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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it. -- Robert E. Lee |
USS Timbalier, a 1,766-ton Barnegat class small seaplane tender, was built at Houghton, Washington, and was commissioned in May 1946. In February 1944 the Puget Sound Navy Yard was directed to complete her and Valcour (AVP-55), but in June 1945 they were ordered transferred back to the Lake Washington Shipyard at Houghton, resulting in their delayed completion. After a brief period of shakedown training at San Diego, Timbalier proceeded to the East Coast. In December 1946 she departed Norfolk for the Caribbean, and for the next eight years she tended the seaplanes of Fleet Air Wing 11 there and along the East Coast. Timbalier was decommissioned in November 1954 and placed in reserve. She was sold in December 1960 to a Greek merchant ship operator who renamed her Rhodos and converted her into the passenger vessel. She was scrapped at Eleusis, Greece, in 1989.
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |