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Athula Jayawardane Major General Athula Jayawardane , RSP , USP , ndc , SLA is a Sri Lankan general , who was the former Commander Security Forces Headquarters – Mullaittivu ( SFHQ - MLT ) ; Commander Security Forces Headquarters - Kilinochchi ( SFHQ - KLN ) ; Director General Rehabilitation ; Master - General of the Ordnance ; Director Operations , General Staff ; GOC , 21 Division ; Brigade Commander , Artillery Brigade , 551 Infantry Brigade and 215 Infantry Brigade . He was also the military attaché to the Sri Lankan Embassy in Washington , D . C . Educated at Royal College , Colombo , Jayawardane joined the army in 1980 , undergoing basic training at the Sri Lanka Military Academy . He was commissioned into the Sri Lanka Artillery in 1981 as a Second Lieutenant . He went on to become the commanding officer the 4th Field Artillery Regiment , SLA . He holds a MSc in Defence and Strategic Studies from the PLA National Defense University , Beijing and has undergone the Senior Command Course of the Indian Army . General Jayawardane has received the Rana Sura Padakkama ( RSP ) for bravery and the service medals Uttama Seva Padakkama ( USP ) and the Sri Lanka Armed Services Long Service Medal . He has received the Desha Putra Sammanaya for sustaining wounds in combat and gained the campaign medals Riviresa Campaign Services Medal , the Purna Bhumi Padakkama , the North and East Operations Medal , Humanitarian Operations Medal ( East ) and the Humanitarian Operations Medal ( North ) .
Mario Fucini " Tenente " ( later General ) Mario Fucini was a World War I flying ace who claimed credit for 13 aerial victories during the war ; seven of these were confirmed in 1919 . He would remain in the Italian air force after World War I , rising through squadron commands to head up the Castiglione Fighter School . Biography . Mario Fucini was born on 1 February 1891 in Empoli . As World War I began , he volunteered for military service in the engineers . He was appointed as a " Sottotenente " on 9 May 1915 . After a transfer to the " Corpo Aeronautico Militare " , he earned a pilot ' s license on 13 March 1916 . The following month , he qualified to fly Voisin s . On 12 April 1916 , he was assigned as a pilot to " 5a Squadriglia Voisin " ( later to become " 25a Squadriglia " ) . On 28 July 1916 , he completed a bombing sortie despite constant attacks by a pair of enemy fighters ; he was awarded a Silver Medal for Military Valor for this feat . On 16 February 1917 , he brought back his flaming Voisin to a landing at Monfalcone ; he received a Bronze Medal for Military Valor for saving the craft and himself . The next month , he underwent conversion training to the Pomilio PC . This was followed by a May stint in gunnery school in Pisa . It was about this time that he was promoted to " Tenente " . On 1 July 1917 , he was assigned to a fighter squadron , " 84a Squadriglia " . A fortnight later , he was appointed to command the Grottaglie Defense Section . Here he flew a Nieuport . In September 1917 , he reported to Malpensa for conversion training on the Ansaldo SVA . On 27 September , he was posted to the nascent " 87a Squadriglia " . Towards the end of 1917 , he moved on to " 76a Squadriglia " , with the official date of transfer being 5 December . However , he submitted two victory claims with the squadron prior to that date . At any rate , by year ' s end he was known to be flying a Hanriot HD . 1 , which he used through war ' s end . On 18 February 1918 , he was transferred to " 78a Squadriglia " . He would continue to post victory claims , tallying 13 before war ' s end . His diligence was rewarded with a second Silver Medal for Military Valor , received 15 August 1918 . On 3 November , even as the Austro - Hungarian foe surrendered , Fucini was admitted to hospital . A week later , he was assigned to the Technical Section in Turin . On 1 February 1919 , the Bongiovanni military intelligence commission credited Mario Fucini with seven confirmed aerial victories . He remained in aviation as the " Corpo " became the " Regia Aeronautica " , rising to successive commands of " 29a Squadriglia " and " 78a Squadriglia " . In 1931 , he was promoted to " Tenente Colonnello " . In 1932 , he published " Voli sul nemico " , his memoirs . He was given command of the Castiglione Fighter School in 1933 . From December 1933 through August 1925 , Fucini edited the official journal of the " Regia Aeronautica " , the " Rivista Aeronautica " . He retired from active duty on 15 September 1937 . However , in April 1953 , he was promoted to General in the reserves . Mario Fucini died in Rome , Italy on 1 September 1977 .
Heavy Brigade A heavy brigade is a formation made up from ' Heavy ' Cavalry ; i . e . Dragoon Guards and Dragoon s . The Heavy Brigade was a British heavy cavalry unit commanded by General Sir James York Scarlett at the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War . The Brigade made a gallant uphill charge to defeat a superior force of onrushing Russian cavalry , an amazing instance of the triumph of the individual skill of the Victorian British soldier , as well as of British discipline and unit cohesion . At the Battle of Balaclava the brigade was composed of 2 squadrons each of the 1st Dragoons ( The Royals ) , the 2nd Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) , the 4th Dragoon Guards ( Royal Irish ) , the 5th Dragoon Guards ( Princess Charlotte of Wales ' s ) , and the 6th Dragoons ( Inniskilling ) . See also . Heavy Brigade Combat Team
Valiant - class ship of the line The " Valiant " - class ships of the line were a class of two 74 - gun third rate s of the Royal Navy . Design . The draught for the two " Valiant " - class ships was a copy of the lines of the captured French ship , which had been captured during the First Battle of Cape Finisterre . They were slightly longer than other British 74s of the time , and carried a significantly heavier armament ( thirty 24 - pounders on their upper gun decks as opposed to the twenty - eight 18 - pounders found on the upper gun decks of all other British 74s at the time ) . The second of the two ships was launched in 1764 , and there would not be another ' large ' type 74 until the , the first of which was launched in 1794 .
Battle of Bonari Pass The Battle of Bonari Pass ( Japanese : 母成峠の戦い ) was part of the Boshin War , and occurred on the 6 October 1868 ( Gregorian Calendar ) , or the 21st day of the Eighth Month , Keiō - 4 year ( Japanese calendar ) . The Bonari pass was a strategic access at the limit of the fief of Aizu . The battle opposed a mixed force of 700 troops - including former shogunate soldiers ( Denshutai and Shinsengumi ) led by Otori Keisuke and Hijikata Toshizo , Aizu forces , and soldiers of various northern domains - to 2 , 000 troops favourable to the Imperial government . Outnumbered , the shogunal troops had to retreat to the North to Sendai , where the fleet of Enomoto Takeaki was ready to evacuate them to Hokkaidō . This left Aizu exposed , and facilitated the imperial advance . Three days later , the Imperial troops reached the castle of Wakamatsu and led siege to it , in the key action of the Battle of Aizu .
French frigate Vénus ( 1780 ) The Vénus was a 32 - gun frigate of the French Navy . She was launched in Saint - Malo in 1780 . Her main duties were escorting convoys between Ile de Ré , Nantes and Brest . In this capacity , she captured a British privateer on 16 June . She was wrecked on 5 August 1781 near Glénan Islands , off Concarneau , when she ran aground due to a navigation error of the pilot . The crew was saved , but in spite of efforts to refloat her , she became a total loss . Her guns were found in 1978 , and are now on display in Concarneau .
Walter Engel Walter Engel ( 1 May 1919 - 26 April 2011 ) was a Luftwaffe night fighter ace and recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . During his career he claimed 10 aerial victories , all of them at night .
Friedrich Elchlepp Friedrich Elchlepp ( * July 4 , 1924 in Biederitz , Jerichower district , Germany † 2 March 2002 in Germany ) was a World War II German Navy ( Kriegsmarine ) Oberleutnant zur See , a lawyer and a Konteradmiral ( Rear Admiral ) in the East German People ’ s Navy ( Volksmarine ) . Early life . His father was a teacher . Elchlepp served in the German Navy ( Kriegsmarine ) from 1941 - 1945 . obtaining the rank of Oberleutnant zur See . He served aboard a small picket boat on the Bay of Biscay and later became a watch officer on U - Boat U - 3514 . His U - Boat surrendered to British forces in Norway in 1945 and he became a British prisoner of war . He briefly served as a watch officer aboard one of the German Mine Sweeping Administration ’ s auxiliary minesweepers . He returned home to the Soviet Zone of Occupation and joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1946 . From 1946 to 1949 , he was a student at the University of Halle . In 1949 he became a member of the Free German Trade Union ( FDGB ) in Saxony . Elchlepp passed the state law exam and was employed by the provincial government of Brandenburg from 1949 to 1950 , as director of the Administration School at Königswusterhausen . East German Navy service . On February 28 , 1950 , he joined the East German maritime police forces . From 1950 to 1951 , he was a department head in the Seepolizei ( See Police ) command with the grade of Inspector . From 1951 to 1953 , Elchlepp was head of Fleet Base East , Wolgast , Peenemünde . From 1953 to 1954 , he served as the head of the Operational Staff of the Volkspolizei See ( People ’ s Police Sea ) . From 1954 to 1956 he was the acting Chief of Staff of the Volkspolizei See . From March 1 , 1956 to June 30 , 1956 , he was Chief of Staff of Volkspolizei See . Elchlepp attended the Soviet Naval War Academy in Leningrad from 1956 to 1957 . From 1958 to 1960 he served as the deputy commander for training of the Sea Officer School at Stralsund . From 1960 to 1981 , he served as the Sea Damage Commissioner of the German Democratic Republic working from the Volksmarine ( People ’ s Navy ) command . From 1981 to 1984 He served as the Sea Commissioner of the German Democratic Republic . His awards include the Fatherland Order of Merit ( Vaterländischer Verdienstorden ) in Silver and the Kampforden “ Für Verdienste um Volk und Vaterland ” ( Battle Order “ For Merit to the People and Fatherland ” ) in Gold . Elchlepp retired from the Volksmarine on Nov 30 , 1984 .
Takeshi Takashina Biography . Takashina was born in Chiba Prefecture and was a graduate of the 25th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in December 1913 . He initially served with the IJA 66th Infantry Regiment . In November 1922 , he graduated from the 34th class of the Army Staff College . During his career , he served at the Keelung Fortress in Taiwan , as a battalion commander with the IJA 50th Infantry Regiment , and from 1933 - 1934 as instructor at the Army Engineering College . From 1934 - 1935 , he was attached to the 4th Regiment of the Imperial Guards , and from 1935 - 1936 was on the staff of the 16th Depot Division in Kyoto . From 1936 - 1937 , Takashina was attached to the IJA 3rd Infantry Regiment and from 1937 - 1938 was commandant of Takao Fortress in Taiwan . He became commanding officer of the IJA 60th Infantry Regiment in 1938 and was promoted to major general in March 1940 when he was assigned command the IJA 27th Infantry Brigade in 1940 . From 1940 - 1942 , he was the commanding officer of the infantry group of the IJA 14th Division , and from 1942 - 1943 commanded the IJA 17th Independent Mixed Brigade . In October 1943 , he was promoted to lieutenant general . Takashina was in command of the IJA 29th Division when it was transitioned from a garrison and training command in Manchukuo to Guam in the Mariana Islands . He was overall commander of the island ' s defenses from early 1944 . Guam had approximately 18 , 000 Imperial Japanese Army and navy soldiers and marines . On 21 July , the island was invaded by the United States . Two days after the 3rd Marine Division landed on Guam , 25 July , Takashina planned a counterattack to push the Americans back into the sea . His method was to gather up every Japanese unit on the island and make one huge offensive to hope and flush the Americans out of their positions on the beachheads . After unsuccessful attacks on the Japanese positions at Fonte Hill , the marines ' left and right flanks were forced back by the Japanese . Approximately six battalions were ready to attack the Americans by that time , and they made an offensive in the rain on the night of July 25 . The offensive was made during that weather in order to take the marines by surprise , but white illumination shells fired by the US fleet gave the marines the chance to detect the attack . The marines were saved by tanks , and the attack ended early in the morning of 26 July . Over 3 , 500 Japanese soldiers died in the attack . After the failure of the counteroffensive , the Japanese began evacuations of their defenses at Fonte Hill , as ordered by Takashina . However , Takashina was killed in action while overseeing the retreat . His aide Hideyoshi Obata assumed command of the army on Guam , but committed suicide on 11 August , a day after Guam was captured by US forces .
Diego Dávila , 1st Marquis of Navamorcuende Diego Dávila Coello y Pacheco , 1st Marquis of Navamorcuende , 17th Lord of Cardiel , El Bodón , Montalvo , El Hito and of Villar de Cañas ( ) ( c . 1621 - c . 1680 ) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator who served as Royal Governor of Chile from March 19 , 1667 to February 18 , 1670 .
HMS Rifleman ( 1910 ) HMS " Rifleman " was an " Acorn " - class destroyer built by J . Samuel White & Company , Cowes , completed on 4 November 1910 and sold for breaking up on 9 May 1921 . On 1 January 1917 the German U - boat torpedoed the Cunard liner off Cape Matapan , Greece . She was en route to Alexandria with 2 , 400 Scottish troops aboard ; of these 85 drowned , together with 36 crew . " Rifleman " , the escorting destroyer , took off 650 and armed trawlers towed the remainder of the survivors in their lifeboats to Crete . On 15 April 1917 the was en route from Marseilles to Alexandria , Egypt , when the German U - boat torpedoed her 150 miles east of Malta . " Cameronia " was a 10 , 963 ton passenger liner that had been converted to a troopship in January 1917 . She was carrying 2 , 650 troops and the exact number of deaths is unknown , though the number is likely to be 11 crew members and 129 troops . The Chatby Memorial in Egypt lists the names of 127 soldiers as having been lost with " Cameronia " . The vessel that carried the survivors to Suda was likely the " Rifleman " .
Tachibana Dōsetsu , born , also as Bekki Akitsura , and Bekki Dōsetsu , was a Japan ese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Ōtomo clan . He was the father of Tachibana Ginchiyo and adopted father of Tachibana Muneshige . Biography . He led an attack on the Tachibana Clan at Tachibana Castle and took both their castle and clan name becoming Tachibana Dōsetsu . He was known as one of the wisest of the Ōtomo retainers and is remembered in part for a letter he sent other leading Ōtomo retainers that included a condemnation of the spread of Christianity in the Ōtomo ' s domain . He is known for fighting 37 battles while about half of his body was paralyzed . It was for this he was known as Oni Dōsetsu . He died while leading an attack on Neko ' o Castle in 1585 . Dōsetsu was in possession of a famous sword called Chidori ( 千鳥 , A Thousand Birds ) . One day , while he was still a young man , he was taking shelter under a tree , as it was raining . Suddenly , a bolt of lightning struck him . However , Dōsetsu used his Chidori to cut the Thunder God inside the lightning bolt , allowing him to survive . After this incident , he renamed his Chidori to Raikiri ( 雷切 , Lightning Cutter ) . In popular culture . Tachibana appears in the video game Samurai Warriors 2 Empires as a generic officer .
550th Special Operations Squadron The 550th Special Operations Squadron ( 550 SOS ) " WOLFPACK " is part of the 58th Special Operations Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base , New Mexico . It operates Lockheed HC - 130 s and MC - 130 s , conducting special operations flying training . Mission . To provide United States Special Operations Command and theater commanders the finest special operations and combat search and rescue forces in the world . History . The 1550th developed , conducted , and monitored helicopter flying training from , 1971 – 1987 , in addition to search and rescue missions from , 1976 – 1987 . It has conducted special operations training since 1987 .
William Laing William Laing ( 1831 – September 29 , 1864 ) was a soldier in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his role in the American Civil War . Laing enlisted in the Army from Brooklyn in August 1862 . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Sergeant , Company F , 158th New York Infantry . Place and date : At the Battle of Chaffin ' s Farm , Va . , September 29 , 1864 . Entered service at : New York , N . Y . Birth : Hempstead , N . Y . Date of issue : April 6 , 1865 . Citation : Was among the first to scale the parapet .
Army of Occupation Medal The Army of Occupation Medal is a military award of the United States military which was established by the United States War Department on 5 April 1946 . The medal was created in the aftermath of the Second World War to recognize those who had performed occupation service in either Germany or Japan . The original Army of Occupation Medal was intended only for members of the United States Army , but was expanded in 1948 to encompass the United States Air Force shortly after that service ' s creation . The Navy and Marine equivalent of the Army of Occupation Medal is the Navy Occupation Service Medal . History . Although authorized in 1946 , it was not until 1947 that the first Army of Occupation Medals were distributed . The first medal was presented to General of the Army Dwight D . Eisenhower , who had been the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force Commander during World War II . Because of the legal status of West Berlin , as an occupied territory until the unification of Germany , the Army of Occupation Medal was issued for forty - five years making it one of the longest active military awards of both the Second World War and the Cold War . In addition , some recipients of the award were born two generations after the end of the conflict which the medal was designed to represent . Much like the National Defense Service Medal , the Army of Occupation Medal has come to be considered a " multi - generational " award . Criteria . To be awarded the Army of Occupation Medal , a service member was required to have performed at least thirty consecutive days of military duty within a designated geographical area of military occupation . The Army of Occupation Medal was presented with a campaign clasp , denoting either European or Asian service , depending on the region in which occupation service had been performed . Campaign clasps were worn on the full sized medal only with no corresponding device when wearing the Army of Occupation Medal as a ribbon on a military uniform . In addition to the Germany clasp , for those service members who performed 92 consecutive days of military duty during the Berlin Airlift in 1948 and 1949 , the Berlin Airlift Device is authorized as a device to the Army of Occupation Medal . Appearance . The medal is bronze measuring 1 . 25 inches across . On the obverse , are the abutments of the Remagen Bridge with the words " ARMY OF OCCUPATION " inscribed above . On the reverse , is Mount Fuji with a low hanging cloud over two Japanese junks above a wave and the inscribed date " 1945 " . A bronze clasp 0 . 125 inches wide and 1 . 5 inches in length with the word " GERMANY " or " JAPAN " is worn on the suspension ribbon of the medal to indicate service in Europe or the Far East . The ribbon is 1 . 375 inches wide with two thin white stripes at the edges and two thicker stripes in the middle , the first being black and the second in scarlet .
Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana The Fuerza Aérea Expedicionaria Mexicana ( " FAEM " ; translates as " Mexican Expeditionary Air Force " ) was a military aviation unit which represented Mexico on the Allied side during World War II . It is notable as the only Mexican military unit ever to fight outside Mexico itself . History . The name covered all pilots , mechanics , armourers and other personnel who were trained in the United States from July 1944 onward to take part in the conflict — the unit was previously known as the " Grupo de Perfeccionamiento de Aeronáutica " ( " Aeronautical Training Group " ) . On 29 December 1944 , Mexico ' s Senate authorised these troops to be sent into combat Founded by order 8606 of the " Dirección de Aeronáutica " of the Secretariat of National Defense , the unit was officially made part on the Mexican Army on 1 January 1945 . Its structure was organised as Command ( " Mando " ) , Command Group ( " Grupo de Comando " ) , " Escuadrón " 201 and Reinforcement Group ( " Grupo de Reemplazos " ) , to be consistent with the structure of a U . S . fighter squadron , though the unit flew with its own markings and remained under Mexican command — Colonel P . A . Antonio Cárdenas Rodríguez ( 1905 - 1969 ) was appointed its commander . Trained on various bases in the U . S . , at the end of their training they were reviewed by the Under Secretary of National Defence , general Francisco L . Urquizo on 23 February 1945 at Major ' s Field Airbase in Greenville , Texas . They sailed out of San Francisco in the U . S . Navy transport " Fairisle " on 27 March , to aid other Allied forces in the liberation of the Japanese - occupied Philippines . On arrival in Manila on 30 April , Colonel Cárdenas was welcomed by General Douglas MacArthur , supreme Allied commander in the southwest Pacific . The FAEM was then given a base at camp Porac , Pampanga , in the Clark Field complex on the island of Luzon , forming part of 58th Fighter Group , V Fighter Command , U . S . Fifth Air Force . FAEM ' s operational element — " Escuadrón " 201 , commanded by 1° P . A . Radamés Gaxiola Andrade ( 1915 - 1966 ) — led 59 combat missions over Luzón and Formosa , of which 50 were deemed successful , making an efficiency of 85 % , dropping 252 bombs totalling and firing 138 , 652 machine gun rounds , with only five of its pilots killed in action — a high efficiency , since it was only in action from June - August 1945 . At the end of the war , the FAEM returned to Mexico , where it paraded on Plaza de la Constitución in Mexico City on 18 November 1945 .
USNS Red Cloud ( T - AKR - 313 ) USNS " Red Cloud " ( T - AKR 313 ) is one of Military Sealift Command ' s nineteen Large , Medium - Speed Roll - on / Roll - off ( LMSR ) Ships and is one of the 24 ships in the Prepositioning Program . She is a " Watson " - class vehicle cargo ship named for Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud , Jr . , a Medal of Honor recipient , after whom Camp Red Cloud in Korea is also named . Laid down on 29 June 1998 and launched on 7 August 1999 , " Red Cloud " was put into service on 18 January 2000 .