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David William Hutchison David William Hutchison ( May 21 , 1908 – September 24 , 1982 ) was a Major General in the United States Air Force . Biography . Hutchison was born on May 21 , 1908 in Mineral Point , Wisconsin . He died on September 24 , 1982 . Career . Hutchison graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1931 . During World War II Hutchison served with the Fifth Air Force and later he held command of the 308th Bombardment Wing . Conflicts he participated in while in command include the Battle of Biak , the Battle of Leyte , and the Battle of Luzon . Following the war he was given command of the 314th Air Division , the 97th Bombardment Wing , the 21st Air Division , and the 5th Air Division before being selected as the first commander of the Seventeenth Air Force . During his time in command of the 21st Division , which at the time was based at Forbes Air Force Base in Shawnee County , Kansas , he received a letter of commendation from Governor Edward F . Arn for relief efforts during flooding from the Kansas River in 1951 . In 1954 he was named Deputy for Operations of Tactical Air Command and in 1958 was given command of the Ninth Air Force . Awards he received include the Distinguished Service Medal , the Silver Star , the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster , the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster , the Purple Heart , the Asiatic - Pacific Campaign Medal , the Philippine Liberation Medal , the World War II Victory Medal , the Army of Occupation Medal , the National Defense Service Medal , the Air Force Longevity Service Award with silver oak leaf cluster and bronze oak leaf cluster , and the Distinguished Service Order of the United Kingdom .
Naval Command , Control and Ocean Surveillance Center The Naval Command , Control and Ocean Surveillance Center ( NCCOSC ) is the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command ' s ( SPAWAR ' s ) warfare center for command , control , communications , and ocean surveillance . NCCOSC ' s mission , in support of SPAWAR , is to develop , acquire , and support systems for information transfer and management to provide naval forces a decisive warfare advantage and to be the Navy ' s center for research , development , test and evaluation , engineering , and fleet support for command , control , communications , and ocean surveillance systems .
HMS Sunderland ( 1724 ) HMS " Sunderland " was a 60 - gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , built to the 1719 Establishment at Chatham Dockyard , and launched on 30 April 1724 . On 25 December 1742 " Sunderland " was ordered to be taken to pieces for rebuilding as a 58 - gun fourth rate to the 1741 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard , from where she was relaunched on 4 April 1744 . On 1 January 1761 , " Sunderland " was caught in a cyclone off Pondicherry , India , and foundered , claiming the lives of all aboard her .
Ralph G . Neppel Ralph George Neppel ( October 31 , 1923 – January 27 , 1987 ) 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 . Neppel joined the Army from Glidden , Iowa in March 1943 , and by December 14 , 1944 was serving as a Sergeant in Company M , 329th Infantry Regiment , 83rd Infantry Division . During a German counterattack on that day , at Birgel , Germany , his leg was severed by enemy fire , but he continued to man his machine gun until the German force withdrew . Neppel survived his wounds , although his remaining leg was badly damaged and had to be amputated . Nine months after the battle , on September 10 , 1945 , he was awarded the Medal of Honor . Neppel reached the rank of technical sergeant before being discharged in February 1946 . He died at age 63 and was buried in Holy Family Cemetery , Lidderdale , Iowa . Medal of Honor citation . Sergeant Neppel ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : He was leader of a machinegun squad defending an approach to the village of Birgel , Germany , on 14 December 1944 , when an enemy tank , supported by 20 infantrymen , counterattacked . He held his fire until the Germans were within 100 yards and then raked the foot soldiers beside the tank killing several of them . The enemy armor continued to press forward and , at the pointblank range of 30 yards , fired a high - velocity shell into the American emplacement , wounding the entire squad . Sgt . Neppel , blown 10 yards from his gun , had 1 leg severed below the knee and suffered other wounds . Despite his injuries and the danger from the onrushing tank and infantry , he dragged himself back to his position on his elbows , remounted his gun and killed the remaining enemy riflemen . Stripped of its infantry protection , the tank was forced to withdraw . By his superb courage and indomitable fighting spirit , Sgt . Neppel inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and broke a determined counterattack .
Tommy Hitchcock , Jr . Thomas Hitchcock , Jr . ( February 11 , 1900 – April 18 , 1944 ) was an American polo player who was killed in an air crash during World War II . He was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame . Biography . Born in Aiken , South Carolina , he learned the sport from his parents , Louise and Thomas Hitchcock , Sr . . His father was a U . S . Racing Hall of Fame horse trainer who had been a 10 - goal player who helped found the Meadowbrook Polo Club on Long Island , New York and who captained the American team in the inaugural 1886 International Polo Cup . Tommy Jr . played in his first tournament at age 13 and was part of the Meadowbrook Polo Club that won the 1916 U . S . national junior championship . Hitchcock attended St . Paul ' s School where he played football , hockey and was a member of the crew team . After being elected president of the Sixth Form , Hitchcock chose to leave school and join the Lafayette Flying Corps in France during World War I . He was shot down and captured by the Germans but escaped his captors by jumping out of the train . On foot , he hid in the woods during the daytime then walked more than one hundred miles for eight nights to the safety of Switzerland . After the war , Hitchcock returned to study at Harvard University as well as at Oxford University . Playing polo , he led the U . S . team to victory in the 1921 International Polo Cup . From 1922 to 1940 , Hitchcock carried a 10 - goal handicap , which is the highest ranking in polo , from the United States of America Polo Association . Playing with notable stars such as Pete Bostwick , Jock Whitney , and Gerald Balding , he led four teams to U . S . National Open Championships in 1923 , 1927 , 1935 and 1936 . Author F . Scott Fitzgerald modeled two characters in his books on Tommy Hitchcock , Jr . : Tom Buchanan in " The Great Gatsby " ( 1925 ) and the Tommy Barban character in " Tender Is the Night " ( 1934 ) . Hitchcock married Margaret Mellon , daughter of William Larimer Mellon , in New York City on 15 December 1928 . They had four children : daughters Louise Eustis Hitchcock , Margaret Mellon Hitchcock , and twin s Thomas Hitchcock III , and William Mellon Hitchcock . As a friend of fellow polo player , Robert Lehman , in 1937 he become a partner in the Lehman Brothers investment firm . Serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II , Hitchcock was assigned as an assistant air attache to the US Embassy in London , England . In that capacity , he was instrumental in the development of the P - 51 Mustang fighter plane , particularly in replacing the original Allison engine with the Packard - built Rolls - Royce Merlin . He was killed in a crash while piloting one such aircraft near Salisbury , Wiltshire , England when he was unable to pull out of a dive while doing tests . His death was reported to his family by fellow St . Paul ' s alum John G . Winant , then serving as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom . Legacy . Following its formation , in 1990 Tommy Hitchcock , Jr . was inducted posthumously into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame .
Wunderwaffe Wunderwaffe ( ) is German for " wonder - weapon " and was a term assigned during World War II by the Third Reich propaganda ministry to a few revolutionary " superweapon s " . Most of these weapons however remained more or less feasible prototypes , or reached the combat theatre too late , and in too insignificant numbers ( if at all ) to have a military effect . A derisive abbreviation of the term emerged : Wuwa , pronounced " voo - vah " . The V - weapons , which were developed earlier and saw considerable deployment ( especially against London and Antwerp ) , trace back to the same pool of highly inventive armament concepts . Therefore , they are also included here . Directed - energy weapons . Rheotron / betatron . Among the directed - energy weapons the Nazis investigated were x - ray beam weapons developed under Heinz Schmellenmeier , Richard Gans and Fritz Houtermans . They built an electron accelerator called Rheotron ( invented by Max Steenbeck at Siemens - Schuckert in the 1930s , these were later called betatron s by the Americans ) to generate hard x - ray synchrotron beams for the Reichsluftfahrtministerium ( RLM ) . The intent was to pre - ionize ignition in aircraft engines and hence serve as anti - aircraft DEW and bring planes down into the reach of flak . The rheotron was captured by the Americans in Burggrub on April 14 , 1945 . Röntgenkanone . Another approach was Ernst Schiebolds ' Röntgenkanone ' developed from 1943 in Großostheim near Aschaffenburg . The Company Richert Seifert & Co from Hamburg delivered parts .
TE - 416 Tomahawk The TE - 416 Tomahawk is a rocket developed by the American company Thiokol at the beginning of the 1960s for Sandia National Laboratories . Although the TE - 416 Tomahawk can be launched alone , it was started predominantly as upper stage in connection with other rockets , for example with a Nike rocket as first stage ( Nike Tomahawk ) . The TE - 416 Tomahawk has a thrust of 43 kN and a fuel time of 9 . 5 seconds . The diameter of the TE - 416 tomahawk is 23 centimeters and the fin span is 93 centimeters .
Carlos de Morais Camisão Carlos de Morais Camisão ( 8 May 1821 – 29 May 1867 ) was a Brazilian colonel of the Paraguayan War . He was one of the leaders of Laguna , with Alfredo d ' Escragnolle Taunay . Biography . He was born in Rio de Janeiro and died in Jardim .
Shaldag Unit Shaldag ( , " Kingfisher " ) , also known as Unit 5101 , is an elite Israeli Air Force commando unit . History . Shaldag was founded in 1974 , in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War , by Muki Betzer , a Sayeret Matkal veteran who brought several Matkal veterans with him . Initially operating as a Sayeret Matkal reserve company , it was eventually transferred to the IAF . Shaldag ' s mission is to deploy undetected into combat and hostile environments to conduct special reconnaissance , establish assault zones or airfields , while simultaneously conducting air traffic control and commando actions . Shaldag operates from Palmachim Airbase . Shaldag soldiers carry M16 or M4A1 assault rifles fitted with the M203 grenade launcher . For special missions , they carry Glock 17 and 19 9mm series pistols and Mauser SR 82 / 66 sniper rifles . Known operations . Shaldag carried out several missions during Operation Litani of 1978 . One of its last missions was reconnaissance near Hasbiya . The unit crossed into enemy territory , came under fire , and a team commander lost his leg to a landmine . The company commander managed to retreat without further casualties or the loss of equipment . In 1984 Shaldag took part in Operation Moses in Sudan . In 1991 it took part in Operation Solomon : On May 24 – 25 , hundreds of Shaldag men , regular as well as reserve , under the command of Benny Gantz , secured the airlift of 14 , 000 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa to Israel . During the 1982 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict , Shaldag took part in operations Accountability and Grapes of Wrath , for the latter of which it received the Chief of Staff Citation . During the 2006 Lebanon War , Shaldag took part in Operation Sharp and Smooth , the August 1 raid on Baalbek . Delivered by helicopters near Baalbek at 01 : 00 , its troops proceeded north to the Sheik Habib neighborhood in order to arrest suspected Hezbollah operatives . En route , they encountered four Hezbollah fighters and killed them . A total of 19 Hezbollah fighters were killed , with no Israeli fatalities . In 2007 Shaldag was also reportedly involved in Operation Orchard , the destruction of a Syrian nuclear reactor . The unit is reported to have infiltrated an underground depot near the Syrian site suspected of being a nuclear reactor , in order to designate the target for the incoming Israeli fighters that destroyed it .
1953 Army Cadets football team The 1953 Army Black Knights football team represented the United States Military Academy . Led by head coach Red Blaik , the team finished with a record of 7 - 1 - 1 . The Army Cadets finished the season by winning the Lambert - Meadowlands Trophy , awarded to the top college team in the East . Regular season . The Cadets had lost six players , including Freddie Myers , to academic ineligibility . The Cadets defeated Furnam 41 - 0 , the team ’ s first shutout since the 1951 scandal . After a loss to Northwestern , the Cadets were undefeated for the rest of the season . In a scoreless tie against the Tulane Green Wave , future Green Bay Packer Max McGee starred for Tulane . In the Army - Navy game , Army ’ s 20 - 7 victory over Navy was its first since 1949 . The turning point of the season was an October victory over # 7 ranked Duke University . Duke featured stars such as Red Smith and Worth ( A Million ) Lutz . Tommy Bell ran up the middle . Quarterback Pete Vann switched the ball to his left hand , and made a southpaw pass . Red Smith was tackled by Bob Mischak on the final play . Mischak ran 73 yards to make the tackle . Red Blaik called it a marvellous display of heart and pursuit . New York Giants coaching vacancy . Before the end of the 1953 season , the New York Daily News had a headline in their paper that Vince Lombardi was the top candidate to become the Giants new head coach . Although Giants co - owner Wellington Mara was a classmate of Lombardi at Fordham University , the Giants were actually interested in Army head coach , Colonel Red Blaik . Blaik had declined the job , but recommended Lombardi , who was his offensive co - ordinator at Army . Despite being Red Blaik ’ s top aide , Vince Lombardi was anxious and frustrated . Three other Army assistants , including Murray Warmath were now head coaches . In June , Lombardi had turned forty years old . Lombardi would be hired as the offensive co - ordinator for the 1954 season .
Western Military District Western Military District ( Russian : Западный военный округ ) is one of the four operational strategic commands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation . The district was formed in Presidential Decree №1144 signed on September 20 , 2010 . The district includes the Baltic Fleet and the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy . The district controls the 6th and 20th Guards Armies , formations and units of the Russian Airborne Troops ( including the 76th Air Assault Division ) , and Baltic Fleet coastal defence units under Fleet HQ in Kaliningrad , as well as the 1st Air and Air Defence Forces Command of the Russian Air Force . It is headquartered in Saint Petersburg ' s General Staff Building on the north end of Palace Square . List of Commanders from 2010 . 2010 ( acting ) Colonel General Valery Gerasimov 2010 - 2012 Colonel General Arkady Bakhin 2012 – present Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov
Battle of Adyar The Battle of Adyar ( also the Battle of Adyar River , 29 October 1746 ) was fought between a small force of the French East India Company , which had recently captured nearby Madras from the British , and a much larger army of Anwaruddin Muhammed Khan , the Nawab of the Carnatic , who sought to take Madras from the French . Fought near the banks of the Adyar River , the French decisively defeated the larger Carnatic force , demonstrating the effectiveness of well - trained European forces in combatting poorly trained Indian troops .
Château de la Barre The Château de la Barre is a residence in the " commune " of Brégnier - Cordon in the Ain " département " of France . It stands on the western slope of the Mont de Cordon . The main building dates from the 20th century , but the fortifications date back to a 14th - century castle . The château was originally a court of justice and a toll collection centre , hence its name " La Barre " . ( http : / / www . chateaudelabarre . com / GB / historique2 . htm ) History . The Château de la Barre belonged to the House of Cordon , who moved here following the destruction of the nearby Château de Cordon . Its position above the Rhône allowed it to command traffic on the river . " Le Rouge et le Noir " . The castle was the scene of a scandal involving a young seminarian from the village of Brangues , Antoine Berthe , engaged by the Duke in 1826 as tutor to this children . Berthet had seduced the young Henriette de Cordon , leading to his dismissal . Convinced that his former mistress , the wife of the mayor of Brangues , was behind his dismissal , he shot her in the church at Brangues . Arrested and condemned to death , he was executed in Grenoble in 1828 . Stendhal , who was familiar with courts and judicial affairs , was inspired by the story to write his novel , " Le Rouge et le Noir " ( " The Red and the Black " ) .
Dick Gibbs Richard Horace Maconchie " Dick " Gibbs was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne University in the Victorian Football League . He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and at the University of Melbourne . He enlisted during the First World War — at the time he was a third - year medical student at Melbourne University — and was killed in his first clash with the enemy . He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross for leading his troops over a parapet , despite heavy German gunfire .
Gael Airfield Gael Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield , which is located near the commune of Gaël in the Brittany region of northern France . History . The airfield was originally built by the French Air Force in the 1930s . It was used by the French in the 1940 Battle of France by the following units ; After the Fall of France , the following German Luftwaffe units used the base : As part of the D - Day landings in Normandy , the United States Army Air Force VIII Bomber Command 92d Bombardment Group attacked the airfield with twelve B - 17 Flying Fortress bombers on 15 June 1944 ( Mission 414 ) as part of a general bombardment of German airfields in the area . The Gaël area was liberated by Allied Ground Forces around 10 August 1944 , and the airfield was repaired by the IX Engineering Command , 850th Engineer Aviation Battalion . Known as Advanced Landing Ground " A - 31 " , the airfield consisted of a single 4500 ' ( 1363m ) Sod / Compressed Earth runway aligned 08 / 26 . In addition , tents were used for billeting and also for support facilities ; an access road was built to the existing road infrastructure ; a dump for supplies , ammunition , and gasoline drums , along with a drinkable water and minimal electrical grid for communications and station lighting . The 364th Fighter Group , based P - 51 Mustang fighters at Gael from 13 August though 15 September 1944 . The fighter planes flew support missions during the Allied invasion of Normandy , patrolling roads in front of the beachhead ; strafing German military vehicles and dropping bombs on gun emplacements , anti - aircraft artillery and concentrations of German troops in Normandy and Brittany when spotted . After the Americans moved east into Central France with the advancing Allied Armies , the airfield was closed on 28 September 1944 . Today the long dismantled airfield is indistinguishable from the agricultural fields in the area . A plaque is dedicated to the 354th Fighter Group who stayed on A base - 31 in 1944 .
Florence Simpson Dame Florence Edith Victoria Simpson , DBE ( 9 October 1874 – 5 September 1956 ) , née Way , later Leach , was the senior female British army officer during World War I and Controller in Chief , later President , Queen Mary ' s Army Auxiliary Corps ( formerly the Women ' s Army Auxiliary Corps ) . The daughter of Colonel Wilfred FitzAlan Way and his wife , Henrietta Mary ( née Ross ) , she married firstly on 3 December 1895 , Captain ( later Brigadier - General ) Henry Edmund Burleigh Leach . They divorced in 1920 . She married secondly , Ernest Percy Simpson , a widower with two daughters in 1922 . There were no children from either marriage . Her second husband died in 1925 . Career . Her career began in 1915 when she volunteered as a cook in the Women ' s Legion , an organisation founded by Lady Londonderry to provide " a capable and efficient body of women whose services could be offered to the state to take the place of men needed in the firing line or in other capacities " . She became Commandant of the Military Cookery section of the Legion , taking on more and more catering for the Army . In February 1917 she was appointed Controller of Cooks and seven months later brought all 7000 Women ' s Legion cooks and waitresses into the Women ' s Army Auxiliary Corps , which had been formed earlier that year . Later she was appointed Controller of Recruiting for the WAAC and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in 1918 . In February 1918 she became Chief Controller of the WAAC at the War Office and five months later was promoted to Controller - in - Chief ( Major - General ) , becoming the senior officer of 57 , 000 women serving at home and overseas . The Corps name was changed to Queen Mary ' s Army Auxiliary Corps , of which she was elected President . In 1919 , Leach was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) , the first Dame Commander of the Military Division . She retired from the QMAAC in 1920 and lived with her stepdaughters for many years in South Africa . She died at a clinic in Arlesheim , Switzerland on 5 September 1956 , aged 81 . Death of her sister . Florence ' s sister Violet , wife of Major W . E Long , was one of the Chief Controllers of the WAAC , and she was drowned while evacuating nurses from the Hospital Transport ship Warilda after it was torpedoed by a German U - boat on 3 August 1918 . Violet was returning from France to give her sister a report on how the WAAC ' s detailed for service with the American Army overseas were progressing . She was the last woman to leave the ship .