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M . 27 ( mountain gun ) The 75 mm M . 27 was a Norwegian mountain gun used in World War II . Twenty - four of these guns were designed and built by Kongsberg Kanonfabrik to supplement the old 75mm Ehrhardt M . 11 guns . There is no record of any use by Nazi Germany after the Norwegian Campaign
Anderson W . Atkinson Anderson W . Atkinson was a Major General in the United States Air Force . Biography . Atkinson was born in Fordyce , Arkansas in 1923 . He graduated from Fordyce High School in 1941 and attended Syracuse University and the University of Michigan . Atkinson died on March 30 , 1992 . Career . Atkinson graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1946 and was commissioned an officer in the United States Army . He then began flight training for the North American P - 51 Mustang at Williams Air Force Base and later went to Ajo , Arizona for gunnery training . In November of that year , Atkinson was assigned to the 63d Fighter Squadron of the 56th Fighter Group at Selfridge Air Force Base , flying the P - 51 and Lockheed P - 80 Shooting Star . In 1949 , he was assigned to the 66th Fighter Squadron of the 57th Fighter Group at Elmendorf Air Force Base , where he flew the North American F - 86 Sabre , Northrop F - 89 Scorpion and Lockheed F - 94 Starfire . Atkinson later joined the newly created Air Force . In 1960 , Atkinson began working in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff , Operations of the Air Force . He was later assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe before graduating from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1967 . That year , Atkinson also became Deputy Commander for Operations of the 15th Tactical Fighter Wing at MacDill Air Force Base . In 1968 , he was deployed to serve in the Vietnam War . He was first assigned to the Seventh Air Force at Tan Son Nhut Air Base . Later , he was transferred to the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing at Da Nang Air Base , where he flew the McDonnell Douglas F - 4 Phantom II . After returning from overseas , Atkinson was stationed at Webb Air Force Base . In 1971 , he transferred to Sheppard Air Force Base . From 1973 to 1978 , he was assigned to the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . In 1978 , he became Assistant Vice Director for Attaches and Training of the Defense Intelligence Agency . Atkinson retired in 1980 . Awards he received during his career include the Defense Superior Service Medal , the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters , the Distinguished Flying Cross , the Bronze Star Medal , the Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters , the Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters and the Armed Forces Honor Medal of South Vietnam .
Satomi Yoshihiro He was defeated by Hōjō Ujiyasu at the 1564 second battle of Kōnodai ; his father , Satomi Yoshitaka , had been defeated by Ujiyasu ' s father , Hōjō Ujitsuna , in the first battle of Kōnodai in 1538 . Yoshihiro also commanded forces in the 1567 battle of Mifunedai in which the enemy commander , Ōta Ujisuke , was killed .
BL 9 . 2 - inch Railway Gun The Ordnance BL 9 . 2 inch gun on truck , railway mounted a variety of surplus 9 . 2 inch naval guns , together with the custom - designed Mk XIII railway gun , on various railway platforms to provide mobile long - range heavy artillery on the Western Front in World War I . Mk XIII remained in service for British home defence in World War II . History . Second Boer War 1899 - 1902 . A 9 . 2 inch railway gun was in fact first deployed in 1900 . The British mounted a 9 . 2 inch gun from the Cape Town coastal defences on a railway truck and sent it up the railway line to support the British assault on Boer defences at Belfast , north - east of Johannesburg . The battle ended on 27 August 1900 before the gun arrived , and as the Boers thereafter resorted to guerrilla warfare this innovation was not used in action during the war . World War I . Early in 1915 a variety of surplus Mk III and Mk VI 9 . 2 - inch naval and coast - defence guns were adapted by the Elswick Ordnance Company for mounting on railway trucks for use in France and Belgium . They were mounted on Vavasseur slides , which travelled backwards and upwards to absorb the recoil , on " well - based " trucks , where the base was level with the axles . These early mountings allowed 10° of traverse left and right , and moved forward and backwards alonged curved sections of track for further traversing . They limited elevation to 28° and hence limited maximum range . In March 1916 a modification increased elevation to 35° . In June 1916 Elswick produced a more sophisticated turntable mounting with a loading platform , on a " straight - back " truck which mounted the gun much higher . This was lowered to the ground for firing , had outriggers for stability , allowed 360° traverse and elevation to 30° . The more modern Mk X gun was mounted on this design , together with 2 Mk X variants intended for Australian coast defence ( Mk XT ) , 4 Vickers 45 - calibre guns ( Mk XIV ) which were originally intended for a foreign order , and a specially developed 35 - calibres railway gun ( Mk XIII ) . Mk XIII gun . The custom - designed 35 - calibres Mk XIII gun had a heavier breech which allowed the trunnions to be closer to the breech and hence the breech did not depress as far when the barrel was elevated . On a new Mk IV mounting , Mk XIII guns could then be elevated to 40° and attain a range of 22 , 600 yards . These remained in service until 1945 , serving in the home defence of Britain in World War II . Combat service . 9 . 2 - inch railway guns expended 45 , 000 rounds during World War I . At the Armistice guns in service were : < br > First Army : 6 guns : Batteries 366 ( 2 ) , 461 ( 2 ) , 523 ( 2 ) < br > Second Army : 3 guns : Batteries 45 ( 2 ) , 53 ( 1 ) < br > Third Army : 4 guns : Batteries 363 ( 2 ) , 442 ( 2 ) < br > Fifth Army : 3 guns : Batteries 53 ( 1 ) , 546 ( 2 ) Mk XIII guns remained in service until 1945 ; all others were declared obsolete after World War I . < br style = " clear : left ; " > < br >
Walter James Sabalauski Walter James Sabalauski ( March 31 , 1910 - August 9 , 1993 ) was born in Lithuania . His family moved to the United States while he was a small child . From 1929 to 1937 , he boxed professionally while living in the Chicago area . An auto accident ended his career with an outstanding record of only two defeats in 33 bouts . Biography . Command Sergeant Major Sabalauski entered the U . S . Army in June 1941 . During World War II , he served in the Pacific Theater , fighting on the beachheads of the Solomon Islands , Guadalcanal , and the Philippines . He later served in the Korean War with the 187th Regimental Combat Team ( Airborne ) and 25th Infantry Regiment . In 1963 , CSM Sabalauski went to Vietnam for the first time , where he served as an advisor to the 32d Vietnamese Ranger Battalion . After service in the Dominican Republic in 1965 , he returned to Vietnam in 1966 . It was during this tour that he fought his most memorable battle . Early in June 1966 , Charlie Company , 2d Battalion , 502d Infantry Regiment was conducting a mission to locate elements of the 24th North Vietnamese Regiment . Charlie Company made contact with what was estimated to be a battalion - sized enemy element . Under heavy enemy fire and unable to maneuver , the company commander , Captain William Carpenter called for air strike s in his position in an attempt to force the enemy to withdraw . The enemy ceased fire long enough to allow Charlie Company to consolidate , reorganize and establish a position from which to defend and begin evacuation of wounded personnel . First Sergeant Sabalauski , in utter disregard for his own safety , repeatedly placed himself at risk for the sake of his soldiers during the conduct of this mission . For his extraordinary heroism in destroying the enemy and in evacuating the mass casualties , he received both the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star . After his second tour in Vietnam he returned to the United States to serve as Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major at West Point . In 1968 , he again returned to Vietnam and the 2 - 502d Infantry Regiment . Command Sergeant Major Sabalauski continued to serve until 1971 when he retired at the age of 61 . Command Sergeant Major Sabalauski ' s awards include the Distinguished Service Cross , Silver Star , Legion of Merit , 8 Bronze Stars , 3 Air Medals , 6 Army Commendation Medal s , 4 Purple Heart s , 3 Awards of the Combat Infantryman Badge , the Master Parachutist Badge along with campaign medal s for service in World War II , Korea , Dominican Republic , and Vietnam . Command Sergeant Major Sabalauski died in 1993 and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery . To the soldiers who served with him , he is remembered as a fearless leader in combat and as having a heart as big as any country in which he served . The Sabalauski Air Assault School located in Fort Campbell , Kentucky was renamed in his honor in 1994 .
Sick and Hurt Commissioners The Sick and Hurt Commissioners ( also known as the Sick and Hurt Board , but formally and fully titled The Commissioners for taking Care of Sick and Wounded Seamen and for the Care and Treatment of Prisoners of War ) were responsible for medical services in the British Royal Navy from 1715 to 1806 . They were a separate ( but subsidiary ) body to the Navy Board , supplying surgeons to naval ships , and running shore and ship hospitals ; they were also responsible for prisoners of war . The Transport Board was given responsibility for the care of prisoners of war on 22 December 1799 , and in 1806 the Transport Board had taken over the business of the Sick and Hurt Board . The Victualling Board assumed responsibility of prisoners of war in 1819 . Commissioners . Commissioners include : Scurvy . The Sick and Hurt Commissioners are credited with the eradication of scurvy from the Royal Navy by putting to use the ideas of Johann Bachstrom and James Lind , who believed lemons , limes or other citrus fruits could help prevent the disease . In his 1734 book " Observationes circa scorbutum " ( " Observations on Scurvy " ) , Bachstrom wrote that : scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food , and greens ; which is alone the primary cause of the disease . Lind ' s essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen appeared in 1762 . It was Gilbert Blane who implemented a longer trial of citrus fruit . In an experiment in 1794 , lemon juice was issued on board the HMS " Suffolk " on a twenty - three week , non - stop voyage to India . The daily ration of two - thirds of an ounce mixed in grog contained just about the minimum daily intake of 10 mg vitamin C . There was no serious outbreak of scurvy . The following year , the Admiralty took up the general issue of lemon juice to the whole fleet .
WD Austerity 2 - 8 - 0 The War Department ( WD ) " Austerity " 2 - 8 - 0 is a type of heavy freight steam locomotive that was introduced in 1943 for war service . A total of 935 were built , making this one of the most - produced classes of British steam locomotive . Overview . The Austerity 2 - 8 - 0 was based on the LMS Class 8F , which until that point had been the government ' s standard design . Various modifications were made to the 8F design by R . A . Riddles including a boiler of simpler construction which was parallel rather than tapered and a round - topped firebox rather than a Belpaire firebox . The firebox was made of steel rather than the rarer and more expensive copper . The North British Locomotive Company of Glasgow built 545 and the Vulcan Foundry of Newton - le - Willows built 390 . North British also built a larger 2 - 10 - 0 version . Most saw service with the British Army in mainland Europe after D - Day . Post - war disposal . After the end of the conflict , the War Department disposed of 930 locomotives ( Two engines being retained by the War Department and three being scrapped ) . After the Second World War , 200 were sold to the LNER , who classified them as " Class O7 " and numbered them 3000 – 3199 . In 1948 , 533 more were purchased by the British Transport Commission . With the creation of British Railways , the 733 locomotives were renumbered into the 90000 – 90732 series . Only one of these , No . 90732 , was named , becoming " Vulcan " after the Vulcan Foundry where many of the locomotives were built . In 1946 , 12 were exported to the British colony of Hong Kong to work the Kowloon - Canton Railway . Six were scrapped in 1956 , but the final two survived until September 1962 . The other 184 locomotives remained in mainland Europe , mostly working in and around the Netherlands for Nederlandse Spoorwegen . Finally , one went to the USATC in an exchange for an USATC S160 Class locomotive in the Postwar exchange of WD and USATC locomotives . Postwar WD service . Two locomotives continued to be held in WD stock , seeing service on the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire , along with two of the WD Austerity 2 - 10 - 0 s and other smaller locomotives . In the WD 1957 renumbering scheme , they were renumbered 400 / 1 . Details were as follows : Preservation . One WD 2 - 8 - 0 has survived . Vulcan Foundry works No . 5200 was repatriated from Sweden to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway . It was SJ number 1931 . It was overhauled to its original condition , finished in 2007 , which involved building a new cab and tender , become BR " No . 90733 " . After test runs , 90733 ran its first passenger train on Monday 23 July 2007 .
Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps The Sri Lanka Army Ordnance Corps ( SLAOC ) a combat support corps of the Sri Lanka Army . The role of the corps is the procurement , receipt , storage , accounting , maintenance , control and issue of all types of ordnance stores . It is made up of three regular ordnance battalions and one volunteer ( reserve ) ordnance battalion and many independent ordnance depots give continuous support to the army . Headquartered at the Regiment Center , Panagoda Cantonment , Panagoda . History . The Corps of Ordnance in the Ceylon Army was formed on 29 March 1950 . Before this , the Directorate of Ordnance was established with the arrival of British Army Adviser Maj . H . P Bracher of the RAOC . The ordnance element of the Army consisted of two parts namely the Directorate in Army HQ and the Ordnance Depot at Kirillapone . In June 1954 the Ordnance established its depot affiliated to the Ceylon Electrical and Mechanical Engineers . When the requirement of storage facilities were increasing , the Ordnance Depot was shifted from Kirillapone to the Panagoda Cantonment in July 1955 . Lt . Col . D . F . T . Abeysinghe was appointed Commanding Officer of the Ceylon Army Ordnance Corps in 1959 . The Ordnance Corps did not have a Volunteer counterpart , but in 1980 a Volunteer company was raised as part of the Corps and now it is elevated to the level of a unit . The first Commanding Officer of this unit is Maj . B . S . G Nanayakkara .
Charles L . Matthies Charles Leopold Matthies ( or Karl Leopold Matthies ) was a Prussian soldier , revolutionary and Union Army officer during the American Civil War , rising to the rank of brigadier general . Biography . Matthies was born in Bromberg , Prussia and worked as a farmer early in life . He served in the Prussian Army during the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states . Matthies emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Iowa where he became a successful liquor merchant . Once the Civil War began , Matthies immediately volunteered for the Union Army . On May 14 , 1861 he became a captain in the 1st Iowa Volunteer Infantry . Soon after on July 23 , 1861 he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry . Matthies first saw action at the battle of Island Number Ten . He was appointed colonel on May 23 , 1862 and fought at the battles of Iuka and Corinth . During the winter of 1862 - 63 he was in command of a brigade in the Army of the Tennessee . On April 4 , 1864 he was promoted to brigadier general of U . S . Volunteers , to rank from November 29 , 1862 . He was placed in command of the 3rd Brigade , 3rd Division in William T . Sherman ’ s XV Corps . General Matthies led this brigade during the Vicksburg Campaign , fighting at the Battle of Jackson and in the assaults on Vicksburg . During the following siege , Matthies ’ brigade was transferred to the 7th Division of the XVII Corps . In September 1863 Matthies ’ brigade became the 3rd Brigade , 2nd Division , XVII Corps and was sent to the aid of the besieged Union forces at Chattanooga . During the battle of Missionary Ridge , he participated in Sherman ’ s attack against the Patrick Cleburne ’ s division near Tunnel Hill . During the attack Matthies was wounded in the head and had to relinquish field command . His head injury prevented him from returning to command until March 1864 when he resumed command of his brigade , now the 3rd Brigade , 3rd Division , XV Corps . He held this command only briefly as his injury forced him to resign from the army on May 16 , 1864 . He returned to Iowa where he was elected to the Iowa State Legislature . He died shortly after the end of the war on October 16 , 1868 in Burlington , Iowa .
Edmund P . Kennedy Edmund P . Kennedy ( c . 1785 – 28 March 1844 ) was an officer in the United States Navy and became the first commander - in - chief of the East India Squadron . Early life . Kennedy was born in Maryland around 1785 . He lost his parents in his early life . He entered as a boy on board the frigate . At the Battle of Tripoli Harbor in 1804 , in the First Barbary War , Kennedy was gunner ' s mate on board and was distinguished by his valor and intrepid ardor in the performance of duty . He was promoted to midshipman on 22 November 1805 . In 9 June 1810 Kennedy was promoted to lieutenant . Early in 1813 he was appointed to the command of the schooner , but was never permitted to go to sea . Transferred to the frigate at Norfolk ready for sea under Captain Charles Gordon . But " Constellation " was closely blockaded by a British Squadron and failed to get to sea . In April 1814 , he moved to Lake Erie and was there until the end of the war . On 5 March 1817 , he was promoted to master commandant , and to captain on 24 April 1828 . East India Squadron . U . S . trade with the Far East was limited , but for those who risked long voyage to trade fur , sandalwood , and cotton goods for Chinese silks and tea , the results were very profitable . Indeed , stories about the riches of Far East created the national myth about the vast potential of the China market . In an effort of turn the myth into reality , in 1835 President Andrew Jackson sent diplomatist Edmund Roberts in the " Peacock " commanded by lieutenant C . K . Stribling , accompanied by the U . S . Schooner " Enterprise " , Lieutenant Commanding A . S . Campbell , both under the command of Commodore Kennedy , to Chochin - China , thus established the East India Squadron . Kennedy died on 28 March 1844 .
Jonathan O . Seaman Lieutenant General Jonathan Owen Seaman ( December 11 , 1911 – February 18 , 1986 ) was a 1934 graduate of the United States Military Academy , a career U . S . Army officer and combat commander between World War II and the Vietnam War . Education and early career . Seaman was born in Manila , Philippines , the son of a U . S . Army officer , B / Gen Albert Owen Seaman and his wife , Florence Thompson ( Look ) Seaman , 11 Dec 1911 . He was appointed to United States Military Academy , graduating with the class of 1934 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 16th Field Artillery at Fort Myer , Virginia . In December 1935 to 1938 , Seaman served as a White House military aide . After a teaching assignment at West Point in 1939 , he was promoted to captain with the 4th Field Artillery at Fort Bragg . World War II and Cold War . By 1942 , as a major and battalion commander of the 4th Field Artillery regiment . He served in World War II in both European and Pacific theaters . From 1953 to 1954 , he commanded the 30th Field Artillery Group at Yorkhof Kasserne , Germany . Seaman was later honored in 1999 by the 30th Field Artillery when the 3rd Battalion headquarters at Fort Sill , Oklahoma was named " Seaman Hall " . Vietnam and Retirement . As a major general in 1965 , Seaman was named commander of the U . S . 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley , Kansas . The 1st Division was the first Army combat division to be called up for service during the Vietnam War , arriving in theater in July 1965 , with Seaman being the first of six combat commanders during the war . In March 1966 , Seaman was promoted to commander of U . S . II Field Force , a 100 , 000 man fighting force that included the 1st Division , along with two other divisions and several independent brigades . In 1967 , he returned stateside and assumed command of First United States Army at Fort Meade , Maryland . Seaman was the deciding official in cases of 13 officers involved in the failure to investigate or cover up the 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War . In 1971 , he retired to Beaufort , South Carolina after 37 years of active duty . Seaman died at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Charleston , South Carolina on February 18 , 1986 at age 74 , He was buried at the Beaufort National Cemetery . Seaman was married to Mary Grunert , daughter of U . S . Army general and a former First United States Army commander , George Grunert .