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water; 316 men come out and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
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Exercise Tiger
By Operational Archives, Naval Historical Center
"U.S. Toll in France is 70,009; 116,148 Total Allied Casualties." Stars and Stripes [European edition] 4, no. 237 (7 Aug. 1944): 1-2. (Includes a brief description of incident at Slapton Sands). [Original newspaper in collection of Stars and Stripes held by the Textual Reference Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740.]
In preparing for the Normandy Invasion, the United States Army conducted various training exercises at Slapton Sands in Start Bay and in the nearby Tor Bay, beginning on December 15, 1943. Slapton was an unspoiled beach of coarse gravel, fronting a shallow lagoon that was backed by bluffs that resembled Omaha Beach. After the people in the nearby village were evacuated, it was an almost perfect place to simulate the Normandy landings. The training was long and thorough. The culmination of the joint training program was a pair of full scale rehearsals in late April and early May.
TIGER was the code name of the training exercise for the Utah Beach assault forces under Admiral Don P. Moon. It was held from April 22-30, 1944. The troops and equipment embarked on the same ships and for the most part from the same ports from which they would later leave for France. Six of the days in the exercise were taken up by the marshaling of the troops and the embarkation of the landing craft. During the night of April 26-27, 1944, the main force proceeded through Lyme Bay with mine craft sweeping ahead of them as if crossing the channel. Since German E-boats, which were high-speed torpedo boats capable of operating at speeds of 34-36 knots, sometimes patrolled the channel at night, the British Commander in Chief, Plymouth, who was responsible for protecting the rehearsal, threw patrols across the mouth of Lyme Bay. These patrols consisted of two destroyers, three motor torpedo boats and two motor gunboats. Another motor torpedo patrol was sent to watch Cherbourg, the main ports where the German E-boats were based. Following the "bombardment" on Slapton Sands, the exercise "landings" were begun during the morning of April 27, and the unloading continued during the day and the next when a follow up convoy was expected.
This Convoy T-4 consisted of two sections from two different ports. The Plymouth section, LST Group 32, was composed of USS LST-515, USS LST-496, USS LST-511, USS LST-531, and USS LST-58, which was towing two pontoon causeways. The Brixham section consisted of USS LST-499, USS LST-289, and USS LST-507. The convoy joined with HMS Azalea as escort and proceeded at six knots in one column with the LSTs in the same order as listed above. When the convoy was maneuvering in Lyme Bay in the early hours of April 28, they were attacked by nine German E-boats out of Cherbourg that had evaded the Allied patrols. No warning of the presence of enemy boats had been received until LST-507 was torpedoed at 0204. The ship burst into flames, and survivors abandoned ship. Several minutes later LST-531 was torpedoed and sank in six minutes. LST-289, which opened fire at E-boats, was also torpedoed but was able to reach port. The other LSTs plus two British destroyers fired at the E-boats, which used smoke and high speed to escape. This brief action resulted in 198 Navy dead and missing and 441 Army dead and missing according to the naval action reports. Later Army reports gave 551 as the total number of dead and missing soldiers.
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Exercise Tiger
Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, were the code names for a full-scale rehearsal in 1944 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. During the exercise, an Allied convoy was attacked, resulting in the deaths of 946 American servicemen.
The first practice assaults took place on the morning of 27 April. These proceeded successfully, but early in the morning of 28 April, nine German E-boats that had left Cherbourg on patrol spotted a convoy of eight LSTs carrying vehicles and combat engineers of the 1st Engineer Special Brigade in Lyme Bay and attacked. One transport (LST-507) caught fire and was abandoned. LST-531 sank shortly after being torpedoed while LST-289 was set on fire but eventually made it back to shore. USS LST-511 was damaged by friendly fire. The remaining ships and their escort fired back and the E-boats made no more attacks. 638 servicemen were killed - 441 United States Army and 197 United States Navy personnel. Many servicemen drowned in the cold sea while waiting to be rescued.
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February 11, 2009 10:36 PM
30 Minutes That Changed Everything
(CBS) On July 19th, 1989, the tail engine of a Chicago-bound United DC-10 blew up, destroying the plane's navigation system. At this point, piloting the plane was like driving a car without steering or brakes. The two men in charge of flying the plane, pilot Al Haynes and United flight instructor Denny Fitch (who was, fortuitously, a passenger) were forced to use the two wing engines as navigation devices. By throttling the left engine up, they could slowly turn the plane to the right, and vice versa.
Despite the strain - they flew like this for half an hour - the two men stayed calm, and managed to get the plane to Sioux City, where an unused runway was available for landing. Capt. Haynes even managed to get a joke in as he prepared to attempt a landing. When the air traffic controller told him he was cleared to land on "any runway," Capt. Haynes responded with: "You wanna be particular and make it a runway, huh?"
In an amazing stroke of luck, United flight instructor Denny Fitch just happened to be a passenger on the plane. When the engine blew, he went to the cockpit to help the pilot fly the plane. (CBS)
On the flight were Debbie McKelvey and her two children, daughter Devon, 5, and son Ryan, 7, who were on their way from their home in Colorado to a family reunion in Pennsylvania. As the crippled plane made its way to Sioux City, she told her kids repeatedly that everything would be fine. That was not what she was thinking.
"I'm telling them what to do, I'm telling them to follow the instructions," said McKelvey, who now lives outside Charleston, South Carolina. "But in the back of my mind, it's going, 'Why am I even doing this?' Ryan kept saying, 'Are we gonna be okay?' And I'm going 'Yes.' But I'm thinking 'No.'"
When they hit the runway, at 250 miles per hour, almost twice as fast as a normal approach, the plane cartwheeled and burst into flames. But amazingly, 184 of the 296 people on board the flight survived. Among the survivors were McKelvey and her children.
That 30 minutes changed their lives. "People say, 'Oh, think you'll ever win the lottery?' I say 'I have." Surviving the crash, she says, gave her a deep appreciation for life, a recognition that has lasted through the past nine years.
But there were problems too. They had to deal with fear, and with survivor's guilt. The crash also caused problems in McKelvey's marriage; the experience created a gap between she and her husband, who had not been on the plane. "Without a doubt my children and I have a bond that I don't think anybody could penetrate," she says. "There's less than 200 of us that went through what we went through."
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Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991) (TV)
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Mines and underwater IEDS in U.S. ports and waterways: context, threats, challenges, and solutions
Naval War College Review, Wntr, 2008 by Scott C. Truver
On 18 February 1991, in the same waters, the helicopter assault ship USS Tripoli encountered an Iraqi contact mine, which blew a hole twenty-three feet by twenty-five in its starboard side. Four hours later, the Aegis guided-missile cruiser Princeton was almost broken in half by an Italian-made Manta bottom mine in approximately sixty- five feet of water. Princeton had to be taken out of the war, and the total cost to repair came to more than $110 million--all from a single mine costing about fifteen thousand dollars.
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Evans, Frank. "Princeton Leaves the War." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 117 July 1991): 70-72. Account of Princeton striking an Iraqi mine on 18 February 1991
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The Rookie Cop (1939)
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Homer at the Bat
Season 3, Episode 17, Aired 2/20/92
During a break, Homer eyes the nearby box of donuts and proceeds to pig out. He shrugs off Lenny's warning that eating so fast will make him start choking, and just then, he does. As Homer lumbers around choking, Lenny looks for the chart for the Heimlich maneuver when he sees a sign-up chart for company softball. After Homer coughs out the donut, he goes to immediately sign up and asks if anyone else will be next. Lenny, Carl and Charlie all decline, but they soon change their minds after Homer tells them that he has a "secret weapon".
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Homer at the Bat
Lenny looks at the company bulletin board, on which is a Heimlich Maneuver poster. ``Hey, look at this!'' But he was referring to the softball team sign-up sheet. Homer finally dislodges the donut and eagerly signs up. He invites the others to sign up as well, but they don't share his enthusiasm.
Lenny: Homer, last year, we were 2 and 28.
Homer: Look, I know it wasn't our best season...
Lenny: Actually, it was.
-- Room for improvement, ``Homer at the Bat''
Homer tells them that this year will be different. He has a secret weapon. The other employees muse about what this weapon could possibly be...
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