#WWII

The vital role played by the 28th Infantry Division’s 110th Regimental Combat Team by delaying the advance of XLVII Panzer Corps, saved the strategic crossroads town of Bastogne, Belgium from
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The storm landings on Kwajalein and Eniwetok benefitted from a number of lessons that were learned at great cost in the preceding Operation Galvanic, the seizure of the Gilberts, which
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What is tactical airpower? It seems that some tend to reduce tactical airpower to close air support and assume that the Air Force's primary role is to provide direct support
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The President of the United States is campaigning for reelection with a Nazi symbol. Again.On the left: an official Trump/Pence “America First” tee.On the right; the Iron Eagle, the official
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The Battle of Biak Island, which ended this week in 1944, was an operation conceived to establish airfields in support of further US advances in the Southwest and Central Pacific
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Hold on to your butts, friends, because do I have a story for you! Many of you know that we recently bought an old stone farmhouse in PA from the
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1/ In the spirit of being constructive, here is my advice to @JustinTrudeau for his first call with President Biden tomorrow.#cdnpoli 2/ Find a way for the KXL project to
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If I accomplish one thing in 2020 it will be to convince every infosec traveler without a pet because of travel to get an adorable and cuddly hamster. Welcome to
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Took some folding tables into town this morning. Daughter was having a yard sale. She told me about her trip the day before. Her & husband went a little over
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THE FORGOTTEN AIRBORNE DIVISION1 of 56 2 of 56It's National Airborne Week (presented by XVIII Airborne Corps) and all week we're celebrating the American Paratrooper. 3 of 56America’s Airborne legacy
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The police in the Philippines is not the product of democracy. The Philippine Constabulary (PC), from which the Integrated National Police (INP) and later the Philippine National Police (PNP, as
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It is always interesting to read people’s tweets quietly before forging an opinion.It all started with someone getting a beautiful tattoo (I don’t like tattoos by the way) of the
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Reagan Republicans destroyed Unions because Black people started joining them. Reagan Republicans destroyed American industrial industries because Black Americans found jobs in factories after WWII Reagan Republicans gutted social safety
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Learning curves are a popular model of tech progress. Basically they say doubling cumulative production -> consistent price declines. E.g., every doubling of total installed solar capacity leads to a
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Today would have been my father's (at FL) 102nd birthday. I've decided to try doing a thread on Tex's Saga, the story of the greatest fighter pilot you've never heard
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From left to right:YNC(AW) Donna RichardAMCS (AW/SW) Louis Richard - RIPMM1(SS/Nuc) Jeff Richard - as a puppy power school grad.#VeteransDay Stepmother and father dripping gold - sailors who complete 12
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