The FReeper Foxhole Enjoys a Lazy Sunday and this Day in History - June 26th, 2005

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Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.
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FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer
for all those serving their country at this time.


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Battle of Belleau Wood



In a battle noteworthy because of both its extremely bloody nature and its close proximity to the French capital of Paris, the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) launched a counter-attack designed to stop the German advance. The Second Division was tasked with taking the woods, and the 4th Brigade with its 5th and 6th Marine Regiments was sent forward. In order to enter and take the woods, it was necessary to advance across an open field of wheat that was continuously swept with murderous German machine gun and artillery fire. After Marines were repeatedly urged to turn back by retreating French forces, Marine Captain Lloyd Williams of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines uttered the now-famous retort "Retreat, hell. We just got here." The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Officers of the American Expeditionary Forces and the Baker mission The American Expeditionary Forces or AEF was the United States military force in World War I. The AEF helped the French defend the Western Front during the Aisne Offensive in May. ... Patch of the United States Army 2nd Infantry Division. ... A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ... Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ... In military terminology, a battalion consists of two to six companies typically commanded by a lieutenant colonel. ...

On the first day alone (June 1), the casualties were the highest in Marine Corps history (and remained so until the capture of Tarawa in November 1943). Overall, the woods were taken by the Marines (and the US Army 3rd Brigade) a total of six times before they could successfully expel the Germans. They fought off more than four divisions of Germans, oftentimes reduced to using only their bayonets or fists in hand-to-hand combat. In order to rally his platoon of pinned-down Marines, Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly encouraged them with what would become another famous phrase "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" Battle of Tarawa Conflict World War II, Pacific War Date November 20 – November 23, 1943 Place Tarawa Result American victory The Battle of Tarawa was a battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. It was the second time the United States was on the offensive (the Battle of... November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of around 10,000 soldiers. ... The US Marine Corps OKC-3S bayonet From right to left: a carbine, a straight infantry officer sabre, a short curved infantry sabre (briquet), two bayonets. ... Gunnery Sergeant insignia (U.S. Marine Corps) Gunnery Sergeant is the seventh enlisted rank in the U.S. Marine Corps, just above Staff Sergeant and below Master Sergeant, and is a non-commissioned officer. ... Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph Dan Daly (11 November 1873 – 28 April 1937) was a United States Marine. ...

On June 26th, a report was sent out simply stating, "Woods now U.S. Marine Corps entirely," (http://www.2ndbn5thmar.com/history/belleau3.htm) ending the bloodiest and most ferocious battle U.S. forces would fight in the war. June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ...



In the end, U.S. Forces suffered a total of 9,777 casualties, 1,811 of them being fatal. There is no clear information on the total number of Germans killed, although 1,600 troops were taken prisoner. Combined with the actions at Chateau Thierry, the Battle of Belleau Wood brought an end to the last major German offensive of World War I. The Battle of Chateau Thierry was fought on July 18, 1918. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

After the battle, the French renamed the wood "Bois de la Brigade de Marine" ("Wood of the Marine Brigade") in honor of the Marines' tenacity. The French government also later awarded the 4th Brigade the Croix de Guerre. Belleau Wood is also where the Marines got their German nickname of "Teufelhunde" or "Devil Dogs" for the ferocity with which they attacked the German lines. An official German report classified the Marines as "vigorous, self-confident, and remarkable marksmen..."

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On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on June 26:
1702 Dr Philip Doddridge England, nonconformist clergyman
1730 Charles Messier cataloguer of "M objects"
1742 Arthur Middleton signer Declaration of Independence
1763 George Morland England, artist of rural landscapes
1819 Abner Doubleday Brig., Gen. (Union Volunteers), credited with inventing American baseball
1824 Kelvin, [William Thomson], British physicist (Kelvin Scale)
1837 Martin Davis Hardin II, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1923
1837 Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1887 Anthony G de Rothschild Britain, philanthropist
1892 Hubert Julian (Jay) Stowitts the first American star in the Russian ballet, and Anna Pavlova's only American partner
1892 Pearl S Buck China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)
1893 Big Bill Broonzy Miss, blues singer/guitarist (Blues by Broonzy)
1898 Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer
1901 Stuart Symington (Sen-D-Mo)
1903 Floyd "Babe" Herman Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324 lifetime average)
1904 Peter Lorre actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers)
1909 Col Tom Parker Elvis Presley's manager
1911 Edward Levi professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning)
1913 Maurice Wilkes inventor (stored program concept for computers)
1925 Pavel Belyayev USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod 2)
1933 Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Calif, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid) (Wax on..wax off)
1940 Billy Davis Jr St Louis Mo, singer (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
1942 Larry Taylor rocker (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
1960 Barbara Edwards Albuqueque NM, playmate of the year (Sept, 1983)
1961 Greg LeMond, US bicyclist (Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990)
1964 Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, became tallest woman known (8'1")

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Deaths which occurred on June 26:
0363 Flavius C Julianus, [Apostata], emperor of Rome (361-63), dies
1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conqueror of Peru, assassinated in Lima
1631 Justinus van Nassau, ltalian admiral (Armada), dies
1827 Samuel Crompton, English inventor (mule-jenny), dies at 73
1906 Alexander Muir poet (The Maple Leaf Forever), dies at 76
1937 Georg A Erman, German egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt), dies at 82
1943 Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39
1956 Clifford Brown, US jazz trumpeter (Joyspring, Jordu), dies at 25
1983 Walter O'Keefe songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82
1984 George H Gallup, pollster (Gallup Poll), dies at 82
1993 Roy Campanella, 3xMVP catcher (Dodgers), dies of a heart attack at 71
1996 Veronica Guerin Irish Crime Reporter murdered
2003 Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), former South Carolina Senator, died at 100

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GWOT Casualties

Iraq
26-Jun-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Richard P. Orengo Najaf (near) Hostile - hostile fire - ambush
US Specialist Corey A. Hubbell Camden Yards Non-hostile - illness - breathing difficulties
US Hospitalman Joshua McIntosh Karbala Non-hostile - weapon discharge

26-Jun-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Jeremy M. Heines Baghdad (central part) Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
US Lance Corporal Manuel A. Ceniceros Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire


Afghanistan
A Good Day

http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White

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On this day...
0684 St Benedict II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1243 The Seljuk Turkish army in Asia Minor defeated by the Mongols
1284 Pied Piper lures 130 children of Hamelin away
1483 Richard III usurps English throne
1498 Toothbrush invented
1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil.
1819 The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1848 1st pure food law enacted in US
1862 US Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek-Union repulse Confederacy in Virginia
1862 Day 2 of the 7 Days battle-Battle of Mechanicsville
1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens
1870 Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich
1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1896 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10cents for admission
1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever
1902 England establishes Order of Merit
1911 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph)
1912 Gustav Mahlers 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
1916 Cleveland Indians experiment with #s on their jerseys (one game)

1917 1st American Expeditionary Force arrive in France during WW I

1919 1st issue of NY Daily News published
1924 After 8 years of occupation, US troops leave the Domincan Republic
1934 Germany and Poland sign nonaggression treaty
1934 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act establishing credit unions
1940 End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1941 Lithuanian fascist massacre 2,300 Jews in Kovno
1942 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flies for the first time
1945 UN Charter signed by 50 nations in SF
1948 US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin. Berlin Airlift began in earnest as the United States, Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
1949 Walter Baade discovers asteroid Icarus inside orbit of Mercury
1953 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested
1957 Hurricane Audrey strikes Louisiana claiming 500 lives
1958 Mackinac Straits Bridge, Michigan dedicated
1959 Ingemar Johansson of Sweden defeats Floyd Patterson as boxing champ
1959 Queen Elizabeth & Pres Eisenhower open the St Lawrence Seaway
1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1960 Madagascar gains independence from France (National Day)
1963 Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner)
1964 Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album
1964 Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St Augustine
1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
1970 Frank Robinson hits 2 grand slams as Orioles beat Senators 12-2
1974 Liz Taylor's 5th divorce (Richard Burton)
1975 Cher divorces Sonny Bono
1977 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France
1978 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched
1982 US vetos UN Security Council resolution for a limited withdrawal from Beirut of Israeli & Palestine Liberation Organization forces
1984 1st flight of Shuttle Discovery (41-D) scrubbed at T -4s
1984 Barbra Striesand records "Here We Are at Last"
1987 Supreme Court Justice Lewis F Powell Jr announces his retirement
1987 Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd & win 12-11 in 10 inn
1989 Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
1990 122ø F in Phoenix Arizona
1990 President Bush, who’d campaigned for office on a pledge of “no new taxes,” concedes that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators
(Bad move George!)
1991 Ky medical examiner announces Zachary Taylor died of natural causes
1992 Supreme Court rules fund soliciting can be banned at airports
1993 "Late Night with David Letterman" airs for last time on NBC-TV
1993 US Tomahawk-rockets hit Iraqi secret service, Baghdad
1994 Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader
1994 PLO-leader Yasser Arafat returns to Gaza after 27 years
1995 Gunmen ambush Egyptian pres Hosni Mubarak, escapes unharmed
1996 Former White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum took the blame for the FBI files controversy; White House security chief Craig Livingstone resigned
1997 Supreme Court strikes down Internet indecency law
1997 Supreme Court upholds doctor-assisted suicide ban
1998 Norway sets aside $58 million for Jewish survivors of Nazi death camps
2000 Public and private gene researchers, Celera Genomics and the National Human Genome Research Institute, announced at the White House that after a ten-year race they had roughly mapped the human genome
2000 Vatican unveils the 62-line handwritten account of Lucia de Jesus dos Santos from the Fatima, Portugal, vision of Jul 13, 1917.
2001 7 members of a North Korean family took refuge in the Beijing office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and claimed fear of deportation
2002 The Ninth US Circuit Court in SF rules that the “under God” phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance is an endorsement of religion and violates the Constitution.
2002 A Moscow court sentences in absentia former KGB Gen. Oleg Kalugin to 15 years in prison for revealing secrets about U.S.-based agents in a 1994 book about his Cold War career.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Malagasy Republic & British Somaliland : Independence Day (1960)
National Ducks and Wetlands Day
National All You Can Eat Day
National Beauticians's Day
National Forest System Month

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Religious Observances
RC : Feast of SS John & Paul, martyrs in Rome

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Religious History
1097 The armies of the First Crusade (1096-99) occupied the ancient Byzantine city of Nicea.
1702 Birth of Philip Doddridge, an English Nonconformist clergyman. Doddridge authored 370 hymn- texts, of which 'O Happy Day That Fixed My Choice' is still sung today.
1839 Scottish clergyman and missionary Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Joy is increased by spreading it to others.'
1892 Birth of Pearl S. Buck, American Presbyterian missionary to China and author of the 1931 best-seller, 'The Good Earth.'
1955 The first Southern Baptist congregation was formally organized in Las Vegas, with 33 charter members. It was the second Southern Baptist church established in Nevada.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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'I'd do it again': pistol-packing great-granny who killed 85-year-old beau

ATLANTA (AP) - Furious their romance was ending, a 78-year-old great-grandmother shot her 85-year-old ex-beau dead as he read the newspaper in a senior citizens home, police said.
"I did it and I'd do it again!" Lena Driskell yelled to officers who arrived at the home June 10, testimony showed. Police said Driskell was wearing a bathrobe and slippers, waving an antique handgun with her finger still on the trigger.
She is accused of plotting the shooting of Herman Winslow because she was angry their yearlong romance was ending and he had found another companion.

Driskell was released on a $25,000 bail and placed under house arrest after a hearing Friday. Fulton County Magistrate Richard Hicks stipulated she must wear an ankle monitor and live with her granddaughter Lena Holt.
"I don't want her on the streets," Hicks said.
"Who knows how many other guns she has?"

After a nasty breakup with Winslow, Driskell kept showing up uninvited at his apartment in Hightower Manor, a complex for seniors where they lived, Det. D.B. Mathis said. A security guard tried to calm her down but Driskell drew out her gun, pressed it to Winslow's head and fired up to four times, Mathis said.

At the hearing Friday, defence lawyer Deborah Poole stressed Driskell's clean criminal record and said she had had the gun since 1957.
"She's not a threat to anyone," Poole said.
Driskell whispered angrily to her lawyer when the detective recounted her confession.

Her granddaughter, who was named for her, said Driskell and Winslow had shared a bank account and a love for travelling
"What drove her to something like this is beyond me," a teary Holt said outside the courthouse.
"We have no control over what she did but we are very sorry," Holt said.

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Thought for the day :
"Hunting God is a great adventure"

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies. Flag-o-Gram.

[Professional Engineer]

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[Valin]

Re the photos: I'm shocked...SHOCKED I SAY! These German combatants being assaulted yes ASSAULTED by Americans. Why didn't they try to arrest them first, were they given their Miranda rights first? We need to get DICK Durbin on this.

[alfa6]

1942 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter flies for the first time

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was responsible for shooting down more Japanese aircraft than any other American fighhter.

Pigeon Pad Progress Bump for the Sunday Freeper Foxhole on a non Lazy alfa6 Sunday.

Got the steps built, all the decking down and the railing posts installed yesterday. Knocked off a little early for a supply run to the BORG and some dinner. Hopefully will be able to workk till dark today.

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Morning Glory Folks~

A special God Bless the Marine Corps. Every article written on paper and every thread posted on the Foxhole has earmarked these men for what they are . . . courageous, heroic, honorable and proud. Thank God their our boys . . .

Semper Fi America!

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Good morning everyone.

[Darksheare]

I'll take it!

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1896 1st movie theater in US opens, charging 10cents for admission.

Does anyone recognize this guy? (just kidding)

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather

[SAMWolf]

Morning Snippy

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Good morning Aeronaut.

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Morning EGC.

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We were so darn horrible in WWI and II that we won them both!

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Do I see electrical wires above that?