While glory was to the front, the First Canadian Army, undermanned and facing supply problems, in a campaign overshadowed by nearly everything else in the war, was given the unsung task of clearing the channel coast. On September 22, 1944 operation Unergo began.
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A heroic battle, the longest dogfight in the history of US Naval aviation, was forgotten, buried among the closest held secrets of the cold war, for over sixty years.
On October 8, 1842 US Navy Captain Lawrence Kearny sent a letter to the Viceroy of Liangjiang urging that American merchants in China be granted the same treaty privileges as the British. The negotiation would set the tone of US China relations for the next hundred years, and establish a still recognized principle in world trade-. It was an extraordinary act, given Kearney’s limited authority.