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Feb 16

16 FEB 1945 - SECOND BATTLE OF CORREGIDOR - #WWII

After powerful air and naval preparatory bombardments, XI Corps launched a coordinated airborne and amphibious invasion of the strategic rock fortress of Corregidor.

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One battalion of the 503d Parachute Regimental Combat Team jumped in on the western portion of the island, followed by an amphibious assault by 3d Battalion of the 34th Regimental Combat Team (RCT), 24th Infantry Division, on San Jose beach southwest of Malinta Hill.

Another battalion of paratroopers dropped later that afternoon. The 503d PRCT and 3d Battalion, 34th RCT quickly joined forces to eliminate the main system of cave and tunnel defenses running through the Malinta Hill district.

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Feb 16

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16 FEBRUARY 1862 - CAPTURE OF FORT DONELSON #CivilWar

The joint Army-Navy operation in the Henry and Donelson Campaign of 6-16 February 1862 achieved a strategic penetration of Confederate defenses.

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Fort Henry on the Tennessee and Fort Donelson on the Cumberland Rivers protected the enemy's rail line of communication in northern Tennessee. Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote's gunboat flotilla transported Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant's U.S. Army troops up the Tennessee River.

The soldiers landed and marched overland to occupy Fort Henry after it surrendered following a heavy naval bombardment. Before he capitulated, the enemy commander sent most of the garrison to Fort Donelson, ten miles away, while the rest of their army retreated toward Nashville.

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Feb 16

SOLDIER PROFILE – SERGEANT WILLIAM CARNEY, MEDAL OF HONOR RECIPIENT

One of 18 Black Civil War soldiers to earn the Medal of Honor, SGT Carney was an ex-slave who fought for the cause of liberty as part of the famous 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
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Born a slave in Virginia, Carney liberated himself and settled in Massachusetts, where he joined the 54th in 1863. He earned the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Second Battle of Ft. Wagner, where the 54th heroically assaulted enemy fortifications against huge odds. @USArmy

As the 54th charged across open ground towards Ft. Wagner, several of the 54th’s color bearers fell in quick succession under withering fire. Despite having been wounded, Carney saw the flag begin to fall and threw away his rifle, seizing the colors and holding them aloft.

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Feb 7

UNIT PROFILE – 54TH MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT

The Emancipation Proclamation’s promulgation in 1863 opened the Union Army’s ranks to Black soldiers for the first time, allowing Black Americans to fight for the Union’s preservation and the end of slavery.

The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was among the first all-Black units to be stood up. Led by COL Robert Gould Shaw (scion of a prominent abolitionist family) and promoted by prominent figures like Frederick Douglass, the 54th was flooded with recruits.

Despite Confederate promises to punish captured Black soldiers and their white officers with summary execution for promoting “servile insurrection,” the 54th marched to war in high spirits, leaving Boston on 28 MAY.
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Feb 6

MUSEUM MONDAY - CHAPLAIN CORPS MUSEUM

As we commemorate the sinking of the USAT Dorchester this week and the Four Chaplains who helped save 250 lives let's take a look at the Army's Chaplain Museum at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

THE ONLY MUSEUM IN THE WORLD DEDICATED TO PRESERVING AND SHARING THE HISTORY OF THE U.S. ARMY CHAPLAIN CORPS.

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Always present with Soldiers in war and in peace, the Chaplain Corps provides religious support to America’s Army. That story is told at the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps Museum.

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Feb 5

5 FEBRUARY 1945 - DRIVE ON THE ROER DAMS BEGINS #WWII
After winning the Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Army began advancing towards Germany across several of region’s major rivers, most of which had dams that needed to be captured to prevent the enemy from causing major flooding.

LTG William Simpon’s 9th Army planned Operation GRENADE to cross the Roer River and link up with Allied forces advancing from Holland, while LTG Courtney Hodges’ 1st Army used the 78th ID to secure the Schwammenauel Dam, supported by elements of the 82d ABD and the 7th AD.

Jumping off early in the morning of 5 FEB, American soldiers attacked into the Hurtgen Forest for the first time since DEC 1944. Although its progress was hampered by rough terrain and dense forests, the 78th Division made steady, if slow, progress.
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