Frontlines of Freedom 01-27-2018 Show # 527 Hour 1

March - Month of the Military Caregiver
March 29 - Vietnam Veterans Day
April - Month of the Military Child
April 5 - Gold Star Wives Day
April 14 - Air Force Reserve Birthday
April 23 - Army Reserve Birthday
May - Nat'l Military Appreciation Month
May 1 - Silver Star Service Banner Day
May 8 - VE (Victory in Europe) Day
May 8 - Military Spouse Appreciation Day
May 16 - Armed Forces Day
May 25 - Memorial Day (Decoration Day)
June 6 - D-Day Anniversary
June 14 - Flag Day
June 14 - Army Birthday
June 23 - Coast Guard Auxiliary Birthday
June 27 - National PTSD Awareness Day
July 4 - Independence Day
July 29 - Anniversary of the Army Chaplain Corps

March 21
1858 - British forces in India lift the siege of Lucknow, ending the Indian Mutiny
1865 - The Battle of Bentonville, NC ends, marking the last Confederate attempt to stop Union General William Sherman
1918 - The Germans launch the 'Michael' offensive, better remembered as the First Battle of the Somme
1928 - President Calvin Coolidge presents the Congressional MOH to Charles Lindbergh, a captain in the US Army Air Corps Reserve, for making the 1st solo trans-Atlantic flight
1941 - The last Italian post in East Libya, North Africa, falls to the British
1951 - SECDEF George C. Marshall reports that the U.S. military has doubled to 2.9 million since the start of the Korean War
1971 - 2 U.S. platoons in Vietnam refuse their orders to advance
1975 - As N. Vietnamese forces advance, Hue & other northern towns in S. Vietnam are evacuated
1984 - A Soviet submarine crashes into the USS Kitty Hawk off the coast of Japan

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