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    USS Aurore II (SP-460), 1917-1919

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    USS Aurore II, a 96-foot section patrol boat, was built at Stamford, Connecticut, in 1916 as a gasoline engine powered pleasure craft. Purchased by the Navy for World War I service, she was placed in commission in October 1917 and thereafter employed on patrol, dispatch and passenger duties in the Delaware Bay area. Renamed SP-460 in April 1918, she was decommissioned in August 1919 and sold in September of that year.
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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.

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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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