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June 4, 1942: during the Battle of Midway, USS Nautilus attempted to deliver the coup de grâce to the burning Japanese carrier Kaga. Nautilus hit Kaga amidship, but the notoriously unreliable Mark 14 torpedo failed to detonate. Japanese sailors then used the broken torpedo as a life raft. The carrier eventually sunk by dive bombers from the USS Enterprise. The planes for the attack on Pearl Harbor came from the Kaga. Also on this day in '42, pilot LCDR Wade McClusky from USS Enterprise followed a Japanese destroyer to find the enemy carriers near Midway. He then led the attack that sank the Kaga and Akagi. McClusky died in 1976 and is buried in front of the U.S. Naval Institute's HQ at Beach Hall.


Japan has resurrected the "Kaga" name for it's latest helo aircraft carrier. Kaga is currently being upgraded into a fixed-wing carrier, capable of operating VTOL aircraft such as the F-35B.

"Wars are not won by evacuations"

"We shall fight on the beaches"

- PM Winston Churchill, June 4, 1940, on the last day of Dunkirk. Four years and two days later, D-Day. Photo from Gold Beach...




An absolutely chilling account of Omaha Beach 80 years ago...





Short Video about Major Stanley Bach's remarkable firsthand account of his harrowing experience landing on Easy Green Sector of Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, during the D-Day invasion. Bach recalls the difficult fight for the beach, the struggle up the cliffs, and the initial fighting inland. This is an eye opening account of one of the most harrowing events of the Battle of Normandy and what took place on Omaha Beach on D Day.

D-Day and the Combat Cameraman

This week marks the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Operation. Starting on June 6, 1944, about 175,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, supported by 5,000 naval craft and more than 11,500 aircraft. By June 30, over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores. In what became known as the largest amphibious invasion in military history, the operation, codenamed Overlord, was the beginning of the liberation of Northern Europe from Nazi occupation.

How To Locate D-Day Footage in NARA’s Moving Image Holdings

June 4/5, 1989: You’ve seen the famous Tank Man photo from Tiananmen Square of a brave protector standing up to Communist tanks. Amazingly, the full zoomed-out shot that shows the full scale of what he was standing up to, 18 tanks. Also, tank man did this on June 5th after the massacre had already begun, not before. Hundreds of fellow protesters were already dead. Probably friends, maybe family. I think he knew exactly what that tank might do.



The People's Liberation Army cleared demonstrators from Tiananmen Square June 3-5 in 1989. While condemning the brutal crackdown, critics charged the Bush administration with weakness in refusing to impose punishing sanctions on China. Boston Globe, June 27, 1989:




Tiananmen Square from various phones:




The epic money laundering "Epoch Times" CFO...


CFO of Epoch Times busted for money laundering

Calling your criminal network the "Make Money Online team" is so rich. LOL!
I'm sure there is a $$ connection to the Falun Gong cult in NY.




That 100 days is long over, LOL...



I'm starting to see signs that the proverbial pendulum is starting to swing the other way. Then again, I'm probably fooling myself and summer hasn't even begun.