#u.s troops

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"Three ships who have contributed much to the history of the sea are seen together at adjoining berths in the Hudson River at New York City, U.S.A., on Nov. 9, 1945. They are left to right: RMS Queen Mary, holder of the Blue Riband of the Atlantic; the USS MISSOURI (BB-63), on whose quarterdeck the Japanese surrender was signed and USS EUROPA (AP-177), former German luxury liner and onetime holder of the Atlantic record now being used as an American troopship."

Date: November 9, 1945

Shared by David Ho.

AP PHOTO: link

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War Department General Order 143 ordering the creation of the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War, May 22, 1863. 

Approximately 178,000 Black men would serve in the Union Army. 

Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office

Series: Orders and Circulars

Transcription: 

GENERAL ORDERS, 

No. 143 

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WAR DEPARTMENT, 

ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, 

Washington, May 22, 1863. 

I.. A Bureau is established in the Adjutant General’s Office for the record of all matters relating to the organization of Colored Troops. An officer will be assigned to the charge of the Bureau, with such number of clerks as may be designated by the Adjutant General. 

II.. Three of more field officers will be detailed as Inspectors to supervise the organization of colored troops at such points as may be indicated by the War Department in the Northern and Western States. 

III.. Boards will be convened at such posts as may be decided upon by the War Department to examine applicants for commissions to command colored troops, who, on application to the Adjutant General, may receive authority to present themselves to the board for examination. 

IV.. No persons shall be allowed to recruit for colored troops except specially authorized by the War Department; and no such authority will be given to persons who have not been examined and passed by a board; nor will such authority be given any one person to raise more than one regiment. 

V.. The reports of Boards will specify the grade of commission for which each candidate is fit, and authority to recruit will be given in accordance. Commissions will be issued from the Adjutant General’s Office when the prescribed number of men is ready for muster into service. 

VI.. Colored troops may be accepted by companies, to be afterwards consolidated in battalions and regiments by the Adjutant General. The regiments will be numbered [italic] seriatim [end italic], in the order in which they are raised, the numbers to be determined by the Adjutant General. They will be designated: “__ Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops.” 

VII. Recruiting stations and depôts will be established by the Adjutant General as circumstances shall require, and officers will be detailed to muster and inspect the troops. 

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VIII.. The non-commissioned officers of colored troops may be selected and appointed from the best men of their number in the usual mode of appointing non-commissioned officers. Meritorious commissioned officers will be entitled to promotion to higher rank if they prove themselves equal to it. 

IX.. All personal applications for appointments in colored regiments, or for information concerning them, must be made to Chief of the Bureau; all written communications should be addressed to the Chief of the Bureau, to the care of the Adjutant General. 

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR: 

E.D. TOWNSEND, 

Assistant Adjutant General. 

[gotankgo]

On this date in 1973.

…and then two years later

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Remember the D-Day invasion: June 1944.

The largest amphibious operation in history involved more than 5,000 ships landing Allied troops on a heavily-defended 50-mile stretch of Normandy coastline, while thousands more took part in an airborne assault.

A major deception operation fooled the Germans into thinking that the landings were a feint, and resistance was light at four out of five landing sites. On the fifth, Omaha Beach, U.S. forces came under heavy fire and 2,000 died as they fought to break out of the beachhead. The Germans failed to organize rapidly to meet the threat. Within a week, the Allies had landed more than 300,000 troops in Normandy.

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Hanukkah, 1944: Anglo-American relations on both sides of the Atlantic

From the Chicago Tribune, December 17th, 1944:

More about Alexander Easterman here.

And meanwhile, from The Jewish Chronicle, January 5th, 1945:

Captain Morton C. Fierman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914. He graduated from what is now Case Western Reserve University in 1935 and received his ordination in 1941 from Hebrew Union College. He briefly served as assistant rabbi at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, in Washington, D.C., before joining up at the end of 1942. He was discharged in 1946. He moved around quite a bit during the immediate post-war years, serving congregations in Missouri, Oklahoma, Arizona, and California before leaving the pulpit for higher education: from 1963 until he retired in 1981 he was a professor of religious studies at California State University Fullerton. He died in 1995.

I haven't been able to learn much about Captain Hirsch E. L. Freund. He was born in Poland in 1898 and came to the U.S. in 1911. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1927 and received his ordination from Hebrew Union College the following year. Prior to his induction in 1942 he served Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and he apparently spent some time in Indiana before that. He was still in the Army in 1946. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he worked for the Synagogue Council of America, and at some point was a chaplain at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, but that's all I know.

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Ukraine Authorized to Use U.S. Long-Range ATACMS Missiles Against Russia

Ukraine Gains Approval to Use U.S. Long-Range Missiles Against Russian Forces A building in Russian-controlled Ukraine, which sustained damage in June from ATACMS missiles, as reported by the Russian Defense Ministry. Credit: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters In a pivotal move, President Biden has granted Ukraine permission to utilize U.S.-supplied long-range missiles for operations within Russian…

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100 U.S. TROOPS TO GO TO ISRAEL TO OPERATE THAAD SYSTEM

In response to escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, the U.S. is deploying about 100 troops to Israel to operate a sophisticated anti-missile defense system. The system is designed to protect Israel from missile threats, particularly from Iran and Iran-backed groups like Hezbollah, which have ramped up activities in the region. This move highlights the deep security partnership between the…

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USS LEVIATHAN (ID-1326) arrives with 8,000 U.S. troops, as she pulled into her dock at New York City. She was the largest transport in American service at the time.

Photographed by Kadel & Herbert.

Date: February 8, 1919

NARA: 26433439

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American Journal Pentagon Sends MORE U.S. Troops To Middle East As Israel Declares ‘State Of Emergency’ & Strikes Lebanon

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Stealing a Heavyweight Champions Girlfriend & a Party with "Ol' Blue Eyes!"

[2024skin]

Propaganda runs so deep people will see each other stripped naked and forced into unsanitary prison spaces and be like "they deserve this because they believe in something I dont"😶

[sayruq]

Biden will direct the U.S. military to undertake the mission alongside allies and humanitarian partners, a senior administration official said. The project will take “a number of weeks to plan and execute” and will involve forces already in the region or that will be there soon. Senior administration officials said the project will not require any U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza. Instead, the plan involves U.S. personnel on military vessels offshore who will not be required to go ashore to install the port. Initial shipments of supplies would come via Cyprus, enabled by the U.S. military and partners. Officials said the U.S. would work with the United Nations and other humanitarian partners to distribute aid across Gaza once it reaches the port.

There are thousands of aid trucks sitting at the Egyptian border that could be allowed in instead of this ridiculous convoluted plan which means

This is an excuse to officially send in US troops into Gaza where they will help the IDF continue their genocide in the name of aiding Palestinians

"The project will take “a number of weeks to plan and execute”" meaning there is no intention of ending the genocide any time soon

The last part is most important and the one that should scare us the most given the already horrific conditions of Northern Gaza