Frontlines of Freedom 07-22-2017 Show # 500 Hour 1

June 23 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Birthday
June 27 - National PTSD Awareness Day
July 4 - United States' 243rd Independence Day Celebration
July 29 - Anniversary of the Army Chaplain Corps

June 18
1667 - The Dutch fleet sails up the Thames River & threatens London
1775 - The British take Bunker Hill outside of Boston, after a costly battle.
1778 - British troops evacuate Philadelphia
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte incorporates Italy into his empire
1812 - The War of 1812 begins when the U.S. declares war against Great Britain
1815 - At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington
1848 - Austrian General Alfred Windisch-Gratz crushes a Czech uprising in Prague
1854 - The Red Turban revolt breaks out in Guangdong, China
1863 - On the way to Gettysburg, Union & Confederate forces skirmish at Point of Rocks, MD
1863 - After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the Siege of Vicksburg
1864 - At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault & settles into a siege
1876 - General George Crook's command is attacked & bested on the Rosebud River by 1,500 Sioux & Cheyenne under the leadership of Crazy Horse
1913 - U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico
1917 - The Russian Duma meets in secret session in Petrograd and votes for an immediate Russian offensive against the German Army
1918 - Allied forces on the Western Front begin their largest counterattack yet against the German army
1932 - The U.S. Senate defeats the Bonus Bill as 10,000 veterans mass around the Capitol
1940 - The Soviet Union occupies Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia
1942 - The U.S. Navy commissions its 1st black officer, Harvard University medical student Bernard Whitfield Robinson
1942 - Yank a weekly magazine for the U.S. armed services, begins publication
1944 - French troops land on the island of Elba in the Med
1944 - The U.S. First Army breaks through the German lines on the Cotentin Peninsula & cuts off the German-held port of Cherbourg
1945 - Organized Japanese resistance ends on the island of Mindanao
1951 - General Vo Nguyen Giap ends his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina
1953 - Soviet tanks fight thousands of Berlin workers rioting against the East German government
1953 - S. Korean President Syngman Rhee releases Korean non-repatriate POWs against the will of the U.N.
1965 - 27 B-52s hit Viet Cong outposts, but lose 2 planes in S. Vietnam
1970 - N. Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia
1979 - President Carter & Brezhnev sign the Salt II pact to limit nuclear arms

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Nov. 2, 2018

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June 22, 2016

Frontlines of Freedom welcomes Benghazi hero & 10 new stations
January 29, 2016

Frontlines of Freedom celebrates 400th episode & 20 new affiliates
September 24, 2015

Frontlines of Freedom radio host speaks out on VA shakeup
November 12, 2014

Syndicated military talk show returns home to WOOD Radio
June 1, 2013

Michigan's most decorated veteran celebrating 5 years on radio
June 2, 2012