Also the anniversary of Joe 1, the first Soviet atomic test in 1949.
Posted on 08/29/2018 1:14:15 PM PDT by fugazi
Today's post is in honor of Staff Sgt. James R. Ide V, who gave his life for our country on this day in 2010. The 32-year-old native of Festus, Mo. died of wounds from an engagement with insurgents in Hyderabad, Afghanistan. Ide was with the 230th Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command and had previously served two tours in Iraq.
1940: At Lawson Army Airfield (modern-day Fort Benning, Ga.), 1st Lt. William T. Ryder and his Parachute Test Platoon conduct the first mass parachute jump in U.S. military history.
Meanwhile, a delegation of British scientists begin sharing radar and other military technologies with the United States, hoping to secure assistance from the still-neutral nation.
1944: (Featured image) Four years after German conquerors marched through Paris' famous Arc de Triomphe, 15,000 American soldiers of the 28th Infantry Division parade down the newly-liberated capital's Champs-Élysées.
Meanwhile, a 21-man OSS force led by Lt. Cmdr. Frank Wisner parachutes into Romania, coordinating the rescue operation of well over 1,000 American prisoners of war.
1945: An American B-29 Superfortress, carrying a load of humanitarian aid to Allied prisoners of war in Korea, is intercepted by Soviet Yak-9 fighters. The supposed allies attack the bomber, forcing 1st Lt. Joseph Queen's crew to bail out before the plane crashes. The air crew are rescued, and the incident marks one of the first international confrontations between the soon-to-be Cold War rivals.
Across the Sea of Japan, Allied occupation forces begin
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Also the anniversary of Joe 1, the first Soviet atomic test in 1949.
The Soviets (Russia) would probably be much better off today if we had defeated them in WWII or shortly thereafter.
As far as I’m aware, the first American military casualty of the cold war was inflicted by the ChiComs on 8/25/45 when they killed John Birch.
http://www.silent-warriors.com/shootdown_list.html
here it says the b29 was forced to land?
29 August 1945 Soviet pilot Zizevskii, flying a Yak-9 Frank, damaged a US Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress dropping supplies to a POW camp near Hamhung Korea and forced it to land. The crew of the B-29 was not injured in the attack.
but and interested cold war list to review for all
And a long list of aircraft shot down. The cold war truly was a war...……………………………..
Here’s a neat map of the 12th Army Group lines (France) on this date in 1944.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5701s.ict21085?r=0.065,0.431,0.789,0.5,0
The Berlin Airlift alone caused the death of 31 US Servicemen.
“The cold war truly was a war”
My husband has talked about being on the border between East and West Germany when a particular East German tower would shoot at Americans who were clearing brush on the Western side of the border.
His company moved up and when a group went out to clear brush the tower opened fire again but this time the East German sniper has his head blown off.
There was no more interference with the people clearing brush.
Yes, Captain John Birch, Christian missionary and spy for Chennault, and who had nothing to do with the “John Birch Society.”
My uncle was with a group of PBY or PBM planes stationed in far north east Korea at the end of the war in the pacific. He recounted to me one of their unarmed, by then, patrol planes was flying over Manchuria when it was jumped by a Ruskie plane, he did not further ID. No one was injured. He added they were so angered by the unprovoked attack the crews wanted to rearm their planes and go back up after them but were denied that request. He always held the belief the army should not have stopped at the end of the European war and gone on to Moscow (I personally think that was not such a good idea).
He always held the belief the army should not have stopped at the end of the European war and gone on to Moscow (I personally think that was not such a good idea).
That’s what Patton wanted to do too.
We did not have the A bomb at that time which it would have taken. Otherwise, it would have been the same error Hitler made and we are an Ocean away.
That would be the movie with several other fictions.
He wanted an army for the Japanese invasion and went off the deep end when the war ended and he didn't get it.
That’s what Patton wanted to do too.
That would be the movie with several other fictions.
So all those quotes online about and by Patton wanting to invade Russia are not true?
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