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When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. -- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
Pearl Harbor Attack, USS Ramsay (DM-16)(200 total words in this text)(3305 Reads)  U.S.S. Ramsay. Pearl Harbor, T.H. December 13, 1941 From: Commanding Officer. To: Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Subject: Report of Offensive Measures During Air Raid Seven December 1941. Reference: (a) CinCPac desptach 102102. The Ramsay was moored at berth D-3. A bomb was observed to land on the western end of Ford Island at 0755. Sounded General Quarters and opened fire with fifty caliber machine guns and 3"/23 caliber gun at 0805. Continued firing on enemy planes intermittently as they came within range. Ramsay liberty party returning in Montgomery boat was strafed by torpedo planes which were observed to fire three torpedoes into Utah and one into Raleigh. Ramsay got underway at 0855 and proceeded out of harbor. While proceeding down outer channel an enemy plane was taken under fire with fifty caliber machine guns, within effective range. Gun crews report, substantiated by several enlisted observers, the plane destroyed. Upon clearing entrance buoys assumed anti-submarine patrol. [signed] G.L. SIMS. Copy to: Combatfor. Cominbatfor. Comindiv TWO. |
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1863:
General Joseph Hooker and the Army of the Potomac abandon a key hill on the Chancellorsville battlefield.
1926: U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua. 1942: On this, the first day of the first modern naval engagement in history, called the Battle of the Coral Sea, a Japanese invasion force succeeds in occupying Tulagi of the Solomon Islands in an expansion of Japans defensive perimeter. 1965: The lead element of the 173rd Airborne Brigade ("Sky Soldiers"), stationed in Okinawa, departs for South Vietnam. It was the first U.S. Army ground combat unit committed to the war. 1968: After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area. 1982: A British submarine sinks Argentinas only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War. |
