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USC & GS Surveyor ( 1917 ) The first USC & GS " Surveyor " was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1917 and from 1919 to 1956 . Construction . " Surveyor " was built in 1917 for the Coast and Geodetic Survey by Manitowoc Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Manitowoc , Wisconsin , and entered service with the Survey that year . United States Navy service 1917 - 1919 . " Surveyor " was transferred in September 1917 to the United States Navy , which armed her and commissioned her in October 1917 for World War I service as the armed steamer USS " Surveyor " . During 1918 , she served at Gibraltar . After the war , she returned to the United States and was disarmed . United States Coast and Geodetic Survey service 1919 - 1956 . The Navy returned " Surveyor " to the Department of Commerce on 31 March 1919 so that she could resume service in the Coast and Geodetic Survey . Departing the United States East Coast , she proceeded to the United States West Coast via the Panama Canal in 1919 . For the next 36 years , " Surveyor " operated almost exclusively in the Territory of Alaska , working in the waters of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea . During her caeer , she had occasion to assist mariners in distress . On 25 May 1929 , she rescued about 150 passengers and crew of the steamer " Aleutian " , which had struck a rock and sunk in Uyak Bay , Alaska ; she transported them to Seward , Alaska . On 7 September 1929 , she rendered assistance to survivors of the steamer " Golden Forest " , which was wrecked on Cape Ilktugitak ; she located the wreck using radio compass bearings and took aboard two men from " Golden Forest " for medical treatment . On 31 July 1934 , she assisted the steamer S . S . " Otsego " , which had grounded off Cape Mordvinof , Alaska . Tragedy struck " Surveyor " s crew more than once during her operations . On 4 October 1927 , two men from her crew — Roy V . Beverly and George Slavin — drowned at Resurrection Bay off Seward ; another crewman , Seaman W . H . Bowen , drowned in a heroic attempt to save his two shipmates , and posthumously received the Department of Commerce Gold Medal . In 1936 , she lost members of her crew on three occasions : John Martin , her ship ' s cook , died in a shipboard accident in January 1936 ; two members of a shore party - - Lieutenant , junior grade , Marshall R . Reese , USC & GS , and Quartermaster Max McLees — drowned on 26 September 1936 when their boat overturned on the north shore of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands ; and Seaman Robert F . Stryker died in October 1936 when he fell off a cliff during survey operations on Unimak Island in the Aleutians . During World War II in the Pacific ( 1941 - 1945 ) , " Surveyor " conducted surveys in support of Allied military operations against Japan ese forces in the Aleutian Islands . " Surveyor " was retired from Coast and Geodetic Survey service in 1956 . Commemoration . Surveyor Bay on the coast of Unalaska Island in the Aleutian Islands is named for " Surveyor " .
John Sylvester John " Jack " Sylvester ( 1904 – July 26 , 1990 ) was an officer in the United States Navy who served from the 1930s to the 1960s and rose to the rank of Vice Admiral . Background . He grew up in Wellston , Ohio , the grandson of the city ' s first physician and son of the editor of the " Wellston Telegram " . He had a brother , George R . , and a sister , Janet ( later Mrs . Hiram Callahan ) . Sylvester attended the United States Naval Academy , and graduated among the top of his class in 1926 . Career . Joining the fleet in 1926 , Sylvester served in 1937 as flag lieutenant to Admiral Harry E . Yarnell , commander of the U . S . Asiatic Fleet , and married Yarnell ' s daughter Ruth . Much of his career was spent in the Pacific or East Asia , including postings to Shanghai , Tsingtao , Hong Kong and the Philippines . He served as commanding officer of the from 18 October 1951 to 4 September 1952 while the battleship was serving as flagship to Rear Admiral James L . Holloway , Jr . , the commander of the cruiser force , Atlantic Fleet between deployments to the Korean War . Promoted to Rear Admiral in 1953 , he was made special assistant to the chief of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project in California . In 1955 Sylvester served as Task Force commander for Operation Wigwam , a test of an underwater detonation of a nuclear bomb . He served as Commander , Amphibious Forces , Pacific Fleet , from 1958 to 1960 . From 1960 to 1965 he served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Logistics , and retired in 1965 with the rank of Vice Admiral . Sylvester died on July 26 , 1990 , at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington , D . C . Personal life . His first wife was Ruth Yarnell Sylvester , who died in 1948 . His second wife was Geraldine Clark Sylvester . One of his sons would go on to attend the Naval Academy , as well as two grandsons . A second son , John Sylvester , Jr . , would join the Foreign Service and , driven by the family connection to East Asia , serve a variety of tours in Japan and South East Asia in the 1960s .
James Clay Rice James Clay Rice ( December 27 , 1828 – May 10 , 1864 ) was a lawyer from Massachusetts , who became a brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Early life . Rice was born in Worthington , Massachusetts on December 27 , 1828 to William Rice and Welthea ( Cottrell ) Rice . He was self - educated for most of his early life and eventually graduated from Yale University . He became a teacher in Natchez , Mississippi , and worked for a newspaper . During this time he began studying law and was admitted to the bar in New York City where he began his practice . Civil War . When the Civil War began Rice enlisted on 28 May 1861 in the 39th New York Infantry Regiment quickly becoming a captain of Company B and engaging at the First Battle of Bull Run . Rice was mustered out of the 39th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on 12 Sep 1861 . The next day Rice became lieutenant colonel of the newly formed 44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment ( also known as People ' s Ellsworth Regiment ) . He fought in the Peninsula Campaign and on July 4 , 1862 , became the colonel of the regiment . At the Second Battle of Bull Run , Colonel Rice took command of the 3rd Brigade , 1st Division , V Corps when its commander , Daniel Butterfield took command of the consolidated 1st and 2nd Brigades and other ranking officers were wounded on the second day of battle . Rice returned to command of the 44th New York and led it at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville . At the Battle of Gettysburg Rice and his regiment were sent to the defense of Little Round Top . During the fighting , brigade commander Colonel Strong Vincent was mortally wounded and Rice once again assumed command of the 3rd Brigade , 1st Division , V Corps and led it for the remainder of the battle . For his service at Gettysburg , Rice was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on August 17 , 1863 . In March , 1864 General Rice was in command of the 2nd Brigade , 4th Division , V Corps which he led into action at the Battle of the Wilderness . Rice was mortally wounded at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House . As he lay dying he muttered the words " turn me over that I may die with my face to the enemy . " He died on the Spotsylvania battlefield on May 10 , 1864 . He was buried at Albany Rural Cemetery , Menands , New York , in section 42 , plot 11 . Genealogy . James Clay Rice was a direct descendant of Edmund Rice , an English immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony , as follows : Legacy . An impressive monument to the 12th New York and Rice ' s own 44th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was constructed on the Gettysburg battlefield . In the film " Gettysburg " , Colonel Rice was portrayed by Joshua D . Maurer and is briefly seen congratulating Col . Joshua L . Chamberlain following the fighting on Little Round Top , informing him of the name of that place .
Philippine Campaign Medal The Philippine Campaign Medal is a military decoration of the United States Armed Forces which was created to denote service of U . S . military members in the Philippine - American War between the years of 1899 and 1913 . Although a single service medal , the Philippine Campaign Medal was issued under separate criteria for both the United States Army and the U . S . Navy . The Philippine Campaign Medal was a separate decoration from the Philippine Congressional Medal , which was an Army medal awarded for special services rendered during the Philippine - American War . Army . The Army ’ s version of the Philippine Campaign Medal was established on January 12 , 1905 by order of the United States War Department . The medal was authorized to any Army service member who had served in campaigns ashore , on the Philippine Islands , from February 4 , 1899 to a date which was then yet to be determined . In January 1914 , the Philippine Campaign Medal was declared closed with the following the approved operations for issuance . The Army ’ s Philippine Campaign Medal was issued as a one time service medal regardless of the number of campaigns in which a service member participated . The Silver Citation Star was authorized for those who had performed feats of heroism or bravery . Navy . The Navy ’ s version of the Philippine Campaign Medal was issued to both members of the U . S . Navy and United States Marine Corps . The medal was established on June 27 , 1908 by special order of the United States Navy Department . To be awarded the Philippine Campaign Medal , a Navy or Marine Corps service member was required to perform service in the Philippine Islands between the dates of February 4 , 1899 and December 31 , 1904 . Such service was required to be either ashore in support of Army units or onboard certain vessels assigned to the area of the Philippine Sea . The Navy ’ s version of the Philippine Campaign Medal was as a one time decoration with no devices authorized . Appearance . The Army and Navy versions of the Philippine Campaign Medal varied slightly in the design with the Army ’ s version of the award displaying a bronze medallion with the words “ Philippine Insurrection ” centered above the year numeral 1898 and below a palm tree and Roman lamp . The ribbon for the Army ’ s medal consisted of a wide blue ribbon with two red stripes . The Navy Philippine Campaign Medal was originally considered a completely separate award from the Army medal and appeared as suspended from a red and yellow ribbon . On August 12 , 1913 , the Navy changed the ribbon color to match the Army ’ s version of the award and from that point on the Army and Navy Philippine Campaign Medals were considered the same award but with different medal styles . The Navy ’ s Philippine Campaign Medal displayed a bronze medallion with the words “ Philippine Campaign ” , centered above the dates “ 1898 – 1903 ” , and below a depiction of a stone gate leading into Manila .
S . D . S . Yadava S . D . S . Yadava ( " Shiv Dayal Singh Yadava " , born 3 March 1927 , Sadat Nagar , Haryana ) is an Indian army officer , retired in 1983 as a Major General , and author of the 2006 work " Followers of Krishna : Yadavas of India " . Born to Captain Puran Singh ( SB , OBI ) , Yadava studied at King Georges School in Ajmer before joining the Army in 1947 . During his Army career , Yadava served a period in the 3rd Gorkha Rifles . Yadava was also wounded in the Battle of Dhalai while serving as Brigade Commander , where it took two days to evacuate him from the battlefield . Later , in the 1980s while serving as Commander 101 Area in Shillong , Yadava initiated a program to use Liquified Petroleum Gas as a cooking fuel for his command , in order to avoid both the expense and deforestation resulting from the use of firewood for cooking .
Revolutionary base area In Mao Zedong ' s original formulation of the concept of people ' s war , a revolutionary base area is a local stronghold that the revolutionary force conducting the people ' s war should attempt to establish , starting from a remote area with mountainous or otherwise difficult terrain in which its enemy is weak . This kind of base helps the revolutionary conducting force to exploit the few advantages that a small revolutionary movement has — broad - based popular support can be one of them — against a state ' s power with a large and well - equipped army .
General der Panzertruppe General der Panzertruppe ( Literally : General of the Armoured Corps ) was a rank of German Army General introduced by the Wehrmacht in 1935 . A " General der Panzertruppe " was a full General , above Lieutenant General ( Generalleutnant ) , commanding a Panzer corps . The rank was equivalent to the long established " General der Kavallerie " , " General der Artillerie " and " General der Infanterie " . The Wehrmacht also introduced " General der Gebirgstruppe " ( mountain troops ) , " General der Pioniere " ( engineers ) , " General der Fallschirmtruppe " ( parachute troops ) , " General der Flieger " ( aviators ) , " General der Nachrichtentruppe " ( communications troops ) and " General der Luftnachrichtentruppe " ( air communications troops ) . Bundeswehr . In the modern German Army of the " Bundeswehr " , there is a " General der Panzertruppen " , which is " not " a rank but a position , who is usually a brigadier general ( " Brigadegeneral " ) . The General der Panzertruppen commands the Armoured Corps Training Centre . List . The following officers were " General der Panzertruppe " :
Operation Bull Run Operation Bull Run was a 48 hour long military operation during the occupation of Iraq that began on 24 June 2007 in Al Dura ' iya . A joint operation between the US Army ' s 1st Battalion , 15th Infantry of the 3rd Heavy Brigade and the Iraqi National Police and Iraqi Army , the operation netted four to seven captured insurgents and two killed . Launched from Forward Operating Base " Hammer " , it formed part of " Operation Marne Torch " , clearing insurgent sanctuaries to the southeast of Baghdad , and in addition to the insurgents killed and captured , it liberated three separate caches of artillery round s , mortar s , firearm s and ammunition , along with propaganda and cell phones . On 27 June 2007 , following the conclusion of the operation the previous day , the Official News Website for " Operation Iraqi Freedom " released a news bulletin on " Operation Bull Run " .
Stealth ground vehicle Ground vehicles utilizing stealth technology have come to fruition at various times in history . The Challenger 2 features a redesigned hull and turret offering lower radar observability over its predecessor . More recently , the joint U . S . / British Future Scout Cavalry System concept was experimented with and appeared in prototype form before being canceled . Other vehicles , particularly unmanned ground vehicle s , may unintentionally have an undetectably low radar signature due to their small size . Various coatings and radar absorbing layers of material are available for combat vehicles . The Armored Gun System program of the 80 ' s attempted to create a stealth vehicle . One of the competitors , the Stingray light tank later became Thailand ' s light tank . The M1A2 Abrams was also originally supposed to incorporate stealth . The U . S . Future Combat Systems manned ground vehicles family also incorporated a reduced cross section but was canceled in 2009 .
AFN Munich The AFN Munich was a radio station of the American Forces Network of the United States Army , operating from Munich , Bavaria , from 1945 to 1992 . The station carried the nickname " The voice of Southern Bavaria " . The station was the first AFN station to operate in occupied Germany . History . In April 1945 , towards the end of World War II , Munich was occupied by the 7th US Army . Radio broadcasts for the United States armed forces were , at the time , made from the United Kingdom and France . In July 1945 , transmissions began from occupied Germany too . On 10 July 1945 , the AFN Munich commenced broadcasting as the first AFN station in Germany . It operated from a villa in the " Kaulbachstraße " that had previously belonged to Adolf Wagner , Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau München - Oberbayern . The first broadcast , made by Major Bob Light , began with the following sentence : Light ' s first broadcast was incorrect as the 3rd US Army had taken over control over Munich the previous night , a fact Light had missed . General George S . Patton , commander of the 3rd Army , was furious about the mistake , demanding that the responsible person be court martialed . Patton , not a friend of the American Forces Network in the first place , was shaving at the time and cut himself on hearing the broadcast . Light was surrounded by Military Police on Patton ' s order but managed to convince them of his innocence and returned to AFN Paris before the end of the day . The station , broadcasting with one of the strongest signals in Germany , could be received in the northern parts of the country . It enjoyed popularity with young Germans too , as it allowed them to listen to Jazz and Blues , outlawed during the Third Reich , and later to Rock ' n ' Roll and Country music . It also helped Germans learn English in order to be able to understand the broadcasts . The station had many high profile visitors , including Jimmy Carter , Freddie Mercury , John Glenn and John McCain . In 1963 , the station changed its frequencies , moving from 101 . 2 to 102 . 4 kHz on the FM band and from 1106 to 1045 on the AM band . In 1973 a study was carried out that recommended closing down the station if US forces in the region were significantly reduced . In 1982 it was suggested that the station should relocate from number 15 " Kaulbachstraße " to number 45 , into a building formerly utilised by the " Bundeswehr " . The cost for the alterations to the new location were covered by the Bavarian government , and AFN Munich started broadcasting from number 45 on 12 November 1984 . The villa at number 15 , home of the station for almost 40 years , was returned to the Bavarian government . AFN Munich stayed at its new location for a much shorter time than at the old one . The end of the Cold War and the reduction of US forces in Europe , with the closure of some of their Munich facilities , meant the end of the station . On 14 February 1992 , at 3 pm , AFN Munich hosted what was called " The last radio show " . Nothing remains of the station at either of its two former locations .
John F . Thorson John F . Thorson ( May 10 , 1920 – October 28 , 1944 ) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military ' s highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in World War II . Biography . Thorson was the seventh of eight children born to Norwegian immigrants . He joined the Army from his birth city of Armstrong , Iowa in 1942 , and by October 28 , 1944 was serving as a private first class in Company G , 17th Infantry Regiment , 7th Infantry Division . On that day , in Dagami , Leyte province , in the Philippines , Thorson was wounded while single - handedly attacking an enemy trench , then smothered the blast of an enemy - thrown hand grenade with his body . He successfully protected his fellow soldiers from the blast , and was immediately killed . He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor nine months later , on July 19 , 1945 . Thorson , aged 24 at his death , was buried in Keokuk National Cemetery , Keokuk , Iowa . Medal of Honor citation . Private First Class Thorson ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : He was an automatic rifle man on 28 October 1944 , in the attack on Dagami Leyte , Philippine Islands . A heavily fortified enemy position consisting of pillboxes and supporting trenches held up the advance of his company . His platoon was ordered to out - flank and neutralize the strongpoint . Voluntarily moving well out in front of his group , Pvt . Thorson came upon an enemy fire trench defended by several hostile riflemen and , disregarding the intense fire directed at him , attacked single - handed . He was seriously wounded and fell about 6 yards from the trench . Just as the remaining 20 members of the platoon reached him , 1 of the enemy threw a grenade into their midst . Shouting a warning and making a final effort , Pvt . Thorson rolled onto the grenade and smothered the explosion with his body . He was instantly killed , but his magnificent courage and supreme self - sacrifice prevented the injury and possible death of his comrades , and remain with them as a lasting inspiration . Honored in ship naming . The United States Army ship which served in the Pacific Ocean at the end of World War II was named in his honor .
USS Howarda ( SP - 144 ) USS " Howarda " ( SP - 144 ) was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919 . " Howarda " was built as a wooden - hulled civilian yacht in 1913 by the Essington Company in Essington , Pennsylvania . The U . S . Navy acquired " Howarda " from her owner , H . S . Kerner of Boca Grande , Florida , on 11 June 1917 for use as a patrol boat during World War I . She was commissioned on 19 June 1917 as USS " Howarda " ( SP - 144 ) . Assigned to the 7th Naval District , " Howarda " was based at Egmont Key , Florida , and patrolled waters in the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay , serving as guard boat and section patrol craft . " Howarda " was stricken from the Navy List and offered for sale on 31 March 1919 , but later was withdrawn from sale . Instead , she was transferred to the United States Department of the Treasury for use by the United States Coast Guard on 3 May 1919 or 1 July 1919 . She served in the Coast Guard from 1919 to 1922 as cutter USCGC " Vidette " .
Wilhelm Czorny Wilhelm Czorny ( 4 December 1924 – 22 April 1987 ) was a highly decorated Unteroffizier in the Wehrmacht during World War II . He was also 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 .
Josef Oberhauser Josef Kaspar " Sepp " Oberhauser ( January 21 , 1915 – November 22 , 1979 ) was the only Nazi to be successfully convicted of war crimes committed at the Bełżec extermination camp . He was charged with 450 , 000 counts of accessory to murder and sentenced to 4 . 5 years imprisonment during Belzec Trial of 1964 . Background and career . Josef Oberhauser was born in Munich during World War I . He went on to become an agricultural labourer until he joined the SS in November 1935 . Oberhauser , as a member of the " SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler " was involved in the 1939 Poland campaign . During that time , he was promoted to the rank of SS - Oberscharführer . Thereafter , Oberhauser was posted to Bełżec extermination camp from November 1941 until 1 August 1942 as the leader of a guard platoon . Post - war convictions . Josef Oberhauser was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Soviet military tribunal in East Germany , for charges relating to Action T4 euthanasia program from Hartheim . He was provided with an amnesty on 28 April 1956 . Following his release , Josef Oberhauser served as a casual labourer , bartender and waiter in Munich . In 1963 the Bełżec trial began and Oberhauser was one of 8 defendants charged with war crimes committed there at the former extermination camp . On 30 January 1964 , all of the defendants bar Oberhauser were acquitted due to the collapse of the prosecution case but re - arrested shortly thereafter . Oberhauser appeared before the court again in January 1965 . He was found guilty and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months imprisonment . Oberhauser was released after serving half of his sentence . He died in 1979 . Oberhauser was unwillingly filmed for Claude Lanzmann ' s documentary " Shoah " , released in 1985 .