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The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. -- Sun Tzu |
USS Lindsey (DM-32, originally DD-771, later MMD-32), 1944-1972(198 total words in this text)(2577 Reads) During the Okinawa campaign, on 12 April, Lindsey was hit by two Kamikaze planes, suffering damage that killed nearly sixty crewmembers and destroyed her bow. She was able to reach Guam, where temporary repairs in May-July 1945 made her seaworthy enough to return to the United States for permanent restoration. In May 1946, soon after that work was finished, Lindsey decommissioned. Assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, and redesignated MMD-32 in 1969, she remained "in mothballs" until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in October 1970. USS Lindsey was expended as a target off the Virginia coast in May 1972. USS Lindsey was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Eugene E. Lindsey, who was killed in action on 4 June 1942, while leading Torpedo Squadron Six during the Battle of Midway. |
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Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.
1864: General Grant bans the trading of prisoners. 1864: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina, in an attempt to recapture ports lost to the Union two years before. 1941: The Yugoslav army, encircled in Bosnia, surrenders to Germany and signs a formal capitulation in Belgrade. 1945: U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut, Germany. 1951: Operation DAUNTLESS continued to advance against weakened communist resistance in the 24th and 25th Infantry Division zones. 1961: The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. 1975: Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. |