Navy.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old



Sniper's Serenity-
A green phantom stalks these lands,
Thirty Ought Six in a Master's hands.
Chamber a matched, perfect round,
Slide home the bolt, forward and down.

Stay detached, loose and cool,
Time your breathing, remember the rule.
Get them now, kill them clean,
before they can hurt another Marine.

The first dies quick, the second has looked,
that one dies fast, a third has booked.
Number Three goes down, sight on Number Four,
this one's for my Brothers, Brothers of the Corps.

Even now at home, I remember that scene,
the four of them and a young Marine,
I would do it again, once more with pride,
to protect my Marines, the enemy has died.

- By Robert W. Baird, U.S.M.C. Sniper

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Today in Military History

December 9



1824:

Battle of Ayacucho - Peru defeats Spain


1835:

The Army of the Republic of Texas captures San Antonio


1861:

Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War created by the U.S. Congress


1937:

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing begins.


1940:

World War II: British Army attacks Italian forces in North Africa.


1941:

China and Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea declares war on Germany, and Italy.


1944:

British Eigth Army suspends offensive in Italy


1945:

American General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.


1946:

The Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals began with the Doctors' Trial, the trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity began for medical researchers involved in the horrors of Nazi human experimentation.


1961:

Adolf Eichmann found guilty of war crimes in Israel.


1992:

US Marines land in Somalia




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