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TODAY 29 MARCH IS NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY
This day was set aside by Presidential Proclamation to honor the more than 4,000,000 Americans who…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED LEST WE FORGET—FINAL POST
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“GANGWAY, INTRUDER CREWS” A LOOK BACK AT MY 1991 REVIEW OF “FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER”
Faithful Scribe was shuffling through the Rolling Thunder archives on Mount Ogden and found an old…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… MEMORIAL DAY 2020…
As the sunsets on this MEMORIAL DAY, the third Monday in May 2020, I have a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED THE ODYSSEY OF CAPTIN ROBERT “BO” SMITH USN (RET.)
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAY 29 MARCH 2020
A NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE… to remember a war begun in 1961 that saw more than…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WINTER 2019 HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
SEASON’s GREETINGS from the Bear’s Den on Mount Ogden… Good Morning… It is Monday, 9 December…
NATIONAL POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2019
The United States’ National POW/MIA Recognition Day is observed across the nation on the third Friday…
COMMANDO HUNT and ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… MEMORIAL DAY 1969… LEST WE FORGET…
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)…with an URGENT MESSAGE for the PRESIDENT, National…
ROLLING THUNDER AND COMMANDO HUNT REMEMBERED 5 FEBRUARY 2019 UPDATE ON POST STATUS
Humble Host will be coming off n0 and light duty (including care-giver duty and cataract surgery)…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED NOTICE OF TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF POSTS
19 NOVEMBER 2018… HUMBLE HOST REGRETS AN UNPLANNED INTERRUPTION IN POSTING OF BLOGS COMMEMORATING THE 50TH…
FIFTY YEARS AGO-REMEMBERING A MONTH OF THE VIETNAM WAR OCTOBER 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER and COMMANDO HUNT REMEMBERED……
FIFTY YEARS AGO–REMEMBERING A MONTH OF THE VIETNAM WAR SEPTEMBER 1969
COMMANDO HUNT and ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… (15-30 Sept 69)… LEST WE FORGET… VIETNAM WAR BATTLE DEATHS…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8-14 SEPTEMBER 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1-7 SEPTEMBER 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)…and WISHING ALL a THANKSGIVING WEEK OF GIVING…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25-31 AUGUST 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18-24 AUGUST 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11-17 AUGUST 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4-10 AUGUST 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JULY-3 AUGUST 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21-27 JULY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14-20 JULY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7-13 JULY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, Friday, 11 July…”U.S….
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JUNE-6 JULY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, Friday, 4 July…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23-29 JUNE 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… The New York Times…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16-22 JUNE 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… THE NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9-15 JUNE 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, Friday, 13 June…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2-8 JUNE 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET MEMORIAL DAY 1969… Following…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 MAY-1 JUNE 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… The NEW YORK TIMES,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19-25 MAY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… THE BATTLE FOR HAMBURGER…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12-18 MAY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… “No man is an…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5-11 MAY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… FOR THE WEEK ENDING…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 APRIL-4 MAY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… IT WAS “THE BEST…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21-27 April 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… NYT, 25 April 1969,…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14-20 APRIL 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… IN THE WEEK ENDING…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7-13 APRIL 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… (1961-1973)… LEST WE FORGET… DURING THE WEEK ENDING…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 MARCH-6 APRIL 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… AMERICAN LOSSES, KILLED-IN-ACTION, FOR…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24-30 MARCH 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… LEST WE FORGET… AMERICAN WARRIOR LOSSES IN…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10-16 MARCH 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the VIETNAM WAR…1961-1973… AND THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY… LEST WE…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3-9 MARCH 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… On Memorial Day 1969 the Editorial Page…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 FEBRUARY-2 MARCH 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY of the VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… DURING THE WEEK ENDING 23 FEBRUARY 1969…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17-23 FEBRUARY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR…(1961-1973)… DURING THE WEEK ENDING 16 FEBRUARY 1969 AMERICAN…
ROLLING THUNDER AND COMMANDO HUNT REMEMBERED THE AIR WAR SHIFTS FROM THE NORTH TO THE TRAIL
AN OLD WARRIOR’S REMEMBRANCE OF THE VIETNAM AIR WAR OF 1965-1972 CONTINUES: COMMANDO HUNT I THROUGH…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10-16 FEBRUARY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… IN THE WEEK ENDING 9 FEBRUARY 1969…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3-9 FEB 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR: 1961-1973… DURING THE WEEK ENDING 1 FEBRUARY 1969…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JANUARY-2 FEBRUARY 1969
AMERICAN LOSSES–KILLED IN COMBAT–ZIPPED THROUGH 31,000 THIS WEEK WITH THE DEATHS OF 190 BRAVE G.I.s ON…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20-26 JANUARY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 18 JANUARY 1969, 196…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13-19 JANUARY 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… THROUGH THE WEEK ENDING 17 JANUARY 1969 A…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6-12 JANUARY 1969
AMERICAN LOSSES –KILLED-IN-ACTION– LAST WEEK WERE REPORTED AT 101 TO RAISE TOTAL KIA IN THE VIETNAM…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 DEC 1968-5 JAN 1969
AS 1968 CAME TO A CLOSE THE TOTAL OF AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN KILLED-IN-ACTION IN VIETNAM TOPPED…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 TO 23 DECEMBER 1968
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 4 DECEMBER 1968, TWO…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10-16 DECEMBER 1968
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 27 NOVEMBER 1968, 192…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3-9 DECEMBER 1968
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… IN THE WEEK ENDING 30 NOVEMBER 1968, 228…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 NOVEMBER-2 DECEMBER 1968
AMERICAN WAR-FIGHTERS KILLED IN SOUTHEAST ASIA THROUGH 25 NOVEMBER 1968 TOTALED 29,438 with the addition of…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18-24 NOVEMBER 1968
GOOD MORNING. It’s Monday, 18 February 2019. Humble Host remembers: the VIETNAM WAR of FIFTY YEARS…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 NOVEMBER 1968
OPERATION COMMANDO HUNT SUCCEEDED OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER as the plan to “decrease the logistical flow from…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12-17 NOVEMBER 1968
GOOD MORNING. It’s Monday, 11 February 2019. Humble Host remembers: COMMANDO HUNT Week ONE of 177……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 NOVEMBER 1968
VETERANS DAY 1968… FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 1968, OPED, Page 46… Quoted……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 NOVEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #971.. (100+) SAIGON, NOV 1 (AP)– UNITED STATES PLANES CARRIED OUT DAYLIGHT MISSIONS AGAINST…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #970… “THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION” PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON “EVER MADE.”… “In a speech…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #969… THE DECISION HAD BEEN MADE: THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM–OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER–WILL END….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #968… SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLARK CLIFFORD SPARED NO CRITICISM OF VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON’s…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #967… HUMBLE HOST on station on a Saturday Night for a short post… While …
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #966… HUMBLE HOST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO THE TAIL END YANKEE AIR PIRATES…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #965… THE STORM IS MOVING ON. THE GREAT STREAKS AND CRASH OF LIGHTNING HAVE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 OCTOBER 1968
HUMBLE HOST SALUTES ONE OF THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE… COLONEL RAMON ANTON HORINEK, USAF (Retired)…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #963… THE DAYS OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER ARE NUMBERED–8 … NOT MUCH STRIKE WARFARE,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #962… THE NEW YORK TIMES WAS UNIMPRESSED WITH GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE’S CHOICE FOR HIS VICE PRESIDENTIAL…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #961…THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21-OCT-68, Page 13… “VISITOR REPORTS ON LIFE IN HANOI–City Still…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #960… HUMBLE HOST COMES BACK TO DEMOCRAT JULES WITCOVER’s THE YEAR THE DREAM DIED:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #959… HUMBLE HOST VISITS THE SPORTS PAGES OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #958… HUMBLE HOST BRINGS FORTH FROM OCTOBER 1968 A POINT OF VIEW FOR 2018…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #957… HUMBLE HOST BEGS YOUR INDULGENCE… OPPORTUNITY KNOCKED AND I ANSWERED–I DROPPED EVERYTHING AND …
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #956… THE “EXCITEMENT IS BUILDING” AND THE PROSPECTS FOR THE START OF “SERIOUS TALKS”…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #955… IN 2003 “THE JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION VOLUMES” were added to the State Department’s Historical…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #954… AT THE FOREIGN POLICY GROUP MEETING WHITE HOUSE, 15 OCTOBER 1968…PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAID:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #953… 14 OCTOBER 1968 GENERATED MORE HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION CONCERNING OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER THAN ANY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #952… THE PACE OF PEACE TALK WAS ACCELERATING–IN PARIS, SAIGON, HANOI, WASHINGTON AND MOSCOW–AND…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #951… ON THE ONE HAND, THE PEACE NEGOTIATORS HAVE FOUND A LITTLE COMMON GROUND…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #950… IN JULY 1986 GENERAL CURTIS LeMAY WAS ASKED BY A USA TODAY WRITER…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #949… ON 8 OCTOBER 1968 THE NYT TURNED A PHRASE OF SECRETARY OF STATE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #948… FIFTY YEARS AGO THE SHOULDERING OF US NAVY WARSHIPS WAS BY SOVIET KASHINs…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #947… STATE DEPARTMENT INSTRUCTIONS FOR OUR NEGOTIATOR and “NORTH KOREA SAYS PUEBLO CREW MADE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #946… TWENTY-FOUR DAYS OF ROLLING THUNDER TO GO… On this historic day in 2018…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #945… ON 6 OCTOBER 1967 A GREAT WARRIOR, THE SON OF A GREAT WARRIOR–LT….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #944… ON 5 OCTOBER 1965–53 YEARS AGO THIS DAY– MAJOR DEAN ANDREW POGREBA, USAF, 36th…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #943… HUMBLE HOST IS POWER OFF… SHORT POST… Good Morning…Day NINE HUNDRED FORTY THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 OCTOBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #942… EAVESDROPPING AT THE WHITE HOUSE…Ten Historical Documents (30 September to 3 October) that tell…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 OCTOBER 1968
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE of thoughts about the great events and people of the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 OCTOBER 1968
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED FORTY of daily posts to mark the 50th anniversary of Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 SEPTEMBER 1968
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE of a return to the years of Operation Rolling Thunder,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 SEPTEMBER 1968
GOOD MORNING…Day NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT of a review of the 1000 days of Operation Rolling Thunder,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 SEPTEMBER 1968
GOOD MORNING… Day NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of a daily remembrance of the events and warriors of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #936… “DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: FOR THE COMPELLING REASONS THAT I HAVE EXPLAINED TO YOU,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #935… ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1966, CAPTAIN ARTHUR T. BALLARD, F-105D DRIVER WITH THE 13TH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 SEPTEMBER 1968
FOREMOST: A SALUTE TO MAJOR CLIFTON E. CUSHMAN, USAF (1938- 25 September 1966) and his gift, a letter: A CHALLENGE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #933… ON THE AFTERNOON OF 24 SEPTEMBER 1968 SENATOR EVERETT DIRKSEN CALLED ON PRESIDENT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #932… NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Bernard Weinraub reporting from Saigon. But first… GOOD MORNING……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #931… LIGHT COPY… AND A BIT OF THE NIXON-AGNEW TICKET NON-POSITION ON VIETNAM… GOOD MORNING…Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #930… CAPTAIN DUANE WHITNEY MARTIN, USAF (2 JAN 1940–3 JULY 1966) was presented the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #929… HUMBLE HOST IS A DAY EARLY. FRIDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER IS THE OFFICIAL DAY,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #928… ON 19 SEPTEMBER 1968 THE VIETNAM WAR PEACE NEGOTIATORS MET FOR THE 22nd…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #927… ON THE WEEKEND OF 14-15 SEPTEMBER 1968 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLARK CLIFFORD AND…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED… 17 SEPTEMBER 1968… A WAR WITHOUT AN EXIT STRATEGY, IS A WAR WITHOUT END…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 SEPTEMBER 1968
A POST REMEMBERING THE FINAL FLIGHT OF COLONEL JOHN L. ROBERTSON, USAF, WHO PERISHED 52 YEARS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #924…NYT, 15-SEPT-68, Page 1: “AMERICAN LEGION HAWKISH ON WAR–URGES ‘MAXIMUM’ MILITARY EFFORT IF PARIS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #923… NYT, 14-SEPT-68, BANNER HEADLINE, Page 1: “GEN. WARE KILLED IN VIETNAM–WON MEDAL OF…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #923… SPHERES OF INFLUENCE… “IN THE FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS A SPHERE OF INFLUENCE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #922… FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1985: LIEUTENANT GENERAL EUGENE TIGHE, USAF (Retired), Former Director…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #921… ON 11 SEPTEMBER 1968 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF presented…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #920… HUMBLE HOST HAS PULLED THE DOCUMENT THAT PROVIDED SECRETARY CLIFFORD THE JOINT CHIEF’S COMMENTS ON…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #919… ON 31 MARCH 1968 PRESIDENT JOHNSON DREW THE LINE ON ROLLING THUNDER OPS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #918… “NOW I WANT YOU TO KNOW ONE THING. IF I DON’T HAVE ANYBODY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #917… A DIALOGUE OF THE DEAF: “…a situation in which people share their views…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #916… NYT, 6-SEPT-68, PAGE 1: “408 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN A WEEK–Toll is Highest…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #915… AT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ANTI-VIETNAM WAR PROTESTERS WENT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #914…EBB TIDE: “the tide at ebb; a period of decline”… “JOHNSON FEELS THE LIMITS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #913… THE FALL OF 1968 WAS A TIME OF TRANSITION FROM ORDERLY TO CHAOTIC…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #912… THE LAST TWO MONTHS OF ROLLING THUNDER TOLD IN TWO PAGES FROM THE HISTORY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 SEPTEMBER 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #911.. MEDDLE: “TO INTERFERE WITHOUT RIGHT OR PROPRIETY”… TAMPER: “TO INTERFERE SO AS TO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #910… THE AIR FORCE SOUTHEAST ASIA MONOGRAPH SERIES includes an essay entitled “The Air Force…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #909… THE WEEKLY U.S. CASUALTIES ARE IN: 308 KIA AND 1,134 WIA…BUT THAT’S OK,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #908… IN MY THOUGHTS THIS 29 AUGUST… LTJG MIKE ALLARD; CAPTAIN KEN ROBINSON and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #907… A POLITICAL PARTY PLATFORM IS A FORMAL SET OF PRINCIPLE GOALS WHICH ARE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #906… AND A NEW YORK TIMES READER WRITES: “TO THE EDITOR: The ruthless Soviet…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #905… THE ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES DELIGHT IN OUR DEMOCRATIC FREE-FOR-ALL GENERAL ELECTION…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #904… THE DEMOCRATS WERE MUSTERED IN CHICAGO TO SELECT THEIR CANDIDATE TO RUN AGAINST…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #903 … WOODY HAYES (According to Darrell Royal): “THREE THINGS CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU THROW…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #902… “”THE BOMBING OF NORTH VIETNAM” WAS THE ISSUE OF THE MONTH. The political…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #901… ON 22 AUGUST 1968 AMBASSADOR AVERELL HARRIMAN, THE SENIOR NEGOTIATOR FOR THE UNITED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #900… ON 21 AUGUST 1967, SKIPPER PROFILET LED HIS A-6 INTRUDERS ON A ROLLING…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #899… THE USUAL BUNCH GATHERED FOR LUNCH AT THE WHITE HOUSE ON TUESDAY, 20…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #898… ON THE EVENING OF 19 AUGUST 1968 PRESIDENT JOHNSON SPOKE TO THE VETERANS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #897… A READER’S LETTER ON PEACE TALKS, A COLUMNIST GETS AN OPINION FROM A…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #896… FIFTY YEARS AGO, ON 17 AUGUST 1968, CAPTAIN RICHARD G. RUTAN, USAF, “MISTY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #895… HUMBLE HOST HAS A FEW WORDS IN SUPPORT OF THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND…but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #894…Humble Host is a half-day late and missed the usual 3AM deadline… the old…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #893… AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS, VEHICLE ACCIDENTS, DISEASE, HOMICIDES, STROKES, DROWNINGS, SUICIDES: the other enemies of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #892… HUMBLE HOST SPENT SUNDAY IN THE HANGAR IN HARD DOWN STATUS … UTAH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #890… IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE EVERY VOICED OR WRITTEN CRITICISM REQUIRED A COMPANION “BETTER IDEA.”…….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO…#889… ON THE NIGHT OF 11-12 AUGUST 1965 LTJG DON BROWN’s VA-23 “BLACK KNIGHT” A-4E…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #888… 9 JULY 1968: MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence; SUBJECT: New Book: THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #887… AMONG THE MANY BEAUTIES OF TACTICAL AVIATION IS THE FACT THAT THE MORE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #886… TO WHICH THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID: “YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHEN THEY WILL…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #885… Humble Host respectfully requests a mite of forbearance… a 50 year old news…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #884… NYT, MIAMI BEACH, 5 AUG– “A SMILING NIXON ARRIVES, CONFIDENT OF NOMINATION”… “With a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #883… A WEEKEND BOOK REPORT… AMERICAN IMPERIALISM: A Speculative Essay by Ernest R. May…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #882… WHEN LAST WE LEFT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLIFFORD (7/68) … “After five months of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 AUGUST 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #881… PROPAGANDA: “IDEAS, FACTS, OR ALLEGATIONS SPREAD DELIBERATELY TO FURTHER ONE’S CAUSE OR TO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 AUGUST 1968
GOOD MORNING… Day EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY of a strike-fighter’s contribution to the commemoration of the 50th…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 AUGUST 1968
On this day HUMBLE HOST SALUTES: BGEN KENNETH WALTER NORTH, USAF (1930-2010) and the dynamic duo…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 JULY 1968
RTR SALUTES: COLONEL WILLIAM DAVID BURROUGHS, USAF (1932-1999) and COMMANDER CHARLES P. ZUHOSKI, USN (retired)… RIPPLE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JULY 1968
HIGHLIGHT: 50 YEARS AGO COMMANDER GUY CANE, VF-53, BAGGED A MiG-17… oohrah… RIPPLE SALVO… #877… JULY 30…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #876… ON 29 JULY 1967 DISASTER STRUCK THE USS FORRESTAL … For 29 July…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #875… ON 28 JULY 1967, FIRST LIEUTENANT KARL W. RICHTER, USAF, WAS KILLED IN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #874… THIS IS THE 53rd ANNIVERSARY OF ONE OF THE MOST TRAGIC LESSONS OF…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #873… A VOICE FROM THE NOT TOO DISTANT PAST–PAUL HARVEY. AND WHAT A VOICE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #872… HUMBLE HOST SPENDS MORE TIME IN THE WEBER COUNTY LIBRARY EVERY WEEK THAN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #871… HUMBLE HOST HAS LOST FOCUS… FROM EVERY CORNER COMES BAD NEWS–GRIZZLIES ARE MISBEHAVING…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #870… AN INDELIBLE LESSON FROM THE VIETNAM WAR… SELECTIVE SERVICE!!!…THE DRAFT… We entered the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #869… SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL (short one)… ABRAHAM LINCOLN: “People are about as happy as…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #868… HUMBLE HOST IS IN THE GRIP OF A REMEMBRANCE OF SAN FRANCISCO IN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #867… “…DON’T FORGET THE VIETNAM POW’s AND MIAs”… That was the “header” for the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #866… TREATY: ” AN AGREEMENT MADE BY NEGOTIATION OR DIPLOMACY BETWEEN TWO OR MORE STATES…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #865… ANOTHER WAY TO SAY “ON THE SKIDS” WOULD BE: “ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE”……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 JULY 1968
THE QUESTION OF EARLY RELEASE — the “repatriation proposition”– for American POWs of the North Vietnamese……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #863… AS THE LEADERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA MEET EYE-TO-EYE IN HELSINKI…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #862… “JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1970) THE FEW MEN STILL BEING HELD IN THE HEARTBREAK…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO…#861… HUMBLE HOST’s applecart remains topsyturvy and under repair… In the interim, I am pleased…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #860… PAUSES IN ROLLING THUNDER OPERATIONS– BOMBING HALTS– WERE PART OF A STRATEGY OF…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #859… “THE VARMINT CALLER”… HUMBLE HOST IS RECALLING A FOGGY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #858… NEW YORK TIMES, 12 JULY 1968, Page 4: “2nd MIG SHOT DOWN OVER…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #857… SUN TZU: THE ART OF WAR… “IF YOU KNOW THE ENEMY AND YOU…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #856… IN 1969 NOVELIST FLETCHER KNEBEL WROTE A NOVEL TITLED TRESPASS. The story line imagined…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #855… PETER BRAESTRUP WAS THE PREMIER JOURNALIST IN-COUNTRY DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. How do…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #854… ON 7 JULY 1966 CAPTAIN JACK HARVEY TOMES MADE HIS LAST STRIKE SORTIE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SURVIVAL… #853… COMMENTATOR MAX LERNER, 1975… “THE PARAMOUNT PURPOSE OF A NATION IS SURVIVAL… ”…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #852… ON 5 JULY 1968 A FORMATION OF F-4D PHANTOMS OF THE 433rd TFS and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JULY 1968
WE CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY… “as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #850… ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES CHIEF OF STAFF, AND THE HERO OF THE SINAI PENINSULA CAMPAIGN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #849… “DOES THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS?”… “Life and how you live it is…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 JULY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #848… ON HIS FIRST MISSION AS A COMBAT SAR PARARESCUEMAN (Jumper) AIRMAN JOEL TALLEY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #847… “THE BULLPUP WAS THE FIRST MASS-PRODUCED AIR-SURFACE COMMAND GUIDED MISSILE, IT WAS FIRST…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JUNE 1968
…AND A REMEMBRANCE OF COLONEL JAMES HELMS KASLER, USAF (1926-2014)… RIPPLE SALVO… #846… “A BODY COUNT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JUNE 1968
… AND A REMEMBRANCE OF VICE ADMIRAL WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE, USN (1930-2005)… RIPPLE SALVO… #845… “KHESAHN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #844… ON 27 JUNE 1966 LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GENE ALBERT SMITH LAUNCHED FROM USS CONSTELLATION…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #843… BOMBING TO WIN: AIR POWER AND COERCION IN WAR, author Robert A. Pape’s…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #842… FROM THOMAS POWERS’ VIETNAM: THE WAR AT HOME: “OPPONENTS OF THE WAR FOUND…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #841… “PUBLIC OPINION TOOK A JOLT ON JUNE 24 (1968) WHEN A YOUNG CORRESPONDENT IN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #840… “WALKING ON WATER IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SUPERHUMAN TASK. IT MAY REFER…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #839… One year ago this day Ripple Salvo #474 posted the tale of the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #838… “THE SILENCE OF THE PRESIDENT’S CRITICS ON THE BOMBING OF SAIGON,”she answered, and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #837… A short letter to the Editor of the New York Times dated 11…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #836… THIS WEEK FIFTY YEARS AGO The New York Times’ JAMES RESTON wrote a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #835… GEORGE C. HERRING is the source for this Salvo… “The circumstances of the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #834… AUTHOR JULES WITCOMB’s THE YEAR THE DREAM DIED: Revisiting 1968 in America, makes…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #833… NYT, 16 JUNE 1968, PAGE 1: “NEW FIGHT FLARES AT SAIGON’S EDGE; SHELLING…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #832… ON 2 JULY 1968 THE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #831… ON THE 53rd ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY LARRY GUARINO WENT TO JAIL… IN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #831… NO, THAT WAS NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP, WHO, ON 12 JUNE 2018, WAS GETTING THE BALL…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #830… PRESIDENT”S DAILY BRIEF for 12 JUNE 1968 (CIA TS-SI declass)…SOUTH VIETNAM: “The persistent…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #829… AMONG THE BRAVE: COLONEL HERVEY STUDDIFORD STOCKMAN, USAF (1922-2011)… On 11 June 1967 Lieutenant Colonel Stockman,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #828… “HEADING HOME…HAVING SERVED FIFTY-FOUR MONTHS IN VIETNAM, IN ADDITION TO THIRTY-NINE MONTHS ABROAD…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #827… STATE DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF HISTORIAN. HISTORICAL DOCUMENT. FOREIGN RELATIONS. VIETNAM 1964-68. DOCUMENT 265….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #825… THE KOSYGIN LETTER OF 6 JUNE 1968. ROSTOW to LBJ: “THE ATTACHED LETTER TO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #824… THE 74th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY HAS COME AND GONE. THE SCENES FROM WASHINGTON…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #823… FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO THIS DAY NAVY LT. CHARLES FREDERICK KLUSMANN, FLYING AN RF-8A…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #822… WEDNESDAY MORNING, 5 JUNE 1968 NYT: “KENNEDY SHOT AND GRAVELY WOUNDED”… NYT, OPED,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #821… NYT, 2 JUNE 1968… “JOHNSON GETS THE WORD FROM PARIS AND SAIGON”… In…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #820… NYT, 26 MAY 1968: “CONFLICTING PRESSURES…This year the weariness has been compounded by frustration. Congress…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #819… ON SUNDAY, 2 JUNE 1968, ABC WITH FRANK REYNOLDS as moderator, TELEVISED A PACKED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 JUNE 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #818… AP (27 May 2017): “AFTER 52 YEARS, THE REMAINS OF A NAVY PILOT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #817… TALES OF GREAT COURAGE FROM 31 MAY DAYS-AND-NIGHTS OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER…The stories…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #816… THE RTR POST FOR 25 MAY, INCLUDING RIPPLE SALVO #811, CITED TWO REFERENCES…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #815… BALTIMORE, MAY 17…NINE OPPONENTS OF THE VIETNAM WAR, SIX OF THEM PRESENT OR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #814… “A DAY TO REMEMBER”… “Memorial Day is all the more poignant in time…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #813… NO SUGAR COATING FROM THE PRESIDENT’S SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (PSAC) IN THEIR 27…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #812… AND THE QUESTION WAS:… WHAT ARE OUR VIETNAM WAR PEACE NEGOTIATORS DOING THESE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #811… FROM SECRETARY CLARK CLIFFORD’S MEMOIR COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT…and State Department Historical Document #241…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #810… GENERAL GEORGE PATTON, JR. WAS AN ADVOCATE FOR THE CLASSIC FLANKING MANEUVER–Hold the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #809… “MILITARIZED”– “THE HEAVY FIGHTING AND TROOP MOVEMENTS AROUND AND IN THE VIETNAM DEMILITARIZED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #808… NYT, 24 MAY 68, Page 1: “JOHNSON SAYS U.S. WON’T LET FOE WIN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #807… WITH HIS 31 MARCH 1968 SPEECH TO THE NATION PRESIDENT JOHNSON TOOK HIMSELF…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… XUAN THUY for NORTH VIETNAM: “President Johnson has been asked the question: ‘Who has…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #805… “TASK FORCE OMEGA, INC. IS IN THE FOREFRONT OF NATIONAL PRISONER OF WAR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #804… HUMBLE HOST IS OLD. I HAVE BEEN AROUND SO LONG I KNOW WHAT’S…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #803… COLONEL JAMES HAGERSTROM, Director of Air Control Systems at Udorn in 1968… “If…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #802… WITH THE PRESIDENT’S 31 MARCH 1968 DECISION TO LIMIT ROLLING THUNDER TO TARGETS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #801… HUMBLE HOST CALLS IT FORTUITOUS THAT THIS REVIEW OF THE PEACE TALKS WHILE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #800… OOHRAH… A GREAT OCCASION TO VISIT OUR POWs… Where are the POWs on the agenda…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #799… AH, THE IRONY OF IT ALL… DRAW A TEN TO TWENTY-FIVE MILE CIVILIAN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #798… AT THE SAME TIME–MAY 1968–SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLIFFORD WAS PUTTING TOGETHER THE “STRONGEST…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #797… SECRETARY OF STATE CLIFFORD: THE PRESIDENT’S DILEMMA WAS WANTING AN HONORABLE EXIT FROM…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #796… BEATEN AT KHE SANH THE NORTH VIETNAMESE PULLED BACK IN TO THE LAOTIAN MOUNTAINS TO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALV0… #795… IN THE HALCYON DAYS FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN ARRANGED A…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #794… 8 MAY 1968 MESSAGE FROM VADM HORACE H. EPES, JR. to HELICOPTER COMBAT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #793… ON 4 APRIL 1968 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. WAS ASSASSINATED IN MEMPHIS,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #792… NEW YORK TIMES, 5 MAY 1968: “The United States had a reasonable case…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #791… THE NEW YORK TIMES WEIGHS IN WITH A “GRAY LADY” OPINION… RTR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #790… LET THE PEACE TALKS BEGIN…. IN PARIS… but first… GOOD MORNING: Day SEVEN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #789… ON 3 MAY 1968 THE NEW YORK TIMES USED FOUR FULL PAGES (31-34)…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #788… “DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPROMISE OF OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE BROADCAST MESSAGE ON BOARD USS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 MAY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #787… “MAY: PASSIONS RISING” is the title hung on Chapter Six of Jules Witcover’s THE YEAR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #786… “THE HORRORS OF WAR”… WHEN GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE MADE THE DECISION TO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #785… POLITICAL WRITER AND COLUMNIST HENRY J. TAYLOR PULLED NO PUNCHES IN HIS COMMENTARY on…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #784… SYNDICATED COLUMNIST JOSEPH ALSOP WAS PUT TO TEARS ATTENDING AN ARMY AWARDS CEREMONY AT LANDING…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #783… REMEMBER PROFESSIONAL BOXER ARCHIE MOORE?… WON 186 OF 219 PRO FIGHTS WITH 141…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #782… “NICHOLAS VON HOFFMAN, THE SAUL ALINSKY (RULES FOR RADICALS) DISCIPLE TURNED NEWSPAPER REPORTER…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #781 (continued)… “THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROTESTS OF 1968 WERE ONE AMONG THE VARIOUS DEMONSTRATIONS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #780… WHILE THE FORD MOTOR CO. WAS TURNING OUT 1966, ’67 AND ’68 MUSTANGS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #779… NATIONAL COLUMNIST AND HISTORIAN HOLMES ALEXANDER MAKES THE CASE: “A real state of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #778… FIFTY-TWO YEARS AGO THIS DAY, 22 APRIL 1966, CAPTAIN CHARLES GRAHAM BOYD, USAF,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #777… WILLIAM STRAUSS an NEIL HOWE… wrote in 1997… “AN AMERICAN PROPHECY“ … “Around the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 APRIL 1968
HUMBLE HOST NOTE: rollingthunderremembered for 19 April 1968 (Ripple Salvo #775) was posted PM 19 April…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #775… In 1997 WILLIAM STRAUSS and NEIL HOWE published “THE FOURTH TURNING, An American…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #774… THE ROLLING THUNDER OPS ANALYSIS GURUS HAD IT FIGURED OUT. The odds of getting…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #773… IN APRIL 1968 THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT WAS WORKING HARD TO GET NEGOTIATIONS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #772… IT WAS ONE OF THOSE TIMES, APRIL 1968, WHEN OUR COUNTRY MET THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #771… ON 15 APRIL 1968 AMERICAN ESSAYIST HENRY J. TAYLOR POSTED A COLUMN TITLED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #770… (1) HUMBLE HOST COMMENTS ON THE ATTACK ON SYRIAN WMD TARGETS….and… (2) COLUMNIST HENRY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #769… PRINCETON-EDUCATED MAYOR OF SHANGHAI K.C. WU QUOTED IN 1945 ON AMERICAN IMPATIENCE WITH THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #768… CYRUS LEO SULZBERGER, “A PRIZE-WINNING FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS COLUMNIST FOR THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #767… WALTER LaFEBER’s THE DEADLY BET: LBJ, VIETNAM AND THE 1968 ELECTIONS: Borrowing and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #766… “THE BOOM OF THE FIRST AMERICAN BOMB IN NORTH VIETNAM IN 1964 SIGNALED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #765… A 1966 BOOK BY EDMUND STILLMAN and WILLIAM PFAFF… Humble Host quotes a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #764… A JOSEPH ALSOP REPORT FROM THE MARINE BASTION and an ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #763… “AMERICANS CANNOT SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS OF THE WORLD”… A Congressman responds to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #762… A 1972 Cornell University study concluded that “a cessation of U.S. air activity…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #761… President Johnson drew the line on Rolling Thunder operations in his 31 March…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #760… THE SEVEN DAY BATTLE REPORT … AND… A REQUEST FOR “ARDENT PRAYER” by…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #759… THE TET OFFENSIVE and the SIEGE OF KHESANH… where the allies won the battles–tactical successes–but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #758… ALASKA’s JUNIOR SENATOR MIKE GRAVEL was instrumental, a driving force, in publishing “THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 APRIL 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #757… THE SPEECH: LBJ SAYS: DE-ESCALATE, AND IT’S SOMEBODY ELSE’S TURN TO DEAL WITH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO…#756… THE FINAL MONTHS OF THE STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER…and a historical document…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #755… SELECTING THE TARGETS FOR VIETNAM AIR STRIKE OPERATIONS… THE WHITE HOUSE LUNCH BUNCH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #754… THE JCS TARGET LIST AND TUESDAY LUNCH BUNCH PICKING TARGETS GOES OUT THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #753… PRESIDENT JOHNSON ONCE DESCRIBED HIS TERM AS PRESIDENT TO BE “SPLENDID MISERY.” In his book VANTAGE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #752… A PROCLAMATION: ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR and OPERATION ROLLING…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #751… THE LAST DAYS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. Nobody saw it coming. With the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #750… SEVEN STATE DEPARTMENT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS constitute Humble Host’s contribution to your Sunday reading……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #749… JAMES RESTON in the New York Times, 24 March 1968… “Dean Rusk says…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #748… “THE STRATEGY OF THE WEAK IS THE CHOSEN STRATEGY OF IDEALISTS AND IDEOLOGUES….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #747… ON THIS DAY FIFTY YEARS AGO LIEUTENANT COLONEL TED GUY BECAME A POW…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #746… WISE MEN FRONT AND CENTER… Dean Acheson, George Ball, McGeorge Bundy, General Omar…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #745… “AFTER TET”… “The subsequent sweeping but quick re-evaluation of U.S.-Vietnam policy brought to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #744… It was Monday, March 18, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy was scheduled to…
COMMANDO HUNT AND ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WEEK NINETEEN OF THE HUNT 17-23 MARCH 1969
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… WITH EXTENDED COMMENT ON THE SECRET BOMBING…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #743… “ENEMY TAUNTS…Speculation over where the enemy will strike next in South Vietnam seems…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #742… “ATTACKS PRESSED DAILY… Despite continuously bad weather that has kept the outpost obscured…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #741… ALL HANDS ON DECK. TELEGRAMS. MEMORANDUM. STUDIES. REPORTS. LETTERS. TELEPHONE CALLS. BRIEFINGS. MEETINGS….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #740… ON 31 MARCH 1968 PRESIDENT JOHNSON GAVE A SPEECH FROM THE OVAL OFFICE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #739… HUMBLE HOST CONCLUDES: THE UNITED STATES IS IN THE GRIP OF A 21st…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #738… HUMBLE HOST came upon a news item in the NYT for 13 March…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #737… NYT, 11-MAR-1968, PAGE 40: “SUICIDAL ESCALATION”… “If events of the past six weeks…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #736… THE HISTORIC SIEGE OF KHESANH BEGAN ON 21 JANUARY 1968 AND ENDED 7…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO … #735… “WESTMORELAND REQUESTS 206,000 MORE TROOPS STIRRING DEBATE IN ADMINISTRATION–FORCE NOW 510,000–SOME IN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #734… In March 1968, about half-time in the Vietnam war, the Johnson Administration was…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #733… “POWER TENDS TO CONFUSE ITSELF WITH VIRTUE AND A GREAT NATION IS PARTICULARLY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #732… The “PBD” is a major American historical document that emerges from the Director…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #731… PARADOX: A TENET CONTRARY TO RECEIVED OPINION… Reston writes: “We have never had…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #730… “IN HIS SEVEN YEARS IN THE PENTAGON, MR. McNAMARA NOT ONLY SERVED LONGER…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #729… ON SUNDAY, 3 MARCH 1968 JAMES RESTON WROTE: “…In the ‘briefing room’ at…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #728… THE FACE AND PACE OF OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE. Or,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #727… NYT, OPED: “It is evident that something is fundamentally wrong with both the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 MARCH 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #726… Humble Host interrupts the remembrance of the air war called Rolling Thunder to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 and 29 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #725… 1968 was a leap year with an extra day… Humble Host will stick…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #724… CHAIRMAN, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF GENERAL WHEELER VIETNAM TRIP REPORT: “WESTMORELAND NEEDS MORE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE… NYT, 25-FEB-68, Page E-1: “MR. JOHNSON KNOWS,TOO, THAT MORE–PERHAPS A GREAT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #722… TODAY– A FEW GROUPS FOR THE MEDIUM ATTACK MUD MOVERS… My admiration and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #721… IT WAS NAVY CROSS NIGHT ON THE HANOI WATERFRONT FOR COMMANDERS GLENN KOLLMANN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #719… NEW YORK TIMES, 23-FEB-68, Page 1: “U.S. KILLED-IN-ACTION IN LAST WEEK 543, A…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 FEBRUARY 1968
PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON: Born 22 February 1732, died 14 December 1799. “If the freedom of speech…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #718… Three weeks into the countrywide Tet Offensive the JCS and all the President’s…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #717… USA TODAY IDENTIFIES 1968 as a “VIOLENT VOLCANO THAT NEVER STOPPED ERUPTING IN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #716… USS CONSTELLATION CRUISES OFFSHORE SAN DIEGO FOR A SATURDAY NIGHT PRESIDENTIAL VISIT…LBJ tells…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 FEBRUARY 1968
“…HE APPEARS TENSE AND AWARE OF U.S. FRUSTRATIONS”… RIPPLE SALVO… #715… LBJ (16-Feb-68): “We will have…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #714… THE DRAFT: “In the name of greater equity–which is long overdue–the Selective Service…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #713… POOR LBJ. POOR UNCLE SAM. Surprised by the Tet Offensive, the seizure of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #712… Last hurrah: “…any final attempt, competition, performance, success or the like.”… The window…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 11
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval Flight…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #711… “… SEVENTH AIR FORCE used a rare day of clear weather–14 February 1968–to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #710… THANK YOU HUNGARY… As a consequence of the Hungarian diplomats suggestion, as the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #709… One hundred sixty years ago in 1858 a young Abraham Lincoln jumped on…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #708… IS A POLITICAL AND MILITARY STALEMATE THE UNAVOIDABLE OUTCOME OF THE VIETNAM WAR?……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #707… McNAMARA: “THERE SEEMS TO BE NO ALTERNATIVE EXCEPT TO HOLD IT, AND PUT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #706… “THE UNITED STATES WAS SURPRISED BY THE 1968 TET OFFENSIVE…” Why? … Didn’t…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 FEBRUARY 1968.
RIPPLE SALVO… #705… Associated Press, Feb. 6–“Attack and counterattack widened across South Vietnam today…Large sections of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #704… TET WAS OPPORTUNITY!!!. PASSED UP…. It was a SURPRISE SNEAK ATTACK initiated under…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #703… LEADING CANDIDATES FOR THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #702… XO SAYS: NO LIBERTY until you sign off on REAR ADMIRAL DENNY WISELY’S…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #701… A CHOICE: THE PROTRACTED PACE OF THE TURTLE, OR THE BLITZKRIEG SPEED OF…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #700… “The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided today (30-Jan-68) to re-examine the Administration’s account…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #699… NYT, 2-FEB-68, PAGE 1: “He conferred the MEDAL OF HONOR on Major MERLYN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 FEBRUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #698… HANSON BALDWIN: PUBLIC OPINION IN U.S. AND SOUTH VIETNAM VIEWED AS MAIN TARGET…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO…#697… TO PARAPHRASE A NEW YORK TIMES OPED FROM 50 YEARS AGO… As President Trump…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #696… “SPECTERS OF DIEN BIEN PHU HAD DANCED BEFORE THE EYES OF THE AMERICANS….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #695… TOM WICKER, The New York Times… “Giap has put this force together and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #694… Q. SENATOR MARGARET SMITH: “Mr. CLIFFORD: do you favor cessation of bombing of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #693… THE PRESIDENT GETS ON THE TUBE with USS Pueblo and a bad week…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #692… REMEMBERING LCDR NORMAN E. EIDSMOE and LT MICHAEL E. DUNN of the ATTACK…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #691… “THE RESCUE OF COMMANDER TOM WOOLCOCK” …The fleet’s search and rescue forces saved…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #690… CURRENT STATUS, PROGRESS, AND THE PLAN FOR THE RELENTLESS SEARCH FOR THE MISSING…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #689…THE WHITE HOUSE ON THE DAY OF THE PUEBLO SEIZURE… A few minutes before…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #686… HOW THIN WERE WE?… “…at the time of the Pueblo Incident (23-Jan-68) no…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #685… The Bear defers to Doctor Brown Bear to wrap-up the historic Operation Rolling…
ROLLIN THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #684… and high-lighted in the New York Times… IN THE VAN: “FOREMOST PART OF…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18-19 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #683… “…BECAUSE WHEN A GREAT SHIP CUTS THROUGH THE SEA THE WATERS ARE STIRRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #682… HUMBLE HOST respectfully requests your assistance in raising awareness of the ongoing “Commemoration…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #681… ON JANUARY 17, 1968, PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON DELIVERED HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE ON THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #680… Fighter-bomber pilot, intrepid Rolling Thunder gladiator, defiant prisoner of war, teacher, mentor, diplomat,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #679… NYT, 15-Jan-68, Page 3: “LAOTIANS SAY FOE SEEKS A NEW TRAIL–NORTH VIETNAMESE REPORTED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #678… KNIGHT NEWSPAPERMAN DON OBERDORFER INTERVIEWED LGEN FREDERICK WEYAND and detected “a whiff of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #677… 12 January 1967, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: “THIS NEXT YEAR, FROM TODAY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #676… GOING DOWNTOWN IS GETTING TOUGHER… HOW TOUGH IS IT?… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #675… A DAY TO REMEMBER AN OLD SHIPMATE… CAPTAIN DENIS R. WEICHMAN, USN…and… PART…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #674… COMUSMACV Command History 1967 (TS declassified 1984)…”The enemy did not win a major…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #673… An anti-war document that was written in 1967, got legs in the anti-war…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #672… A LESSON IN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR GAME PLAN LEAVES A DOOR OPEN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #671… Could the pattern of military escalation that has accompanied diplomatic failures be the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #670… Humanity lost a great human being, the Navy lost a skilled coxswain, and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO…#669… Pentagon Papers (pg. 232): “The Corner is Turned–January-March 1968″… “The Johnson Administration began 1968…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #668… Ho says: “The Americans are less able, more confused; and we are stronger…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #667… A summary of what we were doing and why we were doing it;…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… #666… THE END OF THE TRUCE, THE RESUMPTION OF AN ENDLESS WAR… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 22
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED… TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD… TALE #22 COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 JANUARY 1968
RIPPLE SALVO… Humble Host wishes all a 2018 of health, happiness and success in your individual…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #664… James Reston of The New York Times sums up 1967… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #663… TO AMERICANS OPPOSING THE WAR: “WE SHALL WIN, AND SO SHALL YOU.”…… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #662… “The Year the Dream Died”, by Jules Witcover, is a diary of the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #661… Air Force an Marine C-130 Hercules were assigned a wide range of missions…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #660… “Let us have the wisdom, the courage and the compassion TO END THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #659… “This confrontation is disturbing and damaging, but it is inescapable in a society…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #658… and ESPECIALLY RIVER RATS AND YANKEE AIR PIRATES… Christmas 1967 in Vietnam, Thailand…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #657… Cease fire and keep your guard-up… while the Pope and the President meet…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #656… LBJ at Korat: “The spirit of America is not to be read on…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #655… …and sends a clue to what’s on his mind: The end to be…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #654… “…at Christmas time the tragedy of war must weigh heavily upon the heart…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #653… Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp called the Vietnam bombing pauses “temporary military disadvantages.” Colonel…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #652… Part X of a review of Rolling Thunder 1967 concludes with the anatomy…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #651… Part IX of 1967 Ops…During the year four stand-downs from combat ops were…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #650… Part VIII of a CINCPAC/COMUSMACV review of the 1967 Rolling Thunder campaign…but firwst……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #649…PART VII of a review of Operation Rolling Thunder for the year 1967… “Denying…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #648… CINCPAC and COMUSMACV sum up the effort to “mine North Vietnam waters,” which…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 13
COMMEMORATING the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #647… Part V: North Vietnam’s Air Defense System–1967… but first… Good Morning: Day SIX…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #646… The air war was sustained at high tempo and intensity through September and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #646… There will be a test…Really… Part III: an intense June, July and August…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #645… Take notes, there will be a test… Part II of Review: the first…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #644… Humble Host’s Ripple Salvo comments coming down the 1967 stretch will focus on…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #643… Every generation has a haunting fear–the Chief Executive Officer has the authority to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #642… Edward F. Murray in the Preface to “Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes”: “America’s…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #641…The Right of Dissent is guaranteed by the Constitution, but that right comes with…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #640… Major Ed Rasimus finds sunshine on the other side of “where thunder rolled.”……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #639… When Major Ed Rasimus, RIP, wrote WHEN THUNDER ROLLS, he wrote for all…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #638… The former Secretary of State, and one of LBJ’s Wise Men, with wisdom…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #637… The New York Times laments his departure and calls him the most effective…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #636… CAPTAIN DAVE LEUE’, USN, who rests in peace, left his countrymen great wisdom…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 DECEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO #635… HUMBLE HOST NOMINATES THE MVP (“Most Valuable Plane”) OF THE ROLLING THUNDER CAMPAIGN:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO #634… Humble Host presents the lengthy testimony of Major Sam Armstrong (en route to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #633… James Reston, New York Times: “Hanoi Prefers to say no (to LBJ’s overtures…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #632… “Rolling Thunder Remembered” is air war over North Vietnam oriented, of course! But…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #631… Dear Mr. President: “Your administration threatens us daily with the prospect of an…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #639… “The Resistance, declared the other day ‘Ending the war in Vietnam’ transcends everything…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #629… A TRAGIC DAY ON USS CORAL SEA…THE LOSS OF ONE OF THE BRAVEST…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #628… James Reston looks for a little optimism in the “bleak” environment of Thanksgiving…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #627… President Johnson’s Thanksgiving Day, 1967 Proclamation of 9 November 1967… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #626… JAMES RESTON questions the basis of the optimism of the honchos in Saigon……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #625… The final days of the USS Intrepid and unique Carrier Air Wing TEN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #624… The long weekend of 18-20 November 1967 in the skies of North Vietnam…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #623… One of the worst days of ROLLING THUNDER as nine aircraft and eleven…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO…#622… On 18 November in the middle of “lost weekend,” where more than twenty American…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #621… (1) The Rolling Thunder warriors take their lumps in the heartland on the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #620… The President gets some high price advice on how to “develop over a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #619… “… it is obvious to the whole world by now that the country…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #618… ST. MARK 3:24/25… “And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #617… AND 55% SAY INCREASE OUR MILITARY INVOLVEMENT… but first… Good Morning: Day SIX…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #616… “Now it is the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong who seem to have…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 NOVEMBER 1967
HAPPY 242nd BIRTHDAY, MARINES… and all you old warhorse vets: REAR BACK AND STRUT… RIPPLE SALVO……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #613… Out of the President’s 2 November “mini-Delphi” muster of Wise Men… a summary…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #613… The New York Times editorial staff questions the Administration’s facts and figures and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #612… Today our President is bolstering our nation’s diplomatic efforts to avoid a war…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 3
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 19
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the stouthearted Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #611… COLONEL LEE ELLIS had an exciting day 50 years ago that changed his…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #610… A day with Rear Admiral Ralph Cousins in USS CONSTELLATION… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #609… Humble Host is honored to be able to post this tribute to a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #608… Secrecy surrounded the President’s Thursday, 2 November muster of his Wise Men to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERER 3 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #607… General Maxwell Taylor provides the President a choice of “reset buttons” ( Stick-it-out;…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #606… The first meeting of the President’s Foreign Policy Advisors since 1965…The President’s first…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 NOVEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #605… In his 1995 memoir “In Retrospect” Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara wrote…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #604… Assistant Sec of State Bundy questions effectiveness of JCS campaign to isolate Haiphong…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #603… First: Admiration and recognition for two great Intruder Warriors: CHARLIE HUNTER and LYLE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #602… Opinion and advice for LBJ from Nixon and Gore, Sr. on the war…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #601… AMONG THE BRAVE: LIEUTENANT COLONEL THOMAS HENRY KIRK, JR., USAF, is remembered on…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 10
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 OCTOBER 1967.
RIPPLE SALVO… #600… (400 to go) What EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM looks like: COLONEL JOHN FLYNN; CAPTAIN HAL…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #599… ORISKANY, CORAL SEA and CONSTELLATION hammer the Hanoi Thermal Power Plant, Phucyen Air…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #598… RECOGNIZING AND REMEMBERING ON THIS DAY… LCOL RAMON ANTON HORINEK and MAJOR AQUILLA…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #597… “After President Johnson had approved it as a target on 18 October 1967,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #596… President Johnson was frequently asked, “What is it like to be President?” His…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #595… “THE VIETNAM DISSENT”… a house divided… Dr. Spock: “Johnson is the enemy.”…NYT: Posts…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #594… Coincident with the Stennis Hearings of 11-25 August and the authorization of Rolling…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 OCTOBER 1967.
RIPPLE SALVO… #593… “PARATROOPERS AND PEACE”… A short piece from the Editorial page of the NYT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #592… 1968: “POLITICAL FOG OVER VIETNAM”…The line-up of aspirants for the Presidency a year…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #591… WHAT’S GOING ON IN HANOI? WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? PEACE? or WAR?…but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #590… “They really worked our planes yesterday, didn’t they?”… The scene was the Johnson…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #589… Two historical documents: (1) A snapshot status of the ongoing-going no-where peace initiative…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #588… ANYTHING TO MAKE A BUCK… In this case–fictional photos and film of our…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #587… Not to worry…These journalists are citizens of the Democratic Republic of Germany…We can…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #586…GENERAL NGUYEN VO GIAP PROVIDES AN APPRAISAL OF THE WAR AND AMERICAN DISCORD AT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #585… Secretary McNamara testified in closed Senate hearing on 25 August that bombing North…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #584… “In every war the inequities between home front and the fighting front are…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #583… INCLUDING THE BEST OF “THE SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM–FOR THE PRESIDENT’S…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #582… ON THIS DAY FIFTY YEARS AGO MAJOR CLEMENTS WAS NAILED BY A MIG-21…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #581… On 7 October 1967 the 34th TFS of the 388th TFW removed a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #580… On 4 October 1967 the President had a conversation with Secretary McNamara that…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #579… (1) Commander Carrier Air Wing TEN embarked in USS INTREPID and his bridge…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 24
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED…Tales of the Brave and Bold COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #578… AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF: THE “GRADUALIST” APPROACH TO THE AIR WAR COST…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #577… Nothing good happens if you hide your good work under a bushel basket……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #576… A DAY AT THE DAP CAU RAILROAD AND HIGHWAY BRIDGE AND THE BYPASS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #575… TWO ARTICLES on NVN SAM defenses: (1) North Vietnam “Vietnamese Courier” of 28…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 OCTOBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #574… Six weeks of a new bridge removal offensive in North Vietnam’s “Heartland”–Hanoi, Haiphong…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #573… THE ANGUISH OF A BEFUDDLED PRESIDENT… It was not a question of more…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #572… Charged by the Senator of with being “brainwashed” and committed to a “military…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #571… “Senator Thruston B. Morton, Republican, Kentucky, Assails Johnson on War–Calls Him ‘Brainwashed’ On…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #570… “Ad Urges Johnson to Shun 1968 Race as Vietnam Peace Move”… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #569… Downed once and hit seven times, VA-34 Blue Blaster LCDR Sam Hawkins kept…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #568… Humble Host suggests, for your consideration, the Central Intelligence Agency Library and Reading…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #567… NYT, 23 September 1967, Page 1: “Fighting at the Buffer Zone Resembles Some…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #566… NYT, 23 Sept 67, Page 1`: “Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the Soviet…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #565… What the Commander-in-Chief Pacific had to say: NYT coverage of Admiral Sharp’s classified…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #564… and the September 21, 1967 “last stand” of a warrior of brave heart…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #563… Humble Host reminds: The Ken Burns production “The Vietnam War” is through December…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #562… Humble Host has absorbed the first two episodes of “The Vietnam War” and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #561… This one is for Rear Admiral Tom Brown, a Bear Trainer for more…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 6
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 18
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #560… “NO MAN LEFT BEHIND”… 15 September 2017: National POW/MIA Recognition Day… President Donald…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #559… THE ON-THE-GROUND ANTI-INFILTRATION STRATEGY: McNamara was famous at Ford Motors for his EDSEL….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #558… Gradualism gradually gets there… 50 untouched targets to go… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #557… 61st Annual TAILHOOK Convention… 7-10 September 2017…Four thumbs UP, one thumb DOWN… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #556… To the Editor of The New York Times: Dated 10 September 1967: Subject:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #555… On 12 September 1967 CIA Director Richard Helms delivered to President Johnson a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 SEPTEMBER 1967
LEST WE FORGET… ALSO REMEMBERING “9/11,” THE 16th ANNIVERSARY OF A BRUTAL ATTACK ON THE UNITED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #553… and the NECESSITY FOR MAKING THE AIR WAR MORE EFFECTIVE… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #552… Continuing the Summary Report of the August 1967 Stennis hearings on the air…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #551… Continuing the Summary Report of the August 1967 Stennis hearings… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #550 (POSTED FROM THE NUGGET IN SPARKS–TAILHOOK ’17)… Continuing the Summary Report of the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #549… More from the Stennis Senate Preparedness Investigating Sub-Committee report on the Vietnam air…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… Continuing the Summary Report of the August 1967 Stennis Hearings on the air war……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #547… CONTINUING THE SUMMARY REPORT OF THE AUGUST 1967 STENNIS HEARINGS ON THE AIR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #546… The Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearings of August…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #545… “Your Yankee Air Pirates have unveiled the extremely warlike and cruel face of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 SEPTEMBER 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #544… General Maxwell Taylor to LBJ: “Sir, you are failing to get the message…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #543… C.R. “Dick” ANDREGG… “F-105 and F-4 pilots (and A-4 Skyhawk tailhookers), never short…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #542… THOMAS POWERS: “Vietnam: The War at Home”… “…so much suffering and destruction…”… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #541… On 28 August 1967 the President’s right hand man, Walt Rostow, rallied to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #540… SECRETARY McNAMARA DEFENDS THE ADMINISTRATION DECISION TO RESTRICT ATTACKS ON THE HAIPHONG PORT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #539… Secretary McNamara defends Administration targeting policy… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #538… Read the Chris Hobson account of the incredible adventure of MAJOR BUD DAY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #537… ON 25 AUGUST 1967 SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ROBERT STRANGE McNAMARA TAKES THE OATH……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #536… THOMAS POWERS: “It was hard to avoid a certain sick feeling of doubt…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #535… THE RETURN OF THE MIG-21s: “On August 23, NVN unveiled their new system…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #534… The 20-22 August 1967 ops rate expanded coverage. One day covering the agony…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #533… Chris Hobson tells a Rolling Thunder story of a dark day fifty years…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #532… USS BON HOMME RICHARD (CVA-31) and ATTACK CARRIER AIR WING TWENTY-ONE…but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #531… Friday evening Happy Hour and Route Pack 6 targeting in the Oval Office……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #530… SUMMER 1967: war there, unrest here… SUMMER 2017: ditto…but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #529… DISTINGUISHED FLYING FROM START TO FINISH… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #528… AHEAD OF THE SOUTH VIETNAM PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON SEPTEMBER 3… LBJ: “Our Strategy,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #527… INEFFECTIVE BOMBING… In response to a query… how many North Vietnamese civilians did…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #526… and an OPEN LETTER TO MR. GREG HERRICK on behalf of all OPERATION…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #525… Stennis Hearings stir LBJ to expand targeting… in other words, the Rolling Thunder…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #524… PAUL DOUMER BRIDGE ON FRIDAY, CANAL des RAPIDES ON SATURDAY… back-to-back trips “downtown”…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 AUGUST 1967
…ONE MILE OF VULNERABILITY FINALLY UNDER THUNDERCHIEF BOMBS… RIPPLE SALVO… #523… “THE PAUL DOUMER RAILWAY AND…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #523… LBJ CUTS THE CHINA BORDER BUFFER TO 10-MILES AND THE NYT GOES CATATONIC……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #522… SECRETARY OF DEFENSE McNAMARA IN REBUTTAL… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #521… LBJ and MAC PREPARE FOR SENATOR JOHN STENNIS… and the Senate hearings of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #520… THE QUIET PASSING OF BRAVE HEARTS JIM HIVNER, HOLLY HOLLANDSWORTH, AND JIM SHAPIRO……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #519… RESILIENCE: “An ability to recover from or adjust easily to change or misfortune”…but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… # 518… Pardon the brevity; Humble Host has been in the brandy, watched the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #517… NYTs Tom Buckley versus Lieutenant General Lewis Walt… FOOFARAW, HULLABULOO AND BLATHER… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #516… SUGGESTION FROM IKE. ASK THE SOVIETS: IF WE STOP BOMBING NORTH OF THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 AUGUST 1967
“…OF SELF-DECEPTION, COMPLACENCY AND TRAGIC UNDERESTIMATION OF THE STRENGTH AND ABILITY OF A DEDICATED FOE.”… RIPPLE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 AUGUST 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #514… “…a sharp decline in public approval of the President’s handling of the Vietnam…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #513… ENTER HENRY A. KISSINGER, HARVARD PROFESSOR and consultant to the State Department… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JULY 1967
“…the last long phase of increasing acrimony on both sides.” RIPPLE SALVO… #512…OPEN SEASON ON PRESIDENT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #511… LEST WE FORGET… “One of the greatest tragedies of the war in Southeast…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #510… THE PRESIDENT’S NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR WILL KNOW… but first… Good Morning: Day FIVE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #509… GLORY GAINED, DUTY DONE…RADM PAUL SPEER, COLONEL TOM MADISON and 1LT KARL WENDELL…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #508… WHAT’S THE PLAN?… “…just enough pressure be kept on Hanoi to convince them…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #507… The USMACV VIETNAM HISTORY: 1967 (TS)… 305 MIG engagements: US vs NVN…1967 Score:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #506… THE USMACV VIETNAM HISTORY: 1967 (TS)… SA-2s GALORE… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #505… The USMACV Command History; 1967 dated September 1968 (TS) is the source for…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #504… LOOK MAGAZINE, 25 JULY 1967…FELIX GREENE GIVES Greasy, Cat, Rabbit and Pigeye, et….
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #503… “The postman delivered the Spring-Summer 2017 issue of my copy of the DAEDALUS…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #502… “THE GUTSY LITTLE A-4″… and a brilliant bit of airmanship… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #501… LCDR MARV REYNOLDS: tenacity defined–unstoppable on 17 July 1967. The Lone Ranger to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 JULY 1967
…WHERE THERE ARE SAR HH-3s AND SH-3s AND CREWS WITH UNBOUNDED COURAGE THERE IS HOPE IF…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #499… “What’s a Yankee Air Pirate worth?…”U.S. OFFERS GOLD FOR AID TO PILOTS DOWN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #498… Vietnam: “…70,000 of 464,000 American servicemen in South Vietnam are combat troops…”…but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #497…A short story of jungle survival by Major Ken Mays, USAF, but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #496… AND FEARLESS LEADER…”Never say die… “…also VADM Duke Hernandez: a day in Yugoslavia,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #495… The Australian bush hat of CAPTAIN DON AUSTIN, 34 TFS, 388 TFW: 111…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #494… A CRUSADER ROUND ROBIN LIKE NO OTHER… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #493… “The side that is winning should not take the first step.”… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #492… “GANG WAY, FIGHTER PILOT”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-TWO of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #491… Somebody needs to explain to Humble Host how logging 200 strike missions into…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #490… KEN BURNS, STEVEN SPIELBERG and the director of “RIDE THE THUNDER”… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 7
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #489… “The war leaders were telling the public one thing while knowing the actual…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #488… VIETNAM(1967)McNAMARA: “We need a new strategy to turn stalemate into success.”…50 YEARS LATER…AFGHANISTAN(2017)McCAIN:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #487… “I hated Kep and the northeast railroad.”…BGEN Al Lenski… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #486… MEANWHILE, AT YANKEE STATION… a message for the troops and a painful reminder…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #485… CO, 469th TFS MAKES PAGE 3 OF THE NYT FOR 3 JULY 1967…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #484…Honors to: MAJOR RICHARD MEHR (AFC); CAPTAIN GREGORY ETZEL (AFC); and, PETTY OFFICER SECOND…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 JULY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #483… FROM THE ARCHIVES…Pertinent Memos and Telegrams dated 1 July 1967… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 2
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #482… “OUT OF CHAOS COMES OPPORTUNITY”… The resolution of the presidential candidate crisis…but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #481… “TREACHERY IN THE PURSUIT OF DIPLOMATIC GOALS”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #480… VICE ADMIRAL WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE, USN, RIP …A few thoughts… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #479… “GEE, MOM I WANNA GO HOME…” …but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #478… A few paragraphs from William F. Andrews: “To Fly and Fight: The Experience…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #477… SAD BUT TRUE… and 50 years later? More of the same… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #476… DEFINED: “…gaining worldly experience at significant cost.”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 20
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the valiant Naval Aviators. Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #475… A FURIOUS FUELING FLAIL FOR THE AGES… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #474… “Get your nose up, get some power on…Get some altitude!..” … but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #473… NAVAL GUNFIRE SPOTTING — IN BOTH DIRECTIONS… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #472… THE FLIGHT DECK OF A “27 Charlie” AT YANKEE STATION IN LATE JUNE……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 14
COMMEMORATING the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)…and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval Flight…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #471… Translation: “I have flown into the jaws of the cat of death,” or…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #470… The inner workings and hidden mechanics of the Rolling Thunder target selection committee……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #469… That was the question for Secretary McNamara in April 1967, and that was…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #468… Captain John W. Swanson, USAF, 34th TFS and 388th TFW, who went missing…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #467… “Quotes”–Words of wisdom that endure the test of time… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #466… SPINERIPPER and CHASING TRUCKS UNDER FLARES…but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #465… DRAFT MEMORANDUM 194 of 12 June 1967 FROM SECDEF TO LBJ…but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #464… The story of Colonel Jerry Curtis from HH-34s, the Air Force Cross and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 21
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the courageous Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #463… A CTF-77 END OF TOUR (Nine Months at Yankee Station) SUMMARY… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #462… MEET AUDIE MURPHY IN A SKYRAIDER versus “The Guns of Sam Son”… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 1
COMMEMORATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #461… THE FOUR DAY WAR… “WHERE IS THE ARAB FIGHTING SPIRIT???”… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #460… ON A CLEAR MOONLIT NIGHT, A LITTLE SOUTH OF HAIPHONG…here we come!… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 4
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 17
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR… and honoring the indefatigable Naval Aviators, Naval Flight…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #459… On 19 May 1967 Commander Paul Speer and two of his five F-8…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #458… A COUPLE OF HAIRY HELICOPTER RESCUE TALES… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #457… “ISRAEL-EGYPT BATTLE ERUPTS” and Vietnam war goes to the back burner and the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #456… Humble Host takes a break from 50 years ago to honor what went…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #455… AN HONOR ROLL OF ALL-WEATHER WARRIORS… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #454… COLONEL JACK BROUGHTON STANDS UP… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 JUNE 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #453… Conundrum: Something to be solved with reason. A riddle…but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 23
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED…TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #452… “I’m hit and heading back…” Arv Chauncey finally “got back” on 4 March…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… THE STORY OF A NAVAL AVIATOR AT WAR 75 years ago… Jack “Dusty” Kleiss…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #450… Humble Host wishes you a peaceful and thoughtful Memorial Day 2017…My thoughts: The…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #449… “A profound message to friend and foe alike…”…but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #448… ATTABOYS and baubles… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #447 (2)… GOING DOWNTOWN with TOM TAYLOR and a few Walleyes on 21 May…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #446… TED SWARTZ LEADS THE WAY… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-SIX…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #445… ADVICE FOR LBJ FROM UP THE RIVER — THE CIA AT LANGLEY… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #444…Presidential Proclamation 3785 of 22 May 1967, Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #443… Q#1. Does bombing harden the will of the North Vietnamese people?… Q#2. What…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #442… “The CIA on May 26, 1967 produced a highly favorable report on the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 8
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the gutty Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 MAY 1967
HOMER LEROY SMITH… This one is for you on the 50th Anniversary of your Last Flight…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 MAY 1967
19 MAY 1967… OPERATION ROLLING THUNDER…Here is how Chris Hobson introduced the tally of aircraft and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #439… ON SOME DAYS THE SUN SUDDENLY STOPS SHINING… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #438… THE COST: BLOOD, TREASURE and UNITY … but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #437… MEMO: “IMMEDIATE BOMBING DECISION”… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of a solo…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #436… the rest of the Linfield 201 story…by Gary Wayne Foster…but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #435… The price of “miscalculation,” a timeless bit of wisdom that was as true…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #434… AIR FORCE F-105s NAIL 5; F-4s DOWN 2…. but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #433… The President’s Special Consultant says: “…it is not worth the lives of our…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #432… 1 May 1967…The Senate Republican Policy Committee staff white paper: “The Vietnam War.”……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 26
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the bold volunteer Naval Aviators,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #431… “THE NO COMMITTEE”… “…a small secret group whose existence the President could deny…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #430… GETTING IN: EASY… GETTING OUT: APPARENTLY IMPOSSIBLE… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #429… CURIOSITY SATISFIED: LBJ does barbecues while Grizzly 1 does Route Pack IV… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #428… POLITICAL STABILITY IN SOUTH VIETNAM A DREAM?… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #427… and the “Memorandum of the Month for May 1967”– a must read for…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #426… “THE DECISION TO DELAY TARGETING THE AIRFIELDS IS COSTING LIVES AND LOSSES”…but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #425… FOR: LEO THORSNESS, “Kingfish 1” and “Boss Weasel,” and JIM GRAHAM, “Battlecry 314″……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #424… a WARRIOR named HOBLIT or a FIGHTER named CLAY… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #423… THE NORTH VIETNAMESE POWER GRID… nine thermal power plants tied together… the next…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 MAY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #422… “The International War Crimes Tribunal”… Bertrand Russell’s…kangaroo court in Stockholm…but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #421… WESTY for the HAWKS and MLK for the DOVES… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #420… “WESTMORELAND tells Congress U.S. will prevail”….but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #419…APRIL 22-28: SIXTEEN AIRCRAFT LOST IN A WEEK… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #418… Peace keeping, peace making or war mongering???… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #417… MISSING IN ACTION and not knowing, or, KILLED IN ACTION and knowing… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 27
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973) and honoring the bold, brave Naval Aviators,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 5
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the intrepid Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER 25 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #416… and WILSON and WISELY do SAIGON…follows a great STEPHEN R. GRAY 25 April…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #415… NO SKIES FOR OLD OR TIMID MEN… and don’t miss the MIGHTY THUNDER…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #414… When Snoopy takes a break… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED FOURTEEN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #413… THE COMPLETE STORY: as it was reported in the summer of 1967 in…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #412… CASSIUS CLAY WON’T STEP FORWARD ON 28 APRIL… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #411… AMONG THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #410… title: “THE VIETNAM AIR WAR: FIRST PERSON” and “The Cool Bear”… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #409… “Peace demonstrations adversely affect our country’s interests.”… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #408… GOOD QUESTION!!!…THEN and NOW… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #407… A COMMENTARY ON ROBERT McNAMARA’s “IN RETROSPECT”…but first.. Good Morning: HAPPY EASTER… Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #406… “HEY, HEY, L.B.J.: HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY?”… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #405… Spring is sprung. Sunny and bright. In the Homeland let the anti-war demos…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #404… “The Incredible Stupid One,” by Dick “Beak” Stratton… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #403…Humble Host is proud to call to your attention the Medal of Honor story…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #402… not LADY LUCK, FATE…but the HAND OF GOD… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #401… of the “TRIPLE MOON GODDESS” of Greek mythology… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #400… oohrah… THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT… but first… Good Morning: Day FOUR HUNDRED of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #399… TICONDEROGA– the GREAT WHITE CARRIER… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #398… NYT, 7 April 1967…”…he has linked his personal opposition to the war with…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #397… One down, thousands to go… A turning point in protestation… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 APR 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #396… IN THE NEWS…”The F-105 Thunderchief can take out any target at any time…”…but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 APR 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #395… IN THE NEWS–LIFE and THE NEW YORK TIMES, and around the world fifty…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #394… ESCALATE THE WAR=CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #393… “One of the toughest guys I know.”…John McCain… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 APRIL 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #392… MAJOR H.R. McMASTER’S “DERELICTION OF DUTY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #391… “It is the historical destiny of the United States to expend itself….”…but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #390… MARCH 29…COME AND GONE… anybody notice??? … but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #389… PLATO EXPLAINS WHY WE QUARREL… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #388… “AND KICK ‘EM IN THE ARSE.”…apologies to Gen GS Patton… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #387… INTRUDER CREWS: “The bravery of their souls was equal to the dangers they…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 15
COMMEMORATING the 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the indomitable Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #386… THANT HAS A PLAN, AND MLK IS ON THE MARCH WITH DR. SPOCK……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROLLED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 9
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the gallant Naval Aviators, Naval…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #385… DECATUR: “OUR COUNTRY! IN HER INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS, MAY SHE ALWAYS BE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #384… BACK TO BAC GIANG and a mystery… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #383… “Downtown…in darkness and marginal attack weather…” but first… Good Morning: Day: THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #382… THE PIECEMEAL ADDITIONS TO THE ROLLING THUNDER 54 TARGET LIST”’ and a note…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #381… GUAM II and HO CHI MINH’s DISCLOSURES STIFLE PEACE TALK… but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #380… “The bombing program (ROLLING THUNDER)…did not occupy much time.”… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #379… THE HISTORY PROFESSOR WITH SOME ADVICE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #378… THE READY ROOM ALL-READ BOARD: read and initial before leaving the ship…”There will…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #377… “CLAY PREFERS JAIL TO ARMY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #376… …”what we are working for and what we are fighting for.”…but first… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #375… AIR RESCUE SERVICE: “These things we do so others might live.”… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #374… FORTUNE ALSO FAVORS THOSE WHO STUDY HISTORY… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #373… THE 355th Tactical Fighter Wing MORALE REPORT… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
RO0LLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #372… THE WEATHER ALTERNATIVE… best described by LT STEVE GRAY, RAMPANT RAIDER… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #371… SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME !!!!!!!! …but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE of an…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO…#370… RFK STIRS THE POT AND KICKS SOME CAGES… but first… SPECIAL POST: MIGHTY THUNDER’S…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #369… “In a war like this one, a man’s life is of small account.”……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #368… “A WALTER MITTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE”…RESTON… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #367… LET THE ENEMY HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #366… THE PARDO PUSH… AND THE MEDAL OF HONOR for CAPTAIN MERLYN DETHLEFSEN… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #365… WHAT WAS THE SECRET CODE NAME FOR THE AIR WAR?…but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #364.. A few words on “THE VORACIOUS DEMAND FOR BLOOD AND TREASURE OF THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #363… and LBJ CALLS FOR HELP… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO…#362… and A LONG HOT SUMMER… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 MARCH 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #361… (1) The RTR Mission Continues… (2) Open Letter to “Medals of America”… Good…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #360… “We talked about it, we never achieved it.”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #359… HOW?… “SEARCH AND DESTROY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… WITHOUT RESOLVE–THE WILL TO WIN– you won’t … but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #357… THE CHARTER SCHOOL–JROTC COMBINATION… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #356… SHIFTING FROM PARK TO DRIVE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #355… sidebars and little boxes on page 5… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO…#354… “TELL MY FATHER…” …but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR of remembering all…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #353… A NATION MUST KNOW IT’S LIMITATIONS…the United States has over-extended it’s world role……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #352… THIS ONE IS FOR YOU JAY GREENE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #351… THE POST-TET DEBATE AND THREE JCS PACKAGES… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #350… ANGRY VOICES OR VOICES OF REASON?… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #349… AND A PEP TALK FROM THE PRESIDENT… really good stuff… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #348… “STRIKES IN NORTH ACCOMPLISH AIMS”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #347… NYT’S R.W. APPLE REPORTS FROM USS ENTERPRISE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… HUMBLE HOST POSTS THIS SPECIAL RTR AS TOO IMPORTANT TO BE TAKEN IN STRIDE……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #346… THE VOICES OF DISSENT–SENATOR J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT… but first… Happy Valentine’s Day: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #345… LET THE AIR WAR BEGIN AGAIN… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO…#344… A matter of more WAR or a chance for PEACE… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #343… A 50-YARD LINE SEAT FOR A FOGGY BOTTOM FUMBLE…but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #342… DEFINED and IDENTIFIED… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO of remembering…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #341… “WHATEVER THE OUTCOME…PRESERVE MUTUAL TRUST…” but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #340… A DFC the hard way: BULLPUP … but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #339… “IT HAS HURT THE ENEMY and IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE NATION’S…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #338… of FIVE YEARS OF TOE-TO-TOE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #337… THE BLACK FALCONS OF VA-85 versus THE INDESTRUCTIBLE THANH HOA BRIDGE… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 12
GOOD MORNING. I have a Rolling Thunder tale to tell. WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED… #12… A…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 25
WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED… TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD… COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO…#336… LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BOB MAIER and LIEUTENANT LEW DUNTON, VA-144 Roadrunners, on the attack fifty…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #335… WILD WEASELS front and center… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #334… GARBLED WORD X WISHFUL THINKING=BODY BAGS… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 FEBRUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #333… Lieutenant Robert L. Cooper: 26 rescue missions and EIGHT AVIATORS rescued in two…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #332… THE LULL BEFORE THE ROLLING THUNDER STORM OF 1967… THE YEAR OF ESCALATION… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #331… HOME FROM A 20-25 JAN 1967 VISIT TO VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #330… BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED THIRTY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO…#29… GRISSOM, WHITE and CHAFFEE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #328… A SPEECH FOR ALL GENERATIONS FOR ALL TIME by LGEN JOHN KELLY on…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #327… “WE HAVE THE INITIATIVE, WE HAVE THE FORCES…”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #326… THEN AND NOW: LBJ and DONALD TRUMP–same dilemma… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #325… THE PEACE INITATIVES: “A GARDEN OF FLOWERS…”…but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #324… A MUST READ MEMO… NITTY-GRITTY DETAILS on how the President and his men…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #323… SALISBURY and BAGGS ON THE GROUND and CTF-77 FROM THE AIR… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #322… “The Rock and The Hard Place”: A situation involving two dangers in which…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #321… WHERE THE FIGHT WAS FOUGHT… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #320… A tribute to LCDR DON “Smash” ASHBY : “Sad Day at Black Rock”…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #319… “…Senator Dirksen sat on the President’s bed. The President was standing, in stocking…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #318… WALT ROSTOW TO LBJ, 17 JANUARY 1967… but first.. Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #317… “…there is opportunity.”…Sun Tzu… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #316… NATURAL VITALITY and INTENSE PATRIOTISM…but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED FIFTEEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #315… IN MEMORY OF LCDR ARTHUR TYSZKIEWICZ, UNITED STATES NAVY, who perished alone in a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO #314… THE CASE FOR A HEAVIER BOMBING PROGRAM…but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #313… “THE ATTEMPT to DE-ESCALATE — JANUARY-JULY 1967… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #312… AND SOME END NOTES… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TWELVE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #311… THE AIR OFFENSIVE IS HURTING HANOI! … SO?… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #310… “SULLY: A GENERAL’S DECISION” …. but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED TEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #309… “THE FOUR POINTS”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED NINE of the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #308… TWO BRAVE and BLOODY YEARS — 728 DAYS — ON YANKEE STATION… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #307… for BOLO MIG KILLERS…DFCs???… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SEVEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #306… “…SENSELESS STRATEGY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED SIX of a history…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #305… Air Intelligence (Photographic) Officer LCDR JOHN J. DOTHARD… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #304… BOMBING OF CIVILIANS: REPORTS, REACTIONS AND RESPONSES… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #303… NEW YORK TIMES: “THE GREAT SOCIETY”… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 JANUARY 1967
RIPPLE SALVO… #302… THE REALITY: WAR AND VIOLENCE…”Only the dead have seen the end of war.”…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #301… The UNSTOPPABLE vs. The UNMOVABLE… but first… Good Morning: Day THREE HUNDRED ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #300… THE REGULARS: BOB HOPE AND HIS USO SHOW and FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN on…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #299… PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TOWARD MEN… Merry Christmas: Christmas Day and the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #298… with LIGHT ATTACK SQUADRON 113–“A BAND OF BROTHERS”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
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RIPPLE SALVO…#297… THE PONTIFF “LOOKS TO A MIRACLE OF GOODWILL”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #295… CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS to RTR but first…. Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FIVE…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #294… ALONE AND UPSIDE DOWN… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR of…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #293… THE ATTACK PILOT’S DREAM: DROP A BRIDGE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #292… THE GOOD THEN THE BAD AND UGLY… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #291…BDA FOR ROLLING THUNDER 1966… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY-ONE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #290… and CHANGING ROLE and IMAGE…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETY of remembering…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #289… NO WARRIOR LEFT BEHIND… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #288… EXPLAINED BY ATTILA THE HUN… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #287… THE LINES ARE DRAWN FOR 1967+…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #286… THE TRUTH HURTS… but first… 13 DECEMBER 1966… HOME TOWN HEAD LINES from…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #285… of the RED RIVER VALLEY FIGHTER PILOTS ASSOCIATION… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #284… A BAD DAY AT YANKEE STATION… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #283… CHRISTMAS 1965 AT THE ZOO by Rochester and Kiley in “HONOR BOUND”… but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #282… VIETNAM WAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: the Mayport Decks… but first… Good morning: Day TWO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#281… NYT response to LBJs assertion: MOH awardee’s courage “far outweighs the reluctance of men…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #280… “THE SOLEMN PRIDE THAT MUST BE YOURS”…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #279… “…THERE WAS A LONG SILENCE…” but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #278… “PEARL HARBOR RITES VIEWED BY PILOT WHO LED RAID”… The following feature article by…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #277… ROLLING THUNDER 1-15 DECEMBER 1966 and THE MARIGOLD FIASCO… but first… Good Morning:…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #276… SPENT!!!…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX of a return to OPERATION…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #275… “MARIGOLD” page 254…”Why did the United States bomb Hanoi on December 2, for…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 DECEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #274… THE THREE VIETNAM COMBAT CRUISES OF USS MIDWAY… 426 Days on the Line……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #273… NATIONAL AIRCRAFT CARRIER MONTH: USS KITTY HAWK Vietnam combat cruises 3-6!!! but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 NOV 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #272… THE FIRST TWO OF K-HAWK’s SET OF SIX ARDUOUS COMBAT CRUISES… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #271… A HISTORY LESSON FOR THE AGES… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #270… THE THREE VIETNAM COMBAT CRUISES OF “THE FIGHTING ‘I’…” but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #269… NATIONAL AIRCRAFT CARRIER MONTH continues… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #268… COMBAT CRUISES 4 THRU 7 AND ANOTHER 20 COMBAT LOSSES…none but the brave……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #267… 835 DAYS AT YANKEE STATION — 7 CRUISES OF COMBAT… but first… Good Morning:…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #266… SEVEN COMBAT CRUISES and SEVEN HUNDRED FOURTEEN DAYS ON THE LINE… but first……
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RIPPLE SALVO… #265… SIX COMBAT CRUISEs and SIX HUNDRED DAYS AT YANKEE STATION…but first… Good Morning:…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #264… ON THE LINE THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY DAYS… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #263… “…the historical images and perceptions that men carry in their heads.”… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #262… TS MEMO CJCS TO SECDEF…”Military Actions Against North Vietnam” of 8 Nov 1966……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #261… NON-VIOLENCE BECOMES THE WEAPON OF CHOICE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #260… so far: “DEPRESSINGLY BARREN OF TANGIBLE RESULTS”….. but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #259… AGGRESSION IN SOUTH VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #258… “…IN THE HISTORY OF NAVAL AVIATION.”…said a fighter pilot of the Intruder crews……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #257… BODY NOT RECOVERED…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN of a three…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #256… WITH WORDS FOR ALL VIETNAM VETERANS… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #255… MARIGOLD: SECOND ACT ON STAGE… But first… 12 NOVEMBER 1966… HOME TOWN HEADLINES…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #254… NOT MEMORIAL DAY… but first… 11 NOVEMBER 1966… HOMETOWN HEADLINES from the New…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #253… ON ROLLING THUNDER 52… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#252… THE FORTHRIGHT TESTIMONY OF LCOL BILLY SPARKS, USAF, RETIRED… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #251… THEN AND NOW… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#250… ONE QUARTER OF THE RTR JOURNEY IS IN THE WAKE… Good Morning: Day TWO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #249… KRUSHCHEV ON STALIN… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-NINE (of 1,000)…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #248… OR WAS IT CIVIL WAR?…. but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-EIGHT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #247… GALLOP ASKS THE QUESTIONS… but first… 4 NOVEMBER 1966… THE HEADLINES ON THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #246… A CASE STUDY: VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-SIX of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #245… “THE AMERICAN CRISIS IN VIETNAM”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 NOVEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #244… AIR WAR: ADD 10 USAF TFS AND ONE CARRIER…Not so fast!… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #243… EXPANDED COVERAGE by RTR of American helicopter ops in Vietnam… but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #242… THE AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #241… JAMES RESTON on the “The Elections and Vietnam”… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #240… “MY TRIP TO VIETNAM”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FORTY of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #239… OF SYMPATHY TO THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF CVA-34…. but first… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #238… THE ORISKANY’s FIRE 50-YEARS AGO, and HER FALLEN WARRIORS… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #237… WHAT SHOULD WE BOMB NEXT?… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #236… A DOZEN YEARS OF CASHING OUT… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #235… SENATOR EV DIRKSEN…”…a bewildered United States…”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #234… what this fight is all about…. but first… Good Morning: DAY TWO HUNDRED…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #233… Poet Edward Young…”One to destroy is murder by the law, And gibbets keep…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #232… 3rd SEGMENT OF “GOING TO DODGE” by Sam Butz of NYT… but first……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #231… ROLLING THUNDER= “A TEST OF ADVANCED SYSTEMS”…. but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #231… “OUR PILOTS CALL HANOI DODGE CITY”… Part ONE… Sam Butz, Sunday Times Magazine,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #230… and “LONG TIME PASSING”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTY of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #229… OCTOBER TO MARCH… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWNTY-NINE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #228… CAPTAIN JERRY COFFEE’s “ONE MORE ROLL”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #227… A WAR STORY EXTRACTED UNDER DURESS… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #226… RESCAP…LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND… … but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #225… “A GAMBLE WORTH TAKING.”…NYT… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #224… “and SEEK OTHER MEANS of achieving our objectives.” …… but first… Good Morning…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #223… SECRETARY OF DEFENSE VISITED SAIGON FIFTY YEARS AGO… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #222… SWITCH TO MIGHTY THUNDER…where the good stuff is… BELLINGER gets a MIG and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #221… LET CICERO BE YOUR GUIDE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #220… (1) Retraction and apology for RS #211…(2) HANSON BALDWIN ON PLANES AND PILOTS…but…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #219… “HALT THE BOMBING”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINETEEN remembering the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #218… and his JOLLY GREEN crew of 1LT DON HARRIS, SSGT DON HALL, and A2C ROBERT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #217… CHARLES MOHR… “THE WINNER GETS NOTHING”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #216… BUCKET LIST DESTINATION???… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN of honoring…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #215… AN LBJ STAFFER SHARES SOME SECOND THOUGHTS…but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 OCTOBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #214… AUSTRALIAN WILFRED BURCHETT… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FOURTEEN of savoring…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #213… “HANOI BOLSTERING DEFENSE”… but first…. Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THIRTEEN of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #212… LATE EDITION–SHORT FORM–COMPUTER HICCUP… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TWELVE recapping Rolling Thunder…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #211 Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN of recollections from fifty years ago and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #210… TIMIDITY HAS A PRICE… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED TEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #209… “INTERDICTION IN DEPTH”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED NINE looking back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #208… “…WHOSE NAME IS ON THAT DAMN WALL.”… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #207… AFTER VIETNAM… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED SEVEN of a daily…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #206… AN 11-YEAR WAR + 58,000 KIA = QUAGMIRE… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#205… 3rd WEEK IN SEPTEMBER… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FIVE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #204… GROWLING AT THE WATERHOLE… but first,,, Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED FOUR of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #203… ROLLING THUNDER GETS A…. D+… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED THREE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #202… BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARDS WITH 67 SCIENTISTS… but first… Good Morning: Day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#201… FIND, FIX, FIGHT, FOLLOW, FINISH… but first… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED ONE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #200… CONSTITUTION DAY 2016… OOHRAH… Good Morning: Day TWO HUNDRED of a thousand reflections…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #199… PHASE III– next year… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #198… PREPARE FOR THE WORST… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-EIGHT of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 SEPTEMBER 1966
My computer just ate my first 1000 words… so here is the short version and the…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #196… A CASE OF EVOLUTION—- … but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY SIX…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #195… “VIETNAM: AIR WAR” — A CLASSIC… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #194… CAUSE FOR WAR… but first… Good Morning… Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-FOUR of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #193… AND ALL ‘OLD GLORY’ STANDS FOR… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-THREE of remembering…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #192… WHEN THE WINGMAN TAKES THE LEAD… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #191… MORE OR LESS???… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY-ONE living in…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #190… INDECISION, DISCORD AND ESCALATION…PART ONE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #189… “…YOU LEFT BEHIND.” …. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-NINE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #188… and the MIG-17S FROM PHUC YEN… and the rest of the story at…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #187… OF THE WARRIOR” –NAPOLEON… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SEVEN in…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #186… TUCKER, TEAGUE AND VERMILIA in the news… great story!… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #185… “…THE MORE THEY ACTUALLY DON’T”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 SEPTEMBER 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #184… UNDERSTANDING McNAMARA… but first.. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FOUR of remembering the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #183… VERMILIA TO THE RESCUE… Check out MIGHTY THUNDER’s post for today… Good Morning:…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #182… FULL SPEED AHEAD… LEUE’ and COAKLEY …but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #181… DAVE LEUE’ and the BLUE TAIL FLIES… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #180… TOUGH DUTY–DRIVING TRUCK IN NVN… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #179… with ED RASIMUS in his F105D…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #178… “… ONE MISHAP–IS ONE TOO MANY…” but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #177… NOT GOOD ENOUGH… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN of a review…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #176… STAY THE COURSE…. but first… Good morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #175,,, LBJ GETS ADVICE… but first Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE of remembering…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #174… THE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY FOUR…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #173… CHECKING STARS… but first a little reflection… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #172… “WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #171… THE LAST CHANCE FOR PEACE IN VIETNAM…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #170… “BUILD A WALL”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY remembering an…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #169… A GUTSY STORY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE of a…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #168… (1) MAO (2) UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXY EIGHT…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 AUGUST 1966
Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SEVEN of a revisit to the air war with North…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#166 … SUGARCOATED…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SIX of 1,000 blogs remembering the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #165… THE WEBER COUNTY LIBRARY… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #164… TRY #2 FOR AUG 12….. ABBREVIATED…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #163… “MAKE HASTE TO REASSURE ME.”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #162… KASLER DOWN… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO of a long–fifty…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #161… IN SO MANY WORDS…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#160… REMEMBERING COL JIM KASLER… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTY of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #159… FIVE THUNDERBIRDS DOWNED IN ONE DAY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #158… UNITY LOST… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-NINE of the days…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #157… CARRIER AVIATION–PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #156… READINESS… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX of looking back at…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #155… “THE READ”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-FIVE a return to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #154…. “AMONG THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 AUGUST 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #153… …”a privileged document”…THE PDB… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #152… A LITTLE POETRY TO SOOTHE THE HEART… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #151… HAIPHONG THERMAL POWER PLANT (WEST)… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #150… PATTERN DOESN’T… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTY of a long…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #149… “HONOR AND DIGNITY”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-NINE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #148… THE POWER OF RABBLE ROUSING WORDS… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #147… PUBLIC SUPPORT AT 54%… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SEVEN of…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #146…. “He was ready.”…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-SIX of remembering…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #145… “YET ANOTHER VOICE”… but first Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE of the…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #144… WYNN FOSTER AND DIETER DENGLER… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #143…. HAPPY DAY…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-THREE of a day-to-day…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #142… and the war goes on, and on…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #141… “AMERICANS UNACCOUNTED FOR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA=1,618″…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #140… WAR OF WORDS… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FORTY of a remembrance of an…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #139… AND TAKING IT EASY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#138… POWER, VIOLENCE AND PURPOSE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY EIGHT of…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #137… THE LETTER… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of a long…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #137… versus THE AUDACIOUS ATTACK… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #136…. by Colonel Gerit L. Fenenga, USMC, Retired…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #135… “…THE BOMBS FELL SQUARELY ON TARGET”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #134… “TAKHLI TALES”*****…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FOUR of a grand reflection of the pounding…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #133… AND KINGS…. but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE of another look…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #132… MORE TARGETS, MORE SORTIES… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#131… HONOLULU, JULY 1966… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE of a long look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #130… & POWs SPEAK…. but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY of a 28-month…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #129… GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#128…STIFLE YOURSELF…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-EIGHT of an old warrior’s review of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #127… TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE… but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JULY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #126… WE ARE STILL HERE, WE ARE STILL FREE, AND WE ARE STILL BRAVE…RIGHT?…
BROWN BEAR REMEMBERS 4 JULY 1966-A MOST MEMORABLE INDEPENDENCE DAY
CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY… “as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty…”…
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RIPPLE SALVO…#125… “The Red and White and Starry Blue”… but first… 3 JULY 1966…ON THE HOME…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #124…”Sweet Land of Liberty…”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR of…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #123… A GOOD START…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE of a review…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#122… THE LOGIC OF ESCALATION… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO of remembering…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #121… A LEAKY WHITE HOUSE… but first a bit of “old” news… 50 Years…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #120… GET ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, WHOA… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #119… MORE AND MORE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED NINETEEN of my…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#118… PART TWO… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN of a review of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #117… LESSONS IGNORED… PART ONE…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SEVENTEEN of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #116…CHEAP SHOT?…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN of the long look back to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #115… WAR vs GREAT SOCIETY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN of…
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RIPPLE SALVO…#114… MORE THAN FREEDOM… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN of a look…
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RIPPLE SALVO…#113… THE BLUE TAILS… but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN of a revisit…
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RIPPLE SALVO…#112… BE CAREFUL OUT THERE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWELVE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #111… “THEY WERE OUR FATHERS”… but first… Good Morning–HAPPY FATHER’S DAY and day ONE…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #110… GUILT DAY… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TEN of an odyssey…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #109… ADVERSARIES…but first…. Good Morning : Day ONE HUNDRED NINE of the long look…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #108… NAVY COMMENDATION MEDAL with COMBAT “V”… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED…
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RIPPLE SALVO…#107… BONNIE DICK ON TARGET…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED EIGHT of a day…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #106… HERE WE COME… but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED SIX of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#105… AN AIR MEDAL THE HARD WAY…but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FIVE of an…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #104… ROMNEY OR NIXON…. but first…. Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FOUR of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #104… SELF-DECEPTION… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED FOUR of a 900 day review (God…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #103… CIA TS STUFF… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THREE of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #102… RS#99 EXPANDED COMMENT… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED TWO of a…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #101… TO PROCEED WITH GREAT EFFORT… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED ONE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#100… FARM GATE… but first… Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED of a review of an…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #99… AMERICA: an INCUBATOR….but first Good Morning: Day NINETY-NINE of a review of the Vietnam…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #98… AN OPEN LETTER…. but first…….. Good Morning: Day NINETY-EIGHT of a recalling of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #97… JOE LOUIS…. but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-SEVEN of a day-by-day review of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#96… ON THE EDGE… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-SIX of a revisit to the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #95… LET THERE BE LIGHT!… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-SIX of a review…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 JUNE 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #94… BLUE SKIES… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-FOUR of a playback of Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#93… C-130s FOREVER… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-THREE of a day-by-day review of Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #92… IN MEMORIAM V…. but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-TWO of a look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #91… IN MEMORIAM IV… but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY-ONE of the long look…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#90… IN MEMORIAM III…but first… Good Morning: Day NINETY of a review of the “air…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #89… IN MEMORIAM II…but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-NINE of remembering that “all gave some, some…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #88… IN MEMORIAM… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-EIGHT of a review of the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #87… BLOGGER DUTY… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-SEVEN of my fantastic walkabout in the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#86… Secretary McNamara’s Report Card… but first…. Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-SIX of a review of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #85…The Air Plan for the Summer of ’66… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-FIVE of a review…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#84… INTERDICTION… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-FOUR in a 26-month review of Operation Rolling Thunder…one day…
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RIPPLE SALVO… #82…MAY 1966 DPM #2…. 21 MAY 1966…(NYT)… ON THE HOME FRONT… A fair and…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #82… The May 1966 DPM… but first… 20 MAY 1966…(NYT)…ON THE HOME FRONT… A…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#81…”‘STRAIGHT DOWN”… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY-ONE of a long look back to the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#80… DEFENSE POW/MIA ACCOUNTING AGENCY… but first… Good Morning: Day EIGHTY of a planned 1000…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #79… FRENCH & SWARTZ…. but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-NINE of a long look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #78… A FOUR STAR REFLECTION… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-EIGHT of a long look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#76… 35MM PIX… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-SIX in a marathon review of Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #76 … A PAUSE, SORT OF…. but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-SIX of a remembrance…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #75… A PLACE OF REFUGE… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-FIVE of a look back of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #74… THE CHOIR… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-FOUR of a review of the North Vietnam…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#73… 1 DOWN, 3 TO GO… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-THREE of a look…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #71… LT CHUCK KLUSMANN …. but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-ONE of the long…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… SNEAK ATTACK… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY-ONE of a long look back to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #70… FM CIA TO LBJ… but first… Good Morning: Day SEVENTY of review of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… INDECISION… but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-NINE of a long look back at Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… CAPTAIN CHARLES SHELTON, USAF…but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-EIGHT of a review of Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #68… MENTOR… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-SEVEN of a retro-visit to Operation Rolling Thunder… 5 MAY…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO #67… POW PREP… but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-SIX of a marathon review of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… blog #66… MAY MEETINGS… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-FIVE of my look back at Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… blog #65 …NATURE… but first… Good Evening (or later): Day SIXTY-FOUR of a review…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 MAY 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… SOFT MIRY LAND… but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-THREE of a two year project…a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… The night of “Flight of the Intruder”…. but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-TWO of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… PRESUMED DEAD … but first… Good Morning: Day SIXTY-ONE of the long look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… SCYLLA & CHARYBDIS… but first…. Good Morning: Day SIXTY of a Bear’s marathon review…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… MEMORIES AS A RESPONSIBILITY… but first…. 27 April 1966 (NYT)…ON THE HOMEFRONT… A rainy, windy…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… THEN AND NOW…but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-SIX of a review of Operation Rolling…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… APRIL INTERDICTION…but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-FOUR of an ongoing review of Operation Rolling…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… “POLICY IN A PARAGRAPH” … but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-THREE of the long…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… WINCHESTER… but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-TWO of the long look back to Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… GET HAPPY… but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY-ONE of reflecting back to Operation Rolling Thunder…the…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO #50… PLAY IT AGAIN… but first… Good Morning: Day FIFTY of a look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #49… 20 APRIL 1966 (NYT)… ON THE HOMEFRONT… Front page headline: “U.S. Navy Jets…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…#48… MY COUNTRY …but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-EIGHT of a look back at Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… #47… COERCION… but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-SEVEN in a look back of 50…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO- 46 … UNCOUPLED … but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-SIX of a long look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… EXTENDED BATTLEFIELD… but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-SIX of a look back to Operation Rolling Thunder……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… INVINCIBLE …but first … Good Morning: Day FORTY-FIVE of a review of the “air…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… “WHEN THUNDER ROLLED…” … but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-FOUR of a look back at the “air…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… IN THE ARENA….but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-FOUR of a return to 1966 and Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… B-52s FOREVER (?)… but first…. Good Morning: day FORTY-THREE of a return to 1966…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… SPEED IS LIFE… but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-TWO of a return to 1966 and Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… KARNOW…. but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY-ONE of a return to 1966 and Operation Rolling…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… WBLCs…..but first… Good Morning: Day FORTY of a return to 1966 and Operation Rolling Thunder……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO…”MIGHTY THUNDER”… but first… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-NINE of a look back of 50 years…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… ON THE RECORD… but first…. Good Morning: Day THIRTY-EIGHT of a look back of…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… “BLUE CHIPS”… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-SEVEN of a look back of fifty years to…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… HARD TO BELIEVE, OR NOT….but first… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-SIX of a look back…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… Rolling Thunder 50 Good Morning: Day THIRTY-FIVE of a long look back to Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… MOTHER NATURE RULES… Good Morning: Day THIRTY FOUR of a look back to Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… A CASE FOR FACs — BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE…by Steve Dascal…but first… Good Morning: Day THIRTY-THREE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 APRIL 1966
RIPPLE SALVO….. DIS-UNITY OF COMMAND… but first…. Good Morning: Day THIRTY-TWO of a look back to Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 31 MARCH 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… TO BE, OR NOT TO BE–DRAFTED… but first…. 31 MARCH 1966 (NYT)… ON THE…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 30 MARCH 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… NAVCAD CLASS 34-55….DREAMS INTO MEMORIES … but first….. Good Morning: Day THIRTY of a…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 29 MARCH 1966
RIPPLE SALVO… “…CONSCIOUS, CONTINUING TRAVESTY,”…but first… Good Morning… Day TWENTY-NINE of a look back at Operation…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 28 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day TWENTY-EIGHT of a look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…. 28 MARCH 1966 (NYT)… ON…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 27 MARCH 1966
Good Morning… Day TWENTY-SEVEN of a look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…. 50 Years Ago… 27…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 26 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day TWENTY- SIX in a 50-Year Flashback to Operation Rolling Thunder…. 26 MARCH 1966 (NYT)……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 25 MARCH 1966
Good Morning… Day TWENTY-FIVE of a long look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 25…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 24 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-FOUR of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…. Fifty Years Ago… 24…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 23 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-THREE of our look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 23 MARCH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 22 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-TWO of a look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 22 March 1966…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 21 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day TWENTY-ONE of a long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 21 MARCH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 20 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day TWENTY of recalling Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 20 MARCH 1966 (NYT) …ON…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 19 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day NINETEEN of a long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 19 MARCH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 18 MARCH 1966
Good Morning… Day EIGHTEEN of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder… FIFTY years ago… 18 MARCH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 17 MARCH 1966
Good Morning, Happy St. Patrick’s Day…Day SEVENTEEN of a look back at Operation Rolling Thunder…50-Years Ago…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 16 MARCH 1966
16 MARCH 1966 (NYT)…Wednesday…Fair and colder in New York…Lead item was R.W. Apple’s report that: “United…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 15 MARCH 1966
Good Morning… Day FIFTEEN of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder …Fifty Years ago… 15 MARCH…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 14 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day FOURTEEN of our look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…FIFTY YEARS AGO… 14 MARCH 1966…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 13 MARCH 1966
Good Morning… Day THIRTEEN of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 13…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 12 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day TWELVE of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 12…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 11 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day ELEVEN of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder… Fifty years ago……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 10 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day TEN of our long look back to Operation Thunder… Fifty Years Ago… 10…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 9 MARCH 1966
Good Morning: Day NINE of our long look back to Operation Thunder…Fifty Years Ago… 9 MARCH…
ROLLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 8 MARCH 1966
Good Morning … Day EIGHT of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder… Fifty Years…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 7 MARCH 1966
Good Morning… Day SEVEN of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. 7 MARCH1966 (NYT)…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 6 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day SIX of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. 6 MARCH 1966 (NYT)…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 5 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day FIVE of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. 5 MARCH 1966 (NYT)……
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 4 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day FOUR of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. This is an odyssey…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 3 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day THREE of our long look back to Operation Rolling Thunder. Fifty years ago when…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 2 MARCH 1966
Good Morning…Day TWO of my look back at Operation Rolling Thunder from the perspective of 50…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED 1 MARCH 1966 INAGURAL POST
Good Evening…. This is the start date for my personal look back at the Vietnam War,…
ROLLING THUNDER REMEMBERED WHEN NAVAL AVIATION ROARED TALES OF THE BRAVE AND BOLD 16
COMMEMORATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1973)… and honoring the courageous Naval Aviators, Naval…
