A company of the 24th Infantry Division’s 6th Tank Battalion moved up Route 3 to within seven miles of Kumhwa without contact.ġ960 – The International Control Commission, which oversees the implementation of the Geneva Agreements of 1954, agrees to A South Vietnamese government request for the United States to double it’s Military Advisory Assistance Group (MAAG) presence to 685. There is no initial opposition to the new landings.ġ951 – Operation DAUNTLESS continued to advance against weakened communist resistance in the 24th and 25th Infantry Division zones. The American forces which landed at Zamboanga early in March have already cleared a large part of the southwest of the island, but the majority of the Japanese 35th Army (General Suzuki) remains intact. Admiral Noble commands 3 cruisers and a destroyer force in support. The assault units are from US 24th Infantry Division from US 10th Corps (General Sibert).
Uranium piles were also rich “catches,” as they were necessary to the development of atomic weapons.ġ945 – There are American landings in the Moro Gulf at Cotabatu. Pash was head of the Alsos Group, organized to search for German scientists in the postwar environment in order to prevent the Russians, previously Allies but now a potential threat, from capturing any scientists and putting them to work at their own atomic research plants.
Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut, Germany, in an effort to prevent the Russians from developing an A-bomb. One Spencer crewman was killed by friendly fire during the battle.ġ944 – US B-17 and B-24 bombers attack Sofia, Bulgaria.ġ944 – US B-17 and B-24 bombers attack Belgrade, Yugoslavia.ġ945 – U.S. She rescued 19 of the U-boat’s crew and her sister cutter, Duane, rescued 22. The Navy credited the Spencer with the kill. Nevertheless, they carry the distinction of being the first American servicemen to board an enemy warship underway at sea since the War of 1812. The damage to the U-boat was severe, however, and it sank after both had boarded it and climbed the conning tower.īoth men ended up in the water as it slipped beneath the waves. They were part of a boarding party sent to seize the U-boat before the Nazi crew could scuttle it. “Mike” Hall boarded the U-175 at sea after their cutter, the CGC Spencer, blasted the U-boat to the surface with depth charges when the U-boat attempted to attack the convoy the Spencer was escorting. Bullard and Boatswain’s Mate First Class C. Of 115 B-17 bombers employed, 16 are lost on the mission.ġ943 – Admiral Yamamoto flew from Truk to Rabaul.ġ943 – Lieutenant Ross P. The General Reich Luddendorf and the German General Staff begins laying plans for a third offensive.ġ943 – The US 8th Air Force carries out a daylight bombing raid on aircraft factories in Bremen. Between 19, the annual immigration numbers topped 1 million six times.ġ917 – British and French forces around Ypres halt a second German offensive that had the objective of reaching the ports of northern France.
Between 18, the year 1907 saw the largest number of immigrants to the U.S., 1,285,349. The incident (similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later) is claimed to have resulted in a fatality from the crash and the alleged alien body is to have been buried in an unmarked grave at the local cemetery.ġ907 – The Ellis Island immigration center in New York Harbor processed a record 11,747 immigrants, part of a record 1,004,756 for the year. The navy yard at Columbus had been a key facility in the building of the machinery for Southern ironclads.ġ897 – The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on Apwhen, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. Chattahoochee which the Confederates themselves h4 destroyed. all of which were burned.” Twelve miles below the city the Union troops found the burned hulk of C.S.S. Thomas reported: “The rebel ram Jackson, nearly ready for sea, and carrying six 7-inch guns, fell into our hands and was destroyed, as well as the navy yard, founderies, the arsenal and armory, sword and pistol factory. 1864 – There was a bread revolt in Savannah, Georgia.ġ865 – Mary Surratt was arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination.ġ865 – The Confederate ironclad Jackson (previously Muscogee) was destroyed at Columbus, Georgia, after Union Army forces overran Southern defenses at the city in an attack that began the preceeding night.