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Link profile: Sampson NTS, Geneva, NY 1942-1946Category: Start / World War II Over 400,000 sailors went thru boot camp here to serve around the world during World War II. The Station was later converted to an air force base and is now a state park with a naval museum, association with over 6,000 members, annual reunions, and a Guest Book to hook up with old friends. Link rating details Total votes: 0 Overall rating: 0
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1340:
The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1675: King Philips War begins. 1812: Napoleon crosses the Nieman River and invades Russia. 1859: At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army, led by Napoleon III, defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I. 1861: Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia. 1862: U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu forts in China. 1910: The Japanese army invades Korea. 1943: Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base. 1945: Soviet troops parade past Red Square in celebration of their victory over Germany. As drums rolled, 200 soldiers performed a familiar ritual: They threw 200 German military banners at the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum. A little over 130 years earlier, victorious Russian troops threw Napoleons banners at the feet of Czar Alexander I. 1948: The Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade, America responds with the Berlin Airlift. |
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