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26/08/2018
Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: Scout Car, M3A1 Another vehicle which Rock Island Auctions is selling in Sept of 2018, and this is one of my favorites.
Who will they blame this on?
Filipinas Nostalgia Building a sense of pride and preservation of our heritage and culture through nostalgia
01/05/2017
Happy Easter
Happy Pesach
09/02/2017
09/02/2017
20/01/2017
We made it to the Rose Parade.
50% attrition but we made it!
Hope to have a larger contingent next time.
The arrival of the two tank battalions with their 108 light tanks, M-3, were a welcome addition to the Philippine garrison. On 21 November a Provisional Tank Group consisting of the 192d and 194th Tank Battalions and the 17th Ordnance Company (Armored) was established, with Col. James R. N. Weaver in command.
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The 26th Cav Ceremonial Mounted Unit of the PSHS, Los Angeles Nininger Chapter has a goal to ride in the Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, CA in the immediate future.
Please get the word out to support our efforts.
24/12/2015
19/12/2015
Newspaper clipping from Lomita Progress newspaper June.7, 1959
19/12/2015
26th Cav activities this December 2015.
1. Wilminton CA Holiday Parade in the City of Wilmington, We expect to have between five and ten riders and horses and also have three to five ground support members. The date of this parade will be December 13, 2015.
2. Tournament of Roses Equestfest at the LA Equestrian Center on December 29, 2015. There will be two horses and riders displayed along with about ten to twelve support members in attendance where table displays are exhibited.
19/11/2015
A living, breathing page of American history! Roy Hawthorne, Navajo Code Talker. USMC. He walked the 2 mile parade route. Two Navajo Marines are helping him with the last 1/2 mile.
13/11/2015
http://priceonomics.com/how-filipino-soldiers-were-written-out-of-the/
SF Bay area posting.
How Filipino Soldiers Were Written Out of the Official History of WWII How hundreds of thousands of Filipino soldiers helped the United States win World War II, and how history -- and the American government -- forgot them.
Subj: NY Post: The trunk that saved the world
The trunk that saved the world
On June 4, 1940, a defiant Winston Churchill delivered his famous “Dunkirk” speech to Parliament. The British had just rescued 338,000 retreating Allied soldiers, cornered by German forces. France was days away from formal surrender. It was spectacular humiliation spun as victory.
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be,” he said. “We shall never surrender.”
Yet in the shadows, Churchill was preparing for Britain to fall. In three months, he would authorize an unprecedented, top-secret operation that signaled his desperation: the handover of all of Britain’s scientific and technological innovations to the United States.
At best, Churchill hoped America would put these innovations into production for British forces. At worst, should Germany invade, the United States would, hopefully, finally, enter the war with great advantages.
James Phinney Baxter III, director of the US Office of Strategic Services from 1942 to 1943, would call the secrets, contained in a simple black metal box, “the most valuable cargo ever brought to our shores.”
But it was also the resolve of the project’s mastermind that changed the course of the war. It was known as the Tizard Mission — and though this month marks its 75th anniversary, it has somehow remained one of World War II’s least-known triumphs.
TEAM OF VISIONARIES
Five years before Great Britain went to war, the Royal Air Force staged a mock aerial assault on London. The results were devastating, their means of national defense primitive.
Churchill was not yet prime minister but supported the new Committee for Scientific Study of Air Defense (CSSAD). Henry Tizard, a former military pilot and chair of the Aeronautical Research Committee, was tapped to lead it.
Tizard agreed to join on one condition: That he and his top two advisers not be paid, so as to put them “in a stronger position.”
All agreed.
Initially, the British government was in search of a “death ray.” They didn’t know what this would be other than some kind of paralyzing surface-to-air force that targeted bombers in the sky. The British still had no means of detecting unseen aircraft, nor shooting them down from the ground — they didn’t know how to predict a flight pattern or adjust a shot to hit a moving target.
One of Tizard’s first hires was Robert Watson-Watt, a scientist working in the field of radio waves. Watson-Watt dismissed the death ray, but he thought radio waves might be used to detect incoming bombers.
It was the inception of radar.
Tizard also hired a 24-year-old boy genius named Dr. Edward “Taffy” Bowen to collaborate with Watson-Watt. Bowen quickly regarded Tizard as a visionary. As he later said, “It was Tizard alone who saw the German air force, successfully shot down in daylight, switching to night raids.
“His prediction. . . must rank as one of the best examples of technological forecasting made in the 20th century,” Bowen said.
Here was the challenge: How could a British pilot detect and destroy a German bomber he couldn’t see or hear? Bowen had to build a lightweight device that could fit in a small plane, run on a very low supply of electricity, withstand turbulence and hits, and be simple enough for a pilot under attack to use.
Meanwhile, a panicked British government was seeking more practical, earthbound solutions. “Silhouette” was a plan, hatched in 1938, to implant the whole country with floodlights to detect night fighters. It was abandoned as useless in 1939, and on Sept. 2 of that year, with Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain was at war.
Tizard and his team had made great strides. As Steven Phelps wrote in his 2010 book, “The Tizard Mission: The Top-Secret Operation That Changed the Course of World War II,” they had developed prototypes of AI (airborne interception) and ASV (air-to-surface vessel) radar. As early as 1936, Tizard was aware of a former RAF Officer named Frank Whittle, who had invented the turbojet engine.
The government thought it was impossible; Tizard did not.
As Britain prepared for war, its citizens putting their dogs down and sending their children away, Tizard pressed on. This time period, from September 1939 to April 1940, passed with no great attacks and came to be known as “The Phony War,” or, as the Brits called it, “The Bore War.”
But that time gave Tizard an enormous advantage: He sent an attaché to obtain a copy of a top-secret document called the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, which had been drafted just one month before Germany attacked.
It was written by two British scientists who had determined that it was possible to build a deployable atomic bomb, one light and small enough to be flown thousands of miles overseas and dropped from above. It was a calculation even Albert Einstein doubted.
A DESPERATE PLAN
As early as 1937, Tizard was looking to work with the Americans, but the idea went nowhere.
By early 1940, Britain was bracing for assault, and Tizard’s colleague Archibald Hill, a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist, encouraged him to simply give America his secrets.
“We are fooling ourselves if we put any trust in secrecy,” he wrote Tizard. “We can get very considerable help from the United States if we are prepared to discard what is now really a fetish.”
Tizard agreed. He and Hill submitted just such a proposal to Churchill upon his appointment as prime minister on May 10, 1940. A little more than one month later, pressed by his war Cabinet, Churchill approved the mission. The Battle of Britain would begin on July 10, 1940, the German Luftwaffe carpet-bombing Britain from the sky.
Tizard assembled his team of six on Aug. 10. The looming question: What to give the Americans? The mission had settled on packing up an unremarkable black metal box no larger than a suitcase.
Their key invention, one so revolutionary that the item itself had to be packed, was Bowen’s Cavity Magnetron No. 12 — a vast improvement upon existing magnetrons and one so small it could be installed in fighter planes. Here was airborne radar.
Also in the box: the A-bomb memorandum, the plans for Whittle’s turbojet engine, the design for the VT, or variable time, fuse — which allowed timed bombs to detonate automatically — as well as reams of blueprints and documents on everything from rockets to gun sights to chemical warfare.
Tizard was also sure to pack film, mainly combat footage; the isolationist United States needed to see the devastation. He gave a special instruction to the three military members of his mission.
“Take every opportunity that naturally presents itself,” he said, “to discuss war experiences with officers of the US forces.”
Tizard left for the United States on Aug. 14, flying in advance of his team. He met with ambassadors and officials in stately town houses, cocktails at the ready. It was surreal.
“He had left behind a world threatened with imminent disaster,” Phelps writes, “where every day, every hour, counted. Each minute that ticked by seemed to take Britain closer to the final reckoning. But Washington was still at peace, and the weekend was still the weekend.”
Two weeks later, on Aug. 28, the young Eddie Bowen woke up in a hotel near Marble Arch, the locked metal box with the nation’s wartime secrets under his bed. He was to take the train from Euston Station to meet the other team members in Liverpool, where they would board a steamship and sail through U-boat-infested waters.
Should the ship be attacked, they would throw the box overboard — small holes had been drilled in its sides to keep it from floating.
Bowen hailed a cab to Euston Station, and the driver tied the box to the roof. For whatever reason, he would not let Bowen carry it in the car.
At the station, as Bowen collected the rest of his luggage, an overeager porter grabbed the most important box of all and dashed off to the train. Bowen nearly lost sight of him as he frantically dashed to catch up.
“The only way to keep track of him,” Bowen later said, “was to watch the box weaving its way through the mass of heads upfront.”
Once Bowen and the box were safely ensconced in a reserved compartment, he noticed a man board the train and take the seat across from him. Bowen was puzzled until two other passengers tried to sit with them and the strange man told them to leave.
“It was not what he said but how he said it,” Bowen recalled. “For the first time, I realized that the precious cargo was under some kind of protection.”
THE AMERICANS
By the time the Tiza rd Mission sat down with their American counterparts in early September, the Blitz was under way. Their homeland was now subject to the gravest, most sustained aerial assault in its history, and its very future hinged on these meetings.
They began inauspiciously. The British, so confident in their new capabilities with radar, were surprised that the Americans were unimpressed and more curious about other technologies.
The British were shaken. They told the Americans of progress made in anti-tank and anti-aircraft weaponry, which went over fine. Then they displayed the design for the VT fuse — the first moment when the Americans seemed intrigued.
Whittle’s turbojet engine proved another revelation. The Americans immediately saw the potential, and by 1941 the US Army Air Corps was sending research and development teams to Britain. Unknown to all at that table, the portable and deployable atomic bomb would eventually end the war.
Tizard had strategically staggered the flow of information, and the last innovation to be presented, he thought, was the most valuable. He had Bowen reveal the box’s final item: the Cavity Magnetron No. 12, which he’d perfected.
The Americans were dumb-struck. They had never seen anything like it. They recognized Bowen’s work for the genius it was: a revolution in modern warfare, radar that could fit in a plane.
It could beat back the Germans.
After that final reveal, Phelps writes, came “a welter of activity.” The Americans now had full faith in the Tizard Mission’s objective and aims, and suddenly the Brits had access to US training methods. They observed battle-fleet maneuvers. They were given access to America’s Doppler radar, and RCA and Bell Labs, both previously off-limits to the Brits, were now studying their cavity magnetron.
Bell agreed to quickly put it into production, and MIT founded the Radiation Lab to facilitate further research and development into microwave technologies. Bowen would later recall those weeks as “electric.”
The Brits wanted only one thing in return: the US Navy’s Norden bombsight, the most advanced technology in high-altitude bombing. The Americans, wary of such technology falling into German hands, said no — although they did give Tizard the external specs so British bombers could be outfitted for potential future use.
His objectives achieved, Tizard quietly left Washington, DC, on Oct. 2, headed back home.
His final order of business: He owed his nuclear physicist, professor John Cockcroft, five pounds. Tizard had bet that before they could return from the States, Britain would fall.
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Hello to All,
Our Election of Officers for our Chapter by Email process concluded yesterday September 15th. We had a good response to voting with 18 Members sending in their vote for three individuals who they would like to see as our Governance Officers. The three top Vote receivers are Frank Lopez with 15 Votes, Gil Mislang with 14 Votes and Frank Quiambao with 13 Votes. The Chapter will seat a President, Secretary and Treasurer. The three who received the highest number of votes will discuss between themselves and determine who will be President, Secretary and Treasurer for the next two years. Copies of our Election procedure, emails of votes cast by members and a Final Tally sheet of the Election results will also be submitted to Victor Verano, PSHS National Secretary and John Patterson, PSHS Past President as proof of our conductance of a Chapter Election.
Thank you all for participating and sharing your opinion on our Governance. Affirmation of these results will proceed in the next few weeks and the New Officers if affirmed will receive Charter on October 1st.
Best Regards,
Gil Mislang
05/08/2015
http://www.stripes.com/double-amputee-completes-handcycle-ride-across-us-for-wounded-veterans-1.361030
This is what "Semper Fi" means...
Double amputee completes handcycle ride across US for wounded veterans What started as a joke between Marines in a San Diego recovery room in the spring ended Sunday, more than 4,000 miles later in Virginia, as double amputee Toran Gaal hand-cranked his bike past the Marine Corps Memorial, through a row of American flags into the arms of his wife and children for the f…
Japanese American Heroes of WWII Saturday, August 29, 3 pm Oxnard Main Library Meeting Room B
Filmmakers David Ono and Jeff MacIntyre will present their 22-minute award-winning documentary “Witness: American Heroes” about the all Japanese-American 442nd battalion. They will also share a segment from their award-winning documentary “Legacy of Heart Mountain” showing how this battalion helped liberate Dachau. A panel discussion will follow with the filmmakers, the Curator of History at the Japanese American National Museum Dr. Lily Tamai, and two WWII veterans Ted Wakai and Tom Doi.
09/07/2015
4th of July Parade at Huntington Beach CA.
25/06/2015
Were these the type of guns they had at Clark Field when the Japanese attacked?
1932 photo of four 3" anti-aircraft guns
25/06/2015
Tewkesbury people urged to remember Japanese prisoners of war this weekend Historians and civic leaders want Tewkesbury people to remember those who suffered at the hands of the Japanese in the Second World War. Ahead of Armed Forces Day on Saturday, they are promoting...
25/06/2015
Joe Baril sent this photo of Alan Michael Crane's recreated M1917 Ford Model T Ambulance, photographed at Norwich, CT.