Posted on 08/22/2019 5:40:11 AM PDT by fugazi
Today's post is in honor of 1st Lt. Dustin Shannon and CWO3 James J. Wallenburg who were killed on this day in 2002 when their AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed into a hillside during a nighttime training mission in bad weather near Camp Polk, S. Korea. Shannon was born 6 October 1978 in San Diego and is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (Class of 2000). The men served in 1st Squadron, 6th Cavalry.
1776: A force of over 20,000 Redcoats led by Gen. William Howe land on Long Island, N.Y.. Over the next few days the British will force the Americans to withdraw to New Jersey, and the British capture the vital port of New York City - which they hold for the duration of the war.
1863: The crew of Union steamer USS Shokokon spots the Confederate schooner Alexander Cooper in New Topsail Inlet on the North Carolina Coast (just south of present-day Camp Lejeune). A crew of sailors board a dinghy which they use to reach the rear of the Confederate camp guarding the ship, where Master-at-arms Robert T. Clifford sneaks ashore and counts the enemy. Although outnumbered three-to-one, Clifford leads a charge against the Rebels, who are routed and leave behind their ship and supplies. For his actions, Clifford is awarded the Medal of Honor.
1914: During the opening days of World War I, the world is introduced to a level of violence on a scale never before seen as the German army kills 27,000 French soldiers in one day at Ardennes and Charleroi. By month's end, the Battle of the Frontiers will account for over a quarter million French casualties - with 75,000 killed in action. Meanwhile, the French, British, and Belgian troops manage to inflict 200,000 casualties on German General Helmuth von Moltke's
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Obviously I meant to say there were plenty of real warriors from France in World War I, but that said, there was a fair share of good soldiers and brave resistance fighters in the second world war.
Another statistic that highlights the cost. In the mid-1930s a British writer coined the term "thankful village". This is a village where none of its young men were killed in the First World War. In all of Great Britain and Ireland there were only 53 cities, towns, villages, or parishes that qualified as thankful villages. In France that number is one. Only a single town didn't lose any of its young men in World War I.
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What a sobering post.
The effect of irreplaceable genetic losses the French incurred from 1793-1918 is now apparent in modern “France”. The best are gone forever.
It’s a shame that the people that have to fight these wars don’t all rise up and demand that they will go to war, but only if those who send them into combat go as well. If I were president, you’d have one heck of a time keeping me away from the battlefield, because I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing I sent young men and women off to die and wasn’t willing to be sharing the danger and burden with them, at least occasionally. I wouldn’t be anything more than a hindrance (and target) on the front lines, but I imagine I could make myself useful where the pretty nurses were.
What’s the lost significance of August 15th 1945 and September 2nd in American history ?
It was wholesale slaughter. Nothing “warrior”-like in pushing tens of thousands into tight quarters and then slaughtering them with artillery. Much of WWII was like that.
H, N.
No plan survives contact with the enemy
... which since was immortalized by that great military strategerist, Mike Tyson, in a slightly different the form ...
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth
OKSooner wrote:H, N. as a reply to the question about two dates August 15th 1945 and September 2nd ignored historical value.
Aug 15th 1945 the Japanese emperor ordered all troops to cease fire and surrender to American forces.September 2nd eight years after July 4rh Treaty of Paris when England France and many other countries formally recognized the United States as a individual country .In 1945 Japan peace treaty was signed on the battleship Missouri
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