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USS Benham ( DD - 397 ) USS " Benham " ( DD - 397 ) was the lead ship of the her class of destroyer s and the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Andrew Ellicot Kennedy Benham . It missed the attack on Pearl Harbor , being an escort for the USS Enterprise on its way to Midway at the time . It also served off Hawaii during the Doolittle raid , rescued survivors from several ships and operated during the Battle of Midway and the landings on Guadalcanal , among other missions . It was torpedoed and rendered unusable , for which she was sunk at the end of 1942 . Construction . " Benham " was laid down 1 September 1936 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company , Kearny , New Jersey ; launched on 16 April 1938 and sponsored by Mrs . A . I . Dorr , grandniece of Rear Admiral Benham ; and commissioned 2 February 1939 , with Rear Admiral T . F . Darden in command . Service history . Assigned to the U . S . Atlantic Fleet , " Benham " patrolled off Newfoundland during most of 1939 and then shifted to the Gulf of Mexico . Ordered to the Pacific , she arrived at Pearl Harbor 14 April 1940 . After alternating between Californian and Hawaiian waters , the destroyer served as an escort for during the delivery of Marine planes to Midway Atoll on 28 November to 8 December 1941 , thus missing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . " Benham " served with " Enterprise " and task forces off Hawaii and with Task Force 16 during the Doolittle raid on Tokyo , 8 to 25 April 1942 . She continued operating with TF 16 through the Battle of Midway , 3 to 6 June , during which she rescued 720 survivors from and 188 from ; landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi , 7 to 9 August , and the Battle of the Eastern Solomons , 23 to 25 August . " Benham " joined Task Force 64 on 15 October as a part of the naval covering force off Guadalcanal . During 14 – 15 November , she took part in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal , and at 00 : : 38 on 15 November she took a single torpedo in her bow which severed everything forward of her bridge . " Benham " stayed afloat , making slow headway towards Guadalcanal during the 15th but , by 16 : 37 , further progress was impossible and her crew abandoned ship . picked up the survivors , and sank the hulk at 19 : 38 by shell - fire . Honors . " Benham " received five battle star s for her service in World War II .
Horatio Stockton Howell Horatio Stockton Howell ( August 14 , 1820 – July 1 , 1863 ) was a Union Army chaplain killed in downtown Gettysburg on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg . Biography . Howell was born near Trenton , New Jersey , a son of William and Abigail Howell , the fifth of seven children . He graduated from Lafayette College and Union Theological Seminary in New York City . He was ordained in 1846 . His first charge was the Presbyterian Church of East Whiteland , Pennsylvania . He married Isabella Grant in 1846 . In 1853 he was called on to serve the Presbyterian Church in the small hamlet of Delaware Water Gap in northeastern Pennsylvania . There he was a school teacher as well as a minister . During the antebellum era , he developed into a devout Unionist and a staunch abolitionist . He experienced what he called the " wickedness " of slavery first - hand while stationed in Elkton , Maryland , convincing him that the institution " would reduce to the condition of brutes those whom God had created in his own image and for whom Christ had died . " He was also influenced by the fiery anti - secession sermons of his mentor , Reverend James Wilson . Upon the counsel of his mentor , Howell enlisted as the regimental chaplain of the 90th Pennsylvania Infantry on March 13 , 1862 , in Philadelphia . On the first day of the battle of Gettysburg , July 1 , 1863 , Confederate forces engaged Union troops to the west of town , near the Lutheran Theological Seminary . Medical personnel of the I Corps selected the College Lutheran Church at # 44 Chambersburg Street as a divisional field hospital ( the building is now called Christ Lutheran Church ) . A Gettysburg civilian recalled that 140 men were laid in the sanctuary around midday , beds being improvised by laying boards on top of the pews . Limbs were being amputated and thrown out of the church windows , piling up on the ground below . Late in the afternoon , the Confederates began to push the Union troops back through town . Shortly after 4 o ' clock , the overwhelmed First Corps soldiers fell back through the streets of Gettysburg to the heights on Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill south of town . A chaotic scene ensued as jubilant Confederates followed closely on their heels . As the Union retreat swept toward the College Lutheran Church , Chaplain Howell was assisting members of the medical staff inside the building . After hearing shots outside , Howell turned to a nearby surgeon and said , " I will step outside for a moment and see what the trouble is . " Sgt . Archibald Snow followed Howell out of the church door . Later , Snow wrote the most detailed account of what happened : Howell died at age 42 . Following the battle , his remains were shipped to Brooklyn , New York and laid to rest in Green - Wood Cemetery . A monument at the foot of the College Lutheran church steps was dedicated in 1889 to mark the spot where the chaplain was killed .
9th Bhopal Infantry The 9th Bhopal Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army . It was raised in 1859 , as the Bhopal Levy . It was designated as the 9th Bhopal Infantry in 1903 and became 4th Battalion ( Bhopal ) 16th Punjab Regiment in 1922 . In 1947 , it was allocated to the Pakistan Army , where it continues to exist as 17th Battalion The Punjab Regiment . Early history . The regiment could trace its origins to 1818 , when it was raised at Sehore , as a mixed force of infantry and cavalry by the State of Bhopal for service with the British . It was known as the Bhopal Contingent and was employed to keep peace in the lawless regions of Central India . Following the upheaval of the Indian Mutiny , the contingent was reorganized by Lieutenant Colonel James Travers , VC , as the Bhopal Levy in May 1859 . In 1865 , it was redesignated as the Bhopal Battalion . In 1878 , the battalion participated in the Second Afghan War , where it operated on the Line of Communication . Subsequent to the reforms brought about in the Indian Army by Lord Kitchener in 1903 , the Bhopal Battalion ' s designation was changed to 9th Bhopal Infantry . During the First World War , the 9th Bhopal Infantry was dispatched to France in 1914 . The regiment suffered heavy losses at the Battles of Neuve Chapelle , Festubert , Givenchy and the Second Ypres . In 1915 , they arrived in Mesopotamia , where they were engaged in fierce fighting on the Tigris Front . Sepoy Chatta Singh was awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional valour at the Battle of Wadi on 13 January 1916 . By the time the regiment returned home in March 1919 , only fifteen men remained of those who had sailed for France in 1914 . The 9th Bhopal Infantry raised three more battalions , which were disbanded after the war . Subsequent history . In 1921 - 22 , a major reorganization was undertaken in the British Indian Army leading to the formation of large infantry groups of four to six battalions . Among these was the 16th Punjab Regiment , formed by grouping the 9th Bhopal Infantry with the 30th , 31st , 33rd and 46th Punjabis . The battalion ' s new designation was 4th Battalion ( Bhopal ) 16th Punjab Regiment . During the Second World War , the battalion again fought with great distinction in the Italian East Africa , North Africa and Italy . It suffered 250 casualties in the Battle of Cassino alone . In 1947 , the 16th Punjab Regiment was allocated to Pakistan Army . In 1956 , it was merged with the 1st , 14th and 15th Punjab Regiment s to form one large Punjab Regiment , and 4 / 16th Punjab was redesignated as 17 Punjab . In 1948 , the battalion fought in the war with India in Kashmir , while during the 1965 and 1971 Indo - Pakistan Wars , it again fought with great gallantry at Lahore , where Major Raja Aziz Bhatti was awarded the Nishan - i - Haider , Pakistan ' s highest gallantry award in 1965 .
Ronnie Brunswijk Ronnie Brunswijk ( born March 7 , 1961 ) is a Surinamese ex - rebel leader , politician , business man , football player and convict . After having been the personal body guard of Desi Bouterse in the early 1980s , he turned against him by forming the Surinamese Liberation Army , better known as the Jungle Commando , which fought against soldiers of Bouterse in the Suriname Guerilla War " to free Suriname from the military dictatorship " . On 29 November 1986 the Surinamese army went to the village of Brunswijk and killed at least 39 villagers , mostly women and children . They could not find Brunswijk , but they did burn down his house . Brunswijk was convicted " in absentia " in the Netherlands to six years imprisonment for cocaine smuggling by a Dutch court in Haarlem . He has an international arrest warrant issued against him . Brunswijk is also chairman of the Surinamese political party ABOP ( " Algemene Bevrijdings - en Ontwikkelingspartij " ) , which currently has three seats in the parliament . Brunswijk occupies one of them . Brunswijk is also player and owner of Marowijne football club Inter Moengotapoe . The disciplinary committee of the Surinamese Football Association suspended him for five years because he threatened some players with a handgun during a match in 2005 . Later on the suspension was retracted due to lack of evidence . In June 2012 , he was suspended for 1 year because he behaved violently towards the referee and a player in football match . In 2002 , Brunswijk built a soccer stadium in Moengo which he named the Ronnie Brunswijkstadion . In December , 2007 , Brunswijk beat up Rashied Doekhi , member of Desi Bouterse ' s party , in the Surinamese parliament after Doekhi insulted Paul Somohardjo , then chair of the Surinamese parliament .
John F . Potter John Fox Potter nicknamed " Bowie Knife Potter " ( May 11 , 1817 – May 18 , 1899 ) was a nineteenth - century politician , lawyer and judge from Wisconsin . Biography . Born in Augusta , Maine , Potter attended common schools and Phillips Exeter Academy . He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1837 , commencing practice in East Troy , Wisconsin . He served as a judge in Walworth County , Wisconsin from 1842 to 1846 , was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852 and 1856 , was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1856 and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860 and 1864 . Member of Congress . Potter was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1856 . He served in the 35th through the 37th Congresses from 1857 to 1863 ; there , he served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions from 1859 to 1861 and of the Committee on Public Lands from 1861 to 1863 . In this latter role , his committee handled the Homestead Act of 1862 . Potter was defeated in his race for reelection in 1862 . After leaving office in early 1863 , the Lincoln administration appointed him to be Consul General of the United States in the British - controlled Province of Canada from 1863 to 1866 , residing in what was then the Canadian capital of Montreal , Canada . In 1866 , Potter returned to East Troy , Wisconsin , where he practiced law until his death there on May 18 , 1899 . He was interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery in East Troy .
HDMS Esbern Snare ( L17 ) HDMS " Esbern Snare " ( L17 ) is an support ship , and is along with her sister ship , the HDMS " Absalon " ( L16 ) , the largest combat vessel currently commissioned in the Royal Danish Navy . The " Esbern Snare " is part of the first stage of a strategic realignment within the Royal Danish Navy , which is transitioning to focus on international operations , in which " Absalon " - class vessels will form the backbone . The ship is designed for command and support roles , with a large ro - ro deck , and is to be complemented by the Ivar Huitfeldt class frigate , a derivative of the " Absalon " - class designed specifically for combat operations . . The " Esbern Snare " was involved in the " Beluga Nomination " Incident , when she and the Seychelles Coast Guard patrol boat engaged in a failed rescue operation which left four or five Somali pirates and civilians dead . Later she captured a mother ship on 12 February 2011 , capturing sixteen pirates and their weapons , as well as freeing two hostages held by the pirates . While patrolling on 12 May 2011 she encountered the pirated dhow " NN Iran " and attacked it , killing four pirates and wounding ten . Sixteen Iranian hostages were rescued and 24 pirates captured , but the dhow was in a sinking condition and had to be abandoned .
Battle of Alamana The Battle of Alamana was fought between the Greeks and the Ottoman Empire during the Greek War of Independence on April 22 , 1821 . Battle . Omer Vrioni , the commander of the Ottoman army , advanced with 8 , 000 men from Thessaly to crush the revolt that had broken out in Peloponnesos . Athanasios Diakos ( he was an ex - deacon ( Diakos : Gr . for deacon ) who then became a trainee monk but gave it up for the War of Independence ) , Panourgias Panourgias and Yiannis Dyovouniotis with their bands of armatoloi ( a total of perhaps 1 , 500 men ) took up defensive positions at the river Alamana ( Spercheios - the alternative name for the river is a misnomer as the local memory confused Brennus ' men ( 287 BC ) with Allamani ) , near Thermopylae . Vrioni ' s attack forced Panourgias and Dyovouniotis to retreat , leaving Diakos alone . Diakos ' s men fought for several hours before they were overwhelmed . Death of Diakos . Eventually , Diakos himself was captured and taken to Vrioni after he was shot in the foot and had his sword broken . When Vrioni offered to make Diakos an officer in his army , Diakos immediately refused and replied : " " I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek " . " Vrioni then ordered that Diakos be impaled on a spit and roasted over a fire ( the part about " being roasted " is questioned as local oral tradition has it that he was killed ( freed from his torment ) by a Greek rebel the next day ) . The Ottomans tried to make Diakos carry the long spit , but he threw it down with contempt . As he was led off to die , onlookers heard him sing : " " Look at the time Charon chose to take me , now that branches are flowering , now that the earth sends forth grass " " . Diakos ' s song was in reference to the Greeks ' uprising against the Ottoman Empire . Aftermath . Even though the battle was ultimately a military defeat for the Greeks , Diakos ' s death provided the Greek national cause with a stirring myth of heroic martyrdom . . .
Arthur Conolly Arthur Conolly ( 2 July 1807 , London - 17 June 1842 , Bukhara ) ( sometimes misspelled Connolly ) was a British intelligence officer , explorer and writer . He was a captain of the 6th Bengal Light Cavalry in the service of the British East India Company . He participated in many reconnaissance missions into Central Asia and coined the term " The Great Game " to describe the struggle between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for domination over Central Asia . Biography . Conolly was a descendant of an Ó Conghalaigh clan of Ireland . He was a cousin of Sir William Macnaghten , Secretary of the Company ' s Political and Secret Department . As a sixteen - year - old impressionable Cadet he sailed to India on the Grenville and listened to the newly appointed Bishop of Calcutta evangelize . Thereafter Conolly sought to win over Muslims to a " kindlier " view of Christians , the first step in his view of propagating the Gospel . In 1839 , in a correspondence with Sir Henry Rawlinson , Conolly summed up his hopes : " If the British Government would only play the grand game — help Russia cordially to all that she has a right to expect — shake hands with Persia — get her all possible amends from Oosbegs — force the Bokhara Amir to be just to us , the Afghans , and other Oosbeg states , and his own kingdom — but why go on ; you know my , at any rate in " one " sense , " enlarged " views . " Inshallah ! " The expediency , nay the necessity of them will be seen , and we shall play the noble part that the first Christian nation of the world ought to fill . " Often travelling in disguise , he used the name " Khan Ali " in a word - play on his true name . In late 1829 he left Moscow for the Caucasus and Central Asia , arriving in Herat in September 1830 and in India in January 1831 . In 1834 he published an account of his trip , which established his reputation as a traveller and writer . In 1841 , in an attempt to counter the growing penetration of Russia into Central Asia , Conolly unsuccessfully tried to persuade the various khanates to put aside their differences . In November 1841 he was captured on a rescue mission to free fellow British officer Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stoddart held in Bukhara . The two were executed by the Emir of Bukhara , Nasrullah Khan on 24 June 1842 on charges of spying for the British Empire . They were both beheaded in the square in front of the Ark Fortress in Bukhara . His brother H . V . Conolly died shortly after - the murder of collector Conolly in Kerala . In 1845 , Rev . Joseph Wolff , who had undertaken an expedition to discover the two officers ' fate and barely escaped with his life , published an extensive account of his travels in Central Asia , which made Conolly and Stoddart household names in Britain for years to come . Conolly ' s portrait by James Atkinson is in the British National Portrait Gallery . His 1840 - 1842 diaries as well as his letters and reports to Sir J . C . Hobhouse and William Cabell are in the British Library ; his 1839 letters to Viscount Ponsonby are in the Durham University library .
Oscar Malmborg Frans Oscar Malmborg ( February 29 , 1820 – April 29 , 1880 ) , a veteran of the Mexican War , became famous for his ostentatious manner in training recruits for the American Civil War , primarily the 55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment in which he served . Background . Malmborg was born at the Rågåkra farm in Kräklingbo parish on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland in Sweden . He was the son of Captain Pehr Gustaf Malmborg ( 1777 – 1828 ) , who had been decorated with the gold medal for bravery after the Battle of Svensksund in 1790 , before he was teenager . Oscar Malmborg emigrated to the United States in 1846 and fought in the Mexican War . Career . From 1853 to 1861 he worked as an immigration agent for the Illinois Central Railroad . He returned to Europe to promote emigration to America . President Abraham Lincoln formally recognized Malmborg as the vice consul of Norway and Sweden at Chicago on November 22 , 1861 . The same year he returned to military service and was appointed as a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army . During the Battle of Shiloh after Colonel David Stuart was badly wounded , Malmborg assumed temporary command of the Second Brigade of the Fifth Division commanded by Brigadier General William T . Sherman . In the advance on Corinth , Mississippi , Malmborg correctly predicted what the Confederate forces were attempting . In an official report on April 10 , 1862 , Colonel Stuart wrote of Malmborg , " He instantly perceived the aim of every movement made by the enemy ; he could advise me quickly and prudently how to use my men . He was intent , careful , brave , and immensely valuable to me . " General Ulysses S . Grant took notice and complimented him . After Stuart resigned on April 3 , 1863 , Malmborg became the permanent commander until being relieved . He resigned on September 20 , 1864 . On January 1 , 1865 , Malmborg was commissioned a colonel in the First Veteran Army Corps under General Winfield Scott Hancock and was ordered to oversee the recruiting in Illinois , with headquarters in Chicago once again . He resigned from this position on May 31 , 1865 . Later years . Encouraged by Sherman , Malmborg published his memoirs of the Civil War . He chose the title " Tjensteförteckning " , and it was published in Chicago in 1871 . Almost blind , Malmborg returned to Sweden in 1874 and settled in Visby on Gotland living on his pension . Some of his letters have been edited and published by A . A . Stomberg . He died in Visby on April 29 , 1880 , at the age of 60 .
BIKINI state The BIKINI state was an alert state indicator previously used by the UK Ministry of Defence to warn of non - specific forms of threat , including civil disorder , terrorism or war . Signs giving the current alert state were displayed at the entrance to government buildings and military installations . It was established on 19 May 1970 . According to the Ministry of Defence , the word " bikini " was randomly selected by a computer . Whilst similar to the DEFCON alert states used in the United States , the BIKINI levels were defined by the section of the military or organisation rather than UK - wide , and as a result , countermeasures and reactions to differing states may differ as acutely as from building to building . The highest levels of alert , RED and AMBER , were only intended to be maintained for limited times . The WHITE state has never been used in the history of the system . The system was illustrated in the British television drama Threads , produced by the BBC in 1984 . Gareth Parry reported a British ship going to " Red Alert " during an Argentinian air raid on May 25 , 1982 . It was replaced by a more general and public terrorism alert status , UK Threat Levels , an alert state system in use by the British government since 1 August 2006 . NATO military alert state . In addition to Bikini alerts that applied to individual installation NATO had a " Counter - Surprise " Military Alert System to mobilise its military forces .
Frank J . Grass Frank J . Grass ( born May 19 , 1951 ) is a United States Army general who serves as 27th Chief of the National Guard Bureau . Early life and education . A native of Arnold , Missouri , Grass was born on May 19 , 1951 , and graduated from Arnold ' s Fox High School in 1969 . He joined the Missouri Army National Guard in October 1969 , and served as an enlisted soldier and noncommissioned officer before graduating from Officer Candidate School in 1981 and receiving his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Engineer Corps . Career . While serving as a traditional member of the National Guard Grass pursued a civilian career with the United States Army Corps of Engineers . Grass served in a variety of command and staff positions , first as a traditional National Guard soldier , and later as a member of the Active Guard and Reserve program and on active duty . His command assignments included the 220th Engineer Company ( 1986 to 1988 ) and the 203rd Engineer Battalion ( 1997 to 1999 ) . Since becoming a general officer in 2004 , Grass ' assignments have included : Deputy Director , Army National Guard ( 2004 to 2006 ) ; Director , Mobilization and Reserve Component Affairs , Headquarters , United States European Command ( 2006 to 2008 ) ; Director of Operations , United States Northern Command ( 2008 to 2010 ) ; and Deputy Commander , United States Northern Command ( 2010 to 2012 ) . In June 2012 , Grass was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as Chief of the National Guard Bureau and appointment to the rank of general in the reserve active duty of the Army . The appointment and promotion were confirmed by the United States Senate on July 26 , 2012 . Grass formally took over the National Guard Bureau in a ceremony on September 7 , 2012 .
8th Air Support Operations Squadron The United States Air Force ' s 8th Air Support Operations Squadron ( 8 ASOS ) is a combat support unit located at Aviano AB , Italy . The 8 ASOS provides Tactical Command and Control of air power assets to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander and Joint Forces Land Component Commander for combat operations .