Early June 1864 was a bleak time for Washington and the Union cause. What began that spring as a determined Federalist push to crush the Confederacy was moving at a grinding, bloody pace. In Virginia, Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac endured a painful reversal at Cold Harbor. As tens thousands of Union troops fell before the defenses of Richmond, William Tecumseh Sherman was still laboring to reach the outskirts of Atlanta. A month earlier a Union offensive meant to seize upper Louisiana was turned back and abandoned. Progress elsewhere was either absent or fleeting.
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Maj. Jack Gibson with John Wardell, who fought with the 2nd Ranger Battalion in World War II. (photo courtesy Jack Gibson/U.S. Army).
In the summer of 1944, the soldiers of 2nd Ranger Battalion arrived in France, driving into Europe from the edges of Normandy, eventually pushing deep into Nazi-held territory. Among them was Pvt. Jim Shalala, a Cleveland resident who joined the Army in 1943. Shalala was with the Rangers through some of the fiercest fighting of 1944, including the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest. Eight decades later his grandson, a fellow Ranger, was back in France.
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At least one and maybe two Su-57 Felon fighters, Moscow’s most advanced warplanes, were struck by drones at an airbase deep inside Russia, the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) claimed. GUR posted satellite images on social media it says show one of the aircraft was damaged. The extent of that damage is unclear at the moment, but it would be the first known instance of these aircraft being damaged or destroyed as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
(image courtesy KFA Architecture).
Two housing projects set aside for veterans officially got underway at the end of May. On May 31 two separate buildings that would add 87 new housing units on the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus broke ground, part of a wider plan to add more than 1,000 new homes for veterans.
The two new buildings are being built by a coalition of developers and veteran-focused nonprofits. One, Building 158, will add 49 new units, being built by Century Housing. The other, Building 210 from U.S. Vets, will create 38 housing units specifically for women veterans.
The Republic of Palau stands up to China
I’ve attached a very important article about how China is using cyber capabilities to beat up on a small, sovereign country called the Republic of Palau (18,000 citizens – the Pentagon has a larger population). Palau is at the bottom of what is called the Second Island Chain in the Western Pacific. Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Tinian, and Saipan. The last three are sovereign American Territory, these are US Citizens. Defense of Taiwan depends on the Second Island Chain.
A Ukrainian NGO has put out a ‘list’ of enemies which include American citizens who want to end U.S. aid to Ukraine. The founder of the NGO is allegedly trained by the U.S. government.
“This is insane. A Ukrainian NGO just put out an enemies list that includes US citizens. This list blames us for Ukraine’s issues on the battlefield.”
“The founders name is Anatoly Bondarenko and he was trained at the State Dept’s “TechCamp”. Now he’s using that training to target US citizens with an enemies list,” writes Robby Starbuck on X.
A Ukrainian Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, left, charges toward a Russian BTR-82. (Screenshot via Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense on X).
Amid the wider offensives and front lines of the war in Ukraine, a recent fight showed a singular fight. An American-made Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle went head to head against a Russian armored personnel character in Ukraine and emerged victorious.
Host L Todd Wood speaks to former F-22, F-35 Program Director at Lockheed Martin about aviation safety in the U.S.
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William Anders (photo courtesy NASA).
William Anders, Air Force pilot, diplomat, nuclear engineer and astronaut who was one of the first three people to orbit the Moon as part of the Apollo 8 mission, died Friday, June 7 when his plane crashed into the waters off the coast of Washington state. He was 90.
The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office reported that a small plane, a T-34, had crashed in the waters near Jones Island, shortly before 11:40 a.m. The pilot was confirmed dead and Anders’ son Greg Anders confirmed his father was the one in the plane.