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tomtom22 · July 18th, 2008

July 10th

1940: Beginning of the Battle of Britain. - The Luftwaffe carries out its first large scale attack (70 aircraft) against targets in Britain by bombing dock facilities at Swansea and the Royal Ordnance Factory at Pembrey in Wales.
1941: In the East, Panzergruppe 1 (von Kleist) repulses a violent Soviet counter-attack in the area of Korosten W of Kiev. The Finnish Karelian Army (Heinrichs) begins an offensive toward Lake Ladoga NE of Leningrad.
1942: In the East, armored units of 4.Panzerarmee (Hoth) and 6.Armee (Paulus) of Heeresgruppe B (von Weichs) join up N of Kalach on the Don, while 17.Armee (Ruoff) and 1.Panzerarmee (von Kleist) of Heeresgruppe A (List) continue their advance toward Rostov.
1943: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, is now fully underway with 12 divisions (160,000 men and 600 tanks) of the US Seventh (Patton) and the British Eighth (Montgomery) Armies being brought ashore by 3,000 landing craft (200 sunk by rough seas) on the southeast coast of Sicily.While the British approaching Syracuse meet with little German resistance, the US forces are held back by strong counter-attacks of the Hermann G=F6ring and the Italian Livorno Divisions.
1944: In the East, the Red Army begins 3 major offensives into the Baltic States: the 2nd Belorussian Front NW from Vitebsk, the 3rd Belorussian Front W from Psovsk, and the Leningrad Front SW toward Narva.
source: http://www.feldgrau.com/july.html

1911: Formation of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) - In its original form the Royal Australian Navy consisted of the battlecruiser Australia and several cruisers, destroyers and submarines. When the new fleet arrived in Australia on 4 October 1913 the day was declared a public holiday and was described in the press as the greatest day in Australia's history.
1941: Private J.H. Gordon, VC - Private J.H. Gordon, 2/31st Battalion, originally from Rockingham, Western Australia, wins the Victoria Cross near Jezzine, Lebanon.source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/jul.asp

1965: MiGs shot down as bombing of North Vietnam continues - U.S. planes continue heavy raids in South Vietnam and claim to have killed 580 guerrillas. U.S. Phantom jets, escorting fighter-bombers in a raid on the Yen Sen ammunition depot northwest of Hanoi, engaged North Vietnamese MiG-17s. Capt. Thomas S. Roberts with his backseater Capt. Ronald C. Anderson, and Capt. Kenneth E. Holcombe and his backseater Capt. Arthur C. Clark shot down two MiG-17s with Sidewinder missiles. The action marked the first U.S. Air Force air-to-air victories of the Vietnam War.
1967: Heavy fighting continues near An Loc and the Central Highlands -
Outnumbered South Vietnamese troops repel an attack by two battalions of the 141st North Vietnamese Regiment on a military camp five miles east of An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. Communist forces captured a third of the base camp before they were thrown back with the assistance of U.S. and South Vietnamese air and artillery strikes. Farther to the north, U.S. forces suffered heavy casualties in two separate battles in the Central Highlands. In the first action, about 400 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade came under heavy fire from North Vietnamese machine guns and mortars during a sweep of the Dak To area near Kontum. Twenty-six Americans were killed and 49 were wounded. In the second area clash, 35 soldiers of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division were killed and 31 were wounded in fighting.
source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

1934 - USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first visit of U.S. President to South America.
1943 - Naval gunfire help Allied troops land on Sicily. It was first extensive use of LST's and smaller landing craft to deliver heavy equipment over the beach.
1945 - 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August.
source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjul.htm

1943: Pachino Italy - In Operation Husky, Canadian 1st Infantry Division and 1st Tank Brigade invade Sicily with British 8th Army, U.S. and French troops; after training for 3 1/2 years in Britain; Sicily taken Aug. 17 with 2,434 Canadian casualties.
source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...th=Jul&day=010

1942: General Carl Spaatz becomes the head of the U.S. Air Force in Europe.
source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_h...Day=10&tdih=GO

July 18th, 2008
tomtom22 Chief Engineer Gear	July 10th 1940: Beginning of the Battle of Britain. - The Luftwaffe carries out its first large scale attack (70 aircraft) against targets in Britain by bombing dock facilities at Swansea and the Royal Ordnance Factory at Pembrey in Wales. 1941: In the East, Panzergruppe 1 (von Kleist) repulses a violent Soviet counter-attack in the area of Korosten W of Kiev. The Finnish Karelian Army (Heinrichs) begins an offensive toward Lake Ladoga NE of Leningrad. 1942: In the East, armored units of 4.Panzerarmee (Hoth) and 6.Armee (Paulus) of Heeresgruppe B (von Weichs) join up N of Kalach on the Don, while 17.Armee (Ruoff) and 1.Panzerarmee (von Kleist) of Heeresgruppe A (List) continue their advance toward Rostov. 1943: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, is now fully underway with 12 divisions (160,000 men and 600 tanks) of the US Seventh (Patton) and the British Eighth (Montgomery) Armies being brought ashore by 3,000 landing craft (200 sunk by rough seas) on the southeast coast of Sicily.While the British approaching Syracuse meet with little German resistance, the US forces are held back by strong counter-attacks of the Hermann G=F6ring and the Italian Livorno Divisions. 1944: In the East, the Red Army begins 3 major offensives into the Baltic States: the 2nd Belorussian Front NW from Vitebsk, the 3rd Belorussian Front W from Psovsk, and the Leningrad Front SW toward Narva. source: http://www.feldgrau.com/july.html 1911: Formation of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) - In its original form the Royal Australian Navy consisted of the battlecruiser Australia and several cruisers, destroyers and submarines. When the new fleet arrived in Australia on 4 October 1913 the day was declared a public holiday and was described in the press as the greatest day in Australia's history. 1941: Private J.H. Gordon, VC - Private J.H. Gordon, 2/31st Battalion, originally from Rockingham, Western Australia, wins the Victoria Cross near Jezzine, Lebanon.source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/jul.asp 1965: MiGs shot down as bombing of North Vietnam continues - U.S. planes continue heavy raids in South Vietnam and claim to have killed 580 guerrillas. U.S. Phantom jets, escorting fighter-bombers in a raid on the Yen Sen ammunition depot northwest of Hanoi, engaged North Vietnamese MiG-17s. Capt. Thomas S. Roberts with his backseater Capt. Ronald C. Anderson, and Capt. Kenneth E. Holcombe and his backseater Capt. Arthur C. Clark shot down two MiG-17s with Sidewinder missiles. The action marked the first U.S. Air Force air-to-air victories of the Vietnam War. 1967: Heavy fighting continues near An Loc and the Central Highlands - Outnumbered South Vietnamese troops repel an attack by two battalions of the 141st North Vietnamese Regiment on a military camp five miles east of An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. Communist forces captured a third of the base camp before they were thrown back with the assistance of U.S. and South Vietnamese air and artillery strikes. Farther to the north, U.S. forces suffered heavy casualties in two separate battles in the Central Highlands. In the first action, about 400 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade came under heavy fire from North Vietnamese machine guns and mortars during a sweep of the Dak To area near Kontum. Twenty-six Americans were killed and 49 were wounded. In the second area clash, 35 soldiers of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division were killed and 31 were wounded in fighting. source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do 1934 - USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first visit of U.S. President to South America. 1943 - Naval gunfire help Allied troops land on Sicily. It was first extensive use of LST's and smaller landing craft to deliver heavy equipment over the beach. 1945 - 14 carriers from Third Fleet carriers begin air strikes on Japanese Home Islands which end 15 August. source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesjul.htm 1943: Pachino Italy - In Operation Husky, Canadian 1st Infantry Division and 1st Tank Brigade invade Sicily with British 8th Army, U.S. and French troops; after training for 3 1/2 years in Britain; Sicily taken Aug. 17 with 2,434 Canadian casualties. source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_...th=Jul&day=010 1942: General Carl Spaatz becomes the head of the U.S. Air Force in Europe. source: http://www.historynet.com/today_in_h...Day=10&tdih=GO __________________ "It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle." - Norman Schwarskopf, Commander of Desert Storm Operations