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Bravery does not of itself win battles. -- H.H. Wilson |
Acoma, a 60-foot motor boat, was built at Morris Heights, New York, in 1917 as a civilian pleasure craft. She was leased by the Navy in September 1917 and commissioned the following month as USS Acoma (SP-1228). After operating as a patrol boat in the vicinity of Newport, Rhode Island, and Bedford, Connecticut, for the rest of World War I, Acoma was returned to her owner in November 1918.
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1862:
Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans a day after his fleet successfully sailed past two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River.
1864: For the second time in a week, a Confederate force captures a Union wagon train trying to supply the Federal force at Camden, Arkansas. 1898: The United States declares war on Spain. 1915: Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli in Turkey. 1945: Eight Russian armies completely encircle Berlin, linking up with the U.S. First Army patrol, first on the western bank of the Elbe, then later at Torgau. Germany is, for all intents and purposes, Allied territory. 1952: After a three day fight against Chinese Communist Forces, the Gloucestershire Regiment is annihilated on "Gloucester Hill," in Korea. 1972: Hanois 320th Division drives 5,000 South Vietnamese troops into retreat and traps about 2,500 others in a border outpost northwest of Kontum in the Central Highlands. |