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Vickers Type 207 The Vickers Type 207 was a single - engined two - seat biplane designed as a ship - borne torpedo bomber to an early 1930s specification . Structurally innovative , only one was built . Development . The Vickers Type 207 was often known as the Vickers M . 1 / 30 , for it was built to Air Ministry specification for a carrier based torpedo bomber to replace the Blackburn Ripon . The Air Ministry paid Vickers for a single prototype ; its competitors were the Blackburn M . 1 / 30 and the Handley Page H . P . 46 . Like Blackburn , Vickers chose the 825 hp ( 615 kW ) Rolls Royce H10 engine , later called the Buzzard IIIMS , a liquid cooled V - 12 to power their aircraft . The Type 207 was a single bay biplane , without sweep or stagger and with wings of almost equal span . The upper wing carried Handley Page slots and Frise ailerons ; the lower wing alone had dihedral . Both wings used the relatively thick and still novel Raf34 aerofoil section ; they folded for storage . The rudder was balanced and the braced tailplane carried aerodynamic servo - assisted elevators operated via trailing edge tabs . Barnes Wallis had recently been appointed chief structural engineer for Vickers aircraft and he brought to the Type 207 new methods of duralumin construction in both wings and fuselage from his previous work on airships . Typically , these structures were complicated but light . The aircraft was fabric covered throughout . The upper wing was well above the fuselage , braced to it by two pairs of V - form struts on either side ; two single struts from the same points on the upper fuselage braced each lower wing . The pilot sat below the wing leading edge and the observer , equipped with a Lewis gun , sat well aft . The split axle undercarriage allowed torpedo dropping from under the aircraft and was fitted with wheel brakes as its ship - borne role required , together with an arrester hook and tail wheel . The Buzzard ' s underslung radiator was positioned between the forward undercarriage legs . The Type 207 flew for the first time on 11 January 1933 , with Mutt Summers at the controls . The only notable modification was the addition of 2 of dihedral to the previously flat upper wing . The aircraft but neither of its crew was lost in the first fast diving test on 23 November 1933 , when structural breakup was initiated by a tailplane failure . In the end there were no orders for any of the M . 1 / 30 entrants .
Charters Towers Airport Charters Towers Airport is an airport located north of Charters Towers , Queensland , Australia . History . World War II . During World War II , the United States Army Air Forces Fifth Air Force stationed the following units at the airfield : In addition , 370th Service Squadron managed the day to day USAAF Base operations of the airfield .
5th Overseas Interarms Regiment The 5th Overseas Interarm Regiment ( in French 5eme Regiment Interarmes d ' Outre Mer ( or RIOM ) ) is a troupes de marine regiment stationed in Djibouti . It has been the Djibouti garrison since November 1 , 1969 . It is the last combined arms regiment in the French army comprising a mechanised infantry company , a light cavalry squadron , an artillery battery and a command and support company . Organisation . Based at Quartier Brière de l ' Isle . The Regiment is made up of : Since 1 August 2008 , the Aviation Battalion Light Djibouti ( MNAAvBn ) equipped with Puma and Gazelle helicopters has been attached to the 5th RIAOM .
Benjamin Franklin Bradley Benjamin Franklin Bradley ( October 5 , 1825 – January 22 , 1897 ) was a politician in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War . Biography . Bradley was born in Georgetown in Scott County , Kentucky . He served in the United States Army in the Mexican War and then in the Confederate States Army in the Civil War when he was commissioned as the major of the 1st Battalion , Kentucky Mounted Rifles . He was elected to represent Kentucky in the Second Confederate Congress from 1864 to 1865 . After the war , Bradley returned to Kentucky and took the Oath of Allegiance . He resumed his legal career and served in the Kentucky State Senate in 1889 . He died in Georgetown , Kentucky , on January 22 , 1897 , and was buried in Georgetown Cemetery .
Marsden Park Aerodrome Marsden Park Aerodrome was an aerodrome constructed by the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) near Marsden Park , New South Wales , Australia during World War II . The aerodrome was built in 1942 , as a relief landing ground for RAAF Base Richmond , with a runway long and wide . A number of RAAF radar stations ; No ' s 169 , 170 , 309 & 312 were located around the aerodrome during separate times . The aerodrome was abandoned after World War II and was briefly used as a motorsport facility in the 1950s .
Vladimir Peniakoff Lieutenant - Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC ( 30 March 1897 – 15 May 1951 ) , nicknamed " Popski " , was the founder and commanding officer of Popski ' s Private Army . Early life . Vladimir Peniakoff was born in Belgium to Russian parents . In 1914 he studied at St John ' s College , Cambridge and describes his early education in " Popski ' s Private Army " : " For years I never had less than three tutors who pumped knowledge into my precocious brain " . Vladimir initially had conscientious objections to the Great War but by his fourth term at Cambridge he had changed his mind . Unlike many of his peers , he opted to join the French artillery as a private rather than go through the lengthy training that a commission in the British Army entailed . He was injured during his time in the French Army and was invalided out after the armistice . In 1924 he emigrated to Egypt where he worked as an Engineer for a sugar manufacturer . Here he married Josephe Ceysens and had two daughters , Olga and Anne , born in 1930 and 1932 . During this time he learned to sail , fly and navigate vehicles through the desert , becoming a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society . Vladimir Peniakoff was a polyglot who spoke English , Russian , Italian , German , French and Arabic well . He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on the British Army General List on 4 October 1940 , serving in the Libyan Arab Force . He divorced Josephe and sent the family to South Africa . He was awarded the Military Cross on 26 November 1942 , and on 26 April 1945 he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) . In 1947 Popski was made a Belgian Officier de l ' Ordre de la Couronne avec Palme and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre 1940 avec Palme . He married Pamela Firth on 2 April 1948 ( she went on to marry T . S . Matthews , former editor of " Time magazine " magazine , after Popski ' s death ) . Death . Within a year after his best - selling book on Popski ' s Private Army was published he was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumour and died on 15 May 1951 . Pamela Matthews died on 5 December 2005 and is buried beside Popski in Wixoe , Suffolk .
BOV ( APC ) The BOV ( " Borbeno Oklopno Vozilo " ) , literally " Combat Armored Vehicle " , is an all - wheel drive armoured vehicle manufactured in the former Yugoslavia . Description . The BOV has a capacity of 10 , including a driver , gunner and eight infantrymen . The vehicle has a four - wheel drive and is powered by the Deutz type F 6L 413 F six - cylinder diesel engine developing 150 hp ( 110 kW ) at 2650 rpm . Service history . The BOV was used for internal security and military duties . It was most commonly used by territorial defence units , in several variants equipped with machine guns , water cannons , smoke and tear gas dispensers for crowd control and riots .
2nd Cavalry Division Emanuele Filiberto Testa di Ferro The 2nd Cavalry Division " Emanuele Filiberto Testa di Ferro " was a Cavalry Division of the Italian Army during World War II . The division was mobilised in 1940 , it did not take part in the Italian invasion of France , but did serve in the Invasion of Yugoslavia in the Celere Corps and remained in Yugoslavia as part of the occupying forces . In March 1942 the Divisions 6 . Bersaglieri Regiment was sent to the Soviet Union attached to the 3 Cavalry Division Amedeo Duca d ' Aosta . In May 1942 , the division was selected to convert to an Armoured division and starting converting to the 134 Armoured Division Freccia ; however , the conversion was cancelled and it returned to the Cavalry division format . In December 1942 , the division moved to France as part of the Italian occupying forces where it was based in Toulon . The division remained in France until the Italian surrender , when it returned to Italy in September 1943 , where it was disbanded . The Division had undergone a level of mechanization . Each division had two cavalry regiments , a highly mobile infantry ( " Bersaglieri " ) regiment , an artillery regiment , and a light tank group . The squadrons of the cavalry regiments were horse - mounted and , other than a motorcycle company , the " Bersaglieri " were issued with bicycles . The light tank group had a total of 61 tanks . The tanks were typically L3s or L6s .
Peabody ' s New Hampshire State Regiment Peabody ' s New Hampshire State Regiment was raised on January 1 , 1778 under Col . Stephen Peabody at Hampstead , New Hampshire for service with Gen . John Sullivan in Rhode Island . The term of enlistment was one year . The regiment marched to Newport , Rhode Island and took part in the Battle of Rhode Island on August 29 , 1778 . The regiment was disbanded on January 1 , 1779 at the end of the men ' s enlistments .
Hastings - class sloop The " Hastings " class , also known as the " Folkestone " class , was a class of sloop which were built for the Royal Navy and the Royal Indian Navy in the interwar period . In total five ships were built , and went on to see service in the Second World War . Design . The " Hastings " were a follow on of the previous " Bridgewater " class and utilised features developed from the lessons learnt from the convoy escorts of the First World War . They were fitted out as fleet minesweepers , but were intended to be multifunctional vessels . Features included a high , sustained forecastle to improve operations in high seas , and they were fitted with turbine machinery to improve performance . This turned out to be a drawback as the turbine machinery could not be mass produced and the design was superseded by the Second World War in favour of classes that could be quickly brought into service . Service . Five ships were built in total , four for the Royal Navy and one for the Royal Indian Navy . They were launched in 1930 and all saw service in the Second World War . was disarmed before the outbreak and was rearmed with a high angle anti - aircraft gun , a 12 pdr gun and 15 depth charge s , this number later being increased to 80 . One , was lost during the war after being torpedoed by . The remaining Royal Navy ships were decommissioned after the war and had all been scrapped by 1949 . The sole Indian ship , was later involved in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny , and was subsequently transferred to the Pakistan Navy in 1948 on its formation , and was renamed " Karsaz " . She was broken up in 1951 .
A . R . Rawlinson Lieutenant - Colonel Arthur Richard ( Dick ) Rawlinson , OBE ( 9 August 1894 - 20 April 1984 ) served in military intelligence in the British Army , before commencing on a screenwriting career . He also produced several films . Early life . Rawlinson was born in London , England , on 9 August 1894 . He was the son of Thomas Arthur Rawlinson . He was educated at the University of Cambridge . Military career . Having been a cadet of the Officer Training Corps , Rawlinson was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on 1 September 1914 , in the first year of World War I . He transferred from the General List into the York and Lancaster Regiment . He was made a temporary lieutenant on 29 December 1914 . On 26 June 1916 , he was seconded to the Machine Gun Corps . He was promoted Lieutenant on 21 December 1916 , while still seconded to the Machine Gun Corps . He resigned his commission on 27 February 1919 . On 14 April 1939 , he transferred from the Reserve of Officers of the York and Lancaster Regiment to the Queen ' s Royal Regiment ( West Surrey ) and returned to active service . He subsequently served in World War II , reaching the war substantive rank of major . He relinquished his commission on 5 January 1946 and granted the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel . Later life . Rawlinson died 20 April 1984 in West Sussex , England . Personal life . Rawlinson married Alisa Margaret Harrington Grayson on 20 December 1916 . She was the daughter of Sir Henry Grayson , the Conservative Member of Parliament for Birkenhead from 1918 to 1922 . Together they had two sons ; Michael Grayson Rawlinson ( born 27 March 1918 , died 1941 KIA ) , and Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson ( born 26 June 1919 , died 28 June 2006 ) . Honours and decorations . In the 1945 New Year Honours , the then Major ( temporary Lieutenant - Colonel ) Rawlinson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) . He was already a Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE ) . On 23 May 1947 , he was appointed Officer of the Legion of Merit " in recognition of distinguished services in the cause of the Allies " .
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum and the associated Lightship Museum are located on the downtown Portsmouth , Virginia , USA waterfront . The museum covers the 250 + year relationship with the shipyard - America ' s oldest and largest naval shipyard located on the Portsmouth Waterfront . The city and the shipyard have been intertwined since the founding of the Gosport Shipyard in 1767 , which was later , renamed Norfolk Navy Yard and finally Norfolk Naval Shipyard . This rich history is told through exhibits , hands - on programs and special events . The Lightship Portsmouth is a museum ship that is part of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum . Built in 1915 and began service as part of the U . S . Lighthouse Service in 1916 . In 1964 , the lightship was retired to Portsmouth , VA . In 1989 , the Lightship Portsmouth was designated a National Historic Landmark . Now amuseum , the ship ’ s quarters are fitted out realistically and filled with fascinating artifacts , uniforms , photographs , models , and more .
Sam Browne General Sir Samuel James Browne VC GCB KCSI ( 3 October 1824 – 14 March 1901 ) was a British Indian Army cavalry officer in India and Afghanistan , best known today as the namesake of the Sam Browne belt . He was a British 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 . Early life . He was born in Barrackpore , India , the son of Dr . John Browne , a surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service and his wife Charlotte ( née Swinton ) . Browne joined the 46th Bengal Native Infantry as a subaltern , participating in action at Ramnuggar , Sadoolapore , Chillianwalla and Gujarat . In 1849 he was made a lieutenant and tasked with raising a cavalry force , to be designated the 2nd Punjab Irregular Cavalry and later incorporated into the regular force . He would command this unit for the next five years . Later ( 1904 ) the unit would be re - designated as the 22nd Sam Browne ' s Cavalry ( Frontier Force ) in his honour . Indian Mutiny . Browne led the 2nd Punjab in several engagements , and was decorated for action during the Bozdar Expedition in 1857 , being promoted to captain . Browne was awarded the Victoria Cross for actions on 31 August 1858 at Seerporah , Rohilkhand , Uttar Pradesh , India . His citation reads : His Victoria Cross is displayed at the National Army Museum . Sam Browne belt . Sometime after this incident he began to wear the accoutrement which bears his name , as compensation for the difficulty his disability caused with wearing his officer ' s sword . Later the wearing of the Sam Browne belt would be adopted by other officers who knew Browne in India , but it was not to come into common use in the British Army until after his retirement . Browne ' s original belt is now on public display in the Indian Army Memorial Room of the Royal Military Academy , Sandhurst . Second Anglo - Afghanistan War . In 1878 , as commander of the Peshawar Field Force during the Second Afghan War Browne brought 16 , 000 troops and 48 guns to the Khyber Pass , capturing the key fortress of Ali Masjid , which commanded its entry , and afterward proceeding through the pass and capturing Jalalabad . Browne was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for this action . Browne was promoted to general in 1878 , and awarded the Order of the Bath ' s Grand Cross in 1891 . Later life . He retired from the army in 1898 , relocated to Ryde on the Isle of Wight , England and died there at the age of 76 . His remains were cremated but there is a memorial marker dedicated to Browne in the Ryde New Cemetery , as well as plaques at St Paul ' s Cathedral and Lahore Cathedral . His grave was restored in 2010 .
Battle of Torà The Battle of Torà ( , ) was a defensive battle of the Reconquista , fought between an alliance of Catalonian counts and an army of the Caliphate of Córdoba in 1003 at Torà , Lleida . The main source for the battle is Andrew of Fleury , who probably received his information , which is detailed and generally accurate , during a trip to Catalonia . He incorporated the account in his " Miracula sancti Benedicti " around 1043 . The four Christian counts of the battle were Raymond Borell of Barcelona , Bernard I of Besalú , Wifred II of Cerdagne , and Ermengol I of Urgell . The German historian of the Crusades Carl Erdmann supposed the leader of the Muslim army to be Abdelmelik , the son of the recently deceased " hajib " Almanzor . When Andrew records that the caliph himself , then Hisham II , died in the encounter , he is probably rehearsing a local legend . The battle is not dated precisely by any chronicler , but the names of the counts ( all given by Andrew ) restrict it to between the years 992 and 1010 . A date of 1003 has been deduced by Erdmann from other accounts that a Muslim army moved through the County of Barcelona and passed into the south of the County of Urgell in the summer of 1003 . The exact location of the battle , " Thoranum castrum " ( the castle , or fortified place , of Torà ) , is given by Andrew . The Muslims , according to both Latin and Arabic sources , were defeated and one of their leading men killed . The Muslims retreated to their own territory , where a second battle was fought at Albesa . The result of this second battle is unclear , but it was the end of the brief war , and possibly the campaigning season . Importantly , Andrew reports the battle in terms as if describing a holy war . The Muslims , whose numbers he puts at 17 , 000 , are " new Philistines " . Bernard of Besalú he quotes as reasoning that if the saints Peter and Michael and the Virgin Mary each kill 5 , 000 Muslims , there will be a manageable number left for the soldiers . Bernard recalls that the Muslims are often slain before they have a chance to retreat . According to Andrew , after the battle the Virgin Mary miraculously brought news of the Christian victory to as far away as Monte Sant ' Angelo . Despite the theme of religious warfare , Spanish historians have not picked up on Andrew ' s account .
Yevgeny Dragunov Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov ( ; February 20 , 1920 , Izhevsk – August 4 , 1991 ) was a Russian weapons designer , best known for the semi - automatic rifle bearing his name , the Dragunov sniper rifle . From a family of gunsmiths , Dragunov worked as a factory machinist before beginning military service in 1939 . After 1941 he was a senior armourer , working on Soviet and also captured enemy weapons during wartime . After 1945 he returned to Izhevsk and joined the Arms Design Bureau , working as a project engineer on sporting and civilian target rifles through the 1950s . One of these , the Biathlon target rifle , went on to Olympic Gold . In 1959 Dragunov submitted his design for a military sniping rifle , the SVD , which was accepted into Soviet military service in 1963 , and later became known as the Dragunov rifle . Dragunov also participated in the competition that led to the adoption of AKS - 74U with a gas - operated design called MA ( malokalibrenii avtomat ) . Although Dragunov ' s avtomat was comparable in performance to Kalashnikov ' s , the latter had the advantage that it shared some parts with the AK - 74 rifle already in production . The non - metallic parts of the MA were made of polyamide s . The MA was Dragunov ' s last major design . The trigger mechanism used in the MA was fairly similar to the one previously used in the PP - 71 sub - machine gun , which is also attributed to Dragunov . Dragunov was awarded the Lenin Prize and the State Prize of the Russian Federation , the latter one posthumously .
Gotō Mototsugu , also known as , was a " samurai " of the late Sengoku through early Edo periods . He served Kuroda Yoshitaka but retired from the Kuroda clan after Kuroda Yoshitaku had died . Finally , he served Toyotomi Hideyori and was killed at the battle of Dōmyōji during the siege of Osaka in 1615 . At the second siege of Jinju , during Hideyoshi ' s invasion of Korea , Gotō was the first samurai to enter Jinju castle . During the siege of Osaka , Gotō was one of the most able generals in Toyotomi Hideyori ' s Western Army . He was the chief commander at the battle of Dōmyōji where , severely outnumbered , he held out for reinforcements , which were lost in the fog . Unable to maintain the position without the reinforcements , Goto was defeated and killed .
Reconquest of Angola The Reconquest of Angola ( ) ( 1641 - 1648 ) was Portugal ' s campaign to regain its colony in Angola from the Dutch . In 1641 Johan Maurits sent an expedition under Admiral Cornelis Jol from Recife in Dutch Brazil to seize the Angolan capital of Luanda . The Dutch were able to easily capture Luanda in August as the Portuguese forces were occupied inland in a campaign against the Kingdom of Kongo . The two countries fought to a stalemate over Angola , until in 1648 the governor of Rio de Janeiro and Angola , Salvador de Sá , reached Luanda and finding the port defended by only 50 Dutch troops , regained it for Angola exactly seven years after its loss .