Glosters C Company Position


Gloster's C Company Position
Originally uploaded by Haksaeng

LTC Carne deployed three of his four companies in a line centered on hilltops near the town of Chŏksŏng, with A Company on the left, D Company in the center, B Company on the right, C Company in reserve, and the HQ and C Troop, 170th Mortar Battery in the rear near Solma-ri. Company A until dawn on 23 April turned back repeated Chinese assaults but finally lost the dominant platoon position that anchored the company’s defense when the remaining 58 men no longer could hold it. D Company managed to retain its position, but like A Company, suffered high casualties. The Chinese largely left B Company untouched and it survived the night intact. LTC Carne decided to pull to remains of the forward companies back, the remains of A and D Companies took positions near C Company, and B Company took position just east of C Company.

Continued Chinese pressure on the UN line forced a retreat to the Kansas Line. There were several attempts to push an armor unit up to help relieve the Glosters, but those attempts failed, leaving the Glosters surrounded. The Chinese on the night of 23 April resumed their attack on the Glosters, hitting the British along B and C Company positions, eventually forcing their way to the high ground within C Company’s defensive position. This left the Chinese in a position to threaten the HQ unit, located across the road from C Company (I took this picture from the HQ position) and the small valley where the mortar troop was located. LTC Carne worried that the Chinese would move quickly to exploit their position, so he ordered C Company and the mortar troop to withdraw to positions near the HQ area, near Companies A and D. This left B Company isolated along the right flank, but LTC Carne think it could make its way in the dark to where the rest of the battalion was located without getting scattered so he decided to wait until daybreak to pull B Company back. B Company throughout the night came under assaults from all positions, but managed to hold its ground. When the B Company positions were no longer tenable, they attempted to break out and move to where the rest of the battalion were positioned, but only 20 men managed to make it through the Chinese.

Defending Loomis Heights


Defending Loomis Heights
Originally uploaded by When lost in.....

Bicentennial Memory, Forgotten Mural


Bicentennial Memory, Forgotten Mural
Originally uploaded by rchrdcnnnghm

During the 1976 Bicentennial , Middletown had recently finished a period of urban renewal. A few of the locations of demolished buildings became pocket parks. These parks weer decorated with murals celebrating the bicentennial, the four freedoms etc. Now these murals have all vanished and been painted over except for this one. If I remember my thirteenth summer, this celebrated both freedom of Religion and the diversity of people. I think I remember various religious symbols on the left and the people on the right were of various races and ethnicity. It slowly weathers away. Taken with the phone

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland


Salt Mine - Wieliczka, Małopolska, Poland
Originally uploaded by LeszekZadlo

Goodbye Leningrad on IMAG


Goodbye Leningrad on IMAG
Originally uploaded by flevia

96th Illinois Infantry Monument.....


96th Illinois Infantry Monument.....
Originally uploaded by When lost in.....

The 96th was mustered in on September 6th, 1862 and would spend months involved in many early battles of the war......But avoided all of the hot spots until the Battle of Chickamauga.......

They were sent on the morning of the second day to support positions held by General George H. Thomas......They were there when the early morning Confederate assault struck their position.....This was the scene of some of the most intense fighting of the Civil War.....Before afternoon.......The assault was broken.......But the second Confederate assault that day........Broke the rest of Rosecrans army......And half of the Union army fled to Chattanooga......

That night Thomas and the Illinois troops would would to Rossville.......Where they would fight again the next day.......After which, they would move back to Chattanooga with the rest of the army.....

The 96th lost 220 men that day, including 3 officers (2 other officers were wounded).......More than half their engaged strength fell holding ground those two days.......

They would continue to be involved in all of the battles of the western theater until the end of the war.......But they would never see war quite like they did in the forests of Georgia those two days..

Landing


Landing
Originally uploaded by When lost in.....

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Dreamy
Originally uploaded by When lost in.....

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