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USS Barry ( DD - 2 ) USS " Barry " ( DD - 2 ) , a " Bainbridge " - class destroyer , was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commodore John Barry ( 1745 – 1803 ) . Construction . " Barry " was launched on 22 March 1902 by Neafie and Levy Ship and Engine Building Company , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ; sponsored by Miss Charlotte Adams Barnes the great - grandniece of Commodore Barry : and commissioned on 24 November 1902 , Lieutenant Noble Edward Irwin in command . Pre - World War I . " Barry " was assigned to the 1st Torpedo Flotilla , Coast Squadron , North Atlantic Fleet , and during the summer of 1903 participated in maneuvers off the New England coast . In December 1903 she departed the East Coast and sailed via the Suez Canal to the Asiatic Station , arriving in April 1904 . On the Asiatic Station she served with the 1st Torpedo Flotilla , Battleship Squadron , until August 1917 , except for two short periods ( 2 April - 21 December 1908 and on 21 October 1912 – 24 June 1913 ) out of commission . World War I . " Barry " departed the Philippine Islands on 1 August 1917 and sailed via the Suez Canal for Gibraltar arriving 20 October . She escorted merchantmen in the Mediterranean until August 1918 and arrived at Charleston , South Carolina on 5 September . She remained there until the end of the year performing patrol and convoy duties . In January 1919 , she left for the Philadelphia Navy Yard where she was decommissioned on 28 June and sold on 3 January 1920 to Joseph G . Hitner , Philadelphia , PA .
Grand Battery Grand Battery ( " Grande Batterie " , meaning big or great battery ) was a French artillery tactic of the Napoleonic wars . It involved massing all available batteries into a single large , temporary one , and concentrating the firepower of their guns at a single point in the enemy ' s lines . Substituting volume of fire for accuracy , rate of fire and rapid movement , it was rarely used in the wars ' early years . But as the quality of artillery crews and their horses declined , it was employed more frequently during later ( post 1808 ) campaigns . The Grand Battery was often concentrated against the enemy ' s center . An early example of this is at Austerlitz in 1805 , when Napoleon ordered a " " roar of thunder " " before the main assault upon the Pratzen Heights , which split the coalition ' s lines in half . Other notable uses of the tactic include : Alexandre - Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont ' s aggressive use of his guns at the battle of Friedland ( 1807 ) , which was a major factor that won the battle , or the battle of Wagram in 1809 , where a grand battery successfully halted an Austrian counterattack . At Borodino in 1812 , it was again used to break a counterattack , but it failed to break the strong Russian positions and earthworks in the center along the " Rayevski Redoubt " . At the Battle of Lützen ( 1813 ) , it did succeed in breaking the Russo - Prussian center , ahead of the main assault by the Imperial guard . Finally , in 1815 at Waterloo , the famous opening barrage of the Grande Batterie failed to break the center of Wellington ' s Anglo - allied army due to his judicious deployment of most of his forces behind the reverse slopes of the rolling hillside and the fact that the ground was still wet and muddy , preventing the usual effects of the bouncing cannonballs . Nearly half a century later , in 1863 on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg , Robert E . Lee , formed a Grand Battery of his own in a desperate attempt to weaken the Union center in advance of Pickett ' s Charge . But the artillery overshot most of their targets and had to cease fire due to a lack of ammunition .
FARA 83 The FARA 83 ( ; " Argentine Republic Automatic Rifle " ) or FAA 81 , " Argentine Automatic Rifle " ( ) was a rifle locally designed and developed for the Argentine Army in the 1980s . It is one of the first indigenously designed assault rifles in the continent . Development . The FAA project started in the early 1980s , when the government was still controlled by the National Reorganization Process . The DGFM ( General Government Directorate for Military Procurements , or " Direccion General de Fabricaciones Militares " ) ordered a replacement be designed for the FMAP FSL , an FN FAL license - built in Argentina . The prototype was completed in 1981 , but production didn ' t start until 1984 , and continued until 1990 . By the late 1980s , under Carlos Menem ' s tenure as president , the country was undergoing economic difficulties . The economic crisis severely limited the production of modern weapons . This factor forced President Menem to cancel several projects , including the Condor I and Condor II , the FARA 83 , and SAIA 90 . He was also forced to close armament factories , including TAMSE ( " Tanque Argentino Mediano Sociedad del Estado " ) , which was responsible for the TAM tanks and " Domecq Garcia Shipyard " ( the only submarine - related shipyard ) . Production of the rifle ground to a halt after 1193 rifles had been completed , however , it was resumed in 1990 ; it is unknown how many rifles were made , but for the most part the Argentine Armed Forces are still armed with the FSL - FAL rifle , while the FARA 83 being a secondary weapon . Main characteristics . The FARA - 83 was mostly inspired by the Israeli Galil . Features include a folding buttstock and tritium sights for aiming in low light conditions ; the rifle uses a proprietary 30 round Beretta AR70 magazines ( early issue ) , and has a trigger group that enables semi - automatic and fully automatic fire .
Tolland - class attack cargo ship The " Tolland " class attack cargo ships were built by North Carolina Shipbuilding Co . in Wilmington , North Carolina during the latter stages of World War II . Like all AKA ' s , they were designed to carry combat loaded military cargo and landing craft , and to use the latter to land weapons , supplies , and troops on enemy shores during amphibious operations . All these ships were built on the same standard hull design , but there were some differences from ship to ship : The armament varied , as did that of the other ships of the day . During 1944 - 1945 , the 5 " / 38 was recognized as the best gun for the dual role of antiaircraft and naval gunfire support , and the 40 mm was seen as the best antiaircraft gun . The older 20 mm and . 50 caliber guns had been recognized to be of limited value , and were being phased out , though they appeared on some of these ships . The 20 mm ' s were later removed from all of them , but it is not clear just when this happened . The complement varied as well , but the DANFS figures sometimes seem to confuse ship ' s company with embarked troops in determining a ship ' s complement .
1502nd Quezon City Ready Reserve Brigade The 1502nd QC Ready Reserve Brigade , 15th Infantry Division ( Ready Reserve ) , ARESCOM , known officially as the QC Ready Reserve Brigade , is one of the brigades of the Philippine Army Reserve Command which is organic to the 15th Infantry Division ( Ready Reserve ) .
John Doogan John Doogan ( March 1853 in Aughrim , County Galway – 24 January 1940 in Folkestone , Kent ) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Details . He was 27 years old , and a private in the 1st Dragoon Guards ( The King ' s ) , British Army during the First Boer War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 28 January 1881 at the Battle of Laing ' s Nek , South Africa , during the charge of the mounted men , Private Doogan saw that Major Brownlow , KDG had had his horse shot from under him and was dismounted among the Boers . Doogan rode up and , in spite of being severely wounded himself , dismounted and insisted on Major Brownlow taking his horse , receiving another wound while doing so . Death . He is buried at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery ( also known as the Garrison Cemetery ) in Folkestone ( Plot V . Grave 1054 ) . Victoria Cross . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Queen ' s Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum in Cardiff Castle , Wales . References . Listed in order of publication year
Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers Major Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers ( February 13 , 1863 – October 21 , 1910 ) was a Canadian soldier and the founder of the Canadian Signalling Corps . Education . Born in Kingston , Ontario , Carruthers graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada ( College Number 82 ) in 1883 . Service . Upon graduation from RMC he served in the 21st Hussars for four years before returning to Canada . He then served in the 14th Battalion of Rifles until 1899 when he resigned his commission in order to take part in the South African War . He served as a Sergeant in the 2nd ( Special Service ) Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment . and took part in the Battle of Paardeberg . Carruthers returned to South Africa for further service as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Regiment , Canadian Mounted Rifles . On March 31 , 1902 he was involved in the action at Harts River ( Boschbult ) where he was leading some 21 men of 3rd and 4th Troops ' E ' Squadron to screen the main body of Cookson ' s Column as they prepared a defensive position . Faced with several hundred charging Boers and no cover , Lieutenant Carruthers dismounted his men to meet the attack . They fought until out of ammunition by which time 17 had been killed or wounded , including Carruthers . As a result of his service he was awarded the Queen ' s South Africa Medal with five clasps : Paardeberg , Driefontein , Johannesburg , Cape Colony , SA 1902 . Based on his experiences in South Africa and his recognition of the importance of communications he lobbied for the establishment of a signal corps upon his return to Canada . He was successful and on October 24 , 1903 the first independently organized signal corps in the British Empire was formed . Carruthers was appointed Inspector of Signalling of the young Corps and , when reorganization in 1906 , was appointed the Assistant Adjutant - General for Signalling . Major Carruthers died at the age of 47 on October 21 , 1910 , from tuberculosis contracted during his service in South Africa . He was given a huge military funeral at Chalmers Presbyterian Church and was buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery .
Pelagio A . Cruz Lieutenant General Pelagio A . Cruz ( June 16 , 1912 – October 21 , 1986 ) was born in Baliuag , Bulacan . entered the Philippine Military Academy in 1932 , and was commissioned as Third Lieutenant upon graduation in 1935 . He earned his wings in September 1936 at the Philippine Army Air Corps ( PAAC ) Flying School in Camp Murphy . At the outbreak of World War II Cruz was assigned as an Executive Officer of the PAAC Provisional Regiment in Bataan and joined the Bulacan Guerilla Unit after the surrender of the Philippines to the Imperial Japanese Army . After World War II he went on to take refresher course in Goodfellow Field in Texas , United States , and was later assigned as the Executive Officer of PAAC from March to May 1946 . He became the Commanding Officer of Lipa Air Base from August 1946 to 8 June 1947 , and further the Acting Chief of the Philippine Air Force from 9 June 1947 to 27 October 1947 at the temporary rank of Colonel . He assumed the post as the Commanding Officer of the PAF from 28 October 1947 to 16 March 1951 and was promoted with a temporary rank of Brigadier General on 20 May 1949 . Cruz then entered the Command General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth , United States in September 1951 . Upon his return to the Philippines he was assigned as Commandant of Command and General Staff School at Fort McKinley , Taguig . He again took command of the PAF as Commanding General , from 3 November 1953 to 31 July 1956 , and his promotion to Brigadier General was confirmed on 10 March 1954 . From 2 June 1958 to 31 December 1958 , he became the Chief of the Philippine Constabulary and was promoted to Major General on 1 January 1959 . He was commissioned as the Vice Chief of Staff for the AFP from 1 January 1959 to 30 December 1961 , and eventually the Chief of Staff , AFP from December 1961 to 30 August 1962 . He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General on 1 January 1962 . He retired from the active military service on 1 September 1962 .
William Henry Draper , Jr . William Henry Draper , Jr . ( August 10 , 1894 - December 26 , 1974 ) was a U . S . army officer , banker , and diplomat . Life and career . Draper was born in Harlem , New York City , the son of Mary Emma ( née Carey ) and William Henry Draper . He received a B . A . and M . A . in economics at New York University . He joined the United States Army soon after finishing college and served during World War I as a major in the infantry . After the war he stayed in the Army Reserves working his way up to chief of staff of the 77th Division ( 1936 – 1940 ) , while going to work in New York City for National City Bank ( 1919 – 1921 ) , Bankers Trust Company ( 1923 – 1927 ) , and then Dillon , Read & Co . ( 1927 – 1953 ) . In 1937 , he was made a vice president of Dillon Read , an investment bank that had promoted the bonds of the Soviet Union after its recognition by the US Government in 1933 . Dillon Read also underwrote millions of dollars worth of German industrial bonds in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s . At the invitation of George Marshall , he moved to Washington , D . C . to serve on the President ' s Advisory Committee for Selective Service , and was promoted to colonel in 1940 . At the start of World War II he took command of the 136th Infantry , 33rd Division , National Guard . At the end of the war , he was promoted to brigadier - general and was posted to Berlin to serve as chief of the Economics Division , Allied Control Council for Germany from 1945 to 1947 . He opposed the Morgenthau Plan , which was designed to prevent a resurgence of German economic and military power by de - industrializing it and turning into a pastoral country . Instead , he strongly supported measures to expedite Germany ' s economic recovery along liberal free - market and democratic lines followed by Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard . There was some criticism of him by the author James Stewart Martin for leaving some former cooperators with the Nazis in their positions in industry . After a promotion to major - general , Draper was asked by the new Secretary of War Kenneth C . Royall to become his Under Secretary of War . With the transition of the Department of War to the Department of the Army , Draper became the first under secretary of the Army from September 18 , 1947 to February 28 , 1949 . After leaving the army in 1949 , he served as Long Island Rail Road trustee from 1950 to 1951 . He served as the first U . S . Ambassador to NATO in Paris . After retiring from public service a second time , he traveled to Mexico to serve as chairman of the Mexican Light and Power Company ( 1954 – 1959 ) . Returning to the US in 1959 , he formed the first West Coast venture capital firm Draper , Gaither and Anderson in California . In 1967 he retired from Draper Gaither , moved to Washington , D . C . and joined Combustion Engineering in New York as chairman , retiring a few years later to become the U . S . delegate to the United Nations Population Commission ( 1969 – 1971 ) . He also co - founded the Population Crisis Committee in 1965 and chaired the Draper Committee .
Windhoeker Maschinenfabrik Windhoeker Maschinenfabrik ( WMF ) is a Namibian defense contractor located in Windhoek , Namibia and operated by the Namibian Defence Force . WMF designs and manufactures monocoque V - hull armoured combat vehicles . WMF is responsible for the armoured bodywork fabrication while engines , transmissions and axles are built by MAN . History . Windhoeker Maschinenfabrik was founded in 1939 . It later provided equipment for the South African Defence Force and South West African Territorial Force . In 1977 WMF began manufacturing Mine Protected Vehicle s . After the Independence of Namibia from South Africa in 1989 , WMF was nationalized . The company functions as a subsidiary of Namibian Defence Force . Currently Victor Simunja is the Managing Director . WMF Products . WMF performs the following services : WMF produces the following 4x4 Mine protected vehicle s ( MPV ) Humanitarian Engineering and Consulting ( HEC ) , the R & D branch for MgM , has designed a special series of WerWolf called the HEC - Wolf , which specifically supports the requirements of Humanitarian Demining operations . The HEC - Wolf is somewhat de - militarized in that it cannot carry the wide range of weapons which normally are associated with this vehicle . Users . WMFs customers are : 13 Bessemer Street , Location . Southern Industrial Area Windhoek , Namibia P . O . Box 5013 Windhoek , Namibia
Alexander R . Bolling Alexander Russell Bolling was a general in the United States Army during World War II and the Cold War . Early career . He was a student at the U . S . Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1915 to 1916 , but he left the USNA and enlisted in the U . S . Army . He was sent to France during World War I , where he earned a battlefield commission . After World War I , he was sent to Fort Bliss , Texas where he chased Mexican Bandit Pancho Villa along with fellow Lieutenants Dwight Eisenhower , George S . Patton , and Douglas MacArthur . He was promoted to the rank of Captain , which he held for 12 years . World War I . While in command of a company of the 4th Infantry , 3rd Division , in the Boise - des - Nesles , on the night of July 14 , 1918 , Second Lieutenant Bolling earned the Distinguished Service Cross by " continually exposing himself to heavy gas and shell fire by going from one platoon to another . " World War II . Bolling commanded the 84th Infantry Division in the European Theater of Operations during World War II . After the war , Bolling was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1952 and assumed command of the Third U . S . Army . Personal . Bolling ' s awards included the Distinguished Service Cross , Distinguished Service Medal with Cluster , Silver Star , Legion of Merit , Bronze Star , and Purple Heart . Upon his retirement in 1955 , he made his home in Satellite Beach , Florida . Lieutenant General Bolling died on June 4 , 1964 , and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery . Bolling was the father of Major General Alexander R . " Bud " Bolling , Jr . , the father - in - law of Major General Roderick Wetherill , and grandfather of Lieutenant Colonel Roderick Wetherill , Jr .
Vanguard - class ship of the line The " Vanguard " - class ships of the line were a class of two - deck 80 - gun second rate s , designed for the Royal Navy by Sir William Symonds , of which nine were completed as sailing ships of the line , although another two of these were completed as ( and others converted into ) steam warships . They were originally planned as 78 - gun third rate s . Two ships were ordered in 1832 and another two in 1833 , although one of the latter was intended to be a rebuilding of the second rate " Union " , and this was subsequently cancelled . At this point the design was modified and they were re - designated as 80 - gun second rates . Another ship was ordered to this design in 1838 , another seven in 1839 ( of which two were subsequently re - ordered three months later as 90 - gun ships to a new design - the " Albion " and " Aboukir " ) and another two in 1840 . Two of the above ships were re - ordered and completed as steam battleships - " Majestic " and " Irresistible " . A final ship to this design , the " Brunswick " , was ordered in 1844 but in 1847 she was re - ordered to a modified design .
USS Effingham ( 1777 ) Effingham , a 32 - gun frigate of the Continental Navy named after The 3rd Earl of Effingham , was built at Philadelphia in 1776 and 1777 , and Captain John Barry was ordered to command her . When the British took possession of Philadelphia in September 1777 , Barry was ordered to take the uncompleted ship up the Delaware River to a place of safety . On 25 October general George Washington asked for the crew of " Effingham " for use in the fleet , and two days later the ship was ordered sunk or burned . " Effingham " was sunk on 2 November just below Bordentown , New Jersey , to deny her use to the British . She was burned to the water ' s edge by the British on their way north from Philadelphia on 9 May 1778 . There was also an earlier galley named the " Effingham " built in 1775 by the Pennsylvania Navy
Battle of Monroe ' s Crossroads The Battle of Monroe ' s Crossroads ( also known as the Battle of Fayetteville Road , and colloquially in the North as Kilpatrick ' s Shirttail Skedaddle ) was a battle during the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War in Cumberland County , North Carolina ( now in Hoke County ) , on the grounds of the present day Fort Bragg Military Reservation . Involving about 4 , 500 men , it pitted mounted Confederate cavalry against dismounted Union cavalry . It was one of the last all - cavalry battles of the Civil War . The inconclusive fighting lasted for several hours early on the morning of March 10 , 1865 . The Confederate attack delayed the Federal cavalry ' s movement toward Fayetteville , denying Brevet Maj . Gen . Hugh Judson Kilpatrick the honor of entering the town first . The main Confederate assault was at dawn and against a poorly guarded and sleeping Union camp . In command of the Confederate forces were Lt . Gen . Wade Hampton and Maj . Gen . Joseph Wheeler , who were operating together for the first time . One of the goals ( not fulfilled ) was the capture of Kilpatrick himself , using a small elite squadron of hand - picked troopers . Kilpatrick , ensconced with his mistress in a small log cabin near the farmhouse of Charles Monroe , managed to flee the chaotic scene in his nightshirt , hiding for a period in a nearby swamp before regaining his composure and reorganizing his troops . While initially routed , the Federal cavalry soon recovered and counterattacked , eventually pressuring the Confederates to relinquish the camp . Anticipating the approach of Union infantry , the Confederate commanders ordered their troops to disengage from the action in the mid - morning . Hampton ' s cavalry finally withdrew in good order toward Fayetteville . Confederate Brig . Gen . Thomas Harrison , Brig . Gen . William Y . C . Humes , Col . and brigade commander James Hagan and Col . and brigade commander Moses W . Hannon were wounded during the battle . Brig . Gen . William W . Allen and Colonel and brigade commander Henry Marshall Ashby were injured when their horses were shot from under them . The Battle of Monroe ' s Crossroads gained the additional time needed for the Confederate infantry to conduct an organized crossing of the Cape Fear River at Fayetteville unmolested by the advancing Federals . With their troops and equipment east of the Cape Fear , the Confederates burned the bridges as Union forces entered the city . The graves of several unidentified Union soldiers can still be seen today in the training area of Ft . Bragg a few miles south of the Normandy Dropzone near the Coleman Impact Area . All visits must be approved by range control .