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    There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

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    USS PC-823, 1944-1948

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    USS PC-823, a 173-foot submarine chaser, was built at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Commissioned in July 1944, she served in the western Atlantic during World War II, being assigned to air-sea rescue duties during at least some of that time. PC-823 was decommissioned in February 1946 and transferred to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy for use as a training ship, apparently receiving the name Ensign Whitehead. She was stricken from the Navy List in June 1948.

    In 1949, the personnel of the Republic of Korea Navy donated funds to obtain their service's first significant warship. The former PC-823 was purchased and renamed Pak Tu San (Korean Navy # PC-701). Provided with weapons by the U.S. Government, she arrived in South Korea shortly before the June 1950 outbreak of the Korean War. Pak Tu San remained in ROK Navy service until 1960.
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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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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