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USS Alloway ( YT - 170 ) USS " Alloway " ( YT - 170 / YTM - 170 ) was an " Alloway " - class tugboat acquired by the U . S . Navy for the task of providing yard tugboat services during World War II , when U . S . ports were often congested with ships arriving and departing . The second " Alloway " ( " YT - 170 " ) - - a diesel - powered tug built in 1935 as " Russell No . 12 " - was acquired by the Navy on 28 October 1940 at New York City from the Newton Creek Towing Co . ; renamed " Alloway " the following day and simultaneously designated " YT - 170 " ; converted to naval service by the New York Navy Yard ; and placed in service at New York City on 7 November 1940 . World War II service . Alloway was initially ordered to the 5th Naval District and stationed at the Naval Proving Grounds at Dahlgren , Virginia , where she served through the end of World War II . During her tour of duty , " Alloway " was reclassified a medium harbor tug and redesignated " YTM - 170 " on 15 May 1944 . On 21 March 1946 , she was assigned to temporary duty with the 5th Naval District at Norfolk , Virginia , preparatory to her inactivation . Post - war decommissioning . Alloway was placed out of service at Little Creek , Virginia , on 19 August 1946 . Her name was struck from the Navy list on 10 June 1947 , and she was turned over to the Maritime Commission ' s War Shipping Administration for disposal .
William John Wolfgram William John Wolfgram was a United States Army Lieutenant during World War II . He served in the army from 1942 until his death in combat in 1945 . Wolfgram attended Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in Wisconsin . After graduating , he attended Harvard University for two years until he enlisted in the army in 1942 . While enlisted Wolfgram attended Pennsylvania Military College ( now Widener University ) . In 1944 , Wolfgram was sent with the 10th Mountain Division to Italy . One year later he received a Bronze Star . Wolfgram was killed in battle on Riva Ridge in April 1945 . In 1971 , the library at Widener University was dedicated to him and named Wolfgram Memorial Library .
Jonathan Thorn Jonathan Thorn ( 8 January 1779 – 15 June 1811 ) was an officer of the United States Navy in the early 19th century . He was born on 8 January 1779 at Schenectady , N . Y . . He was appointed a midshipman on 28 April 1800 . Subsequently serving with the Navy during the Tripolitan War , Thorn volunteered to take part in the hazardous expedition to destroy the captured frigate " Philadelphia " , which lay beneath the guns of the defended Tripoli harbor . On 16 February 1804 , Lieutenant Stephen Decatur , Jr . , led a party of these volunteers in the ketch " Intrepid " into Tripoli and burned the erstwhile American frigate . Attached to the schooner " Enterprise " , Thorn was then assigned to " Gunboat No . 4 " , under Decatur ' s command . In this vessel , he participated in the attack on Tripoli , with Commodore Edward Preble ' s squadron on 3 August 1804 . Specially commended by Decatur for his conduct in this battle , Thorn received command of one of the Tripolitan gunboats captured and commanded this vessel in the engagement with the Tripolitan pirates on 7 August . Commissioned a lieutenant on 16 February 1807 , Thorn became the first commandant of the New York Navy Yard at age 27 . In 1810 , he was granted a two - year furlough to command John Jacob Astor ' s sailing bark " Tonquin " in a voyage slated to take the ship to the Pacific Northwest to establish a fur trading post . Thorn arrived at the mouth of the Columbia River on March 22 , 1811 and two days later and at the cost of eight lives , they crossed the bar . Thorn and his crew spent 65 days near the mouth of the river building Fort Astoria before part of the crew sailed back to the ocean . On June 5 they left the river and headed north to trade for furs . Thorn anchored off Clayoquot Sound , now in British Columbia around 15 June 1811 , after a voyage which had taken the ship around Cape Horn to the Hawaiian Islands , to the mouth of the Columbia River and up the west side of Vancouver Island , Thorn soon attempted to trade with the local Nootka people . Angered by what they considered insulting behaviour , the Indians seized the " Tonquin " and , in a brief , bloody action , killed Thorn and his crew . The next day while the ship was being plundered by the Nootka , the vessel was blown up . Two U . S . Navy destroyer s have been named USS " Thorn " in his honor . His brother was the Colonel Herman Thorn , who also served in the U . S . Navy . Herman was an Officer on the Frigate Constellation during the War of 1812 .
USS Eastern Chief ( ID - 3390 ) USS " Eastern Chief " ( ID - 3390 ) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919 . Construction , acquisition , and commissioning . " Eastern Chief " was built as the commercial cargo ship SS " Yoshida Maru No . 3 " and completed in December 1917 by the Uraga Dock Company in Uraga , Japan . Soon after completion she was sent to the United States , where she was placed under the control of the United States Shipping Board , which renamed her SS " Eastern Chief " . On 10 September 1918 , the U . S . Navys 6th Naval District inspected her at Charleston , South Carolina , for possible naval service during World War I , and the Shipping Board transferred her to the Navy on 25 September 1918 at the Charleston Navy Yard in Charleston . The Navy assigned her the naval registry identification number 3390 and commissioned her on 27 September 1918 as USS " Eastern Chief " ( ID - 3390 ) with Lieutenant Commander A . P . Jensen , USNRF , in command . Operational history . Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service , " Eastern Chief " departed Hampton Roads , Virginia , on 9 October 1918 . After stopping at Sydney , Nova Scotia , Canada , for repairs , she arrived at La Pallice , France , on 26 November 1918 to discharge her cargo and load ordnance and engineering stores . She departed La Pallice on 14 December 1918 and arrived at Norfolk , Virginia , on 8 January 1919 . On 9 February 1919 , " Eastern Chief " was again underway for La Pallice . During her transatlantic crossing , she went to the aid of the disabled U . S . Navy cargo ship on 15 February 1919 , standing by " West Haven " until a tug came to assist . " Eastern Chief " helped tow " West Haven " to Bermuda , then resumed course for La Pallice , which she finally reached on 23 February 1919 . She then steamed to Antwerp , Belgium , where she finished offloading her cargo . She departed Antwerp on 3 May 1919 bound for Norfolk , where she arrived on 23 May 1919 . Decommissioning and disposal . " Eastern Chief " was decommissioned on 29 May 1919 . The Navy transferred her back to the U . S . Shipping Board the same day .
Hadley Field , New Jersey Hadley Field was an airport in South Plainfield , New Jersey and contained the Nike Missile Battery NY - 65 . It was the site of the nation ' s first air mail service . The two magazine Nike missile battery was first manned by Regular Army units and later by the New Jersey National Guard . Nike Hercules missiles were installed in 1961 and the site remained an active air defense installation till around 1970 . An office complex and a shopping center now cover the site which is known as Hadley Plaza .
Hamilton Douglas Halyburton Hamilton Douglas Halyburton ( 10 October 1763 – 31 December 1783 ) was a British Lieutenant who died at Sandy Hook , New Jersey . Biography . He was born on 10 October 1763 to Sholto Douglas , 15th Earl of Morton . He died on 31 December 1783 when he was in command of the barge of the . He was using it to chase deserters off of Sandy Hook . He and his crew were caught in a winter storm and they all died , all but one of the bodies washed ashore the next day . They were described as " 12 gentlemen and one common sailor " . Halyburton Memorial . Katherine Hamilton , the Countess Dowager of Morton erected a monument , but it was destroyed by the French . The grave was rediscovered in 1908 during expansion of a road . In 1937 , a new Halyburton Memorial was constructed .
Alfred von Kropatschek Alfred Ritter von Kropatschek ( Bielitz , January 30 , 1838 — Lovran , May 2 , 1911 ) was a General in the Austrian Army and a weapons designer of the late 19th century , who was responsible for several rifle and revolver designs in affiliation with the Steyr Mannlicher ; these weapons were used by the armed forces of the Austrian Empire and several other nations . His rifles feature a tubular magazine under the barrel similar to a Winchester rifle ; the cartridge lifter was the key to the Kropatschek design . One of his designs was sold to the French Navy , and was later adapted by the French Army in the development of the prolific Lebel rifle , which served as France ' s front - line rifle from 1886 through the First World War . Many people say more bullets from Kropatschek designed rifles were fired at the Austrians , than by them . Kropatschek ' s tubular magazine design was also adapted to the German Mauser Model 1871 rifle , resulting in the Model 71 / 84 . Kropatschek was a contemporary of Ferdinand Mannlicher in their affiliations with the Steyr munitions company , but they had competing designs . The Steyr Kropatschek rifles featured the tubular magazine and the Steyr Mannlicher rifles featured a box magazine . The limiting factors of the tubular magazines were : a risk of pointed tip bullets firing the primer of the next cartridge in the tube , and the lack of magazine capacity for short weapons such as carbines ( shorter tubes ) . An advantage of the box magazine is quick reloading by inserting a full clip or by a stripper - clip . Rifle and revolver designs . Austria - Hungary . Model 1881 Gendarmarie Carbine ( also known as " M1874 / 81 " ) < br > 1881 Type Trials Rifle s France . Model 1878 Navy rifle ( " Fusil de Marine Mle 1878 " ) , < br > Model 1884 Infantry Rifle ( " Fusil d ' Infanterie Mle 1884 " ) , < br > Model 1885 Infantry Rifle ( " Fusil d ' Infanterie Mle 1885 " ) . Portugal . Model 1886 8 mm Infantry Rifle ( " Espingarda de Infantaria 8 mm m / 1886 " ) , < br > Model 1886 / 89 8 mm Infantry Rifle with heat protecting handguard for colonial use ( " Espingarda de Infantaria 8 mm m / 1886 / 89 " ) , < br > Model 1886 8 mm Light Infantry Carbine ( " Carabina de Caçadores 8 mm m / 1886 " ) < br > Model 1886 8 mm Cavalry Carbine ( " Carabina de Cavalaria 8 mm m / 1886 " ) .
George Cornwallis - West George Frederick Myddleton Cornwallis - West ( 14 November 1874 – 1 April 1951 ) was a British officer of the Scots Guards . He was the only son of Col . William Cornwallis - West ( 1835 – 1917 ) and his wife Mary , née FitzPatrick ( 1856 – 1920 ) . The family moved in aristocratic circles but did not have a great deal of wealth . George Cornwallis - West was noted primarily for his glamorous marriages , the first to Jennie Jerome , mother of Winston Churchill , and the second to the renowned actress Stella Campbell , who was also known on the stage as Mrs . Patrick Campbell . George Bernard Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle in his play Pygmalion for Stella Campbell . Personal life . Capt . Cornwallis - West and Lady Randolph Churchill were married on 28 July 1900 , much to the dismay of her sons Winston and John , who were nearly the same age as their stepfather . In fact , Winston was only 16 days his junior . Jennie Churchill and Cornwallis - West separated in 1912 and divorced in April 1914 , but continued to meet socially upon occasion . After their divorce , she returned to her former name : Lady Randolph Churchill . On 6 April 1914 , Cornwallis - West married Stella Campbell . Cornwallis - West ' s sister , née Mary Theresa Cornwallis - West , was a noted society beauty . Known as Daisy , Princess of Pless , she was the first wife of Hans Heinrich XV , Prince of Pless . Another Cornwallis - West sister , Constance , became the first wife of Hugh Grosvenor , 2nd Duke of Westminster . In 1951 , after having been afflicted for many years with Parkinson ' s disease , Cornwallis - West died by his own hand , leaving no legitimate children . George Cornwallis - West : " Edwardian Hey - Days " ( London , 1934 ) .
USS Calypso ( 1863 ) The first USS " Calypso " was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . " Calypso " was used by the Navy as a gunboat , and was ordered to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries . " Calypso " captured by Union Navy forces . " Calypso " , an armed streamer , was captured 11 June 1863 off Wilmington , North Carolina , by ; purchased from the prize court 12 October 1863 ; and commissioned 24 September 1863 , Acting Master F . D . Stuart in command . Civil War service . Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockade . " Calypso " joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Wilmington , North Carolina , and on 24 October 1863 , took her first prize off Frying Pan Shoals , the schooner " Herald " . Returning to Norfolk , Virginia , in November for repairs , the steamer was back on duty off Wilmington 31 March 1864 . In June she joined with in sailing to New River Inlet to support the Union Army in an expedition to cut the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad . The troops were successfully landed from " Nansemond " in boats from both ships on 21 June , and through the next days , " Calypso ' s " boats patrolled up the river and carried supplies to the Army . When Confederate opposition prevented the linkup of the landing party with a force moving overland , " Calypso " swiftly evacuated the soldiers . Patrolling for blockade runners from the Bahama Islands . Through the summer , " Calypso " patrolled the track of ships attempting to run the blockade from Nassau , Bahamas , and on 28 October 1864 , after a long chase and last minute aid from and , took the steamer " Lady Sterling " . " Calypso " was sent north with her prize 6 November , and after receiving repairs at New York City , returned late in spring 1865 to cruising from Chesapeake Bay to the coast of Florida . Post - war decommissioning and sale . She was decommissioned at the Washington Navy Yard 15 August 1865 , and was sold at New York City 30 November 1865 .
Chebenki ( air base ) Chebenki ( also given as Cheben ' ki , Orenburg Northeast , and Dmitrievka ) is an air base in Russia located 38 km northeast of Orenburg . It has reveted areas for 15 fighters , 8 large aircraft , and considerable tarmac space . The base is served by 118 OVE ( 118th Independent Helicopter Squadron ) flying Mi - 6 and Mi - 8 helicopters . The base has had an Su - 17 and MiG - 23 attack aircraft presence during the Cold War . The base is now used as storage for unused aircraft and helicopters .
David Cousins Air Chief Marshal Sir David Cousins KCB AFC BA RAF is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander . RAF career . He joined the RAF in 1961 and spent three years at RAF College Cranwell . He then had a number of operational flying tours , initially flying Lightnings in the air defence role in the UK and RAF Germany and then Buccaneers for RAF Germany . In 1983 he became Station Commander at RAF Laarbruch , home to two RAF Squadrons flying Jaguars and Tornados . Since then he has had a number of staff appointments in air plans , operational requirements and operations . Following attendance at the Royal College of Defence Studies , he held a number of senior air rank positions on the Air Staff at the Ministry of Defence , in the MoD Procurement Executive , as Commandant of the RAF College Cranwell and , from 1994 , as Air Officer Commanding No . 38 ( Transport ) Group . He was appointed Air Member for Personnel on the Air Force Board and Air Officer Commanding - in - Chief Personnel and Training Command in May 1995 and served in that role until he retired in August 1998 . Since he retired he has served as Honorary Air Commodore of No 7630 ( Volunteer Reserve ) Intelligence Squadron , Royal Auxiliary Air Force since August 2008 : the unit provides support for intelligence analysis and briefings . He has also served as the controller of the RAF Benevolent Fund . Family . He is married to Maggie . He has three children .
USS Swan ( SP - 1437 ) USS " Swan " ( SP - 1437 ) was the proposed designation for a motorboat that never actually served in the United States Navy . " Swan " was a wooden - hulled motor boat acquired by the U . S . Navy from the Conservation Commission of Maryland on 17 August 1917 for section patrol duty in the 5th Naval District during World War I . Apparently never commissioned or placed in service , she was stricken from the Navy List in April 1918 and subsequently returned to the Conservation Commission .
Thomas - Morse MB - 4 The Thomas - Morse MB - 4 was a prototype American mailplane of the 1920s . It was of unusual design , being a biplane with twin fuselages housing the crew of two and a central nacelle which carried the aircraft ' s twin engines in a push - pull configuration . Design and development . The MB - 4 was designed to meet a June 1919 specification from the United States Post Office Department for a two - or three - engined mailplane , required to carry 1 , 500 lb ( 682 kg ) of mail on a single engine . Thomas - Morse chose to use as much as possible of its existing Thomas - Morse MB - 3 fighter in order to reduce costs , using two engineless MB - 3 fuselages to carry the crew and cargo , with the pilot in a cockpit in the nose of the port fuselage and the co - pilot / mechanic in a similar cockpit in the nose of the starboard fuselage , while cargo was carried behind the crew in each fuselage . Two 300 hp ( 224 kW ) Wright - Hisso H V8 engines were mounted in a central nacelle between the two main fuselages in a push - pull configuration , with fuel tanks mounted between the engines . The MB - 4 ' s three - bay biplane wings were all new , with ailerons on the upper wing . It had a conventional tailwheel undercarriage and had two separate tail assemblies , which were standard MB - 3 empennages . Dual controls were fitted , with the pilot able to disconnect the co - pilot ' s controls , but there were no means of communication between the two cockpits . Operational history . The MB - 4 made its maiden flight in February 1920 . While the aircraft had reasonable speed for the time , it was otherwise poor , with one fuselage tending to take - off before the other , while the engines caused severe vibration which overloaded the aircraft ' s structure . It was described as the " worst thing on wings " by Jerome Fried , the general plant superintendent of Thomas - Morse . One aircraft was tested by the US Post Office , but was not used for mail services , and was scrapped in 1921 . At least one MB . 4 ( and possibly 3 ) was delivered to the United States Army Air Service where it was stored before being scrapped . The MB - 4 was a failure , having extremely poor flying characteristics and being described as the " worst thing on wings " , and saw no service other than the trials by the manufacturer , US Army and the US Post Office .
USS Aeolus ( ARC - 3 ) USS " Aeolus " ( ARC - 3 ) began service as , an built by the Walsh - Kaiser Co . , Inc . of Providence , Rhode Island . In the mid - 1950s , she was converted into a cable repair ship to support the SOSUS program , as the lead ship of the , and she performed cable duties for nearly thirty years . Function . The " Aeolus " has principally been used to transport , deploy , retrieve and repair submarine cables , and to conduct acoustic , hydrographic , and bathymetric surveys . Career . USS " Turandot " was decommissioned on 21 March 1946 , struck from the Navy list on 17 April 1947 , and placed in the reserve fleet . In 1954 , the former attack cargo ship was converted to be a cable repair ship , redesignated ARC - 3 , and renamed " Aeolus " . The conversion was performed at the Key Highway yard of the Bethlehem Steel Co . in Baltimore , Maryland . The ship was re - commissioned as ARC - 3 on 14 May 1955 . " Aeolus " worked in the Atlantic and Caribbean during 1955 – 56 ; in the Pacific during 1956 – 59 ; and returned to the Atlantic and Caribbean during 1959 – 62 . During 1962 – 73 she worked principally in the Atlantic , with occasional temporary assignments to the Pacific . In 1973 , " Aeolus " was transferred to the Military Sealift Command ( MSC ) , designated T - ARC - 3 , and operated thereafter by a mostly civilian crew . During her career , " Aeolus " received three Meritorious Unit Commendation s ( in 1970 , 1971 , and 1973 ) . " Aeolus " continued performing cable installations and repairs until 1985 , when she was decommissioned and placed in the James River reserve fleet near Ft . Eustis , VA . In 1987 she was transferred to the State of North Carolina , and in 1988 was sunk to form an artificial reef . The ex - " Aeolus " , located about 22 miles from Beaufort Inlet in of water , is often visited by divers .
Wu Liuqi Wu Liuqi ( 1607 - 1665 ) , s Jianbo ( 鑒伯 ) and Geru ( 葛如 ) , was a general of the Qing Dynasty . He was a native of Fengshun County , Meizhou , Guangdong , but his ancestral home was in Chaoyang , Shantou , Guangdong . Wu Liuqi was born during the reign of the Wanli Emperor in the late Ming Dynasty . In his younger days , he was addicted to gambling and squandered away his family fortune . During the chaotic period leading to the collapse of the Ming Dynasty , Wu Liuqi became a beggar in the Wuyue region , and later came to serve the Yongli Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty ( a state formed by remnants of the fallen Ming Dynasty ) . When the forces of the Manchu - led Qing Dynasty invaded Chaozhou , Wu Liuqi surrendered to Shang Kexi and was appointed the chief military commander in Chaozhou . He was subsequently promoted to " tidu " ( 提督 , equivalent to captain - general ) of Guangdong . The scholar Wang Shizhen ( 王士禛 ) wrote about Wu Liuqi in " Wu Shunke Liuqi Biezhuan " ( 吳順恪六奇別傳 ) , claiming that when Wu was a youth , he met Zha Jizuo , who commented that Wu was " an extraordinary man " ( 海內奇男子 ) . In 1663 , during the early reign of the Kangxi Emperor in the Qing Dynasty , Zha Jizuo was implicated in a case of literary inquisition involving Zhuang Tinglong ( 莊廷鑨 ) and was nearly executed . However , Wu Liuqi intervened and defended Zha Jizuo and eventually saved Zha ' s life . Volume 7 of Wang Shizhen ' s " Xiangzu Biji " ( 香祖筆記 ) recorded : " ( Wu ) Liuqi died in office and was granted the posthumous positions of " shaoshi " ( 少師 ; Young Tutor ) and " taizi taishi " ( 太子太師 ; Crown Prince ' s Tutor ) and the posthumous name of " Shunke " ( 順恪 ) . " In fiction . " Da Li Jiangjun " ( 大力將軍 ; " Great Strength General " ) , one of the stories in " Liaozhai Zhiyi " , mentioned Wu Liuqi , who was referred to as " Wu Liuyi " ( 吳六一 ) in the tale . In this story , Zha Jizuo saw Wu Liuqi lift a huge metal bell in a temple with only one arm and took out rice from inside the bell . Zha was astounded by Wu ' s feat and felt that Wu was an extraordinary person , and he then suggested to Wu to make full use of his ability to do something that would benefit society . Many years later , Wu Liuqi became an official under the Qing Dynasty government and he came back to find Zha Jizuo and thank him . In the short novel " Gusheng " ( 觚賸 ) by Niu Xiu ( 鈕琇 ) , Wu Liuqi was grateful to Zha Jizuo after becoming " tidu " of Guangdong . He sent a huge rock called " Yingshifeng " ( 英石峰 ) to Zha to express his gratitude . The rock was later renamed " Zhouyunfeng " ( 皱云峰 ) and became one of the " Three Famous Rocks of Jiangnan " ( 江南三大名石 ) . Wu Liuqi also appears as a minor character in the novel " The Deer and the Cauldron " by Louis Cha . In the novel , he is nicknamed " Iron Beggar " ( 鐵丐 ) and is a member of the Heaven and Earth Society and the Beggars ' Sect .