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1862:
Confederate forces attack Union forces at Elthams Landing.
1864: Sherman advances toward Atlanta. 1864: Grant leaves the Wilderness for Spotsylvania. 1915: The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. 1945: The German High Command, in the person of General Alfred Jodl, signs the unconditional surrender of all German forces, East and West, at Reims, in northwestern France. 1951: The Air Forces 3rd Air Rescue Squadron recovered its 50th behind-the-lines downed airman. 1952: Communist prisoners rioting at Koje-do held the U.N. commander, Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, hostage until May 11. At Panmunjom both sides announced a stalemate over the prisoner of war issue. 1953: Communist negotiators at Panmunjom presented an eight-point proposal regarding the repatriation of POWs, including the establishment of a Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission. 1954: French held Dien Bien Phu falls to the Viet Minh. |