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Choose your USNA Midshipman, early 20th century edition 😏😉👀🌊

[phlebaswrites]

Supporting a Soldier (In Flight)

Summary:

There are some places.

(Which can only be filled by the right person.)

An Aburame story.

Takes place in 1945.

Rating: Mature Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Aburame Shino/Fū of Takigakure, Nara Shikamaru/Temari Word Count: approximately 2.5K (Complete and posts one chapter daily)

This story was written for @aburamewaifu​ , @momo-ceros​ , @dumbblossom​, and @fireflylitsky​ , with many thanks for idea bouncing!

Truly, it takes a village.

Warning: This being an Aburame story, it will include insects.

Shino stares up into the sky, the dark glasses he wears protecting him from the glare of the sun.

"The ships have come into contact." The kikaichū which lands on his shoulder crawls up behind his ear. "My wife can see them."

"But can the American's see her?" Shikamaru tosses a kunai into the air before catching it again, and Shikadai-kun rolls his eyes at his father's impatience before slapping a book over his face and lying back on the grass. To all appearances, the boy is asleep, but not even a Nara would be that lazy, particularly not the son of the Kazekage. And yes, the long suffering sigh he makes when his father tugs on his hair is enough to announce his wakefulness.

"I do not think it will matter if they can," Shino frowns at the thought, but he has full confidence in his wife and her partner. "Chōmei-sama is faster than any of the clay birds the Tsuchikage produces, and a naval gun will not hit them except by chance."

They both know it, it's exactly why Fū and Chōmei-sama were chosen for this job, and Shikamaru nods his understanding, but really they're both just airing their anxieties at this point.

Two husbands, keeping each other company while their wives are in danger.

Read the rest on AO3.

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The Bleach Timeline

alright so I'mma drop some science on y'all

the Academy is ~2100 years old as of 2001. Renji, Kira, and Momo, were in the 2066th Class, graduating ~1956/1957. it's also repeatedly stated to be 2000 years old in CFYOW. Bleach takes place mostly in 2001, so that'd be 2101/2100 years as of then

when the Academy started running, Shinigami are already Shinigami, not Balancers, and Bankai are already Bankai, not Shinuchi, and we know this because Sasakibe has had Bankai for 2,000 years

QED the Gotei 13 already existed when the Academy was established, because you don't train new people for something that doesn't exist yet and won't exist for a thousand years as that just doesn't make any sense at all

for Shinigami to become Shinigami and not Balancers, they probably had to gain zanpakutō, because before then they were only using Zankensoki

we can therefore assign some arbitrary dates to the creation of these things for illustrative purposes like the Gotei 13 was founded 2,500 years ago and the zanpakutō was invented 3,000 years ago

Yamamoto is talking about his last use of Bankai being in the distant past, and Shunsui is a kid. we straight up know Shunsui and Jūshirō are the first Captains out of the Academy because Yamamoto tells us:

so it doesn't make any sense at all that Yamamoto is saying this after the war with Lichtreich, because then he'd be missing Captains for centuries. no, Yamamoto is telling this story to Shunsui long before the war with Lichtreich, which we know from the Kaiser Gesang must have happened in 1004 AD, over 1,100 years after the Academy was established. and so we come to this:

now I want you to put on your Big Brain and actually think about what is being said and shown here

Yhwach is visually recalling the Gotei 13 he fought, the individuals he personally saw

however Yhwach is verbally discussing the Gotei 13 as an institution

do you notice something? these two things are not explicitly correlated

if I told you "The U.S. Navy has always been tenacious and resourceful," and I said that while showing pictures of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, or Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, would that automatically mean Perry and Nimitz were around in 1775 and fought alongside John Paul Jones?

NO IT WOULD NOT

this neatly solves the "Original Gotei 13 Problem". maybe the OG Gotei 13 weren't around for 1,000 years, or even for 1,500 years or more. maybe the Gotei 13 that Yhwach fought were the originals, which would be confusing as to why they lasted so long when their successors did not

but maybe they weren't

Yhwach is not weighing in on that issue, he's just saying the Gotei 13 were always murderous bastards until the Lichtreich War

and think about it. Yhwach was conquering stuff for like, what, 200 years before that war? he's like maybe 300 years old when it happens or something? if he's born in 600 or 700 AD, why the hell would he care about stuff that happened before 100 BC in a completely different place? it'd be foreign ancient history to him

how many of you right now can tell me about how Qin Shi Huang unified the various warring states around him and created China in detail? okay, that was 2,200 years ago, maybe that's not fair. okay, how many of you can give me a detailed synopsis of the Mongol conquests?

do you see what I'm saying?

anyway the Gotei 13 was not founded 1,000 years ago because the Academy to staff the Gotei 13 already existed 2,000 years ago and Bankai already existed 2,000 years ago and Yamamoto tried to use his Bankai to do something or other only to make things worse and in the process he earned the epithet Shigekuni, 重國, "country-splitter" or "land-divider"

so hey if the Gotei 13 wasn't made to fight Yhwach and was made much earlier then why was it made? protip: it was Yamamoto's second attempt to handle whatever was going on at that time after his first solo try failed

what was that incident? I dunno. but all the evidence points to it having happened

we know from Narita and Matsubara in CFYOW that Kubo has a lot of supposedly interesting stories that he's never told, like how Yoruichi and Kisuke met. you should not presume that all events referenced in the series refer to other things you already know about, and that all events of importance have been covered (Tokinada and the Tsunayashiro being shoehorned into the narrative is also yet more proof of this)

[tracesoftexas]

The Texas Quote of the Day:

"The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding anti-aircraft shells. I pulled the trigger and she worked fine. I had watched the others with these guns. I guess I fired her for about fifteen minutes. I think I got one of those Japanese planes. They were diving pretty close to us."

----- Doris "Dorie" Miller, who manned anti-aircraft guns during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, for which he had no training, and tended to the wounded. He was recognized by the Navy for his actions and awarded the Navy Cross.

Dorie, who hailed from Waco, was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the second highest decoration for valor awarded by the Navy, after the Medal of Honor. Miller's acts were heavily publicized in the black press, making him an iconic emblem of the war for African Americans. Sadly, nearly two years after Pearl Harbor, he was killed in action when his ship Liscome Bay was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Makin.

The Knox-class frigate USS Miller, in service from 1973 to 1991, was named after Doris Miller. On January 19, 2020, the Navy announced that CVN-81 would be named after him, a Gerald R. Ford–class aircraft carrier scheduled to be laid down in 2023 and launched in 2028.

Shown here: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz awards the Navy Cross to Ship's Cook Second Class Petty Officer Doris (Dorie) Miller for heroism on the U.S.S. West Virginia battleship in March, 1942. Two Texans.

[nebris]

Operation Hailstone (Japanese: トラック島空襲, romanized: Torakku-tō Kūshū, lit. 'airstrike on Truk Island'), 17–18 February 1944, was a massive United States Navy air and surface attack on Truk Lagoon, conducted as part of the American offensive drive against the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) through the Central Pacific Ocean during World War II.

Prior to Hailstone, the IJN had used Truk as an anchorage for its large Combined Fleet. The coral atoll surrounding Truk's islands created a safe harbor, where the few points of ingress and egress had been fortified by the Japanese with shore batteries, antiaircraft guns, and airfields.

American estimates of Truk's defenses and its role as a stronghold of the Japanese Navy led newspapers and military men to call it the "Gibraltar of the Pacific", or to compare it with Pearl Harbor. Truk's location in the Caroline Islands also made it an excellent shipping hub for armaments and aircraft moving from Japan's home islands down through the South Seas Mandate and into the Japanese "Southern Resources Area".

By early 1944, Truk was increasingly unsustainable as a forward base of operations for the Japanese. To the west, American and Australian forces under General Douglas MacArthur had moved up through the Southwest Pacific, isolating or overrunning many Japanese strong points as part of Operation Cartwheel. The U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Army, under the command of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, had overrun the most important islands in the nearby Gilbert Islands and Marshall Islands, and then built numerous air bases there.

As a result, the Japanese Navy had to relocate the Combined Fleet's forward base to the Palau Islands, and eventually to Indonesia, and the fleet had begun clearing its major warships – carriers, battleships, and heavy cruisers – out of Truk before the Hailstone attack struck.

Nevertheless, the Hailstone attack on Truk caught a good number of Japanese auxiliary ships and cargo ships in the harbor, as well as some smaller warships. Between the air attacks and surface-ship attacks over the two days of Hailstone, the worst blow against the Japanese was about 250 warplanes destroyed, with the concurrent loss of irreplaceable experienced pilots, and 17,000 tons of stored fuel.  Also, about 40 ships – two light cruisers, four destroyers, nine auxiliary ships, and about two dozen cargo vessels – were sunk.

Considerable damage was inflicted on the various island bases, including dockyards, communications centers, supply dumps, and its submarine base. Truk remained effectively isolated for the remainder of the war, cut off and surrounded by the American island-hopping campaign in the Central Pacific, which also bypassed important Japanese garrisons and airfields in the Bismarck Archipelago, the Caroline Islands, the Marshalls, and the Palaus. Meanwhile, the Americans built new bases from scratch at places including the Admiralty Islands, Majuro, and Ulithi Atoll, and took over the major port at Guam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hailstone

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Japanese model of Pearl Harbor, showing ships located as they were during the 7 December 1941 attack. This model was constructed after the attack for use in making a motion picture. The original photograph was brought back to the U.S. from Japan at the end of World War II by Rear Admiral John Shafroth, USN.  Collection of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.  U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor-raid/japanese-forces-in-the-pearl-harbor-attack/miscellaneous-views-of-japanese-forces/NH-62534.html

[warmaster-uk]

Doris ‘Dorie’ Miller wearing his just after being presented with the Navy Cross by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, on board USS Enterprise at Pearl Harbor, 27 May 1942. Doris Miller (12 Oct 1919 – 24 Nov 1943) was a United States Navy cook third class who was first Black American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the highest decoration for valour presented by the US Navy, and the second highest in the United States after the Medal of Honor. Miller served aboard the battleship West Virginia, which was sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. During the attack, he helped several sailors who were wounded, and while manning an anti-aircraft machine gun for which he had no training, he shot down several Japanese planes. Miller's actions earned him the Navy Cross, and the resulting publicity for Miller in the Black press made him an iconic emblem of the fight for civil rights for Black Americans. In November 1943, Miller was killed while serving aboard the escort carrier Liscome Bay when it was sunk by a Japanese submarine during the Battle of Makin in the Gilbert Islands. Original photo National Archives collection #secondworldwar #ww2 #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #war #history #militaryhistory #military #colourised #colorized #colourisedhistory #colorizedhistory #color #colour #colorizedhistoricalphotos #colorization #colourisation #retro #classic #goldenoldies #colorizedphoto #colourisedphoto #pearlharbour #navycross #usnavy #civilrights #bravery https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck_13_AqjQC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🔆Admiral Chester W Nimitz Leader of the Pacific War🌏 #ai #ww2 #shorts

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Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | Pacific Paratrooper

Source: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | Pacific Paratrooper

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Opposed Forces (Espionage Families of Boston)

King's Men (York Spy's Infantry):

1910s:

Lucianos:

Field Operative Name: Salvatore Luciano.

Group Foe: Calvin Coolidge.

Target: The Coolidge Fund.

Leader: Harry S. Truman.

Foes:

Alphonse Capone: Operating speakeasies for the families of politicians and police.

Johnny Torrio: Import of rum from Irish civil service Canada.

Enoch Nixon: Control of Atlantic City casinos for services retailed of beef.

1930s:

Field Operative Name: Raymond Charlebois.

Group Foe: Adolf Hitler.

Group Target: Los Angeles Water Department.

Leader: Chester Nimitz.

Foes:

Douglas MacArthur: Draft of Italians into Marine Corps under police provision of Italian Catechism Blackshirt.

John Okada: Japanese agent of Lutheran hierarchy, spying on Japanese interned to recruit for post-war Japanese Diet United States Marine Corps.

Mao Zedong: Farmer's candidate, for industrialization of Japan's lagers and logging trade, as imbued term in English, to enslave Chinese people under Black Papacy; Russian Mafia.

1960s:

Field Operative Name: Michael Charlebois.

Group Foe: Dwight Eisenhower.

Group Target: German Sheriffs.

Leader: Lee Iakoka.

Foes:

Richard Milhouse Nixon: Incarceration at clause of military penal service, in Vatican Church Mafia.

Charles Manson: Print of writ and writing, at free sum, or else castrated, amputed of toe, and placed in prison on bipolar medication, in Attica, Alcatraz, or San Quentin.

Hunter S. Thompson: Pharmaceuticals as a recreational drug, sold to children through revised DARE program.

1990s:

Field Operative Name: David Charlebois.

Group Foe: George W. Bush.

Group Target: Kraft Cheese.

Leader: The Ayatollah Khameini.

Colin Powell: The purchase and bribe of cruises and gambling stakes, to the parents of police.

Andrew Donson: Calculations of bacon-inhibited diets, through Holocaust History teachers, at infanticide through Sheriff's act of report, of children of police mothers; for print, in Firaxis Games, as roleplayed models.

Uma Thurman: The proliferation of Gerber's Babyfood, a turkey nutrient, as well as turkey pepperoni and turkey clam cakes; to infirm the mind, especially of children, to spawn "Eric Cartman", for South Park Studios; a German Federal Republic Rabbi, holding the Rabbinical, and their victims, the Jews, as the same scruple.

[phantom-le6]

Film Review - Midway (2019)

Our next film review sticks with narratives based on real-world events, but compared to the last one, we’re going back a few years and west by a great many miles, as we check out the 2019 film Midway…

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

In December 1937, Lieutenant Commander Edwin T. Layton, an American naval attaché intelligence officer, is warned during a state function by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto that, because 80% of Japan's oil is imported, if the US were to threaten their oil supply, then the Japanese would have no choice but to wage war.

On December 7, 1941, during World War II, following the US's decision to cut off Japan's oil supply, the Japanese launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, forcing the US to enter the war. In response, naval aviator Lieutenant Richard "Dick" Best and the Air Group of the carrier USS Enterprise try to find the Japanese carrier fleet, but they are unsuccessful.

Admiral Yamamoto, with the support of Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, proposes an audacious plan to invade Midway Island using the four available Japanese carriers known as the "Kido Butai", but the Japanese Army overrules them. In February 1942, the USS Enterprise launches raids against the Marshall Islands. In April, after Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, Yamamoto, Yamaguchi, and Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo are permitted to carry out their plan to attack Midway.

In May, following the Battle of the Coral Sea, Layton, along with Joseph Rochefort and his cryptography team, use signals intelligence to intercept Japanese messages about an operation against an objective identified only as "AF". Layton and his team believe that "AF" is Midway Atoll, while Washington believes it to be a target in the South Pacific. Still, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, remains sceptical. To prove their theory, Layton instructs Midway to send an unencrypted message stating they are suffering from a water shortage. The Japanese pick up this signal and send an intercepted message about water shortages on "AF," confirming that "AF" is indeed Midway.

Hoping to mount his surprise attack, Nimitz orders the aircraft carriers USS Hornet and Enterprise to be recalled from the Coral Sea and demands that the damaged USS Yorktown be repaired in 72 hours for combat operations. Halsey is placed on shore leave due to shingles and is temporarily replaced by Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.

On June 4, the Japanese launch an air attack on Midway. Initial attempts by US land-based aircraft to strike the Japanese fleet carriers fail. However, Nagumo is shaken when a crashing American bomber narrowly misses the bridge of the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi in what may have been a ramming attempt. The submarine USS Nautilus tries to attack the Japanese fleet but is chased off by the Japanese destroyer Arashi. American squadrons attack the Japanese fleet without much luck, though the attacks prevent the fleet from launching their counterstrike. Upon spotting the Arashi from the air, Wade McCluskey correctly infers the Japanese destroyer is rushing back to the main Japanese fleet and leads his planes to follow its course. Arriving to find the Japanese Combat Air Patrol at low level due to the previous attacks, the dive bombers score several hits on the Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi, Kaga and Sōryū, resulting in fires and further explosions, crippling all three. The shell-shocked Nagumo is persuaded to transfer his flag. Yamaguchi, aboard the sole remaining intact carrier, Hiryu, launches a strike that succeeds in crippling Yorktown, prompting Enterprise and Hornet to launch their remaining aircraft in response. Best leads the squadron, which successfully inflicts heavy damage to the Hiryu. Admiral Yamaguchi chooses to go down with his command along with Captain Kaku, as Hiryu is scuttled.

Yamamoto orders a general withdrawal. At Pearl Harbor, Rochefort intercepts the Japanese order to withdraw and passes it to Layton, who then informs Nimitz. Best is discharged from the Navy for his lung problems, incurred due to the use of faulty breathing apparatus during the attack, and returns home to his wife and daughter.

Review:

When I reviewed the Michael Bay film Pearl Harbour for my Facebook run of reviews, just over a decade ago, I noted that feature films showing war were not meant to be totally historically accurate.  That was, and by and large still is, the business of documentary programs and not film dramatizations.  However, since I did that review, I’ve seen more war films that strive for historical accuracy as much as possible, and I’ve seen that it often leads to films being better.  While mainstream critics have been negative about this film and its profit levels were insufficient to avoid being labelled a box office bomb, there was a conscious effort by those involved to be more accurate, so do the critics have it wrong?

To my mind, the answer is that yes, the critics are wrong.  The US film-rating site Rotten Tomatoes, for example, apparently claimed this film was re-telling a well-known story, which is typical of American bias regarding their own history.  After all, one country’s well-known historical event is very often unknown history to the wider world, especially if that moment is seen in a negative light by other nations.  History, after all, is often taught selectively, with many nations using their “best moments”, teaching history like a highlights reel, so it’s good that Midway takes a more balanced approach in how it depicts its events.  So, for those of us not from America, this film represents a chance to learn a part of history we don’t know, albeit through the dramatic distortion of Hollywood.

Unlike Pearl Harbour, Midway isn’t making up a story around real events, but tells that story with tweaks here and there to work without the story-telling medium being used.  It’s also probably more accurate than the 1970’s Midway film due to a book written by the real Lt. Comm. Layton coming out in 1985 that better details the issues around intelligence that contributed to the various engagements we see in the film.  As such, while some might be claiming this latest film is less original, I would argue it is actually more original because it’s trying to get across a more accurate representation than the other two films while still being a dramatic re-telling and not a flat, dry documentary.

Helming the project is Roland Emmerich, known for such films as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, 2012 and White House Down.  As this brief snippet of his filmography shows, he puts together good films, and that’s reflected in the choice of cast, all of whom play their roles wonderfully.  Among those playing the multitude of historical characters in the film are Ed Skrien (Deadpool), Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast 2017 live-action remake), Woody Harelson, Patrick Wilson (The A-Team film, Aquaman, Watchmen), Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight), Denis Quaid, Joe Jonas and Mandy Moore.

Now the last one might catch some by surprise, myself included.  Being a teenager during the late 90’s and early 2000’s, I originally knew Mandy Moore as a brief-lived singer following the template set by Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.  However, based on her Wikipedia page, it appears that Moore has alternated between singing and acting for much of her career.  Indeed, she also has a claim to Disney fame due to providing the voice of Rapunzel in Disney’s Tangled.  In this film, she plays the wife of Ed Skrien’s character, and does a superb job, much as the rest of the cast does.

If I was to criticise this film on any count, it would be over its depiction of why Japan attacked the United States.  Both in Pearl Harbour and now in this film, Japan’s reasons are limited to an issue with their oil supply, but this is a major simplification, perhaps clung to by the United States and its film industry because of the nation’s past with getting into conflicts over oil subsequent to World War II.  Had the film taken a little extra time to be a bit more nuanced, it might have been the closest we could come to historical accuracy in a film covering these events.  As it is, maybe someone neutral to both the US and Japan could do an historically accurate political drama showing the build-up to Pearl Harbour from a neutral perspective.  Otherwise, I’d say this film rates a score of 9 out of 10.

[araiz-zaria]

[gulfcoastinspired]

The Blue Angels - More than an Iconic Aerobatic Flight Team

The United States Navy Blue Angels, established in 1946, is one of the most iconic and revered aerobatic flight demonstration teams in the world. The genesis of the Blue Angels can be traced back to the aftermath of World War II, a period when there was a desire to boost public morale and showcase naval aviation capabilities. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, then Chief of Naval Operations, conceived…

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.25 (after 1900)

1914 – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas. 1915 – The National Protection War breaks out against the Empire of China, as military leaders Cai E and Tang Jiyao proclaim the independence of Yunnan and begin a campaign to restore the Republic. 1927 – B. R. Ambedkar and his followers burn copies of the Manusmriti in Mahad, Maharashtra, to protest its treatment of Dalit people. 1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. 1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, appointed commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet on December 17, arrives at Pearl Harbor. 1941 – World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. 1941 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.[citation needed] 1946 – The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor. 1950 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. 1951 – A bomb explodes at the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. S. Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette. 1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 1963 – Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. 1968 – Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers. 1976 – EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people. 1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat. 1986 – Iraqi Airways Flight 163, a Boeing 737-270C, is hijacked and crashes in Arar, Saudi Arabia, killing 63 people. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. 1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. 1999 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 310, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashes near Bejuma, Carabobo State, Venezuela, killing 22 people. 2003 – UTA Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people. 2003 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing. 2004 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. 2012 – An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people. 2012 – Air Bagan Flight 011, a Fokker 100, crashes on approach to Heho Airport in Heho, Myanmar, killing two people. 2016 – A Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board. 2019 – Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines. 2020 – An explosion in Nashville, Tennessee occurs, leaving three civilians in the hospital. 2021 – The James Webb Space Telescope is launched.

[crawlerarts]

Older Nimtz Kimmler

My first OC that I made for RWBY that I made back in 2014. Essentially, he's a "hero" of the human side in the Faunus War (cause if RT won't do much with it, then I will.) Also he was made when I hopped on when Season 2 was in it's middle point. And I made his name before I found out about Monty's naming procedure, but I can't be assed to deal with it. Though his name is derived from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and "kiln" but I thought Kilnner felt too on the nose what he was going to be known for so I changed it to Kimmler.

Essentially, his semblance is Illusion (think Mysterio) and after his family was killed by a Faunus gang, he discovered a rare Dust type that gave him more power. Thus his obsession with it. He fought in the Faunus War in some of the major battles except for the turning point at Fort Castle. After the war, he was going to be tried for warcrimes but Mantle/Atlas sabotaged the trial, thus setting Kimmler free. After the war, he received multiple wounds that would require support from mechanical help. His jaw was blown off by a vengeful Faunus, during an insurgency, he lost parts of his arms, and a year later, he stepped on a mine, blowing off his legs. With the help of one of his soldiers, Abhar, he managed to walk again. During the events of RWBY, he was in charge of both a regiment of the Vale Defense Force, as well as his own private armed militia. After Vale fell, he and whatever remained of the regiment and his militia flew to Vacuo to train the armed groups there. When Atlas fell, he prepared for the worst. Total annihilation of the two Races.

[nebris]

The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.[6][7][8] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chūichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondō near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare",[9] while naval historian Craig Symonds called it "one of the most consequential naval engagements in world history, ranking alongside Salamis, Trafalgar, and Tsushima Strait, as both tactically decisive and strategically influential".[10]

Luring the American aircraft carriers into a trap and occupying Midway was part of an overall "barrier" strategy to extend Japan's defensive perimeter, in response to the Doolittle air raid on Tokyo. This operation was also considered preparatory for further attacks against Fiji, Samoa, and Hawaii itself. The plan was undermined by faulty Japanese assumptions of the American reaction and poor initial dispositions. Most significantly, American cryptographers were able to determine the date and location of the planned attack, enabling the forewarned U.S. Navy to prepare its own ambush.

Four Japanese and three American aircraft carriers participated in the battle. The four Japanese fleet carriers—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū, and Hiryū, part of the six-carrier force that had attacked Pearl Harbor six months earlier—were sunk, as was the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The U.S. lost the carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann, while the carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet survived the battle fully intact.

After Midway and the exhausting attrition of the Solomon Islands campaign, Japan's capacity to replace its losses in materiel (particularly aircraft carriers) and men (especially well-trained pilots and maintenance crewmen) rapidly became insufficient to cope with mounting casualties, while the United States' massive industrial and training capabilities made losses far easier to replace. The Battle of Midway, along with the Guadalcanal campaign, is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway