June 29, 1915: First Aerial Fire Patrol Took Flight
June 29, 1915: First Aerial Fire Patrol Took Flight
It was a forest overflight.
British colonial forces captured Ngaundere in Cameroon.
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Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1910s. Show all posts
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Sunday, June 26, 1910. The ballots that would lead to bullets. Election in Mexico.
Liberal Mexican general and long time President Porfirio Diaz was re-elected President of Mexico for the eighth time, defeating the jailed liberal politician Francisco I. Madero.
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The election had been sparked by Diaz's interview in the journal Pearson's, as he'd had little opposition prior to that. In the article, he commented:
It is true there is no opposition party. I have so many friends in the republic that my enemies seem unwilling to identify themselves with so small a minority. I appreciate the kindness of my friends and the confidence of my country; but such absolute confidence imposes responsibilities and duties that tire me more and more. No matter what my friends and supporters say, I retire when my present term of office ends, and I shall not serve again. I shall be eighty years old then. My country has relied on me and it has been kind to me. My friends have praised my merits and overlooked my faults. But they may not be willing to deal so generously with my successor and he may need my advice and support; therefore I desire to be alive when he assumes office so that I may help him. I welcome an opposition party in the Mexican Republic. If it appears, I will regard it as a blessing, not as an evil. And if it can develop power, not to exploit but to govern, I will stand by it, support it, advise it and forget myself in the successful inauguration of complete democratic government in the country. It is enough for me that I have seen Mexico rise among the peaceful and useful nations. I have no desire to continue in the Presidency. This nation is ready for her ultimate life of freedom. At the age of seventy-seven years, I am satisfied with robust health. That is one thing which neither law nor force can create. I would not exchange it for all the millions of your American oil king.
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Saturday, June 25, 1910. The Mann Act.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Monday, June 15, 1925. Flying out.
The Amundsen Polar Expedition team of six explorers, stranded since May 22 near the North Pole, was able to depart on Amundsen's Dornier Wal N-25 seaplane. A second seaplane was left behind.
The Philadelphia Athletics tied the record for greatest comeback in a major league baseball game. Trailing 14 to 2, after six innings, the Athletics scored 13 runs in the eighth inning to win, 17 to 15, tying the record set on June 18, 1911 by the Detroit Tigers against the Chicago White Sox.
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Saturday, June 13, 1925.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Roads to the Great War: "Bless 'em All" Was Already Around for World War I
Roads to the Great War: "Bless 'em All" Was Already Around for World War I: One of the most famous and evocative songs of the Second World War, "Bless 'em All" — was around for the Great War. I first he...
Monday, April 14, 2025
Seriously?
What the crap? Some of the weird stuff that comes out of the "elite" of our culture now days.
I learned in Basic Training how to fight with a bayonet. The US M7 bayonet specifically.
Solider in Vietnam with M16A1, early flashhinder variant, and a M7 bayonet.
It's not all that easy to do, frankly.
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Roads to the Great War: War Inside a Little Village Church
Roads to the Great War: War Inside a Little Village Church: Village Church, Marbotte France St. Mihiel Sector The village of Marbotte was situated just behind the southern boundary of the St. Mihiel S...
Friday, March 28, 2025
British QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti aircraft gun. National Museum of Military Vehicles.
This is a British QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti aircraft gun. Entering service in 1914, they remained in service in various uses, including naval, until 1947.
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Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank. National Museum of Military Vehicles.
Monday, March 10, 2025
Friday, March 7, 2025
Wednesday, March 7, 1945. The Bridge at Remagen taken.
The United States Army took the bridge over the Rhine at Remagen intact, and by surprise.
The Battle of Remagen commenced.
The failure of the Germans to have destroyed the heavy railroad bridge, last used by U.S. forces in 1918, was a major failure and the bridge's capture a major event in the advance of the U.S. Army into Germany.
Romania declared war on Japan.
The U-1302 was sunk in the St. George's Channel by the Canadian frigates Strathadam and Thefford Mines.
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December 13, 1918. Crossing the Rhine
Labels: 1910s, 1918, 1940s, 1945, Army, Canadian Army, Germany, Occupation of Germany 1918-1919, World War Two
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Tuesday, March 6, 1945. Soviet murders in Poland and Eagle 7.
Monday, March 3, 2025
Punitive Expedition Display, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois Wyoming
This is a smaller display, adjacent to the larger World War One display.
The first displayed item is the typical field uniform worn by soldiers in the Border War. This sweater pattern is unique to the period, the M1910 sweater. The campaign hat is the long serving M1911 campaign hat. Some National Guard units that served on the border were not yet equipped with it. The saber is the M1913 "Patton" Saber, which was designed, based on a British pattern, by George S. Patton. For the most part, enlisted men were not allowed to carry their sabers into Mexico, following a tread that had started during the Indian Wars.
The car is a Dodge touring car, perhaps most famously associated with a raid conducted by Patton. Automobile use was heavy during the Punitive Expedition in spite of it being largely a horse cavalry effort. Indeed, the Army's 1st Provisional Aero Squadron was committed to the effort largely due it being the only U.S. Army unit that was completely motorized.
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Equipment of the Vietnam War, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois Wyoming.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Roads to the Great War: Le Pèlerin, A French Catholic Magazine Covers the ...
Roads to the Great War: Le Pèlerin, A French Catholic Magazine Covers the ...: Contributed by Tony Langley Le Pèlerin was a French weekly journal founded 1873 by the Roman Catholic Assumptionist order of priests. ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Tuesday, January 14, 1975. Un-American.
The House Un-American Activities Committee was disbanded by the U.S. House of Representatives.
It's roots went back to 1918 and it had investigated a wide range of Communist activities in the US dating back to that time. Often missed, quite a few figures that the committee investigated unsuccessfully prior to World War Two would be again after the war. Many of those whom it suspected of Communist activity would, in fact, prove to have done just that, in spite of the reputation of the committee being tarnished during the McCarthy Era.
It's demise after the Watergate and the Vietnam War was inevitable, but it had a much better track record than is popularly recalled.
Henry Kissinger announced that the Soviet Union was rescinding its agreement to a trade deal with the United States following enactment of the Jackson–Vanik amendment to the Trade Act of 1974.
The Convention on Registration of Launched Objects into Outer Space was signed in New York. It requires the signatories to inform the United Nations of things that are launched into space.
U.S. Vice-President Rockefeller was appointed to head a committee to investigate domestic espionage by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Saturday, January 11, 1975. Storms. Things can, and do, get worse.
Monday, December 16, 2024
Tuesday, December 16, 1924. Looking back.
The Spanish confiscation (Desamortización española) law, authorizing the government of Spain to steal the property and lands of the Catholic Church, a popular enlightenment and Reformation despoliation that happened in many places, was repealed.
The barbarity had been in place since 1766.
Amongst other things, the law resulted in millions of acres of forest falling into private hands, being deforested, with the cost of reforestation exceeding the value of their sales. The confiscations of the 19th Century were one of the biggest environmental disasters in Iberian history.
The Supreme Court of Hungary confiscated the property of former president Mihály Károlyi for high treason. He had been convicted of negotiating with Italy in 1915 to keep the Italians out of World War One in exchange for Austrian territory, and for allowing a communist revolution to happen in 1919 by deserting his position.
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Friday, December 13, 2024
Wednesday, December 13, 1899. British victory in the Cape Colony.
General French routed Boer troops advancing into the Cape Colony toward Noupoort.
French would go on to be the commander of the BEF in 1914 and 1915. He died of bladder cancer at age 72 in 1925.
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Monday, December 11, 1899. The Battle of Magersfontein.
Thursday, December 12, 2024
German Artillery. National Museum of Military Vehicles.
Except for artillery, like me, the topic of artillery tends to be overlooked. There aren't any movies, for example, about artillerymen. There are about infantrymen, tankers, special forces and even military truck drivers, but artillerymen? Not so much.
Still, artillery in World War Two was, quite frankly, the great killer. And the Germans had some excellent artillery, two examples of which appear here.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Wednesday, November 25, 1874. Joe Gans
He died of tuberculosis at age 35 on August 10, 1910. His tombstone reads:
I was born in the city of Baltimore in the year 1874, and it might be well to state at this time that my right name is Joseph Gant, not Gans. However, when I became an object of newspaper publicity, some reporter made a mistake and my name appeared as Joe Gans, and as Joe Gans it remained ever since.
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Tuesday, November 24, 1874. Barbed Wire Patented.
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