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Only great and general battles can produce great results. -- Karl von Clausewitz |
 War Stories: VietnamWar Stories published under this topic are as follows:
Our fireteam (Det8), was staging off the Hunderton County (LST-838) and out of the Rach Gia short strip. We had been flying combat ops between Long Xuyen and Rach Gia and had spotted about a half acre of (VC) watermelons growing on a flat spot above a village which was along a river.
Note: by Bill Rutledge 8418 Reads
My experiences are those from the perspective of a gunship pilot. I flew Cobras with the 235th Aerial Weapons Company (the Delta Devils) out of Can Tho in '68 and '69. The 235th was an all-Cobra company and we gunship drivers were used as hired guns for anyone in the Delta who wanted helicopter gunships to come and shoot up stuff. We nearly always were dispatched as a single light fire team (two Cobras).
Note: by Ira Will McComic 10584 Reads
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1192:
English King Richard I the Lion Hearted was captured in Austria on his return from the Third Crusade.
1745: A Scottish Jacobite army commanded by Lord George Murray routs the Royalist army of General Sir John Cope at Prestonpans. 1863: Union troops defeated at Chickamauga seek refuge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is then besieged by Confederate troops. 1929: Fighting between China and the Soviet Union breaks out along the Manchurian border. 1936: The German army holds its largest maneuvers since 1914. 1941: The German Army cuts off the Crimean Peninsula from the rest of the Soviet Union. 1942: The U.S. B-29 Superfortress makes its debut flight in Seattle, Washington. It was the largest bomber used in the war by any nation. 1942: British forces attack the Japanese in Burma. 1944: U.S. troops of the 7th Army, invading Southern France, cross the Meuse River. 1951: Operation SUMMIT, the first helicopter landing of a combat unit in history, took place. It included the airlifting of a reinforced company of Marines and 17,772 pounds of cargo into the Punchbowl area. |
