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On November 24, 1944, Colonel Hurley E. Fuller assumed command of the 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Division, after his predecessor, the highly regarded and popular Col. Ted Seely, was
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#OTD December 8, 1941 the Battle of Wake Island began when Marshall Islands-based IJNAS G3M3 medium bombers brought the American base under fire for the first time. The attack destroyed
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In his analysis of Marine amphibious operations in the Central Pacific, Col. Joseph H. Alexander referred to that first “storm landing” at Tarawa atoll as a “vital proving ground” for
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Kurt Vonnegut’s remarks about his fellow soldiers in the 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, here taken without challenge by historian and author Antony Beevor in his book, ‘Ardennes 1944,’
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The Battle of Biak Island, which ended this week in 1944, was an operation conceived to establish airfields in support of further US advances in the Southwest and Central Pacific
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#OTD July 27, 1864, began the three day operation known as the First Battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia. The operation was conceived by U.S. Grant as a diversion to draw
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#OTD July 9, 1863 Confederate Gen. Franklin Gardner surrendered the garrison of Port Hudson, LA after six weeks of siege. Conceived as an operation to aid Gen. U.S. Grant’s campaign
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With the sieges of Vicksburg and Port Hudson ebbing to their conclusions and a good-sized fight shaping up in southeastern PA, #OTD CS Gen. Braxton Bragg is hunkered down behind
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Missouri’s contribution to the United States war effort during the Civil War is often thought of in terms of the many German immigrants that answered their adopted country’s call, such
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