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The most difficult thing about planning against the Americans, is that they do not read their own doctrine, and they would feel no particular obligtion to follow it if they did. -- Admiral Sergei I. Gorshkov |
Camp Lisa(112 total words in this text)(3302 Reads)  Base Camp Lisa near Vlasenica, Srpska (the name for the territory under Bosnian Serb control) was located on a small hill near the town of Vlasenica. The camp had approximately 800 Americans. Living conditions were quite nice, in small steel containers called conexes. With few exceptions, nearly every soldier slept in a bed or on a cot, has hot food, and showers as often as necessary. Most camps had portable gyms and workout facilities established in a designated tent or building. Morale facilities had books to read, Armed Forces television, vending machines with candy and soft drinks and at some facilities amenities such as a ping-pong table. |
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1509:
At the Battle of Agnadello, the French defeat the Venitians in Northern Italy.
1864: Union and Confederate troops clash at Resaca, Georgia. This was one of the first engagements in a summer-long campaign by Union General William T. Sherman to capture the Confederate city of Atlanta. 1940: Holland surrenders to Germany. 1942: The British Army, in retreat from Burma, reach India. 1943: U.S. and Great Britain chiefs of staff, meeting in Washington, D.C., approve and plot out Operation Pointblank, a joint bombing offensive to be mounted from British airbases. 1955: The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. 1969: Three companies of the 101st Airborne Division fail to push North Vietnamese forces off Hill 937 in South Vietnam. 1969: In his first full-length report to the American people concerning the Vietnam War, President Nixon responds to the 10-point plan offered by the National Liberation Front at the 16th plenary session of the Paris talks on May 8. 1970: Allied military officials announce that 863 South Vietnamese were killed from May 3 to 9. This was the second highest weekly death toll of the war to date for the South Vietnamese forces. |
