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Oct 5, 1947: B-29 "Polar Queen" of the 59th Reconn Squadron. The mission marks are barber poles instead of bombs, representing 11 flights across the North Pole.


The B-29 Superfortress "Polar Queen" was a modified version of the B-29 bomber used for weather reconnaissance missions in the Arctic. It was part of the U.S. Air Force's efforts to gather meteorological data during the late 1940s.

The well known B-29 superfortress, famous for it's colorful nose art is better known as the bomber that pounded Japan into submission.

Best B-29 Bomber Nose Art (And Why Was it Banned?)



One of these days I gotta find the story to SHEER MADNESS.




Oct 5, 1947: with Europe on the brink of famine following World War II, President Harry Truman delivered the first ever presidential speech to air on television. His aim: convince Americans, giddy from the post-war boom, to share with the less fortunate across the Atlantic. “If the peace should be lost because we failed to share our food with hungry people there would be no more tragic example in all history of a peace needlessly lost.”

Consuming less would increase the amount left to share, and it would also help keep prices down at home. So the President had a plan: no red meat on Tuesdays, and no poultry or eggs on Thursdays. Citizens were also asked to eat one less piece of bread each day, and restaurants were requested only to serve bread and butter if it was ordered. As the Citizens Food Committee announced following the speech, even the White House was going along: the President would have cheese souffle for lunch and broiled salmon for dinner on that Tuesday, with an egg-free menu of baked ham the following night. Meatless Mondays had been a wartime solution to shortages dating back to World War I, which TIME later called “the 1917-18 meatless, wheatless, or otherless days,” so there was plenty of precedent for asking Americans to cut back.

There were, however, a few exceptions that even the President would allow: as TIME pointed out the following week, Christmas, New Year’s and Thanksgiving in 1947 all fell on poultry-free Thursdays. The solution would be to conserve on the Mondays of those weeks instead, so Americans could have their turkeys and save them, too.

The Surprising Point of the First Televised White House Speech

I wonder how many Americans followed thru on Truman's request? At the current rate of EU decline, Americans may have to do it again.




Artifacts from Apple-2 nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Interesting to see whiskey and beer can. Good times in Doom Town.


Apple-2 shot was a 29 kt atomic airburst on May 5, 1955 at high noon.

The Civil Defense Apple-2 shot on May 5, 1955 was intended to test various building construction types in a nuclear blast. An assortment of buildings, including residential houses and electrical substations, were constructed at the site nicknamed "Survival Town" by some and "Doom Town" by others. You've all seen it in movies & TV shows. They are stops on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) tour.


Oct 5, 1962: the first James Bond film premiere of "Dr. No" and release of “Love Me Do” released in UK and Elton John released his seventh studio album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road on this day in 1973.

License to thrill.




The strangeness that is vintage Halloween cards.




The Postman prophecy has come to pass gentlemen. The story of the Amazon guy who went postal...

A U.S. Postal Service worker was shot in the face during an altercation Friday afternoon in Everett, Washington, and a rival package delivery driver is in custody, according to local police and a postal inspector.

The incident took place at the West Mall Place Apartments. The victim was transported to Providence Hospital with a gunshot wound, the Everett Police Department said in a Facebook post. He was transferred to Harbor View Medical Center in critical condition, Seattle TV station KOMO reported.

Neighbors said the shooter was an Amazon delivery driver, according to KOMO and social media posts. TV footage showed an Amazon vehicle and USPS van behind police crime-scene tape and the Amazon van being towed away later.

“USPS workers don’t let people in the area when they have the mailboxes open. The Amazon driver didn’t particularly like that, they got into an argument, which escalated to a shoving match, which escalated to the Amazon driver shooting the USPS guy in the freaking eye!!! Then he sat there calmly and waited for the cops to show up and claimed self defense,” a poster named Rich Ryan said on Facebook.

KOMO quoted a U.S. postal inspector as saying the mail carrier was confronted by an individual and the carrier was shot in the face.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the FBI are also investigating the case. The suspect was booked into Snohomish County jail, KOMO said.

US Postal Service Mail Carrier Shot By Amazon Driver

POTUS and FLOTUS celebrating the Navy's 250th birthday in Norfolk, Virginia.
POTUS: "Through the spray of raging combat and the fog of naval war, America's sailors have proven time and again that our Navy does just the best job there is... We own the skies, we stalk the depths, and we RULE THE SEAS like nobody has ever ruled the seas."




Some people are not happy, but that’s how losing wars works.