This Day in Military History - 27 JAN 1778 – Marines landed at New Providence, Bahamas; the American flag flew over foreign soil for the first time. 1814 – Congress authorizes a United States Army of 62,773 men. 1862 – President Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, ordering all land and sea forces to advance on February 22, 1862. 1863 – Ironclad U.S.S. Montauk, Commander John L. Worden, and U.S.S. Seneca, Wissahickon, Dawn, and mortar schooner C. P. Williams engaged Confederate batteries at Fort McAllister, Georgia, on the Ogeechee River. 1939 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the sale of U.S. war planes to France. 1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning (pictured below). 1943 – 8th Air Force bombers, dispatched from their bases in England, fly the first American bombing raid against the Germans, targeting the Wilhelmshaven port. 1944 – The governments of Australia, Britain and the United States protest the Japanese treatment of prisoners of war. They indicate a determination to investigate and punish those responsible. 1951 – Forcefully marking the continued importance of the West in the development of nuclear weaponry, the government detonates the first of a series of nuclear bombs at its new Nevada test site. 1953 – The Combat Cargo Command of the U.S. Air Force transported its 2,000,000th passenger to Korea after two years of operations as the Far East’s military airline. 1959 – NASA selected 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight. 1962 – Secretary of Defense McNamara forwards a memorandum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to President Kennedy which urges the deployment of US forces to Vietnam (pictured below). 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords are signed by officials from the United States and North Vietnam, bringing an official end to America’s participation in its most unpopular foreign war (Kissinger pictured with Le Duc Tho below). 1977 – Pres. Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft evaders. For more info and thanks to https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress/2014/01/27/january-27/
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