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62d Airlift Squadron The 62d Airlift Squadron ( 62 AS ) is part of the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base , Arkansas . It operates C - 130 Hercules aircraft and provides advanced training to pilots , copilots , navigators , flight engineers , and loadmasters for airlift and airdrop operations . History . Activated in late 1942 under I Troop Carrier Command and equipped with C - 47 Skytrain s . Trained in various parts of the eastern United States . Deployed to French Morocco in May 1943 and assigned to Twelfth Air Force to support combat operations in the North African Campaign . Remained with Twelfth Air Force , moving to Tunisia and Sicily providing transport and resupply operations as well as casualty evacuation of wounded personnel in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations ( MTO ) . Reassigned to IX Troop Carrier Command , Ninth Air Force in England during early 1944 as part of the build - up of Allied forces prior to the D - Day invasion of France . Began operations by dropping paratroop s into Normandy on D - Day ( 6 June 1944 ) and releasing gliders with reinforcements on the following day . The unit received a Distinguished Unit Citation and a French citation for these missions . After the Normandy invasion the squadron ferried supplies in the United Kingdom . The squadron also hauled food , clothing , medicine , gasoline , ordnance equipment , and other supplies to the front lines and evacuated patients to rear zone hospitals . It dropped paratroops near Nijmegen and towed gliders carrying reinforcements during the airborne attack on Holland . In December , it participated in the Battle of the Bulge by releasing gliders with supplies for the 101st Airborne Division near Bastogne . Moved to Belgium in early 1945 , and participated in the Western Allied invasion of Germany , participating in the air assault across the Rhine River in March 1945 , each aircraft towed two gliders with troops of the 17th Airborne Division and released them near Wesel . After V - E Day , became part of the United States Air Forces in Europe , being assigned to AAF Station Frankfurt and was part of the USAFE European Air Transport System ( EATS ) , supporting the occupation forces in Germany as well as carrying supplies and personnel between various stations in Western Europe . Demobilized in early 1946 while stationed in France , unit inactivated later that year as an administrative unit . Reactivated as part of Tactical Air Command Eighteenth Air Force in 1949 with C - 82 Packet s and various gliders as an assault squadron . Deployed to Japan for combat operations in 1950 for the Korean War . Furnished airlift between Japan and Korea and airdropped paratroops and supplies at Sukchon / Sunchon and Munsan - ni . was part of airborne assaults on Sukchon and Munsan - ni . Returned to the United States in 1954 , was equipped by TAC as one of the first C - 130 Hercules squadrons when the aircraft came into operational service . The squadron flew airlift from the Philippines into Vietnam , March – May 1965 . It has conducted C - 130 Training since 1971 .
John Brown ( Medal of Honor ) John Brown ( born 1838 , date of death unknown ) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor . A native of Denmark , Brown immigrated to the U . S . and joined the Navy from Maryland . By May 10 , 1866 , he was serving as captain of the afterguard on the . On that day , while the " De Soto " was off the coast of Eastport , Maine , he and two shipmates rescued two sailors from the from drowning . For this action , he and his shipmates , Seaman Richard Bates and Seaman Thomas Burke , were awarded the Medal of Honor three months later , on August 1 . Brown ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : For heroic conduct with 2 comrades , in rescuing from drowning James Rose and John Russell , seamen , of the U . S . S . " Winooski " , off Eastport , Maine , 10 May 1866 .
Fiat R . 2 The Fiat R . 2 was a reconnaissance aircraft produced in Italy shortly after World War I , and the first aircraft to be marketed under the Fiat brand ( previous Fiat aircraft had been marketed as SIA ) . It was a conventional two - bay biplane with equal - span , unstaggered wings and fixed tailskid undercarriage . The pilot and observer sat in tandem , open cockpits . The design was a derivative of the SIA 7 and SIA 9 flown during the war , but was considerably revised by Rosatelli to correct ongoing problems with those types . A total of 129 were produced for the Air Corps of the " Regio Esercito " .
Ernest Foot Major Ernest Leslie Foot MC was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories . He was the best friend of Albert Ball . In 1916 , Foot served in 11 Squadron flying Royal Aircraft Factory FE . 2 b no . 7016 . It was here he befriended Ball . Foot also destroyed three enemy airplanes during this tour of duty , two upon 9 September and one upon 15 September 1916 . The day after his third win , he transferred to 60 Squadron as a flight commander . There was a Spad on trial with the unit ; Foot used it to destroy an Albatros two - seater on 28 September . He then used a Nieuport to drive down a Roland C . II on 21 October 1916 . On 26 October , Foot was shot down in flames by German ace Hans Imelmann ; somehow , Foot crash - landed unscathed . On 3 November , he was sent back to England for a rest . He joined 56 Squadron on 10 March 1917 , as it mobilized as the first squadron to operate the Royal Aircraft Factory SE . 5 . Once again , he was a flight commander . However , an auto accident the night before the squadron departed for France knocked Foot out of flying for the remainder of the war . On 23 June 1923 , he was flying Bristol M . 1D registered G - EAVP when a wing fell off it . Foot died in the resultant impact , which was near Chertsey . Honours and awards . Military Cross ( MC ) Temp . Lt . ( temp . Capt . ) Ernest Leslie Foot , Gen . List and R . F . C . For conspicuous skill and gallantry . When flying a single - seater scout , he dived on to five hostile machines , which were flying at about 2 , 500 feet , and drove one to the ground as a wreck . On many other occasions he has shown great determination when fighting enemy machines . Supplement to the London Gazette , 14 November 1916 ( 29824 / 11053 ) References . " Above the Trenches : a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915 - 1920 . " Christopher F . Shores , Norman L . R . Franks , Russell Guest . Grub Street , 1990 . ISBN 0 - 948817 - 19 - 4 , ISBN 978 - 0 - 948817 - 19 - 9 .
200th ( 2 / 1st Surrey ) Brigade The 200th ( 2 / 1st Surrey ) Brigade was a formation of the British Army during the First World War . It was raised as a second line brigade , part of the 67th ( 2nd Home Counties ) Division , from those men in the Territorial Force who had not agreed to serve overseas . The second line infantry battalions had a minimum strength of 600 men . The brigade was demobilised in February 1918 .
Lady Calinica Elisabeta Ana Calea ( ; ; c . 1367 – 2 August 1439 ) , also spelled Ana Calina ( ) and better known as Lady Calinica ( , earlier in Bulgarian : Калиникіѧ , " Kalinikĭę " ) , was the second ( and most renown ) wife of Radu I , a 14th - century Wallachian voivode ( nobleman ) . Ultimately descended from the House of Basarab , she was a Byzantine princess born Caliphië ( , " Kaliphiē " ) . Calinica was the mother of Mircea I of Wallachia ; she outlived her husband by 56 years . Through Calinica the voivodes of Wallachia joined bloodlines with the Basarabs , ancestors of the notorious voivode Dracula .
Combat Medical Technician A Combat Medical Technician CMT is a soldier with a specialist military trade within the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British Army and the Royal Air Force . Role . The fully trained Combat Medical Technician is capable of : Class 1 Standard . Additionally , at Class 1 the CMT is trained in the procedures and principles of Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support ( BATLS ) , which includes Advanced Life Support , Cricothyrotomy and Thoracentesis .
Military Aerodrome Traffic Zone A Military Aerodrome Traffic Zone , also known as a MATZ , is the airspace surrounding a military aerodrome . Purpose . Military Aerodrome Traffic Zones ( MATZ ) have been established as detailed by the UK AIS in the IAIP ENR 2 . 1 . The airspace is to provide protection to military aircraft traffic in the critical stages of circuit , landing and takeoff . A MATZ airspace classification is the same as the airspace classification within which it lies , mostly class G ( open airspace ) in the UK . In the centre of the MATZ is an Aerodrome Traffic Zone , ATZ . The MATZ airspace has no legal recognised status under the UK Air Navigation Order ( ANO ) for civil pilots and no prior permission is required to enter it . For safety and good airmanship , pilots are strongly encouraged to obtain 2 - way radio communications with the controlling Air Traffic Service before transitting the airspace . Dimensions . Exceptions to the above dimensions exist for certain military aerodromes .
Tsushima Maru Tsushima Maru ( 対馬丸 ) was a Japan ese passenger / cargo ship that was sunk by the submarine USS " Bowfin " during World War II , while carrying hundreds of schoolchildren from Okinawa to Kagoshima . Description . On August 22 , 1944 , at between 10 : 00 p . m . and 10 : 30 p . m . local time , the USS " Bowfin " attacked the convoy in which the " Tsushima Maru " was sailing and sank her , close to the island of Akusekijima . There were 1 , 484 civilians onboard , including 826 schoolchildren ( of which 767 were killed and 59 survived the sinking ) . The ship was part of Convoy Namo 103 , which consisted of the following ships : The crew of the " USS Bowfin " would not discover until 20 years later that the unmarked , unlit passenger - cargo vessel was transporting children . Its wreck was located and identified in December 1997 .
Ziwiyeh The castle at Ziwiyeh which has been ruined through digging for archaeological purposes , was an ancient and strong building situated on the top of a mount above the wide Ziwiyeh Cave , Iran . It is located in an altitude of 1 , 835 m above sea level in Kurdistan province of Iran on the south of Lake Urmia . Artefacts found there belong to the 9th century BC ( belonging to Medes era ) and have been kept in some museums . A large golden necklace with some mythical animals engraved on it is one of the most famous things found in the area .
Chindant Chindant ( also referred to as Borzya , Borzia , Borzyu , and Borzya Northwest ) is an air base in Chita Oblast , Russia located 13 km west of Borzya . It is a simple fighter base with three areas of fighter revetments housing about 30 aircraft . Units stationed at Chindant include :
Berliner - Joyce F2J The Berliner - Joyce XF2J was the company ' s second biplane fighter for the US Navy . The XF2J was ordered on 30 June 1931 and although designated as a two - seat fighter , it was used as an observation aircraft . Design and Development . The XF2J ' s construction was all - metal with a fabric covered rudder . The upper wing was " gulled " , with a short , sharply upward - angled section , with the remainder of the wing with a slight dihedral . The lower wing span was shorter than the upper wing , and was braced with " N " struts and wires . A . 30 caliber machine gun was located in each of the gulled sections of the upper wing and were synchronized to fire through the propeller arc . The tightly - cowled 9 - cylinder Pratt & Whitney R - 1690C " Hornet " was the engine originally specified , but was changed to the 14 - cylinder Wright SR - 1510 - 92 Whirlwind before the aircraft flew . The propeller was a metal constant speed two - blade design . The original open cockpits were modified to sliding canopies shortly after delivery to the navy .
Leonid Minin Leonid Efimovich Minin ( Ukrainian : Леонід Юхимович Минин ) ( Born 14 December 1947 ) is an international arms trafficker . He was arrested on August 4 , 2000 by Italian authorities in Cinisello Balsamo near Milan . Minin had been under surveillance since 1992 for his suspected illegal arms dealings , mostly to West African nations . He was sentenced to two years in prison in Italy . He was born in Ukraine , but moved to Israel in the 1970s . In the mid - 1970s , Germany arrested him for falsifying identity documents and he was suspected of theft of art . He moved to Bolivia , Switzerland , Germany , Monaco , and Italy . In the 1990s he opened a timber business registered in Zug in Switzerland as well as offices in Monrovia in Liberia and Tel Aviv in Israel . It is believed that his customers have included Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and the Revolutionary United Front militants in Sierra Leone . Police found documents regarding these transactions in Minin ' s belongings . The arms allegedly came from Aviatrend , a Russian company owned by Valery Cherny . The same Aviatrend has been involved in money laundering by Slobodan Milošević . Nicolas Cage ' s character in the film " Lord of War " is a composite of Minin and suspected arms smuggler Viktor Bout .
Battle of Arroyo Grande ( 1818 ) The Battle of Arroyo Grande was a battle between the Portuguese forces under Bento Manuel Ribeiro , and the Artiguist forces of Fructuoso Rivera in Arroyo Grande , modern - day Uruguay . The Portuguese were completely victorious . Consequences . After the Portuguese success in Arroyo Grande , great numbers of Artiguist soldiers and officers defected and joined the Portuguese , due to Portugal ' s promise of forgiveness and mercy . This , together with the battle itself , was a severe blow to Artigas ' war effort .
Volksartilleriekorps A Volksartilleriekorps ( People ' s Artillery Corps ) was a brigade - sized massed artillery formation employed by the German Army in World War II from late 1944 until the end of the war . A Volksartilleriekorps ( VAK ) was typically composed of five or six battalion s of differing kinds of howitzers and guns , including antitank and anti - aircraft guns . Where deployed , VAKs were normally allocated on the basis of one to two per field army . As an organizational development of massed artillery , VAKs were relative latecomers in World War II and neither numerous enough nor strong enough to counter the massive artillery support of the Red Army or the powerful and expertly controlled corps and army artillery units of the Western Allies . History . The first VAKs were organized in September and October 1944 , and employed on both the Western and Eastern Fronts . Thirteen VAKs were eventually organized , being numbered 166 , 388 , 401 - 410 , and 766 . In addition to the VAKs , two regiments of Volksartillerie , the 1133rd and 1134th , were organized and employed in support of the Nineteenth Army in Alsace and Baden . VAKs were formed by re - designation of existing artillery units and so did not represent a true increase in the number of non - divisional artillery battalions supporting the German forces . The first mass employment of VAKs was during the Battle of the Bulge in which several VAKs were used to initially impressive effect during German breakthrough operations . The VAKs , many of whose units used horse - drawn transport , however proved unable to effectively keep pace with the motorized and armored units in the vanguard of the German offensive . Organization . VAKs were organized as either partially motorized or fully motorized units . Partially motorized VAKs had motor transport for their artillery pieces with 2 / 3 of the remaining equipment being horse - drawn . The number of authorized trucks ranged from 124 to 406 , depending on the type of VAK . The parlous state of German army motor transport in the final months of the war , however , meant that even fully motorized units often did not have enough prime movers to swiftly redeploy their artillery pieces as the flow of battle demanded . Besides the degree of motorization , VAKs were also distinguished as " Type I " ( six battalions of artillery ) or " Type II " ( five battalions of artillery ) . Type I VAKs were authorized : Type II VAKs were authorized : Corps headquarters for Type I fully motorized VAKs included an observation battery .
USS General T . H . Bliss ( AP - 131 ) USS " General T . H . Bliss " ( AP - 131 ) was a for the U . S . Navy in World War II . She was named in honor of U . S . Army general Tasker Howard Bliss . Decommissioned in 1946 , she was sold privately in 1964 and renamed SS " Seamar " , and was scrapped in 1979 . Operational history . " General T . H . Bliss " was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract 22 May 1942 by Kaiser Co . , Inc . , Yard 3 , Richmond , California ; launched 19 December 1942 ; sponsored by Mrs . Eleanor Bliss Knopf ; acquired by the Navy 3 November 1943 ; and commissioned 24 February 1944 , Captain Burton Davis in command . After shakedown , " General T . H . Bliss " embarked more than 3 , 600 sailors and marines , sailed from San Francisco 27 March 1944 for New Caledonia , and subsequently returned to San Francisco 1 May with veterans embarked at Efate and Espiritu Santo . Underway again 10 May , she carried 3 , 500 soldiers to Oro Bay , New Guinea , before sailing via the Panama Canal to New York , where she put in 4 July with over 2 , 000 men and patients embarked at Balboa . From 28 July 1944 to 4 September 1945 , " General T . H . Bliss " made 11 , round - trip transatlantic , troop - carrying voyages ( 2 from Newport , 3 from Boston , and 6 from New York ) to ports in the United Kingdom ( Avonmouth , Plymouth , and Southampton ) ; France ( Marseilles and Le Havre ) ; Italy ( Naples ) ; and North Africa ( Oran ) . She sailed from Boston 11 September 1945 for Karachi , India , on her first " Magic - Carpet " voyage and returned to New York 23 October carrying veterans of the Pacific fiighting . Following a similar voyage from New York to Calcutta and back during November and December , she made a round - the - world voyage from New York eastward to Calcutta and thence via Guam to San Francisco , where she arrived 15 March 1946 . Departing San Francisco 5 April , she carried occupation troops to Yokohama , Japan ; then steamed back to the United States , arriving Seattle 6 May . " General T . H . Bliss " decommissioned at Seattle 28 June , was returned to the WSA 2 July , and was placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Olympia , Washington . She was sold to Bethlehem Steel Corp . of Wilmington , Delaware in April 1964 and renamed " Seamar " . She was scrapped in 1979 .
George D . Ruggles George D . Ruggles ( September 11 , 1833 – October 19 , 1904 ) was an officer in the United States Army who served as Adjutant General of the U . S . Army from 1893 to 1897 . Biography . He was born in Newburgh , New York . His parents died when he was young , and he was raised by his uncle , Charles H . Ruggles , who was Chief Justice of the New York Court of Appeals . He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1855 and was appointed to the 2nd Infantry , in which he served until the outbreak of the American Civil War . At the beginning of the war , he served in various staff positions , before becoming a colonel and chief - of - staff of the Army of Virginia under General John Pope , where he saw action in the Battle of Cedar Mountain , the Second Battle of Bull Run , and the Battle of Chantilly . He later served as assistant chief - of - staff of the Army of the Potomac , being engaged in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam . In December 1862 , he was assigned to staff duty in Washington , D . C . . In February 1865 , he was named adjutant general of the Army of the Potomac under General George Meade , and took part in the Battle of Hatcher ' s Run . Ruggles remained in the Adjutant General ' s Department following the end of the war , and from July 1865 through May 1888 , served as adjutant general for various departments , including the Department of the Platte and the Department of Dakota . From January 1889 through July 1891 he served as adjutant general at the division level in the Division of the Pacific and the Division of the Atlantic . In December 1892 he returned to the Adjutant General ' s Department in Washington , and he was elevated to Adjutant General of the U . S . Army with the rank of brigadier general in November 1893 . He retired in September 1897 . In April 1898 , he was appointed governor of the Soldiers ' Home in Washington , D . C . , where he served until January 1903 . He died in October 1904 , and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery .
Roderick Sinclair , 19th Earl of Caithness Brigadier James Roderick Sinclair , 19th Earl of Caithness CBE , DSO , GH ( 29 September 1906 – 1965 ) was a distinguished British Army officer during World War II and was also chief of Clan Sinclair . He joined the Gordon Highlanders ( now amalgamated with the Highlanders ( Seaforth , Gordons and Camerons ) ) and rose to the rank of Brigadier and as such led his regiment ( part of the 51st Highland Division ) through France , Belgium , the Netherlands into Germany during World War II and was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order and made Commander of the Order of the British Empire . In 1949 he was appointed the first Commander of the Ceylon Army and played a major role in establishing it as a regular army from the volunteer Ceylon Defence Force till 1952 . On returning to the UK he was given various postings in England and Scotland before in 1955 being appointed factor ( land agent and manager ) of Her Majesty The Queen ' s private Estate at Balmoral , Aberdeenshire where he lived until his death . After leaving the army was appointed the Regiment ' s Colonel of his old Regiment the Gordon Highlanders . He succeeded his sonless paternal uncle as 19th earl of Caithness . His first wife , by whom he had three daughters ( Jean , Margaret and Fiona ) , died during the war and after it , in 1946 , he married a widow Gabrielle Ormerod ( 1912 - 1990 ) , whose husband had been killed on active service in Africa leaving her with a daughter ( Susie ) . In 1947 while posted to Germany another daughter ( Bridget ) , was born and the next year in Burma , Malcolm , Lord Berriedale was born . Upon his death in 1965 his son Lord Berriedale became the 20th Earl of Caithness and chief of Clan Sinclair .