Al Nofi's CIC
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Issue #81, June 1, 2002 |
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This Issue...
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Infinite Wisdom
"General, these are American regulars. In a hundred and fifty years they have never been beaten. They will hold."
-- | Col. Preston Brown, C/S, 2nd Division, the Marne,
June 1, 1918, replying to French
Gen. Jean DeGoutte�s,
�Can you hold?� |
La Triviata
- On December 6, 1941, when journalist Joseph Harsch asked whether the Japanese might try to bomb Pearl Harbor, Adm. Husband Kimmel, commanding the Pacific Fleet, replied, �I don�t think they�d be such damned fools.�
- Matteo Galasso, the Count of Campo, who commanded Imperial German troops during the Thirty Year�s War, was so inept that his men nicknamed him �Heerverderber � the Army Wrecker.�
- By 1916 nearly a third of all Russian troops were reported to be suffering from venereal diseases.
- What may have been the first use of aerial photography in war seems to have occurred in late 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, when French balloonists several times took pictures of the German lines of investment around Paris
- On September 22, 1742, off Navassa in the West Indies, a struggle to subdue a drunk and disorderly Marine aboard HMS Tilsbury caused a lantern to overturn, which started a fire that destroyed the ship, which went down with heavy loss of life.
- After the meeting between Hajj Amin al-Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Hitler in 1942 � at which the Mufti urged the prompt extension of the "Final Solution" to Palestine � rumors circulated among Islamic radicals that Der F�hrer had become one of the faithful.
- During the 1982 Falklands War, in each of the 23 instances in which British warships or auxiliary vessels were damaged, an average of 5.8 men were killed and 8.3 wounded .
- So many men were overseas during World War I that the birth rate in Britain dropped by about a fifth in 1915-1919.
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