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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. -- General Douglas MacArthur |
USS President Jackson (AP-37, later APA-18 and T-APA-18), 1942-1973(337 total words in this text)(1371 Reads) During the rest of 1943 and into 1944, President Jackson took part in the Allied onslaught up the Solomons chain and beyond, landing troops on Rendova, Bougainville, Emirau Island and New Britain. She was hit by a Japanese bomb in November 1943, but it did not explode, so damage was slight. In mid-1944, the ship moved into the central Pacific to participate in the invasion of Guam. Her next major operation was the amphibious assault at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945. A month later, while putting Marines ashore on Iwo Jima, she was hit by a small coastal artillery shell. President Jackson performed logistics missions for the rest of the World War II and beyond. Her Pacific Fleet service, which included tours of duty in the Far East, lasted nearly to the end of the 1940s. In October 1949, President Jackson was assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service as T-APA-18. She continued to perform passenger-carrying duties in the Pacific, with a brief return to the amphibious warfare role during the Inchon Invasion in September 1950. President Jackson was placed out of service at San Francisco, California, in July 1955. Transferred to Maritime Administration custody in 1958, she remained in the National Defense Reserve Fleet until sold for scrapping in 1973. |
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1509:
At the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venitians in Northern Italy.
1864: Union and Confederate troops clash at Resaca, Georgia. This was one of the first engagements in a summer-long campaign by Union General William T. Sherman to capture the Confederate city of Atlanta. 1940: Holland surrenders to Germany. 1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India. 1943: U.S. and Great Britain chiefs of staff, meeting in Washington, D.C., approve and plot out Operation Pointblank, a joint bombing offensive to be mounted from British airbases. 1955: The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. 1969: Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam. 1969: In his first full-length report to the American people concerning the Vietnam War, President Nixon responds to the 10-point plan offered by the National Liberation Front at the 16th plenary session of the Paris talks on May 8. 1970: Allied military officials announce that 863 South Vietnamese were killed from May 3 to 9. This was the second highest weekly death toll of the war to date for the South Vietnamese forces. |