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The best posts of the week of July 21, 2024.
Friday, July 21, 1944. Landings on Guam.
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Saturday, July 27, 1974. Articles of Impeachment.
The bipartisan House Judiciary Committee voted 27-11 to adopt the first of three articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon, obstruction of justice.
Richard M. Nixon, using the powers of his high office, engaged personally and through his subordinates and agents, in a course of conduct or plan designed to delay, impede, and obstruct the investigation.
Back when Congress actually acted responsibly, although 11 of the 17 Republicans did vote no.
The Rhodesian Army began Operation Overload, the relocation of 49,690 black civilians within the Chiweshe Tribal Trust Land to "protected villages" away from the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA).
Portugal's military government announced that it was granting independence to Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Portuguese Guinea.
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Wednesday, July 24, 1974. United States v. Nixon.
Thursday, July 27, 1944. Eastern advances.
The Lwów Uprising ended in Polish victory. The combatants would shortly be arrested by the Soviets, with the 1st Ukrainian Front entering that day. It also took Stanislav.
Identity document from occupied Bialystok District.
The Red Army took Daugavpils in the north, and Siauliai.
The 8th Corps of the 1st Army broke through at Lessy and Periers.
The jet fighter the Gloster Meteor entered active service with No. 616 Squadron RAF. It would be the only jet aircraft to see active service during the war for the Allies.
The Soviet submarine V-1, formerly the HMS Sunfish, was sunk by the RAF when it dove upon the airplane arriving, rather than fire a recognition signal.
Nimitz, MacArthur and Roosevelt were still meeting.
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Wednesday, July 26, 1944. Cobra advances.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Wednesday, July 26, 1944. Cobra advances.
U.S. infantrymen advancing beyond St. Lo, July 26, 1944.
The 1st Army took Marigny and St. Gilles, and crossed the Lessay-Perieres Road.
A really remarkable photograph of US troops near Saint Giles ,with editing marks, July 26, 1944. The armored vehicle appears to be a M3 Lee/Grant, which according to all sources had been fully replaced by the Sherman by this time. It might be a M31 tank retriever, however, which was based on the same vehicle and retained the 75mm gun and the turret. From this angle, the crane would not be visible. The edits clearly intended to cut out evidence of the 75mm gun, which would make the vehicle appear to be a Sherman.
After six months of combat, the Red Army took Narva, ending the Battle for Narva Bridgehead.
The Battle of Ilomantsi began between the Finns and the Red Army.
The 1st Ukrainian Front took Deblin.
President Roosevelt began a two day conference at Pearl Harbor on strategy in the Pacific. At the conference MacArthur urged an advance on the Philippines while Nimitz argued for making Taiwan the first priority and bypassing the Philippines. Roosevelt listened, but did not decide.
Fighting raged on around Aitape.
Japanese forces on Guam launched a banzai charge against Marines fighting for control of the island
The USS Robalo hit a mine sinking the sub off of Palawan Island. There were four survivors who disappeared forever into Japanese captivity.
The I-29 was sunk by the USS Sawfish in a submarine on submarine action.
The U-214 was sunk by the HMS Cooke in the English Channel. The U-2323 hit a mine off Kiel and sank.
A pilot with family in Merriam, Kansas, decided to buzz the family home with disastrous results.
The Merriam Bomber Crash of 1944
Oklahoma State Highway 89 was officially designated.
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Tuesday, July 25, 1944. Operation Cobra commences. Operation Spring does as well.
Saturday, July 26, 1924. Other around the world flights.
Argentinian pilot Pedro Zanni and mechanic Felipe Beltrame began their rather belated attempt to fly around the world.
The KKK held a rally in Issaquah, Washington that drew at least 13,000 people.
The weekly magazines were out.
The Saturday Evening Post with a girl who had a scouting uniform of some type, or perhaps was wearing an oddly colored representation of Navy white shirt, with red instead of blue.
Country Gentleman had a classic of a draft team.
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Tuesday, July 26, 1774. First armed move in Lord Dunmore's War.
British/Virginian forces under Angus McDonald crossed the Ohio River to attack the Shawnee villages of Wakatomika.
Angus McDonald, former Jacobite, present commander of British forces, and later American revolutionary. He'd die in 1778 from an overdose of Antimony potassium tartrate.
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Sunday, July 23, 1774. A meeting in Savannah.
Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Cutting Hay
Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Cutting Hay: The Big Horn Basin usually gets three cuttings of alfalfa a summer. Mid July, right before the fair and barley harvest, is a good time to kn...
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Reconsidering Wounded Knee Medals of Honor.
This isn't the first time this has been done. Earlier it was done as the criteria for receiving the medal changed and many pre World War One medals were downgraded.
Tuesday, July 25, 1944. Operation Cobra commences. Operation Spring does as well.
The operation would begin the breakout from the bocage company and the unrelenting advance towards the Rhine.
The operation saw the use of U.S. Army Air Corps heavy bombers in the close air support/tactical role, which was a novelty for the US. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, observing the strikes, was killed by a bomb that landed short. He was not alone. About 100 US service men were killed in this fashion on this day.
The British launched Operation Gaff, a mission designed to kill or kidnap Erwin Rommel. The six man SAS unit would learn three days later that Rommel had been wounded and then advanced on foot to American lines.
The Battle of Auvere in Estonia ended with a German victory. The Battle of Verrières Ridge in France likewise did.
Goebbels was named "Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort". He cancelled vacation leave for women involved in war related work on the same day.
A dismantled V2 rocket captured by the Polish Resistance was flown out of occupied Poland to London.
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Monday, July 24, 1944. Marines land on Tinian.
Friday, July 25, 1924. Speeding the game up.
Greece announced it was expelling 50,000 Armenians.
The British communist journal Workers Weekley urged British troops to turn the weapons on their "oppressors" in the event of a war.
American League president Ban Johnson ordered umpires to speed baseball games up by cutting trivial arguments about balls and strikes down and by limiting the time that players inspected balls.
Azem Galica, Albanian nationalist, died of wounds causing the collapse of the the ethnic Albanian rebellion that sought to unite Kosovo with Albania.
Frontier Days for 1924 was wrapping up.
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Saturday, July 19, 1924. Birth of Stan Hathaway.
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Tuesday, July 25, 1899. The Great Meet of the Newboys.
I haven't been covering it, but the summer of 1899 featured the Newsboy Strike in New York City, which was directed at the Hearst newspapers.
July 25, 1899: “Great Meet of Newsboys”
It was not the only newsboy strike in US history, but it is remarkable as a youth lead labor strike.
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Friday, July 21, 1899. Ernest Hemingway born.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Wednesday, July 24, 1974. United States v. Nixon.
I wonder what the current court would do?
The Greek military junta resigned in favor of former Premier Konstantinos Karamanlis who immediately granted amnesty to political prisoners.
The Huntsville Prison siege began in Huntsville, Texas.
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Sunday, July 21, 1974. Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Israeli no, Turkish misidentification.
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Monday, July 24, 1944. Marines land on Tinian.
The U.S. Army took Saint-Lô.
Marines landed on Tinian in the Marianas. The landings featured the use of napalm, the first time it had been used in the Pacific.
Unsuccessful so far, the Red Army commenced another Narva Offensive. The Red Army captured Lubin and overran the location of the Majdanek Concentration Camp.
Operation Cobra, the planned American offensive designed to break out of the bocage country, was postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather.
The RAF damaged the U-239 in an air raid on Kiel, and she never returned to service.
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Sunday, July 23, 1944. The Lwów Uprising
Sunday, July 23, 1774. A meeting in Savannah.
Supporters of American independence held a rally in Savannah, Georgia at Tondee’s Tavern.
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Thursday, July 21, 1774. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
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