Marines landed at Nanjing to patrol near the university and to protect Americans in the vicinity.
Costa Rica, unhappy with the League of Nations failure to address regional issues, withdrew form the body.
The French mandate states of Aleppo and Damascus were united in the State of Syria.
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He was air commander and leader of more than 2,000 heavy bombers in a strike against German airfields on 24 December 1944. En route to the target, the failure of 1 engine forced him to relinquish his place at the head of the formation. In order not to endanger friendly troops on the ground below, he refused to jettison his bombs to gain speed maneuverability. His lagging, unescorted aircraft became the target of numerous enemy fighters which ripped the left wing with cannon shells, set the oxygen system afire, and wounded 2 members of the crew. Repeated attacks started fires in 2 engines, leaving the Flying Fortress in imminent danger of exploding. Realizing the hopelessness of the situation, the bail-out order was given. Without regard for his personal safety he gallantly remained alone at the controls to afford all other crewmembers an opportunity to escape. Still another attack exploded gasoline tanks in the right wing, and the bomber plunged earthward, carrying Gen. Castle to his death. His intrepidity and willing sacrifice of his life to save members of the crew were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service.
Marines captured Noveleta, Luzon.
The Marines had not yet taken on their modern form, and remained very much attached to the Navy at this point in time. It would not really be until World War One when the Marine Corps as we currently imagine it would start to form.
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. premiered on CBS.
Somehow, Pvt. Pyle managed never to be deployed to Vietnam, and seemingly, with the exception of one single episode I can think of, remain in the Pre Vietnam War era entirely.
President Johnson and Mexican President López Mateos shook hands on the International Bridge at El Paso. Later that day President Johnson flew to Oklahoma for the dedication of the new Eufaula Dam and spoke about the Vietnam War, stating: "There are those that say you ought to go north and drop bombs, to try to wipe out the supply lines, and they think that would escalate the war. We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys."
FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) launched the Mozambican War of Independence.
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Which is absurd.
They're asking for real M4 carbines, which they should get.
But it also raises this question.
Why doesn't the Air Force simply use the Army for basic training? The Marines send their artillerymen to Ft. Sill for artillery training from the Army. Everyone uses the Air Force for training in dog handling.
Each service has its own requirements, but basic training conveys basic soldierly skills. Granted, the Air Force is unique from the Army, but in regard to basic training, not that unique. And after all, the Army did provide basic training to the U.S. Army Air Corps prior to the Air Force existing, and enlisted Marines in the Marine Corps' aviation branch go through regular Marine Corps basic training.
It's not as if this would save piles of money, but it would save some, and do away with some needless duplication here.
The 101st Airborne Division liberated Eindoven.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert George Cole, who would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions during Operation Overlord, was killed by a German sniper during Market Garden. He was 29 years old.
Another American combatant would be killed in an action that resulted in his posthumously receiving the Medal of Honor.
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Private First Class Charles Howard Roan (MCSN: 504236), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for the conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the Second Battalion, Seventh Marines, First Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Peleliu, Palau Islands, 18 September 1944. Shortly after his leader ordered a withdrawal upon discovering that the squad was partly cut off from their company as a result of the rapid advance along an exposed ridge during an aggressive attack on the strongly entrenched enemy, Private First Class Roan and his companions were suddenly engaged in a furious exchange of hand grenades by Japanese forces emplaced in a cave on higher ground and to the rear of the squad. Seeking protection with four other Marines in a depression in the rocky, broken terrain, Private First Class Roan was wounded by an enemy grenade which fell close to their position and, immediately realizing the eminent peril to his comrades when another grenade landed in the midst of the group, unhesitatingly flung himself upon it, covering it with his body and absorbing the full impact of the explosion. By his prompt action and selfless conduct in the face of almost certain death, he saved the lives of four men. His great personal valor reflects the highest credit upon himself and the U. S. Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his comrades.
The Battle of Arracourt commenced in France.
The US dropped supplies from B-17s to resistance fighters in Warsaw, the only such mission permitted by the Soviets. The aircraft flew on to Soviet held territory.
It's often been speculated, not without reason, that Stalin allowed the uprising to bleed itself out as it was resulting in the deaths of a present combatant, the Germans, and a feared future one, the Poles.
The Jun'yō Maru was sunk off Sumatra by the British submarine Tradewind resulting in the deaths of 5,620 people, most of whom were Allied POWs or Japanese slave labor. The event is one of the worst naval disasters of all time, taking into account the lives lost were largely innocent.
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The U.S. Marine Corps withdrew from the Dominican Republic and turned police powers over to the Dominican Republic. The US intervention had come in 1916.
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US forces invaded Peleliu. Initial troops were from the 1st Marine Division, which would later be joined by the Army's 81st Infantry Division for the hard fought battle. The landing on the island was in order to seize its airfields for the invasion of the Philippines.
The landings were bizarrely named Operation Stalemate II.
American and Australian forces landed at Morotai near New Guinea. The Battle of Morotai would go on until the end of the war.
The Battle of Gemmano in Italy ended in an Allied victory.
The Lapland War between Germany and Finland commenced when the Kriegsmarine attempted to take the island of Suursaari in order to secure the shipping routes in the Gulf of Finland. Up until that time the German withdrawal from Finland had been going peacefully, although it was deteriorating as the Germans destroyed things on their way out. The attempted German landing was resisted and the Finns withdrew their shipping from German evacuation efforts, although evacuation from Lapland to Norway, guaranteed by a secret agreement between the countries, continued peacefully at first.
The failed landings at Suursaari were an attempt to secure the island out of a fear the Soviets would.
The French Provisional Government issued arrest warrants for Philippe Pétain and his cabinet.
The Great Atlantic Hurricane made landfall on Long Island and Rhode Island.
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