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It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory. -- General George Patton Jr |
List of US Navy Ships Participating in Operation Urgent Fury(85 total words in this text)(4699 Reads)  USS Aubrey Fitch (FFG-34) USS Barnstable County (LST-1197) USS Briscoe (DD-977) USS Caron (DD-970) USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16) USS Coontz (DDG-40) USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) USS Guam (LPH-9) USS Independence (CV-62) USS Manitowoc (LST-1180) USS Moosebrugger (DD-980) USS Portsmouth (SSN-707) USS Recovery (ARS-43) USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20) USS Saipan (LHA-2) USS Sampson (DDG-10) USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG-13) USS Suribachi (AE-21) USS Taurus (PHM-3) USS Trenton (LPD-14) Note: All ships listed above were awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
