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William Russell ( Virginia ) William Russell ( 1735 – January 14 , 1793 ) was an army officer and a prominent settler of the southwestern region of the Virginia Colony . He led an early attempt to settle the " Kentuckee Territory " ( then part of Virginia ) . He was a justice of Fincastle County , Virginia . Russell aided in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence . During the American Revolutionary War he fought in the Battle of Point Pleasant ( 1774 ) and the Battle of Yorktown ( 1781 ) . While a representative in the Virginia House of Delegates , Russell was noted for his stance opposing the 1785 State of Franklin petition for admittance into the United States . Personal life . William Russell was educated at the College of William & Mary . Russell ' s first wife was Tabitha Adams , who died in 1776 . His second wife , Elizabeth Henry — a sister of Patrick Henry — survived him by more than thirty years . Elizabeth was important in the early history of the Methodist Church in America . Many descendants of Russell lived in Russell and Scott Counties in Virginia . He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati . Frontiersman . Russell led an early attempt to settle the area that would become Kentucky — then part of Fincastle County , Virginia — in September 1773 . The party of frontiersmen was ambushed by Native Americans and Russell ' s eldest son , along with the eldest son of Daniel Boone , was killed . After the battle , the party became discouraged and turned back . Civic and military life . Russell was elected a justice of Fincastle County , Virginia . As a Virginia representative to the Continental Congress , he aided in the drafting of the Declaration of Independence . Russell was serving in the Virginia House of Delegates at the time of his death . In the American Revolutionary War , he participated in the 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant . He was promoted to Colonel in 1776 . After the fall of Charleston in 1780 , Russell was captured by the British and held prisoner . He was subsequently exchanged , and rejoined the Continental Line . Russell was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781 . During this time , he was brevetted to the rank of Brigadier General , commanding the 5th Virginia Regiment , until it was disbanded on 15 November 1783 .
Second master Second master was a rating introduced into the Royal Navy in 1753 that indicated a deputy master on third - rate ships of the line or larger . Second masters were paid significantly more than master ' s mate s , £5 5s per month . A second master was generally a master ' s mate who had passed his examination for master and was deemed worthy of being master of a vessel . Second masters were given the first opportunity for master vacancies as they occurred . Master ' s mates also acted as second master of vessels too small to be allocated a warranted master .
Gérard Dufresne Gérard Dufresne ( born 1918 - January 27 , 2013 ) was a well - known local politician and a military officer in Shawinigan , Quebec . Born in East Angus , Quebec , Eastern Townships in 1918 , he got a degree from the Shawinigan Technical Institute and would later make career as an insurance agent . Military . Dufresne became a member of the 694 Army Cadet Corps ( Collège Immaculée - Conception ) in 1933 and then became a reservist with the Régiment de Joliette . During World War II he commanded an infantry company in England and served in the Netherlands , with the Régiment des Fusiliers Mont - Royal and in Germany . After the war , he became the Commanding Officer of the Shawinigan - based C Company of the Régiment de Joliette . In 1953 , Dufresne was promoted lieutenant colonel and served as Commander of the 62nd ( Shawinigan ) Field Artillery Regiment , which he had joined in 1948 , until 1960 . From 1966 to 2005 , he was the Honorary Colonel of the same unit . In 2006 , local military author Captain ( ret ) Guy Arcand , CD published a book on Gérard Dufresne ' Biographie du Col Gerard F . Dufresne , CM , ED , OSTJ , CD ' La Societe d ' histoire militaire mauricienne . Politics . In 1963 , Dufresne was elected Mayor of Shawinigan against François Roy . Under his tenure , the old City Market ( located downtown ) was demolished to make room for a Woolworth ' s retail store and Boulevard Royal was extended to the current location of the Biermans movie theater . Also , the construction of the Centre des Arts de Shawinigan ( located at 2100 Boulevard des Hêtres and completed in 1967 ) began . In 1966 he lost his bid for re - election to Maurice Bruneau . In 1970 , Dufresne was the Liberal candidate in the district of Saint - Maurice . He finished third with 24 . 3 % of the vote , behind Union Nationale incumbent Philippe Demers ( 36 . 9 % ) and Parti Québécois candidate Yves Duhaime ( 24 . 4 % ) . Duhaime had been an officer of the 62nd ( Shawinigan ) Field Artillery Regiment at the time Dufresne was its Commanding Officer . Dufresne is a federalist , a loyal supporter of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and has remained a card - carrying member of the Liberal Party of Canada for decades .
Paul X . Rinn Captain Paul X . Rinn , USN ( Ret . ) , was the first Commanding officer of the and was in command when the ship struck a mine in the Persian Gulf on April 14 , 1988 . Background . Rinn was born in the Bronx in 1946 . His father was a law school graduate and his mother was a grade school teacher . His older brother Greg was also a naval officer and inspired Rinn to follow in his footsteps . He attended an all - boys Roman Catholic high school in the Bronx Mount Saint Michael Academy graduating in 1964 . He then attended Marist College graduating in 1968 . Career . Rinn received his commission in 1968 through the Navy ' s Reserve Officer Candidate program at Navy Officer Candidate School . He served on , a more than 20 years old at the time . In the early 1970s , Rinn worked as a counter insurgency adviser and military trainer along the Mekong River and was involved in combat on land . He was the weapons officer on , a . From 1976 through 1979 he served as Operations and Tactics Officer First Canadian Destroyer Squadron . In 1980 - 81 He attended and graduated from the Naval War College with distinction . He then served as Executive officer on , another " Knox " - class frigate . Rinn was chief staff officer of Destroyer Squadron 36 . from 1982 to 84 As a Commander , he was selected to command " Samuel B . Roberts " and was involved in her construction at Bath Iron Works as early as fall 1984 . She was commissioned April 12 , 1986 with Rinn commanding . Only months after the mining of FFG - 58 , he turned over " Samuel B . Roberts " to CDR John Townes III on June 20 , 1988 at the end of his tour as previously planned . Following his tour on " Samuel B . Roberts " , he headed up the navy ' s ship survivability program . Later , he was promoted to Captain and served as Executive Assistant to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warafre . In 1994 , he commanded , a named for the battle in which the first was sunk . He deployed to the Persian Gulf on " Leyte Gulf " and received the United States Navy League ' s John Paul Jones Leadership Award . Following his tour on CG - 55 , he served as special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations . , Rinn retired in 1997 . He then took an executive position at a consulting firm in the Washington D . C . area . Rinn was recently inducted into the Surface Warfare Hall of Fame .
338th Bombardment Group The 338th Bombardment Group ( BG ) is a disbanded United States Air Force unit . It was last active with Continental Air Command at O ' Hare International Airport , Illinois on 27 June 1949 . History . The group was activated by III Fighter Command as a fighter Operational Training Unit ( OTU ) during World War II with the 305th , 306th , and 312th Fighter Squadron s assigned as its operational elements . The group ' s mission was to train newly - trained pilots and provide combat training prior to their overseas deployment . Initially equipped with the P - 39 Aircobra , later using P - 47 Thunderbolt s and P - 51 Mustang s when they became available . In June 1943 , the 312th Fighter Squadron moved to Perry Army Airfield , Florida . The group was disbanded in 1944 , and its personnel , equipment and mission transferrred to 335th Army Air Force Base Unit ( Replacement Training Unit , Fighter ) . Reconstituted as an element of Continental Air Command and redesignated as the 338th Bombardment Group , Very Heavy at Orchard Place Airport , Illinois as an Air Force Reserve B - 29 Superfortress Group . However , ConAC did not have the funding nor personnel to stand up the organization and it remained an administrative organization until inactivated in June 1949 . Components . World War II Air Force Reserve
Missile tank A missile tank is an armoured fighting vehicle fulfilling the role of a main battle tank , but using only guided missile s for main armament . Several nations have experimented with prototypes , notably the Soviet Union during the tenure of Nikita Khrushchev ( projects Obyekt 167 , Obyekt 137Ml , Obyekt 155Ml ) , But only the West German Jaguar 1 Rakete saw service as a standard vehicle , although the Soviet IT - 1 missile tank also saw limited service . The term is sometimes applied more loosely to conventional tanks which are able to launch anti - tank guided missile s , to supplement their main gun for very long - range fire . Examples are the U . S . - German prototype MBT - 70 , the defunct U . S . M551 Sheridan and French AMX - 13 , and several Soviet , Russia n , and Ukrainian tanks : T - 64 , T - 72 , T - 80 , T - 84 , and T - 90 . Some of the T - 55 ' s currently in use with the Peruvian Army also seem to have racks with missiles fitted to their turrets . A Polish combat engineering version of the Soviet T - 55A main battle tank was also equipped with PW - LWD rockets . Although these were actually a rapid breaching system and not a weapon as such . In the 1930s , the Soviet Union tested the RBT - 5 rocket - based assault gun , comprising a BT tank mounting two 250 - kg " TT Tank Torpedo " unguided rockets its turret sides . In World War Two they also deployed the BM - 8 - 24 multiple rocket launcher , based on a T - 60 light tank chassis . These weapons firing unguided rockets rather than guided missiles are properly classified as rocket artillery .
Matthew Keogh Matthew Keogh or Keugh or Keough ( c . 1774 - 25 June 1798 ) was Governor of Wexford during the Irish rebellion of 1798 . He was born in Ireland around 1744 and joined the Briish Army as a private soldier . He was promoted to Ensign and gazetted to the King ' s 60th Regiment of Foot in 1763 . He was promoted to Lieutenant in the King ' s 45th Regiment of Foot in 1765 and finally transferred to the 27th ( Inniskilling ) Regiment of Foot in 1772 , retiring as a captain - lieutenant in 1774 . He saw action in North America . When the Wexford Rebellion began in 1798 he was living in Wexford as a freeman of the town , possibly engaged in shipping . He had been appointed a Justice of the Peace for County Wexford but deprived of his seat on the bench in 1796 for alleged revolutionary sympathies . On 31 May 1798 , when the rebel forces of the United Irishmen occupied the town of Wexford , a representative Directory , or Council of the People , was formed to administer the town and county . Matthew Keogh was elected Cathaoirleach or presiding officer , effectively Military Governor of the county . He subsequently failed however , in spite of his good intentions , to prevent a mob from slaughtering nearly 100 local loyalists with pikes after mock trials on Wexford bridge on 20 June . When the British force retook the town a few days later he was put on trial with other local leaders and sentenced to death . The sentence was carried out on 25 June 1798 when he and the other defendants were hanged on Wexford bridge and their bodies thrown into the River Slaney . Keogh ' s corpse was beheaded and his head stuck on a spike at the courthouse .
SM UC - 92 SM " UC - 92 " was a German Type UC III minelaying submarine or U - boat in the German Imperial Navy ( ) during World War I . The U - boat was ordered on 12 January 1916 and was launched on 19 January 1918 . She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 14 August 1918 as SM " UC - 92 " . As with the rest of the completed UC III boats , " UC - 92 " conducted no war patrols and sank no ships . She was surrendered on 24 November 1918 . " UC - 92 " ran aground near Falmouth with five other U - boats and was broken up in place after 1921 .
HMS C3 HMS " C3 " was a British C class submarine built by Vickers , Barrow - in - Furness . She was laid down on 25 November 1905 and was commissioned on 23 February 1906 . " C3 " was used packed full of explosives for destroying a viaduct connecting the mole to the shore during the Zeebrugge Raid on 23 April 1918 . Her Captain , Richard Douglas Sandford , received the Victoria Cross for the action .
Coastal Forces of World War II Coastal Forces was a division of the Royal Navy established during World War II . It consisted of small coastal defence craft which the Navy designated with names such as : Motor Launch , High Speed Launch , air - sea rescue , Motor Gun Boat and Motor Torpedo Boat . It did not include minesweepers , trawlers or landing craft . Other Navies operated equivalent boats , but classified and named them somewhat differently . This article attempts to pull together , for comparative purposes , some statistics concerning the coastal forces of different navies . It starts with the above British definition of " Coastal Forces " and attempts to identify the equivalent boats in other navies . Post war . Post war there seemed to be no need for small coastal force vessels . They were generally withdrawn and their functions taken over by larger corvette s , frigate s , and destroyers . A few remained in service with Third World navies . The RN ' s last boats built in any number were the Dark - class fast patrol boat s of the mid - 1950s ; Coastal Forces was reduced in 1957 to a few vessels . In time , the need for smaller vessels re - asserted itself , as in this experience of the Royal Australian Navy : Coastal boats reappeared in navies around the world now generally adapted to the need to " patrol " and designated as " patrol boat s " . Surviving craft . Following is a list of notable surviving coastal craft from World War II .
Joseph André Joseph André ( 14 March 1908 – 1 June 1973 ) was a Catholic priest of the diocese of Namur , Belgium . He was declared Righteous among the Nations by the government of Israel in 1968 . Early life . After two years ( 1926 – 28 ) with the Jesuits where he could not stay because of his frail health and weak contact with his religion , he entered the seminary of Namur . Ordained priest in 1936 , he was teacher in a high school ( Floreffe ) for a few years before being appointed curate at the parish of St Jean - Baptiste ( Namur ) . Shelter for Jewish children . This was in 1941 and Belgium was under German occupation . Under his quiet and discreet leadership the parish youth center ( located exactly next to the Gestapo ' Kommandantur ' of Namur ) became the hub of a vast clandestine organization whose aim was to save Jewish children from deportation and certain death . It was a transit house where children were sheltered - sometime more than 20 together - for as few days as possible before being entrusted to religious institutions or rural families where they could remain in hiding . To feed them Fr André and his collaborators went about the country , from farm to farm , begging for food , hams , bread , cheese , and on the look out for more shelters for his protégés . With a personal love for Jews and a profound respect for religious freedom , Fr André never tried to convert or baptize the children . Though he was occasionally suspected by the Gestapo , and several times interrogated , his center and organization were never uncovered and remained active till the end of the war . He died in his office . Friend of Israel . After the war he carried out social and charitable activities in connection with the " Service social des Juifs " of Belgium . Living very poorly by choice , he had an evangelical love for the marginalized and the lost . As Chaplain of the Namur jail from 1957 till his death , he opened a welcome center for ex - convicts , illegal migrants and political refugees : the ' Chateau de Bomel ' ( Namur ) . Always interested in the destiny of the Jewish people and fascinated by the mystery of Israel he closely followed the birth of the new state in 1948 . In 1967 he received the highest honour of the nation : he was declared " Righteous Among the Nations " and a tree in his name was planted in Yad Vashem . The following year the frail man , always in a black cassock , was invited to New York by the United Jewish Appeal and greeted by more than a thousand Jews . Death . Fr André was found dead in his office of the Namur jail on the 1 June 1973 . Sources . HENNAUX , Jean - Marie : L ' abbé Joseph André ( 1908 – 1973 ) , apôtre de l ' amitié judéo - chrétienne , in " Pâque Nouvelle " , 2001 , N°2 , pp . 12 – 20 .
USS Marathon ( APA - 200 ) USS " Marathon " ( APA - 200 ) was a " Haskell " - class attack transport acquired by the U . S . Navy during World War II for the task of transporting troops to and from combat areas . " Marathon " ( " APA 200 " ) , built under Maritime Commission contract , was laid down by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Co . , Vancouver , Washington ; launched 7 October 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . E . L . Greene ; acquired by the Navy on loan charter 27 October 1944 ; and commissioned 28 October 1944 , Comdr . J . W . McElroy in command . World War II service . Following shakedown exercises , " Marathon " underwent amphibious training operations off the southern California coast and in the Hawaiian Islands . On 24 January 1945 , she departed Pearl Harbor , with army , marine , and naval passengers , and steamed independently for Espiritu Santo and Guadalcanal . She arrived in the New Hebrides 2 February , disembarked her army passengers and general cargo and continued on to the Solomons , arriving at Guadalcanal on the 7th . At the end of the month , the transport commenced a period of intensive amphibious exercises in preparation for the upcoming Okinawa campaign . On 22 March she got underway for Ulithi , conducting gunnery drills en route , and 27 March sailed with the fleet for the Ryukyus . Just before dawn , 1 April , " Marathon " began dispatching her boats toward the beaches . Commencing with smoke boats , she continued unloading troops and cargo into the afternoon . losing only one of her landing craft , with no casualties , to enemy fire . The transport remained in the assault zone until 5 April when she headed for the Marianas . From Saipan , she returned to Pearl Harbor , arriving on the 20th for maintenance . Following training , " Marathon " called at San Francisco , California , to embark troops bound for Hawaii . She returned to Pearl Harbor 8 June and headed for the western Pacific Ocean 2 days later , steaming via Eniwetok and Ulithi , for Okinawa . " Marathon " reached that island 14 July and proceeded into newly named Buckner Bay , where she discharged passengers and cargo . On 22 July , while at anchor in Buckner Bay " Marathon ’ s " hull trembled with a force of a violent explosion . Postwar examination of Japanese records indicates that the explosion , which resulted in extensive damage , was caused by a kaiten , a one man suicide Japanese submarine . Post - war activity . Following prolonged repairs , on 16 September " Marathon " sailed to Nagasaki to embark ex - prisoners of war of varying nationality for transport to Okinawa . From October to February she swept minefields in the Nagoya , Hiro Wan , and Ise Wan areas . " Marathon " headed for the United States in late February 1946 . She decommissioned and returned to her owners at San Francisco 8 May . " Marathon " received two battle stars for World War II service at Okinawa .
Escadrille An escadrille ( literal translations : " squad " or " small squadron " ) is a type of military unit , most often found in the air force s of some French speaking countries . While the term is frequently translated into English as " squadron " , an " escadrille " was originally a smaller unit ( whereas the French " escadron " , in the context of aviation is a much larger unit , comparable in status to a naval squadron ) . The first air " escadrilles " were formed in France before World War I , in 1912 . They were initially a loosely - defined group of aircraft capable of similar tasks , in most cases not more than six aeroplanes in each . During the war the " escadrille " became the basic independent unit of aviation within the French armed forces . An escadrille was a homogeneous unit , armed with a single type of aeroplane , with permanent flying and ground personnel attached , motorised transport and tent hangars . By mid - 1915 the " Armee de l ' Air " had grown to 119 " escadrilles " of 10 aircraft each : 14 of fighters , 50 of bombers and the rest reconnaissance , spotter and communications units . While " escadrilles " initially operated independently , during the Battle of Verdun ( 1916 ) , " chasseur " ( fighter ) " escadrilles " were formed into larger formations , for easier coordination . During World War II , French " escadrilles " usually fielded between 10 and 12 aircraft . Hence they were roughly equivalent to a German " staffel " , Italian " gruppo " or Polish " dywizjon " . This was in contrast to air squadrons of the British Commonwealth or United States , which usually had 12 – 18 aircraft , divided into two to four flight s . Until 1949 , between one and four French " escadrilles " formed a " groupe " . Since then , however , " escadrilles " have been subordinate to " escadrons " . As such , " groupes " and " escadrons " are the equivalent of the German language terms " gruppe " and " geschwader " ; and the English language terms " wing " and " group " ( the definitions of which also vary from one nation to another ) .
USS Spartan ( SP - 336 ) USS " Spartan " ( SP - 336 ) was a minesweeper that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 . " Spartan " was built as a commercial tug of the same name in 1912 by the Skinner Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Baltimore , Maryland . On 27 April 1917 , the U . S . Navy acquired her from her owners , the H . & N . Y . Transportation Company of New York City , for naval use during World War I . She was commissioned as USS " Spartan " ( SP - 336 ) on 22 September 1917 . Assigned to the 3rd Naval District , " Spartan " spent the next two years on minesweeping duty in the New York City area . On 20 September 1919 , she was returned to H . & N . Y . Transportation ; her name subsequently was stricken from the Navy List . As of ca . February 2008 , " Spartan " s hulk was photographed still afloat at Donjon Marine Yard ( formally Whitte Brothers Marine Scrap Yard ) at Rossville , Staten Island , New York .
Pierre Costantini Pierre Dominique Costantini or commandant Costantini ( often misspelled Constantini ) ( 1889 – 1986 ) was a French soldier , journalist , writer and Bonapartist militant . Life . He fought as an officer in the First World War and as a reserve officer in the armée de l ' air during 1939 – 1940 . He founded the Mouvement social européen . In 1940 , he founded the collaborationist Ligue française d ’ épuration , d ’ entraide sociale et de collaboration européenne and with Jean Boissel , Marcel Déat , Pierre Clementi and Eugène Deloncle co - founded the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchevisme ( LVF ) . He edited the Ligue ' s organ , the journal " L ' Appel " . In 1943 , he founded the Union des journalistes anti - maçons . He fled to Sigmaringen in 1944 and was condemned to prison in 1952 . He later pursued a journalistic career and published several essays .