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Facing My Lai"Facing My Lai - Moving Beyond the Massacre." University of Kansas Press, ISBN 0-7006-0864-8. Edited by David L. Anderson. Contributions by Robert Jay Lifton, William G. Eckhardt, Ron Ridenhour, Hugh C. Thompson Jr., Warren Bell, David Halberstam, Seymour Hersh, Keven Sim, Kathleen Turner, John Balaban, W.D. Erhart, Wayne Karlin, Basil Paquet, George C. Herring, Stephen E. Ambrose, Walter E. Boomer, David Clinton, David Halberstam, Hays Parks, Harry G. Summers Jr., Patience Mason, Jonathan Shay, Karin Thompson, Tim O'Brien, John McAuliff and Marilyn B. Young. Vietnamese contributions by Kiem Do and Tiana (Thi Thanh Nga). Added: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 Reviewer: Desdichado Score: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Related web link: hits: 5307 Language: eng |
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The first day of the Seven Days campaign begins with fighting at Oak Grove, Virginia.
1864: Pennsylvania troops begin digging a tunnel toward the Rebels at Petersburg, Virginia, in order to blow a hole in the Confederate lines and break the stalemate. 1876: Indians under the leadership of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeat Lieutenant Colonel George Custer and much of his 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. 1920: The Greeks take 8,000 Turkish prisoners in Smyrna. 1941: Finland declares war on the Soviet Union. 1942: Following his arrival in London, Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower takes command of U.S. forces in Europe. 1948: The Soviet Union tightens its blockade of Berlin by intercepting river barges heading for the city. 1950: The North Korean Peoples Army (NKPA) crossed the 38th Parallel at 0500 hours with 60,000 troops to launch an all-out offensive on the Republic of Korea. The United Nations Security Council, in the absence of the Soviet Union, adopted a resolution calling for the withdrawal of North Korean forces to the parallel. 1969: The U.S. Navy turns 64 river patrol gunboats valued at $18.2 million over to the South Vietnamese Navy in what is described as the largest single transfer of military equipment in the war thus far. 841: Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat Lothar at Fontenay. |
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