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Assault Craft Unit ONE Assault Craft Unit ONE , ( ACU - 1 ) is a Pacific Ocean Maritime Prepositioning Force in the United States Navy operated under Naval Beach Group ONE out of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado with a Forward Detachment in Sasebo , Japan . ACU - 1 ' s force consists of Landing Craft Utility boats ( LCU ) , Landing Craft Mechanized , Mark 8 boats ( LCM ) , and Maritime Prepositioning Force Utility Boats ( MPFUB ) . The sister unit of ACU - 1 is Assault Craft Unit 2 in Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek , Virginia . History . Assault Craft Unit 1 traces its roots to World War II as hundreds of LCUs were decommissioned , leaving 30 LCUs in the command of " Centralized Flotilla Command " in NAB Coronado known as LCU Squadron ONE . In July , 1947 , a neighboring command , Boat Unit ONE , was created to command LCM - 3 s and LCVP s . In 1950 , the two commands participated in the Battle of Inchon and in every amphibious operation of the Korean War afterward . In 1963 , the LCU Squadron ONE and Boat Unit ONE were merged to make Assault Craft Squadron 1 ( ACS - 1 ) . In 1968 , the CNO directed to have ACS - 1 and its Assault Craft Divisions ELEVEN , TWELVE and THIRTEEN be disestablished , and reformed as Assault Craft Unit ONE ( ACU 1 ) . In 1990 , in response to the Gulf War , ACU - 1 was a first responder , acting to transport and unload cargo from Maritime Prepositioning Ships using LCM - 8s . Since the September 11 attacks , ACU - 1 has operated outside of a strictly military role , providing humanitarian services and disaster relief . Recently , ACU - 1 has operated with other Amphibious Battalions providing Military logistics for the Key Resolve / Foal Eagle Military exercise in South Korea . LCU 1500 Memorial . On 28 February 1968 , near Ocean View , Viet Nam , LCU 1500 was hit by a rocket , killing the Radioman . One year later , on 27 February 1969 , while loading ammunition in Da Nang as a part of the Battle of Hue , an enemy rocket hit the nearly loaded craft and killed 13 crew aboard . On 14 March 1969 , ACU - 1 began an annual memorial to the 14 sailors that lost their lives on LCU 1500 . At the ACU - 1 compound on NAB Coronado , a recreational cabana was erected near its piers and painted to look like LCU 1500 . The cabana houses pictures of the crew and ship as well as a memorial with the names of the slain sailors . Structure . The six departments of ACU - 1 are Landing Craft , Administration , Engineering , Medical , Operations , and Supply . The LC department is divided into three divisions ; LCU , MPF , and MRF . The LCU Division operates its LCUs which can make long deployments independently or aboard larger amphibious vessels such as LHD s and LHA s . The MPF Department operate and maintain its LCM - 8 and MPFUB crafts locally and are mobilized and flown to theaters to perform maritime prepositioning operations within 24 hours notice . The MRF Department operates 6 eleven meter RHIBs . Awards . Through its continuous operation from the Korean War through today , Assault Craft Unit 1 has been awarded 21 different medals , several with multiple awards .
Agis III Agis III ( Gr . : ) was the eldest son of Archidamus III , and the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta . Life . Agis III succeeded his father in 338 BC , on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea . His reign was short , but eventful , coming as it did during a low period for Sparta , after it had lost significant borderlands to Philip II of Macedon , father of Alexander the Great . In 333 BC , Agis went with a single trireme to the Persian commanders in the Aegean , Pharnabazus and Autophradates , to request money and armaments for carrying on hostile operations against Alexander the Great in Greece . The news of the battle of Issus in 333 BC , however , put a check upon their plans . He sent his brother Agesilaus with instructions to sail with them to Crete , that he might secure that island for the Spartan interest . In this he seems in a great measure to have succeeded . War against Macedon . Two years after this Spartan success ( 331 BC ) , the Greek states which were in league against Alexander seized the opportunity that had risen from the military disaster of the Macedonian general Zopyrion ' s campaign against the Scythian s , combined with the Thracian revolt , to declare war against Macedonia . Agis was invested with the command and with his Spartan troops , and a body of 8000 Greek mercenaries who had been present at the battle of Issus , gained a decisive victory in the Peloponnese over a Macedonian army under Coragus . Having been joined by the other forces of the league ( Elis , Achaea and Arcadia ) , Agis laid siege to Megalopolis . The city held out until Antipater came to its relief . In the subsequent battle of Megalopolis , Agis ' army inflicted heavy casualties on the larger Macedonian force but was finally defeated , Agis himself died trying to gain his surviving men time to withdraw to safety . On the manner of his death , Diodorus comments : Agis was succeeded by his brother Eudamidas I .
Peter McAleese Peter McAleese is a British ex - paratrooper , ex - member of the SAS and author . Biography . Peter McAleese is a British ex - paratrooper and an ex - member of the SAS . After leaving the British Army he became a mercenary in Angola for the FNLA , taking command of the unit after the capture of Costas Georgiou the so - called " Colonel Callan " . He then joined the Rhodesian SAS . After the fall of Rhodesia he went to South Africa and was assigned to a paratrooper unit called 44 Parachute Brigade within which he was required to form a pathfinder unit . After ending his task he worked for COIN Security Group ( Pty ) Ltd , a civilian security company . After a serious parachuting accident he went back to the United Kingdom and did some mercenary work in Colombia . In the mid 1990s Peter worked training Russian bodyguards in Moscow with Mike Steele . Peter worked in the security industry in Algeria , Russia and Iraq for 12 years .
William Furse Lieutenant General Sir William Thomas Furse KCB KCMG DSO ( 1865 – 1953 ) was a Master - General of the Ordnance . Military career . Educated at the Royal Grammar School , Guildford , Furse was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1884 . He was Aide - de - Camp to Lord Roberts from 1891 to 1893 . He served in the Second Boer War as a Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at Army Headquarters . In 1911 he was appointed Commander 12th ( Howitzer ) Brigade Royal Field Artillery . He served in World War I initially as a General Staff Officer on the British Expeditionary Force and then as General Officer Commanding 9th ( Scottish ) Division from 1915 . He was made Master - General of the Ordnance in 1916 ; in this capacity he opposed the introduction of the Madsen machine gun , preferring the Lewis gun . He retired in 1920 . References .
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 2 Launch Complex 2 ( LC - 2 ) is a deactivated US Air Force launch site on the eastern tip of Cape Canaveral , Florida at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station . It was constructed with launch complexes 1 , 3 , and 4 , in the early 1950s , for the Snark missile program . The first launch from this site was a Snark test conducted on February 18 , 1954 . The complex was used for Snark missions until 1960 , and then was utilized as a helicopter pad during Project Mercury . The final use of the site was during the 1980s for tethered aerostat balloon radar missions .
John A . English Lt . Col . - Dr . John A . English retired from the Canadian army with 37 years service in 1993 . He first joined the King ’ s Own Calgary Regiment and from 1962 served in the Queen ' s Own Rifles of Canada until 1970 when he rebadged to Princess Patricia ' s Canadian Light Infantry . Educated at Royal Roads ( 1958 – 60 ) and the Royal Military College ( 1960 – 62 ) , he went on leave without pay to attain an MA in history from Duke University in 1963 - 64 . He passed final promotion exams in 1966 and graduated from Canadian Forces Staff College in 1972 . In 1980 he attained an MA in war studies from RMC , and , in 1989 , a Ph . D . from Queen ' s University while still in uniform . During his career he saw service with Canadian and British regiments in England , Germany , Denmark , Cyprus , Canada , and Alaska . English also served as a NATO war plans officer , Chief of Tactics of the Combat Training Centre , instructor at the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College , and curriculum director of the National Defence College . English is the author of " A Perspective on Infantry " ( Praeger , 1981 ) republished in paperback as " On Infantry " ( Praeger , 1984 ) , " The Canadian Army and the Normandy Campaign : A Study of Failure in High Command " ( Praeger , 1991 ) , " Marching through Chaos : The Descent of Armies in Theory and Practice " ( Praeger , 1996 ) , and " Lament for an Army : The Decline of Canadian Military Professionalism " ( Irwin , 1998 ) . He is also principal editor of " The Mechanized Battlefield : A Tactical Analysis " ( Pergamon , 1984 ) . He has additionally produced numerous chapters for books and his articles have appeared in " Military Affairs " , " Jane ' s Military Review " , the " Naval War College Review " , " Infantry " , the " Marine Corps Gazette " , the " Canadian Defence Quarterly " , the " Canadian Military Journal " and the proceedings of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies . In 1992 English accepted a $ 60 , 000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ( SSHRCC ) fellowship and a professorship at Queen ' s University . Two years later he was awarded a $ 31 , 000 SSHRCC research grant . For five years between 1997 and 2002 English served as a Professor of Strategy with the US Naval War College . On return to Canada he was employed until November 2003 as director of the Defence Minister ’ s Monitoring Committee on Change . On 19 October 2004 the Minister appointed him Honorary Lieutenant - Colonel of the Brockville Rifles . His latest work , " Patton ' s Peers : The Forgotten Army Commanders of the Western Front 1944 - 45 " , was published in March 2009 by Stackpole Books .
Henri de La Trémoille Henri de La Trémoille ( 22 December 1598 – 21 January 1674 ) was the ( 3rd ) Duke of Thouars , ( 2nd ) Duke of La Tremoille , and Prince of Talmond and Taranto . He was the son of Claude de La Trémoille and his wife , Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau , and a descendant of the medieval general Louis de La Trémoille . Family . La Trémoille married his first cousin , Marie de La Tour d ' Auvergne , in 1619 . They had five children : Henri Charles , Louis Maurice , Élisabeth , Marie Charlotte de La Trémoille , and Armand - Charles . Career . La Trémoille ' s father , Claude , had converted to Protestantism during the French Wars of Religion , but La Trémoille converted to Catholicism around the time Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII suppressed the Huguenot rebellion at the siege of La Rochelle in 1628 . His wife sent the children to her relatives in the Netherlands , making sure they were brought up Calvinist . She also maintained a Reformed court with church services , something which her husband tolerated . Following the siege , La Trémoille continued to serve in the French army , being wounded in action in Italy . Following that campaign , La Trémoille switched to a political career . In 1668 , Henri afflicted with the gout , left the businesses of his duchy to his elder son . He died on 21 January 1674 , seventy - five years old , and was buried in Thouars . Ancestry and claims . La Trémoille was the heir - general of Frederick IV of Naples and his first wife Anne of Savoy , and succeeded to the Cypriot claims to the title of King of Jerusalem when his father died . He was the heir - general of Anne of Savoy , whose daughter Charlotte became in 1499 the " de jure " heiress of the claim of the Kings of Cyprus to the throne of Jerusalem . Since Frederick IV was the second son of Isabella of Taranto and Ferrante I of Naples , he also succeeded to the Brienne claims to Kingdom of Jerusalem of his distant cousin John Casimir of Poland at the latter ' s death 1672 , uniting the successions of Brienne and of Cyprus to the " de jure " crown of Jerusalem .
George Beckwith ( British Army officer ) General Sir George Beckwith KB ( 1753 – 20 March 1823 ) was a British Army officer . Military career . Beckwith was commissioned into the 37th Regiment of Foot in 1771 . He distinguished himself as a regimental officer in the American Revolutionary War , where he was assistant to Major Oliver Delancey responsible for British Intelligence . In July 1782 he replaced Delancey and after the war he worked for Sir Guy Carleton in Canada . His efforts were aimed at stirring up trouble in Vermont , Florida , Kentucky and Tennessee . At the time Britain thought the weak American government might ask for British help . He was then appointed Governor of Bermuda in 1797 , Governor of Saint Vincent in 1806 and Governor of Barbados in 1810 . He was made a K . B . for his Capture of Martinique in 1809 and also led a successful expedition against Guadeloupe , the last French possession in the area , in 1810 . He attained the full rank of General in 1814 . Sir George Beckwith was Commander - in - Chief , Ireland from 1816 to 1820 . He died in London on 20 March 1823 .
Harry Stileman Rear - Admiral Sir Harry Hampson Stileman KBE ( 7 August 1860 – 28 October 1938 ) was a British Royal Navy officer who also served as Director of Dr Barnardo ' s Homes from 1920 to 1923 . Stileman was the son of Major - General William Stileman of the Indian Army and the brother of Charles Stileman , later Bishop in Persia . He joined the Royal Navy as a Naval Cadet in January 1874 and was promoted Midshipman in March 1876 , being appointed to the screw sloop HMS " Dryad " on the North American Station . In 1877 he joined the ironclad screw frigate HMS " Shannon " on the China Station . He was commissioned Sub - Lieutenant in 1880 . In July 1882 he joined the paddle - wheel despatch vessel HMS " Salamis " and served in the 1882 Egyptian Campaign . Until 1888 he successively served in the despatch vessel HMS " Lively " , the battleship HMS " Temeraire " and the gunboat HMS " Condor " with the Mediterranean Fleet , and then the cruiser HMS " Rover " in the Training Squadron . From 1888 to 1898 he was first lieutenant of successively the screw sloop HMS " Mariner " on the East Indies Station , the corvette HMS " Hyacinth " in the Pacific , the battleship HMS " Collingwood " with the Home Fleet , and the battleship HMS " Royal Oak " in the Mediterranean . In December 1898 he was promoted Commander and became executive officer of the battleship HMS " Mars " in the Channel Squadron . In 1902 he took command of the stoker training ship HMS " Nelson " at Portsmouth . He then commanded Portsmouth Naval Depot and was promoted Captain at the end of 1903 at a relatively young age . He commanded the cruisers HMS " Vindictive " and HMS " Andromeda " in the Reserve Fleet at Chatham , the battleship in the Home Fleet , and the armoured cruiser HMS " Duke of Edinburgh " in the Channel Fleet . He retired in September 1909 and was appointed Captain - Superintendent of the Watts Naval School at Elmham , Norfolk , which was owned by Dr Barnardo ' s Homes . He returned to service at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 as Senior Naval Officer at Liverpool . Shortly afterwards he was promoted Rear - Admiral . He held the Liverpool appointment throughout the war and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1918 and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) in the 1920 New Year Honours . After the war he returned to Watts Naval School and in 1920 succeeded William Baker as Director of Dr Barnardo ' s Homes , the third since Thomas Barnardo himself , holding the post until his final retirement in 1923 . An enthusiastic Evangelical Christian like his father and brother , he later became Lay Deputation Secretary with the Bible Churchmen ' s Missionary Society . He died from a fall at his home at Upper Norwood in 1938 .
USS Isla de Cuba ( 1886 ) USS " Isla de Cuba " was a former Spanish Navy second - class protected cruiser of the same name , captured by and commissioned into the United States Navy as a gunboat . Service history . Spanish Navy . was built in 1886 – 87 for the Spanish Navy by Sir W . G . Armstrong Mitchell & Company , Newcastle upon Tyne , United Kingdom as a second - class protected cruiser . She fought in the Battle of Manila Bay in the Philippines during the Spanish – American War in 1898 , suffering light damage , and was scuttled after the battle . She settled in shallow water , after which a U . S . Navy boarding party from the gunboat went aboard and set her upper works on fire . The U . S . Navy took possession of her , refloated her , and repaired her damage . The Spanish guns were removed and replaced with guns mounted on her forecastle and poop deck . United States Navy . " Isla de Cuba " was commissioned into the U . S . Navy as USS " Isla de Cuba " on 11 April 1900 at Hong Kong , China , with Lieutenant J . N . Jordan in command . Following extensive repairs and shakedown out of Hong Kong , she was assigned to the Asiatic Station where she served in several capacities during the revolutionary unrest in the Philippines ( see Philippine Revolution ) following the Spanish – American War . As a supply ship and patrol boat she cruised the Philippine Islands . At Ormoc , Leyte , on 17 November 1900 , she sent a battalion ashore to hold the town while the U . S . Army garrison leader was away on an expedition against the Philippine insurgents , remaining there in support of the battalion until 8 December . In 1901 , she made a survey of Ormoc anchorage and Parasan Harbor ; and in March – April 1900 as a unit of the Southern Squadron , she rendered distinguished service in cutting off the Philippine insurgents ' supplies in Samar ; in helping to capture Vicente Lukbán , the insurgent leader in Samar ; in contributing to the general defeat of the insurgents ; and in maintaining the close blockade of the island of Samar — all of which contributed to the final declaration of an armistice . " Isla de Cuba " ended her service with the Asiatic Station when she departed Cebu for the United States on 4 March 1904 . Decommissioning on 9 June at Portsmouth , New Hampshire , she remained there undergoing repairs until 21 March 1907 , when she was loaned to the Naval Militia of Maryland for use as a school ship . She was sold at Charleston , South Carolina , to the Republic of Venezuela on 2 April 1912 . Renamed " Mariscal Sucre " , after Marshall Antonio José de Sucre , she served Venezuela until she was scrapped in 1940 .
USS Kochab ( AKS - 6 ) USS Kochab ( AKS - 6 ) was an " Acubens " - class general stores issue ship commissioned by the U . S . Navy for service in World War II . She was responsible for delivering and disbursing goods and equipment to locations in the war zone . " Kochab " ( AKS - 6 ) was launched 8 March 1944 , by Delta Shipbuilding Co . , New Orleans , Louisiana , under a Maritime Commission contract ; sponsored by Mrs . Thomas S . Crane ; acquired by the Navy and commissioned 2 May , Lt . Comdr . R . E . King in command ; transferred to Mobile , Alabama , and decommissioned 5 May ; converted to a general stores supply ship by Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co . ; and recommissioned 4 November 1944 . World War II operations . " Kochab " cleared Mobile Bay 17 November for shakedown in Chesapeake Bay before departing Norfolk , Virginia , 16 December for duty in the Pacific Ocean . Steaming via the Marshall Islands , she operated out of Ulithi and from 20 February to 28 April made replenishment runs to Manus , Admiralties . Steaming to the Marianas 18 to 15 May , she loaded cargo at Guam and Saipan before proceeding 29 May for the Ryukyus . She reached Kerama Retto 8 June and , despite enemy air attacks , conducted supply operations until 19 June . Proceeding then to Okinawa for further replenishment duty , she operated between the Ryukyus and the Marianas for almost 5 months . End - of - war operations . After Japan surrendered , " Kochab " departed Okinawa 7 November for the United States as a unit of the Operation Magic Carpet fleet . Steaming via Pearl Harbor , she arrived San Francisco , California , 3 December with 208 homebound passengers embarked . She operated out of San Francisco until 9 February 1946 , then sailed for Pearl Harbor , arriving 18 February . Post - war decommissioning . " Kochab " decommissioned 17 April and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet . Transferred under tow to the 12th Naval District 28 September 1947 , she was turned over to the Maritime Commission 22 October and berthed with the Defense Reserve Fleet , Suisun Bay , California . She was sold for scrapping 14 January 1965 , to Nicolas Joffe Corp . , Beverly Hills , California . Military awards and honors . " Kochab " received one battle star for World War II service . Her crew was eligible for the following medals :
Escadrille 103 See also " Groupe de Combat 12 " Escadrille 103 of the French Air Force was formed from " Breguet Escadrille 17 " , the latter being founded on 2 August 1914 at Longvic . On 16 November 1914 , it re - equipped with Voisin s , becoming " Escadrille VB . 3 " . On 23 November 1914 , it was posted to " Groupe de Bombardment No . 1 " , commanded by Commandant Louis de Goys de Mezeyrac . On 4 March 1915 , it was redesignated " Escadrille VB . 103 " . As part of GB . 1 , the " escadrille " cited for its valor on 27 May 1915 . General Ferdinand Foch issued the citation on 1 June . Foch would issue a second citation on 19 September 1915 , based on the bombing raids of the 13th on Ludwigshafen . On 19 February 1916 , the " escadrille " was repurposed as an " escadrille de chasse " ( fighter squadron ) , being issued Nieuport s and consequently renumbered as " Escadrille N103 " . On 16 April 1916 , the unit was amalgamated into " Groupement de Combat de la Somme " , along with " Escadrille N26 " , " Escadrille N73 " , and " Escadrille N3 " . " Escadrille N37 " , " Escadrille N62 " , and " Escadrille N65 " were also temporarily assigned to the " Groupement " ; the seven units were placed under command of Brocard . On 1 November 1916 , the original four squadrons , including " Escadrille N103 " , were formally consolidated as " Groupe de Combat 12 " , under continuing command of Brocard . On 28 January 1917 , the unit was posted to the X Armee . It transferred to the VII Armee in March . On 12 July , it moved to support Ier Armee in Flanders . GC 12 , including " Escadrille 103 " , was transferred to VI Armee again on 11 December 1917 . " Escadrille 103 " continued its service within GC 12 , as the " groupe " made the transition to support X Armee on 5 June 1918 ; to V Armee on 17 July ; to Ier Armee on 29 July ; and to II Armee on 9 September 1918 . It received its third citation on the 9th , though the first as fighter unit " Escadrille Spa103 " . It was credited with destroying 85 enemy aircraft and disabling 69 others . Its final tally for the entire war was 108 enemy aircraft and three observation balloon s destroyed . The heritage of the " escadrille " continues in the present day French air force ; it is represented by the top bird on the EC 1 / 2 Squadron emblem .