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When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own. -- George C. Marshall |
Desert Calm, Southwest Asia, 01 Mar 1991-01 Jan 1992(44 total words in this text)(3874 Reads)  Desert Farewell OPERATION DESERT FAREWELL was the general term, seldom used, for redeployment of Coalition forces following the Gulf war. Desert Calm was a both the phase immediately following the cessation of hostilities, and a widely-used popular nickname given to OPERATION DESERT FAREWELL. |
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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1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
