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1846:
Naval forces capture Tampico, Mexico. This will be a staging point for the coming action against Vera Cruz.
1862: President Lincoln approves of General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. This was an ill-fated move, as it led to the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, in which the Army of the Potomac was dealt one of its worst defeats at the hands of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. 1863: Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest was assigned to command of West Tennessee. 1910: Civilian Eugene Ely, was the first to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship, the USS Birmingham (CL-2). 1940: 500 German bombers left Germany for Coventry, Great Britain. The air raid followed Hitler's public promise, after the British bombing of Munich on November 8, that "an attack on the capital of the Nazi movement would not go unpunished." The punishment was indeed thorough. German bombers decimated the city—dropping 150,000 fire bombs and 503 tons of high explosives, as well as 130 parachute mines 1942: Off the coast of Guadalcanal, Admiral Tanaka turns south with his destroyers and transports and comes under heavy air attack from both Henderson Field and planes from the USS Enterprise. 1942: French General Barre, begins the movement of his troops away from the coastal towns in preparation for switching to the Allied side. 1943: An American torpedo was mistakenly fired at the U.S. battleship Iowa, which was carrying President Roosevelt and his joint chiefs to the Tehran conference; the torpedo exploded harmlessly in the Iowa's wake. 1943: On Bougainville the American divisions push back the Japanese along the jungle tracks. A few American tanks are available for support. 1944: Carrier aircraft attack Japanese shipping in Philippines sinking five ships and damaging one. |
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Will never forget what Somalia did to our Blackhawk pilots and crew! Image is forever burned in my mind of them being dragged through the streets!!
use force and the US will lose its position of leadership. Lead from the moral high ground and 100% within all international law and you win - the terrorists lose. What did we achieve in 1972 in Northern Ireland with 2 Para opening fire ? Turned neutrals into enemies. Despite being one of the best units in the World 2 Para will be remembered for that as much as Goose Green or Arnhem.
why dont we just blow all of them mother fuckers up so we dont have to worrie about us getting fuckin bombed again.
you know what why not just blow them fuckers. just nuke them then we can live saftly
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