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Jan 1969 - Col Sims leaves and Col Richard R. King assumes command of CAMP ATTERBURY. Jan 1, 1969 - 33,484.64 acres of CAMP ATTERBURY leased to Military Department of Indiana. Balance of original acreage leased to US Department of Labor (Atterbury Job Corps), Indiana Dept of Natural Resources, Indiana Department of Corrections (Work Release Program) and Johnson County Parks and Recreation Department. Military Department of Indiana assumes control of area South of Hospital Road. Jan 5, 1969 - First combat mission flown by 71st SOS Jan 29, 1969 - Last AC-119G gunship departs Lockbourne AFB, Ohio for Na Trang, Vietnam |
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March 1, 1969 - All eighteen AC-119G gunships are now in South Vietnam |
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April 1969 - Col King leaves and Col Norman K. Trich assumes command of CAMP ATTERBURY. April 1, 1969 - Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment, Atterbury Reserve Forces Training Area is activated as station complement. April 8, 1969 - First artificial heart was implanted into human. April 17, 1969 - 434th Tactical Airlift wing C-119 "Flying Boxcar" flew the unit's final airlift support mission at Bakalar AFB |
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May 9, 1969 - 71st SOS recommended for award of AF Outstanding Unit. May 10, 1969 - The Battle of Hamburger Hill began and lasted to May 20. In Vietnam US military strength peaked in this year with 550,000 men. Identified on American battle maps as Hill 937 the battle for Hamburger Hill, actually Ap Bia Mountain, which cost Americans 46 killed and 400 wounded, was one of the most significant battles of the Vietnam War as it spelled the end of major American ground combat operations. |
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June 5, 1969 - 71st SOS Reservists depart Nha Trang, Vietnam for Columbus, Indiana June 6, 1969 - 71st SOS Reservists arrive at Bakalar AFB, Columbus, Indiana June 18, 1969 - 71st SOS Reservists released from Active Duty |
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July 18, 1969 - A car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died. July 20, 1969 at 9:56 pm - Apollo XI astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon as they stepped out of their lunar module. |
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Sept 2, 1969 - The 1st 2 machines of ARPANET were connected at Prof. Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA. The US Dept. of Defense's Advanced Research and Projects Agency (ARPANET) launched a self-healing computer network with TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol). By the early 1980's the military component became a separate network and the true birth of today's Internet is marked. Sept 9, 1969 - Mid-air collision between private plane and Allegheny flight 853, near Fairland, Indiana. 83 die. Crash remains taken to Bakalar AFB hangar for reconstruction. Sept 30, 1969 - Nazi war criminals Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments, and Baldur von Schirach, the founder of the Hitler Youth, were freed at midnight from Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences. |
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Nov 19, 1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon. The second manned craft to land on the moon was the lunar module Intrepid. It landed on the lunar surface at 1:54 a.m. Intrepid landed 500 feet from the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. It spent 31 hours on the moon and docked with command module Yankee Clipper on November 20 and splashed down in the Pacific on November 24. |
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Dec 17, 1969 - The U.S. Air Force closed its Project "Blue Book" by finding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings. It had begun in 1948 as Project Sign.
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