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Jimbuna · 01-12-23, 08:52 AM

1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in a letter to the newspaper Social Democrat.

1916 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea.

1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast.

1962 Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange.

1967 Louisville, Kentucky draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali.

Aktungbby · 01-14-23, 12:02 PM

1914: Ford Motor Company greatly improved its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Highland Park, Michigan plant. Chugging along at 6 feet per minute, Model T construction had gone from 12 hours to build a Model T to 1 hour and 33 minutes...with 83 discrete assembly steps.

Jimbuna · 01-14-23, 12:27 PM

1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel overseas by airplane.

1960 US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant.

1970 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969

1973 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army.

1985 British pound sinks to record low $US1.11

Jimbuna · 01-15-23, 02:24 PM

1815 War of 1812: the USS President, an American frigate, is captured by four British frigates.

1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.

1922 Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State after Eamon de Valera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De Valera will lead a military opposition seeking a unified and independent Ireland)

1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)

1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed to house the US military.

1951 Ilse Koch, also known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald", is sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court.

1991 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so.

2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

Aktungbby · 01-15-23, 03:08 PM

Quote:

1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly.

IT was actually referred to as JACKASS by cartoonist Thomas NAST!

Aktungbby · 01-16-23, 12:21 PM

1865: Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of confiscated land would be divided into 40-acre parcels to be given to 'emancipted' ex-slaves. The order, later revoked by Southern born President Andrew Johnson, is believed to have inspired the expression: "Forty acres and a mule"...

Jimbuna · 01-17-23, 06:48 AM

1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)

1912 Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.

1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation.

1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting.

1972 Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland.

1977 Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, convicted of murder.

1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War.

Aktungbby · 01-17-23, 01:02 PM

1944: During WWII, Alllied forces launched the first of four assaults on strategic overlooking Monte Cassino in Italy; the Allies were ultimately successful.

...ergo: "the third time's NOT always the charm?!!"

Red Devil · 01-17-23, 04:35 PM

Polish Forces eventually took the Mount. The polish flag was followed by the raising of the Union Flag. Allies wasted thousands of shells on the Monastery, when the germans were not even in it, but around it.

Catfish · 01-17-23, 05:03 PM

^ as far as i read it was mostly Gurkhas who attacked and took Monte Cassino eventually.

mapuc · 01-17-23, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ as far as i read it was mostly Gurkhas who attacked and took Monte Cassino eventually.

In my older War history it says the Polish who took it.

So to be sure(I could remember wrong) I made a search

Who Took Monte Cassino ?

Answer:
Polish troops
Polish troops finally captured Monte Cassino on May 18, 1944, five months into the bloody campaign and four months after the monastery was leveled.

Question number 2.
Did Gurkhas take part in battle of Monto Cassino?
Answer
Gurkha troops, of the 4th Indian Division (part of the Allied 8th Army) were heavily involved.

Markus

Red Devil · 01-17-23, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ as far as i read it was mostly Gurkhas who attacked and took Monte Cassino eventually.

Nope. Some of WW2 is a 'hobby' of mine:

Polish troops finally captured Monte Cassino on May 18, 1944, five months into the bloody campaign and four months after the monastery was leveled.

Aktungbby · 01-18-23, 01:31 PM

1911: Legendary airman, Eugene Ely, lands aboard
USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay in first shipboard touchdown after having flown off a ship 3 days before...essentially confirming carrier warfare's feasibility w/o a one-way trip later used by desperate Japan in WWII...

<Ely (with rubber inner tubes around his shoulders, (flotation gear

) and wearing a leather helmet) has dismounted from the plane and is talking with a man standing in front of the plane.
Note the sand bags attached to lines behind the plane, used to stop it after it reached the deck.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/e...anuary-18-1911

Jimbuna · 01-18-23, 02:33 PM

Definitely the Poles and I had the privilege of personally knowing one of the senior officers who led them but is sadly not with us anymore.

Jimbuna · 01-18-23, 02:44 PM

1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony.

1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege would not be fully lifted until a year later.

1945 Soviet Armed Forces enter Krakow, Poland to push Germans out, only to eventually occupy entire country.

1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min.

2005 The world's largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France.

01-12-23, 08:52 AM	#4441
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,265 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1913 After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin ("man of steel") in a letter to the newspaper Social Democrat. 1916 Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke receive the Pour le Merite, the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft. 1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea. 1948 Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast. 1962 Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange. 1967 Louisville, Kentucky draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,869 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	1914: Ford Motor Company greatly improved its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Highland Park, Michigan plant. Chugging along at 6 feet per minute, Model T construction had gone from 12 hours to build a Model T to 1 hour and 33 minutes...with 83 discrete assembly steps. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-14-23, 12:27 PM	#4443
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,265 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill, becoming the first American president to travel overseas by airplane. 1960 US Army promotes Elvis Presley to Sergeant. 1970 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969 1973 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army. 1985 British pound sinks to record low $US1.11 __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-15-23, 02:24 PM	#4444
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,265 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1815 War of 1812: the USS President, an American frigate, is captured by four British frigates. 1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly. 1922 Arthur Griffith is elected president of the Irish Free State after Eamon de Valera resigns in opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De Valera will lead a military opposition seeking a unified and independent Ireland) 1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch merchant ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) 1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed to house the US military. 1951 Ilse Koch, also known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald", is sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court. 1991 Elizabeth II signs letters patent that allows Australia to institute its own Victoria Cross, the first Commonwealth realm to do so. 2001 Wikipedia a free Wiki or content encyclopedia is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-16-23, 12:21 PM	#4446
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,869 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	1865: Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumsah Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of confiscated land would be divided into 40-acre parcels to be given to 'emancipted' ex-slaves. The order, later revoked by Southern born President Andrew Johnson, is believed to have inspired the expression: "Forty acres and a mule"... __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-17-23, 06:48 AM	#4447
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,265 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S) 1912 Captain Robert Scott's expedition arrives at the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen. 1945 Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation. 1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting. 1972 Seven men who were held as internees escape from the prison ship HMS Maidstone in Belfast Lough, North Ireland. 1977 Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in the Utah state prison, convicted of murder. 1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,869 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	1944: During WWII, Alllied forces launched the first of four assaults on strategic overlooking Monte Cassino in Italy; the Allies were ultimately successful. ...ergo: "the third time's NOT always the charm?!!" __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-17-23, 04:35 PM	#4449
Red Devil The Old Man Join Date: May 2004 Location: Sutton Coldfield England Posts: 1,515 Downloads: 258 Uploads: 0	Polish Forces eventually took the Mount. The polish flag was followed by the raising of the Union Flag. Allies wasted thousands of shells on the Monastery, when the germans were not even in it, but around it. __________________ > > Captain!, there's a destroyer on the por........ periscope is flooded Sir! > Darkness is only the absence of Light; Ignorance is only the absence of knowledge © www.worldwartwo.uk www.captainwalker.uk

01-17-23, 05:03 PM	#4450
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,897 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ as far as i read it was mostly Gurkhas who attacked and took Monte Cassino eventually. __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

01-18-23, 01:31 PM	#4453
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,869 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	No need for kamikazi's....just yet 1911: Legendary airman, Eugene Ely, lands aboard USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay in first shipboard touchdown after having flown off a ship 3 days before...essentially confirming carrier warfare's feasibility w/o a one-way trip later used by desperate Japan in WWII... <Ely (with rubber inner tubes around his shoulders, (flotation gear) and wearing a leather helmet) has dismounted from the plane and is talking with a man standing in front of the plane. Note the sand bags attached to lines behind the plane, used to stop it after it reached the deck. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/e...anuary-18-1911 __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-18-23, 02:33 PM	#4454
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,265 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Definitely the Poles and I had the privilege of personally knowing one of the senior officers who led them but is sadly not with us anymore. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

01-18-23, 02:44 PM	#4455
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,265 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	1788 First elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay to set up a penal colony. 1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long Siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany by opening a narrow land corridor, though the siege would not be fully lifted until a year later. 1945 Soviet Armed Forces enter Krakow, Poland to push Germans out, only to eventually occupy entire country. 1957 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min. 2005 The world's largest commercial jet, the Airbus A380, is unveiled in France. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)