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Charles Cudemore Captain Charles William Cudemore ( born 19 November 1897 , date of death unknown ) was a World War I flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories . World War I service . Cudemore was transferred from the Shropshire Light Infantry as a second lieutenant on 21 June 1915 . He opened his victory roll when he and Robert Hall shot down an observation balloon on 7 May 1917 ; Cudemore then promptly shot down another balloon single - handed . After his transfer from 40 Squadron to 29 Squadron , Cudemore continued to fly a Nieuport in his next three triumphs ; he became an ace on 3 September 1917 . He was promoted from temporary second lieutenant to temporary lieutenant effective 1 July 1917 . He received the Military Cross on the 18th . There was a lapse in his scoring until 11 August 1918 , when he flew a 64 Squadron S . E . 5a to a win over a Fokker D . VII , which was driven down out of control . He continued to score through 9 November 1918 . A summary of his final results is he destroyed three enemy fighter planes and two observation balloons , and drove down ten enemy planes out of control . Post war service and life . On 3 June 1919 , Cudemore was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross . On 8 March 1925 , he was appointed flying officer in the RAF . Also in 1925 , he was sued for divorce by Carolyn Alice Cudemore . On October 15 , 1925 , he was transferred to the Class A Reserve . On 3 September 1939 , Cudemore was promoted from flying officer to flight lieutenant in the RAF Reserve . Honors and awards . Military Cross ( MC ) T . / 2nd Lt . Charles William Cudemore , Gen . list and R . F . C . For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in attacking enemy aircraft and kite balloons . He has brought down at least three enemy machines and three kite balloons , and has taken part in numerous other engagements . He has consistently set a very fine example of pluck and determination in all his attacks .
World War II combatives World War II combatives are close quarters combat techniques , including hand - to - hand , advanced firearm point shooting methods , and weapons techniques ( knife / bayonet / improvised weapons ) that were taught to allied special forces in World War II by such famous instructors as Rex Applegate and William Ewart Fairbairn . Distinctions between World War II combatives and modern combatives include : 1 ) The former is based upon explosive high percentage gross motor strikes to vital targets , whereas the latter is based upon fine motor skill grappling . 2 ) The former seeks primarily to disable the enemy as quickly as possible at all costs , whereas the latter seeks primarily to build " warrior ethos " and the courage to close with the enemy . Background . World War II combatives are rooted in British colonial history with the Shanghai Municipal Police ( 1854 – 1943 ) , pioneers of modern SWAT , who operated in what was widely acknowledged as the most dangerous port city in the world at the time . After studying under some of the finest warriors of pre - Communist China and pre - war Japan , these officers condensed the most practical elements of these arts , combined it with elements of Shanghai gangster fighting , and field - tested their skills in over 2000 documented encounters , including over 600 lethal force engagements . World War II . Upon return to the UK and US , veterans of the Shanghai Municipal Police were tasked in training allied World War II commandos and intelligence personnel , including the British Commandos - SAS & SBS , the US / Canadian 1st Special Service Force ( " Devil ' s Brigade " ) , the Office of Strategic Services ( precursor to the CIA ) , the British Special Operation Executive , Marine Raider Units , and the US Army Rangers . Upon engagement with enemy personnel skilled in classical European arts and old school judo , the post - battlefield reports of the “ Shanghai method ” produced the highest number of documented kills of any combatives system to date . Decline . After World War II , with no institutional system of educating new instructors , the rise of Asian martial arts in the US , and the increasing role of the military in a peacekeeping capacity , realistic CQC training degenerated and in many places , died out . Thanks to the promotion of modified World War II combatives by modern warriors such as Carl Cestari and Bob Kasper , Kelly Mcann , Clint Sporman , Lawrence A . Jordan , and John Perkins these proven methods and techniques are beginning to make a strong comeback .
James Fuller - Good Air Vice - Marshal James Laurence Fuller Fuller - Good CB CVO BSM RAF ( 20 September 1903 – 11 May 1983 ) was a Royal Air Force pilot in the 1920s , a senior officer during World War II and a senior RAF commander in the 1950s .
Tom Nyuma Tom Nyuma ( born in Kailahun , Kailahun District , Sierra Leone ) is a retired Sierra Leonean military commander and currently the chairman of the Kailahun District council . He was elected as chairman of Kailahun District council on July 6 , 2008 with 87 % of the vote running on the opposition Sierra Leone People ' s Party ( SLPP ) ticket . Nyuma remains very popular in the Southern and Eastern regions of the country . In March 2012 , Nyuma left the SLPP and joined the All People ' s Congress ( APC ) of President Ernest Bai Koroma . He was at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces before he retired . On 29 April 1992 , Nyuma was one of the young officers in the Sierra Leonean army who ousted the APC government led by Joseph Saidu Momoh . They established the National Provisional Ruling Council ( NPRC ) to run the government . During the NPRC administration , Nyuma was the commander of the Eastern Province . He is a member of the Kissi ethnic group and an alum of Ohio State University in Columbus , Ohio U . S . A . He was deported from the United States in 2007 due to domestic violence .
Caesar Lvovich Kunikov Caesar Lvovich Kunikov ( ) ( June 23 , 1909 — February 14 , 1943 ) — was an officer in the Soviet Naval Infantry . He served as commanding officer of a landing party that recaptured the beach - head at Malaya Zemlya during World War II . He was mortally wounded in the battle , and was posthumously named a Hero of the Soviet Union for his heroic actions . Kunikov was born in Rostov on Don in a Jewish family . His father was an engineer and moved to Moscow in 1925 . Kunikov worked in the Soyuz factory as a machinist . In 1932 , he began studies at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University , and held the position of a technical manager in a machine building factory by 1938 . At the start of the war Kunikov volunteered for the Red Army and served in the Naval infantry of the Black Sea Fleet . Kunikov fought in the battle for Novorossiysk and the defence of Malaya Zemlya . He was mortally wounded in February 1943 in Novorossiysk .
First General Army ( Japan ) The was an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of eastern and northern Honshū , including the Tōkai and Kantō regions during the final stage of Pacific War . History . The First General Army was established on April 8 , 1945 with the dissolution of the General Defense Command into the First and Second General Army . It was essentially a home guard and garrison , responsible for civil defense , anti - aircraft defenses , and for organizing guerilla warfare cells in anticipation of the projected Allied invasion of the Japanese home islands in Operation Downfall ( or in Japanese terminology ) . Although its territory encompassed all of northern Japan , its primary mission was to ensure the security of the heavily populated Kantō region , which included Tokyo . Its forces consisted mostly of poorly trained and poorly armed reservists , conscripted students and home guard militia . The First General Army remained active for several months after the surrender of Japan to help maintain public order until the arrival of the American occupation forces , and to oversee the final demobilization and dissolution of the Imperial Japanese Army .
Walter D ' Arcy Hall Lieutenant - Colonel Walter D ' Arcy Hall , MC & Bar ( 10 August 1891 – 22 January 1980 ) was a soldier , Unionist Member of Parliament and hunter of game ( big and small ) . Biography . Hall was born in Australia , son of Thomas Skarratt Hall . He was educated at Eton College , Berkshire and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst . He joined the 20th Hussars in 1911 . During World War I Hall was awarded the Military Cross and Bar , and the Croix de Guerre with Palm and Star . Perhaps his most gallant action occurred on 1 April 1918 when , with 138 men of the 20th Hussars , he formed a dismounted company in support of the 4th Dismounted Battalion , leading them in a counter - attack against Rifle Wood near Domart - sur - la - Luce . The wood was well defended , and the 20th suffered heavy casualties in the action . Nonetheless , Hall and his men captured the wood and held it until relieved by the infantry . For this and other dismounted actions by members of the 2nd Cavalry Division , the Division was warmly praised by the Commander of 4th Army , General Sir Henry Rawlinson . For a period Hall was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer . Hall was elected Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Brecon and Radnor on 29 October 1924 but lost his seat at the 1929 general election . He was re - elected for the same seat on 27 October 1931 , serving until his retirement at the general election on 14 November 1935 . Legacy . Hall was the father of the scientist Edward Thomas Hall .
JDS Ishikari ( DE - 226 ) The JDS Ishikari ( DE - 226 ) is the first destroyer escort with the gas turbine engine and surface - to - surface missile of the Japanese Maritime Self - Defense Force . She is the successor of the earlier on the table , but there are many differences in their concepts . At first , this ship was planned to belong to the new ship classification , PCE ( Patrol Coastal ships , Escort ) to replace small submarine chaser s and old destroyer escorts with limited ASW capability against new nuclear - powered submarines . But finally , it was decided to change her classification to the ordinary destroyer escort . This class is quite epoch - making for the destroyer escorts of the JMSDF as follows : This ship was built at the Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Tamano office at Tamano , Okayama . She was commissioned in 28 March 1981 , and was deployed at the Ominato District Force ( home - ported at Mutsu , Aomori ) . The Ominato District is the northernmost district of the JMSDF and forefront against the Russian Pacific Fleet . But it was decided that the Ishikari was too small to continue production , so it was succeeded by the two years later .
Peter Branson Rear - Admiral Peter Branson , CBE ( 30 March 1924 – 1 January 2011 ) was a British naval officer was Assistant Chief of Naval Staff ( Operations ) from 1975 until 1977 . Born in Saint - Malo , France , Cecil Robert Peter Charles Branson grew up speaking fluent French and English . He had the rare distinction of being twice torpedoed while under training with the Royal Navy . In 1956 , he was given command of the anti - submarine frigate HMS Roebuck and later given command of HMS Rooke , the naval base at Gibraltar . He retired from the Navy in 1977 . Family . Peter Branson married Sonia Moss in 1945 ; she died in 2010 . They had one child , a daughter .
SM U - 38 SM " U - 38 " was a German Type U 31 U - boat which operated in the Mediterranean Sea during World War I . It ended up being the third most successful u - boat participating in the war sinking 138 ships sunk for a total of 299 . 985 tons . Its longest serving captain was Max Valentiner , who was awarded the Pour le Mérite while in command of " U - 38 " . Valentiner was in command of " U - 38 " in November and December 1915 when she sank the passenger liners SS " Ancona " and SS " Persia " ; both were controversial since the ships were sunk by torpedoes without warning , in defiance of the then - current Prize rules , which stated that merchant vessels carrying passengers be given an opportunity to evacuate their passengers before being sunk . Valentiner was succeeded as commander of " U - 38 " by Wilhelm Canaris , who later went on to become an Admiral and head of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1944 . Fate . After World War I ended , " U - 38 " was surrendered to France and docked in Brest in 1919 , and then broken up .
Avenger submachine gun The Avenger is an submachine gun of British origin that was made during the 1990 ' s in a garage of a private individual ' s machine shop near Belfast , Northern Ireland . Background . Supposedly the loyalist paramilitary group that used the guns was eventually found by the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) after they hired an unknown air equipment company to make the suppressor s for the gun , describing the product to them to be used on some kind of industrial exhaust system , and the manufacturing process was eventually connected and traced . Exact start of the gun production is unknown , but it ended in second half of 1990 ' s when the creator was captured by the police . The final number of produced guns is also not known , although it could number in the hundreds as some of the captured ones were stamped with serial numbers ( which is very uncommon for homemade guns ) exceeding 300 . Overview . The Avenger is a fairly simple " home - made " submachine gun with side folding stock , silencer and a vertical magazine well . It is a " Square Section " gun , meaning it uses a square section mild steel pipe as its receiver , other parts ( magazine well , trigger group , handle etc . ) are also structural steel welded to the receiver . It is fed from Sten magazines with a square version of the bolt used in the Sterling L2A3 , but does not adapt Sterling submachine gun magazines . Usage of industrially fabricated magazines in " home - made " guns is very common ( especially in the history of Ulster paramilitary groups weapons ) as magazines of comparable reliability are difficult to manufacture . The weapon is open bolt fired , lacks a safety and is full - automatic only . The mainspring has an interesting feature ; in the rear section of receiver , there is another spring , heavy coiled , that acts as a buffer . The ejector is replaceable with two screws . The barrel lacks rifling but this supposedly can in some cases increase terminal ballistics at close quarters . The suppressor is screwed on the barrel and is a sealed unit with a ported tube for 3 / 4 inches of its length and the final 1 / 4 is baffled . Exact dimensions of the gun were not published , but based on the existing pictures it could be speculated that the length with suppressor is approximately 75 cm , without a suppressor is 35 cm , and total length of the gun with both suppressor and protracted folding stock is around 1 meter . The rate of fire is , based on the dimensions of the receiver and bolt design , probably no less than 900 - 1000 rounds per minute . Along with the unrifled ( smooth - bore ) barrel , this high rate of fire will no doubt further lead to extreme inaccuracy of the gun .
Antony Preston Antony Preston ( 26 February 1938 – 25 December 2004 ) was an English naval historian and editor , specialising in the area of 19th and 20th - century naval history and warship design . Life . Antony Preston was born in 1938 in Salford , Lancashire , the son of the 16th Viscount Gormanston and Miss Julia O ' Mahony . After becoming a wartime evacuee , he was educated in South Africa at King Edward VII School , Johannesburg , and the University of Witwatersrand . On his return to England he spent some years at the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich , before becoming Editor of the periodical " Defence " . During the 1970s he was employed by a specialist publisher , Conway Maritime Press , as editor of their " Warship " annual . He also produced the specialised newsletter " Navint " . In the early nineties he took over as chief - editor of the magazine " Naval Forces " at the German editorial group Mönch . He left to resume as editor of " Warships " in 1996 . Antony Preston lived in London until his death in 2004 . His son Matt Preston ( born 1961 and the eldest of Preston ' s three children ) has gained celebrity as a TV judge on " MasterChef Australia " and as a restaurant critic - columnist for the Melbourne Age & Herald - Sun newspapers . Work . Antony Preston was a prolific author both of books and articles , and published on subjects ranging from the American Revolution to modern seapower ; the bibliography given below illustrates the breadth of his expertise . He wrote on general military history , as well as most aspects of naval history and modern - day naval matters . He was a pugnacious writer and was usually willing to take up one side of a controversy , even in a work of reference ( see brief collection of quotes below ) . " Worlds Worst Warships " . " The Worlds Worst Warships " is a book about warship design . While nobody sets out to design a bad warship , some ships turn out unsuitable for the tasks which they are asked to perform . Antony Preston regarded the following designs as particularly poor : Bibliography . Only the four most recent " Warship " annuals are listed ; other titles are listed in reverse order of publication .
Roland Guilbault Roland George " Gil " Guilbault ( November 27 , 1934 – April 6 , 2012 ) was an American U . S . Navy admiral who commanded the " USS Ticonderoga " , the first Aegis cruiser . In 1987 , he served as a battle force commander aboard the " USS Eisenhower " . He retired as a rear admiral in 1994 . He obtained degrees from George Washington University and Université de Montréal . Guilbault served in the Navy for 34 years and later held executive positions with Lucent Technologies and Digital Equipment Corporation .
Battle of Wei River The Battle of Wei River ( 濰水之戰 ) was fought in 204 BC between the Han and a combined force of Qi and Western Chu . The famous general Han Xin led the Han force , while the Qi were led by Prince Tian Guang ( 田廣 ) , and the Chu were led by Long Ju ( 龍且 ) . It was one of the most important battles of the Chu - Han Contention . In 205 BC , Han Xin had captured most of the modern Hebei and Shanxi provinces , the principalities of Zhao , and Dai , and was starting to march on the principality of Qi . At this time , Prince Tian Guang , persuaded by noted diplomat Li Yiji ( 酈食其 ) , had decided to acknowledge the leadership of Han and its king Liu Bang . However , Liu Bang did not officially notify Han Xin of this fact . Ignorant of Prince Tian Guang ' s intentions Han Xin decided to launch a surprise attack against Qi , under the counsel of Kuai Tong . Tian Guang ' s forces were completely surprised . Tian Guang fled and sought assistance from King Xiang Yu of Western Chu , pledging fealty . Xiang Yu sent a strong expeditionary force , including some elite cavalry , under Long Ju to relieve Qi . Han Xin knew that Long , noted for his personal bravery and fighting prowess , was too arrogant . The night before the battle , he set a trap for Long by building a makeshift dam with sandbags to lower the water level in the Wei river . Long was counseled to fight a slow battle of attrition since he had forces to spare ( the force ratio is about 1 : 3 in favour of Chu ) . Long declined , believing he had overwhelming forces . Long also believed Han Xin was a coward , as a result of an incident when Han Xin served in the Chu forces . In this well - known incident , Han Xin crawled between the legs of some hooligan to avoid conflict when he was outnumbered . The next morning , Han Xin marched across the lowered river and attacked Long ' s forces . Then made a strategic retreat , tricking Long into charging his army across the river . When about one quarter of the Chu army had crossed , Han signalled for his men to open the dam . This succeeded both in drowning many of the Chu soldiers , and isolating Long Ju with only a fraction of his force . Cut off by the river , Long Ju had nowhere to go and was cut down in battle . The rest of the Chu army disintegrated when Han Xin continued to press his attack . Prince Tian Guang fled and was eventually caught and killed . This battle was strategically significant because it cost Xiang Yu between half and a third of his forces , including many veterans , depleted Chu of important reserves and prevented any future possibility of Xiang Yu fighting successfully on two fronts . Eventually , Xiang Yu was deprived of elbow room and lost the war . It was worth noting that Xiang Yu , for some reason , did not lead the Chu army into battle himself , when fighting against the by then well - known Han Xin .
List of Serbian – Turkish conflicts There have been many wars between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire ( Turkey ) . Serbian Despotate . In 1471 , a renewed Serbian principality as a vassal of Hungary was created . Up until its demise in 1540 , it spent its entirety fighting the Turks . The state usually provided support and auxiliary troops to the Kingdom of Hungary . Decline . Serbia and the Ottoman empire fought on opposing sides in World War I .
Odo II , Count of Blois Odo II ( ) ( 983 – 15 November 1037 ) was the Count of Blois , Chartres , Châteaudun , Beauvais and Tours from 1004 and Count of Troyes ( as Odo IV ) and Meaux ( as Odo I ) from 1022 . He twice tried to make himself a king : first in Italy after 1024 and then in Burgundy after 1032 . Odo II was the son of Odo I of Blois and Bertha of Burgundy . He was the first to unite Blois and Champagne under one authority although his career was spent in endless feudal warfare with his neighbors and suzerains , many of whose territories he tried to annex . About 1003 / 4 he married Maud of Normandy , a daughter of Richard I of Normandy . After her death in 1005 , and as she had no children , Richard II of Normandy demanded a return of her dowry : half the county of Dreux . Odo refused and the two warred over the matter . Finally , King Robert II , who had married Odo ' s mother , imposed his arbitration on the contestants in 1007 , leaving Odo in possession of the castle Dreux while Richard II kept the remainder of the lands . Odo quickly married a second wife , Ermengarde , daughter of Robert I of Auvergne . Defeated by Fulk ' Nerra , ' Count of Anjou and Herbert I of Maine at the Battle of Pontlevoy in July 1016 , he quickly tried to overrun the Touraine . After the death of his cousin Stephen I in 1119 / 20 , without heirs he seized Troyes , Meaux and all of Champagne for himself without royal approval . From there he attacked Ebles , the archbishop of Reims , and Theodoric I , the duke of Lorraine . Due to an alliance between the king and the Emperor Henry II he was forced to relinquish the county of Rheims to the archbishop . He was offered the crown of Italy by the Lombard barons , but the offer was quickly retracted in order not to upset relations with the king of France . In 1032 , he invaded the Kingdom of Burgundy on the death of Rudolph III . He retreated in the face of a coalition of the Emperor Conrad II and the new king of France , Henry I . He died in combat near Bar - le - Duc during another attack on Lorraine . Issue . By his second wife , Ermengarde of Auvergne , Odo had three children :