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The Destruction and abandonment of the ship was no sudden shock. The disaster had been looming ahead for many months, and I had studied my plans for all contingencies a hundred times...The task now was to secure the saftey of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental powers and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me. The task was likely to be long and strenuous, and an ordered mind and a clear program were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.

- Ernest Shackelton: "South

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429 T Sqn

429 Transport Squadron

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Today in Military History

August 9

1918:

VC won by A/Cpl Alexander Picton Brereton, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France

1918:

VC won by Cpl Frederick George Coppins, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens (Hackey Wood), France

1918:

VC won by Lt Jean Brillant, 22nd Battalion, CEF, Meharicourt, France (near Amiens) (posthumous)

1918:

VC won by Sgt Raphael Louis Zengel, MM, 5th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France

1945:

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

1945:

VC won by Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (attached to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy), Onagawa Wan, Japan (posthumous)

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