Aug. 30: Today in military history

Unto the Breach ^ | Aug. 30, 2018 | Chris Carter

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Today’s post is in honor of Army Staff Sgt. Aaron N. Holleyman. On this day in 2004, an improvised explosive device detonated near Holleyman’s vehicle as it drove through Khutayiah, Iraq, killing the 26-year-old native of Glasgow, Mont. Holleyman served in the 1st Battalion of the 5th Special Forces Group and had served in Iraq in 2003, earning the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He was sent back to the States after being wounded and volunteered to go back to Iraq after his recovery.

1776: After a series of defeats by the British, Gen. George Washington’s Continental Army conducts a strategic withdrawal of Long Island, sneaking 10,000 men and their equipment through British Adm. Richard Howe’s picket force under cover of darkness. [...]

1943: When Marine 1st Lt. Kenneth A. Walsh’s F4U Corsair develops engine trouble in the middle of a vital escort mission in the Solomon Islands, Walsh lands his aircraft at Munda and switches out with another ride, and quickly returns to the air to rendezvous with his package. While enroute, he spots a flight of 50 enemy Zero fighters and despite the incredible 50:1 odds, the Devil Dog attacks. Walsh’s guns send four Japanese fighters down in flames before they knock the lone American out of the sky. Walsh makes a deadstick landing near Vella Lavella and is later recovered.

For his actions, Walsh is awarded the Medal of Honor. He finishes the war with 21 victories.

1958: (Featured image) When China threatens to invade Taiwan, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the Navy’s Seventh Fleet to the strait in addition to sending the Air Force’s Composite Air Strike Force to the island. Secretly,

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Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously wounds Lenin in 1918.

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