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    The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

    -- Sun Tzu

    James McCudden

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    James McCudden, the son of a soldier, was born in Gillingham, Kent on 28th March, 1895. In 1910 McCudden joined his father in the Royal Engineers as a bugler. When war was declared in 1914, McCudden was an aircraft mechanic in the Royal Flying Corps. He served in France as an observer and gunner before returning to England to train as a pilot.

    McCudden was an exceptional pilot and on 2nd April was awarded the Victoria Cross for "accounting for 54 enemy aeroplanes". James McCudden was killed on 9th July, 1918, at Auxi le Chateau when his aircraft stalled soon after take off.


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    This Day in History
    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    1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000.


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