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To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.

- Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor)

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VBIED
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Vehicle Based Improvised Explosive Device


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Today in Military History

February 6



1922:

Washington Naval Treaty limits numbers and size of major warships


1943:

Patrolling the Western Mediterranean, HMCS LOUISBURG is sunk by a torpedo from an Italian torpedo bomber with a loss of 42 of her crew.


1961:

American Military Assistance Command formed in South Vietnam




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