#15th New York National Guard

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Men of the Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry), some of whom had been awarded the Croix de Guerre by France for their courage under fire, on June 11, 1918. 

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs

Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs

File Unit: Colored Troops

Image description: A line of Black soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder in a grassy field. They are wearing World War I U.S. Army uniforms and narrow metal helmets. 

Transcription: 

SUBJECT: 165-WW-127-4 NUMBER EU

165 WW-127 4

Inter. Film Ser. Photographer

Rec'd June 11, 1916  Taken

DESCRIPTION:

NEGRO TROOPS IN FRANCE.

Picture shows a part of the 15th Regt. Inf. N.Y.N.G organized by Col. Haywood, which has been under fire.  Two of the men Privates Johnson and Roberts, displayed exceptional courage while under fire and routed a German Raiding party for which the negroes were decorated with the French Croix de Guerre.  it will be noticed that the men have taken to the French trench helmet instead of the flatter and broader British style.

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The 369th Infantry Regiment, originally formed as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment before being re-organized as the 369th upon federalization and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard during World War I and World War II. The regiment consisted mainly of African Americans, though it also included men from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guyana, Liberia, Portugal, Canada, the West Indies, as well as American white officers. With the 370th Infantry Regiment, it was known for being one of the first African-American regiments to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.

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Harper Valor Hugo

Tw: Abuse

Born: 15th of December 1932

Age: 30 (As of X-men First class)

Nationality: British & American (Dual citizenship)

Gender: Female

Height: 162cm ( 5"4 ft)

Changes her surname back to Shaw after xmen first class

Powers: Absorbing energy & Mind reading

Mutant: Omega Level (Telepathy level more dominant)

Parent(s):  Harriet & Freddie Hugo (Both Deceased) (Her real father Sebastian Shaw, also deceased)

Hair colour: dirty Blonde hair

Eye colour:  blue

Nicknames:  Harpy _________________________________________

Personality:

For being on the run for most of her life, it isn't a surprise she's always on guard and always cautious of people. Especially those who want to help her– Despite that, deep down Harper has a heart of gold, and the will to protect people with her life.

Likes: Playing Chess, reading books, walking in the courtyard, playing the Harp, spending time with the X-men, listening to classical music

Dislikes: Sebastian Shaw, mutants being treated differently, her powers taking control over her

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Backstory:

Harper Hugo was born in 1932, after a difficult labour. Miraculously her mother survived, her mother was always been told Harper was special from a young age. Sebastian was happy to know he had a daughter, always watching her grow, wondering if she'd turn out like him. But the more twisted he grew, her mother ran away with Harper when she was 8 and met Freddie Hugo in 1940.

At the height of the Second World War, Harper & her mother lived in the English countryside when she was 8 years old in 1940. While Freddie was drafted into the war, with the accumulation of stress and being in a new location affected Harper greatly.

Little did she know her powers began to appear. Harper was regularly bullied at school, the stress of her going to school always filled her with anxiety. It was only one day when she was 10.. She began to hear people's voices, their thoughts, feelings... Desires. Their deepest and darkest secrets. And that scared her. It wasn't until she realised at 12 it was all in other people's heads

In 1944 Freddie ran away from the war, making his escape, the family ran away from England and moved to The outskirts of The City New York, to live with Harper's grandparents. Harper was 12 years old at the time

Harper and her family moved and lived near the Xavier family, which her and Charles quickly became good friends, along with Charles' foster sister Raven.

Charles was excited to meet someone else like him and Raven too, which made her feel glad she wasn't alone.

During 1945 when Harper was 13 years old. Harper witnessed her mother harming her Freddie, hitting and punching him, she couldn't remember why. But all she could recall is telling telling mother to stop, and the next thing she remembered both of them were laying on the ground not moving.

Sebastian shaw who had been searching for his daughter endlessly, and now finally found her. Harper was confused as to who he was, due to the sudden appearance of her mutation. It made her past memories a little fuzzy, and made her confused.

With enough convincing, Harper almost went with her father until her grandparents quickly found her, protecting their daughter. Both of then who were mutants, her grandfather had teleprotstion and so he teleported away with Harper and her grandmother fought him off, which by that time Shaw had no choice but to leave.

Harper remained with her grandparents in the county in New York. Which gave Charles and Harper always a chance to each other more.

With both of them having similar powers in terms of mind reading and telepathy, the two found a way to cope together.

But that didn't stop Shaw wanting to be more involved with his daughters life, even if she couldn't fully remember him.

Her grandparents were hard on her, wanting her to excell in school, wanting to be the perfect person as possible. But that also got her resulted into fights at school, where students accused of her hurting them.

(Even if Harper didn't physically harmed them, but with her telepathy powers it was different story)

Her second mutation manifested when Harper was sixteen, at a school project when she was performing a science experiment, the chemicals badly reacted and subconsciously she absorbed the energy. Unable to control it, she destroyed the room.

Accidentally outing herself as a mutant the principal of the school expelled her.

With the results of her powers, Harper got serverly punished. When she opened up about the thoughts she keeps on hearing and everything else, her grandparents called her a "Freak." And scolded her. Threatening her that if she'd mention it again, they'd send her away.

(Despite both of her grandparents being mutants themselves, they were scared of Harper because she was much more powerful than they anticipated. Unfortunately Freddie was the only child of them, not to have mutant powers)

Her teenage years became more increasingly hard, adolescent and with her powers still ever developing. Some accidents happened, ones that were out of her control.

When Harper was 18, Charles had to leave for university, as heartbroken Harper was she knew he had to go. But not until the two shared a sweet tender kiss before he left, and Charles promising that he'd always find her.

Shaw met up with Harper once again to celebrate her 18th birthday with her, and have her a gift that would help her with her energy absorption. After that...

Harper occasionally ran into Sebastian Shaw, he always wanted her to join him because of how special she is. Despite declining hid offer many times, she still didn't know what she wanted out of life. After a mental break down, Harper ran away.

In late 1959, Harper had a second encounter with her father Shaw, now running the hellfire club. Emma Frost regained part of her memory of her childhood years she spent with Shaw, before her mother ran away from her.

Of course Harper managed to escape the Hellfire club somehow still in tact.

In 1962 thanks to Cerebro and Charles heightened senses of mutants, he found Harper in a bar in New York. After much convincing... Harper reunited with Charles Xavier, vividly recalling her scattered memories... Before remembering him from her childhood years so she joined Charles and Erik back at the Xavier mansion.

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You may have seen Anthony Boyle on your screens recently as Harry Crosby in Apple tvs 'Masters of the air' or as Kevin Maxwell in 'Tetris', but where have you probably seen him before?

Before he rose to fame in 2016, he was in an episode of 'Game of thrones' as a Bolton Guard in the episode 'The laws of gods and men'. But he doesnt stay for long as he gets his throat cut.

His rise to fame started in 2016 when he landed the role of Scorpius Malfoy in the play 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' for which he was nominated for an Olivier and won. He went from a small local actor from Belfast to suddenly the main actor in a play that the world couldn't stop talking about. He spent three years running around in a blonde wig at the Palace theatre in London and the Lyric theatre in New York where the play is still shown to this day.

After this, he landed small roles such as David Donnely in 'Derry Girls', a comedy which is set in the town of Derry in Northern Ireland which is his home country. His friend, the writter of the show, approached him and asked him if he wanted to be in the show and he accepted, being in it for two episodes.

In 2018, he was cast as Jack Argyle in the BBC drama 'Ordeal by Innocence' which was written by Agatha Christie. A show about a family of adopted children who must work out who killed their mother, unfortunately, the blame is landed on Anthony Boyle's character.

In the same year, he played Liam Farrell in the drama series 'Come home' where he starred along side Christopher Eccleston. A mother unexpectedly abandons her husband and three children and they try to figure out what may have caused this.

In the year after, he played the role of Geoffrey Bache Smith in the biopic 'Tolkien' about the life of JRR Tolkien. Boyle plays one of thr actors closest friends through their time at school and during the war.

In 2020, he was in 'The plot against American' featuring Wynona Ryder. Based on the 2004 book by the same name, the story follows a Jewish working class family set in an alternate America where they watch popularist Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobe, become President.

In 2021, he played Brian Wood in the true story of 'Danny Boy', a soldier who is accused of war crimes in Iraq.

2022 was a quiet year for Boyle as covid had stopped the production of most tv shows and movies but in 2023, Boyle starred along side Taron Egerton and Toby Jones as Kevin Maxwell in the biopic 'Tetris' which revolves around the game Tetris, its origins and how it became one of the most famous video games in history.

However, in 2024, Boyle seems to have won the lottery with four projects coming out this year already. The first, 'Masters of the air' where he plays an air sick navigator in world war two with Austin Butler. The series which is made by Apple tv is set to be released over two months from January 26th to March 15th.

And if you're not already sick of seeing his face, his new show (surprise surprise, on Apple tv) is set to release on March 15th. Boyle plays the famous actor John Wilkes Booth in 'Manhunt' who assasinated President Lincoln in 1865 and follows the days after this as the nation slides to a halt in the search for the actor.

He is then set to play Jack Barak in the Disney plus show 'Shardlake' which is set on the book by the same name. Set in the reign of King Henry VIII in the 16th century, Boyle plays former Cromwell henchman turned law clerk and investigator for the main character.

Boyle is also set to feature in the New York times best seller book adaptation say nothing which is about the struggles and troubkes in northern ireland which comes out this summer.

These are just some of the many tv shows, movies and theatre shows that Anthony Boyle has and will star in. When he was just starting out acting, he said that he would take any role that fit his description (white male with dark brown hair) meaning he was in alot of embarassing but funny stuff. One where he dresses up as a mummy for halloween and must escape a group of killer clowns, one where he plays a man who is inlove with a pillow and one where he plays a convict on the run in Northern Ireland and has to wear a dress and a wig to escape authorities. However, if you lived in Belfast in the late 2000s, you could probably see him lurking behind big Tescos with a plastic bag on his head.

It seems that Boyle is turning out to be a very promising actor with lots of work lined up. Infact, he is set to record a new show which is set in Scotland. He said on the British talk show 'Sunday Brunch' that he is looking forward to it and has to talk in a Scottish accent.

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The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the NYNG during WWI and WWII. The Regiment consisted mainly of African Americans, though it included several Puerto Rican Americans during WWII. With the 370th Infantry Regiment, it was known for being one of the first African American regiments to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces during WWI. Before the 15th NG Regiment was formed, any African American who wanted to fight in the war had to enlist in the French or Canadian armies.

The regiment was nicknamed the Black Rattlers. The nickname Men of Bronze was given to the regiment by the French and Hell-fighters was given to them by the Germans. During WWI, the 369th spent 191 days in frontline trenches, more than any other American unit. They suffered the most losses of any American regiment with 1,500 casualties.

On October 5, 1917, Emmett Jay Scott, long-time secretary to Booker T. Washington, was appointed Special Assistant to Newton D. Baker, the Secretary of War. He was to serve as a confidential advisor in situations that involved the well-being of ten million African Americans and their roles in the war. While many African Americans who served in the Great War believed racial discrimination would dissipate once they returned home, that did not happen. Racism after WWI was probably at its worst until the start of WWII. So with this white discrimination of African American soldiers, these troops were often sent to Europe where they were used to fill vacancies in the French armies. Unlike the British, the French held high opinions of black soldiers, which made for a more positive environment when working together. Ironically this made African American troops more passionate about fighting for the French Army. This newly created patriotism by African Americans then led to the creation of the 369th Infantry Regiment. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY 365: HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS

#blackhistory #africanamericanhistory #celebratingblackhistorymonth365

The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard during World War I and World War II. The Regiment consisted mainly of African Americans, though it also included a number of Puerto Rican Americans during World War II. It was known for being the first African American regiment to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. Before the 15th New York National Guard Regiment was formed, any African American that wanted to fight in the war had to enlist in the French or Canadian armies.[2] The regiment was nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters, the Black Rattlers, and the Men of Bronze, which was given to the regiment by the French.[3] The nickname "Hell Fighters" was given to them by the Germans due to their toughness and that they never lost a man through capture, lost a trench or a foot of ground to the enemy.]

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General DeWitt Shy Spain Airport - Memphis, Tennessee

2787 North 2nd Street

Taken directly from Wikipedia with only slight modifications.

General DeWitt Spain Airport began as an idea in 1928 when the Memphis Chamber of Commerce Engineering Committee suggested turning Mud Island into Memphis' Airport. They decided against that location for a main airport and moved Memphis International Airport to its current location in South Memphis. However, the idea apparently did not fade.

In 1959, Memphis Downtown Airport was put into service about where Mud Island Park is today to service the general aviation community. It had the slogan: "You're strictly uptown when you land downtown." A ferry boat took travelers from the Island to the cobblestones, and then it was just a short walk to the offices of Memphis' city center. Private pilots who worked downtown and business travelers had the perfect arrangement. By 1961, 30 planes were landing per day, according to newspaper reports.

*I think this sounds like a lovely way to travel. Memphis International Airport is a sprawling 1960's design monstrosity. I personally would not cry if they tore it down and started over. *

By the mid-1960s, Interstate 40 was scheduled to cross the Island. Airport owners fought the I-40 Bridge, but in August, 1970, the last plane departed the island airport. *I-40 runs from East to West coast across America. The only leg not completed is in Memphis. The planners wanted to run the interstate through the Memphis Zoo, located in Overton Park. The city sued and after a long court battle finally won. As it turns out the I-40 bridge only obstructs a small portion of Mud Island but it would have interfered with airplane traffic*. Quickly the airport authority purchased available land just to the north of the island so downtown commuters could once again have their landing strip back. The following May, Memphis Downtown Airport was replaced by General DeWitt Spain Airport, honoring local war hero General DeWitt Spain who died in 1969. It has been and still is an active general aviation airport.

*This is a cute epilog, the only crash at the airport was a drone.*

On April 11, 2016, General Dewitt Spain Airport suffered its first accident of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle after a Phantom Quadcopter impacted the side of a hangar. No fatalities were reported. The Quadcopter was unregistered and unable to be traced to the operator.

*I found this information on General Spain from his obituary. I've lived in West Tennessee all my life and had no idea who he was. He died in 1969 in Maryland; I was almost 8 so it wouldn't have made my young self's radar. He sounds like quite a guy.*

Dewitt Shy Spain

BIRTH 24 Apr 1919

DEATH 28 Apr 1969 (aged 50) BURIAL Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia

Evening Star, April 29, 1969 Page 20

Brig. Gen. DeWitt S. Spain, 50, deputy chief of staff for plans at the Tactical Air Command Headquarters, Langley Air Force Base, died of cancer yesterday at the Andrews Air Force Base hospital. He was born in Memphis, Tenn., and attended Southwestern University there (now known as Rhodes College) and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

In 1940 he became an aviation cadet and was commissioned a second lieutenant in May of 1941. For four years during World War II he was active in the Asiatic-Pacific theater, finishing as commander of the 15th fighter group.

After the war he was discharged from active duty and returned to Memphis, where he participated in the air National Guard and air reserve programs. Returning to active duty in 1950, he became director of combat operations of the 26th Air Defense Division in New York. *Memphis is a large distribution hub, being situated on the Mississippi River in a middle of the country location. The military also found the city to be a good location for the Naval Air Station in Millington and a large Air National base where the Memphis Belle airplane was on display for many decades.*

Upon graduation in 1961 from the Industrial College of Armed Forces at Fort McNair, Gen. Spain was assigned for a year to the Pentagon's deputy chief of the Air Defense Division, followed by two years on the Pentagon's national Security Council. Assigned in 1963 the USAF headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, he served as director of operations and training, until 1966, when he assumed his Langley post, he was attached to the 10th tactical reconnaissance wing of the Royal Air Force at Alcan Barry England.

His decorations include the Legion of Merit with Oak leaf cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, and a commendation ribbon.

He leaves his wife Joan of Hampton Virginia and a daughter Mrs. James Romanchk of Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. Services will be held at 3 PM Thursday at Fort Myer Chapel followed by burial with full military honors in Arlington Cemetery. The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of donations the American Cancer Society.

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The Booker T. Washington thesis of civil rights received its bluntest test in WWI. It failed:

The measure of the reality for Black soldiers in WWI is that General Pershing nearly missed active combat in the war in the belief that US officers should command US troops....except for the troops of USCT raised in the war. THESE he sent to the French Army, where they were fighting from 1917 onward and in the end ultimately fought harder and better than their counterparts in the AEF, whose conduct in the Meuse-Argonne was a fine exemplar of 1914 warfare.

Black soldiers put their lives on the line, and the effort in the end failed to move white Americans, who unleashed one of the most savage years of racial brutality ever conducted in the United States, the Red Summer of 1919.

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Long Tan Day (Australia)

Mail Order Catalog Day

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[sonofcoulson]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., series 3

Episode 1

"Mystique":

The events of X-Men: First Class have made the world aware of and scared of mutants.

This coupled with the racist backlash against the now off-world Blue Marvel allows Henry Peter Gyrich to convince the President to let him run Project:Wideawake in early 1970. This is a top-secret government initiative with full and plausible deniability seeking to control, imprison or execute mutants before they become a threat.

Tension is high in American society too. Known mutants are treated poorly and abused in work, in school and on the streets.

The next scene is set on the 15th of July 1970. As a reaction to the disappearance of several mutants and discrimination against them in public, a mutant rights March is in progress in Dallas, Texas.

We don't see any mutants we know, but there are a few dozen.

Human onlookers start to bait them, scuffles break out, police try to stop them, some police exacerbate the situation. We switch to the park. Again, we don't see anyone we know but there are worried citizens listening to the commotion. Gunshots are fired.

A fiery ball of light begins to build up over the city. We cut the picture to black but keep the audio running until we hear the explosion and immediate aftermath.

These two scenes are brief.

We then cut to a few months later with Magneto receiving a distress call from Mystique. He is not happy that she has found him, as this means the government can find him too. She says she has no one else to turn to. Charles is falling apart after losing his ability to walk, being betrayed by his best friend, losing his fiancée (Moira) and most of his young charges being drafted for the war. The Brotherhood is gone and everyone else is dead, drafted or after her. He reluctantly agrees and clandestinely goes to her location, a nearby dive bar. When he meets her, she charms him into momentarily letting his guard down. She immediately clamps a hidden power dampening collar on him. A squad of government enforcement agents with plastic rifles and rubber bullets cram into the bar followed by Dr Valerie Cooper.

Mystique: Is that it? Are we finished?

Cooper: You apprehended the most dangerous mutant on the planet without bloodshed…you are an asset to the team...

I will talk to him.

Erik Lehnsherr, I am arresting you for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy…

Magneto (while Cooper continues): Why did you betray me?

Mystique (quietly): Erik, everything I said is true. You will be much safer where you're going.

Cut to Peggy in discussion with her team, which now consists of:

Howard Stark - R&D (and science)

Hank Pym - science (and R&D)

Jacqueline Falsworth - demolition, espionage 

Brian Falsworth - combat, espionage 

James Braddock - pilot, combat, espionage

Having first been made aware of mutants through their battles with Fenris, Xavier's X-Gene theory and the events of First Class, S.H.I.E.L.D. are deeply concerned about the prevailing attitude towards mutants and the events of 7/15.

They are urged to look into the disappearance of Evangeline Whedon, a noted human rights lawyer who is secretly a mutant. She had been working for the U.N. when she vanished. The urging came from Moira MacTaggert who has seen a number of her mutant contacts disappear.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. team head to the U.N. building in New York. They are interviewing building staff and diplomats and investigating Whedon's office. Stark and Pym have found singed carpet fibres in an otherwise immaculate office. The interviewees remember Whedon arriving that day but no one saw her leave.

Suddenly Valerie Cooper marches in with her men, and demands to know what they think they're doing. They explain who they are and why they're there. She tells them that the matter they are investigating is a matter of national security and is highly classified. Jacqui asks if that means they knew where Whedon was. Cooper repeats that it is highly classified and forces them to halt their investigation. Braddock goes to call Peggy. Stark and Pym get in an argument with Cooper's men who are trying to confiscate their gathered evidence and equipment. Forge, all suited and booted, tries to reach a compromise where the evidence is confiscated but not the equipment. Cooper is not keen.

In all the commotion, Jacqui is pulled aside by a diplomat and is told that he saw Whedon being taken away by Cooper and her team. Jacqui tries to encourage them to come forward but they are very reluctant and manage to break away and go round a corner. When Jacqui catches up there is only a young woman coming towards her.

Jacqui (to woman): Have you seen a gentleman come this way? Older gentleman, grey hair?

Woman (pointing to the stairwell): Oh, I saw a man duck through those doors there.

Jacqui (hurrying to the doors): Thank you Miss…?

Woman (calling after her): Darkhölme, Doctor Darkhölme.

Raven smiles to herself and goes to join Forge and Cooper.

The next day, Peggy is in a debrief with the team as Val is with hers.

We switch between them:

Peggy wants to know what happened to the mystery diplomat. Jacqui is still surprised that he was sprightly enough to get away from her.

******

Val, meanwhile, is telling off Forge for undermining her while she was trying to control the situation. Forge insists he was trying to calm things down so that they could get what they needed and leave without conflict. Val snaps that he shouldn't back down to a rival agency when there's so much at stake.

*****

Howard informs the team that the singed carpet fibres did not match the carpet in the office (he knows as the analysing machine had already finished before the samples were confiscated). And Brian had informally charmed Whedon's secretary and she confirmed that the office had been completely redecorated the day she disappeared.

*****

Forge: Would it be so bad if S.H.I.E.L.D. found out? We could cooperate, share resources…

Val: No. We cannot risk Project:Wideawake becoming public knowledge. When we have the situation under control…we can talk again.

Irene Adler: Miss Whedon, you have been very quiet. It is you they're looking for after all.

Evangaline (now revealed as part of Val's team): Val, you know my feelings on the matter. I'd much rather go home.

Val: NO! You cannot go home. Not until we have-

Raven (interrupting): When will that be!

(Meeting descends into chaos)

*****

Peggy wonders if anybody found out what agency they were with, as they didn't show their badges. James believes, from their uniforms, that they were CIA. Peggy resolves to talk to President Nixon about it.

Pym is irate that his technology nearly fell into the CIA's hands. “Your technology?” queries Howard. They bicker over whose technology it is. (Meeting descends into chaos)

*****

A man wearing a dark green suit and glasses, and sporting a crop of bright orange hair enters the fray.

It is Henry Peter Gyrich.

Gyrich: Enough! Agent Cooper answers to me and my answer is also no! No one is going home, we are not cooperating with anyone and we will deal with S.H.I.E.L.D. when the time comes.

Now, more importantly, you have your new target.

Raven: Magneto wasn't enough?

Gyrich: Oh Magneto was just the beginning…

*****

Peggy: Moira MacTaggert has had a tip off about another target. We believe this man, known as Azazel, is next. He is known to S.H.I.E.L.D. from an attack on one of our U.S. bases in ‘62. Very dangerous, killed several agents. Also believed to have been part of a mutant terrorist organisation known as the Brotherhood. Believed to be hiding in Germany.

Howard (looking at his photograph on the projector screen): Shouldn't be too hard to spot.

*****

Gyrich dismisses everyone and reminds them that they will receive their assignments from Agent Cooper separately from now on and that information will be given on a need to know basis only, no more leaks! And vows that they will find the traitor, with warnings of dire consequences for them. Dr. Darkhölme does not leave and sits staring at the image on the projector screen.

Val: Dr. Darkhölme, is there a problem?

Raven: I thought, as Miss Whedon is staying on base, I could complete her profile. I haven't had a chance to speak to her yet.

V (crouching next to Raven's seat, speaking quietly): I know you were once…close…with Azazel. But he's one of our most wanted. Very dangerous. And we can't bring him in without you.

R (also softly, looking down): I can't. 

V: The deal was for the Brotherhood. All of them. You know this. So if you want that pardon…

Gyrich (noticing the furtive conversation): Problem, Darkhölme? 

R (standing): No problem.

(Shoots Val a dirty look before she leaves)

Flashback to around a year earlier. We see Raven in an off the book, makeshift maternity suite. She is close to giving birth. The ‘doctor’ has the ‘nurse’ mop their brow. The medical team look nervous. An anxious Azazel paces the room.

Azazel: Is there a problem with the delivery?

‘Doctor’ (sweating and shifty): No, no problem.

A (to Raven): I don't like this, we're too exposed.

Raven (tersely): Where would you have me do this? Mm? On the stained linoleum floor of that crappy ‘safehouse’ apartment? The neighbours would have heard me screaming and called 911 on us.

A: This doctor seems nervous. What school did you say you graduated from anyway?

‘Doctor’ (shakily): I've been very honest with you. I told you I dropped out of medical school, but I can deliver babies. I've done it successfully 14 times.

A: How many times have you done it unsuccessfully?

R: Have you considered they may be nervous because there's a man who looks like a demon angrily questioning their credentials?

A: …

R: What normal hospital would let you stalk around the delivery room? I told you to disappear before we got here…

A: No way. I'm not leaving you. Not here with these Sapiens.

R: …and it's not like Eric gives us health insurance. I should never have reached out to you in the first place.

There is a disturbance down the hallway. Raven tells Azazel to go as she can pass as a Sapien but he obviously can't. He wants to take her but she doesn't want to risk teleportation with a baby still inside her.

He bampfs away just as Val Cooper and her agents burst into the room despite the protestations of the staff.

Val (brushing off a ‘nurse’): May I remind you that the only reason you aren't all being arrested for running an illegal maternity hospital is the information we were given.

I am pleased the information was good. But where is the demon?

‘Doctor’ (sheepishly): He left.

Raven (glaring at the doctor as she is cuffed and has a power dampening collar fitted): Azazel was right. It was you.

‘Doctor’ (sighs): Yes. They offered me a medical license and funding for a legitimate community clinic.

V: Do remember, there are to be no more mutants here. That was the deal.

‘Doctor’: Do remember that we are delivering a baby here! You were supposed to wait outside.

V: We couldn't risk an escape…do what you need to do. 

The staff, trying to ignore the armed agents, and Raven successfully deliver the baby. The baby is blue, marked from birth as a mutant. Cooper offers to take care of the baby. Raven is having none of it and calls for Azazel. He bampfs in and grabs the baby, he tries to get to Raven but is met with lots of gun barrels pointing at him.

Kayla, a nurse, grabs Cooper by the back of the neck and tells her to point her own gun against her head. She is compelled to do so by Kayla's touch as she is a mutant too.

As Azael reaches out for Raven an agent sneaks up behind Kayla and snaps a collar on her. Cooper is released and lowers her weapon. In the confusion Raven screams at Azazel to leave with the baby. Reluctantly he does so.

Raven (both devastated and furious): You are lucky I still need medical treatment,  otherwise I would have wiped the floor with your agents and dived through the window. 

Val (to Raven): We'll make sure you get the care that you need.

Val (to ‘Doctor’): Any other mutants in here I should know about?

Our deal is now off, by the way.

Val (to agents): This nurse may be of interest to Stryker. Take them away.

[sandyhookhistory]

~ William Alexander ~

We have a belated #harbordefensehappybirthday to celebrate!

Today, we honor Continental (U.S.) Army Major General William Alexander, Lord Stirling who was born (most likely) on (Wed) December 4th, 1726 in New York City.

By all accounts, he was quite intelligent and well educated. He was the son of Scottish immigrants who fled Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion. There was ancestral royal blood in the family, and he sought and held a highly controversial title of Lord Stirling. He lived a life befitting the title - and racked up the bill to go with it. Living in New Jersey and deeply in debt by the time the Revolutionary War broke out, the conflict provided a timely interruption to offload his monetary problems.

He became a Colonel in the New Jersey Militia, using his personal funds to outfit the 1st NJ Regiment; he was promoted to Brigadier General in March, 1776.

At the Battle of Long Island in August, the Patriots were quickly outflanked by the Redcoats. Seeing the disaster unfold, Stirling organized troops from Maryland into a well-executed, collapsing rear-guard action that allowed the majority of the American Army to escape. Scattering his men at the very end, he himself remained to be captured. The action was so successful, even the British acknowledged his gallantry.

Released in a prisoner exchange, Stirling was decisively engaged at Trenton that December. He was defeated at Short Hills, NJ in June of 1777, but won at Brandywine and Germantown, both in Pennsylvania. That winter, by accident, he was able to expose, and stop, a planned coup by General Horatio Gates to take command from George Washington. He’s forever part of New Jersey’s legacy for his part in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse on June 28th, 1778. The fight was savage and he took heavy casualties, but his troops held their ground.

By 1781, Stirling was assigned to command the forces in the northern frontier as the Continentals moved south to Yorktown. With the war all but over, Stirling, in poor health, died on active duty on January 15th, 1783, age 56. He was buried in famed Trinity Church in New York City.

However, his legacy of service would not be allowed to end there. With War Department General Order No. 194 on December 27th, 1904, he became the namesake to “Battery Alexander,” a two-gun 12-inch caliber disappearing battery at Fort Hancock, NJ. Construction began in 1898, and it was accelerated for the outbreak of the Spanish American War. Completion and transfer to the Coast Artillery was in July, 1899.

Battery Alexander is unique, as it is the two northern emplacements of what is called “9-Gun Battery” at Ft. Hancock. A total of six 12-inch guns and three 10-inch guns were emplaced there between 1896 and 1902. Battery Alexander’s guns face due north, and cover the west into Sandy Hook and Raritan Bay, as well as the approaches to the harbor from the southeast. The Battery enjoyed an exceptionally long service life of 43 years. The guns were finally salvaged for a scrap drive in early 1943. During the Cold War, the vacant emplacement was used as ammunition storage for 90-mm Anti-Aircraft guns until the Nike missiles came online in 1954.

Today, the Battery is in poor shape, with trees and vegetation growing through the concrete. The National Park Service has classified Battery Alexander as a “ruin,” meaning it will never, ever be restored or even preserved.

Although the emplacement may be vanishing, the incredible legacy of General William Alexander, Lord Stirling, the Battery that carries his name, and the service of the US Army Coast Artillerymen that manned it across four decades is in the safest of hands, here.

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TRIVIA TUESDAY - HARLEM "HELLFIGHTERS" IN THE MEUSE-ARGONNE - #WWI From Harlem streets and other New York City neighborhoods they came, members of the only U.S. unit to get "over there" with their old State name -- the 15th New York. These black Soldiers soon found themselves with a new name, the 369th Infantry Regiment. Many months after their arrival in the war zone the 369th Infantry, as part of the French Army’s 161st Division, marched toward a date with destiny in the Meuse-Argonne offensive. On a fateful day, September 29, a regimental historian would later remember, "the day dawned clear and cool. There was expectancy in the air." A fierce artillery barrage preceded the attack by the 369th, nicknamed "Hell Fighters" by the enemy. After a brutal struggle during which heavy casualties were sustained Sechault was taken and the 369th soldiers dug in to consolidate their advance position. The action depicted earned the Croix de Guerre for the entire regiment. But the Meuse-Argonne claimed nearly one-third of these black fighting men as battle casualties. This distinguished National Guard Regiment left its proud mark on the AEF as "the regiment that never lost a man captured, a trench or a foot of ground..." Today’s 369th Transportation Battalion, New York Army National Guard, carries on the traditions of the gallant "Hell Fighters" of yesterday. #Armyhistory #USArmy #TRADOC #MilitaryHistory #WW1 #WW1History #WesternFront #TheGreatWar #Doughboy #HarlemHellfighters #AfricanAmericanHistory Posted @withrepost • @armyhistory #blackhistorymonth (at Collinwood High School) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoXQJUkOAKR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[onenettvchannel]

THIS JUST IN OVERNIGHT: The Owl House releases a Sneak Preview at the NYCC 2022 for a Final 3rd Season [#OneNETnewsEXCLUSIVE]

GRAVESFIELD, CONNECTICUT -- The faces of voice actor and actresses including a show creator (Dana Terrace) had now been shown a sneak preview at the New York Comic Convention 2022 (NYCC) in Manhattan, New York, United States of America (U.S.A.) where the show panel started last Thursday afternoon at 3pm (October 6th, 2022 - Eastern local time) and it was located at the Room 405 in Javits Convention Center. This was after a follow-up for a severe cliffhanger per 2nd season finale before it reaches a final 3rd season.

OneNETnews can exclusively reveal the situation as one smartphone video obtained by Poo Master showing the first 6-minute episode in a sneak preview of "Thanks to Them". Based from the said smartphone video, it was absolutely stunning where the audiences have fully paid to watch. Here's a rundown of it.

Luz Noceda, few of the Hexside students and a part-time Golden Guard nephew named Hunter Wittebane, who was escaping earlier than a committed murder suspect of Empr. Philip "Belos" Wittebane -- returns home safely via a portal door in Gravesfield, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Noceda greets her and tearfully states that she's back from the other dimensional world of Summer Camp, rather than a middle school field trip at the Gravesfield Middle School (GMS) where she can disliked for some reason due to her own personal fandom of Azura. Luz Noceda's mother named Camilia discusses about a true story and a hot issue of Empr. Belos after he was defeated overnight from a child villain kid known as The Collector. Hexside students told everything to the public.

Meanwhile, Noceda shows a family photo like a museum at the top left after her father dies before the said show. Her part-time impersonator named Vee, just before Episode 1 started and was explicitly trespassed & pretended to be Luz Noceda in disguise across the Gravesfield area. She knows all the truth in Demon Realm of Bonesborough where Noceda left off temporarily in a corrupted portal.

The next morning, Noceda and friends have now plans to renovate a portal house and other things in life. Lumity Studios, who were owned and managed by an honest lesbian couple (Amity Blight) shows the best highlights between Seasons 1 and 2 using the final version of Windows Movie Maker via Microsoft Surface laptop per exclusively obtained from our news team -- under the operating system of Windows 10 or lower. All of the Hexside friends showing off a total fashionable makeover to buy new clothes altogether here at the Human Realm of Connecticut.

Willow Park checks in the bathroom and was traumatized to see Empr. Belos on mirror. Hunter was now decided to have a personal haircut to change his own look while trimming the hair with his girlfriend of assistance like a barber individual. By late afternoon, a failed attempt to return home from Connecticut to Bonesborough at the Demon Realm.

And finally, instead of hot rainfall weather... The actual earth rainfall is safe to play. The Lumity couple kisses the second time under the rain clouds but, not at this moment for now. Noceda restricts her own magic from the Demon Realm and heads back to school for this year's Halloween at the GMS.

For now, 3 new special episodes is on its way for next weekend with 44-minutes of televised runtime. The other 2 will premiere next year in 2023 as PopVerse and Polygon reported. Streaming and convention fans are excited to tune in on national TV and streaming online.

The magical journey begins for a final 3rd Season of The Owl House premieres October 15th, 2022 at 9pm EST / 9am in Manila (next day on Sunday) / 8pm CST. LIVE and EXCLUSIVE on Disney Channel & Disney XD in America. Catch-up is available for Season 1 & 2 on Disney+.

CONTRIBUTED WALLPAPER PHOTO COURTESY: OwlPhibia via Twitter Image

SOURCE: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93KsViU0-tw [Referenced YT Video from the Poo Master] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5hgbH9hJY [Referenced YT Video #1 from Disney Channel] *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwjqRIZMJg [Referenced YT Video #2f from Disney Channel] *http://thefutoncritic.com/listings/20220921disney20/ *https://twitter.com/DisneyTVA/status/1578022269536067586 [Referenced Tweeted Image #1 from the DisneyTVA] *https:/www.thepopverse.com/watch-the-owl-house-panel-at-nycc-22-with-dana-terrace [Referenced Mini News Article from the Popverse] *https://www.polygon.com/nycc/23391072/nycc-the-owl-house-panel-exclusive-clip [Referenced News Article from Polygon] and *https://twitter.com/OwlPhibia/status/1570139628774236160 [Referenced Tweeted Image #2f from the DisneyTVA]

-- OneNETnews Team

[jerseycrownstriderofnewark]

The Harlem HellFighters

The 369th Infantry Regiment, originally formed as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment before being re-organized as the 369th upon federalization and commonly referred to as the Harlem Hellfighters, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard during World War I and World War II. The regiment consisted mainly of African Americans, though it also included men from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guyana, Liberia, Portugal, Canada, the West Indies, as well as American white officers. With the 369th Infantry Regiment, it was known for being one of the first African-American regiments to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I

The regiment was named the Black Rattlers after arriving in France by its commander COL William Hayward. The nickname Men of Bronze (French: Hommes de Bronze) was given to the regiment by the French after they had witnessed the gallantry of the Americans fighting in the trenches. Legend has it that they were called the Hellfighters (German: Höllenkämpfer) by the German enemy, although there is no documentation of this and the moniker may have been a creation of the American press During World War I, the 369th spent 191 days in frontline trenches, more than any other American unit. They also suffered the most losses of any American regiment, with 1,500 casualties.The regiment was also the first of the Allied forces to cross the Rhine into Germany.✊🏿💚💛❤️🖤

[lboogie1906]

Second Lieutenant Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was a jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along and its hit song “I’m Just Wild About Harry”.

He sang in church choirs and as a soloist with his high school’s glee club in Cleveland. He attended De Pauw University on scholarship and transferred to Butler University before turning to music full-time.

He joined one of the society orchestras organized by James Reese Europe in New York. He persuaded Europe to hire his friend, pianist, and composer Eubie Blake and helped Europe organize a regimental band for the 15th Infantry Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard. This would become the New York 369th Infantry “Harlem Hell Fighters” Regiment that served nobly in France in WWI, with Europe as a lieutenant and he as his sergeant and lead vocalist. Unlike most military bands it played syncopated music and was credited with introducing jazz to France. He left the army after the war as a second lieutenant with the 370th Infantry Regiment and joined Europe’s civilian version of the 369th band.

He began recording for the Pathe label and sang several vocals on Pathe discs recorded by Europe’s 369th Infantry Band after it had become a civilian band.

He and his band appear in a British Pathétone Weekly filmed at Ciro’s nightclub in London, performing Walter Donaldson’s “Little White Lies” and “Happy Feet”. He appeared with Nina Mae McKinney, the Nicholas Brothers, and Eubie Blake in Pie, Pie Blackbird, a Vitaphone short released by Warner Brothers. He accompanied Adelaide Hall on piano at the prestigious Palace Theatre in New York during her world tour.

New York radio station WMGM signed him as a disc jockey. His show featured the music of African-American recording artists. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha