Thanks for the Heads-up. I just turned it on.
BTTT
I have heard crazy lefties say that not a single American soldier was killed in Germany post surrender. Info like this proves them wrong but never gets them to admit it or stop their spreading of lies.
MIDNIGHT, EST
Thanks so much for the heads up...I'll watch the replay at midnight.
Great show. They just showed Iraq
And when the subject is war and occupation, the nearest analogy to Iraq in 2004 is Germany in 1946. Any competent reporter should know and report this. I rest my case.
John / Billybob
I was in Austria occupation. Number of combat deaths also zero. Regarding Iraq - Private Lynch was not Rambo either.
U.S. Army soldiers execute camp guards following the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. (April 29, 1945)
American soldiers in front of the crematorium in Dachau. The corpses on the left are of SS personnel summarily executed by American troops. (April 29 - May 1, 1945)
SS guards lie at the base of a guard tower, where they were shot by American troops. (April 29 - May 1, 1945)
OCTOBER 1945 : (POSTWAR CHINA : US TROOPS SENT TO AID CHINESE IN REPATRIATING JAPANESE) 50,000 U.S. Marines are sent to North China to assist Chinese Nationalist authorities in disarming and repatriating the Japanese in China and in controlling ports, railroads, and airfields. This is in addition to approximately 60,000 U.S. forces already in China at the end of World War II.
OCTOBER 6, 1945 : (CHINA, COMMUNISTS FIRE ON USMC PATROL) US 1st Marines reconnaissance patrol fired on by 40-50 Chinese communist guerillas northwest of Tientsin, China.
OCTOBER 19, 1945 : (CHINA, COMMUNISTS FIRE ON USMC PATROL) US 7th Marines jeep patrol fired on by Chinese communist snipers near Tangshan, China
OCTOBER 26, 1945 : (CHINA, COMMUNISTS FIRE ON US MARINES) Ambush of US 5th Marines jeep patrol by Chinese communist snipers outside of Peiping, China
DECEMBER 3, 1945 : (CHINA : TWO US MARINES SHOT) Two US marines hunting near 7th Marines railroad outpost shot by two Chinese west of Anshan, China
DECEMBER 9, 1945 : (CHINA : US MARINE ATTACKED) One US marine attacked while on liberty in Tientsin, China, 9 Dec 1945
1946 : (YUGOSLAVIANS SHOOT DOWN US PLANE, ITALY FORTIFIED) Trieste. President Truman ordered the augmentation of U.S. troops along the zonal occupation line and the reinforcement of air forces in northern Italy after Yugoslav forces shot down an unarmed U.S. Army transport plane flying over Venezia Giulia. Earlier U.S. naval units had been dispatched to the scene.
JANUARY 7, 1946 : (GERMANY : NAZI "WEREWOLF" ATTACK KILLS THREE AMERICANS) Three American civilian officials killed when Nazi "Werewolf" terrorists burn down their house in Passau, Germany.
JANUARY 15, 1946 : (CHINA : US SUPPLY TRUCKS AMBUSHED) Two US 7th Marines supply trucks ambushed by Chinese communist guerillas near Tangshan, China.
MARCH 11, 1946 : (IRAN, KASHRAVI ASSASSINATION BY FEDEYEEN E ISLAM) Iranian scholar Amhed Kashravi stabbed to death by Fedayyan-e eslam guerillas in Iran.
APRIL 7, 1946 : (CHINA : US MARINES ATTACKED) US Marine hunting party attacked by irregular forces in the vicinity of Lutai, China, 7 Apr 1946
MAY 5, 1946 : (CHINA : US MARINES ATTACKED BY INSURGENTS FIRING MORTARS) US 5th Marines bridge guards attacked by Chinese communists firing mortars, near Tangku, China
MAY 7, 1946 : (CHINA : US MARINE SENTRY ATTACKED) US 7th Marines sentry attacked by guerillas in Lutai, China
MAY 21, 1946 : (CHINA : US MARINE PATROL AMBUSHED) 1st Marines reconnaissance patrol ambushed by 50-75 armed Chinese in village 10 miles south of Tientsin, China.
JUNE 25, 1946 : (US, SELECTIVE SERVICE "DRAFT" SYSTEM IS EXTENDED) The US Congress passes a measure to extend the Selective Service System until March 31, 1947.
JUNE 27, 1946 : (BIG FOUR MEETING TO DIVY UP TERRITORY) the foreign ministers of the US, Great britain, France and Russia meet in Paris; they transfer the Dodecanese Islands from Italy to Greece and award the Briga and Tenda areas in northern Italy to France. The Italo-Jugoslav frontier was delimited July 1 and the council adjourned July 12. - "An Encyclopedia of World History" by Alice Barnes
JULY 2, 1946 : (CHINA : US MARINE SENTRY ATTACKED) US Marine sentry attacked in Tangku, China
SEPTEMBER 30, 1946 : (PHILIPPINES, US SOLDIER AMBUSHED BY TERRORISTS) One US soldier killed when ambushed by terrorists at Fort McKinley, Philippines.
OCTOBER 3, 1946 : (CHINA : US MARINE AMMO SUPPLY POINT RAIDED) Chinese communist raid on 1st Marine Division ammunition supply point at Hsin Ho, northwest of Tangku, China
1947 : (IRAQ : PRO-NAZI TULFAH RAISES HIS SON, SADDAM HUSSEIN) Kharaillah Tulfah, participant in the 1941 pro-Nazi coup and an advocate of a pan-Islamic Nazi alliance along with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, raised and educated his nephew Saddam Hussein from age 10. - "Nazi Background of Saddam Hussein," by Chuck Morse, www.chuckmorse.com, February 4, 2003 --?
APRIL 4-5, 1947 : (CHINA : US MARINE AMMO SUPPLY POINT IS ATTACKED) Two Chinese communist companies about 350 men, attack US 1st Marine Division ammunition supply point at Hsin Ho, northwest of Tangku, China
DECEMBER 3, 1947 : (ITALY, COMMUNIST TERRORISTS DERAIL TRAIN, KILL TWENTY PEOPLE) Train derailed near Arras, France, by Communist terrorists killing twenty and injuring forty.
DECEMBER 25, 1947 : (CHINA : US MARINES AMBUSHED) US Marine hunting party ambushed by Chinese communists outside of Tientsin, China
MARCH 7, 1948 : (VIET MINH TERRORISTS ASSASSINATE US DIPLOMATS) Two American diplomats murdered by Viet Minh terrorists in Saigon, Indochina.
MAY 8, 1948 : (GREECE, AMERICAN MURDERED BY COMMUNISTS) American CBS correspondent George Polk murdered by three communists in Salonika, Greece, after he was lured to a meeting on a boat in the city's harbour. His body was dumped in the sea.
1948 - 1949 : (CHINA : COMMUNISTS TAKE NANKING) Marines were dispatched to Nanking to protect the US Embassy when the city fell to Communist troops, and to Shanghai to aid in the protection and evacuation of Americans.
FEBRUARY 1949 : (BALKANS : YUGOSLAVIA : ISLAMO-NAZIISM : YM REVOLT) In February 1949, the "Yung Muslims" started an open revolt . This was short-lived. During subsequent trials held in Sarajevo in 1949, four members of the "YM" were sentenced to death and many were given prison sentences . After this lesson, Islamic activists stopped creating illegal groups and started working on Islamisation "from underneath" . This meant penetrating the very pores of the system's institutions, including the formal Islamic community, because the activists considered their leaders to be traitors to the authentic Islamic cause. . - BALKAN RESEARCH CENTRE (UK) MEMBERS BRIEF : "Alija Izetbegovic:his background and philosophies," A briefing paper produced for Members for the 1992/3 Session of the British Parliament Monday 21 December 1992
1950 : (KOREAN CONFLICT BEGINS) The Korean conflict begins. - "Historical Backdrop: Timeline of Select Events ," http://www.turnerlearning.com/tntlearning/animalfarm/aftimeline.html.