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Andrew O . Apple Andrew O . Apple ( 1845 - June 7 , 1890 ) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War . Biography . Apple was born in 1845 at Northampton , Pennsylvania but later moved to West Virginia . Apple served in the American Civil War in Company I , 12th West Virginia Infantry for the Union Army and reached the rank of coporal . He received the Medal of Honor on May 12 , 1865 for his actions at Fort Gragg during the Third Battle of Petersburg . After three other members of the regiment were killed carrying the regimental flag , Apple carried it for the remainder of the engagement . Apple moved to Elgin , Illinois after the war , where he became the city ' s fire marshal . He died on June 7 , 1890 at the age of 45 and is buried in the Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin . Medal of Honor citation . Citation : Conspicuous gallantry as color bearer in the assault on Fort Gregg .
BL 2 . 75 - inch Mountain Gun The Ordnance BL 2 . 75 inch Mountain Gun was a screw gun designed for and used by the Indian Mountain Artillery into World War I . Description . The gun was an improved version of the 1901 BL 10 pounder Mountain Gun . The new 1911 version improved on the 1901 gun with a new pole trail , recoil buffer , recuperator and gunshield , and increased shell weight from 10 to . It was a screw gun design , where the barrel could be separated into two parts via a screw joint . This allowed for the gun to have a heavier barrel , but still be broken into smaller portions for transport by mule teams . This was important for a weapon designed to be used in mountainous and rough terrain , or where adequate vehicle and horse transport was not readily available . The weapon could be carried by 6 mules or towed . Service history . The gun was adopted in 1911 and began entering service in 1914 . The weapon served primarily with the Indian Mountain Artillery in the northwest portion of British Indian territory ( on what is now the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan ) and participated in British - led military action in that theatre . It also served in Mesopotamia and the Salonika front during World War I . It was superseded at the end of World War I by the QF 3 . 7 - inch mountain howitzer . Surviving Examples . A 2 . 75 inch Mountain Gun is on display at the Heugh Battery Museum , Hartlepool
John De Mott John De Mott ( October 7 , 1790 – July 31 , 1870 ) was a U . S . Representative from New York . Born in Readington , New Jersey , De Mott moved to Herkimer County , New York , in 1793 with his parents , who settled in what is now the town of Lodi , Seneca County . He attended the common schools . He pursued an academic course . Major general of the Thirty - eighth Brigade of the State militia . Supervisor in the town of Covert in 1823 and 1824 and of Lodi in 1826 , 1827 , 1829 , and 1830 . He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Lodi , New York , for more than forty years . He served as member of the State assembly in 1833 . He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty - seventh Congress . De Mott was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty - ninth Congress ( March 4 , 1845 – March 3 , 1847 ) . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1846 . He resumed his former business pursuits and also engaged in the banking business . He died in Lodi , New York , July 31 , 1870 . He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery , Ovid , New York .
National Personnel Records Center The National Personnel Records Center is an agency of the National Archives and Records Administration , created in 1956 . It is divided into two large Federal Records Centers located in St . Louis , Missouri . The records centers which comprise the National Personnel Records Center are the Military Personnel Records Center , located on Archives Drive in Spanish Lake , Missouri , and the Civilian Personnel Records Center located between two facilities : one on Winnebago Street in downtown St . Louis , Missouri and the other on Boulder Boulevard in Valmeyer , Illinois . Additionally , the National Archives at St . Louis , operates out of the National Personnel Records Center at 1 Archives Drive , St . Louis , MO 63138 . The National Archives at St . Louis is the legal custodian of tens of millions of archived miiltary and civilian personnel records and related personnel data series records including the Selective Service System records from 1940 - 1976 , Army Courts Martial records and others . ( Reference National Archives at St . Louis ) . A major fire on July 12 , 1973 destroyed approximately one - third of its 52 million official military personnel files .
Gerhard Lindemann Gerhard Lindemann ( 2 August 1896 – 28 April 1994 ) was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II , and one of only 882 recipients of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Gerhard Lindemann was captured by Soviet forces in July 1944 during the Lvov – Sandomierz Offensive . He was released from captivity in 1955 .
Willard J . Smith Willard John Smith ( May 14 , 1910 – April 1 , 2000 ) served as the thirteenth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1966 to 1970 . He was born in Suttons Bay , Michigan and was the son of Oscar Smith , a Captain in the U . S . Coast Guard and his wife , Emma Bequist . Upon graduation from high school in Charlevoix , Michigan , he entered the University of Michigan , but later transferred to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London , Connecticut . Upon graduation from the Academy in 1933 , he was assigned to a Galveston , Texas - based Coast Guard cutter and later served as an Aide to Commandant Russell R . Waesche from 1936 to 1939 . During World War II , he was assigned to the Coast Guard ' s aviation branch and was responsible for the construction and commissioning of Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco , California , where he was assigned to duty until 1946 . From 1946 to 1948 , he served as commander of Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City , Michigan before his assignment as Assistant Chief of the Coast Guard ' s Aviation Division from 1948 to 1950 . From 1950 to 1951 , he attended the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk , Virginia . From 1962 to 1965 , he served as Superintendent of the United States Coast Guard Academy . From 1965 , until his appointment as Commandant , he served as Commander of the Cleveland , Ohio - based 9th Coast Guard District . As Commandant in 1967 , he oversaw the transfer of the Coast Guard from the United States Department of the Treasury to the United States Department of Transportation . Upon completion of his service as Coast Guard Commandant in June 1970 , he moved to Traverse City , Michigan . The following October , he was appointed as Assistant Secretary for Safety and Consumer Affairs at the United States Department of Transportation , serving until July 1971 , when he returned to Traverse City . In 1973 he became Admiral of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City , Michigan and held the position until 1974 . His wife , the former Harriet A . Lary died on February 2 , 2000 , two months before he himself died , aged 89 in Atlantic Beach , Florida . Following cremation , his remains were interred alongside his late wife ' s remains in Arlington National Cemetery . At the time of his death , he was the oldest - living former Coast Guard Commandant .
André Joseph Lemaire André Joseph Lemaire ( 1759 – 1802 ) was a French general of artillery during the French Revolutionary Wars . He served in Jean - Baptiste Jourdan ' s Army of the Danube in the invasion of southwestern Germany in 1799 . He retired after the Treaty of Lunéville in 1800 and died in 1802 .
Battle of Roccavione The Battle of Roccavione was the last battle of the invasion of the territory of Asti by the Angevine troops from the Kingdom of Sicily . Charles I of Sicily was defeated , and his entire invasion failed . The battle was also the end of the Astigiani participation in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines , and the end of Charles ' intervention in the rest of the Italian Peninsula . Background . Charles I of Sicily had landed in Piedmont to challenge the commune of Asti , who defeated Thomas II of Savoy ' s army at the Battle of Montebruno and subsequently moved at the conquest of Asti . Charles defeated a coalition of Ghibellines at the Battle of Cassano in 1259 , and he was determined to bring down the Astigiani forces that remained . He found an Astigiani force waiting for him at Roccavione , in what is now the province of Cuneo . Battle . Asti had made allies with the Marquess of Montferrat , William VII . He was to lead the army , and his men awaited the Neapolitan army . When the two sides met , the Neapolitans were destroyed . Charles I ' s campaign in Piedmont , and Italy in general , had failed . He would not set foot in Piedmont again after he left back for Naples . Aftermath . After the flunked invasion of Piedmont by Charles I , there would be no more war in Asti . However , there were more troubles . Inner struggles for the control of trading and bank enterprises , soon divided the city in factions . The most prominent was that of the powerful bankers of the Solaro family , who , in 1314 , gave the city to king Robert of Naples . The free Republic of Asti ceased to exist . In 1339 the Ghibelline exiles recaptured the city , expelling the Solaro and their helpers . In 1342 however , the menace of the Solaro counter - offensive led the new rulers to submit to Luchino Visconti of Milan . Visconti built a citadel and a second ring of walls to protect the new burgs of the city . In 1345 , in the Battle of Gamenario , the Ghibelline Astigiani and John II of Montferrat defeated again the Angevine Neapolitan troops . John also ruled over Asti until 1372 , but seven years later the city council submitted to Galeazzo II Visconti ' s authority . The latter in turn assigned it to Louis of Valois , Duke of Orléans .
USS Sculpin ( SS - 494 ) USS " Sculpin " ( SS - 494 ) , a " Tench " - class submarine , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the sculpin , a spiny , large - headed , broad - mouthed , usually scale - less fish of the family " Cottidae " . Her construction by the Portsmouth Navy Yard was authorized but the contract for her construction was cancelled on 12 August 1945 .
Pietro Loredan Pietro Loredan ( died 1439 ) was a Venetian nobleman and admiral . Loredan was responsible for making Venice a dominant power in northeastern Italy in the 15th century . His first great victory was over the Ottoman Turks near Gallipoli in June 1416 . He later triumphed over rival Genoa near Rapallo in 1431 . In 1423 , he tried to use his popularity to become the doge , but was defeated by Francesco Foscari , who remained his chief rival for the rest of his life . He was named general of the republic in 1436 during a war with Mantua and was elected generalissimo in 1438 . That year , he reconquered the Venetian fortresses along the Po River . The next year , he was murdered , probably due to the machinations of Doge Foscari . He died in Venice in 1439 . Centuries later , his relative Francesco Loredan would become doge . city
Roberts Dunstan Roberts Christian Dunstan DSO ( 5 November 1922 – 11 October 1989 ) was an Australian soldier and airman of the Second World War . He was noted on his return to Australia after the war as a one - legged air gunner who had served with RAF Bomber Command . He later served as a Member of Parliament . Second Australian Imperial Force . Dunstan was born in Bendigo , Victoria on 5 November 1922 . He joined the Australian Imperial Force aged 17 on 3 June 1940 . After training he was sent to the 2 / 8th Field Company in North Africa as a reinforcement . In January 1941 , near Tobruk , he was wounded in the knee and had his leg amputated . After resting in Egypt he was returned to Australia and medically discharged . Royal Australian Air Force . Not happy with his short service , Dunstan attempted to join the Royal Australian Air Force as an air gunner . In 1942 he trained at Port Pirie and , promoted to Sergeant at the end of his course , he embarked for Europe . Dunstan was assigned to No . 460 Squadron RAAF at RAF Binbrook , Lincolnshire , England as a Lancaster rear gunner . He flew his first operation on 11 June 1943 to Düsseldorf . In October he was commissioned as a Pilot Officer , and later was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his efforts as a " Cool and skilful Air Gunner despite handicap of one leg " . During one raid on Kassel on 22 / 23 October 1943 , the plane in which he was flying was hit by two incendiary bombs dropped by another Lancaster , which was off course . The damage caused by this accident cut off the oxygen supply to Dunstan and the other gunner , Flight Sergeant Hegarty . As a result of the oxygen starvation that both men suffered , neither saw the approach of an enemy night - fighter , whose attack badly damaged the Lancaster , one cannon shell passing through the rear - gunner ' s turret . The aircraft managed to return home and make a crash - landing at Bisham , the crew escaping unhurt . Dunstan soon completed a full tour of 30 operations and returned to Australia in August 1944 . He was discharged from the Royal Australian Air Force on 2 October 1945 . Politician , journalist and film critic . Dunstan received some attention from the media as a one - legged air gunner who had completed a full tour of 30 missions . He wrote about his experiences in a book , " The Sand and the Sky " , and took a job as a journalist and film critic with the " Melbourne Herald " . Between 1956 and 1982 he served as a Liberal Party member in the Victorian parliament representing Mornington . He also held the posts of Minister of Water Supply and later the Minister of Public Works . Dunstan died in Melbourne on 11 October 1989 .
Gerry H . Kisters Gerry Herman Kisters ( March 2 , 1919 – May 11 , 1986 ) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military ' s highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in World War II . Biography . Kisters joined the Army from Bloomington , Indiana in January 1941 , and by July 31 , 1943 was serving as a Sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division . On that day , near Gagliano , Sicily , he and an officer captured an enemy machine gun position . Kisters then went forward alone and , although wounded on his approach , single - handedly captured a second machine gun emplacement . He was subsequently promoted to second lieutenant and , on February 18 , 1944 , awarded the Medal of Honor . Kisters reached the rank of first lieutenant before leaving the Army . The Monroe County Airport is named Kisters Field in his honor . He died at age 67 and was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington , Indiana . Medal of Honor citation . Kisters ' official Medal of Honor citation reads : On 31 July 1943 , near Gagliano , Sicily , a detachment of 1 officer and 9 enlisted men , including Sgt . Kisters , advancing ahead of the leading elements of U . S . troops to fill a large crater in the only available vehicle route through Gagliano , was taken under fire by 2 enemy machineguns . Sgt . Kisters and the officer , unaided and in the face of intense small arms fire , advanced on the nearest machinegun emplacement and succeeded in capturing the gun and its crew of 4 . Although the greater part of the remaining small arms fire was now directed on the captured machinegun position , Sgt . Kisters voluntarily advanced alone toward the second gun emplacement . While creeping forward , he was struck 5 times by enemy bullets , receiving wounds in both legs and his right arm . Despite the wounds , he continued to advance on the enemy , and captured the second machinegun after killing 3 of its crew and forcing the fourth member to flee . The courage of this soldier and his unhesitating willingness to sacrifice his life , if necessary , served as an inspiration to the command .
Ain M ' lila Airfield Ain M ' lila Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Algeria , located approximately 17 km north - northwest of Aïn Kercha in Oum el Bouaghi province , about 50 km south - southeast of Constantine . It was built by the Army Corps of Engineers on a flat , dry lakebed at an altitude of 2580 feet , designed for heavy bomber use by the United States Army Air Force Twelfth Air Force during the North African Campaign with concrete runways , hardstands and taxiways . Billeting and support facilities consisted of tents . Due to its high altitude , the days were hot and the nights cold . Known units which operated from Ain M ' lila were : The Americans pulled out in the summer of 1943 , heading to their new bases around Foggia , Italy and Ain M ' lila was abandoned . The engineers dismantled what they could and the airfield was reclaimed by the desert . Today only faint traces can be seen on aerial photography .
Da jiang Da jiang ( traditional Chinese : 大將 , simplified Chinese : 大将 ) ( literally : senior general ) was a rank conferred in 1955 to ten veteran leaders of the People ' s Liberation Army . It was never conferred again and the rank was abolished in 1965 along with all other ranks in the PLA . It was considered equivalent to the Soviet rank of генера́л а́рмии ( " general armii " , general of the army ) and generally considered a five - star rank , although the insignia itself had only four . When ranks were reintroduced in 1988 , the equivalent rank was given a different name " yi ji shang jiang " ( 一级上将 ) , perhaps so as to differentiate it from the ten original holders of the rank . In any event , no one was ever named to the new rank and it was discontinued in 1994 .
USS Naubuc ( 1864 ) The first USS " Naubuc " , laid down as a 1 , 175 - ton light - draft monitor at Perine ' s Union Iron Works , Williamsburgh , NY , was launched 19 October 1864 . However , as with others of her class , she was of faulty design and was found to be unseaworthy prior to her completion . She was then converted to a torpedo boat , 4th rate , with one XI - inch Dahlgren smoothbore , and arid Wood - Lay spar torpedo equipment . Design revisions . Though the original designs for the " Casco " - class monitors were drawn by John Ericsson , the final revision was created by Chief Engineer Alban C . Stimers following Rear Admiral Samuel F . Du Pont ' s failed bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1863 . By the time that the plans were put before the Monitor Board in New York City , Ericsson and Simers had a poor relationship , and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair John Lenthall had little connection to the board . This resulted in the plans being approved and 20 vessels ordered without serious scrutiny of the new design . $ 14 million US was allocated for the construction of these vessels . It was discovered that Stimers had failed to compensate for the armour his revisions added to the original plan and this resulted in excessive stress on the wooden hull frames and a freeboard of only 3 inches . Stimers was removed from the control of the project and Ericsson was called in to undo the damage . He was forced to raise the hulls of the monitors under construction by nearly two feet and the first few completed vessels had their turrets removed and were converted to torpedo boats with the weapons listed above . Fate . Commissioned 27 March 1865 , Acting Master Gilbert Dayton in command , she saw no service and on 27 June 1865 was ordered to be laid up at the New York Navy Yard . In common with nearly all her many sister ships , while at the Navy Yard she was renamed twice : Gorgon , 15 June 1869 ; and Minnetonka , 10 August 1869 . In 1875 , she was broken up by Harlan and Hollingsworth , Wilmington , Delaware .
26th Virginia Infantry The 26th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia and in South Carolina . The 26th Virginia was organized during May and June , 1861 , with men recruited in the counties of Gloucester , King and Queen , and Mathews . The 26th was assigned to General Wise ' s Brigade in June , 1862 , contained 31 officers and 424 men . After being involved in the Seven Days ' Battles it was transferred to the Department of South Carolina , Georgia , and Florida . The unit participated in the defense of Charleston , then during the spring of 1864 returned to Virginia . Here it took its place in the Petersburg trenches and was active in various conflicts around Appomattox . Many were captured at Sayler ' s Creek and on April 9 , 1865 , there were 15 officers and 81 men present . The field officers were Colonels Charles A . Crump and Powhatan R . Page ; Lieutenant Colonel James C . Coucill ; and Majors Patrick H . Fitzhugh , Joshua L . Garrett , William K . Perrin , and William H . Wheelwright .
Operation Beaver Cage Operation Beaver Cage was a U . S . Marine Corps and U . S . Navy Joint Operation in North Vietnam along the coastline of the Ben Hai River in the Quang Nam province . The Operation took place 23 August 1966 , through 5 September 1966 . Intent . The United States Army and the U . S . Navy conducted joint operations in search of rat tunnels leading in from and near the coast line of the Bon Hai river . The rat tunnels were believed to be created by the 4th Division of the North Vietnam led by Pham Ngoc Thao . The tunnels were used in transport of supplies , and small attacks on forward American patrols . Secondary objective of Operation Beaver Cage was to infiltrate the tunnels , pushing the enemy out into ambushed locations . U . S . Army . Bravo Company 7th Cavalry Division led the operation , ambushing over ten locations and demolishing over eighteen tunnels . Outcome . Small fire fights lasted the duration of Operation Beaver Cage . Three soldiers and four sailors were killed . It was estimated that forty Viet Cong were killed . The American soldiers seized a variety of guerrilla warfare provisions ranging from AK - 47 and ammo to AKM ' s and improvised grenades . The Operation was considered a success .