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March 6, 1836: Davy Crockett died at the Alamo. His descendant Lt. Cmdr. Davy Crockett was a U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat pilot during WWII. After being shot down and captured in France in 1944, where he joined other Americans, Englishman, Frenchman, and Algerians. When the German garrison was informed that the war was over, they surrendered to Lt. Cmdr. Crockett. After the garrison surrendered with ~500 Germans, Crockett worked together with French forces to detain and process their former captors as prisoners of war.




Happy birthday to Bernie Sanders letter recipient... and the first woman in space, Major general, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova! Born March 6, 1937. AFAIK, she's still running the State Duma. That's a lot of shiny bling-bling.




March 6, 1944: William Patrick "Willy" Hitler joined the fight against his uncle Adolf by enlisting in the U.S. Navy. Initially rejected, he received permission to serve after writing to FDR and getting cleared by the FBI. He later changed his name and lived quietly in NY until his death in 1987. Hell of a letter...




It's National Dentist Day. When Hideki Tojo was imprisoned in Occupied Japan, a Navy dentist fitted him for new dentures into which "Remember Pearl Harbor" had been drilled in Morse code. When news of the prank got out about 3 months later, the dentist quickly removed the message to avoid a court-martial.


Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal Hideki Tojo who served as prime minister of Japan from 1941 to 1944. By order of general Douglas MacArthur he was arrested at his house on September 11, 1945... however he shot himself in the chest with a pistol, but missed his heart. Unlucky for him the American soldiers saved his ass. Tojo was sentenced to death on November 12, 1948, and executed by hanging on December 23, 1948. Tojo's body was cremated and his ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean approximately 30 miles east of Yokohama from a US Army aircraft on the same day. Before his execution, he gave his military ribbons to one of his guards; they are on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

His grand daughter grew up to be an ultra-nationalist politician, Imperial Japanese apologist, and stern denial of Jap war crimes. She died from interstitial pneumonia at the age of 73, in 2013.


March 6, 1988: the TOP GUN-inspired drama series SUPERCARRIER premiered on ABC. The Navy initially allowed scenes to be filmed on USS John F. Kennedy, USS Missouri and USS Vandegrift (FFG-48) but later dropped support because of issues with the scripts! The series only lasted 8 episodes.

Classic TV Theme: Supercarrier (two theme versions) - the second 'Living on the Edge' @1:35:



The show was trying to ride the popularity of both Top Gun and Crocodile Dundee by featuring an Australian F-14 pilot. USS Vandegrift was sunk as a target on 17 June 2022 in SINKEX as a part of the Valiant Shield.


Opportunities to cruise aboard a battleship are rare, so two tickets to ride the museum ship USS New Jersey (BB-62) from Camden, New Jersey to a dry dock at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on March 27 are being auctioned on eBay. Bidding has already reached $5,100... for a ~5 mile towed trip down the Delaware River. LOL!




They're on a mission from Xenu...


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Alan Moore's WATCHMEN (Nov 1986)




Deadvlei in the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia:


Dead Vlei has been claimed to be surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, the highest reaching 1000–1300 feet, named "Big Daddy" or "Crazy Dune", resting on a sandstone terrace. The Sci-Fi psychological thriller "The Cell" (2000) was partly filmed here.


Have you ever swam or rowed a boat through the Durdle Door?...



Its most notable landscape feature on a five-mile stretch of coastline on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. It is privately owned by the Weld Family who own the Lulworth Estate, but it is also open to the public. How bloody nice of them. The name Durdle derives from an Old English word 'thirl' meaning bore or drill.

Wow, didn't even know they had a coastline named "Jurassic" and obviously, a lot more to explore here, aside from the landscape the family & history I'm guessing has some interesting gems and maybe spooky tales. Just happened to notice the "Door" when Microsoft so graciously gifted my desktop background this morning after logging on. The Wiki page alone notes some interesting nuggets. This location has now definitely been added to my bucket list.

Dorset-born Arthur Moule, a friend of Thomas Hardy and missionary to China wrote these lines about Durdle Door for his 1879 book of poetry Songs of Heaven and home, written in a foreign Land:

Durdle Door (Resort Dorset)

• Legend has it, the rocks are approximately 140 million years old.
  
• The structure is about 200 feet tall.
  
• The first time it appeared on the Ordnance Survey Map, way back in 1811, it was called Dirdale Door.
  
• The footpath from Lulworth Cove is used by over 200,000 people each year - the busiest across the whole of the South West.
  
• It's a great spot for music videos, used by Billy Ocean and Tears for Fears. The Jurassic Coast is home to other famous music videos too.
  

Ha, a very popular song back in the 80s (still is today) that I heard every time I walked into a nightclub, I'm just now learning...See how Durdle Door looked in the eighties... much like today but with a few fashion tweaks!