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The power of example is very important to people under stress. -- General Sir John Hackett |
Provide Transition, Angola, 3 Aug 1992-9 Oct 1992(108 total words in this text)(2198 Reads)  12 August - 9 October 92: A 78-person contingent (76 from USAFE and two from Air Mobility Command) and three 435th Airlift Wing C-130 Hercules deployed from Rhein-Main to Luanda, Angola. The aircraft relocated government and rebel soldiers during Operation Provide Transition, a multinational United Nations effort to support democratic elections following 16 years of civil war in Angola. The Hercules flew 326 sorties, carrying 8,805 passengers and 265 tons of cargo during the operation. Between 24 September and 07 October 1991 USEUCOM joint task force Quick Lift deployed French and Belgian troops to Zaire and evacuated 716 people following a mutiny by army troops there. |
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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. |
