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When war does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. -- General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
Max Immelmann(137 total words in this text)(2459 Reads)  Immelmann was the inventor of the 'Immelmann Turn', a simultaneous loop and roll that became a standard dogfight manoeuvre. On 12th January 1916, Immelmann was awarded the Orsre Pour le Merite (Blue Max), Prussia's highest award for bravery. By June 1916 Immelmann had achieved fifteen victories. Soon afterwards he was killed during a dogfight with the pilot of a FE.2b. The British credited the pilot with the kill but the Germans argued that Immelmann's Fokker E malfunctioned and he shot his own propeller off during the battle. |
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1863:
General Joseph Hooker and the Army of the Potomac abandon a key hill on the Chancellorsville battlefield.
1926: U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua. 1942: On this, the first day of the first modern naval engagement in history, called the Battle of the Coral Sea, a Japanese invasion force succeeds in occupying Tulagi of the Solomon Islands in an expansion of Japans defensive perimeter. 1965: The lead element of the 173rd Airborne Brigade ("Sky Soldiers"), stationed in Okinawa, departs for South Vietnam. It was the first U.S. Army ground combat unit committed to the war. 1968: After three days of battle, the U.S. Marines retake Dai Do complex in Vietnam, only to find the North Vietnamese have evacuated the area. 1982: A British submarine sinks Argentinas only cruiser during the Falkland Islands War. |
