Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Thursday, July 6, 1899 Ordered home.
Monday, May 27, 2024
Theodore Roosevelt at Arlington.
On this day…we call to mind the deaths of those who died that the nation might live, who wagered all that life holds dear for the great prize of death in battle.
President Roosevelt at Arlington National Cemetery, Memorial Day, 1902.
I have to say, I wouldn't have referred to death as a "prize" in this context.
Friday, March 4, 2022
Wednesday, March 4, 1942. Counterstrikes
Today in World War II History—March 4, 1942: Two Japanese H8K flying boats bomb Pearl Harbor—no damage. Aircraft from USS Enterprise strike Marcus Island in South Pacific.
From Sarah Sundin's blog.
If you were fighting the war, of course, it was a horrible day. . . if fighting was going on, which it was all over the world. But in terms of huge events, well, it was just another day in the war in some ways.
Operation K, the flying boat raid, had significant aspirations but was a flop. It didn't do much, other than to remind everyone that Hawaii was still within Japanese air range.
The island was transferred to the United States in 1952, but in 1968 the US gave it back but continued to occupy it, having a substantial radio station there, whose antenna can be seen in the photo posted above from 1987. The Coast Guard occupied the island until 1993, and then it was transferred to the Japanese Self Defense Force.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Wednesday, March 10, 1909. Field Gray.
The Imperial Russian Army adopted a new greenish-grey, single-breasted cloth tunic with five buttons. The familiar uniform would remain in use at least until after the Russian Civil War. At some point an updated version, which really wasn't much different than it, would replace it prior to World War Two.
The uniform closely resembled a prior one, which didn't feature the field gray color. I don't know a great deal about Russian uniforms, so I'll cease particular comment there.
This era, the turn of the 19th into the 20th Centuries, saw almost all armies making a switch of this type, something brought about by the adoption of smokeless gunpowder, which changed battlefield conditions, bringing about a need for subdued uniforms. The British had used khaki in Indian since 1846 but went to service wide khaki in 1902, something that can be confusing in terms of the British as "khaki" has a broader meaning than the color tan in British military parlance. The U.S. Army adopted khaki, i.e., tan, in 1898 for field use and then introduced an olive uniform in 1902. The Prussian element of the Imperial German Army adopted field gray in 1907, and the rest of the German Army followed during World War One. The French, however, were holdouts, retaining a colored uniform throughout World War One, with horizon blue being its wartime choice.
Thailand (Siam) ceded the Malayan peninsular states of Kelantan, Trengganu, Perlis and Kedah to the British Empire.
Jack Johnson fought Victor McLaglen, better known as a legendary character actor, to a draw in Vancouver in an exhibition fight.
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