Bear Taylor 
RIPPLE SALVO… #133… AND KINGS…. but first….
Good Morning: Day ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-THREE of another look at the air campaign called Rolling Thunder…
11 JULY 1966… ON THE HOME FRONT… New York Times… A hot, humid and cloudy Monday at the Statue of Liberty…and I hope that similarities in the Home Front News of 11 July 1966 and the news of 11 July 2016 don’t escape your notice…
Page 1: “Dr. King And CORE Chief Act To Heal Rights Breach”…”Two civil rights leaders moved today (10th) to heal the widening breach in the national movement over the issue of ‘black power.’ The two men addressed a rally of the newly designated ‘Freedom Movement” at Soldier’s Field, Chicago. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. said that ‘our power is in our unity.‘ Floyd B. McKissick, national director of the Congress Of Racial Equality, who preceded Dr. King as a speaker said that if Dr. King called for him, he would come because, whatever their ideological differences, they were ‘brothers.’ Roman Catholic Archbishop John Cody of Chicago sent a message to the rally that endorsed many of the demands Dr. King is making on the administration of Mayor Daly, including a call on real estate boards on the shore of Lake Michigan–held in a humid, 98-degree setting–drew a crowd estimated at 45,000…nearly 100,000 had been expected for the rally and march on City Hall.”…King quote of the day: “A doctrine of black supremacy is as evil as a doctrine of white supremacy.”… McKissick: “Black power is not hatred, it means political power, economic power and a new self-image for Negroes…it means developing a black consumer bloc nationwide able to strike at any concern…it means we will withdraw our money en mass from any bank that does not have a nondiscriminatory lending policy.”…King: “We must not spend our dollars anywhere we are not respected. We must say to every industry, if you respect my dollar, you must respect me.”… Page 1: “Hydrant Closing Shifted to Police”… “Firemen in Chicago have been ordered to stop turning off illegally opened fire hydrants in ‘hostile neighborhoods’ and to call on police to do it instead. Several firemen have been injured in recent weeks by objects thrown from roofs when they have tried to turn off hydrants that had been opened for children to play under during the heat.”….Page1: “Negroes Clubbed In Grenada, Miss”…”Highway patrolmen armed with shotguns, carbines and tear gas, used clubs to clear two crowds of about 300 Negroes from the Grenada County jail area tonight while deputy sheriffs chased 100 jeering whites. The Negroes had come to the jail in a ‘sympathy march’ for 43 civil rights workers arrested Thursday night for having staged a sit down in a street.”….
Page 1: “U.S. Is Initiating Major Expansion of Armed Forces”…”Despite optimistic declarations about Vietnam War prospects by President Johnson and other top civilian and military leaders in recent days. The Administration is quietly starting another major expansion of the armed force. No announcement has been made, but it is understood that as of June 30, the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force had exceeded budgeted force levels for that date by 100,000 men. And the Army, which is growing fastest of all services, is under instructions to continue training of new recruits at maximum capacity of about 50,000 per month. It is now believed that the President will increase the 280,000 man force currently in South Vietnam to about 375,000 by the end of 1966 and 425,000 by spring 1967. In the military community here, ranking officers and officials privately differ among themselves on the nearness of success in Vietnam. To a man, however, they agree that large military reinforcements are required to hasten a successful outcome.”… Page 1: “4 U.S. Battalions Lose Red Regiment At Cambodia Line”…. “Four battalions of U.S. Infantrymen hacked their way through dense jungle near the Cambodian border today in a futile pursuit of a badly mauled enemy regiment they fought for nine hours yesterday killing 184 enemy soldiers.”
Page 11: “W. Averell Harriman, Ambassador At Large, said today that the bombings of North Vietnam’s oil stores had not produced any change in the opposition of North Vietnam and Communist china to peace negotiations. ‘I don’t see any change–that’s what the word is from Peking. They have made it very plain they do not want to have any negotiations, they want to win the war…'” He was interviewed on the ABC ‘Issues and Answers’ program…
11 July 1966… The President’s Daily Brief….CIA (TS sanitized)… Vietnam: Peking has once again emphasized that the Vietnamese and not the Chinese must carry the primary responsibility for conducting the war. A ‘People’s Daily’ article yesterday declared that “the people can and should rely only on themselves to make revolution and wage people’s war in their own country, and by themselves, should all material aid from the outside be cut off.” Chinese propaganda has long stressed the theme of “self reliance”; it dates from 1957 and originates with Mao. This theme is coupled with the assertion that Peking will always aid “people’s revolutionary struggles” as part of its socialist obligations. The appearance of the “People’s Daily” article at this time, however, is further indication that Peking does not view the recent U.S. bombing of petroleum installations as requiring any change in their policy toward the war. The Chinese will, however, undoubtedly continue their present level of support and will probably assist the Vietnamese in developing new and alternative methods for improving and distributing POL supplies.
11 JULY 1966… ROLLING THUNDER OPERATIONS… NYT…(12 July reporting 11 July) Page 3: “Oil Bombed Again In North Vietnam:...”American pilots skirted thunderstorms over North Vietnam yesterday to bomb targets ranging from gas and oil to river fords. They flew a total of 88 missions. Three fuel storage centers were among their targets. One near Vinh, one near Donghoi and the third was an installation 60 miles east of Dienbienphu where Vietnamese forces decisively defeated the French 12 years ago in the war of independence… While the weather did not keep the Air Force and Navy airplanes from striking in the North, military spokesmen here said the weather had not encouraged the enemy in the south. Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops held their fire throughout South Vietnam except for a few scattered incidents.”
“Vietnam: Air Losses”(Chris Hobson)…four aircraft lost…
(1) CAPTAIN LEWIS WILEY SHATTUCK was flying an F-105D of the 354th TFS of the 355th TFW at Takhli on a strike on the Vu Chua railway bridge 5 miles north of Kep when hit over the target by 85mm anti-aircraft fire, was forced to eject about 25 miles north of Kep, and was captured. He was released from POW duty in the Hilton Hanoi in March of 1973 and remained on active duty retiring as a Colonel. CAPTAIN SHATTUCK had ejected, barely escaped capture and been rescued on an earlier mission on July 1.
(2) CAPTAIN R.H. LANEY was flying an F-105D of the 355th TFW at Takhli on a follow-on strike to the Vu Chua railroad bridge and was hit at the target and was forced to eject 125 miles from the target. He was rescued by a USAF helicopter.
(3) MAJOR W.L. McCLELLAND was flying an F-105D of the 355th TFW at Takhli on a strike on a target near Thai Nguyen and was subsequently engaged in a dog fight with a MIG. He suffered minor damage and headed for home. Unfortunately, he ran out of gas, ejected over Laos, and was rescued by USAF helicopter…. THREE F-105s from the 355th TFW downed in an afternoon…
(4) LTJG M. McCARTHY and LTJG D.F. GRANITTO were flying an F-4B of the VF-143 Pukin Dogs embarked in USS Ranger was on a training flight and suffered a system failure at a low fuel state and was unable to in-flight refuel forcing the crew to have to eject prior to returning to the carrier. Both LTJGs were recovered by Navy helicopter…
RIPPLE SALVO…#133… CABBAGES AND KINGS… This will be a short evening at my duty station here in the cave, where I am surrounded by what my neighbor calla a museum of exhibits. My cave is a bunker framed by rebar/concrete walls and floor, a reinforced concrete overhead that is the floor of a large two car garage, and steel beams and posts all around. All made comfortable by air and heat as required. This is a standard issue home in Utah, where preparation for a couple of lean years and the ability to outlast a natural (or man-made) disaster comes with the territory. So my cave is ready for a wide range of survival situations. For the last 24 years this has been my comfort zone. There is one serious short coming with my cave– you can’t see the stars or the sun set. And on weekends like this last one, where: cops are targets; anarchy has gained a foothold; our nation has entered a grave yard spiral; nobody is at the controls; and, more than half our people can no longer tell right from wrong, I need to ponder my lucky stars. See you tomorrow.
Lest we forget…. Bear ………. –30– ………..
