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Post by stevep on Jan 15, 2024 9:27:59 GMT
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Your posted today's WWII entry in the USCW thread. Just before today's USCW entry.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 15, 2024 9:56:57 GMT
Lordorel Your posted today's WWII entry in the USCW thread. Just before today's USCW entry. Steve Thanks will edit it.
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Post by stevep on Jan 31, 2024 11:15:24 GMT
On today's WWII thread there is the entry
It shows how quickly things develop as this is only 6 months before the Trinity Test.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 31, 2024 13:24:08 GMT
On today's WWII thread there is the entry It shows how quickly things develop as this is only 6 months before the Trinity Test.
Stevep, please no spoilers.
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 3, 2024 21:51:19 GMT
"President Abraham Lincoln has a busy day corresponding with His Majesty King Mongkut, King of Siam over an offer for elephants"? Strange how the POTUS spends his time, sometimes.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 3, 2024 21:59:54 GMT
"President Abraham Lincoln has a busy day corresponding with His Majesty King Mongkut, King of Siam over an offer for elephants"? Strange how the POTUS spends his time, sometimes. That is the strange part, not the war elephants that could have happen. Here is the letter President Abraham Lincoln send, courtesy of the American Battlefield Trust: Lincoln Rejects the King of Siam's Offer of Elephants To the King of Siam February 3, 1862 Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America. To His Majesty Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongut, King of Siam, Great and Good Friend: I have received Your Majesty's two letters of the date of February 14th., 1861. I have also received in good condition the royal gifts which accompanied those letters,---namely, a sword of costly materials and exquisite workmanship; a photographic likeness of Your Majesty and of Your Majesty's beloved daughter; and also two elephants' tusks of length and magnitude such as indicate that they could have belonged only to an animal which was a native of Siam. Your Majesty's letters show an understanding that our laws forbid the President from receiving these rich presents as personal treasures. They are therefore accepted in accordance with Your Majesty's desire as tokens of your good will and friendship for the American People. Congress being now in session at this capital, I have had great pleasure in making known to them this manifestation of Your Majesty's munificence and kind consideration. Under their directions the gifts will be placed among the archives of the Government, where they will remain perpetually as tokens of mutual esteem and pacific dispositions more honorable to both nations than any trophies of conquest could be. I appreciate most highly Your Majesty's tender of good offices in forwarding to this Government a stock from which a supply of elephants might be raised on our own soil. This Government would not hesitate to avail itself of so generous an offer if the object were one which could be made practically useful in the present condition of the United States. Our political jurisdiction, however, does not reach a latitude so low as to favor the multiplication of the elephant, and steam on land, as well as on water, has been our best and most efficient agent of transportation in internal commerce. I shall have occasion at no distant day to transmit to Your Majesty some token of indication of the high sense which this Government entertains of Your Majesty's friendship. Meantime, wishing for Your Majesty a long and happy life, and for the generous and emulous People of Siam the highest possible prosperity, I commend both to the blessing of Almighty God. Your Good Friend, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Washington, February 3, 1862. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Annotation
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Post by stevep on Feb 4, 2024 9:21:08 GMT
Its touched on in the film "The King and I" or at least the older musical version with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr. The king is somewhat offended to have his offer refused.
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Post by stevep on Feb 6, 2024 9:38:11 GMT
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In today's WWII post one small query. You have:
If its in the Indian Ocean its off the west coast of Australia and that latitude and longitude would be off SW Australia so I think someone mixed up east and west.
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Post by Max Sinister on Feb 12, 2024 20:29:40 GMT
This time not about a found mistake. But I read on the 2nd January post in the WW2 thread: "A V-2 components factory in Copenhagen is wrecked by the Danes."
Impressive, never heard of it. Where can we get more details?
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Post by lordroel on Feb 12, 2024 20:49:15 GMT
This time not about a found mistake. But I read on the 2nd January post in the WW2 thread: "A V-2 components factory in Copenhagen is wrecked by the Danes." Impressive, never heard of it. Where can we get more details? Found some more information here: DANISH RESISTANCE GROUPS CREATE JOINT FRONTAt the beginning of 1943, Communist (KOPA) resistance cells were centrally coordinated under BOPA. BOPA was the most effective sabotage organization in Denmark and was behind numerous acts of sabotage, the most famous being the June 6, 1944, surprise daylight raid on the Globus factory, which had been making parts for Germany’s V‑2 ballistic rocket.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 28, 2024 4:17:54 GMT
So the Trolls have discovered something, we are missing a day, tomorrow it is February 29th 2024 but 78 Years ago it was March 1st 1945.
No begs the question, do i have to skip a day.
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Post by stevep on Feb 28, 2024 9:23:56 GMT
So the Trolls have discovered something, we are missing a day, tomorrow it is February 29th 2024 but 78 Years ago it was March 1st 1945. No begs the question, do i have to skip a day.
That sounds the best option. Presumably that would be an issue with the USCW thread as well? Possibly it you want put in a small comment that there was no leap year in 1945 but probably not worthwhile. We can all have a break tomorrow.
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Post by lordroel on Feb 28, 2024 10:06:45 GMT
So the Trolls have discovered something, we are missing a day, tomorrow it is February 29th 2024 but 78 Years ago it was March 1st 1945. No begs the question, do i have to skip a day. That sounds the best option. Presumably that would be an issue with the USCW thread as well? Possibly it you want put in a small comment that there was no leap year in 1945 but probably not worthwhile. We can all have a break tomorrow.
The USCW also has it, so the trollls have free tomorrow.
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Post by stevep on Mar 1, 2024 11:38:22 GMT
Lordroel On today's USCW thread I think you have a small typo.
I suspect this should be "BRITISH QUEEN off Wilmington"?
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Post by lordroel on Mar 1, 2024 11:41:46 GMT
Lordroel On today's USCW thread I think you have a small typo.
I suspect this should be "BRITISH QUEEN off Wilmington"?
Steve
Seems you are right, will edit it.
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