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Wilmington Campaign The Wilmington Campaign was part of a Union effort to take over Wilmington , North Carolina from the Confederates . The Campaign . On December 7 , 1864 , Union troops under command of General Benjamin Butler were sent to take Fort Fisher , a fort guarding the Cape Fear River . Four - Star Admiral David D . Porter would land the troops . Butler knew that Fort Fisher had to fall if Wilmington should be taken . General William Lamb was charged with defending the fort . The Union troops numbered about 6 , 500 men , and the Confederates had about 7 , 000 . General Butler ordered Porter to land the troops . Butler did not give Porter an exact time to land , so General Braxton Bragg was allowed to reinforce the Fort Fisher Garrison . Then , Porter landed the troops . However , several Union troops were mowed down by musket and cannon , and Butler ignored General Grant ' s orders to besiege the fort if an attack failed . The Union troops had to retreat back to their ships . Then , Porter launched an expedition to try to capture Rainbow Bluff and a Confederate Ram . This Expedition was headed by the USS Wyalusing . But what Porter didn ' t know was that there were Water mine s in the river . Both of the escort ships in the expedition were sunken by the mines , and the Wyalusing was forced to go back to blockading the North Carolina coast . Then , General Alfred Terry decided to make another attempt to take Fort Fisher . General Terry selected Porter to land the troops . Union Marines landed on the shores , and fought their way up the beach . Soldiers engaged at Point - blank range , and the beach was taken . Then , the Right Side of the fort fell into Union hands . Then , after horrendous Melee combat on the left side , the Confederates called it quits , and retreated to Fort Buchanan . That Fort surrendered also . The way up the Cape Fear River was clear . Then , General John Schofield took the huge responsibility of making the attempt to take Wilmington . General Bragg prepared 6 , 000 men in the city . General Schofield had 12 , 000 men . The Union and the Confederates battled from February 11 until February 22 . Bragg was forced to surrender Wilmington to the Union troops .
HMCS Kokanee ( K419 ) HMCS " Kokanee " was a that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944 - 1945 . Construction . Named after Kokanee Lake in southeastern British Columbia , she was laid down on 25 August 1943 at Yarrows Ltd . , Esquimalt and launched on 27 November 1943 . She was commissioned into the RCN with pennant number K419 on 6 June 1944 at the Esquimalt naval base . She departed for the Atlantic coast , arriving at HMC Dockyard in Halifax , Nova Scotia on 24 July 1944 and was tasked to Bermuda in August 1944 to work up her new crew . Wartime service . Upon finishing her training , " Kokanee " joined the RCN ' s Atlantic Fleet and returned to northern waters , arriving in St . John ' s in September where she was assigned to Escort Group C - 3 as the Senior Officer ' s Ship . " Kokanee " and EG C - 3 spent the remainder of the Battle of the Atlantic on convoy escort duty . She also earned battle honours in the Battle of the St . Lawrence between September – November 1944 when she escorted convoys from Quebec City to the Cabot Strait and Strait of Belle Isle . " Kokanee " spent the winter of 1944 - 1945 on the North Atlantic , escorting her final convoy ON . 304 west from Derry , Northern Ireland on 25 May 1945 . She departed Halifax for Esquimalt in June 1945 and commenced refit there for tropicalization as part of Operation Downfall , the planned invasion of Japan . The Surrender of Japan took place in August while " Kokanee " was still in refit , which she completed on 4 October 1945 . The downsizing of the RCN saw her paid off on 21 December 1945 and was placed in reserve status . Civilian service . " Kokanee " was sold to a Canadian shipbroker in 1947 and resold to the Government of India in 1948 . She was converted to a pilot vessel for the Hooghly River and renamed " Bengal " in 1950 .
Commander ( Canada ) In the Royal Canadian Navy , the rank of commander ( ) is a Naval rank equal to a lieutenant - colonel of the Army or Air Force . A commander is senior to a lieutenant - commander or an army or air force major , and junior to a captain ( N ) or colonel . Typical appointments for a commander include : The rank insignia for a commander is three ½ " stripes , worn on the cuffs of the service dress jacket , and on slip - on s on other uniforms . On the visor of the service cap is one row of gold oak leaves along the edge . Commanders in the Naval Operations Branch wear the officers ' pattern cap badge for that branch , which is an anchor on a black oval , surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves . Specialist officers in such branches as logistics , medical , etc . wear their respective branch cap badges . A commander is addressed initially by rank and surname , thereafter by superiors and peers as " Commander " and by subordinates as " Sir " or " Ma ' am " .
Georgios Polymenakos Georgios Polymenakos ( ) was a Greek Army officer who reached the rank of Lieutenant General . Biography . Born in Areopolis on 1 July 1859 , he enrolled in the Greek Army on 21 June 1880 . Marked out for further promotion , he entered the NCO Academy and graduated on 22 September 1885 as an Infantry 2nd Lieutenant . Promoted to Lieutenant , he fought in the Greco - Turkish War of 1897 . In the First Balkan War he was CO of the 15th Infantry Regiment , which he led in Epirus , up to the Battle of Bizani . After the end of the war , the regiment was transferred to Macedonia , where it was subordinated to the 7th Infantry Division . Polymenakos continued as regimental CO during the Second Balkan War against Bulgaria , seeing action at Nevrokop , Prendel Han and Mehomia . A moderate royalist , he was dismissed from the army by the Venizelists in 1917 – 1920 , but was recommissioned following the Venzelist electoral defeat in November 1920 . In 1921 he commanded the III Army Corps in Anatolia , and he led it in the Greek summer offensive and the advance towards the Sakarya River . Promoted to Lieutenant General , in late 1921 he was appointed CO of the Northern Group of Divisions around Eskisehir . In May 1922 , he was considered for the post of C - in - C of the Army of Asia Minor after the retirement of Lt . General Anastasios Papoulas , but the royalist government mistrusted his political credentials and passed him over in favour of Georgios Hatzianestis . In June , despite the imminent Turkish offensive , he asked to be removed from his position due to his disagreements with the government on the pursuit of the war . After the Greek defeat and collapse in August 1922 , Hatzianestis resigned . In the general chaos that followed , the Greek government appointed Lt . General Nikolaos Trikoupis in his place , only to be informed that he had already been taken captive by the Turks . Thus Polymenakos was appointed C - in - C on 24 August 1922 , having barely enough time to lead the evacuation of the last remnants of the Greek forces from Anatolia . He did not take part in the September 1922 Revolution , and went into retirement along with several other pro - royalist sympathizers in November 1923 . He was recalled for a few months to active duty in 1927 , to participate in a council to supervise the re - admission of former royalist officers into the Army .
Francis Reid Brigadier Sir Francis Smith Reid CBE , RA ( 1900 – 1970 ) was a senior officer in the British Army during World War II and the following years . He was the second Commander of the Ceylon Army from 1952 to 1955 . His other commands included Commander , Ceylon Garrison and UK troops in Ceylon ( 1949 – 50 ) , Cyprus District ( 1950 – 51 ) and Cyrenacia District ( 1951 – 52 )
William King - Hall Admiral Sir William King - Hall KCB ( 1816 – 29 July 1886 ) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander - in - Chief , The Nore . Naval career . King - Hall joined the Royal Navy in 1829 and took part in operations off the coast of Syria in 1840 . Promoted to Captain in 1853 he commanded HMS " Bulldog " during the bombardment and capture of Fort Bomarsund and then commanded HMS " Exmouth " during the attack on the Fortress of Sveaborg near Helsinki during the Crimean War . He also commanded HMS " Calcutta " during the Second Opium War and took part in the first attack on Canton in late 1856 and then the assault on the Taku Forts in 1858 . He later commanded HMS " Indus " , HMS " Royal Adelaide " , HMS " Russell " and then HMS " Cumberland " . He was appointed Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard in 1865 , Superintendent of Devonport dockyard in 1871 and Commander - in - Chief , The Nore in 1877 before retiring in 1881 . Family . In 1848 he married Louisa Forman and in 1880 he married Charlotte Tillotson ( née Simpson ) : they had two sons ( Admiral Sir George King - Hall and Admiral Sir Herbert King - Hall ) and one daughter . His daughter Meta was the mother of Lt - Col George Grogan VC , DSO .
Uri Milstein Uri Milstein ( ; born 1940 ) is an Israeli military historian and poet . Biography . Uri Milstein was born in Tel Aviv to Avraham Milstein , a volunteer in the British army in World War II , and Sarah Milstein , a kindergarten teacher . He studied at Hayil school in Tel Aviv ' s Yad Eliyahu neighborhood , Hadassim youth village and a high school in Tel Aviv . In 1958 , he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and served in the 890th Airborne Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade as a soldier , squad commander and combat medic . Before being discharged , deputy commander of the brigade , Rafael Eitan , appointed him as the historian of the paratroopers . He served as a medic in the Six - Day War , the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War , and did his reserve duty in the history department of the Israeli Air Force . Milstein is married to the actress Shifra ( Ben David ) Milstein , with whom he has two daughters . His daughter Dalit is the co - founder and director of Notzar Theater . Academic career . After completing his service in the IDF in 1960 , he studied economics , philosophy and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . He wrote his PhD on religion and legislation in Israel . After the Six - Day War , he published " War of the Paratroops " , and at the beginning of 1973 he published a military history of the early days of Israeli statehood , " In Blood And Fire Yehuda " . In the 1980s , he taught military history at the IDF Command and Staff College . In 1989 , Milstein published the first volume of his series on the War of Independence , in which he alleged flawed functioning of commanders who were considered heroes in Israel . In 1993 , he published " Crisis and Its Conclusion " , criticizing the functioning of the IDF in the Yom Kippur War . In 1995 he published " The Rabin File : How the Myth Was Inflated " about Yitzhak Rabin as a commander of the Palmach . In a police raid of Yigal Amir ' s room after the Rabin assassination , " The Rabin File " was one of the books they found . Milstein described Yigal as a " good " and " very interested " student . Milstein established Survival Institute and a book publishing house called " Survival . " After that , Milstein taught at the Ariel University Center of Samaria . Views and opinions . Milstein was one of the first academics to openly criticize the Israeli defense establishment . He is described as being too extreme in his conclusions , but his " contribution to the knowledge is enormous and he is willing to suffer his devotion to the truth . " In " The Blood Libel of Dir Yassin – The Black Book " , he claims that the Deir Yassin massacre was a myth created by the Israeli left to prevent the Irgun from forming an independent unit inside the IDF and keep Menachem Begin out of the first national unity government under David Ben - Gurion . Milstein is a supporter of the thesis that the Soviet Union intended to assault Germany in 1941 .
38th Infantry Regiment ( United States ) The 38th Infantry Regiment ( " Rock of the Marne " ) is a United States Army infantry regiment . First 38th Infantry Regiment . The 38th Infantry was first established on July 28 , 1866 , as part of the Regular Army , one of six segregated , all - black regiments created following the Civil War . It was organized on October 1 of that year at Jefferson Barracks , Missouri , and was stationed in New Mexico Territory and along the transcontinental railroad s then under construction . On March 15 , 1869 , the 38th was consolidated with the 41st Infantry Regiment and redesignated as the 24th Infantry Regiment . Current 38th Infantry Regiment . Korean War . Four members of the 38th Infantry were awarded the Medal of Honor for their actions in the Korean War :
18th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry The 18th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 18th New Hampshire Infantry was organized in Concord , New Hampshire , under the command of Colonel Thomas Leonard Livermore . Six companies were recruited beginning July 19 , 1864 , and mustered in September 13 , 1864 . Four additional companies were recruited beginning December 21 , 1864 . Companies G , H , and I joined the regiment in February , March , and April 1865 . Six companies were ordered to City Point , Virginia , September 1864 and attached to Benham ' s Engineer Brigade to December 1864 . Clough ' s Provisional Brigade , Ferrero ' s Division , Defenses of Bermuda Hundred , Virginia , to March 1865 . 3rd Brigade , 1st Division , IX Corps , Army of the Potomac , to May 1865 . Garrison duty at Washington , D . C . , until July 1865 . Duty in the fortifications at City Point , Virginia , until December 10 , 1864 . At front near Petersburg December 10 – 13 . Reported to Gen . Ferrero , and duty in the defenses of Bermuda Hundred December 18 – 30 . Duty at City Point until March 19 , 1865 . Reported to Gen . Parke , Commanding IX Corps , before Petersburg , March 19 . Repulse of attack on Fort Stedman March 25 . Duty at Fort Stedman until April 2 . Appomattox Campaign March 28 - April 9 . Assault on and fall of Petersburg April 2 . Occupation of Petersburg April 3 . Moved to South Side Railroad and duty at Ford ' s Station until April 20 . Moved to Washington , D . C . , April 20 – 26 . Camp at Alexandria and provost duty at Georgetown until July . Guard duty in Washington during trial of President Lincoln ' s assassins . Six original companies muster out June 10 , 1865 . Balance of Regiment muster out July 29 , 1865 . Company K served its entire term of service at Galloupe ' s Island in Boston Harbor and mustered out May 6 , 1865 . The six original companies of the 18th New Hampshire Infantry mustered out of service June 10 , 1865 . Other companies mustered out July 29 , 1865 . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 41 men during service ; 1 officer and 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 36 enlisted men died of disease .
44 - foot motor lifeboat The 44 - foot motor lifeboat was the standard workhorse of the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) rescue boat fleet . The 44 ′ MLB has been replaced by the 47 ′ MLB . The boats are powered by twin diesel engines , that each power a separate propeller . The propellers are protected by the hull , to help prevent them being damaged if the boat runs aground . The boats have air - tight compartments forward and aft of the steering station . The aft compartment is designed to hold litters to strap in injured people , while the forward compartment hold uninjured rescues . The magazine " Popular Mechanics " reported that the then new fleet of 44 foot motor life - boats represented several " " firsts " " . The vessels were the first steel - hulled motor lifeboats — earlier vessels had hulls of wood . The vessels were the first motor lifeboats where a single crew member handled both the engine throttle and steering wheel . The vessels were the first motor lifeboats designed to automatically right themselves if overturned . The Canadian Coast Guard operated 18 lifeboats acquired in 1966 using United States Coast Guard specifications . Three other craft were obtained in 1975 and 1985 as training vessels . Over the July 4th weekend of 1980 Richard Dixon , the coxswain of a 44 - foot motor lifeboat from the US Coast Guard Station at Tillamook Bay lead his crew of four on two separate daring rescues , earning him the rare honor of two separate Coast Guard Medal s .
Joseph J . Clark Admiral Joseph James " Jocko " Clark , USN ( November 12 , 1893 – July 13 , 1971 ) was an admiral in the United States Navy , who commanded aircraft carrier s during World War II . Born and raised in Oklahoma and a native of the Cherokee Nation , he was the first Native American to graduate from the United States Naval Academy , in 1917 . Naval career . Clark ' s nickname , " Jocko " , originated at the Naval Academy : on one of his first days there , he was standing in ranks when a classmate called out " The Right Reverend J . Jonathan Jockey Clark ! " Commands . During World War II , Clark commanded the carriers " Suwannee " ( ACV - 27 ) and " Yorktown " ( CV - 10 ) . He was known as an aggressive commander , ready to take his group into battle . In 1944 he was promoted to Rear Admiral and given command of Task Group 58 . 1 and served under the commands of Admiral Mitscher of the Fast Carrier Task Force , and Admiral Spruance , commander , Fifth Fleet . He commanded Task Group 58 . 1 in the Marianas campaign , and on multiple occasions his group was sent north to interdict Japanese aircraft being shuttled down from Japan . His air groups conducted attacks on shuttle points Chichi and Iwo Jima so often that sailors of the Fast Carrier Task Force nicknamed them the " Jocko Jimas " . He operated his task group in conjunction with the rest of Task Force 58 in the Battle of the Philippine Sea . His flagship was the carrier " Hornet ( CV - 12 ) " . On the second day of the battle , with his planes returning after sundown , Clark ordered his ships to light up , allowing most planes to land safely . Clark commanded the Fast Carrier Task Force ( TF 77 ) during the Korean War . He was later promoted to Vice Admiral and rose to command the 7th Fleet . Recognition . Clark retired on December 1 , 1953 with the rank of Admiral . His awards included the Navy Cross , the Navy Distinguished Service Medal , the Silver Star , the Legion of Merit , the Navy Commendation Medal and the Korean Order of Military Merit . Admiral Clark died on July 13 , 1971 at St . Albans , New York . He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery . Clark ' s flag lieutenant was historian Clark G . Reynolds ' uncle . Reynolds was chosen to co - author Clark ' s autobiography . Clark was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1952 . Namesake . In 1979 , the guided - missile frigate , USS " Clark " ( FFG - 11 ) , was named in his honor .
USA - 227 USA - 227 , known before launch as NRO Launch 27 ( NROL - 27 ) , is an American communications satellite which was launched in 2011 . It is operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office . Whilst details of its mission are officially classified , amateur observers have identified USA - 227 as being a third - generation Satellite Data System satellite in geosynchronous orbit . The first amateur observation of the satellite was made on 6 April 2011 , when the spacecraft was located at a longitude of 30 . 4 degrees west . SDS satellites are used to relay data from American reconnaissance satellites to ground stations . United Launch Alliance performed the launch of USA - 227 , using a Delta IV - M + ( 4 , 2 ) carrier rocket flying from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station . The launch occurred at 23 : 38 UTC on 11 March 2011 . Following liftoff the rocket flew east , placing the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit . By 23 : 43 UTC , official updates on the status of the launch had been discontinued .
Cruisers of the Royal New Zealand Navy Commissioned cruisers of the Royal New Zealand Navy from its formation on 1 October 1941 to the present : Loss of HMS " Neptune " . HMS " Neptune " was a " Leander " class light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II . Early in 1941 the New Zealand Government responded to an Admiralty request for sailors to man an additional cruiser . " Neptune " was selected and was expected to leave the United Kingdom for New Zealand in May . However because of the loss of cruisers during the Crete campaign " Neptune " was instead attached to Admiral Cunningham ' s Force K , based on Malta . On 19 December 1941 she was sunk by mines . Only one crewman survived . 150 of those lost were New Zealanders , 80 of them had served in the Naval Reserve before the outbreak of war . The loss of " Neptune " was the greatest single tragedy New Zealand Naval Forces have experienced .
Royston Wright Admiral Sir Royston Hollis Wright GBE KCB DSO ( 29 September 1908 – 18 July 1977 ) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel . Naval career . Educated at Haileybury College and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth , Wright joined the Royal Navy in 1927 . In 1939 he was made Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMS " Beagle " . In 1941 he went on to command the destroyer HMS " Derwent " which was badly damaged by a torpedo in Tripoli Harbour . In 1943 he took command of the destroyer HMS " Hurworth " which was later sunk later that year during the Aegean Campaign of World War II . In 1948 he took command of the destroyer HMS " Wakeful " . He went on to be Director of the Manning Department at the Admiralty in 1950 before becoming Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier HMS " Triumph " in 1953 . He became Commodore of the Royal Naval Barracks at Devonport in 1955 , Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1956 , Flag Officer Flotillas for the Home Fleet in 1958 and Flag Officer , Scotland and Northern Ireland in 1959 . He became Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel in 1961 : in this capacity he considered a plan to fly sailors ' wives out to the Far East Fleet to reduce the strain of separation . He retired in 1965 . In 1969 he was Chairman of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 & 1785 ( United 1889 ) . Family . In 1945 he married Betty Lilian Ackery ; they had no children .
George M . Todd George M . Todd ( unknown – October 21 , 1864 ) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War who served under William C . Quantrill . A participant in numerous raids , including the Lawrence Massacre in 1863 , he was ultimately killed at the Second Battle of Independence in 1864 . Todd had worked as a bridge mason before the war , and served with the Missouri State Guard before joining Quantrill in 1862 . He rose to become one of Quantrill ' s principal lieutenants , and participated in various raids of his own as well as with Quantrill . During the First Battle of Independence on August 11 , 1862 , Todd served under Quantrill in a two - pronged attack on the city led by Col . John T . Hughes . During the fighting , Todd liberated several prisoners in the city jail , one of whom was the city marshal , James Knowles , who had been imprisoned for the killing of a rowdy citizen . Knowles and a Union captain named Thomas ( whom Todd had captured at this same time ) were summarily executed by Todd and his men , who wanted revenge for previous attacks made by those two on their command . On August 21 , 1863 , Todd participated in Quantrill ' s raid on Lawrence . Todd and his men participated in the Centralia Massacre , on September 27 , 1864 . Following the initial massacre of unarmed soldiers on a train , the guerrillas overran a relief force of inexperienced mounted infantry carrying single shot rifles , killing nearly all of them as well . Todd was killed during the first day ' s fighting at the Second Battle of Independence , on October 21 , 1864 , by Lt . Col . George H . Hoyt of the Fifteenth Kansas as Major General Sterling Price ' s Confederate forces pushed the Army of the Border through the town . Todd was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Independence , where his grave is a local historical attraction .