Frontlines of Freedom 04-22-2017 Show # 487 Hour 1

July 27 - Korean War Veterans Armistice Day (1953)
July 29 - Anniversary of the Army Chaplain Corps
Aug 4 - Coast Guard Day
Aug 7 - Purple Heart Day
Aug 16 - National Airborne Day
Aug 29 - Marine Corps Reserve Birthday
Sept 2 - V-J Day (Victory over Japan)
Sept 11 - Patriot Day
Sept 18 - Air Force (USAF) Birthday
Sept 19 - National POW/MIA Recognition Day
Sept 28 - Gold Star Mother’s Day

July 26
1758 - British forces capture France’s Fortress of Louisbourg after a 7 week siege
1759 - The French relinquish Fort Ticonderoga in New York to the British under General Jeffrey Amherst
1790 - An attempt at a counter-revolution in France is put down by the National Guard at Lyons
1794 - The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus, France
1848 - The French army suppresses the Paris uprising
1918 - Britain’s top war ace, Edward Mannock, is shot down by ground fire on the Western Front
1948 - In an Executive Order, President Harry Truman calls for the end of discrimination and segregation in the U.S. armed forces

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