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Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. -- Ernest Miller Hemmingway |
USS Dukes County (LST-735), 1944-1957(129 total words in this text)(1988 Reads)  LST-735 recommissioned in November 1950. In July 1951, she became a support ship for minesweepers. In this role, she made a Korean War deployment in 1952-53 and had additional Western Pacific tours in 1953-54 and 1955-56. Renamed Dukes County (LST-735) in July 1955, she was leased to the Republic of China Navy in May 1957 and sold to that service in 1974. She has been part of the ROC Navy ever since, originally under the name Chung Hai and later as Kao Hsiung. |
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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. |
