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Brian L . Buker Brian Leroy Buker ( November 3 , 1949 – April 5 , 1970 ) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military ' s highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in the Vietnam War . Biography . Buker was born on November 3 , 1949 , in Benton , Maine , the youngest of four sons of Opal Buker Clark . He grew up in Benton and graduated from Lawrence High School in nearby Fairfield in 1967 . His brothers , Victor , Gerald , and Alan , also served in the Vietnam War . Buker joined the Army from Bangor , Maine in 1968 , and by April 5 , 1970 was serving as a sergeant in Detachment B - 55 , 5th Special Forces Group , 1st Special Forces . On that day , he was acting as a platoon advisor for a Vietnamese mobile strike force company on a mission in Chau Doc Province , Republic of Vietnam . When his platoon came under intense fire , he single - handedly destroyed one enemy bunker , was seriously wounded , and then destroyed another bunker despite these wounds . He was killed later in the battle as he reorganized his soldiers . For these actions , Buker was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor . He was one of three people from Maine to earn the medal in Vietnam , the others being Thomas J . McMahon and Donald Sidney Skidgel . His other decorations include a Bronze Star , Purple Heart , and Vietnamese Gallantry Cross . On September 15 , 2010 , Buker ' s family donated his Medal of Honor and other decorations to his alma mater , Lawrence High School in Fairfield , for display . Buker , aged 20 at his death , was buried at Brown Cemetery in his hometown of Benton . Medal of Honor citation . Sergeant Buker ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty . Sgt . Buker , Detachment B - 55 , distinguished himself while serving as a platoon adviser of a Vietnamese mobile strike force company during an offensive mission . Sgt . Buker personally led the platoon , cleared a strategically located well - guarded pass , and established the first foothold at the top of what had been an impenetrable mountain fortress . When the platoon came under the intense fire from a determined enemy located in 2 heavily fortified bunkers , and realizing that withdrawal would result in heavy casualties , Sgt . Buker unhesitatingly , and with complete disregard for his personal safety , charged through the hail of enemy fire and destroyed the first bunker with hand grenades . While reorganizing his men for the attack on the second bunker , Sgt . Buker was seriously wounded . Despite his wounds and the deadly enemy fire , he crawled forward and destroyed the second bunker . Sgt . Buker refused medical attention and was reorganizing his men to continue the attack when he was mortally wounded . As a direct result of his heroic actions , many casualties were averted , and the assault of the enemy position was successful . Sgt . Buker ' s extraordinary heroism at the cost of his life are in the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit on him , his unit , and the U . S . Army .
Jaan Usin Jaan Usin VR II / 3 ( 12 August 1887 – 19 August 1941 ) was an Estonian Navy commander . He served during World War I in the Imperial Russian Navy as an ensign . In 1918 , he entered in the Estonian service and participated in the Estonian War of Liberation . Since 1920 , Jaan Usin was commander of the Peipsi flotilla in Tartu . He rose in ranks and was finally , in 1940 , promoted to Captain , being then commander of one gunboat , one motorboat and 49 men . During the Soviet occupation he was prisoned for some time but after the outbreak of World War II he was engaged in the Soviet navy as steersman of the icebreaker Merikaru . He was sunk on board Merikaru in the Muhu strait .
Deng Changyou Deng Changyou ( ; born February 1947 ) is a general of the People ' s Liberation Army ( PLA ) of the People ' s Republic of China and the current political commissar of the PLA Air Force . Biography . Born in Pengxi , Sichuan Province , Deng joined the PLA in March 1968 , and the Communist Party of China in May 1970 . In June 1990 , he was appointed the director of the political department of the Air Force Ürümqi headquarters . In January 1993 , he became the political commissar of the Air Force 9th corps . In July 1996 , he was promoted to vice political commissar and secretary of discipline commission of the Lanzhou Military Region . In March 1997 , he became the vice director of the political department of the PLA Air Force , and was promoted to director in November of the same year . In May 2002 , he was promoted to his current post of political commissar of the PLA Air Force . He has also been a member of the 16th and 17th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China .
German submarine U - 128 ( 1941 ) German submarine " U - 128 " was a Type IXC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . She was sunk 17 May 1943 , by American action . History . Ordered on 7 August 1939 from AG Weser in Bremen , " U - 128 " was laid down on 10 July 1940 , launched on 20 February 1941 and commissioned by " Kapitänleutnant " Ulrich Heyse on 12 May 1941 . The boat was a training vessel in the second flotilla until 30 November 1941 based in Wilhelmshaven . She was then based in Lorient . During her six completed war patrols , " U - 128 " sank 12 ships , for a total of 83 , 639 tons . On 1 March 1943 command was transferred to Kptlt . Hermann Steinert , who commanded her until her loss a few months later . Fate . On 17 May 1943 , while operating in the South Atlantic near Pernambuco , two Mariner flying boats , " PBM 74 - P5 " and " PBM - 74 - P6 " of the US Navy Squadron VP - 74 , made " U - 128 " surface with depth charges . Two US Navy destroyers ( and ) also hit her with 5 - inch gunfire . The crew opened the submarine ' s seacock s as they abandoned ship , scuttling the submarine . The final toll was seven dead but there were 47 survivors .
USS Towaliga ( AOG - 42 ) USS " Towaliga " ( AOG - 42 ) was a " Mettawee " - class gasoline tanker acquired by the U . S . Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet , and to remote Navy stations . " Towaliga " was laid down under Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 2068 ) on 29 September 1944 at Bayonne , New Jersey , by the East Coast Shipyard Inc . ; launched on 29 October 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . Michael Canose ; acquired by the Navy on 6 December 1944 ; and commissioned on 14 December 1944 , Lt . Robert H . Smith in command . World War II service . The gasoline tanker called at Norfolk , Virginia , on 9 January 1945 and began shakedown training in the Chesapeake Bay the next day . On 11 February , she joined a convoy bound for the West Indies and arrived at Aruba , Netherlands Antilles , 10 days later . Pacific Ocean operations . After filling her cargo tanks , the ship proceeded through the Panama Canal to the U . S . West Coast , spent 14 March and 15 March at San Diego , California , and sailed for Hawaii on the 16th . She reached Pearl Harbor on 28 March and , for the next four months , shuttled diesel oil and aviation gasoline from Hawaii to Johnston Island . In mid August , while the ship was undergoing an overhaul in dry dock at Pearl Harbor , hostilities ended . End - of - war activity . Upon completion of the yard work , " Towaliga " got underway for Japan and , after stops at Eniwetok and Saipan , arrived at Osaka on 9 October 1945 . The ship operated from Osaka until 16 August 1946 when she was ordered to China . She arrived at Tsingtao on the 19th and was placed in a standby status with a reduced crew , preparatory to being decommissioned . On 6 December , the ship ' s complement was filled , and she began training Chinese crews . Post - war decommissioning . " Towaliga " was decommissioned on 10 May 1947 and transferred to the Republic of China under the lend - lease program . The ship was nominally returned to the United States on 17 February 1948 but simultaneously transferred permanently to China , where she was renamed " Tai Hwa " . " Towaliga " was struck from the Navy list on 12 March 1948 . Final disposition : fate unknown . Military awards and honors . " Towaliga ’ s " crew was eligible for the following medals :
Charles Stewart ( 1729 – 1800 ) Charles Stewart ( 1729 – June 24 , 1800 ) was an officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Continental Congressman . Biography . Stewart was born in Gortlea in County Donegal , Ireland . He emigrated to the United States in 1750 and pursued a career in agriculture . Stewart was commissioned lieutenant colonel of militia in Hunterdon County , New Jersey in 1771 , and commissioned colonel of a battalion of Minutemen on February 15 , 1776 . He served in four sessions of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey ( 1775 – 76 ) After the outbreak of war , he was appointed commissary general of issues by the Continental Congress on June 18 , 1777 . Stewart later became a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress in 1784 and 1785 . Stewart died June 24 , 1800 , at a farm he owned on Mt . Carmel ( Coxe ' s Hill ) in Flemington . He is interred at Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Grandin , Hunterdon County , New Jersey . Gen . Farrand Stewart Stranahan was his great - grandson .
Maurice Petherick Maurice Petherick ( October 5 , 1894 - August 4 , 1985 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Penryn & Falmouth from 1931 to 1945 , and as Financial Secretary to the War Office , briefly , in 1945 . Early life . He was born October 5 , 1894 , the son of George Tallack Petherick ( b . 1860 ) and Edith Petherick , his wife . He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College , Cambridge . Military service . During the Great War , he was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Devon Yeomanry 1914 but was invalided out in 1915 . He served in Foreign Office , 1916 – 17 ; he was recommissioned Royal Scots Greys , 1917 and served in France , 1918 . In October 1939 , he was recommissioned to the General List Army , as a Captain and promoted to Temporary Major . Parliamentary service . Having contested the parliamentary seat of Penryn & Falmouth in 1929 , as a Conservative , he was elected as MP in that division in the General Elections of 1931 and 1935 He was one of the MPs , who , in 1945 , opposed the Yalta agreement , because of the treatment of Poland . He was Financial Secretary to the War Office from May 26 , 1945 to August 4 , 1945 , in the " Caretaker Government " . In the 1945 General Election , he was defeated by the Labour candidate , Evelyn King . Other activities . Between 1953 and 1971 , he was a Director of the Prudential Assurance Co . Ltd . . He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1957 . He wrote two novels and a collective biography of " rogues " . He died on 4 August 1985 . At his death , his residence was Porthpean House , St Austell , Cornwall . The garden that he developed there is still famous .
Zachos Milios Zachos Milios ( ; 1805 – 1860 ) was a Greek revolutionary of the Greek War of Independence ( 1821 – 1830 ) and officer of the Greek army . He was the brother of the distinguished general and politician Spyros Milios . Greek War of Independence . Milios was born in Himarë , in modern south coast Albania ( Northern Epirus ) . At 1824 , under the leadership of his brother Spyromilios , he together with several armed Himariotes descent to southern Greece in order to join the Revolution . There they fought against the Ottoman troops of Omer Vryonis , under the orders of Alexandros Mavrokordatos . At 1825 , together with his brother , as well as Notis Botsaris and Dimos Riniassas participated in several conflicts in Aetolia region ( Makrynoros , Kasteli Anatolikou ) . The same year they joined the besiegers in Missolonghi . Zachos also participated in the following exodus . Later he fought under the leadership of Georgios Karaiskakis . Milios supported the political party of Alexandros Mavrokordatos and joined the Pro - Russian party . During Kapodistrias ' rule ( 1828 – 1832 ) he became captain of the 2nd light infantry battalion . After Independence . When Otto became King of Greece ( 1832 ) , he remained in the army serving as a frontier guard . He was considered a very loyal officer and became a vivid supporter of the Megali Idea ( like most of the Greek officers born outside Greece ' s border in that period ) . Zachos Milios reached the rank of Colonel . He was distinguished by his bravery on the battlefield ( he was seriously wounded four times ) .
63rd Corps ( German Empire ) The 63rd Corps ( Bavarian ) ( ) was a corps formation of the German Army in World War I . It was formed in January 1917 and was still in existence at the end of the war . Chronicle . The 63rd Corps ( z . b . V . ) was formed in January 1917 . With the onset of trench warfare , the German Army recognised that it was no longer possible to maintain the traditional Corps unit , that is , one made up of two divisions . Whereas at some times ( and in some places ) a Corps of two divisions was sufficient , at other times 5 or 6 divisions were necessary . Therefore , under the Hindenburg regime ( from summer 1916 ) , new Corps headquarters were created without organic divisions . These new Corps were designated " General Commands for Special Use " ( ) . 63rd Corps was still in existence at the end of the war . Commanders . The 63rd Corps was commanded throughout its existence by Bavarian Generalleutnant ( General der Infanterie from 17 January 1917 ) Albert von Schoch .
Dewoitine Constructions Aéronautiques Émile Dewoitine was a French aircraft manufacturer established by Émile Dewoitine at Toulouse in October 1920 . The company ' s initial products were a range of metal parasol - wing fighters which were largely ignored by the French Air Force but purchased in large quantities abroad and licence - built in Italy , Switzerland , and Czechoslovakia . The company was liquidated in January 1927 , with the only remaining active programme ( the D . 27 ) being transferred to EKW in Switzerland . The company was re - established in Paris in March the following year as Société Aéronautique Française ( Avions Dewoitine ) or SAF . After briefly continuing D . 27 production , the reconstituted firm produced a range of fighters that became a mainstay of the French airforce during the 1930s , the D . 500 family . It also developed important civilian airliners , such as the D . 333 and its derivative the D . 338 , designed for pioneering routes to French Indochina ( Vietnam ) , and eventually Hong Kong . The firm was nationalised in March 1937 into the short - lived SNCA du Midi or SNCAM , and produced the D . 520 as France ' s best - performing fighter at the outbreak of war , albeit in too small numbers to pose any serious opposition to the Luftwaffe in the Battle of France . The final end of Dewoitine as a recognisable entity was its absorption into SNCASE in December 1940 , by which time Émile Dewoitine had departed to join SIPA , and no further aircraft were produced under the Dewoitine name .
CSS Gaines CSS Gaines was a wooden side wheel gunboat constructed by the Confederates at Mobile , Alabama during 1861 - 62 . The ship was hastily built with unseasoned wood , which was partially covered with 2 - inch iron plating . " Gaines " resembled CSS " Morgan " except that she had high pressure boilers . Operating in the waters of Mobile Bay , under the command of Lieutenant John W . Bennett , CSN , she was heavily damaged during the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5 , 1864 . She was sinking as she left the battle and became grounded while still in of water , within of Fort Morgan . Two crewman died in the engagement , 3 - 4 were wounded , and 129 escaped to Mobile . Her hull may have been located in Mobile Bay in 1989 , but the find has not been confirmed .
5 / 42 Evzone Regiment The 5 / 42 Evzone Regiment ( ) or 42nd Regiment ( 42° Σύνταγμα ) was an elite regiment of Evzones of the Hellenic Army , recruited in Phthiotis , Central Greece and headquartered in Lamia . The unit was formed after the Balkan Wars , and served in the Entente intervention in the Russian Civil War , the Greco - Turkish War of 1919 – 1922 and the Greco - Italian War during World War II . During the Greco - Turkish War of 1919 - 1922 , the Turks called their leader Nikolaos Plastiras " Şeytanın kumandanı " ( " Satan ' s commandant " ) or " Kara Şeytan " ( " Black Satan " ) while the 5 / 42 Evzone Regiment became known as the " Şeytanın Ordusu " ( " Satan ' s Army " ) or " Şeytanın askerleri " ( " Satan ' s soldiers " ) . The unit was disbanded after the conquest of the country by the Germans in 1941 . During the Axis Occupation of Greece however , the armed wing of the National and Social Liberation resistance group was named after it as 5 / 42 Evzones Regiment by EKKA ' s military leader , Colonel Dimitrios Psarros . In April 1944 the Regiment was attacked by ELAS ( controlled by the Communist Party of Greece ) and dissolved . After the battle troops of ELAS tortured and executed all the captives , including Psarros .
36th Infantry Division ( Poland ) The 36th Reserve Infantry Division ( " 36 Rezerwowa Dywizja Piechoty " ) was a unit of the Polish Army in the interbellum period , which took part in the Polish September Campaign . It was formed out of several brigades of the Border Defence Corps of the Podolia region , which had guarded southeastern border of Poland ( see : Kresy ) . In the first days of September 1939 , under Colonel Boleslaw Ostrowski , the Division was concentrated in the area of Szydłowiec , as part of the Prusy Army . Facing the Poles was the Second Armored Division of the Wehrmacht , whose units attacked Przedborz on September 3 and after heavy fights managed to capture the town . On September 6 , the German First Light Division crossed the Pilica River in Przedborz , which forced the Poles to withdraw towards Skarżysko - Kamienna . At the same time , Polish divisions on the right wing of the Prusy Army were destroyed and the 36th I . D . retreated to Końskie . In the morning of September 7 , the Germans attacked Polish positions near Kazanów , and in the battle Polish regiments lost up to 40 % of KIA , MIA and wounded . On September 8 , Colonel Ostrowski , after finding out that the Germans had captured Skarżysko - Kamienna , decided to move northwards , to Szydłowiec . However , on the same day the Germans attacked at noon . The marching Division was split and its units were separated . Ostrowski himself got to Kozienice and later crossed the Vistula . Meanwhile , the Germans attacked Polish units in the nearby forests of the Holy Cross Mountains , with heavy losses of both sides . On September 9 , remaining parts of the 36th I . D . reached Iłża and then headed towards the Vistula . However , the Germans had already been on the western bank of the river . Under the circumstances , the Poles split into smaller groups and crossed the river , joining the Lublin Army . This was the end of the 36th I . D . Structure . Headquarters of the 36th was based on the Border Defence Corps Brigade Podole .
Garret A garret is generally synonymous in modern usage with a habitable attic or small ( and possibly dismal or cramped ) living space at the top of a house . In the days before lifts ( elevators ) this was the least prestigious position in a building , and often had sloping ceilings . It entered Middle English via Old French with a military connotation of a watchtower or something akin to a garrison , in other words a place for guards or soldiers to be quartered in a house . Like garrison it comes from an Old French word " garir " of ultimately Germanic origin meaning to provide or defend . In the later 1800s , garrets became one of the defining features of Second Empire architecture in Paris , France , where large buildings were stratified socially between different floors , as the number of stairs to climb increased . Garrets were very often internal elements of the mansard roof , often with skylights or dormer windows .
Scots American War Memorial The Scots American War Memorial or Scottish American War Memorial is in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh . It was called " The Call 1914 " , and it was erected in 1927 and shows a kilted infrantyman looking towards Castle Rock . Behind the main statue is a frieze showing queues of men answering the call by following a kilted pipe band . The memorial was given by Scottish - Americans to honour Scots who had served in the first World War . History . The memorial was paid for by " The Scottish - American War Memorial Committee " representing Scottish - Americans as a tribute to the bravery of Scottish troops during World War I . The Scottish National War Memorial ( with similar design relating to the military in the Shrine ) having been opened in July of that same year it was evidently relatedly unveiled on the 7th September 1927 by the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom , Alanson B Houghton , with the Mackintosh ' s text reading " if it be life that waits , I shall live forever unconquered . If death , I shall die at last , strong in my pride and free " and with on the contemporary postcard the title " Spirit of 1914 " . " The Call 1914 " ( as actually named within the memorial ) was designed by R . Tait McKenzie who was a Scottish Canadian working at the time at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia . McKenzie only took to sculpture in later life having started his interests in physical education . His sculpture invariably was of life size male athletic figures . This work took him four years to complete . The bronze backdrop frieze shows Scots of differing professions answering the call and changing from civilians into marching soldiers . It was also by McKenzie , but the architect Reginald Fairlie was also involved . The stonework is constructed from Craigleith sandstone . At the very top of the design are the two intertwined escutcheon s of America and Scotland . The memorial was said to have cost ten thousand pounds at the time it was built . At the bottom of the frieze are lines from E . A . Mackintosh ' s poem " " : " If it be life that waits I shall live forever unconquered ; if death I shall die at last strong in my pride and free . " Mackintosh was a 23 - year - old ex - Oxford Classics student of Scottish descent who was killed at the second Battle of Cambrai in 1917 . When R Tait McKenzie died he hoped to have his heart buried beneath this memorial , and this presumably either because he considered this his best work or also perhaps on account of a belief in its general significance in relation to First World War memorials in general and in particular perhaps the directly related Scottish National War Memorial .
Pierre Jadart Dumerbion Pierre Jadart Dumerbion or Pierre Jadart du Merbion ( 30 April 1737 – 25 February 1797 ) joined the French army as a junior officer in 1754 and fought in the Seven Years War . As an experienced officer , he was promoted to colonel in 1792 at the start of the French Revolutionary Wars . He soon became a general officer and found himself commanding the Army of Italy . In April 1794 he won the Battle of Saorgio over the armies of Habsburg Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia - Piedmont by using a strategic plan drawn up by his newly appointed artillery officer , Napoleon Bonaparte . Though he was the victor , Dumerbion was unable to personally take the field because of his age and poor health . In September 1794 , his army again beat the Coalition forces at the First Battle of Dego . He retired in 1795 and died in 1797 . DUMERBION is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe on Column 23 .