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56th Fighter - Interceptor Squadron The 56th Fighter - Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . Its last assignment was with the Detroit Air Defense Sector , stationed at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio . It was inactivated on 1 March 1960 . History . The 56th PS was activated on 15 January 1941 , defending the war industry in Southern California until June 1942 . On 20 June 1942 , the 56th ( now ) Fighter Squadron , took their Bell P - 39 Airacobra s to Nome , Alaska , where they won a Distinguished Unit Citation for operations against the Japan ese in November 1942 . In 1943 , the 56th FS returned to the ConUS , and were based at Bartow Army Air Base , Florida , where they converted to North American P - 51 Mustang s . One year later , on 1 May 1944 , the 56th FS was disbanded . Re - constituted and activated at Selfridge AFB , Michigan in November 1952 , the 56th ( now ) Fighter Interceptor Squadron was assigned to the 4708th Air Defense Wing , and equipped with North American F - 86F Sabre s . In February 1953 , the 56th FIS began conversion to F - 86D interceptors , and was assigned to the 575th Air Defense Group . On 18 August 1955 , under Project ARROW , the 56th FIS designation was transferred from Selfridge AFB to Wright - Patterson AFB , Ohio , initially under operational control of the 4706th Air Defense Wing , then the 58th Air Division ( Air Defense ) on 1 March 1956 , where the squadron was the primary air defense unit for southwestern Ohio and the research facilities at Wright - Patterson . In the Spring of 1957 , the 56th FIS began re - equipping with the North American F - 86L Sabre , an improved version of the F - 86D which incorporated the Semi Automatic Ground Environment , or SAGE . The unit became proficient with both the F - 86L and SAGE , and won an Air Defense Command " A " award for live rocket SURE - FIRE missions in the late summer of 1957 . The transition into the F - 86L was short - lived however , as the squadron began transition into the " missile - witha - man - in - it " , the Lockheed F - 104 A in May 1958 , becoming the 2d ADC sqiadron equipped with the Starfighter . In addition , the squadron received the two - seat , dual - control , combat trainer F - 104B . The performance of the F - 104B was almost identical to that of the F - 104A , but the lower internal fuel capacity reduced its effective range considerably . The 56th FIS was now under operational control of 30th Air Division ( Air Defense ) , before being transferred to the Detroit Air Defense Sector in April 1959 . It was found that the F - 104A was not very well suited for service as an interceptor . Its low interception range was a problem for North American air defense , and its lack of all - weather capability made it incapable of operating in conjunction with the SAGE ( Semi - Automatic Ground Environment ) system . Service with the ADC was consequently quite brief , and the F - 104As of the 56th FIS were transferred to the Air National Guard . With the transfer of the Starfighters , ADC shut down operations at Wright - Patterson and the 56th FIS was inactivated at Wright - Patterson on 1 March 1960 .
813th Fighter - Bomber Squadron The 813th Fighter - Bomber Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . Its last assignment was with 482d Fighter - Bomber Group stationed at Dobbins Air Force Base , Georgia . History . Activated in England in 1943 as an Eighth Air Force heavy bomber pathfinder group , flying RADAR - equipped B - 17s that preceded bomber formations flying from England to Germany and indicated targets such as airfields , submarine installations , and marshalling yards obscured by weather . Squadron ' s aircraft were assigned individually to various groups during combat missions . Returned to United States after the end of the war in Europe , but inactivated in California in 1945 . Trained in the Reserve as a heavy bombardment group , June 1947 - June 1949 ; as a troop carrier group , June – December 1952 ; and as a fighter - bomber group flying various fighter and trainer aircraft , July – November 1957
Operation Deliverance Operation Deliverance was a Canadian Forces peace making military operation in Somalia and formed part of the United Nations peace making deployment to that country . The mission began on December the 3rd , 1992 and involved about 1 , 400 Canadian troops , a helicopter unit and the supply ship . By its end in the May 1993 , it turned into a political disaster for the Canadian Forces and was also marked by a few , low key , protest marches in both Somalia , Kenya and Ohio . This , among other things , caused the disbandment of the Canadian Airborne Regiment in 1995 and numerous subsequent dismissals and resignations along the chain of command up to , but not including , the Minister of Defence . Regardless of this , Canada ' s mission objectives were largely completed including the freeing of a captured Canadian journalist and the defeat of the Somali warlord Mohamed ' Tiger ' I . Barre .
Lebed XI Lebed XI was the designation applied to a number of reconnaissance aircraft supplied to the Imperial Russian Air Force by the Lebed factory of St Petersburg during World War I . Rather than representing any one particular type of aircraft , or even aircraft of Lebed ' s own design , the designation covered a variety of different German Albatros aircraft that had been brought down behind Russian lines and captured . Lebed repaired or rebuilt these machines and returned them to service on the Russian side . Subtypes from A1 through A8 were assigned to identify different Albatros designs supplied . As replacements for the damaged water - cooled engines used on the German aircraft were hard to come by , Lebed eventually fitted Salmson radial engines to some airframes .
Christian Steiner Private Christian Steiner ( 1843 – August 5 , 1880 ) was a German - born American soldier in the U . S . Army who served as a saddle r with the 8th U . S . Cavalry during the Apache Wars in the Arizona Territory . He was one of thirty - two men awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry battling against Cochise and the Apache Indians in the Chiricahua Mountains on October 20 , 1869 . Biography . Christian Steiner was born in Württemberg , Germany in 1843 . He later emigrated to the United States and settled in St . Louis , Missouri , amid a growing German - American population , and eventually enlisted in the United States Army in the mid - 1860s . As a saddle r in Company G of the 8th U . S . Cavalry Regiment , he was assigned to frontier duty and took part in the southwest military campaigns against the Plains Indians . Steiner was stationed in the Arizona Territory during the Apache Wars . He was among the sixty - one cavalry troopers from the 1st and 8th Cavalry Regiment who , on October 5 , 1868 , pursued an Apache raiding party under Cochise following attacks on a stage coach en route to Tucson and a group of cowboy s in the Sulphur Springs Valley . Leaving Fort Bowie , he followed Lt . William H . Winters and Capt . Reuben Bernard in a fifteen - day pursuit of Cochise ' s band , who had fled to the Apache stronghold in the Chiricahua Mountains ( between Red Rock and Turtle Mountain ) , before finally catching up to them on October 20 . In what was one of the major battles of the Apache campaign , famously called the " Campaign of the Rocky Mesa " , Steiner was among the thirty - two soldiers cited for " gallantry in action " and officially awarded the Medal of Honor on February 14 , 1870 . He died on August 5 , 1880 , at the age of 37 , and buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Hot Springs , Arkansas . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Saddler , Company G , 8th U . S . Cavalry . Place and date : At Chiricahua Mountains , Ariz . , 20 October 1869 . Entered service at : - - . Birth : Germany . Date of issue : 14 February 1870 . Citation : Gallantry in action .
James Rankin ( lighthouse keeper ) James Rankin ( 1844 – January 5 , 1921 ) was an American lighthouse keeper . A native of Killashee , County Longford , Ireland , Rankin emigrated to the United States in 1867 . He served as the keeper of East Brother Island Light in California from 1877 to 1878 , when he was transferred to Fort Point Light in San Francisco , where he remained until retiring in 1919 . During his tenure he was credited with saving some 18 lives . Rankin died in Antioch , California , where he had moved soon after retiring . The United States Coast Guard has named a buoy tender USCGC " James Rankin " ( WLM - 555 ) in his honor . See also . Coast Guard bio
AN / WQX - 2 The AN / WQX - 2 is a diver - detector sonar used in anti - frogman precautions . It is in service with the US Navy . It uses Kongsberg Mesotech components . It can detect divers up to 2400 feet ( = nearly half a mile ) away . The AN / WQX - 2 finds range and bearing of the detected target relative to the sonar . The C3D console developed by SPAWAR converts this to a GPS position . It has software to distinguish diver echoes from shoals of fish , marine mammals , debris , bubbles from boat wakes , etc .
PLZ - 89 The Type 89 / PLZ - 89 is a 122 mm self - propelled howitzer used by the People ' s Liberation Army of China to replace Type 85 and Type 70 122 mm self - propelled howitzer . PLZ - 89 was first unveiled to the public during 1999 National Day military parade . Since the late 1970s a number of 122 - mm self - propelled howitzers were developed in China to meet Chinese Army requirements . The PLA required mobile artillery system to provide medium - to long - range indirect fire support for motorized infantry and armored troops and capable of keeping pace with them . However none of them could meet these requirements . The Type 89 , also known as the PLZ89 , self - propelled howitzer was developed in late 1980s . It was Chinese attempt to develop indigenous SPH with similar capabilities to the Soviet 2S1 Gvosdika . The Type 89 is currently in service with Chinese Army and Marines . Several hundred of these artillery systems were built . The Type 89 SPH is armed with a 122 - mm / L32 howitzer . It is a variant of the towed Type 86 ( W - 86 ) , which in turn is a copy of the Soviet D - 30 towed howitzer . The Type 89 is fitted with a semi - automatic loader . This artillery system is compatible with Chinese and Russian 122 - mm ammunition . Maximum range of fire is 18 km using standard HE projectile and 21 km with extended - range projectiles . Vehicle is fitted with a computerized fire control system . Secondary armament consists of a roof - mounted 12 . 7 - mm machine gun . Armor of the Type 89 provides protection against small arms fire and artillery shell splinters . Vehicle is fitted with an NBC protection and automatic fire suppression systems . The Type 89 uses a tracked chassis , developed from the Type 77 amphibious armored personnel carrier . Vehicle is powered by the 12V150L12 diesel engine , developing 450 hp . The Type 89 can be fitted with floatation kit for amphibious operation . Design . Gun for PLZ - 89 is mounted on a tracked chassis which developed from Type 77 amphibious amoured personnel carrier and the main armament is derived from the Type 86 ( W - 86 ) 122 mm / 32 calibre towed howitzer , which itself is a Chinese copy of the Russian D - 30 122 mm howitzer . PLZ - 89 carries 40 rounds inside the turret and it can fire all types of Chinese and Russian 122 mm rounds . The gun is equipped with semi - automatic loader with maximum rate of fire of 6 ~ 8 rounds / min and fire accuracy is achieved by a digital fire - control system and a roof - mounted electro - optical sighting for day / night operations . The five crew members are protected by collective anti - NBC systems and automatic fire suppression . The howitzer can swim with the assistance of certain floating devices .
Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Materiel Command ( AFMC ) is a major command of the United States Air Force ( USAF ) . AFMC was created July 1 , 1992 through the amalgamation of Air Force Logistics Command and Air Force Systems Command . AFMC is headquartered at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio . Its commander is General Janet C . Wolfenbarger . Lieutenant General Andrew E . Busch is the vice - commander . Chief Master Sergeant Michael J . Warner is the Command Chief . It is one of ten Air Force Major Command s . AFMC has a workforce of about 78 , 000 military and civilian personnel . It is the Air Force ’ s largest command in terms of funding and second in terms of personnel . AFMC ’ s operating budget represents 57 percent of the Air Force budget , and AFMC employs more than 40 percent of the Air Force ’ s total civilian workforce . The command conducts research , development , testing and evaluation , and provides the acquisition management services and logistics support necessary to keep Air Force weapon systems ready for war . The command develops , acquires and sustains the aerospace power needed to defend the United States and its interests for today and tomorrow . This is accomplished through management , research , acquisition , development , testing and maintenance of existing and future weapons systems and their components . History . United States Armed Forces procurement of aircraft began when the Army ' s 1907 Aeronautical Division , U . S . Signal Corps , acquired several of the Wright Military Flyer of 1909 . USAAF / USAF aircraft Research and Development ( R & D ) was merged with aircraft procurement twice in the 20th Century ( 1944 , 1992 ) : End of the Cold War . Air Force Materiel Command ( AFMC ) was activated on July 1 , 1992 , from AFLC & AFSC when the four missions were merged as for the 1944 USAAF Air Technical Services Command . Commanders : Structure . AFMC fulfills its mission of equipping the Air Force with the best weapon systems through the Air Force Research Lab and eight specialized centers responsible for the " cradle - to - grave " oversight for aircraft , electronic systems , missiles and munitions . For instance , weapon systems , such as aircraft and missiles , are developed and acquired through three product centers , using science and technology from the laboratory research sites . The systems are then tested at AFMC ' s two test centers . Over the system ' s lifetime , it may be serviced , upgraded or repaired at the three air logistics centers . The command ' s specialized units perform many other development and logistics functions , including scientific research and the retirement or sale of older systems . The AFMC headquarters is a major unit located at Wright - Patterson AFB , Ohio . There are 10 AFMC host bases : In addition , the command operates associate units on several non - AFMC bases . In 2012 , there was a major reorganization and several new Centers were organized . Among them , the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker now directs the Oklahoma City , Ogden , and Warner Robins Air Logistics Complexes .
Sixth United States Army The Sixth United States Army is a field army of the United States Army . History . It was first activated in January 1943 , commanded by Lieutenant General Walter Krueger . Under the code name Alamo Force , it assumed control of the majority of US Army units involved in Operation Cartwheel , the campaign to isolate and neutralize the Japanese base at Rabaul in New Britain . Following the completion of Cartwheel , Sixth Army joined Australian Army and other US forces on the north coast of New Guinea . Similar in conception to the island hopping operations of the central Pacific , the object of the attacks was to land , establish a garrison and airfield which could support the next strike , and then move on . In September 1944 , Sixth Army was released from operations in New Guinea by the US Eighth Army . On 20 October 1944 , X Corps and XXIV Corps , under Sixth Army , invaded Leyte in the Philippines . By December , Leyte was secured , and the Sixth Army was relieved again by Eighth Army to prepare for the invasion of Luzon . As a prelude to that invasion , the island of Mindoro was invaded by the Western Visayan Task Force comprising the 19th and 503rd Regimental Combat Teams . Sixth Army took part in the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf on 9 January 1945 with the subordinate units of I and XIV Corps . Sixth Army units fought south until they met up those of Eighth Army advancing from around Manila . Sixth Army then continued to clear the north of Luzon until the end of the war . Sixth Army was to have provided the ground forces for the first phase of the invasion of Japan , but the surrender changed that . Occupation duty then followed for a short while until Sixth Army returned to the United States , headquartered at the Presidio of San Francisco . Sixth Army then took responsibility for training of Army forces from part of the continental United States , until it was inactivated as part of force reductions in June 1995 . Reactivation . In 2007 it was decided that US Army South will be redesignated as US Army South ( Sixth Army ) under the Army modularization program . It is presently garrisoned at the Old BAMC building at Fort Sam Houston . Legacy . The U . S . Sixth Army is portrayed prominently in the 1953 film " War of the Worlds " , and is shown defending Los Angeles from an attack by Martian s . In the film , the 6th Army Commander ( General Mann ) is portrayed by actor Les Tremayne .
William Williams ( Medal of Honor ) William Williams ( born 1840 , date of death unknown ) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for helping to free his grounded ship . A native of Ireland born in 1840 , Williams immigrated to the U . S . and joined the Navy from Pennsylvania . He served during the Civil War as a landsman on the . On November 16 , 1863 , " Lehigh " was in Charleston Harbor providing support for Union troops on shore when the ship ran aground on a sand bar and came under heavy fire from Fort Moultrie . Several attempts were made to pass a hawser to another Union ironclad , the , but each time the cable snapped due to friction and hostile fire . Officers were about to give an " abandon ship " order when Williams and two other sailors , Landsman Frank S . Gile and Seaman Horatio Nelson Young , volunteered to make one more attempt . Despite intense Confederate artillery fire , the men rowed a small boat from " Lehigh " to " Nahant " , trailing a line attached to a hawser . This operation successfully completed , " Nahant " was able to tow " Lehigh " off the sandbar to safety . For this action , Williams , Gile , and Young were each awarded the Medal of Honor five months later , on April 16 , 1864 . Two sailors involved in the earlier attempts to save " Lehigh " , Coxswain Thomas Irving and Gunner ' s Mate George W . Leland , also received the medal at the same time . Williams ' official Medal of Honor citation reads : On board the U . S . S . " Lehigh " , Charleston Harbor , 16 November 1863 , during the hazardous task of freeing the " Lehigh " , which had been grounded , and was under heavy enemy fire from Fort Moultrie . After several previous attempts had been made , Williams succeeded in passing in a small boat from the " Lehigh " to the " Nahant " with a line bent on a hawser . This courageous action while under severe enemy fire enabled the " Lehigh " to be freed from her helpless position .
First Battle of Tripoli Harbor The First Battle of Tripoli Harbor was a naval battle fought on May 16 , 1802 in Tripoli Harbor between a combined force consisting of the American frigate and two Swedish Navy frigates against several Tripolitan Barbary corsairs . The Swedish - American force was enforcing the blockade when an engagement broke out between it and Tripolitan forces . The Allied fleet damaged the Tripolitan squadron as well as the harbor fortifications before withdrawing and resuming the blockade . Background . The USS " Boston " under Captain McNeill had been sent to Tripoli to blockade the port and prevent any ships from entering or leaving . Leaving for Tripoli in January she discovered that four Swedish ships had already begun a blockade of the port . Along with the Swedish vessels she attempted to chase down corsairs attempting to break the blockade with little success , as the Swedish vessels were quite large and cumbersome making it difficult for them to pursue the small Tripolitan galley s that darted in and out of the port ' s harbor . Battle . On May 16 , " Boston " with the Swedish frigate " Fröja " managed to chase down a Tripolitan corsair , disabling it by forcing it to beach itself . Six other corsairs then sortied from the harbor in an attempt to screen the first one . The American and Swedish frigates managed to deter their attempts until another ship arrived in the harbor . The Swedish frigate began bombarding the harbor fortifications while " Boston " left to meet the new vessel . This gave the corsairs an opportunity to make another attempt at assisting the beached vessel . Shortly thereafter " Boston " realized that the newly arrived ship was merely another Swedish frigate . Realizing his mistake , Captain McNeil turned his ship around and engaged the Tripolitan ships once more firing several broadsides into them and damaging several . The action then concluded with the three frigates resuming their blockade stations having taken no damage while inflicting several losses on the enemy . Aftermath . The action did little to prevent corsairs from using Tripoli as a base of operations . Besides this action , no other serious attempt was made by the blockading squadron to enforce the blockade . The later arrived to bolster the attempt at denying the harbors use by the Tripolitans . The Swedish decided to make their own peace with Tripoli , leaving the two American frigates to enforce the blockade themselves , but the Americans soon ran short of provisions and also withdrew , thereby lifting the blockade and leaving the port open to the enemy . References .
99th Regiment of Foot ( Jamaica Regiment ) The 99th Regiment of Foot ( Jamaica Regiment ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army , raised in 1780 and disbanded in 1783 . It was raised in the Midlands for service in the West Indies , and spent three years stationed in Jamaica as a garrison unit before being returned to England to be disbanded .
Thomas R . Hawkins Thomas R . Hawkins ( 1840 – 1870 ) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and a recipient of America ' s highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions at the Battle of Chaffin ' s Farm . Biography . Hawkins joined the Army as a substitute from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania on August 4 , 1863 , and became Sergeant Major of the 6th U . S . Colored Infantry Regiment on August 23 . On September 29 , 1864 , he fought in the Battle of Chaffin ' s Farm , Virginia . He was discharged in May 1865 for wounds received in action . More than five years later , on February 8 , 1870 , he was awarded the Medal of Honor for " rescue of regimental colors " during that battle . Thomas Hawkins died at age 29 or 30 in 1870 , and was buried in Columbian Harmony Cemetery in Washington , D . C . His remains were moved to National Harmony Memorial Park in Landover , Maryland , in 1960 when the original cemetery closed and was sold . A memorial plaque was placed at his grave in 1997 . Hawkins ' courage at New Market Heights is depicted in a painting , " Three Medals of Honor " by artist Don Troiani . The painting is scheduled to be unveiled June 24 , 2013 at the Union League of Philadelphia . Also portrayed in the painting are two fellow Medal of Honor recipients from the battle , Nathan H . Edgerton and Alexander Kelly . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Sergeant Major , 6th U . S . Colored Troops . Place and date : At Chapins Farm , Va . , September 29 , 1864 . Entered service at : Philadelphia , Pa . Birth : Cincinnati , Ohio . Date of issue : February 8 , 1870 . Citation : Rescue of regimental colors .