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HMS Lassoo ( 1915 ) HMS " Lassoo " was a " Laforey " - class destroyer of the Royal Navy . She was built during the First World War as part of an emergency program of naval construction , to an Admiralty design by William Beardmore & Company , Dalmuir . She was originally to have been named HMS " Magic " but she was renamed HMS " Lassoo " on 15 February 1915 before being launched on 24 August 1915 . She was sunk by the German U - boat SM " UB - 10 " on 13 August 1916 off the Maas lightship in the North Sea .
13th Armored Division ( United States ) The 13th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army in World War II . History . The division was activated on 15 October 1942 at Camp Beale , California , East of Marysville . The 13th Armored , known as the Black Cats , landed at Le Havre , France , 29 January 1945 . After performing occupation duties , the Division moved to Homberg near Kassel to prepare for combat under the Third Army , 5 April . At Altenkirchen , it was attached to the XVIII Corps and prepared for the Ruhr Pocket operation . The attack jumped off at Honnef , 10 April . After crossing the Sieg River at Siegburg , the 13th pushed north to Bergisch - Gladbach , then toward Duisburg and Mettmann by 18 April . Shifting south to Eschenau , the Division prepared for Bavarian operations . Starting from Parsberg , 26 April , the 13th crossed the Regen river , then the Danube at Matting and secured the area near Dunzling . On the 28th , elements closed in at Plattling and crossed the Isar River . Moderate to heavy resistance was met during this drive through southern Germany . The Division smashed into Braunau am Inn , Austria , 2 May , and the command post was set up in the house where Hitler was born . A bridgehead across the Inn was established at Marktl , but the river was not crossed as orders came to reassemble north of Inn , 2 May . Preparations were made for further advances when the war in Europe ended . The 13th remained in Germany until 25 June and left Le Havre , France , for home , 14 July 1945 . The division moved to Camp Cook , California after returning to the United States . It was training in amphibious operations at the time of the Japanese surrender . The men were aware that it was an open secret that they were likely to participate in the invasion of Japan . It was inactivated on 15 November 1945 . The division was reactivated in 1947 , reflagged from the 19th Armored Division , which had been ' placed on rolls , ' but not actually activated , during World War II . The 19th Armored Division was eventually activated just after the war , and allotted to the Sixth Army area of the Organized Reserves ( specifically California , Oregon , and Arizona ) . In 1947 , the 19th Armored Division was reflagged as the 13th Armored Division at California ' s request . In 1952 , the division was reflagged as the 63rd Infantry Division in Los Angeles , California , and thus the 13th Armored Division was finally inactivated .
Fovant Badges The Fovant Badges are a set of regimental badge s cut into a chalk hill , Fovant Down , near Fovant , in southwest Wiltshire , England . They are located between Salisbury and Shaftesbury on the A30 road in the Nadder valley . They were created by soldiers garrisoned nearby , and waiting to go to France , during the First World War , the first in 1916 , and are clearly visible from the A30 road which runs through the village . Eight of the original twenty remain , and are scheduled ancient monuments and recognised by the Imperial War Museum as war memorial s . Further badges have been added more recently . The Fovant Badge Society holds an annual Drumhead Service which is attended by the Australian High Commissioner , local mayors and members of parliament . These services fund the upkeep of the badges . Construction . After the outlines were cut into the grass - covered hillsides , they were refilled with chalk brought from a nearby slope , up to 50 tons per badge . The badges took an average fifty men six months to complete . The badges . Current badges . Reading left to right ( north - east to south - west ) , the badges at Fovant are : Lost badges . Except for the YMCA badge , which resided on the hillside for a long time , several of the other lost badges were short lived , small and crudely constructed . Nearby badges . Two as - yet unrestored military badges at Sutton Down ( Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the 7th Battalion , The City of London Regiment ) and an outline map of Australia on Compton Down are also looked after by the Society . Along with YMCA ' s badge at Fovant , these three figures were allowed to grass over in 2005 . The Australian map and 7th Battalion badge faded soon after , but the shape of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment badge could still be made out in the trees around it as of 2008 . On Lamb Down , to the side of the A36 within only miles distance of Fovant , is a cutting of the Australian Commonwealth Military Force badge , it is less detailed than the one at Fovant . It was cut in 1916 – 1917 . Additionally , near Barford St Martin , at the eastern end of the Fovant Encampment , was the Finsbury Rifles Badge . Not much is known about this figure . Also about 20 miles distance of the Fovant Badges is another military hill figure , though not of a badge : the Bulford Kiwi , which resides in the grounds of the Bulford Camp . Ground views of the Bulford Kiwi can be seen from Tidworth Road , although the kiwi is obscured from this road . The kiwi can be seen from several miles back , in the opposite direction , however , but again obscured . Nearby . Fovant Down is also the site of Chiselbury Iron age hillfort . This makes Fovant Down one of several downs in Wiltshire to contain both a hill fort and a hill figure ( another example is Bratton Downs , home to both the Bratton Castle hill fort and the Westbury White Horse directly beneath it )
James Kerr ( Texas ) James Kerr ( September 24 , 1790 – December 23 , 1850 ) was a doctor , politician , Senator in Missouri , soldier , surveyor and Congressman in Texas who was active in the establishment of the Republic of Texas . Early life and family . Kerr was born near Danville , Kentucky , the son of a Baptist minister . Reared in Missouri , Kerr fought in the War of 1812 and was later sheriff of St . Charles County , Missouri . In 1818 , he married Angeline Caldwell , the daughter of James Caldwell , Missouri ' s first House Speaker . Kerr served in the Missouri House of Representatives during its first two terms after statehood . In 1824 he defeated his father - in - law in a race for the Missouri State Senate . He served a single term in the body . Career in Texas . Kerr was appointed Surveyor General of the Texas colony of Green DeWitt in 1825 . With his wife , three children and several slaves , he joined Stephen F . Austin ' s " Old Three Hundred " colony in Brazoria . In August 1825 , he set out to select a site for the Dewitt Colony . Kerr named the community Gonzales in honor of the governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila . By this time , Angeline Kerr and two of the children had died . Kerr was active in area politics and law enforcement during the formative years of the Texas Republic . He acted as attorney and surveyor for Benjamin Rush Milam in 1827 . He negotiated for peace before the Fredonian Rebellion , signed a treaty with the Karankawa Indians , and fought other tribes . In 1832 , he was the delegate from Port Lavaca at the Convention at San Felipe de Austin northwest of Houston . He also served as a member of the Second and Third conventions . In 1834 , Kerr married the former Sarah Fulton . He became a major in the Texas Rangers in 1835 and in the army of the Texas Republic in 1836 . He participated in the Battle of Lipantitlán on November 4 , 1835 . He was elected to the Third Texas Congress in 1838 , where he represented Jackson County in the Texas House . Kerr ' s later years were spent practicing medicine in Jackson County west of Houston . Legacy . In 1856 , pioneer Joshua Brown gave the land that became the Kerrville townsite and named it " Kerrville " for his long - time friend , James Kerr , who had died six years earlier .
French corvette Prony Prony was a French Navy corvette during the American Civil War era . She was lost after running aground in stormy weather off Ocracoke Inlet , North Carolina around 4 am on 5 November 1861 . It proved impossible to refloat the vessel , and efforts at assistance were hampered by both the weather and the fact that she had run aground in an area where Union and Confederate forces were opposing each other . Loss . " Prony " had left New York harbor on 20 October with the intention of observing as a neutral the activity of the Union Navy currently blockading the port of Charleston . She arrived off Charleston on 30 October , staying there for two days before heading north , intending to return to New York . However , she was caught in a storm on 4 November off Ocracoke Inlet . Despite some efforts being made to save her , it proved impossible . No loss of life occurred . At the time of her loss , " Prony " was under the command of " Capitaine de corvette " De Fontanges with a crew of 140 and 6 30 - pound guns . She was of roughly 700 tons burthen and her engines were of .
Ernst Bunge Ernst Bunge ( 29 May 1914 – 12 May 1944 ) was a highly decorated Major der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II and a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Ernst Bunge was killed on 12 May 1944 near Chersones , Ukraine , during the Crimean Offensive .
Greta Army Camp Greta Army Camp was an Australian army camp built in 1939 near Greta , New South Wales , Australia . It was used for training soldiers of the Second AIF ( 2AIF ) during World War II . The Australian army sold the site at auction in 1980 . In November 1939 , of land was compulsorily acquired in the Allandale - Greta area to create one of the Australian Army ' s largest training camps . Built for the training of the 6th Division of the 2AIF because the existing Australian army facilities were occupied by Citizens Military Force units . The 2 / 11th Battalion arrived at the camp on 15 December 1939 and were later joined by the 2 / 10th Battalion . The camp facilities were expanded during the war , with two parts of the camp known as " Chocolate City " , due to the brown - coloured oiled timber weatherboard buildings in that part of the camp and " Silver City " , due to corrugated iron Nissen hut s built in that part of the camp . Citizens Military Force units were also trained at the camp , with up to 60 , 000 Australian soldiers trained during World War II . After the war , much of the field training areas were returned to grazing purposes , however the camp was required for the training of troops preparing to join the occupation forces in Japan . In 1949 , Greta Camp was transferred to the Department of Immigration and until 1960 it was used as a reception and training centre for European migrants with over 100 , 000 immigrants passing through the centre . The Army resumed control of the camp in 1962 and , after being used intermittently for training exercises . It was sold at auction by the Australian army in 1980 .
8th Connecticut Regiment The 8th Connecticut Regiment also known as 17th Continental Regiment was raised on September 16 , 1776 at Danbury , Connecticut . The regiment would see action in the Battle of Brandywine , Battle of Germantown and the Battle of Monmouth . The regiment was merged into the 1st Connecticut Regiment on January 1 , 1781 at West Point , New York and disbanded on November 15 , 1783 . Joseph Plumb Martin served in this regiment from 1777 until he was assigned to the Light Infantry in 1778 ( and the Corps of Sappers and Miners in 1780 ) . He published his memoirs about his experiences in 1830 .
Leonard H . Perroots Lt . Gen . Leonard Harry Perroots , Sr . , USAF ( born 1933 ) was Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from October 1985 to December 1988 . He retired January 1 , 1989 . In 1989 he was hired by Donald Mayes to become president of Vector Microwave Research Corporation , an enterprise performing tasks and dealings for the CIA and the U . S . military .
James Courtney ( soldier ) James Courtney MC ( 15 February 1888 – 22 June 1934 ) . Lieutenant James Courtney was awarded the Military Cross for his marked gallantry and able leadership on 4 November 1918 at Villereau , in northern France . Early years . James Courtney was a son of John Courtney and Ellen Kane . He was born on 15 February 1888 at Timaru , in the South Island of New Zealand . Courtney moved to Auckland and he married Elizabeth Amy Cartwright in 1911 , they had one daughter , Joyce Dean Courtney , who was born in 1921 . At the time of his marriage , Courtney was a constable at the Newton Police Station in Auckland and when he was called up for service he was a farmer at Mapiu , in the King Country of the North Island . First World War . James Courtney was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the Wellington Regiment in World War I . His first feat of gallantry in the field occurred at the beginning of July 1916 , in France . No Man ' s Land wiring was one of the infantryman ' s most important and dangerous duties . Sergeant James Courtney , he was promoted to Lieutenant later , was in command of a wiring party when hostile machine gun fire was directed at them . Two men were killed and two were wounded . Courtney ordered the remainder of the party back , he himself carrying one of the wounded men . The other walked in by himself , but in ignorance of this Courtney went out again with the stretcher - bearers to find him . He found the body of one of the dead men and brought it in . Then finally he went out to search the ground to ensure no one was left in No Man ' s Land . All this was done under continuous heavy machine gun fire and whilst he was negotiating his own wiring ( Stewart , pp . 38 – 9 & Wright , Chapter 3 - The Somme p . 69 ) . Courtney was awarded the Military Cross for marked gallantry and able leadership . On 4 November 1918 during operations near Villereau , Courtney was in charge of a leading platoon when the advance was held up by machine gun fire , he personally reconnoitred forward , and then leading a party of his own men to the flank , rushed the machine gun , killing a number of the crew and taking the remainder prisoners , also capturing the gun . The capture of the gun saved many casualties ( McDonald , p . 71 ) . Later life . After returning to New Zealand James Courtney farmed at Te Puke , in the Bay of Plenty of the North Island . He died on 22 June 1934 , aged only 46 , and is buried at the Te Puke Cemetery .
German submarine U - 318 German submarine " U - 318 " was a Type VIIC / 41 U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . The submarine was laid down on 14 October 1942 by the Flender Werke yard at Lübeck as ' werk ' 318 , launched on 25 September 1943 , and commissioned on 13 November under the command of " Oberleutnant " Josef Will . She served with the 4th U - boat Flotilla for training , the 11th U - boat Flotilla from 1 August 1943 to 4 November 1944 , the 13th flotilla from 5 November 1944 to 28 February 1945 and the 14th flotilla from 1 March to 8 May 1945 for operations . She completed six patrols , but did not sink any ships . She was a member of two wolfpack s . The boat surrendered at Narvik in Norway in May 1945 . She was sunk in December as part of Operation " Deadlight " . Service history . Her patrols used a variety of bases in Norway : e . g . Egersund , Bergen , Kristiansand , Arendal , Trondheim , Bogenbucht , Kilbotn , Harstad and Narvik , but none of them was longer than 32 days . Fate . At the end of World War II , she surrendered at Narvik on 10 May 1945 . She was moved to Skjomen fjord , then Loch Eriboll in Scotland , arriving there on 19 May . She was moved again to Loch Ryan for Operation " Deadlight " and sunk on 21 December north of Northern Ireland .
Wilhelm Emelé Wilhelm Emelé ( 30 May 1830 Buchen , Odenwald - 11 October 1905 Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German painter of horses , military scenes and hunting scenes . Biography . He first adopted a military career but studied art with Feodor Dietz at Munich and later at Antwerp and Paris . His canvases are noted for exact knowledge of military detail and are spirited in conception , his subjects being military . He lived in Vienna after 1861 where he attained great popularity as a painter of equestrian portraits and hunting scenes . Afterwards he resided successively in Munich , Berlin , and Karlsruhe .
Seven Spears of Shizugatake The were mounted bodyguards for Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the battle of Shizugatake in 1583 . At the decisive moment in the battle , Hideyoshi ordered them to leave the position and charge at the opposing army of Katsuie Shibata . After Hideyoshi gained control of Japan , many of the members were promoted to Daimyō . The Seven Spears of Shizugatake were the following Samurai : Fukushima , Katō Kiyomasa and Katō Yoshiaki were given large benefices by Hideyoshi , 240 , 000 Koku in Owari Province , 195 , 000 Koku in Higo Province and 100 , 000 Koku in Iyo Province , respectively . Rest of the members remained as a small retainer of some thousands Koku . At the Battle of Sekigahara and Siege of Osaka , all betrayed Toyotomi Hideyori , the son of Hideyoshi , and took the part of Tokugawa Ieyasu . After the foundation of the Tokugawa shogunate , they or their successors were ousted from their territories , except Hirano .
Southwest Area Fleet The was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy established during World War II . History . The Southwest Area Fleet was an operational command of the Imperial Japanese Navy established on April 10 , 1942 to coordinate naval , air , and ground forces for the invasion , occupation and defense of the Philippines , French Indochina , Malaya , and the Netherlands East Indies . The 1st , 2nd , 3rd and 4th Southern Expeditionary Fleet s and the IJN 13th Air Fleet were under operational control of the Southwest Area Fleet . After February 1945 , the headquarters of the Southwest Area Fleet was isolated in the Philippines , and the IJN 10th Area Fleet was created in Singapore to take over operational command of its surviving forces , with the exception of the 3rd Southern Expeditionary Fleet , which was also trapped in the Philippines . Through fierce fighting during the American re - occupation of the Philippines , especially in Manila , Cebu and Mindanao , the surviving elements of the Southwest Area Fleet and the 3rd Southern Expeditionary Fleet were largely annihilated by the end of May 1945 . Commanders of the IJN Southwest Fleet . Commander in chief Chief of staff
Latchford Barracks Latchford Barracks is an Australian Army base in the suburb of Bonegilla , located about to the east of Wodonga , Victoria . It is the headquarters of the Army Logistic Training Centre . The Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre was located at the barracks , prior to the barracks being reused for military purposes .
USS O - 13 ( SS - 74 ) USS " O - 13 " ( SS - 74 ) was an " O " - class submarine of the United States Navy . Her keel was laid down on 6 March 1916 by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company in Bridgeport , Connecticut . The later O - boats ( " O - 11 " through " O - 16 " ) were designed by Lake Torpedo Boat to different specifications from the earlier ones designed by Electric Boat . They performed much less well , and are sometimes considered a separate class . " O - 13 " was launched on 27 December 1917 sponsored by Miss Margaret Arletta Adams . While conducting submerged trials in Long Island Sound on 5 October 1918 , prior to her commissioning , " O - 13 " rammed , the section patrol boat accompanying her , during a submerged circular run off Bridgeport , Connecticut , holing " Mary Alice " amidships . Although " Mary Alice " sank within minutes , " O - 13 " rescued her entire crew , including Captain William A . Gill , President of the U . S . Navy ' s Board of Inspection and Survey , who had been embarked on " Mary Alice " . " O - 13 " was commissioned at New York City on 27 November 1918 with Lieutenant Commander Earl R . Morrissey in command . Service history . " O - 13 " operated along the coast of New Jersey and New York until 8 October 1919 , when she arrived Philadelphia Navy Yard for a five - month overhaul . After returning to Cape May , New Jersey , on 8 March 1920 , she departed on 1 April for duty in the Caribbean Sea . Steaming via Key West , Florida , and Havana , Cuba , she arrived Coco Solo , Panama Canal Zone , on 30 April . For over three years " O - 13 " operated out of the Submarine Base at Coco Solo both in the Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean . Cruises sent her to ports in Colombia , Ecuador , and Peru while assigned to Submarine Division 10 . Thence , she sailed on 15 October 1923 for the United States , arriving at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , on 8 November . " O - 13 " decommissioned there on 11 June 1924 after just five and a half years of service , and was placed in reserve . Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 9 May 1930 , and her hull was sold for scrap on 30 July 1930 .
Carmine Castle The Carmine Castle was a castle in Naples , Italy . It was one of the fortifications built by the Spaniards under viceroy Pedro Álvarez de Toledo in the mid - 16th century as part of the Spanish plans to surround the city with walls and forts . It stood at what was then the south - east corner of the walled city , that wall then turning in to the north . The fortress had great strategic value in the military history of the city up to and including the defense of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799 against the returning royalist forces of king Ferdinand IV . In order to make room for a modern road along the sea and the port of Naples , the fortress / castle was demolished in 1900 as part of the great urban renewal of Naples of that period . Two towers and fragmentary ruins still stand as historic markers .
German submarine U - 1227 German submarine " U - 1227 " was a Type IXC / 40 U - boat of the German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . The submarine was laid down on 1 February 1942 at the Deutsche Werft yard at Hamburg , launched on 18 September 1943 , and commissioned on 8 December 1943 under the command of " Oberleutnant zur See " Friedrich Altmeier . The U - boat then served with 31st U - boat Flotilla , a training unit , with 2nd U - boat flotilla from 1 August 1944 to 31 December 1944 , and with 33rd U - boat Flotilla from 1 January 1945 to 10 April 1945 . Service history . " U - 1227 " completed only one combat patrol , from 14 September to 26 December 1944 . On 4 October 1944 she attempted to attack a convoy at night , but was seen in the bright moonlight and counter - attacked by convoy escorts . She torpedoed one of the escorts , the Canadian River class frigate HMCS " Chebogue " ( K317 ) , during the pursuit . The frigate was a total loss , but the U - boat escaped and continued its patrol . " U - 1227 " was damaged at Kiel in a British night - bombing raid on 9 April 1945 , and was decommissioned there on 10 April . " U - 1227 " was scuttled to avoid capture on 3 May 1945 .