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Link profile: Tamaroa Maritime FoundationCategory: Start / Coast Guard This is a well organized site detailing the history of the former USCGC Tamaroa aka USS Zuni (1943-46). As the Zuni she won 4 battle stars in the pacific. As the Tamaroa she spent 5 decades on search and rescue patrols in the North Atlantic. Perhaps her most famous case was the rescue of the downed airmen in the Storm of the century. The Tamaroa's exploits were recorded both on a PBS documentary about the storm and also in the Block buster motion picture the PERFECT STORM. Link rating details Total votes: 0 Overall rating: 0
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
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