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Login Problems?New user? Sign Up!Random PhotosMain MenuHomeChat RoomDonationDownloadsFeedbackForumsGalleryGamesMilitary NewsMusicProxyReviewsSearchSectionsStatisticsSubmit StoryTop ListTopicsUnit GroupsUsenet PortalWeb AwardWeb LinksOnline There are 64 users online You can register for a user account here.Library of Congress Past ArticlesMemoirs of a Chosin veteranService in the German ArmyA Cavalry Brigade at CambraThe sinking of the USS PRINGLEUSS UTAH at Pearl HarborPentagon RescuerOperation Noble EagleU.S. Navy Nurse in SaigonNavy Combat Field HistorianCivil War Diary, 1864-1865Older articlesRandom QuotesThe highest generalship is to compel the enemy to disperse his army, and then to concentrate superior force against each fraction in turn.-- Col. HendersonWelcome to the Patriot Files19th Regiment Massachusetts At the breaking out of the war I was a resident of the quiet but patriotic town of Groveland. Sumter had been fired upon and all was excitement. I could not work, and on the 18th of April, 1861, walked to Haverhill with my elder brother and Mark Kimball. We went to the armory of the Hale Guards, who were making active preparations to march, and I returned home that night resolved to go with them if possible. The next day we walked to Haverhill again, and I at once interviewed Captain Messer, but was informed that the company was more than full, so I could not go with it.Note: by Captain John G. B. Adams, 19th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers 12779 Reads  16th Tennessee InfantryIn 1861, when the war clouds obscured the sky I was a boy of 17, living in Tennessee. In common with all the boys of my age, whether living north or south I had the military spirit and at the first opportunity placed my name upon the rolls as a soldier, volunteering to fight for my native state. On the 21st day of May, 1861, I enlisted in company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry, under Col. Jno. H. Savage, and was sent to Estil Springs, on the N. C. & St. L. railroad, where we stayed a few days, and then went to Camp Trousdale, north of Nashville on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, near the Kentucky line.Note: by Robert C. Carden, Company B, 16th Tennessee Infantry 9502 Reads World War II Patrol Craft During May 1942, I was a lieutenant assigned as Executive and Engineer Officer of the USS PC-469 at the George Lawley Shipyard in Neponset, Massachusetts. Three other officers were assigned - Lieutenant Commander Richard Morell as the Commanding Officer with Lieutenant (junior grade) Kenneth Potts and Ensign Richard Young as watch officers. Upon arrival, I became very familiar with the PC design since the ship was in the throes of final outfitting and on the building ways - the keel having been laid on 22 October 1941.Note: by Vice Admiral Thomas R. Sargent, III, USCG 10576 Reads World War II FrigateThe Coast Guard manned and operated about seventy of these rather unusual ships during World War II in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans - they were unusual in that they had two firerooms generating steam for two large triple-expansion steam engines with all machinery, such a force-draft blowers, anchor engines and steering engines, all of them being single cylinder steam engines - the only variation was the two turbine-driven generators furnishing electric power for ships utilities!! The ships were twin screw with twin rudders making them extremely easy to handle provided you allowed for the high bow, the low stern and the vagaries of the wind.Note: by Vice Admiral Thomas R. Sargent, III, USCG 9721 Reads Escape from Stalag Luft I On or about the 6th of March 1944 we crashed our B-17, on fire, on the way to Berlin. I became a POW and I made up my mind that I would have to try to escape. After traveling by boxcar for several days we arrived at Dulag Luft at Frankfort. We went through a very intense interrogation for a few days and then another trip by boxcar to Stalag Luft I at Barth, Germany. That was a trip no one will ever forget. I am certain all Ex-POW's will agree. I still dream about those boxcars.Note: by 2nd Lt. Herbert Markle 9192 Reads The Black Swan A week or so before the December 31, 1943, mission, my crew, the Mendelsohn crew, was breaking apart. Our navigator, Bill Borellis, was promoted to the exalted position of 91st Bomb Group navigator; our bombardier, Harold Fox, (later to be killed in action over Hamburg) had applied for special training as a navigator and was leaving the crew, and the pilot, Stuart Mendelsohn, had been designated, but not yet officially installed, as the new operations officer of the 324th squadron. And I had just been checked out as first pilot and was about to take over what remained of our original crew.Note: by Verne Woods, 91st BG 8220 Reads Captivity in the ArdennesI shall never forget the morning of March 28th, 1918, when I watched our trenches and the familiar landmarks disappear under the intense bombardment of hundreds of minenwerfers - those earthquakes in miniature. I watched and waited in a state of mental numbness or apathy, and at last the bit reserved for me hit me in the head. When I took a further interest in matters I was a prisoner.Note: by Rifleman Victor Denham, London Rifle Brigade 7336 Reads Casualty Clearing Station In April 1918 I volunteered to go to France in response to the urgent call for more surgeons. For twenty years I had been in general practice in a suburb, and did a fair amount of surgery among patients and at the local hospitals. I had also had some war experience as one of the surgeons at the British Red Cross Hospital, Netley, in the first six months of the War, but I had no experience of cases fresh from the battlefield, and the surgical technique which had recently been adopted in dealing with them.Note: by Captain John A. Hayward 7923 Reads 29th Troop Carrier SquadronThe first reaction to the new base at Folkingham was "It's immense"! On this base we had three concrete runways, each 6,000 feet, ample taxiways, a revetment for parking each aircraft, and four hangers. There were innumerable Nissen huts to house us, an Officers Club, an EM Club in the making, a consolidated officers' mess, and a consolidated enlisted men's, mess. We were the first tenants, and parts were still under construction.Note: by Col. Joseph Harkiewicz 11255 Reads Task Force Zebra I was born in Aalborg, Denmark on April 8, 1922 and immigrated to America with my mother and two older brothers Kaj and Poul in 1924. My father, Niels Christian, had come to America the previous year in 1923. After a two week sea and train journey through Ellis Island and Canada, we finally arrived in Chicago where we settled in a Danish neighborhood in the Humboldt Park area. Our family suffered greatly during the depression years but with the help of the Danish community we survived.Note: by Erik Larsen, Battalion Surgeon, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division 8575 Reads 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 10 – 11 – 12 – 13 – 14 – 15 – 16 – 17 – 27 – 37 >Latest Posts
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1775:
The Continental Congress authorizes construction of two warships, thus instituting an American naval force.
1776:
Benedict Arnold is defeated at Lake Champlain.
1812:
At the Battle of Queenston Heights, a Canadian and British army defeats the American who have tried to invade Canada.
1917:
The British drive the Turks from Seraijik.
1918:
The British re-occupy Neuve Eglise and repel further attack.
1942:
In the first of four attacks, two Japanese battleships sail down the slot and shell Henderson field on Guadalcanal, in an unsuccessful effort to destroy the American Cactus Air Force.
1943:
The government of Italy declares war on its former Axis partner Germany and joins the battle on the side of the Allies.
1951:
Hill 851, the last peak comprising Heartbreak Ridge, was secured by the 23rd Regimental Combat Team of the 2nd Infantry Division after a fierce assault of bayonets, grenades and flame-throwers. Total allied casualties were over 3,700, more than 1,800 suffered by the 23rd Infantry RCT alone. Total enemy casualties were estimated 25,000. A total of 6,060 prisoners were taken.
1966:
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara declares at a news conference in Saigon that he found that military operations have "progressed very satisfactorily since 1965."
1970:
In a report prepared at the request of President Nixon, counterinsurgency expert Sir Robert Thompson explains that smashing the Viet Cong is a prerequisite for solving the political troubles of South Vietnam.
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