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The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany, Russia, Czech etc.), and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,and ancestors Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison.
The Goodlove Family History Website:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/index.html
The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:
• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx
• • Books written about our unique DNA include:
• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.
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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.
“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.
February 1, 50 BC: The image of long-haired, moustachioed Celts depicted in the cartoon tales of Asterix and Obelix actually has a basis in historical records.
Classical texts mention that both Celtic men and women had long hair, with the men sporting beards or moustaches.
One Roman, Diodorus Siculus, wrote: ‘When they are eating the moustache becomes entangled in the food, and when they are drinking the drink passes, as it were, through a sort of strainer’.
With Christianity not coming to northern Europe until the 6th century AD, the Celts worshipped a variety of pagan Gods and practised polygamy.
Important religious festivals included Beltane, May 1, the beginning of the warm season, and Lugnasad, August 1, celebrating the ripening of the crops.
Other feasts included Imbolc, February 1, when sheep begin to lactate, and Samhain, November 1, a festival when spirits could pass between the worlds, thought to have carried on in the tradition of Halloween.
As for leisure activities for both the young and old, glass gaming pieces have been found in later Iron Age burials, suggesting the Celts played board games.
Children may have occupied their free time by practising their skill at the slingshot - a common Iron Age weapon.[1]
February 1, 682: Visigoth King Erwig pressed for the "utter extirpation of the pest of the Jews," and made it illegal to practice any Jewish rites in an area that corresponds to much of modern day Spain. This put further pressure on the Jews to convert or emigrate.[2]
683:
Death of Yazid. Accession of Mu'awiyah II.[3]
684:
Abdullah b Zubair declares himself aS the Caliph at'Makkah. Marwan I becomes the Caliph' at Damascus. Battle of Marj Rahat.[4]
685:
Death of Marwan I. Abdul Malik becomes the Caliph at Damascus. Battle of Ain ul Wada. [5]
686:
Mukhtar declares himself as the Caliph at Kufa. [6]
February 1, 1733: King Augustus II of Poland passed away. Born in 1670, Augustus II was the Elector of Saxony (Germany) before gaining Augustus gained the Polish throne. His rise to power was facilitated by his “court Jew” and financier Issachar Berend Lehmann.[7]
February 1 - 14 February 1777
Washington's headquarters is at Morristown, New Jersey.[8]
Month of February. February 1st.1780: Toward morning the air was fair and the course set W by N. As soon as the air cleared up, the tongues of the men loosened again. About half past three we passed the men-of-war, which had anchored before the bar because of the lack of depth. At last, about four o’clock, we caught sight with true joy of the lighthouse of Tybee on the coast of Georgia. Toward six o’clock in the evening a large part of the fleet anchored safely in the mouth of the Savannah River, where to our ? we found over eighteen sail of the fleet which we had given up for lost. [9]
February 1, 1794
Harrison County, Kentucky created 1793 from Bourbon and Scott Counties to commence Feb. 1. 1794.
Harrison County was named for Col. Benjamin Harrison, an early resident of Bourbon, the first Sheriff of that county, and its representative in the State at the time of the formation of HarrisonCounty. He was a native of Pennsylvania and removed to Bourbon prior to its formation as a county in 1785, where he held many prominent positions, etc.[10]
February 1, 1799: The French army under Napoleon left for Palestine to forestall a Turco-British invasion through the Palestinian land-bridge.[11] Ancestor Joseph LeClere was said to have been in Napoleon’s Body Guard unit.
1804 - February 1 - Letter, Charles Dehault Delassus to Henry Peyroux. Have received suit of Messrs. Waters and Olive vs. Benjamin Harrison, Sr. but pressing current work has prevented paying any attention to it. [12]
February 1, 1809: Ordered that Daniel McKinnon be allowed Eight Dollars and ninety cts for his Services done for the County from the first of December 1808 till February 1, 1809 Summoning the grandjury at January Term 1809.[13]
February 1, 1813: Ancestor and future President, William Henry Harrison advanced to the site of Fort Meigs with an army which ultimately numbered 4,000 men (mainly militia) and began construction of the fort on February 1, 1813. Harrison contemplated a hit-and-run attack across the frozen Lake Erie against the British position at Amherstburg, but found that the ice was breaking up and returned to the half-finished fort.[1] He found the officer he had left in charge, Joel B. Leftwich, had left with all his men because the enlistment period of the militia units assigned to the task had expired. Construction had halted, and the wood that had been cut was being used as firewood.
As the enlistments of Harrison's Ohio and Kentucky militia were also about to expire, Harrison disbanded his force and departed for Cincinnati, Ohio, to raise a fresh army. He left Engineer Major Eleazer D. Wood to complete the construction of the fort. The garrison consisted of several hundred men from the 17th and 19th U.S. Infantry, who were inadequately clothed, plus militia from Pennsylvania and Virginia whose own enlistments were soon to expire.
The fort was on the south bank of the Maumee, near the Miami Rapids. Across the river were the ruins of the old British Fort Miami and the site of the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers. Fort Meigs occupied an area of 8 acres (32,000 m2), the largest constructed in North America to that date. The perimeter consisted of a fifteen-foot picket fence, linking eight blockhouses. The north face was protected by the Maumee, and the east and west faces by ravines. The south face was cleared of all timber to create an open glacis.[2]
The poor weather of early spring prevented a British attack while the fort was still vulnerable.[3] The British commander on the Detroit frontier, Major General Henry Procter, had been urged to attack Presque Isle (present day Erie, Pennsylvania), where the Americans were constructing a flotilla intended to seize control of Lake Erie, but Procter refused unless he received substantial reinforcements. Instead, he decided upon an attack on Fort Meigs, to disrupt American preparations for a summer campaign and hopefully capture supplies.[4] Harrison received word of Procter's preparations, and hastened to the fort with 300 reinforcements, increasing the garrison to a total of 1,100 men.[2] Embankments were hastily thrown up inside the fort as a protection against artillery fire. Harrison had persuaded Isaac Shelby, the Governor of Kentucky, to call up a brigade of 1,200 Kentucky militia under Brigadier General Green Clay. Clay's brigade had followed Harrison down the Maumee, but had not reached the fort before it was besieged. [14]
February 1, 1861: Texas secedes from the Union.[15]
February 1, 1861
To Zebulon Baird Vance
From Wm. L. Love
Webster No. Ca.
Menny of your former political supporters are secessionists. I still stand firm for the Union and find many Dems as I am-But the leaders of Dem. In Jackson-such as Fisher, Dills, Allison, &c are Dimunionists. “Thad” is sound.
On the 16th or 17 ult sen. Simons made a Speech in the U.S. Senate in which he said the first “Liberty Law” was enacted by a Dem. Legislature signed by a Dem Gov. &c. This is a sweet morsel. I relish any thing that makes Dem. Look damnable. Who was this Dem. Gov. What appointments did “Polk” give him? I would very much like to know what was the political character of “The “ several Leg’s that passed these Laws-who was then Gov&c. that is if they were Dem.
Let me hear from you-
Washington
Zebulon Vance to James A. Seddon, February 1, 1865:
(Zebulon Vance is at the time, the Governor of North Carolina.)
Dear Sir:
I beg leave to call your attention to the conditions of the Federal prisoners of war at Salisbury, N.C. Accounts read me of the most distressing character in regard to their suffering and destitution. I earnestly request you to have the matter inquired into and if in our power, to relieve them, that it be done. If they are willfully left to suffer when we can avoid it, it would be not only a blot in our humanity, but would lay us open to severe retaliation. I know how strained our means are, however, it will cast no blame upon any one without further information.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Z. B. Vance
(Zebulon Vance to James A. Seddon, February 1, 1865.)
(Zebulon Vance is the compilers 3rd cousin, six times removed. JG)
ZEBULON VANCE AS A YOUNG MAN, WITH HIS RIGHT HAND INSIDE VEST.
http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/MOH/vfpcgi.exe?IDCFile=/moh/DETAILS.IDC,SPECIFIC=1079,DATABASE=40381957,
February 1, 1865
Job Kirby[16], son of William Kirby, was born in 1816, and came to America with his mother in 1849. He was unmarried, and when the Civil War broke out, he enlisted in a New York State regiment (Company G, 104th Regiment, New York Volunteers), and went to the front. After one year of service he was taken prisoner by Confederates. He was paroled, but his patriotism led him back into the army and he was taken prisoner a second time. He was held in a stockade at Salisbury[17], North Carolina, where from exposure and neglect he died and was buried February 1, 1865, aged forty-eight years.[18]
In February 1865 a new exchange program was finally approved. Men at the Salisbury Prison were divided into two groups in order to be liberated. The largest group consisted of 3729 of the more able-bodied prisoners who were marched to Greensboro, North Carolina and then taken by train to Wilmington, North Carolina to be received by Confederate Major Robert F. Hoke. The second group, containing 1420 of the sickest prisoners was sent to Richmond. The Prison then became a supply depot, but it had no prisoners when on April 12, 1865 (3 days after Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox) Union General George Stoneman arrived in Salisbury to free the Federals. The Prison was burned, the only one recorded as having been destroyed in this manner. A confederate Government flag that once flew over the gates is now housed at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. [19]
The young lady visiting the Salisbury prison where Job Kirby died and William Harrison Goodlove arrived only weeks later to rescue and guard the trains carrying the former prisoners to safety is descendant Jacqulin Kirby Goodlove, my daughter.
11,700 unknown Union soldiers are thought to be buried in 18 trenches, each 240 feet long, dug in an abandoned corn field outside the Confederate Prison stockades. Government records indicate about half that many. Salisbury National Cemetery encompassed this mass grave site, now a grassy expanse marked by a head and foot stone for each trench.
In the upper end of the stockade was a spring that supplied the water for the prison. The lower end of the stream was the latrine area. There were also trips made outside the prison to a nearby stream for fresh water. Unaware that bacteria could travel upstream, the rest is history.
General George Stoneman burned the prison buildings April 12-13, 1865
February 1, 1865
Illinois becomes the first state to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery in the United States.[21]
February 1, 1879: Catherine Ann “Kitty” STEPHENSON. Born on October 12, 1837 in Missouri. Catherine Ann “Kitty” died in Keytsville, Missouri on December 12, 1881; she was 44. Buried on December 15, 1881 in Keytsville, Missouri.
Information on the 7 children of Levi Flowers and Catherine Ann Stephenson was taken from the Capt. Hugh Stephenson Estate Court Records. A copy of these records are in the possession of Mabel Hoover.--REF
On September 20, 1855 when Catherine Ann “Kitty” was 17, she married Dr. Levi FLOWERS, in Carroll County, Missouri.
They had the following children:
i. Mary C. Born on October 12, 1859. Mary C. died in Dean Lake, Chariton County, Missouri on February 1, 1879; she was 19. Buried in Stephenson Cemetery, Dean Lake, Chariton County, Missouri.
ii. Emma.
Emma married HAWKINS.
iii. Joe.
iv. Thomas.
v. Agnes.
vi. Scott.
21 vii. Charles (-<1914) [22] February 1, 1941: Prime Minister Churchill instructed his Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, to send a warning to Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu telling him “that we will hold him and immediate circle personally responsible in life and limb” if the Iron Cross did not stop their murderous attacks on the Jews.[23] February 1, 1942: The SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (Economic-Administrative Main Office; WVHA) is established, under Oswald Pohl. Also, a nationalist government is formed in Norway under Vidkun Quisling.[24]
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Drancy, 1942
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Drancy today.
USS Enterprise CV-6
The Most Decorated Ship of the Second World War
1942 - Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands Raid
February 1, 1942
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"It was one of those plans which are called 'brilliant' if they succeed and 'foolhardy' if they fail."
Vice Admiral William F. Halsey
For a moment, imagine being gifted with extraordinary vision, standing in the center of Tokyo, Japan, on January 1, 1942, and being lifted well above the surface of the earth. Gazing to the southeast, towards the central Pacific, one might first pick out the smudge of Marcus Island, not quite a thousand miles distant, a Japanese possession since 1898. Peering further into the distance, still directly southeast, a string of coral atolls appears some 3000 miles away. These are the Marshall Islands, which Japan seized from Germany in 1914 (Japan aligned itself with the Allies in World War I), and which were formally mandated to Japan's control by the Treaty of Versailles, signed in June 1919.
Beyond the Marshalls are the Gilbert Islands - which Japan seized two days after Pearl Harbor - and, still further southeast, the Ellice Islands. South and east of the Ellice Islands lie Fiji and Samoa, which in turn straddle the critical shipping lanes between the United States and Australia. It was these shipping lanes, and the obvious possibility of Japan severing them, that occupied the minds of American military planners from Washington, DC to Hawaii during the first weeks of the war.
1 February 1942: an Enterprise Dauntless dive bomber prepares for launch during the Marshall Islands raid.
The night passed uneventfully until, at 0220, the officer of the watch reported sand blowing in his face. Halsey ordered the ship's position checked: its course based on old maps of questionable accuracy, the ship could have been moments from running aground. The officer then thought to taste a few grains of the "sand". Finding they were suspiciously sweet, he soon traced their source to a sailor on watch, stirring sugar into his coffee. Forty minutes later, at 0300, the ship's crew was awakened, and the Big E - still underway - prepared to launch her first strikes of the war.
Enterprise's flight deck bustles with activity during the Marshall Islands raid.
The first missions were timed to reach their targets throughout the northern Marshall Islands simultaneously, just before 0700: the same time that Spruance's cruiser force was to commence bombardment of Wotje and Taroa. At 0430, Enterprise turned into the wind. Thirteen minutes later, six F4F Wildcats roared into the black night for Combat Air Patrol, followed immediately 36 Scouting Six and Bombing Six SBDs led by Enterprise Air Group commander CDR Howard L. Young. Just after 0500, a second strike of nine TBD Devastators from Torpedo Six, and an SBD delayed by engine trouble, rumbled down the Big E's flight deck. These 46 planes formed up in the dark - no easy task - and headed for Kwajalein Atoll, 155 miles away. At 0610, still nearly an hour before sunrise, twelve Fighting Six Wildcats were launched for Wotje and Taroa. One Wildcat pilot, ENS David W. Criswell, apparently became disoriented in the dark. His plane stalled shortly after takeoff and plunged into the sea: Criswell was never found. Considering the limited training given pilots in night operations before the war, it's remarkable there weren't further mishaps.
On this first strike, each Devastator torpedo plane was armed with three 500 lb instantaneous-fused bombs - rather than the usual torpedo - while the Dauntlesses each lugged a single 500 lb bomb as well as two 200 lb bombs. The Wildcats carried two 100 lb bombs each.
As the planes droned through the pre-dawn darkness, Spruance's cruisers closed range with Wotje and Taroa: Northampton and Salt Lake City would take Wotje, while Chester and several destroyers sidled up to Taroa.
Shortly before 0700, Gene Lindsey's torpedo planes broke off from the main body of Dauntlesses and headed for Kwajalein anchorage, some 44 miles south of Roi at the northern end of the atoll. "Brigham" Young's SBDs, meanwhile, grappled with darkness, low-lying fog, and decades-old maps, trying to identify Roi itself. At 0705, seven minutes after the strikes were scheduled to begin, and - more importantly - after the defenders on the ground had been alerted to their approach, they succeeded.
In a steep, gliding run, LCDR Halstead L. Hopping led his division of six SBDs through increasing anti-aircraft fire, releasing his bombs over the enemy's airfield, where even as the attack begin, fighters were scrambling into the air. As the lead plane, Hopping's SBD drew much of the defenders' fire and plunged into the sea after releasing its bomb: Hopping and his gunner, RM 1/c Harold Thomas, were lost. Scouting Six continued the attack, with Earl Gallaher and C. E. Dickinson each leading six SBDs into the fray. The bombers pummeled the airfield - destroying an ammunition dump, two hangars, and a radio station - and swung back around to strafe the base and parked planes on the ground. Enemy fighters and anti-aircraft fire claimed three more SBDs, but Enterprise's airmen put on a spirited defense and claimed three "Claudes" in exchange.
With Roi in a shambles, seven marauding VS-6 SBDs - their big 500 lb bombs still slung under their bellies - made off for Kwajalein anchorage, where more substantial targets had been reported by Torpedo Six commander Gene Lindsey. Discovering several merchant ships, submarines, and the cruiser Katori in the anchorage, Lindsey had immediately called for more planes. Over Roi, Young picked up and repeated Lindsey's alert - "Targets suitable for heavy bombs at Kwajalein anchorage" - before detaching Bombing Six with the seven accompanying Scouting Six planes. Young's broadcast was heard aboard Enterprise, where the remaining nine VT-6 Devastators were armed with torpedoes and readied for launch.
Lindsey's Devastators had surprised the anchorage, damaging several of the ships there while encountering only poorly-directed defensive fire. Bombing Six, led by LCDR William R. Hollingsworth, and the remaining planes of VS-6, followed up with a dive-bombing attack from 14,000 feet. On their departure, the transport Bordeaux Maru and subchaser Shonan Maru appeared to be sinking, a half dozen other ships were damaged, and 90 men including the area commander lay dead.[27]
In close coordination with the strikes against Roi and Kwajalein, Fighting Six had swept over Taroa and Wotje - the latter occasionally in sight of Enterprise - just before 0700. At Wotje, VF-6 commander LT C. Wade McClusky, had led six planes in two high-speed bombing runs over the slumbering island, targeting the airfield (still under construction), before returning once more to strafe buildings and suspected gun placements.
A quad-1.1" anti-aircraft gun mount on Enterprise, in early 1942. These guns were replaced by 40mm Bofors by October.
However, it fell to LT James S. Gray and his flight of five Wildcats to stir up the Marshall's real hotspot: Taroa. Shortly before 0700, Gray and his wingman, LT(jg) Wilmer Rawie, mistakenly bombed the unoccupied island of Tjan, which Gray had misidentified as Taroa. Somewhat chagrined, Gray roared away to the southeast, stringing out the other Wildcats in a long, thin line, as they scrambled to keep up. Fifteen miles from Tjan, they found their target.
Expecting to find a lightly-defended seaplane base, as intelligence reports had suggested, Gray and his flight were thrilled and alarmed to behold a fully operational airfield, two new mile-long runways and an ample complement of warplanes. Barely 100 miles southeast of the Big E, Taroa was a genuine threat, and its defenders were wide awake.
Streaking in from 8,000 feet, the Wildcats targeted the island's small navy yard and airfield with their remaining 100 lb bombs, then swung back around to deliberately strafe the neat rows of planes parked on the airfield, including an estimated 30-40 twin-engine bombers. With no incendiary shells, the fighters were able to set only one parked plane on fire, but rendered many others inoperable, an accomplishment that would prove of vital importance later in the day.
Recovering from his first pass over the island, Rawie identified a pair of enemy planes - Type 96 "Claude" fixed-gear fighters - about a mile ahead. Undetected, Rawie approached from below and crippled one fighter with a long burst of .50-caliber shells, before hurtling past the second plane and abruptly reversing course to approach it head-on. Neither airman gave way until the last possible moment, and even then the Wildcat's belly clipped the Claude's wing, barely perturbing the Wildcat but forcing the enemy plane to stagger in retreat.
Taking remarkable risks, the Taroa's ground crews and airmen scrambled six more fighters into the air despite Fighting Six's repeated strafing runs. As these fighters came to grips with Gray's Wildcats, a flaw which had plagued the F4F's guns for months came into play. One by one, the .50-caliber guns jammed: all four of Rawie's guns jammed on his second pass over the airfield, ENS Ralph Rich's failed him as well, and both pilots soon turned for home, along with two other VF-6 airmen in similar straits. Unintentionally, they left LT Gray behind, who soon found himself the center of attention for Taroa's angry fighters. Outmatched by the more maneuverable Japanese planes, Gray struggled to break free, turning into and firing his one operating gun at each Claude as it streaked by. By 0720, Gray was finally in the clear and on his way home, his plane sporting over thirty holes and numerous dents in the seat armor installed just a day earlier.
With Fighting Six's retirement from Wotje and Taroa, Spruance's bombardment force - which had been observing the aerial action over the atolls - went to work. Off Wotje, Northampton and Salt Lake City sent their first salvos hurtling towards the island at 0715, before turning their attention to several slow-moving merchant ships slipping out of the anchorage. Off Taroa, the cruiser Chester and two destroyers picked up where the Wildcats had left off, targeting the airfield and planes on the ground. Like Gray's fighters, Chester received a warm welcome from Taroa's airmen, suffering some casualties from a small bomb which struck her deck aft, and getting a real scare from a formation of eight planes which made a level bombing run on the cruiser at 0830. The latter attack scored no hits, but was enough to convince Chester and her escorts to back away from the swarming enemy base.
Aboard Enterprise, Halsey and his staff interrogated the returning pilots, beginning with Rawie who returned at about 0800, and quickly singled out Taroa as deserving of additional strikes. By this time, LCDR Lance Massey was well on his way to Kwajalein with nine torpedo-laden Devastators, to follow up on the earlier attacks on shipping there. With most of VF-6 now needed for Combat Air Patrol, Bombing and Scouting Six were called on to continue the attack.
As she did twenty-one other times during the raid, Enterprise turned into the easterly wind at about 0930 to launch planes. This strike was led by Bombing Six's commander, LCDR Hollingsworth, who had just returned from the Roi strike. The nine SBDs - two from VS-6, the rest from Hollingsworth's VB-6 - arrived over Taroa to find the most of the enemy's fighters on the ground, being refueled and rearmed. Attacking from out of the sun, the heavily laden bombers devastated two hangars, as many as nine planes on the ground, and a number of smaller buildings. Five Claudes engaged the SBDs but without success, and all nine in Hollingsworth's flight returned safely to the Big E.
At 1030, a third strike against the beleaguered atoll rumbled down Enterprise's flight deck. Led by Bombing Six's Richard Best, the SBDs finished the job Hollingsworth's had started, wrecking a radio tower, fuel tanks, and airfield installations. Taroa's fighters lashed out, engaging two of Best's SBDs in sustained aerial combat, and finally cornering the last SBD in formation, flown by ENS John Doherty. The Dauntlesses could claim two Claudes, but Doherty and his gunner AOM 3/c Will Hunt failed to return. Taroa, it was believed, was in ruins.
With the return of Best's strike, and a second strike against Wotje led by Air Group Commander Young, the Big E began retiring from the Marshalls, or, as it was colorfully referred to in some quarters, "hauling ass with Halsey". Having operated for nearly ten hours in a narrow rectangle of ocean in range of several enemy airfields, sometimes even in sight of Wotje itself, Halsey had stretched his luck as far as he dared, which was far indeed. Enterprise left the area much as she had arrived, racing north at 30 knots.
This Scouting Six dive bomber had its tail clipped by a crashing enemy bomber, even as AMM 2/c Bruno Gaido manned its rear gun in the carrier's defense.
Since well before dawn, the Big E's company had been at battle stations, awaiting the Japanese response, which to this point had been practically nil. In mid-morning, radar had indicated a bogey northwest of the Task Force, but fighters sent to investigate returned empty-handed. On several occasions, friendly planes returning from strikes had caused some alarm, but all were correctly identified before any mishaps could occur. A little past 1330, there was again confusion when a bogey appeared on Enterprise's radar, closing range rapidly. This time, however, the planes were not friendly: from Taroa's battered airfield, five big twin-engined Type 96 "Nell" bombers bore down on the island's tormentor.
Four VF-6 Wildcats made contact with the bombers 15 miles from the Big E, but jammed guns and cloud cover allowed the Nells to elude the CAP. Approaching in a shallow dive, the bombers burst from the clouds 3500 yards off Enterprise's starboard bow, hurtling towards their target at 250 knots. Every five inch gun that could be brought to bear opened fire, but the gunners' inexperience, the stress of battle and the high speed of the approaching planes led to the shells trailing their target, where they were of more danger to the CAP than to the enemy. Captain George Murray ordered hard left rudder quickly followed by hard right; the ship responded with reassuring nimbleness and neatly "stepped aside" from the approaching bombers. As the 1.1" gun mounts began their deafening fire, the five planes let fall a loose "stick" of three 60 kg bombs each. Most fell harmlessly to port, the concussions pounding the ship's hull and lifting her in the water. One bomb exploded close enough to severe a gasoline line, starting a small fire and mortally wounding BM 2/c George Smith.
Recovering from their dive a scant 1500 feet above the Big E's flight deck, four of the five bombers sped away, but the fifth plane - piloted by the flight leader LT Kazuo Nakai - turned sharply to the left and circled back towards the carrier as if to land. Despite the combined fire of every gun that could bear, the plane kept coming on, clearly intending to crash into the ship. At the last moment, Enterprise veered hard to the right, and the plane - whether due to mechanical damage or an incapacitated pilot - failed to match her turn. Hurtling mere feet over the aft flight deck, the bomber's right wing clipped the tail of parked Scouting Six Dauntless (whose rear gun had been manned by AMM 2/c Bruno Gaido), and snapped off, drenching the island and flight deck forward with gasoline, before coming to rest in a port catwalk. The Nell, Nakai, and his crew plunged into the sea off Enterprise's port quarter and were quickly left behind.
A little scuffed up from the attack, Enterprise and her escorts returned to their course and made away from Taroa at high speed, under the protection of a wary CAP. A little more than an hour after the bombers' appearance, two Wildcats played cat-and-mouse with an enemy seaplane, eventually forcing it down. Additional contacts kept the CAP busy through the afternoon, including two bombers which made a level-bombing run at 1600. With some spotting assistance from Fighting Six commander McClusky, the ship's gunners damaged one of the planes. Like their predecessors, the two Nells could manage only near misses. As they retired, McClusky and his men sent the undamaged bomber down in flames; the other bomber evaded the CAP and got away, still trailing smoke from a damaged engine.
As dusk drew near, the wary CAP also became the weary CAP. By sunset at 1835, all fourteen Fighting Six Grummans were on patrol, the fifth mission of the day for some of the pilots. By 1902, the last of the CAP had landed, aided by a full moon which illuminated the ships' wakes as well. To throw any enemy snoopers off, Halsey briefly set the Task Force on a northwest course - away from home - and gratefully found shelter under a damp cold front. Under the cover of what would become known as "Enterprise weather", the Big E turned northeast and headed for home. [28] Uncle Howard Snell was on board the Enterprise.
February 1, 1943: Most of the 1,500 Jews remaining in Buczacz who had not been sent to Belzac were murdered.[29]
February 1, 1943: On January 25, 1943 Gunther, Eichmann’s assistant, replied (XXVI-70) that the Reich’s Transportation Ministry had given the green light for the transport in freight cars of 1,500 to 2,000 Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz. There was no objection, cabled Gunther, to the deportation of French Jews if it were undertaken in accordance with the guidelines for the evacuation of the Jews from France. Moreover, he indicated that the escort from Drancy to the Reich’s border would be a commando from the SD of Metz and that after the border, the Ordnungspolizei would escort the convly to Auschwitz. On January 26 (XXVc-198), Knochen telexed to all the regional Gestapo offices: arrest all deportable Jews and transfer them to Drancy. Thus, for example, on January 28, 170 persons arrived from Bordeau (XXVc-198); on January 29, Merdsche, the Commander of Orleans, sent 67 Jews to Drancy, among them 25 women and 4 children; from Poitiers 22 internees arrived; from Dijon, on February 1, 70 Jews (XXVc-199); and from Angers, 9 (XXVc-202). [30]
1942 Chronology
Gilbert and Marshall Islands
February 1, 1942
February 1, 1968
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February 1, 1979: In the spirit of a new freedom for Iran, Prime Minister Bakhtar has allowed the Ayatollah Khomeini to return.[33] Khomeini returns to Iran.[34] Millions greet Khomeini, who calls for expelling all foreigners from Iran.[35]
Kyle Berger. "Tracing roots to Aaron: Kohanim represent the original Jewish priesthood." The Western Jewish Bulletin (Vancouver, B.C., Canada, February 1, 2002). Excerpts:
"Today, it is estimated that approximately five per cent or 350,000 men of the seven million male Jews around the world are kohanim.... So, now I know that, not only am I a direct descendant of Moses' brother, but I am a member of the Jewish priesthood who carries the heavy responsibilities of keeping the traditions of the kohanim alive.... In early 1997, Nature reported that a research team had found a unique genetic chromosome linking kohanim across the globe. Prof. Karl Skorecki... along with his researchers, found that the 188 unrelated kohanim they tested shared a variation of the Y chromosome which linked them to Aaron, who was born in 2365 BCE. This specific chromosome would only be passed from father to son. This research provided proof that the priesthood established by Aaron probably did exist as the Torah details it. However, not everyone in the scientific world agreed with Skorecki's conclusions. Dr. Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin... attempted to cast doubt on Skorecki's findings. In an article published in the Jerusalem Post, Feb. 28, 2001, Zoossmann-Diskin claimed that studies of kohanim are 'problematic and arrive at conclusions that are not supported by all available data.'... But Skorecki maintained his claims to be true and said the findings of his research team have been corroborated several times since then. OK. So, now I accept that I probably really am a descendant of Aaron and that kohanim are supposed to be the role models of the Jewish people."
Dr. Levon Yepiskoposyan (Yerevan, Armenia), Head of the Institute of Man and President of the Armenian Anthropological Society:
"Indeed there are some evidences of genetic relation between Armenians and Jews. Jewish population could preserve 'genetic signature' of their ancient ancestors in male Y chromosome - in genetically isolated communities of Cohanim. It is so called 'Cohanim modal haplotype' - CMH. We found the presence of CMH in modern Armenians as well. This is a strong evidence of ancient genetic contacts between Armenians and Hebrews. We suppose that these contacts took place about 3-4k years ago. Our paper on Y chromosome diversity in the Armenian population is in press. It is impossible to establish the ethnic origin of any person according to blood ABO groups." [36]
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[1] Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2164897/Iron-Age-coins-worth-10m-discovered-Jersey-metal-detector-friends.html#ixzz1z1ORUxqL
[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[3] http://barkati.net/english/chronology.htm
[4] http://barkati.net/english/chronology.htm
[5] http://barkati.net/english/chronology.htm
[6] http://barkati.net/english/chronology.htm
[7] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[8] http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AMREV-HESSIANS/1999-03/0922729801
[9] Diary of the American War, A Hessian Journal by Captain Johann Ewald pgs.191-196.
[10] (History Bourbon etc., p. 220) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html
[11] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[12] (New Madrid Archives #1359) Chronology of Benjamin Harrison compiled by Isobel Stebbins Giuvezan. Afton, Missouri, 1973 http://www.shawhan.com/benharrison.html
[13] Champaign County Clerk
[14] Antal, Sandy (1997). A Wampum Denied: Proctor's War of 1812. Carleton University Press. ISBN 0-87013-443-4.
Berton, Pierre (2001). Flames Across the Border. Anchor Canada. ISBN 978-0385658386.
Elting, John R. (1995). Amateurs to Arms: A military history of the War of 1812. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80653-3.
Hitsman, J. Mackay; Donald E. Graves (1999). The Incredible War of 1812. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio. ISBN 1-896941-13-3.
•Latimer, Jon (2007). 1812: War with America''. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-67402-584-9.
[15] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[16] By coincidence, on the same day that I discovered that Job Kirby was at the Salisbury Prison, I found out that that my daughter, Anna Lee Goodlove was to play in a soccer tournament the weekend of July 22, 2006 and be staying in nearby Winston-Salem.
Upon arrival to Salisbury, North Carolina:
The librarian at the History room at the Rowan County Library in Salisbury N.C. had done some research for me prior to our arrival. Upon our arrival, she shared some interesting information that was not what we had suspected.
Phillip Barton
Library Director
Rowan Public Library
PO Box 4039
201 West Fisher Street
Salisbury, NC 28145-4039
There was no record of Job at the Salisbury National Cemetery. There was a record of his being treated at the Salisbury Prison Hospital and being released.
There was a record of him in the “Index of Prisoners of War of the United States Army Who Enlisted in the Rebel Service at Salisbury, N.C.”
This of course was not what we expected and after doing additional research at the Salisbury Library, my 15 year old daughter, Jacqulin Kirby Goodlove and I made our way to the nearby Salisbury National Cemetery.
There is strangeness that permeates this place that is difficult to explain. It is clearly a
memorial to those who gave their lives for the ideals of the Union, located in a place surrounded by those who fought for the south or were from descendants of slaves and slave owners and their families. It represents more than that however, to those who have friends or family members who were POW’s or soldier’s that are missing or whereabouts are “unknown.” There are many unanswered questions at this place. More questions than answers. “Unknown” graves and unknown stories. What is Job’s story?
During our visit I learned from a former employee of the cemetery that the museum at the cemetery has been closed for years. We arrived prior to the 4:30 PM closing time however we learned that the people that assist in finding graves often leave early. There are many markers that indicate “Unknown Soldier” at the cemetery. Also there is a large area with no markers. These are the eighteen trenches that many were buried without markers because there were too many. The lady at the library said that they know virtually everyone that died at Salisbury. Perhaps they just don’t know who was buried where. It is a solemn place that stretches about sixteen acres. This is not the prison, or the yard. Only the grave area that was outside the prison, across the train tracks in a nearby corn field. A train passed on those tracks while we stood and watched. It reminded me of how that sound of the train must have made those feel that were already in the prison while it brought more men to an already starved and overcrowded prison yard. There are now many more questions than answers. Questions about Job Kirby, of how and where he died. Questions about his desertion to the confederate army and when he was admitted and released from the Salisbury prison hospital.
[17] On a knoll in the beautifully maintained Historic Salisbury National Cemetery lies an area marked by the absence of individual tombstones. Under the grassy mantle and stately tree are the remains of some of the men who died at the Salisbury Confederate Prison.
[18] The Career of a Family, History of William and Esther Kirby and their Family up to the Present time (December, 1914) by John Kirby, Adrian, Michigan. Page 10.
[19] (www.salisburyprison.org/prisonhistory,htm)
[20] http://ncmuseumofhistory.org/MOH/vfpcgi.exe?IDCFile=/moh/DETAILS.IDC,SPECIFIC=62169,DATABASE=40016926,
[21] On This Day in America by John Wagman.
[22] www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/families/Stephenson.rtf
[23] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[24] Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Israel Gutman, Editor, page 1770.
[25] History International
[26] History International
[27] http://www.cv6.org/1942/marshalls/default.htm
[28] http://www.cv6.org/1942/marshalls/marshalls_2.htm
[29] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/
[30] Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, 1942-1944 by Serge Klarsfeld, page 360-361.
[31] LBJ Presidential Library, Austin, TX February 11, 2012
[32] LBJ Presidential Library, Austin TX. February 11, 2012
[33] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 504
[34] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 498.
[35] Jimmy Carter, The Liberal Left and World Chaos by Mike Evans, page 504
[36] http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts-cohen-levite.html
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