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    If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in.

    -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

    Pennsylvania Light Stations

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    CHESTER RANGE LIGHTS


    ERIE LAND (OLD PRESQUE ISLE) LIGHT

    PRESQUE ISLE/ERIE BAY/LAKE ERIE
    Station Established:
    Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1867
    Operational? NO
    Automated? NO
    Deactivated: 1899
    Foundation Materials: TIMBER/LIMESTONE/CEMENT
    Construction Materials: SANDSTONE W/BRICK LINING
    Tower Shape: CONICAL ATTACHED TO WORK/OIL ROOM
    Markings/Pattern: UNPAINTED SANDSTONE
    Relationship to Other Structure: SEPARATE
    Original Lens: THIRD ORDER FRESNEL 1867


    HORSESHOE RANGE LIGHTS, WEST GROUP


    PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT

    PRESQUE ISLE PENINSULA/LAKE ERIE
    Station Established: 1872
    Year Current Tower(s) First Lit: 1873
    Operational? YES
    Automated? YES 1962
    Deactivated: n/a
    Foundation Materials: LIMESTONE
    Construction Materials: BRICK
    Tower Shape: SQUARE
    Markings/Pattern: WHITE
    Relationship to Other Structure: ATTACHED
    Original Lens: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL 1873


    SCHOONER LEDGE REAR LIGHT
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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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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