The irony.
Same day, same paper.
One ad celebrating agriculture, and one celebrating its destruction.
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Showing posts with label Blog Mirror. Show all posts
Friday, December 20, 2024
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Friday, December 13, 2024
The Agrarian's Lament: The Real Threat to Food Security
The Agrarian's Lament: The Real Threat to Food Security:
The Real Threat to Food Security
The Real Threat to Food Security: Our lawmakers need to take farmland access seriously. The next farm bill should work more for the health of our farm system, and less for Wall Street.
Wednesday, December 13, 1944. USS Goshen commissioned.
Today In Wyoming's History: December 13: Today is St. Lucy's Day. She is one of the patrons of writers.
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1944 The USS Goshen, originally named the Sea Hare, commissioned. She was a fast attack transport.
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The USS Goshen was sold in 1947 to American Mail Lines Ltd and renamed Canada Mail. In 1963 her name was changed to California Mail. In 1968, she was sold to Waterman Steamship, re-registered as the La Fayette. She was scrapped in 1973.
The US prevailed in the Battle of Metz.
The First Battle of Kesternich began on the German border with Belgium.
The Battle of Mindoro began in the Philippines
The Myōkō was damaged beyond repair by the USS Bergall.
The USS Nashville was severely damaged off Negros Island by a kamikaze attack.
The U-365 was sunk in the Artic Ocean by a Fairey Swordfish.
The Great Snowstorm of 1944 ended.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Today in World War II History—December 10, 1939 & 1944
Today in World War II History—December 10, 1939 & 1944: 80 Years Ago—Dec. 10, 1944: First class of 24 flight nurses and 24 pharmacist’s mates starts at the Navy’s School of Air Evacuation Casualties.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Tuesday, December 8, 1874.. The James Gang robs a train.
Western Fictioneers: On This Day in the Old West: December 8: Let’s talk outlaws this December. On December 8, 1874, the infamous Jesse James and the Younger gang robbed the Kansas Pacific Railroad in...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024
Today In Wyoming's History: Sidebar: Wyoming and the Korean War
Today In Wyoming's History: Sidebar: Wyoming and the Korean War:
Sidebar: Wyoming and the Korean War
The Korean War is something that most Wyomingites don't particularly associate with our state, but the war did have a noticeable impact on the state, and Korea has been in the news a lot recently, so now might be a good time to take a look at it.
Part of the reason that we don't think much of the Korean War and Wyoming, is that we don't think much about the Korean War at all. The Korean War is one of several wars that have been tagged "forgotten wars" and, in the case of Korea, it's really true. Perhaps that was inevitable, coming between World War Two and the Vietnam War, as it did.
Wyoming's role in the Korean War is tied closely to the the decline in the Army's conventional war fighting abilities that followed World War Two. The largest war ever fought, World War Two was the largest conventional conflict of all time but it ended with the use of two nuclear weapons. Given that, the immediate assumption by the American military was that the age of conventional warfare had ended and that any future war, of any kind, would be a nuclear war. The Army was allowed to atrophy as a result. Between 1945, when World War Two ended, and 1950, when the Korean War started, the Army's training in conventional warfare dramatically declined.
An end to conventional warfare turned out to be a massively erroneous assumption, and the place we learned that was in Korea.
That the US would fight a war in Korea was something that, moreover, seemed an impossibility in 1945, when events took us there for the first time in the 20th Century. The US had actually fought in Korea once before, but in the 19th Century, oddly enough, when the Marine Corps landed briefly in Korean in an obscure punitive expedition. It was World War Two, however that brought the US back onto the Korean Peninsula, but only due to the end of the war.
Korea itself had been a Japanese possession since 1910, when the Japanese simply made a fact out of what had been the case following the Russo Japanese War. Korea had been more or less independent prior to that, but heavily influenced by its much more powerful neighbors. The Russo Japanese War effectively ended Korean independence in favor of the Japanese. The Japanese dominance was not a happy thing for the Koreans. Korea remained a Japanese possession up until after World War Two, when it was jointly occupied by the United States and the Soviet Union, splitting the country in half. The US had no intention to remain there but the original concept of uniting the country in a democratic process fell apart, and the Soviets and the US left with the country divided. The US had weakly armed the South and failed to provide it with heavy weapons. The North, on the other hand, was heavily armed and trained by the Soviets, who left the North with the means, and likely the plan, on how to unite the peninsula by force. In 1950, North Korea invaded the South with a well equipped and well trained Army. They faced a poorly trained South Korean Army.
Soon after that they, quite frankly, faced a poorly trained American Army. The US hadn't really given much thought to South Korea after leaving it, but the fall of China, followed by the Berlin Blockade, followed by shocking early revelations about Soviet espionage inside the US, followed by the development of the Soviet bomb, suddenly refocused attention on a country that now seemed to be a dagger aimed at Japan. President Truman made the immediate decision to send the U.S. Army into South Korea to turn the North Koreans back.
That Army, however, wasn't the same Army the US had in 1945 after the defeat of Germany and Japan. After VJ Day the U.S. had rapidly demobilized. Moreover, convinced that all future wars would be nuclear in nature, the U.S. had let the Army deteriorate markedly. It was poorly trained and not all that well equipped in some ways.
The intervention in South Korea required the call up of numerous Army National Guard units, and Wyoming's 300th Armored Field Artillery was one of them. Deployed in February 1951, the unit made up of young recruits from northern Wyoming and World War Two veterans proved to be a very effective one. It achieved a fairly unique status in May 1951 at Soyang with the unit directly engaged advancing enemy infantry, a very rare event in modern combat and a risky one at any time. The unit came out of the Korean War with Presidential and Congressional Unit Citations in honor of its fine performance in the war. The individual Guardsmen of the 300th AFA largely came home after completing a combat tour, at a little over a year, but the called up unit remained in service throughout the war. Other Wyoming Army National Guard units were also called up in this time, but only the 300th AFA was sent to the Korean War.
The Air National Guard's 187th Fighter Bomber Squadron from Wyoming was called up. The new Air Guard saw combat service for the first time in the Korean War. Nine Wyoming F51 pilots were lost serving in the unit during the war.
Of course, many Wyomingites served in the war by volunteering for military service, or by being conscripted during the war. Like earlier wars, Wyomingites volunteered in high numbers.
Official painting of the Wyoming Army National Guard depicting Wyoming's 300th AFA in action.
Part of the reason that we don't think much of the Korean War and Wyoming, is that we don't think much about the Korean War at all. The Korean War is one of several wars that have been tagged "forgotten wars" and, in the case of Korea, it's really true. Perhaps that was inevitable, coming between World War Two and the Vietnam War, as it did.
Wyoming's role in the Korean War is tied closely to the the decline in the Army's conventional war fighting abilities that followed World War Two. The largest war ever fought, World War Two was the largest conventional conflict of all time but it ended with the use of two nuclear weapons. Given that, the immediate assumption by the American military was that the age of conventional warfare had ended and that any future war, of any kind, would be a nuclear war. The Army was allowed to atrophy as a result. Between 1945, when World War Two ended, and 1950, when the Korean War started, the Army's training in conventional warfare dramatically declined.
An end to conventional warfare turned out to be a massively erroneous assumption, and the place we learned that was in Korea.
That the US would fight a war in Korea was something that, moreover, seemed an impossibility in 1945, when events took us there for the first time in the 20th Century. The US had actually fought in Korea once before, but in the 19th Century, oddly enough, when the Marine Corps landed briefly in Korean in an obscure punitive expedition. It was World War Two, however that brought the US back onto the Korean Peninsula, but only due to the end of the war.
Korea itself had been a Japanese possession since 1910, when the Japanese simply made a fact out of what had been the case following the Russo Japanese War. Korea had been more or less independent prior to that, but heavily influenced by its much more powerful neighbors. The Russo Japanese War effectively ended Korean independence in favor of the Japanese. The Japanese dominance was not a happy thing for the Koreans. Korea remained a Japanese possession up until after World War Two, when it was jointly occupied by the United States and the Soviet Union, splitting the country in half. The US had no intention to remain there but the original concept of uniting the country in a democratic process fell apart, and the Soviets and the US left with the country divided. The US had weakly armed the South and failed to provide it with heavy weapons. The North, on the other hand, was heavily armed and trained by the Soviets, who left the North with the means, and likely the plan, on how to unite the peninsula by force. In 1950, North Korea invaded the South with a well equipped and well trained Army. They faced a poorly trained South Korean Army.
Soon after that they, quite frankly, faced a poorly trained American Army. The US hadn't really given much thought to South Korea after leaving it, but the fall of China, followed by the Berlin Blockade, followed by shocking early revelations about Soviet espionage inside the US, followed by the development of the Soviet bomb, suddenly refocused attention on a country that now seemed to be a dagger aimed at Japan. President Truman made the immediate decision to send the U.S. Army into South Korea to turn the North Koreans back.
That Army, however, wasn't the same Army the US had in 1945 after the defeat of Germany and Japan. After VJ Day the U.S. had rapidly demobilized. Moreover, convinced that all future wars would be nuclear in nature, the U.S. had let the Army deteriorate markedly. It was poorly trained and not all that well equipped in some ways.
The intervention in South Korea required the call up of numerous Army National Guard units, and Wyoming's 300th Armored Field Artillery was one of them. Deployed in February 1951, the unit made up of young recruits from northern Wyoming and World War Two veterans proved to be a very effective one. It achieved a fairly unique status in May 1951 at Soyang with the unit directly engaged advancing enemy infantry, a very rare event in modern combat and a risky one at any time. The unit came out of the Korean War with Presidential and Congressional Unit Citations in honor of its fine performance in the war. The individual Guardsmen of the 300th AFA largely came home after completing a combat tour, at a little over a year, but the called up unit remained in service throughout the war. Other Wyoming Army National Guard units were also called up in this time, but only the 300th AFA was sent to the Korean War.
The Air National Guard's 187th Fighter Bomber Squadron from Wyoming was called up. The new Air Guard saw combat service for the first time in the Korean War. Nine Wyoming F51 pilots were lost serving in the unit during the war.
Of course, many Wyomingites served in the war by volunteering for military service, or by being conscripted during the war. Like earlier wars, Wyomingites volunteered in high numbers.
Friday, December 6, 2024
Today in World War II History—December 6, 1939 & 1944
Today in World War II History—December 6, 1939 & 1944: Col. James Earl Rudder leaves command of the US 2nd Ranger Battalion, which had taken Pointe du Hoc on D-day, and takes command of the 109th Infantry Regiment
Thursday, December 5, 2024
War Department
Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth to lead the Defense Department signals the incoming administration’s intention to enact significant changes at the Pentagon. Some of what the administration aims to pursue seems ill-advised; waging a culture war inside the U.S. military is a specious enterprise, whether prosecuted by the left or the right. However, the Trump administration could swiftly enact one cultural change at the Pentagon that would be for the good, and send a powerful signal aligned with the administration’s priorities: Trump could ask Congress to redesignate the Defense Department as the War Department.
The Atlantic.
Tuesday, December 5, 1944. The Royal Navy in the Greek Civil War.
The Royal Navy shelled Greek communist positions near Piraeus.
The Red Army took Szigetvár and Vukovar, Hungary.
Canadians took Ravenna, Italy.
The Liberty ship Antoine Saugrain was sunk by Japanese aircraft in Leyte Gulf. And on the ground:
Today in World War II History—December 5, 1939 & 1944: US launches final offensive on Leyte in the Philippines, driving into the Ormoc Valley. Victory ship SS Red Oak Victory is commissioned into the US Navy
"Men of the 121st Regt., 8th Inf. Div., U.S. First Army, after 15 days at the front, move back along the road from Hurtgen, Germany. 5 December, 1944. 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division. Photographer: T/3 Jack G. [illegible], 165th Signal Photo Co."
" An American infantryman keeps firing while two of his comrades insert fresh ammunition in their rifles, as steady fire from this sheltered infantry covers advance near Rosteig, France. December 5, 1944. K Company, 398th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division. Rosteig Area, France. December 5, 1944." Note that the men are wearing L. L. Bean Maine Hunting Shoe boots.
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Monday, December 4, 1944. The Dutch Famine.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Today in World War II History—December 4, 1939 & 1944
Today in World War II History—December 4, 1939 & 1944: US Third Army crosses the Saar River at Saarlautern, Germany. Italian partisans liberate Ravenna in first major partisan attack in Italy.
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Friday, November 29, 2024
Get real.
I see goofball crap like this all the time:
LAND OPPORTUNITY: 5 acres for livestock or veggies with housing – Summerland, BC
Posted by Haley Schonhofer on November 26, 2024
We always have new land opportunities coming into our inventory, some of which aren’t on our blog yet! Get in touch with a Land Matcher at bclmp@youngagrarians.org to learn about the latest opportunities and to access free B.C. Land Matching Program services in your region.
Five acres?
Your crop would have to be a really premium grade of marijuana or opium poppies to make it on so little ground.
And livestock?
What, maybe a pygmy cow?
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Today in World War II History—November 28, 1939 & 1944
Today in World War II History—November 28, 1939 & 1944: 80 Years Ago: Allies open port of Antwerp, Belgium, as the first convoy of supply ships arrives. Albania is secured by partisans as Germans evacuate.
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Blog Mirror: Revitalizing the American Republic
A really shallow interview, in my opinion, but Dineen is one of the big figures in National Conservatism, so it's worth at least glancing at what he had to say:
Revitalizing the American Republic
Monday, November 25, 2024
Thursday, November 25, 1909. B. B. Brooks declares Thanksgiving.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 25: 1909 Governor B. B. Brooks declared the day to be one of Thanksgiving and Praise.
The day was not yet an official U.S. holiday, although it was nearly universally observed.
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