Thursday, June 17, 1915. Navy to Mexico, Bryan says chillax on war prep, French try to take Vimy Ridge.

 

The French attempted to take Vimy Ridge but failed to take it.

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Tuesday, June 15, 1915. Killing the Armenians of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.

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Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin.

 

Capuchin Friar Blessed Leonard Melki was murdered along with other Christians, including Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants, by Ottoman troops at Mardin.

Included in the murdered was Blessed Ignace Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin.

The French advanced 550 yards at Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

British and French forces took control of all garrisons around Garua, German Cameroon.

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Wednesday, June 10, 1925. Creation of the United Church of Canada.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Canada, Catholic, Christianity, Protestant, religion

Friday, June 4, 1915. Bring Your Horses.

British, French, and Indian forces made a third and final attempt to capture Achi Baba on the Gallipoli peninsula but were repulsed.  Both side, sustained heavy casualties.

World War One was impacting Wyoming's economy:

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Thursday, June 3, 1915. Battle of León.

Sunday, June 3, 1945. French escorted out of Damascus.

Today in World War II History—June 3, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 3, 1945: French troops leave Damascus, escorted by the British. US Marines land on Iheya Shima in the Ryukyu Islands northwest of Okinawa.

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Saturday, June 2, 1945. Pope Pius XII gave an address to the College of Cardinals

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Wednesday, June 2, 1915. Wilson: 'Form a Government'.

President Wilson was growing irritated at the inability of Mexico to form a government.

The French commenced a pre attack three day barrage on German defenses around Neuville-Saint-Vaast, France.

Armenians began a month long resistance against the Ottoman Empire due to the genocide  using a fort in the Giresun Province of Turkey.  The uprising was sparked by news that the genocide was coming their way.

Ceylon's Governor Robert Chalmers declared martial law in the colony to arrest violence between Muslims and Buddhists.

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Tuesday, June 1, 1915. Przemyśl.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, German Army, Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, Imperial Russian Army, World War One

Thursday, May 31, 1945. Intervening in Syria.

Churchill informed de Gaulle that British forces had been instructed to intervene in the Levant in order to end the fighting and the threat it posed to Allied supply lines to the Pacific.  The British soon arranged a ceasefire but British intervention would bring the UK and France to the point of war.

The Norwegian government started to return to Oslo.

Odilo Globocnik, age 41, Austrian Nazi  committed suicide after being captured by the British.

On Okinawa, the Japanese pulled out of Shuri.

Japanese resistance ended on Negros in the Philippines.

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Wednesday, May 30, 1945. Czech reprisals.

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Wednesday, May 30, 1945. Czech reprisals.

The forced expulsion of ethnic Germans from Brno began.

The French Army took control of the parliament building in Damascus while French aircraft bombed other parts of the city.

On Okinawa US forces reached Shuri and the southeast edge of Naha.

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Tuesday, May 29, 1945. Hitting Yokohama.

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Tuesday, May 29, 1945. Hitting Yokohama.

"Men of Co. B, 184th Inf. Regt., inspect a Jap 75-mm gun they captured on Okinawa. 29 May, 1945. Company B, 184th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division."

85% of Yokohama was destroyed in a B-29 raid.

The second Sandakan Death March begins in which the Japanese guards commence a force march of Allied POWs in Borneo.

The French Army shelled Damascus and Hama.

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Monday, May 28, 1945. Memorial Day.

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Monday, May 28, 1945. Memorial Day.

The USS Drexler was sunk in a kamikaze attack.  100 Japanese aircraft were shot down on the same day, bringing to an end the Japanese air offensive.

William Joyce, "Lord Haw Haw", was arrested by the British in Flensburg.

Queen Wilhelmina returned to the Netherlands.

The Royal Navy stopped the convoy system in the Atlantic, Arctic and Indian Oceans.

Admiral Halsey, commanding US 3rd Fleet, took command of American naval forces operating against targets in Japan.

French forces and Syrians engaged in combat against each other.

John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival was born.

It was Memorial Day.

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Sunday, May 27, 1945. Reversals of fortune in China.

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Friday, May 28, 1915.

The French failed to capture, Andres, Pas-de-Calais.

New Zealand troops captured a ridge overlooking ANZAC Cove.

Riots broke out between Sinhalese and Muslims in Kandy, British Ceylon.

Armenian actor Yenovk Shahen, age 34, was murdered in the Armenian Genocide.

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Thursday, May 27, 1915. Armenians.

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Saturday, May 19, 1945. Landing in Syria and Lebanon.

The Australians took Tarakan Island.

More heavy fighting occurred on Okinawa.

The Czechoslovak Extraordinary People's Court distributed over twenty thousand sentences - seven percent of them being for life or the death sentence - to "traitors, collaborators and fascist elements."

Philipp Bouhler, age 45, Nazi official and philosopher committed suicide with a cyanide capsule while in a U.S. internment camp.

French troops landed in Syria and Lebanon to reassert control over the region.  The landings sparked protests from Arab nationalists.

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Friday, May 18, 1945. Paying the consequences.

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Thursday, May 17, 1945. The emerging post war world.

The 43d Infantry Division captured the Ipoh Dam near Manila. 100,000 gallons of napalm were used in the American effort.

There was hard fighting again on Okinawa.

 Aircraft from the USS Ticonderoga attacked targets on Taroa and the Maleolap atoll, encountering limited resistance.

Dutch troops landed on Tarakan Island, reinforcing the Australian forces.

Denmark severed relations with Japan.

French forces landed in Beirut to reassert control of Lebanon.

A British white paper addressed post war independence for Burma.

Archbishop Stepinac of Croatia was arrested for the first time by the incoming Communists in Yugoslavia.

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Wednesday, May 16, 1945. The Haguro sunk, U-boats surrender.

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Monday, April 26, 1915. Leaving one Triple and joining another. French remounts travel through Laramie.

The secret Treaty of London was signed in which Italy agreed to abandon the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austro Hungaria and join the Triple Entente in exchange for Austro Hungarian territory.

Canadians attacked St. Julien again, but were once again forced back.

Horses in transit to the French Army travelled through Laramie.

German colonial forces attacked the South African-held town of Trekkopje in South West Africa but were repulsed by a unit of armored cars equipped with machine guns.

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Sunday, April 15, 1915. Gallipoli.

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Thursday, April 12, 1945. The death of Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt on April 11, 1945.

Franklin Roosevelt died on this day in 1945.

His death was a surprise to nobody close to him but came as a shock to the nation.  He'd been fading steadily for months.  His final moments came while sitting for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia.  His last words were "I have a terrific headache", reflecting that he died of a massive intracerebral hemorrhage.

He was 63 years of age.

Harry S. Truman was inaugurated President.  Immediately thereafter, Secretary of War Harry Stimson and James F. Byrnes informed him of the nature of the Manhattan Project.  He'd been kept in the dark about it previously, in spite of trying to learn of its nature while in Congress.  At noon he met reporters and said “last night the whole weight of the moon and stars fell on me. If you fellows ever pray, please pray for me.”

Much about Truman's approach to things would be different than Roosevelt's, and FRD's death and Truman's inauguration cannot be regarded as a seamless transition.  Roosevelt was politely hostile to European colonialism and did not desire to see European powers return to their former colonial domains where they had been pushed out of them. Truman was rapidly approached by France and the UK and became sympathetic to their positions.  Roosevelt was naive in some ways to the dangers of Communism and while Truman was not really enlightened to them at first, he'd become so after the war, while also being saddled with an administration that had seen significant left wing penetration.  Truman was, also, blunt.

Roosevelt is arguably the last great President of the United States.  The country has certainly had some good ones since then, but none who were great.

Hitler was ecstatic about Roosevelt's death, maintaining it was a sign that German fortunes in the war were turning.

The US 3rd Army took Erfurt. The French took Baden Baden.

The USS Lindsey, Mannert L. Abele and Zellars were severely damaged off of Okinawa by kamikazes.

The Srmian Front was broken by the Red Army.

The Battle of Authion ended in Allied victory.

The Battle of Buchhof and Stein am Kocher ended after one week.

The Royal Navy sank the U-486 and U-1024.

The Berlin Philharmonic gave one of its last Third Reich performances at the Philharmonic Hall in Berlin, with various members of the military and political elite in attendance.  Robert Heger conducted Brünnhilde's last aria (the Immolation Scene) and the finale from Richard Wagner's Götterdammerung, Beethoven's Violin Concerto, and Anton Bruckner's Romantic Symphony.  Members of the Hitler Youth offered cyanide capsules to the audience as they left the building, many of those in attendance being military and political elites.

Saturday, March 31, 1945. Liberated.

"Children of the Soviet Union whose parents were captured by the Germans and made to work in one of the German aircraft and rubber tire plants at Sanbach Odenwald, Germany, are shown playing a game.

The factory Seventh Army troops found intact when they pushed through. Note the white flag flying in background. This factory made automobile, airplane, bicycle tires and [censored] for Messerschmitts. 31 March, 1945. Photographer: T/5 Louis Weintraub, 163rd Signal Photo Co. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.

The Red Army prevailed in the Upper Silesian Offensive.

The U.S. Navy sank the I-8 off of Okinawa.

The British and Nationalist  Chinese armies took Kyaukme.

The French 1st Army crossed t he Rhine near Speyer.

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Friday, March 30, 1945. Mère Marie Élisabeth de l'Eucharistie gassed at Ravensbruck. Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose killed in action.

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National Museum of Military Vehicles. World War One Display.

 

Inside of Renault tank.

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Punitive Expedition Display, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois Wyoming

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