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USS Cooner ( DE - 172 ) USS " Cooner " ( DE - 172 ) was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . She served in the Atlantic Ocean and then the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys . " Cooner " was named after Bunyan Randolph Cooner who earned a Navy Cross before losing his life in 1942 . She was launched 23 July 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co . , Kearny , New Jersey ; sponsored by Mrs . I . Cooner ; and commissioned 21 August 1943 , Lieutenant Commander J . M . Stuart in command . World War II North Atlantic operations . Between 1 November 1943 and 9 May 1945 , " Cooner " made nine voyages escorting convoys between New York and North African ports . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . With the winning of victory of Europe , the veteran of the Atlantic Ocean was ordered to the Pacific Ocean , and on 28 June 1945 arrived at Pearl Harbor . She sailed on to Ulithi , where between 8 and 20 August she had patrol and radar picket duty . After escorting a transport to Guam and putting in to Okinawa , she returned to Ulithi to load troops , whom she carried to Guam for further transportation to the United States . She herself sailed to Saipan , where from 23 September to 1 November , she stood ready to perform air - sea rescues during the heavy traffic carrying men home from the western Pacific . Homeward bound , she called at Pearl Harbor and San Diego , California , en route to Charleston , South Carolina , where she arrived 4 December . Post - War decommissioning . There she was decommissioned and placed in reserve 25 June 1946 . She was struck on 1 July 1972 and sold on 1 November 1973 and scrapped .
James Cooper ( VC ) James Cooper VC ( September 1840 – 9 August 1889 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Details . Cooper was about 27 years old and a private in the 2nd Battalion , 24th Regiment of Foot ( later The South Wales Borderers ) , British Army during the Andaman Islands Expedition . On 7 May 1867 at the island of Little Andaman , eastern India , in the Bay of Bengal , Private Cooper was one of a party of five ( David Bell , Campbell Mellis Douglas , William Griffiths , Thomas Murphy ) of 2 / 24th Regiment . They risked their lives in manning a boat and proceeding through dangerous surf to rescue some of their comrades who had been sent to the island to find out the fate of the commander and seven of the crew , who had landed from the ship " Assam Valley " and were feared murdered by the cannibalistic islanders . The Cross was not awarded for bravery in action against the enemy , but for bravery at sea in saving life in a storm off the Andaman Islands . Cooper is buried at Warstone Lane Cemetery , in Birmingham .
Sydir Kovpak Sydir Artemovych Kovpak ( ; ) , June 7 , 1887December 11 , 1967 ) was a prominent Soviet partisan leader in Ukraine . Biography . Kovpak was born to a poor peasant family in Ukrainian village near Poltava ( then of the Russian Empire ) . For his military service in World War I he was awarded two Crosses of St . George personally by the Emperor Nicholas II of Russia ( an award for special military heroism ) . After the Russian Revolution he joined the " All - Russian Communist Party ( Bolsheviks ) " and fought for the Red Army partisan units against the German forces , as well as against Denikin ' s White Army in a Vasily Chapayev ' s cavalry division . In the interwar period he was a head of the local government in the town of Putyvl , Sumy Oblast ( province ) . World War II . At the time of the German invasion of Soviet Ukraine partisan units led by Sydir Kovpak waged guerrilla warfare against Axis forces originally in partisan strongholds in Sumy and Bryansk regions but later its operation spread deep into German occupied territory including Kiev , Zhytomyr , Rivne , Homyel , Volyn and other regions . These partisan units also fought against the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army . In 1944 partisans under Kovpak ' s leadership raided enemy forces throughout western Ukraine and Belarus and even reached Romania n border regions during the Carpathian raid inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans . Kovpak mastered guerrilla tactics and was awarded Hero of the Soviet Union title twice . In the summer of 1943 Germans managed to hunt down and kill Kovpak ' s second in command Semyon Rudnev who was replaced by a new right - hand man Petro Vershigora who would later became a writer and dedicate his books to Kovpak ' s underground resistance . Sydir Kovpak was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1943 . According to the memoirs of his lieutenant Vershigora , his promotion and General ' s stars were airdropped to his partisan unit ' s position deep behind the front lines . After the end of the Second World War Sydir Kovpak held key positions in the leadership of Soviet Ukraine , including Vice Chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine in 1947 and Supreme Council of Ukraine in 1967 . He also was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union for the 2nd through 7th convocations . Movies . Kovpak was portrayed ( by Konstantin Stepankov ) in Soviet film trilogy " Duma o Kovpake " ( " Дума о Ковпаке " , " Poem of Kovpak " ) : A TV documentary " Его звали ДЕД " ( " He was called DADDY " ) ( Ukrainian language , produced by TRK Era , director Oleksiy Barbaruk - Trypilsky , 36 min , screened in 2011 ) documents Kovpaks life during the war .
The Great Boer War The Great Boer War is a non - fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 . By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 editions , constantly revised by Doyle . The Introduction describes the book as : The book was completed in September 1900 , at a time when the British believed that the war was over : in fact the penultimate chapter is titled " The end of the war " . However , the war was to continue until 1902 . Original Text . " The Great Boer War " by Arthur Conan Doyle at Google Books
Battle of Eccles Hill The Battle of Eccles Hill was part of a raid into Canadian territory from the United States led by John O ' Neill and Samuel Spiers of the Fenian Brotherhood . The army of the Fenian Brotherhood was defeated by local militia units based in Huntingdon on May 25 , 1870 . Prelude . Fenian militants , operating from Vermont , assembled on May 25 to orchestrate a second invasion of the Montreal region ( a similar expedition under Spiers had met with defeat near the same site at the Battle of Pigeon Hill of 1866 ) . Although O ' Neill was arrested at the border crossing by an American police patrol , Spiers and the main body of Fenians slipped across the border intact and entered the province of Quebec . Battle . Partisans and government scouts spotted the invaders almost immediately . A force of militia ( amongst which was Queen Victoria ' s son and a future Governor General of Canada , Prince Arthur ) awaiting the Fenians at Eccles Hill put up resistance , resulting in firefights and skirmishing . Lieutenant - Colonel William Smith hurried to the field with a battalion of volunteer cavalry and charged the Fenian positions . The Fenians fled , leaving behind their artillery and their dead . The Canadians sustained no casualties during the engagement because of the information supplied by Thomas Billis Beach , a double agent working against the Fenians from within their own organization . Legacy . The site of the battle was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1923 . See also . List of conflicts in Canada
Harold Bartron Harold Arthur Bartron ( September 17 , 1896 – June 1 , 1975 ) was a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force . Biography . Enlisting as a private in the Marine Corps in the fall of 1912 , he was discharged four years later in that grade . When World War I broke out Bartron was admitted to the first officers training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison , Indiana , early in April 1917 , and was transferred shortly thereafter to Columbus , Ohio , where he was a member of the third ground school class in preliminary training for an aviation career . Upon graduation he was sent to the overseas detachment in New York , having been discharged as a candidate , and enlisted in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps for flying training . Going to England in September 1917 , Bartron received additional ground instruction at Oxford prior to flying training . His flying training in France consisted of primary training at Tours and advanced training at Issodoun before he graduated in the first class of the American gunnery school at St . Johns De Monte , France . Joining the 13th Squadron of the Second Pursuit Group after completing his training , he remained with it until the cessation of hostilities , returned to the United States , and was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant in February 1919 . Appointed a second lieutenant in the Air Service , Regular Army , in July 1920 , after a short tour of duty at Fort Sill , Oklahoma , Bartron was ordered to Patterson Field , Ohio , moving to Kelly Field , Texas , in 1929 , and then Randolph Field , Texas . From there he was sent to the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field , Ala . , graduating in 1939 , and then served at March Field , Calif . , and the Panama Air Depot in 1939 . Two years later Bartron was transferred to Waller Field , Trinidad , and six months later he went to Losey Field , Puerto Rico . In October 1942 he joined the invasion force on the West Coast of North Africa , landing in November 1942 , and assumed command of the First Area Northwest African Air Service Command . He was transferred to Constantine in April 1943 , and later moved to Tunis . That June he was appointed to command the Air Service Command , Northwest African Theater . With the invasion of southern Italy he moved to Bari , Italy , and later Naples , remaining there until August 1944 when he returned to the United States . Assuming command of the Fairfield Air Technical Service Command , in November 1945 he became commanding general of San Bernardino Air Technical Service Command . In August 1947 he was assigned to Air Materiel Command headquarters , Dayton , Ohio . His decorations include the Legion of Merit , and he was rated a command pilot and combat observer .
Battle of the Counts The naval Battle of the Counts took place on 23 June 1287 at Naples , Italy , when an Aragonese - Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated a large combined Angevin ( Apulian and Principatan ) galley fleet commanded respectively by Reynald III Quarrel and Narjot de Toucy . Lauria had taken his fleet to Augusta , eastern Sicily , after a report of an Angevin galley fleets landing invasion troops there . He landed his troops , who recaptured the town , leaving the Angevins holed up in the castle . However , the invasion was a decoy and the Angevin galleys had sailed around the south of Sicily and linked up with their allies , forming a fleet about twice the size of Lauria ' s . Their plan was to land troops in the south - west of Sicily . Lauria searched for the allied fleet and finally found it at Naples . Unable to attack it close to the city he bombarded the nearby coast to lure it out , as he had done in 1284 , and sent in a formal challenge . The Angevin fleet came out arranged in 5 squadrons , each commanded by a count ( hence the name of the battle ) . They were Reynald III Quarrel of Avella , Hugh of Brienne , the Count of Aquila , Count Jean de Joinville and Guy de Montfort , Count of Nola . Each of their flag - galleys was surrounded to each side by 4 other galleys and to the rear by 2 galleys . The fleet flag - galley had 2 galleys to its front also . This made 63 galleys , and there may have been a small reserve since about 70 of the about 84 Angevin galleys are said to have come out to fight . 2 tarides carried the Papal and Angevin banners . Lauria had around 40 - 45 galleys . He followed his usual tactic and retreated until the Angevin galleys had become disorganized , weathered their initial attack , then counterattacked from the sides , damaging the Angevin galleys oars . In a battle lasting much of the day , Henry di Mari again fled , leaving about 40 Angevin galleys to be captured , along with 5000 prisoners , including many counts and barons . Ships involved : Aragon ( Roger of Lauria ) . 40 - 45 galleys < br > Angevins . about 70 galleys - About 40 captured < br >
J . Henry Denig John Henry Denig ( September 8 , 1838 – December 10 , 1876 ) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant serving aboard the during the American Civil War . He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in 1864 during the Battle of Mobile Bay . Denig was born in York , Pennsylvania , on September 8 , 1838 . He joined the Marine Corps from Pennsylvania in 1861 and served as a sergeant on the during the Battle of Mobile Bay , Alabama . Mobile was the last Confederate - held port on the Gulf of Mexico east of the Mississippi River , and its capture would complete the Union blockade in the area . In the August 5 , 1864 , attack , " Brooklyn " engaged Fort Morgan and the . Throughout the two - hour battle , Denig fought " with skill courage " , for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor . Twenty - two of his shipmates also received the medal for their part in the battle , which ended with a Union victory . Denig died of health complications at age 38 and was buried in York ' s Prospect Hill Cemetery . He is one of two Medal of Honor recipients interred in the cemetery , the other being Charles H . Ilgenfritz . Medal of Honor citation . On December 31 , 1864 , by Navy Department General Order Number 45 , Denig was awarded the Medal of Honor . His citation reads : On board the U . S . S . " Brooklyn " during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram " Tennessee " , in Mobile Bay , 5 August 1864 . Despite severe damage to his ship and the loss of several men on board as enemy fire raked her decks , Sgt . Denig fought his gun with skill and courage throughout the furious 2 - hour battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram " Tennessee " and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan .
The Bull ( armored personnel carrier ) The Ceradyne BULL is an armored personnel carrier with a v - shaped hull designed in a combined effort between Ceradyne , Ideal Innovations Inc ( I - 3 ) , and Oshkosh Corporation in response to the MRAP II competition . The name Ceradyne Bull is a misnomer ; " The Bull " is actually a trade - mark of Ideal Innovations , Inc . ( I - 3 ) . The MRAP II competition was announced in 2007 when it became clear that explosively formed penetrator ( EFP ) type of roadside bomb attacks were increasing in Iraq and the current generation MRAP vehicles couldn ' t stop all of them without add - on armor kits . In 2005 Ideal Innovations ' President , Robert Kocher , had worked with the U . S . Army Research Laboratory to find an EFP solution , patented it , and then found Ceradyne as a partner in 2006 to produce an armored cab out of it . The U . S . Army ' s Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center at the Rock Island Arsenal provides the EFP - stopping outer layers of the armor . Kocher had previously been involved in the 1991 - 93 development of the up - armored Humvee and was part of the team that developed the boron carbide armor now used in Interceptor body armor vests that Ceradyne produces . In 2007 Oshkosh was selected to provide its Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement ( MTVR ) chassis , with their TAK - 4 independent suspension system and Commercial Off the Shelf ( COTS ) computer hardware , for the vehicles I3 and Ceradyne intended to enter in the MRAP II competition . Two prototypes were made within 50 days . Team Bull members at Ceradyne , together with almost three dozen employees from I3 and Oshkosh , immediately began working round - the - clock shifts . Engineers rarely left the site , with team members instead grabbing a couple of hours of sleep outside in their cars for refreshment . A six person version and a ten person version were delivered to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds for testing . The EFP simulations were so successful that the military quickly adapted the armor into the Frag kit 6 armor upgrade kits for the Humvee and other MRAP vehicles . Senators Carl Levin ( D - Mich ) and Joseph Biden ( D - Del ) took up Bull ’ s cause . Levin wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Gates promoting the vehicle and Biden asked , during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee event , why the military hadn ’ t ordered the vehicle . After testing the initial two prototypes , the military awarded the partnership a $ 18 . 1 million contract to produce six more Bull vehicles of the six person variant by the first quarter of 2008 for further evaluation . While eight vehicles entered the MRAP II competition , The Bull was one of only two vehicles to receive a contract from it . The other was an uparmored BAE Caiman . It has been reported that the complete vehicle weighs around 40 , 000 lbs and costs about $ 500 , 000 ( three times more than a Humvee ) . The Bull prototypes had two side hatches at the front ( meeting MRAP II specs ) , used mainly for emergency exits . This design gave more side protection than larger traditional doors . The Bull had no gun ports , but these could be added in the final production model .
Arthur S . Thomas Arthur S . Thomas was a Roman Catholic priest and the Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force from 1995 to 1997 . Biography . A native of Mankato , Minnesota , Thomas was an ordained Roman Catholic priest . He was a graduate of Mankato State College and the Graduate Theological Union . In 1992 , he was given the title of Monsignor by Pope John Paul II . Career . Thomas originally joined the Minnesota National Guard in 1953 before joining the United States Air Force in 1955 . His early years were spent as a language specialist . In 1982 , he was named Senior Catholic Chaplain of the 86th Tactical Airlift Wing . He held that position until 1984 , when he was assigned to Headquarters Tactical Air Command . From there , he was Command Chaplain of Air Force Logistics Command and Strategic Air Command before becoming Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force in 1991 . He was promoted to Chief of Chaplains with the rank of Major General in 1995 and held the position until his retirement in 1997 . Msgr . Thomas died suddenly of a heart attack on Friday , January 19 , 2001 in Florida . He is buried at Arlington Cemetery in Section 2 Site E - 287 RH . Awards he received include the Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster , the Meritorious Service Medal with silver oak leaf cluster , the Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters , the Army Good Conduct Medal and the National Defense Service Medal with two service stars .
Valère Basilica The Valère basilica ( ) , also called Valère castle ( ) , is a fortified church situated in Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland . It is situated on a hill and faces the Château de Tourbillon , located on the opposite hill . The church ( " Notre - Dame de Valère " ) was built during the 12th and 13th centuries and obtained the rank of minor basilica at the time of the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1984 . The organ on the west side of the Valère basilica , believed to have been built in 1435 , is one of the oldest in the world . Its pipes are arranged to form a rough outline of a church ; the larger pipes form two towers , and the smaller ones create a triangular church roof . It was renovated in 1954 , around the time that another famous early model – the Rysum organ – was repaired .
Fifty - Fifth Army ( Japan ) The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II . History . The Japanese 55th Army was formed on April 8 , 1945 under the Japanese 15th Area Army as part of the last desperate defense effort by the Empire of Japan to deter possible landings of Allied forces in Shikoku during Operation Downfall . From June 15 , the commander of the 55th Army was also commander in chief of all Japanese forces on Shikoku , and received his appointment directly from Emperor Hirohito . The Japanese 55th Army was based in Kōchi city , Kochi Prefecture . Despite its prestigious status of reporting directly to the emperor , as with other emergency army corps raised during this time , it consisted mostly of poorly trained and poorly armed reservists , conscripted students and Volunteer Fighting Corps home guard militia . It was demobilized at the surrender of Japan on August 15 , 1945 without having seen combat .
Ann Z . Caracristi Ann Zeilinger Caracristi ( born February 1 , 1921 ) is an American cryptanalyst , former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency , where she served at various positions over a 40 - year career . She served as a member of the Secretary of Defense Joint Security Commission and President ' s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board . She became the first woman at NSA to be promoted to " GS - 18 " rank , in 1975 . She was born in Bronxville , New York . In 2002 , her name was given to a Naval Intelligence Professionals ' award .
Gang presence in the United States military Gang presence in the United States military is a phenomenon in which members of American street gangs such as the Crips , Latin Kings , Aryan Brotherhood and many others either join the United States Armed Forces , or are recruited to join the gangs while already in the military . Extent . In 2008 , FBI gang investigator Jennifer Simon stated that 1 - 2 % of the U . S . military belongs to gangs , which is 50 - 100 times the rate in the general population . According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ' s 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment , the NGIC has identified members of more than 53 gangs who have served in the United States military , including Bloods , Crips , Latin Kings , MS - 13 , Sureños , the Aryan Brotherhood , Barrio Azteca , Bandidos , Hells Angels , and Gangster Disciples . U . S . gangs have sometimes encouraged their members to join the military in order to learn urban warfare techniques , which they could then teach other gang members when they returned from service . A January 2007 article in the " Chicago Sun - Times " reported that gang members in the military are also involved in the theft and sale of military weapons , ammunition , and equipment , including body armor . Reports . The FBI ’ s 2007 report on gang membership in the military stated that the military ' s recruit screening process is ineffective , and allows gang members / extremists to enter the military . The report listed at least eight instances in the previous three years in which gang members had obtained military weapons for their own use . " " Gang Activity in the U . S . Armed Forces Increasing " " , dated January 12 , 2007 , stated that street gangs including the Bloods , Crips , Black Disciples , Gangster Disciples , Hells Angels , Latin Kings , The 18th Street Gang , Mara Salvatrucha ( MS - 13 ) , Mexican Mafia , Nortenos , Surenos , and Vice Lords have been documented on military installations both domestic and international , although recruiting gang members violates military regulations . Gang graffiti in Iraq . U . S . gang - related graffiti has shown up in Iraq since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003 . Among the largest American street gangs represented in Iraq are the Gangster Disciples , Crips , Bloods , 18th Street , Nortenos , Black Disciples , Surenos , Latin Kings , TAP Boyz , Vice Lords , and Black P . Stones , which originated in some of Chicago ' s most violent and impoverished neighborhoods . There are also reports of Black Power , African Nations , Aryan Nations , Aryan Brotherhood and Ku Klux Klan gang graffiti in Iraq .
41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry The 41st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . History . The Forty - first Regiment left Boston in 1862 in the command of Thomas E . Chickering . The regiment was sent to New Orleans in December of that year , and performed efficient service in the field .