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"No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the minds and the hearts of his men."
In November 1943, Rear Admiral John Hall took command of the 11th Amphibious Force and assumed the responsibility for depositing the Army’s Fifth Corps on the landing site designated as Omaha Beach—nothing less than the most important operation in American history.
Benjamin H. Milligan • By Water Beneath the Walls
John K. Singlaub’s Hazardous Duty (Singlaub 1991).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
The inaugural parade of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group Royal Marines took place on a very cold, bright morning, 13 December 2010, at Stonehouse Barracks in Plymouth. The name 30 Commando was chosen in tribute to the forgotten men of Fleming’s 30 Commando/30 Assault Unit, and the secretary of the 30AU old comrades’ association, Mrs Diann
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Soldiers of the First Battalion of the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry Regiment poured out six at a time with weapons and supplies. Sixteen helicopters ferried hundreds of men from a staging area miles away to this instant base of operations, south of the Ia Drang River and not far from the Cambodian border. They called it LZ X-Ray. The operation in th
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