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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors pieces together the action of the Battle off Samar, bringing to life a riveting story of heroism against daunting odds, duty, and sacrifice in a way never seen before.
James D. Hornfischer’s gripping account of the battle, based on declassified documents as well as extensive interviews with veterans, is acclaimed as one of the most compelling works of naval history ever published. Hornfischer’s awards include the 2018 Samuel Eliot Morison Award, given by the Board of Trustees of the USS Constitution Museum.
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10 might rightly have expected
MasterChef Australia to lift in its numbers last night… the Top 24 were in the kitchen battling it out for the first time and Seven was offering little competition.
Instead the show dropped, again gazumped by
Lego Masters on 766,000 -from the same production company Endemol Shine Australia.
Hard Quiz was next at 653,000 then
MasterChef Australia (549,000),
Highway Patrol (378,000 / 361,000).
Later
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (530,000),
Amazing Grace (298,000),
Bull (244,000 / 143,000).
Nine network won Wednesday with 29.0% then Seven 24.3%, 10 21.1%, ABC 18.5% and SBS 7.1%.
Nine News (921,000 / 909,000) was best for Nine.
A Current Affair won at 701,000 with
Hot Seat at 447,000 / 271,000.
Footy Classified was 69,000 across the network.
Student pilot infringes despite ‘text-book’ planning
6th April 2021 14:24 Europe/London
A student pilot on a solo PPL Qualifying Cross-Country flight infringed Birmingham’s Class D airspace despite having a ‘neat and comprehensive pilot’s log’ planned and reviewed with his instructor.
The account of the incident is the latest on the Airspace Safety Initiative (ASI) website. It took place last October on a flight from Halfpenny Green to Wellesbourne Mountford.
The route had been planned on a VFR 1:500,000 chart and a neat and comprehensive Pilot Log (PLOG) was produced using the methods taught on the navigation module of the PPL course.
Sarmila Bose,
(Hurst, 2011).
The creation of Bangladesh was a missed opportunity for India to reverse the British partition of Bengal. It was an error of judgement due to India’s tendency to think in terms of how to damage Pakistan, rather than what might benefit India.
At the end of the 1971 war, Pakistan was in disarray and the Indian army was in control of the territory of East Pakistan. Had Indira Gandhi annexed it as the new state of East Bengal within the Union of India and offered Sheikh Mujib the chief ministership, evidence suggests he would have accepted. He had few options. India has responded with an iron fist to any secessionist tendencies within the boundaries it was bequeathed by the British, holding large swathes of territory under military occupation, without Constitutional protections. By 1975 Indira Gandhi had annexed Sikkim and broken the ‘Lion of Kashmir’, Sheikh Abdullah, who agreed to be chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.