This day in military history..

October 10, 1944 - US Naval History. Opening of Leyte campaign begins with attack of four Carrier Task Groups of Task Force 38 on Okinawa and Ryukyus.

October 10, 1985 - Fighters from USS Saratoga (CV-60) force Egyptian airliner, with the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro aboard, to Italy, where the hijackers were taken into custody.
 
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IF YOU DIDN'T REALIZE THAT THE JEWS ARE THE ONLY DANGER IN THE WORLD LOOK FOR THE BOOK
"Protocols of the Elders of ZION"
GOOD LUCK FOR EVERY ONE TO FIND THE TRUTH
 
This day in military history will probably show the poster above me (FALCOMsw) in the banned list by the end of the day

(if were lucky)
 
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This day 9 years ago I lost 3 good friends to muslim terrorists
This day 9 years ago was the start of the War on Terror.
This day in military history should NEVER be forgotten or forgiven
 
October 13th 1955

This was my first day in the Army, and it went rather like this....


When I was called for National Service I was not a happy bunny, I had to give almost full three years of my studies on Electrical Engineering City & Guilds. I also had to leave behind a beautiful young woman that I was engaged to; she was a classical dancer with the Festival Ballet Company.
On arrival at the Barracks the processing started, they wanted to know your next of kin and your religion. Well I knew I could not beat the Army
Face to face so speak but I every intention of making their lives as difficult as they intended to make mine. Well when it was my turn to give my details to the corporal I gave him my parents details as next of kin. Now religion is an area where I thought I could have some fun. Well the Corporal shouted out religion, to which I replied Zulu Presbyterian. There was a stunned silence a Sergeant marched up and said to the corporal put him down on the sheet like the rest of them C of E. Well I was not going to let that go so like I fool I said to sergeant may I ask your name, why he bellowed. I then said for one I would be asked by my adopted uncle the chief of the Zulu Nation just who had refused me the right to practice my religion. I also pointed out to him that my farther had been a District Commissioner out there and I had been adopted by the chief and know doubt that he would write in a complaint to the Foreign Office, and they would in turn take the matter up. [Mind you it was all bluff, as I had not been out of the country]. Well the sergeant was quite for a minute or so then shouted put the bastard down as a Zulu Presbyterian then. For these were funny times as you could have a convict in a bed one side of you and a belted Earl on the other side, and they could never be sure just who was who.
Mind you the bugger got his own back that day, the sod had me peeling
A couple of hundredweight of onions. Now I always thought it was joke
when I saw people crying while peeling onions, but I have never laughed at that again.
 
LeEnfield said:
This was my first day in the Army, and it went rather like this....


When I was called for National Service I was not a happy bunny, I had to give almost full three years of my studies on Electrical Engineering City & Guilds. I also had to leave behind a beautiful young woman that I was engaged to; she was a classical dancer with the Festival Ballet Company.
On arrival at the Barracks the processing started, they wanted to know your next of kin and your religion. Well I knew I could not beat the Army
Face to face so speak but I every intention of making their lives as difficult as they intended to make mine. Well when it was my turn to give my details to the corporal I gave him my parents details as next of kin. Now religion is an area where I thought I could have some fun. Well the Corporal shouted out religion, to which I replied Zulu Presbyterian. There was a stunned silence a Sergeant marched up and said to the corporal put him down on the sheet like the rest of them C of E. Well I was not going to let that go so like I fool I said to sergeant may I ask your name, why he bellowed. I then said for one I would be asked by my adopted uncle the chief of the Zulu Nation just who had refused me the right to practice my religion. I also pointed out to him that my farther had been a District Commissioner out there and I had been adopted by the chief and know doubt that he would write in a complaint to the Foreign Office, and they would in turn take the matter up. [Mind you it was all bluff, as I had not been out of the country]. Well the sergeant was quite for a minute or so then shouted put the bastard down as a Zulu Presbyterian then. For these were funny times as you could have a convict in a bed one side of you and a belted Earl on the other side, and they could never be sure just who was who.
Mind you the bugger got his own back that day, the sod had me peeling
A couple of hundredweight of onions. Now I always thought it was joke
when I saw people crying while peeling onions, but I have never laughed at that again.
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Good story LeEnfield. I was too scared to say anything other then the truth once I hit Ft. Benning. And I still got punished for it. :P
 
Oct 14, 1066 Battle of Hastings
1944 Erwin Rommel comits suicide to avoid execution for his role in plot to assasinate Hitler
 
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Oct 17, 1777 Gen. Burgoyne surrenders his Army @ Saratoga, NY
1941 Destroyer USS Kearny torpedoed by U-Boat off of Iceland, 11 crew members killed.
 
Oct 18, 1977 West German Commandos storm a hijacked Lufthansa airliner in Somalia freeing 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers.
 
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October 18Th:

1812 - U.S. sloop of war Wasp captures HM brig Frolic.
1859 - U.S. Marines reach Harper's Ferry, VA and assault the arsenal seized by John Brown and his followers.
1867 - USS Ossippee and USS Resaca participate in formal transfer of Alaska to U.S. authority at Sitka and remain to enforce law and order in new territory.
 
October 19, 1871: British General Cornwallis surrendered to American General Washington at Yorktown. Being a sore loser General Cornwallis, sent his second in command to actually do the formalities. General O'Hara tried to give his sword to the French Commander, Rochambeau. The frenchman shook his head and directed him to Washington. So he tried to give his sword to Washington. Washington shook his head and directed him to his second in command, who finally took the sword.

Undoubtedly, it was the French who should get the lion's share of the credit for Yorktown. They supplied half the troops for the land force and it was the French Navy who prevented the British Navy from simply evacuating the British army by sea to land some place else and continue the fight.
 
October 21
1797 - Launching of USS Constitution at the Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts. The ship is now the oldest commissioned ship in the U.S. Navy.
1942 - British submarine lands CAPT Jerauld Wright, USN and four Army officers at Cherchel, French North Africa, to meet with a French military delegation to learn the French attitude toward future Allied landings.

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