JUNE 2011
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

26

1917 First American combat troops arrive in France

27

1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam

28

1965 LBJ orders US ground forces to Vietnam

29

1970 US/ARVN end offensive into Cambodia

30

1863 Chambersburg: Confederates destroy large stores of whiskey

  

 

JULY 2011
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1

First U.S. ground troops arrive in Korea - 1950

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 2

U.S. signs $2,000/year Gitmo lease
– 1903

 CJ’S KARAOKE
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3

First U.S.-North Korean clash
– 1950

4

INDEPENDENCE DAY

5

Battle of Kursk begins – 1943

 

6

First Naval Air Station established, Annapolis
- 1911

 

7

“Operation Hastings” (Vietnam) begins
 - 1966

8

MacArthur named CinC UN forces in Korea - 1950

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9

U.S. secures Saipan - 1944

 

 

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10

Invasion of Sicily - 1943

11

USAF Academy opens- 1955

12

Russians halt Germans at Kursk
– 1943

MEN’S AUXILIARY BUS MTG - 6:30

13

Anglo-Soviet assistance pact - 1941

14

Supply flight over “The Hump” begin
- 1942

POST HOME COMM MTG – 2

15

Marines land in Lebanon
- 1958

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16

A-Bomb test in New Mexico
- 1945

HARD PLACE AND THE ROCK
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17

2 ammo ships explode in California - 1944

 MOCA #5 – 3 PM

18

 U.S. & French launch Aisné-Marne offensive- 1918

19

Armored cruiser USS San Diego sinks off Fire island
– 1918

 WHEATON RESCUE SQUAD

20

Marines land on Guam
 - 1944

POST BUSINESS MEETING – 7

21

VA established - 1930

 VAVS – 7

22

Patton captures Palermo
- 1943

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23

“Blitz” begins
– 1940

  

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24

Soviets blockade Berlin - 1948

25

Japan agrees to conditional surrender - 1945

26

FDR orders liberation of Phillipines – 1944

LADIES AUXILIARY BUS MTG - 6:30

27

Armistice divides Vietnam – 1954

28

B-25 crashes into Empire State Building
- 1945

29

Berlin airlift ends – 1949

BLOOD DRIVE

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30

WAVES created
- 1942

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31

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed - 1991

 

 

AUGUST 2011
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1

Warsaw uprising
- 1944

2

Iraq invades Kuwait  - 1990

 

3

Germany declares war on France: Britain declares war on Germany - 1914

4

YMCA worker Bernetta Miller hands out cocoa, cake and cigs in trenches during German raid - 1918

5

U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam
- 1964

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6

Hiroshima - 1945

 

 

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7

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution approved  - 1964

8

Alvin York captures “whole damned German Army” - 1918

9

Nixon resigns
- 1974

MEN’S AUXILIARY BUS MTG - 6:30

10

DoD created - 1949

11

Atlantic Charter signed  - 1941

POST HOME COMM MTG – 2

12

Last U.S. ground troops leave Vietnam - 1972

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13

Construction of Berlin Wall begins - 1961

 

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14

 

VJ DAY

15

Gas rationing ends - 1945

16

Zapata & Villa capture Mexico City - 1914

WHEATON RESCUE
SQUAD

17

Korea divided at 38th parallel - 1945

POST BUSINESS MEETING – 7

18

VFW organized - 1913

VAVS – 7

19

Hitler elected Fuhrer
- 1934

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20

Marines land in Beirut - 1982

 

CJ’S KARAOKE
8 to 12

21

Lend-Lease program ends
- 1945

 MOCA #5 – 3 PM

22

Japan annexes Korea - 1910

23

Marseilles liberated  - 1944

LADIES AUXILIARY BUS MTG - 6:30

24

NATO established
- 1949

25

Paris liberated - 1944

26

First televised major league baseball game - 1939

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27

U.S. troops land in Japan - 1945

 


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28

Protestors & police clash in Chicago - 1968

29

15,000 American troops march down Champs Elysees - 1944

30

Nazis begin siege of Leningrad
- 1941

31

Allies begin offensive against Gothic Line in Italy - 1944

 VJ DAY

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