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USS Little ( DD - 803 ) USS " Little " ( DD - 803 ) , a " Fletcher " - class destroyer , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Captain George Little ( 1754 – 1809 ) . " Little " was laid down by Todd - Pacific Shipyards , Seattle , Wash . , 13 September 1943 ; launched 22 May 1944 , sponsored by Mrs . Russell F . O ' Hara ; and commissioned 19 August 1944 , Commander Madison Hall , Jr . , in command . History . After training off the West Coast , " Little " departed Seattle 11 November 1944 to escort a convoy to Pearl Harbor . She arrived 23 November and participated in gunnery training and battle problems . On 22 January 1945 she got underway with a group of LST s for Eniwetok and rehearsals for the invasion of Iwo Jima . Final preparations were made at Saipan , and 15 February " Little " sailed for the assault beaches . Shore bombardment at Iwo Jima began 19 February . " Little " furnished fire support for ground forces until the 24th when she left for Saipan . She returned 4 March for bombardment , screening , and radar picket duties , and was back at Saipan 14 March to prepare or the Okinawa invasion . " Little " sailed for Okinawa 27 March assigned to the demonstration group charged with feigning landings opposite the actual assault beaches . After accomplishing this diversion 1 and 2 April , " Little " screened transports and escorted LSTs to the beaches . On 19 April she was ordered to picket duty where she remained until 24 April — unscathed despite relentless enemy suicide attacks . On 3 May " Little " and " Aaron Ward " ( DM - 34 ) were again on picket duty . At 18 : 13 18 to 24 aircraft attacked from under cloud cover . " Aaron Ward " took the first hit at 18 : 41 . An instant later " Little " was hit on the portside . Within 4 minutes three more enemy kamikaze s had hit her , breaking her keel , demolishing the amidship section , and opening all three after machinery spaces . At 19 : 55 " Little " broke up and went down . Sixty two of the " Little " ' s 200 sailors perished , while 27 suffered injuries . " Little " received two battle star s for World War II service .
Anthony Dymock Vice Admiral Sir Anthony Knox Dymock KBE , CB , FRSA ( born 18 July 1949 ) is a senior British Royal Navy officer . Naval career . Educated at Brighton Hove and Sussex Grammar School , University of East Anglia where he graduated in Russian and Philosophy , and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth , Dymock joined the Royal Navy in 1971 . After serving in the Falklands War and being promoted to Commander in 1985 , he became Commanding Officer of HMS " Plymouth " in 1985 , Deputy Commander of the UK Task Group during the Gulf War and Commanding Officer of HMS " Cambeltown " in 1992 . He went on to be Commanding Officer of HMS " Cornwall " in 1996 , Deputy Commander of Strike Force South at NATO in 2000 and Defence Attaché in Washington D . C . in 2002 . His last appointment was as UK Military Representative to NATO from 2006 until he retired in 2008 . He is an alumnus of Harvard ' s Kennedy School Senior Executive Security Program , and has lectured on security at the National Defense University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2005 . He is also a Member of the Nautical Institute and a Freeman of the City of London .
No . 116 Squadron RAF No . 116 Squadron , Royal Flying Corps , was formed on 1 December 1917 at Andover and was intended to become a night bomber unit but the end of the war resulted in the Squadron ' s disbandment on 20 November 1918 . The Squadron reformed at Hatfield on 17 February 1941 from No . 1 Anti - Aircraft Calibration Flight with Westland Lysanders . Its main task was the calibration of predictors and AA radar used by numerous AA batteries in the UK . Due to the wide dispersal of these batteries , No . 116 was fragmented into numerous detachments based at convenient airfields . In November 1941 some Hawker Hurricanes were received for simulating dive - bombing and low - level attacks and in June 1942 , de Havilland Tiger Moths were allotted for use in AA radar alignment checks . Airspeed Oxfords began to replace the Lysanders and were later supplemented by Avro Ansons . These were used for the rest of the war , the Squadron disbanding on 26 May 1945 . On 1 August 1952 , the Squadron reformed at Watton from the Calibration Squadron of the Central Signals Establishment . It flew Vickers Varsities , Avro Lincolns and Ansons until renumbered 115 Squadron on 21 August 1958 .
Spanish warship Destructor ( 1886 ) Destructor was a 19th - century Spanish warship . She was a fast ocean - going torpedo gunboat and a precursor of the destroyer type of vessel . " Destructor " was the first warship classified as a " destroyer " at the time of her commissioning . Her designer was a Spanish Navy officer , Fernando Villaamil , commissioned by the Minister of the Navy , Vice - Admiral Manuel Pezuela . Genesis . During the 1860s , 70s and 80s the rapidly improving , fast and cheap torpedo boat s were presenting an escalating threat to major warships . Escort vessels were already in use to provide protection for battleships but it was decided that what was needed was a new type of enlarged torpedo boat , capable of escorting larger ships on long voyages and also able to attack enemy battleships as part of a fleet action . The Spanish Navy asked several British shipyards to submit proposals capable of fulfilling these specifications . In 1885 it chose the design submitted by the shipyard of James and George Thomson of Clydebank , near the Yarrow shipyards . She was laid down at the end of the year , launched in 1886 , and commissioned in 1887 . Characteristics . She displaced 348 tons , and was equipped with triple - expansion engine s generating , for a maximum speed of , which made her one of the faster ships in the world by 1888 . She was armed with one Spanish - designed Hontoria breech - loading gun , four ( 6 - pdr ) Nordenfeldt guns , two ( 3 - pdr ) Hotchkiss cannons and two Schwartzkopff torpedo tubes . The ship carried three torpedoes per tube . She was manned by a crew of 60 . On her maiden voyage , " Destructor " established a record after steaming from Falmouth to El Ferrol in 24 hours . In terms of gunnery , speed and dimensions , the specialised design to chase torpedo boats and her high seas capabilities , " Destructor " is widely considered the first torpedo - boat destroyer ever built , and was described as such by British naval engineer Sir William Henry White . The " Destructor " is thought to have influenced the design and concept of later destroyers developed by the British Navy . Further developments followed the pattern of the " Havock " class , built in 1893 . The aim of the new destroyer design was not only to neutralize the torpedo boat as an effective weapon , but also to replace it as a faster and more reliable torpedo - carrying warship .
Battle of Pla ( 1811 ) The Battle of Pla ( 15 January 1811 ) saw an Imperial French column made up of two Italian brigades clash with a Spanish division under the command of Pedro Sarsfield . The Spanish troops held steady and repulsed the attack of the first brigade , then counterattacked and defeated both brigades . The combat occurred during the Peninsular War , part of the Napoleonic Wars . The action was fought near El Pla de Santa Maria , north of Valls , Spain . The Siege of Tortosa ended on 2 January 1811 when the Spanish garrison surrendered to Louis Gabriel Suchet ' s III Corps . During the siege , Marshal Jacques MacDonald ' s VII Corps blocked the Catalan army of Luis González Torres de Navarra , Marquess of Campoverde from interfering with Suchet ' s operations . With the siege finished , MacDonald moved toward Lleida ( Lérida ) with 12 , 000 troops . After reaching Valls , his vanguard commander Francesco Orsatelli ( called Eugenio ) heard that an enemy force was nearby and determined to attack it . Eugenio was mortally wounded and his brigade driven back by Sarsfeld ' s men . After Giuseppe Federico Palombini ' s brigade joined Eugenio ' s survivors , Sarsfield counterattacked and defeated both Italian units . Only the intervention of a handful of French cavalry led by Jacques - Antoine - Adrien Delort prevented a complete disaster . After the day ' s action , MacDonald found that Campoverde ' s main force was coming up behind him . During the night , the French marshal force - marched his troops north to Montblanc on the road to Llieda , conceding the battlefield to the Spanish . Forces . The Imperial forces included two battalions each of the 1st and 2nd Italian Light Infantry Regiments , two battalions each of the 2nd , 4th , and 5th Italian Line Infantry Regiments , and one battalion of the 8th Italian Line Infantry Regiment . There were also 30 cavalrymen from the Italian Royal Chasseurs à Cheval . Two squadrons of the French 24th Dragoon Regiment became engaged at the end of the battle .
M1 mortar The M1 mortar is an American 81 millimeter caliber mortar . It was based on the French Brandt mortar . The M1 mortar was used from World War II until the 1950s when it was replaced by the lighter and longer ranged M29 mortar . General data . Weight :
Alexander Buller Admiral Sir Alexander Buller GCB ( 30 June 1834 – 3 October 1903 ) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander - in - Chief , China Station . Naval career . Born the son of a clergyman , Buller joined the Royal Navy in 1848 . He served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War . Promoted to Captain in 1869 , he was given command of HMS " Modeste " in 1874 . Buller served in the Naval Brigade as part of the Perak expedition to Malaya in 1875 . He became Admiral - Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1889 . He was appointed Commander - in - Chief , China Station in 1895 . Buller had to respond at this time to the Far Eastern Crisis of 1897 / 98 when the Russian Pacific Fleet was threatening to attack the Korean port of Chemulpo to back up Russia ’ s demands for a peacetime coaling station at Deer Island . He dispatched eight warships to Korea and the Russian forces promptly retreated . The fact that the Japan ese Government had also put three battleship s and ten cruiser s at his disposal may have also influenced the outcome . He retired in 1899 . He lived at Erle Hall near Plympton in Devon and died at Exford , Somerset , in 1903 , aged 69 . Family . In 1870 he married Emily Mary Tritton . Through his only daughter , Jane Elizabeth , who married in 1892 Major Charles Turner , he became grandfather to two Victoria Cross winning brothers , Alexander Buller Turner and Victor Buller Turner .
Le Van Nghiem Lieutenant General Lê Văn Nghiêm was an officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam . As a colonel , he was the first commander of the 1st Division , which was based in the northernmost regions of South Vietnam near the border , from May 1 , 1955 until December 15 , when he was replaced Colonel Nguyen Khanh , who later led the country . He served as the commander of III Corps , which oversaw the region of the country surrounding the capital Saigon , from 5 May 1960 until 7 December 1962 , when he was replaced by Major General Ton That Dinh . He was transferred to serve as the commander of I Corps , which oversaw the northernmost part of the country , from 7 December 1962 until August 1963 the next year , when he was replaced by Major General Do Cao Tri . On the same night , I Corps forces took part in the Xa Loi Pagoda raids .
USS S - 9 ( SS - 114 ) USS " S - 9 " ( SS - 114 ) was a second - group ( or " Government " ) " S " - class submarine of the United States Navy . Her keel was laid down on 20 January 1919 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard . She was launched on 17 June 1920 sponsored by Mrs . James E . Palmer , and commissioned on 21 February 1921 with Lieutenant Commander Thomas Shine in command . Following duty off the northeast coast , " S - 9 " sailed from New London , Connecticut , on 31 May 1921 , and proceeded via the Panama Canal , California , and Pearl Harbor to the Philippines , arriving at Cavite , Luzon on 6 December . There , she joined Submarine Division 12 ( SubDiv 12 ) , whose S - boat s — along with those of SubDiv 18 — had arrived on 1 December . In 1922 , she sailed from Cavite on 11 October visited Hong Kong from 14 – 28 October , and returned to Cavite on 31 October . On 30 April 1923 , she departed from Cavite and visited Shanghai , Chefoo , and Chinwangtao , China , before returning via Woosung and Amoy to Cavite on 11 September . On 23 June 1924 , she sailed from Manila Bay and again visited ports in China before returning to Olongapo on 23 September . Departing from Cavite on 29 October , " S - 9 " arrived at Mare Island , California on 30 December . Remaining at Mare Island in 1925 , she operated along the West Coast in 1926 , mainly at San Francisco , San Pedro , and San Diego , California . Departing Mare Island on 11 February 1927 , she operated in the Panama Canal area from March into April , arrived at New London on 3 May , and spent the remainder of 1927 along the northeast coast . " S - 9 " served in the Panama Canal area from February – April 1928 , from January – March 1929 , and from January – March 1930 . Departing New London on 22 October , " S - 9 " was decommissioned on 15 April 1931 at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 25 January 1937 .
Bartlett Laffey Bartlett Laffey ( 1841 – March 22 , 1901 ) was an Irish - born United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient . Biography . Born in County Galway , Ireland , he enlisted in the United States Navy from Massachusetts on March 17 , 1862 and was assigned to stern wheel gunboat . On March 5 , 1864 , the Confederates launched a heavy attack on Union positions at Yazoo City , Mississippi . In the midst of heated battle Laffey landed a 12 - pound howitzer and her crew . Despite enemy rifle fire which cut up the gun carriage and severed the rammer , Laffey bravely stood by his gun and contributed greatly to turning back the fierce Confederate assault . Seaman Laffey received the Medal of Honor for his actions . Two of his shipmates , Seaman James Stoddard and Seaman William J . Franks , were also awarded the medal for being on the gun crew . He died at Chelsea , Massachusetts , on March 22 , 1901 . Namesakes . Two ships in the United States Navy have been given their name in honor of Bartlett Laffey . His granddaughter , Miss Eleanor Fogerty , christened the first , a " Benson " class destroyer , in 1941 . This ship was lost during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942 . The second ship was , an " Allen M . Sumner " class destroyer which was built in 1943 and served until 1975 . She was laid down less than a year after the loss of the first " Laffey " and named for that ship as much as for Seaman Laffey . The second USS " Laffey " is now preserved as a museum ship and is registered as a National Historic Landmark . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Seaman , U . S . Navy . Born : 1841 , Ireland . Accredited to : Massachusetts . G . O . No . : 32 , April 16 , 1864 . Citation : Off Yazoo City , Miss . , March 5 , 1864 , embarking from the Marmora with a 12 - pound howitzer mounted on a field carriage , Laffey landed with the gun and crew in the midst of heated battle and , bravely standing by his gun despite enemy rifle fire which cut the gun carriage and rammer , contributed to the turning back of the enemy during the fierce engagement .
Richebourg - l ' Avoué Richebourg - l ' Avoué is a village and former commune in the Pas - de - Calais region of France . It was merged with Richebourg - Saint - Vaast to form the commune of Richebourg on 21 February 1971 . World War I . The Battle of the Boar ' s Head was fought on 30 June 1916 , as a diversion for the Battle of the Somme which began on 1 July . The attack was conducted by the 11th , 12th and 13th ( Southdowns ) Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment , part of the 116th Southdowns Brigade of the 39th Division commanded by Major - General G . J . Cuthbert . The preliminary bombardment and wire - cutting by the artillery commenced on the afternoon of 29 June and was reported as very effective . The final bombardment commenced shortly before and the 12th and 13th battalions went over the top ( most for the first time ) shortly afterwards , the 11th Battalion providing carrying parties . The guns lifted their fire off the German front trench and put down an intense barrage in support . The infantry reached the German trenches , bombing and bayoneting their way into the German front line trench and held it for some four hours and briefly took the second trench for about half an hour , beating off repeated counter - attacks and then withdrew because of a shortage of ammunition and mounting casualties . The German support position was not reached by the infantry , because the German defensive tactics included shelling trenches , where the British had gained a foothold . In fewer than five hours the three Southdowns Battalions of the Royal Sussex lost and killed , including of brothers , three from one family . CSM Nelson Victor Carter was awarded a Victoria Cross ( posthumous ) for his actions in the battle . A further were wounded or taken prisoner . In the regimental history this is known as " The Day Sussex Died " . The Corps commander looked upon the attack as a raid and considered it to be successful . Commemoration . The Le Touret Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery and memorial is sited here . It was begun in November 1914 by the Indian Corps ( in particular by the 2nd Leicesters ) , remaining in use until the end of the war ( barring a time in German hands in April – August 1918 ) . The Le Touret Memorial is part of the cemetery . The Rue - des - Berceaux CWGC Cemetery is also sited here and includes the burial site of New Zealand tennis star Tony Wilding .
Siege of Antwerp ( 1832 ) The Siege of Antwerp took place after fighting in the Belgian Revolution ended . On 15 November 1832 , the French Armée du Nord under Marshal Gérard began to lay the Dutch troops there under David Chassé under siege . The siege ended 23 December 1832 . The French had agreed with the Belgian rebels that they would not participate in the battle . Following the French army ' s first intervention in 1831 , the Dutch withdrew from Belgium but left a garrison in the citadel at Antwerp , from which they bombarded the town . The " Armée du Nord " and its siege specialist François Nicolas Benoît , Baron Haxo took 24 days to take this citadel and return it to Belgium . Leopold I of Belgium gave France several cannon of different calibres as thanks for this action and the Senate of France offered Gérard an " épée d ' honneur " . A French monument to the French dead in the siege was sculpted in 1897 , but the town of Antwerp refused to take it and it is now in Tournai . History . When the Dutch withdrew from Belgium after the campaign called the Ten Days Campaign , they left a garrison in the citadel of Antwerp , which resulted in a second operation of the Armée du Nord of Marshal Gérard , who returned with his army to Belgium November 15 , 1832 , when he laid siege to Antwerp . The Dutch general Chassé , a former soldier of Napoleon , bombarded the city of Antwerp from the fort using heated shot , setting fire to hundreds of homes and causing many casualties among the civilian population . This caused the intervention of the Belgian volunteers who until then had been kept out of combat . Meanwhile , the Belgian army , gradually formed and re - equipped , went to defend the dikes of the Scheldt north of Antwerp , preventing the Dutch from damaging them . For several decades , the siege tactics of the Vauban fortresses were limited to the method of the saps and parallels , usually causing the surrender of the besieged soon after the fortifications were pierced . The Armée du Nord conceived of the idea of using one of the first large mortars . Unlike guns and muskets that shoot in a straight line , mortars can fire a projectile through a curve that allows it to land directly on top of the fortress ' s defenders ' heads . Leopold I gave several guns of various calibers to France and Marshal Gerard received a sword of honor offered by the King and the Belgian government in gratitude . The French Monument , carved in 1897 to celebrate the memory of French soldiers who fell for the capture of Antwerp in 1832 , is currently in Tournai following the refusal of the city of Antwerp to host this monument . In June 1837 , to celebrate the marriage of the Duke of Orleans , the Champ de Mars in Paris served to represent the scene of the mock capture of the citadel of Anvers .
John C . Watson John Crittenden Watson ( 24 August 1842 – 14 December 1923 ) was an admiral of the United States Navy . Biography . Watson was born in Frankfort , Kentucky on August 24 , 1842 , the grandson of renowned Kentucky politician John J . Crittenden . He graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 15 June 1860 . After tours in " Susquehanna " and " Richmond " , Watson was promoted to master on 19 September 1861 and joined " Sabine " . He distinguished himself in this ship when she went to the aid of the chartered government transport " Governor " off the coast of South Carolina on the night of 2 – 3 November 1861 . Watson managed the cable s and hawser s which held the two ships together in spite of a violent gale , allowing some 500 men — Marines and crew — to clamber from the foundering " Governor " to safety in " Sabine " . His commanding officer , Captain Cadwalader Ringgold , praised Watson for his " indefatigable exertions " and " utmost skill and efficiency " in keeping the two ships lashed together . Promoted to lieutenant in July 1862 , Watson later served as flag lieutenant to Rear Admiral David Farragut , who flew his flag in the steam sloop " Hartford " , and participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay . He was later wounded by a shell fragment during an engagement with a Confederate battery at Warrington , Florida . Watson served in a number of sea and shore billets into the 1880s , including duty as executive officer of the steam sloop " Alaska " ; the post of inspector of ordnance at the Mare Island Navy Yard , Vallejo , California ; command of " Wyoming " when that warship carried the American exhibit to the Paris Exposition of 1878 ; and governor of the Naval Home at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . As a commodore , he hoisted his broad pennant in " Newark " ( Cruiser No . 1 ) as Commander , Eastern Fleet , on 10 June 1898 , shifting later to " Oregon " ( Battleship No . 3 ) . The battleship served as his flagship during the subsequent Battle of Santiago , Cuba , on 3 July 1898 , in which the Spanish squadron under Admiral Pascual Cervera was destroyed . Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1899 , he served as Commander in Chief , Asiatic Fleet , from 20 June 1899 into 1900 before returning to the United States to serve as President of the Naval Examining Board . Watson represented the United States at the coronation of King Edward VII of England in 1902 . Placed on the retired list in 1904 , Rear Admiral Watson lived in retirement until he died at Washington , D . C . , on 14 December 1923 . Namesake . During World War II , destroyer DD - 482 was planned to be named " USS " Watson " " , in honor of R . Adm . Watson . However , due to more pressing wartime destroyer construction programs , the ship was never laid down , and her construction was canceled on 7 January 1946 .
Hans - Dieter Weihs Hans - Dieter Weihs was a former German Luftwaffe fighter ace . He is credited with 8 aerial victories flying the Messerschmitt Me - 262 jet fighter , making him one of only 28 jet aces of World War II . Climbing in dense fog on 18 March 1945 , he collided with his wingman , " Oberleutnant " Hans Waldmann . Waldmann crashed near Schwarzenbek south of Hamburg and was killed in his Messerschmitt Me 262 A - 1 " Yellow 3 Wk . no . 170097 " !