Colonel Dean Caswell, USMC (Ret)
(July 24, 1922 – Sept 21st, 2022)

AUSTIN, Texas (TND) — The last living U’S. Marine Corps fighter
ace of World War II passed on at the age of 100. Colonel Dean
Caswell died at his home in Austin, Texas on Sept. 21.

Col. Caswell joined the Marine Corps in 1942 and fought in WWII,
the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, according to his obituary.

The ace fighter pilot reportedly flew over 10,000 hours and served
in 110 combat missions piloting 56 different aircraft. He has been credited for shooting down seven enemy aircraft during aerial
combat during his service. He also apparently flew with the
legendary Blue Angels.

Loretta Lynn (née Webb; April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022)

(AP) – Loretta Lynn, the acclaimed singer and songwriter whose
ascent from a small Kentucky coal-mining community to national
country music stardom became the stuff of Hollywood legend,
has died.

In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn’s family
said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

In May 2017, she suffered a stroke that ended her touring career.

The Soviet Union inaugurated the “Space Age” with its launch
of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957.

The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “fellow traveler,” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the
Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic.

Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and
circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Traveling at 18,000
miles an hour, its elliptical orbit had an apogee (farthest point from
Earth) of 584 miles and a perigee (nearest point) of 143 miles.

A Soviet technician works on Sputnik in 1957.