The hard-fought battle was a solid American victory.
Here s What You Need to Know: A scratch force of an American armored division held a German panzer division at bay north of Bastogne during World War II.
It was December 19, 1944, one day before the Siege of Bastogne. Shortly after 10:30 am, 26-year-old Major William Desobry picked up his field telephone, called his combat commander, Colonel William Roberts, and asked if he could withdraw from the Belgian village of Noville. Desobry had been holding off the entire German 2nd Panzer Division some 16,000-men with more than 120 tanks and assault guns for the last six hours with only 400 men and a handful of tanks and tank destroyers.
A WOMAN from Bolton who played a vital role for the Americans in the Second World War has died at the age of 97 after suffering with coronavirus. Renee Dubois, from Daubhill, was a member of the popular Bolton dance troupe, the Dinky Dots, and her mum, Anne, and dad, Jack, ran The Oddfellows Arms pub for around 40 years. Renee went on to become a young stenographer at Bushy Park for General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who planned the D-Day landings from Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. She remembered walking to the War Office past Downing Street, and seeing Prime Minister Winston Churchill most mornings, when he would give her and her friends a cheery wave.
U.S. COVID-19 Aid Through the Military and State Department
January 6, 2021COVID-19
SEATTLE, Washington The U.S. has long been a champion of global health aid, contributing more than $140 billion in the past two decades to support health assistance around the world. Despite domestic struggles in containing the novel coronavirus, the U.S. has still contributed $1.6 billion in the State Department and USAID funding towards COVID-19 aid. The U.S. military is of the key actors in delivering this aid to developing countries.
A Productive Partnership
The Department of State is responsible for implementing U.S. foreign policy goals through diplomatic policies. To emphasize the importance of the State Department’s role in foreign policy, former Secretary of Defense James Mattis once said, “If you don’t fund the State Department fully, then I need to buy more ammunition ultimately.” One of the ways that diplomacy and defense work in tandem is through the Foreign Policy Advisor
Abraham Lincoln s father, Thomas Lincoln, was an ensign in the Kentucky state militia.
According to Abraham Lincoln s public accounts, his father, Thomas Lincoln, came off as a shiftless, jobless wanderer who could barely scratch out his name, said Springfield historian and author Wayne C. Temple.
Like a lot of politicians, Temple said, Lincoln wanted to show how he had risen above childhood disadvantages to the highest office in the land, but he did so at the expense of his father.
Thomas Lincoln s reputation only disintegrated, Temple said, because of Lincoln biographies like the one written by his former law partner, William Herndon.
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley âSullyâ Sullenberger III saved 155 lives when he successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the cold waters of the Hudson River off midtown Manhattan. The event â called the âMiracle on the Hudsonâ â solidified his status as an international hero and a master in airline safety and effective leadership.
In his memoir,
Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters, Sullenberger says he realized that his journey to the Hudson River that day didnât begin at New Yorkâs LaGuardia Airport, but decades before at his childhood Texas home.
âIn many ways, all my mentors, heroes, and loved ones â those who taught me and encouraged me and saw the possibilities in me â were with me in the cockpit of Flight 1549. My entire life led me safely to that river,â he says.