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Stickin’ It To ‘Em – The Last of the Great Bayonet Charges
by MilitaryHistoryNow.com • 17 January, 2014 • 12 Comments
A World War One era doughboy trains with a bayonet. By the 1940s, bayonet charges were mostly a thing of the past. There were a few exceptions of course.
GET THE POINT? — A World War One doughboy trains with the bayonet. By the 1940s, cold steel charges were mostly a thing of the past. There were a few exceptions of course. Read on…
“There have been handful of occasions during the Second World War and in the decades that followed in which leaders in various situations would call out the words: ‘Fix bayonets!'”
IT WAS D-DAY plus five (June 11, 1944) when Robert Cole, a 29-year-old lieutenant-colonel with the 101st Airborne Division, found himself leading a column of 250 paratroops under heavy fire across Normandy’s bocage country. His objective: The Nazi-occupied town of Carentan.
The Allies had been trying (without success) for two days to secure the village. And now, with German mortar and artillery rounds falling as thick as rain, something needed to be done – and fast – to break the impasse before Cole’s detachment was completely wiped out. That’s when the Texas-born career soldier hatched what some might consider a foolhardy plan.
The young commander called in a smoke barrage in front of the German positions and then, to everyone’s astonishment, ordered his men to fix bayonets and charge. Nearly half of his unit was mowed down by machine gun fire as they darted across a patch of open ground on the edge of the town, but more than 100 of Cole’s men did manage to reach the German lines unscathed.
With the “Screaming Eagles” suddenly in their midst, the Axis defenders panicked and fled for their lives. American reinforcements rushed in to hold the ground and by the next day, the town of Carentan was safely in Allied hands.
The brazen attack would go down in history as “Cole’s Charge.” For leading the assault, the young commander would win the Medal of Honor. Sadly, he’d be killed in combat before the citation could be presented. To this day, the action is remembered as one of the few bayonet attacks of World War Two.
For centuries, cold-steel assaults were part of nearly every infantry engagement, both large and small. But with the advent of semi-automatic rifles and rapid-fire machine guns, bayonet attacks had become risky, even suicidal. Yet amazingly, there were still a handful of occasions during the Second World War and in the decades that followed in which leaders in various situations would call out the words: “Fix bayonets!” Consider these:
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/01/17/stickin-it-to-em-the-last-of-the-great-bayonet-charges/
A Brief History of the Bayonet
January 04, 2017 Posted by: Rebecca Walton
The bayonet transformed the musket from a medium to long range weapon into one effective at close range as well. There was no longer a need for pikemen to defend musketeers in battle because one soldier could defend himself against an enemy less than 100 yards away. The bayonet was primarily used during cavalry charges and in close range combat. The weight, shape and attachment of bayonets have changed throughout history in order to increase the effectiveness of the musket and the bayonet.
The first use of bayonets was simply a knife stuck on the end of a musket barrel used by French hunters catching wild boar. This combination was then used in warfare, and became known as a plug bayonet. Though an effective weapon, a downside of the plug bayonet was that the musketeer could not shoot after affixing it. The plug bayonet was succeeded by the socket bayonet, which fit over the muzzle of the barrel. A zig-zag motion around the bayonet lug allowed the musketeer to easily affix or remove the bayonet while still securing it in place. The major advantage to the socket bayonet was that the musket could still be fired while the bayonet was attached. To overcome the fact that not all soldiers used the same weapon, or weapons with the same barrel sizes, the socket bayonet was modified to have a split down the side. An intentional slit running the entire length of the socket allowed for an adjustable fit of the socket to the size of the barrel. Unlike the plug bayonet, the socket and split-socket bayonets had three edges, giving them the name “triangular bayonets”. Given forging processes at the time, a triangular blade was easier to create, and offered increased stability from a two sided or knife blade bayonet without much additional weight. During the War of 1812, bayonets for the British Brown Bess, French Charleville, and United States Springfield muskets were between 12 and 15 inches in length, and continued to have the triangular shape.
https://www.nps.gov/pevi/blogs/a-brief-history-of-the-bayonet.htm
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/bayonet-charges/
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Cue balls flying in chaotic directions, seemly random or picking of one ball at a time from the RACK.
Rack (billiards)
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Billiard balls in a rack
A rack (sometimes called a triangle)is a piece of equipment that is used to place billiard balls in their starting positions at the beginning of a pocket billiards game. Rack may also be used as a verb to describe the act of setting billiard balls in their starting positions (e.g. "to rack the balls"), or as a noun to describe a set of balls that are in their starting positions (e.g. "a rack of balls", more often called a pack or a pyramid in British English).
Traditional racks are in the form of triangular frames, usually made from wood, plastic or metal. A modern variation, called a template rack, is made from a thin material (usually0.14 mmor less) that contains precision cut-outs to hold the balls in place. Purported benefits of template racks include a more consistent racking, and their popularity has warranted specific inclusion in profession rules.[1] Unlike traditional racks, template racks are left on the table during the break shot and removed at the players' earliest convenience. For this reason, template racks are almost never used for games where it is common to slow-break (i.e. not create a large spread of balls) since it is significantly more likely that the rack will interfere with slow-rolling balls.
The most common shape of a rack is that of an equilateral triangle. Triangular racks are used for eight-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, bank pool, snooker and many other games. Diamond-shaped frames are sometimes use for the game of nine-ball (although a triangular rack can also be used) and template racks come in a variety of shapes.
Straight pool (14.1 continuous)
In the initial rack in straight pool, fifteen balls are racked in a triangular rack, with the center of the apex ball placed over the foot spot; the 1 ball is placed on the rack’s right corner, and the 5 ball on left corner from the racker's vantage point. This rule developed because the color and pattern of the 1 and 5 balls are thought to provide maximum contrast with the end rails and are the balls targeted on straight pool's exacting standard break. All other balls are placed at random.
Straight pool is played to a specific number of points agreed on prior to the match's start, with each pocketed ball being worth one point to the shooter. Because the game is played to a number of points normally far in excess of the fifteen points total available in the initial rack (in tournament play, one-hundred fifty points), multiple intragame racks are necessary. Intragame racking employs a separate set of rules from those in place at the game's start.
After the initial rack, the balls are played until only the cue ball and one object ball remain on the table's surface. At that time, the fourteen pocketed balls are racked with no apex ball, and the rack is so placed so that if the apex ball were in the rack, its center would rest directly over the table's foot spot. Play then continues with the cue ball shot from where it rested and the fifteenth ball from where it rested prior to racking.
A number of rules have developed which detail what must be done when one or both of the cue ball and fifteenth object ball are either in the rack area at the time an intragame rack is necessary, or are in such close proximity to the intragame racking area, that the physical rack cannot be used without moving the one or the other. The rules also vary depending on whether the cue ball or fifteenth ball are resting on the table's head spot. Such rules are detailed on the following chart (note therein that the kitchen refers to the area behind the table's head string).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_(billiards)
picking of one ball at a time from the RACK
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Smaller targets that can be bounced off of and pocketed easily. The black ball can be specifically targeted, with no protection from the surrounding cue balls. It's all about the break.
Bill Announcement
Issued on: December 18, 2020
On Friday, December 18, 2020, the President signed into law:
S. 910, the “National Sea Grant College Program Amendments Act of 2020,” which reauthorizes the National Sea Grant College Program through fiscal year 2025; clarifies that the scope of the program includes financial assistance for research, training, and technology transfer; and modifies the Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program;
S. 945, the “Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act,” which requires certain issuers of securities to establish that they are not owned or controlled by a foreign government, specifically if the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is unable to audit specified reports because the issuer has retained a foreign public accounting firm that is not subject to inspection by the Board;
S. 1069, the “Digital Coast Act,” which requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to maintain a program capable of efficiently integrating coastal data with decision-support tools, training, and best practices to improve local, State, and Federal capacities to manage the coastal region; and
S. 1982, the “Save Our Seas 2.0 Act,” which establishes a nongovernmental Marine Debris Foundation and a prize competition for the “Genius Prize for Save Our Seas Innovation”; increases efforts to engage, cooperate, and coordinate with other governmental and nongovernmental entities to raise international awareness of plastic waste and combat marine debris; and creates infrastructure grant programs to be administered by the Environmental Protection Agency.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/bill-announcement-121820/
Trump signs bill that could kick Chinese firms off U.S. stock exchanges
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that would kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges unless they adhere to American auditing standards, the White House said.
"The Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act" bars securities of foreign companies from being listed on any U.S. exchange if they have failed to comply with the U.S. Public Accounting Oversight Board's audits for three years in a row.
https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/trump-signs-bill-that-could-kick-chinese-firms-off-us-stock-exchanges-2372049
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