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USS Quartz ( IX - 150 ) USS " Quartz " ( IX - 150 ) , a designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel , was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for quartz or silicon dioxide ( Si0 ) a hard , vitreous mineral occurring in many varieties and comprising 12 % of the earth ' s crust . Her keel was laid down as MC hull 1330 by Barrett and Hilp , Belair Shipyards , San Francisco , California ( T . B7 . D1 ) . She was launched on 4 December 1943 , and accepted by the Navy and placed in service on 13 April 1944 with Lieutenant Commander Paul N . Runyon in command . Service history . World War II , 1944 – 1945 . Designed to provide facilities for the issuance of stores at advanced bases , " Quartz " was assigned to the Service Force , Pacific Fleet ( ComServPac ) . She was towed to Pearl Harbor from San Francisco , arriving on 10 May 1944 . Operating with Service Squadrons 8 and 10 , she was typical of the " Green Dragons " or " Crockery " ships , which acted as warehouses afloat and packed every conceivable supply item within their holds . She provided services at Majuro , Eniwetok , Ulithi , Leyte , and Guam . " Quartz " specialized in the handling of clothing , together with general stores . High speed provision ships made runs to the far reaches of the Pacific , transferred their cargoes to the " crockery " ships , and then returned to the United States for another load without awaiting piecemeal discharge of their cargoes . Post - war activities and fate , 1945 – 1947 . After V - J Day " Quartz " was assigned to support " Operation Crossroads " , atomic bomb testing . " Quartz " was part of Task Group 1 and 8 , a supply and support group to the testing . After the detonation " Quartz " was towed to Kwajalein for study and monitoring . After verifying her free of radioactive contamination , the Navy sold her on 23 October 1947 to the Powell River Company of Powell River , British Columbia , where she was permanently anchored with nine other hulks to form a breakwater protecting the Catalyst Paper Mill .
BAT Bantam The BAT F . K . 23 Bantam was a British single - seat fighter biplane produced by British Aerial Transport Company Limited of London during World War I . Design and development . Frederick Koolhoven ' s first design for the British Aerial Transport Company ( BAT ) was the F . K . 22 single - seat fighter . It was a two - bay biplane of wooden construction . It was planned to have a 120 hp ( 90 kW ) A . B . C Mosquito radial engine but the failure of this engine led to the installation of the 170 hp ( 127 kW ) A . B . C . Wasp I in the first and third aircraft . The second machine was fitted with a 100 hp ( 75 kW ) Gnome Monosoupape rotary engine and was the first to fly at Martlesham Heath in January 1918 . The original contract called for six development aircraft but three aircraft were built as the F . K . 23 Bantam I , the second prototype then being renamed the Bantam II . The Bantam I was the same wooden structure but was slightly smaller . Two further prototypes of the larger design were also built followed by at least 9 development aircraft . One aircraft was delivered to the Royal Aircraft Establishment on 26 July 1918 , one was delivered to the French at Villacoublay and a further aircraft to the United States Army Air Corps at Wright Field in 1922 . The production Bantam had to be modified due to unsatisfactory spin characteristics of the prototypes . Continuous engine problems and downsizing of the Royal Air Force were factors in no more orders for the Bantam . Koolhoven returned to Netherlands with one aircraft where it was re - engined with a 200 hp ( 149 kW ) Armstrong Siddeley Lynx radial engine . Several examples were operated as civil racing aircraft .
Women ' s Royal Air Force The Women ' s Royal Air Force ( WRAF ) was a women ' s branch of the Royal Air Force which existed in two separate incarnations . The first WRAF was an auxiliary organization of the Royal Air Force which was founded in 1918 . The original intent of the WRAF was to provide female mechanic s in order to free up men for service in World War I . However , the organization saw huge enrollment , with women volunteering for positions as drivers and mechanics and filling other wartime needs . This first WRAF was disbanded in 1920 . The last veteran from this era was for a while thought to be Gladys Powers , who died in 2008 , but Florence Green , who died in February 2012 was subsequently found to be the last - known surviving WRAF veteran . On 1 February 1949 , the name was revived when the Women ' s Auxiliary Air Force , which had been founded in 1939 , was renamed the Women ' s Royal Air Force . The WRAF and the RAF grew closer over the following decades , with increasing numbers of trades opened to women , and the two services formally merged in 1994 , marking the full assimilation of women into the British military and the end of the Women ' s Royal Air Force . The Central Band of the WRAF , one of only two all - female bands in the British Armed Forces , was disbanded in 1972 . Some of its musicians transferred to the Band of the Women ' s Royal Army Corps . Ranks . Other Ranks held standard RAF ranks , but officers used a separate ranking system until 1968 , when they too adopted RAF ranks . These ranks were introduced in 1949 . The First World War service used different ranks .
SK - 105 Kürassier The SK - 105 Kürassier is an Austrian light tank The Küirassier is basically a Jagdpanzer chassis armed with a rifled 105 mm gun in an oscillating turret . It is estimated that over 700 SK - 105 have been produced . History . The SK - 105 was developed by Saurer - Werk ( now Steyr - Daimler - Puch ) to meet the Austrian Army ' s operational requirement for a mobile anti - tank vehicle . The first prototype was ready in 1967 and delivery of pre - production vehicles commenced in 1971 . The SK - 105 is based on a heavily modified Saurer APC . Due to its low weight the SK - 105 can be transported by C - 130 Hercules transport aircraft . The turret of the SK - 105 is based on a French design , developed for the AMX - 13 . Its gun can penetrate 360 mm of armor . This vehicle is specifically designed for mountain terrain and has an improved climbing ability compared to heavier main battle tanks . References . ^ Army Equipment
Siege of Sinope The Siege of Sinope in 1214 was a successful siege and capture of Sinope by the Seljuq Turks under their Sultan , Kaykaus I ( r . 1211 – 1220 ) . Sinope was an important port city on the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey , at the time held by the Empire of Trebizond , one of the Byzantine Greek successor state s formed after the Fourth Crusade . The siege is described in some detail by the near - contemporary Seljuq chronicler Ibn Bibi . The Trapezuntian emperor Alexios I ( r . 1204 – 1222 ) led an army to raise it , but was defeated and captured , and the city surrendered on 1 November . Beginning with Fallmerayer , earlier scholars used to place the death of David Komnenos , Alexios ' younger brother and co - founder of the Trapezuntian empire , during the siege of Sinope . Modern research , however , has shown that he died in exile as a monk in Mount Athos in 1212 / 1213 . The Seljuq capture of Sinope had important consequences : apart from a short period of Trapezuntian recovery in 1254 – 1265 , the city henceforth remained in Turkish hands , cutting the small Trapezuntian state off from overland contact with the metropolitan Byzantine lands of the Empire of Nicaea in western Asia Minor . At the same time , the capture of its ruler forced the Trapezuntians to accept tributary status to the Seljuqs , which lasted until the failure of a Sejuq assault on Trebizond itself in 1222 / 1223 . According to the Byzantinist Warren Treadgold , the loss of Sinope on the one hand " shielded Trebizond from further attacks from Nicaea " , but also meant that " henceforth Alexios ' claim to be Byzantine emperor rang hollow , and the Empire of Trebizond ceased to be of more than local importance . "
William Davis ( Royal Navy officer ) Admiral Sir William Wellclose Davis GCB DSO ( 11 October 1901 – 29 October 1987 ) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Vice Chief of the Naval Staff . Naval career . Educated at Summer Fields School in Oxford , the Royal Naval College at Osborne and the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , Davis joined the Royal Navy in 1917 towards the end of World War I . He also served in World War II initially as Executive Officer on the battlecruiser and then , from 1940 , as Deputy Director of Plans at the Admiralty and then , from 1943 , as Commander of the cruiser HMS " Mauritius " in which capacity he was involved in the Sicily landings and the Normandy landings . After the War he was made Director of Underwater Weapons at the Admiralty and then , from 1948 , Chief of Staff to the Commander - in - Chief , Home Fleet . He became Naval Secretary in 1950 and Flag Officer , Second in Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1952 . He went on to be Vice Chief of the Naval Staff in 1954 and Commander - in - Chief , Home Fleet and Commander - in - Chief , Eastern Atlantic Area in 1958 . He was First and Principal Naval Aide - de - camp to the Queen from 1959 to 1960 . He retired in 1960 . Family . In 1934 he married Gertrude Elizabeth Phipps ; they went on to have two sons and two daughters .
Ahmad Amir - Ahmadi Sepahbod Ahmad Amir - Ahmadi ( 1884 – 1974 ) was a military leader and cabinet Minister of Iran . Born in 1884 in Isfahan , he is one of the planners of the coup d ' état of Reza Pahlavi and Seyyed Zia ' eddin Tabatabaee against the Qajar dynasty . He is the first person to receive the rank of " sepahbod " ( corps general or lieutenant general ) under Reza Shah Pahlavi . He served as Minister of War in the cabinet of Ali Soheili in 1942 , and Abdolhosein Hazhir in 1948 . He also served as Senator in the Majlis . It was said he was the only man Reza Pahlavi truly respected and feared . His sister was married into the Pessian family , and after the assassination of Colonel Pessian , she arranged for his body to be hidden from Reza Pahlavi . References used . The following reference was used for the above writing : ' Alí Rizā Awsatí ( عليرضا اوسطى ) , " Iran in the Past Three Centuries " ( " Irān dar Se Qarn - e Goz̲ashteh " - ايران در سه قرن گذشته ) , Volumes 1 and 2 ( Paktāb Publishing - انتشارات پاکتاب , Tehran , Iran , 2003 ) . ISBN 964 - 93406 - 6 - 1 ( Vol . 1 ) , ISBN 964 - 93406 - 5 - 3 ( Vol . 2 ) .
Hans Stohwasser Hans August Stohwasser ( 4 May 1884 – 30 May 1967 ) was a " Vizeadmiral " with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and 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 .
496th Tactical Fighter Squadron The 496th Tactical Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit , last assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe , 50th Tactical Fighter Wing , being stationed at Hahn AB , Germany . The squadron was inactivated on 15 May 1991 . History . During World War II , the squadron served as an operational training and a replacement training unit . Also participated occasionally in demonstrations and maneuvers 1942 – 1944 . Activated in the Reserve in 1949 to train as a fighter corollary of the 52d Fighter Wing , All Weather in the regular Air Force , but apparently undermanned and thus performed very little training . During its only 2 - week summer encampment ( 12 – 26 June 1950 ) , the squadron had only four pilots capable of flying the F - 82 Twin Mustang s it was assigned to provide training , and the 52d Wing made little use of its corollary unit . The squadron was ordered to active service on 1 June 1951 , inactivated the next day , and its few people became " fillers " in other USAF units . Activated briefly at Hamilton AFB , California in early 1953 , equipped with F - 86F Sabre s , performed air defense of the West Coast of the United States . Re - assigned to the United States Air Forces in Europe , assigned to the 86th Fighter - Bomber Wing at Landstuhl Air Base , West Germany in 1954 . Mission in USAFE was air defense of West Germany , flying F - 86D Sabre Interceptors . Moved to Hahn Air Base in November 1956 , remaining assigned to the 86th FIW . Operated from Hahn for the next decade , being re - equipped with the F - 102A Delta Dagger in 1959 , being assigned to the 86th Air Division ( Defense ) . Reassigned to the host 50th TFW at Hahn in 1968 as part of the withdrawal of the F - 102 from Europe , being re - equipped with F - 4E Phantom II s and becoming a tactical Fighter Squadron . Continued routine training operations throughout the 1970s , upgrading to F - 16 Fighting Falcon aircraft in 1979 . Inactivated in 1991 with the host 50th Tactical Fighter Wing at Hahn and part of the closure of the base and the end of the Cold War .
Franz Eisenach Franz Eisenach ( 11 August 1918 – 21 August 1998 ) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross ( ) during World War II . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Eisenach was credited with 129 aerial victories — that is , 129 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft — claimed in 319 combat missions . Career . Eisenach entered the Luftwaffe in 1937 and became an officer cadet in 1937 . By 1939 he attained the rank of " Leutnant " . From 1940 Eisenach flew with various Groups , until joining 9 . / Jagdgeschwader 54 ( JG 54 ) on the Eastern Front in October 1942 . He became " Staffelkapitän " ( Squadron Leader ) of 3 . / JG 54 with prominent success , but was badly wounded in December 1943 . On 1 May 1944 , he was promoted to the rank of " Hauptmann " . In June 1944 , he was serving with I . / JG 54 , based in Courland on the Eastern front , he became " Gruppenkommandeur " of I . / JG 54 but in September 1944 he was wounded again , this time after an encounter with a bomber . Awarded the Knights Cross , he returned to combat until the war ' s end . His final tally was 129 victories claimed in 317 combat missions . On 8 November , during his 21st combat mission , Eisenach claimed his first victory by shooting down a P - 40 fighter on the Eastern Front . On 8 July , he shot down a Russian A - 20 Boston twin - engine bomber , achieving his 21st victory but in a subsequent dogfight his aircraft was damaged necessitating an emergency landing . He required immediate hospitalisation . Eisenach claimed his 100th victory on 14 September 1944 by shooting down an IL - 2 Sturmovik . That day he shot down 9 planes , include 5 Il - 2 and 4 Pe - 2 . His last victory was on 19 March over a Pe - 2 , reaching 129 victories . He also claimed 25 unconfirmed victories . After the war he was confined as a British POW . " Major " Franz Eisenach re - joined the military service of the Bundeswehr in 1956 . He left the service in 1974 with the rank of " Oberstleutnant " .
Guy D ' Oyly - Hughes Guy D ' Oyly - Hughes , DSO and bar , DSC , ( died 8 June 1940 , aged 48 ) , was an officer in the Royal Navy . During the First World War , Lt D ' Oyly - Hughes was a submariner and second in command of which was highly successful in the Dardanelles Campaign . He was awarded the DSC in June 1915 after a patrol in which his captain , Lt . Cdr . Martin Nasmith , was awarded the VC . Hughes was awarded the DSO in August after swimming ashore from " E11 " with explosives and blowing up part of the Constantinople - Baghdad Railway . In June 1939 , as a Captain , he was given command of the aircraft carrier . D ' Oyly - Hughes had learned to fly and continually rejected the advice of the ship ' s professional aviators , according to Winton . Returning to Britain from the Norwegian Campaign on 8 June 1940 , " Glorious " and her destroyer escort of and were surprised and caught by and in the Norwegian Sea . All three ships were sunk with the loss of at least 1 , 533 lives . D ' Oyly - Hughes went down with his ship . " Glorious " had been sighted in conditions of maximum visibility , a condition in which an aircraft carrier would normally have one or more aircraft out on a Combat Air Patrol . " Glorious " had no such patrol , and was unable to reach maximum speed before coming in range of the enemy ' s 11 - inch guns . Winton describes D ' Oyly - Hughes ' lack of belief in the effectiveness of air patrols and the questions raised by numerous commentators , including eyewitnesses from " Glorious " and " Scharnhorst " , about the Captain ' s judgement in this and other matters .
USS Concise ( AM - 163 ) USS Concise ( AM - 163 ) was an Admirable - class minesweeper built for the U . S . Navy during World War II . She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters , and served the Navy in the Pacific Ocean . She was reclassified AM - 163 , 21 February 1942 ; launched 6 February 1943 by Willamette Iron and Steel Works , Portland , Oregon ; and commissioned 25 April 1944 , Lieutenant H . J . Ullmann , Jr . , USNR , in command . World War II Pacific Ocean operations . Sailing from San Francisco , California , 3 July 1944 for Pearl Harbor , " Concise " arrived 13 July for training . She swept mines at French Frigate Shoals from 6 August to 16 August then sailed to Eniwetok , arriving 28 September . Assigned to convoy escort duty until 11 August 1945 " Concise " arrived off Okinawa , 30 August . On 8 September she sailed to clear mines from Japanese waters in protection of occupation shipping , sweeping off Wakayama , Osaka , and Nagoya until 20 November . Post - War Decommissioning . " Concise " returned to San Francisco , California , 16 December 1945 and was placed out of commission in reserve 31 May 1946 at San Diego , California . She was reclassified MSF - 163 on 7 February 1955 . Awards . " Concise " received one battle star for World War II service .
Dalhart Municipal Airport Dalhart Municipal Airport is a city - owned public - use airport located three miles ( 5 km ) southwest of the central business district of Dalhart , Texas , a city straddling the border of Dallam and Hartley counties in the northwest corner of the Texas Panhandle . The airport is not served by any commercial airlines at this time . Facilities and aircraft . Dalhart Municipal Airport covers an area of which contains two asphalt paved runways : 3 / 21 measuring 5 , 669 x 75 ft ( 1 , 728 x 23 m ) and 17 / 35 measuring 6 , 400 x 75 ft ( 1 , 951 x 23 m ) . For the 12 - month period ending June 25 , 2009 , the airport had 22 , 750 aircraft operations , an average of 62 per day : 75 % local general aviation , 25 % transient general aviation , and < 1 % military . There are 30 aircraft based at this airport : 80 % single - engine , 17 % multi - engine and 3 % glider . History . The airport was constructed by the Army and opened in May 1942 as Dalhart Army Airfield . Initially assigned to Army Air Forces Glider command , while under construction the command ' s temporary headquarters operated from a tent city in Amarillo . Dalhart AAF was closed in December 1945 , and the property went to the city of Dalhart . Since that time , several of the remaining buildings have been used as the Dalhart municipal airport .
Bahia Class Light Cruiser The Bahia Class Light Cruisers was a class of cruisers constructed to be leaders of a flotilla of destroyers , within the naval plan of 1910 . Due to technical limitations of their arsenals originally burned coal , it did not have anti - submarine equipment , and even anti - aircraft fire control center , which greatly diminished its effectiveness , but both attended the DNOG , the Rio Grande do Sul supposedly sunk a German submarine with cannon fire . Modified in 1926 on the site of the National Coastal Shipping , ships became " new " . Bahia shot down a plane in the revolution of 1932 and was lost in combat patrol in 1945 , with the death of 337 crew members , only 36 survived .
HMS Largs HMS " Largs " was a former French ship captured by the Royal Navy ship HMS " Faulknor " five months after the Battle of France while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an " Ocean Boarding Vessel " . She subsequently became a Combined Operations Headquarters ship for almost every significant amphibious operation of World War II , including Operations " Torch " , " Husky " and " Overlord " and she would be manned by naval , army and air force crew . Royal Navy Transfer . She was built by France and named MV " Charles Plumier " in 1938 . Following the creation of Vichy France and Free France she was transferred in 1941 to the Royal Navy , instead of being handed over to the Free French Navy , and renamed HMS " Largs " . She took part in many operations including Operation Torch , the invasion of North Africa , and Operation Overlord , during the invasion of Normandy . she was the headquarters ship for Sword Beach . Pacific & Post WWII . In 1945 she was transferred to the Pacific War and used in actions in Thailand and Malaya . After the end of the war she was handed back to France , and served for nineteen years . She was sold off to a private company from Greece in 1964 as a cruise ship , and given the name MV " Pleias " . She was scrapped in 1968 .
13th Independent Battery Indiana Light Artillery 13th Indiana Battery Light Artillery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The battery was organized at Indianapolis , Indiana and mustered in for a three - year enlistment on February 22 , 1862 . The battery served unassigned in Kentucky , Army of the Ohio , to September 1862 . Artillery , 12th Division , Army of the Ohio , to November 1862 . Ward ' s Brigade , Post of Gallatin , Tennessee , Department of the Cumberland , to June 1863 . Garrison Artillery , Gallatin , Tennessee , Department of the Cumberland , to January 1865 . Garrison Artillery , Chattanooga , Tennessee , Department of the Cumberland , to July 1865 . The 13th Indiana Battery Light Artillery mustered out of service on July 10 , 1865 . Detailed service . Left Indiana for Louisville , Ky . , February 23 , 1862 . Served as cavalry in Kentucky from February 1862 to January 1863 . Skirmish at Monterey , Owen County , Ky . , June 11 . Operations against Morgan July 4 – 28 . Paris , Ky . , July 19 . Siege of Munfordville September 14 – 17 . Frankfort October 9 . Hartsville , Tenn . , December 7 . Garrison Fort Thomas , Gallatin , Tenn . , January 1863 to January 1865 , and garrison duty at Chattanooga , Tenn . , until July 1865 . Casualties . The battery lost a total of 26 men during service ; 7 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 19 enlisted men died of disease .
Hans Büntemeyer Hans Büntemeyer ( 3 April 1914 – 17 March 1945 ) 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 . Hans Büntemeyer was killed on 17 March 1945 near Zinten , East Prussia . He was posthumously promoted to Major der Reserve .
5th Bengal European Regiment The 5th Bengal European Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British East India Company , created in 1858 and disbanded in 1860 . The regiment was raised in Bengal by the East India Company in 1858 , for service in the Indian Mutiny ; the " European " in the name indicated that it was manned by white soldiers , not Indian sepoy s . The regiment was composed of officers drawn from two Indian units which had mutinied , the 5th Bengal Native Infantry and 6th Bengal Native Infantry . As with all other " European " units of the Company , they were placed under the command of the Crown following the end of the Mutiny in 1858 . The regiment was disbanded in 1860 .