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Marines use scaling ladders to storm ashore at Inchon in amphibious invasion

At the operational level, the amphibious turning movement at Inchon had the effect that MacArthur had foreseen. Coalition forces in the Pusan perimeter at first faced undiminished resistance as they attempted to break out of their encirclement, but NKPA resistance progressively weakened in the days after the invasion. Finally, 10 days after the Inchon assault, the NKPA's initial retreat turned into a general collapse.

Overall, U.S. forces prevailed at Inchon despite several serious threats, both from North Korean forces and the environment. The presence of modern sea mines and well-placed minefields, or uncooperative weather could have stymied the entire operation. Nevertheless, Marine Corps and Navy planners pressed forward, building and employing an effective force in a minimal amount of time. Only extensive training; common, well-understood amphibious doctrine; and prior experience with amphibious warfare allowed them to do so.

By any standard, Inchon represented a remarkable effort by U.S. naval forces facing enormous odds. As General MacArthur signaled Admiral Struble from his flagship on 15 September, as Marines streamed ashore on Wolmi-do, "The Navy and Marines have never shone more brightly than this morning."

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"Inchon" prismacolor, by combat artist Herbert C. Hahn. This drawing depicts landing craft headed for Red Beach during the evening assault, as Inchon burns in the background. Destroyers firing in support of the landing, as well as LSTs, stand offshore. To the right is Wolmi Do and the causeway leading to Inchon.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day: Background

Until July 18, 1979, no commemoration was held to honor America's POW/MIAs, those returned and those still missing and unaccounted for from our nation's wars. That first year, resolutions were passed in the Congress and the national ceremony was held at the National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. The Missing Man formation was flown by the 1st Tactical Squadron, Langley AFB, Virginia. The Veterans Administration published a poster including only the letters "POW/MIA" and that format was continued until 1982, when a black and white drawing of a POW in harsh captivity was used to convey the urgency of situation and the priority that President Ronald Reagan assigned to achieving the fullest possible accounting for Americans still missing from the Vietnam War.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day legislation was introduced yearly, until 1995 when it was deemed by Congress that legislation designating special commemorative days would no longer be considered by Congress. The President now signs a proclamation each year. In the early years, the date was routinely set in close proximity to the League's annual meetings. In the mid-1980's, the American Ex-POWs decided that they wished to see the date established as April 9th, the date during World War II when the largest number of Americans were captured. As a result, legislation urged by the American Ex-POWs was passed covering two years, July 20, 1984 and April 9, 1985, as the commemoration dates.

The 1984 National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony was held at the White House, hosted by President Ronald Reagan. At that most impressive ceremony, the Reagan Administration balanced the focus to honor all returned POWs and renew national commitment to accounting as fully as possible for those still missing. Perhaps the most impressive Missing Man formation ever flown was that year, up the Ellipse and over the White House. Unfortunately, the 1985 ceremony was canceled due to inclement weather, a concern that had been expressed when the April 9th date was proposed.

Subsequently, in an effort to accommodate all returned POWs and all Americans still missing and unaccounted for from all wars, the National League of Families proposed the third Friday in September, a date not associated with any particular war and not in conjunction with any organization's national convention. Most National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremonies have been held at the Pentagon. On September 19, 1986, however, the national ceremony was held on the steps on the U.S. Capitol facing the Mall, again concluding with a flight in Missing Man formation.

National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremonies are now held throughout the nation and around the world on military installations, ships at sea, state capitols, at schools, churches, national veteran and civic organizations, police and fire departments, fire stations, etc. The League's POW/MIA flag is flown, and the focus is to ensure that America remembers its responsibility to stand behind those who serve our nation and do everything possible to account for those who do not return.

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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on September 16:
1387 Henry V king of England (1413-22)
1547 Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch East Indies poet
1638 Louis XIV [Sun King] king of France (1643-1715)
1685 John Gay poet (Beggar's Opera)
1777 Nathan Rothschild (d.1836), banker, was born in Frankfurt
1823 Francis Parkman American historian/author (Oregon Trail)
1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
1838 James J Hill Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)
1875 James Cash Penney department store founder (J.C. Penney)
1877 James J Jeans cosmologist/astrophysicist (Mysterious Universe)
1880 Alfred Noyes England, poet (The Highwayman)
1895 Charles W Bidwill Sr Chicago, NFL hall of famer (Chicago Cardinals)
1901 CFH "Freddie" Gough, British major scout (WW II, Arnhem)
1914 Allen Funt Bkln NY, TV host & creator (Candid Camera)
1924 Bess Myerson NY, Miss America 1945/shoplifter
1924 Lauren Bacall Staten Island, actress (Dark Passage, Key Largo)
1925 Charlie Byrd guitarist (Desafinado)
1926 Robert Schuller televangelist (Glass Cathedral)
1927 Jack Kelly Astoria Queens, actor (Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love)
1927 Peter Falk Ossining NY, actor (Colombo, The Brink's Job)
1932 Anne Francis Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa)
1934 Elgin Baylor NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of the Year-Lakers)
1937 Aleksandr Medved USSR, super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964 68, 72)
1944 Ard Schenk Holland 1500m, 5K, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1949 Ed Begley Jr LA Cal, actor (Eating Raoul, St Elsewhere, Parenthood)
1949 Susan Ruttan Oregon City Ore, actress (Roxanne-LA Law)
1956 Kevin R Kregel NYC NY, Pilot/astronaut
1956 Sergei Beloglazov USSR, 57 kg freestyle wrestler (Olympic-gold-1980)

Deaths which occurred on September 16:
0096 Titus Flavius Domitianus, emperor of Rome (81-96), murdered at 45
1087 Victor III, [Dauferio/Desiderius], Italian Pope (1086-87), dies
1498 Tomas de Torquemada inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies
1542 Diego de Almagro, Spanish captain-general of Peru, beheaded
1672 Anne Bradstreet American poet, dies (birth date unknown)
1889 Robert Younger,(outlaw James/Younger gang) in Minnesota's Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison.
1945 John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies
1946 Sir James Jeans dies
1973 Frederic Meyer actor (Faraway Hill), dies at 63
1977 Maria Callas American-born prima donna, dies in Paris at 53
1979 Nur Mohammed Taraki, president of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed
1992 Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82), dies at 82
1993 Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80
1996 McGeorge Bundy, US national security advisor (1961-66), dies at 77

Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties

Iraq
16-Sep-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Foster Pinkston Augusta, GA Non-hostile - illness

16-Sep-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Corporal Steven A. Rintamaki Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire
US 1st Lieutenant Andrew K. Stern Al Anbar Province Hostile - hostile fire

Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY

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On this day...
1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
1668 King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne.
1782 Great Seal of US used for 1st time
1795 British capture Capetown
1810 Fr. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla begins Mexican revolt against Spain (National Day)
1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides"
1857 Typesetting machine patent
1862 Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, KY
1864 Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee
1885 Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
1890 Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team the Packers
1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
1906 Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1908 General Motors founded by William C Durant
1915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
1920 Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York's Wall Street financial district.
1924 Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
1934 Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich.
1938 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
1939 Yanks clinch pennant #11
1940 Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House
1940 FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
1950 The U.S. 8th Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and begins heading north to meet MacArthur's troops heading south from Inchon
1953 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
1955 US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
1960 Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Phila Phillies, 4-0
1963 Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br. N. Borneo & Sarawak
1964 "Shindig" premiers
1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" (sock it too me)
1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1972 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
1972 South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army.
1973 Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13
1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premiers on TV
1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Iran
1978 Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
1984 "Miami Vice" premiers
1987 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
1988 Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA Dodgers (1-0)
1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
1990 Pirate Radio New York International begins transmissions on WWCR
1991 US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
1992 The British devalue the pound and George Soros pocketed $2 billion on his short sale of $10 billion.
1996 Chicago and Paris sign a sister-city pact
1999 At least 18 people were killed and 200 more injured in the bombing of an apartment building in Volgodonsk, Russia.
2002 15,000 demonstrators march in Kiev Ukraine and tens of thousands of others gathered in public squares around the country, demanding that President Leonid Kuchma resign or call new elections.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Malaysia, Singapore : Independence Day (1963)
Papua-New Guinea : National Day (1975)
US : American Legion Charter Day (1919)
International Day of Peace
National Collect Rocks Day
National Thank You Day
National Honey Month

Religious Observances
RC : SS Cornelius, pope (251-53), & Cyprian, bishop, martyrs
RC Eugenia, abbess of Hohenburg
RC Euphemia, martyr
Ang : Commemoration of St Ninian, Bishop in Galloway

Religious History
1224 During an extended period of prayer and fasting, St. Francis of Assisi, 42, received the stigmata (crucifixion scars of Christ) on Mount Alvernia, in Italy. Francis, the founder of the Franciscans in 1209, has been called by some the greatest of all the Christian saints.
1620 The "Mayflower" set sail from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World. On board were 48 crew members and 101 colonists (including 35 Separatists from Leiden, Holland, known afterward as the Pilgrims). During the three-month voyage, two passengers died and two babies were born.
1840 Scottish pastor Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Grace fills us with very different feelings from the possession of anything else. If you have tasted the grace of the Gospel, the irresistible longing of your hearts will be, "Oh, that all the world might taste its regenerating waters."'
1906 Birth of J.B. Phillips, Anglican clergyman. Ordained in 1930, he wrote "Your God is Too Small" (1951), but is better remembered for his biblical paraphrase, "The New Testament in Modern English," first published in 1958.
1976 In Minneapolis, the 65th Triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church officially approved ordination of women to the priesthood.

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

Dog shoots man
From: From correspondents in Sofia
September 16, 2005

A TUSSLE over prey between a Bulgarian hunter and his hound ended when the dog shot the man.

The man lost his temper and began beating his Deutsch-Drahthaar hunting dog with a rifle when the animal refused to release a killed bird it had brought back.

But the dog's paw caught the trigger and the hunter was blasted with buckshot. The extent of his injuries was not reported - but local media said the dog injured a paw.

Thought for the day :
"Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly."
Lauren Bacall