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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Antidote To Fear: FDR Address To Congress January 6, 1941

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I remember 1941. My father was in the US Army Air Corps, stationed at what became McDill Air Force Base in Tampa. When we went to a movie,...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

A Century Ago: Battles In Picardy; Beginning Of Trench Warfare

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The pre-war German plan wasn't working. Belgium was supposed to have stood aside and let the Germans pass. It didn't happen. That...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Another Day At Arnhem: A Bridge Really Too Far - September 19, 1944; Some Heroic Tales

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Anyone who has ever seen the movie, "A Bridge Too Far," knows something of the heroics of British, Polish and American paratrooper...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Seventy Years Ago: Another Day On Peleliu

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*World War II Today: 16 September 1944: Peleliu: US Marines attack towards Bloody Nose Ridge: It was already apparent that the landing...

The Best Laid Plans Gang Aft Agley

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Scotland votes today on the referendum to leave the United Kingdom. Yes or No? The polls don't reveal how the vote will go. Earlier th...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Seventy Years Ago: A Bridge Too Far (Market Garden)

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Imagine you are dressed in your best parachute, flying over Holland enroute to a bridge over the Nederrijn at Arnhem. 70,000 years earlier, ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Seventy Years Ago: USS Houston At Peleliu, September 1944

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USS Houston, assigned to RADM Bogen's Task Group 38.2, left Eniwetok August 30 to screen aircraft carriers against Japanese aircraft whi...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Oriental New Town Dock - What Might Have Been

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Three years ago, the Town of Oriental submitted a grant proposal for Federal Boating Infrastructure funds to build a pier for transient recr...
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