On this day .....

June 4,1989

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June 4th, 1942 the Battle of Midway begins as Japanese forces bomb the atoll. A day earlier they had invaded US territory with the attack on Attu Island.



June 4th, 1944......the 1st Axis powers capitol falls when the Allies capture Rome.........2 days later the D-Day landings and 11 days later the Invasion of Saipan (the massive fleet left Pearl on 5 June).......we were quite busy that first half of June during 1942 and 1944!

from wiki

"It took four major offensives between January and May 1944 before the line was eventually broken by a combined assault of the Fifth and Eighth Armies (including British, American, French, Polish and Canadian Corps) concentrated along a twenty-mile front between Monte Cassino and the western seaboard. In a concurrent action, American General Mark Clark was ordered to break out of the stagnant position at Anzio and cash-in on the opportunity to cut off and destroy a large part of the German 10th Army retreating from the Gustav Line between them and the Canadians. But this opportunity was lost on the brink of success, when Clark disobeyed his orders and sent his U.S. forces to enter the vacant Rome instead.[36] Rome had been declared an open city by the German Army so no resistance was encountered."

PS.......all things considered Mark Clark was an idiot.
 
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74 years ago today we were neck deep in hard combat on the beaches and in the surrounding countryside of Normandy France.........god bless all who gave it all.

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Lt. Robert Mathias, first American officer to be killed on D Day.
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Great story depicted in the opening pages of Steven Ambrose’s D-Day. Was wounded standing of the door of his C-47 ready to lead his stick into battle. He could have sat out Normandy convalescing in a hospital in England but chose to jump as that was his job. He didn’t survive.
Great read. https://books.google.com/books?id=N3mEH3ozXL0C&pg=PA1922&lpg=PA1922&dq=Lt+Robert+Mason+Mathias&source=bl&ots=pureboz8xb&sig=QaHG6yZ_Q6rOkUlgVd6mkZ3XzC8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=69KRU-OKOeTmsASBoILIAw#v=onepage&q=Lt Robert Mason Mathias&f=false
 
June 24, 1948: Berlin air lift begins after Stalin's Soviet Union cuts off land entry from West Germany to Berlin. The aerial resupply mission lasts eleven months.

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June 25, 1950: At Stalin's behest, North Korea invades South Korea. A ceasefire goes into effect three years later.

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My old man (WIA April 1951 USMC) and a lot more left blood and lives over there.........Korea was never forgotten by those that were there and their families.
 
July 20, 1944

Wolfsschanze, East Prussia: In an attempt to end the war, group of German army officers and politicians attempted to kill Hitler with a bomb during a staff briefing. The plot failed, Hitler lived, and the war continued.
 
165 years ago today Capt Richard King bought the 1st part of what would become the King Ranch.................paid $300 for 15,500 acres part of which the city of Kingsville now sits on.

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see the Nueces River at the top of the map....they better be careful crossing in case of cottonmouths............just ask Woodrow and Augustus!
 
Aug 1, 1966 -- The Cultural Revolution (which had begun on May 16) is made official policy in China.

Led by the youthful Red Guards, a hysterical wave of purges swept the state against "Old Think" and habits. Not less than a million people were killed.
 
On Aug 16, 1920, the Polish Army led by Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, launched its legendary counter attack against the invading Red Army, annihilating the 1 million strong Red Army, and saving Poland and Europe from a Communist invasion.

story https://www.dispropaganda.com/singl...d-saved-Europe-from-a-Soviet-invasion-in-1920

".... In 1918 Poland regained its independence for the first time after 123 years of partition and occupation. But only two years later, that independence was being threatened again by the invasion of the Red Army into Polish territory.

The reason for the Soviet invasion of Poland was that both Lenin and Trotsky believed that by destroying Poland, they would create a red bridge to Europe - particularly Germany - which was ripe at those years for a Communist revolution.

The supreme commander of the Red Army, General Mikhail Tukhachevsky stated : "To the West! Over the corpse of White Poland lies the road to worldwide conflagration! Onward to Berlin, over the corpse of Poland!"

Germany at that time was disarmed, bankrupt, defeated, without an army and with millions of German Communists who were just waiting for the Red Army to show up to help them start their own Communist revolution. The Red Army wouldn't even had to attack Germany, just show up and Germany would be theirs.

Once Soviet Russia secured Germany, the possibility of projecting the Communist revolution all accross Europe, a pan European Communist revolution, and of a Soviet Europe, would become a very real scenario.

However in order to reach Germany and then the whole of Europe, Lenin and Trotsky first needed to destroy Poland, and so they sent almost a million Red Army soldiers to invade and crush Poland...."​
 
73 years ago today

Japan formally surrenders aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, bringing an end to World War II

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52 years ago today, NBC (like my urologist) boldly went where no man had gone before....
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