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1864: Eight days of cavalry clashes in Georgia come to an end when Union General Judson Kilpatrick and Confederate General Joseph Wheeler skirmish for a final time at Waynesboro. Although the Rebels inflicted more than three times as many casualties as the Yankees, the campaign was considered a success by the Union because it screened Wheeler from the main Union force. 1864: U.S.S. Moose, Lieutenant Commander Fitch, U.S.S. Carondelet, Acting Master Charles W. Miller, U.S.S. Fairplay, Acting Master George J. Groves, U.S.S. Reindeer, Acting Lieutenant Henry A. Glassford, and U.S.S. Silver Lake, Acting Master Joseph C. Coyle, engaged field batteries on the Cumberland River near Bell's Mills, Tennessee, silenced them, and recaptured three transports taken by the Confederates the preceding day. 1942: During the first American raid on the mainland of Italy the US 9th Air Force bombs the harbor at Naples causing damage and sinking two cruisers. 1943: The Japanese escort carrier Chuyo is sunk by the US submarine Sailfish in Japanese home waters. 1943: The US divisions on Bougainville receive further reinforcements and extend their perimeter. 1943: Task Force 50, commanded by Admiral Pownall, and a task force commanded by Admiral Montgomery attack Kwajalein with a combined fleet of 6 carriers and nine cruisers. 1944: The USS Flasher (SS-249) sinks Japanese destroyer Kishinami and damages a merchant ship in South China Sea. The USS Flasher is only U.S. submarine to sink over 100,000 tons of enemy shipping in World War II. 1944: US 9th Army ceases the offensive toward the Roer River. The US 3rd Army forces of US 20th Corps concentrates forces for the capture of Saarlautern, where reconnaissance indicates there is an intact bridge over the Saar River. 1950: Marines rescued over 300 soldiers of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division, survivors of a communist ambush on the shores of the Chosin/Changjin Reservoir. |
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Keith
For example, I still have nightmares (always the same one), I have trouble sleeping, I carry around beaucoup anger (less than I used to)..but do I have PTSD? Can I justify it? My actual combat time was minimal..wasn't my job...tho being in a team consisting of 11 men & living on the economy certainly generated stress big time. So, in my case, I would say I have some symptoms but not full-blown PTSD.
When I was still living in Ohio, I was friends with two psychologists. They had patients from WWII that they were treating. Their opinion was that it was 50-50 for a successful cure. I do not have PTSD. I can talk about Vietnam and dream about without the problems some of other brothers in arms have suffered with.
The comments expressed here are similar to those in Australia. What we did find, based on US data was that the fighting in Vietnam was the trigger for two types of stress disorders. One was that which triggered an inherent personality defect which is immune to counseling or drugs. The other was a genuine stress disorder that was treatable through counseling and does emulate the characteristics of Shell Shock, battle fatigue etc. Nice to know we are on the same wave length.
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