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Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Force The Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Force was the mechanized unit that conducted American tank combat in World War I . An initial plan for 2 , 000 light Renault FT tanks and 200 heavy British Mark VI tanks was changed to 20 battalions of 77 light tanks each and 10 battalions of 45 heavy tanks each . A total of eight heavy battalions ( the 301st to 308th ) and 21 light battalions ( the 326th to 346th ) were raised , but only four ( the 301st , 331st , 344th and 345th ) saw combat . Captain George S . Patton , the first officer assigned to the unit , set up a light tank school at Bourg , France , starting on November 10 , 1917 . In the first half of 1918 , the 326th and 327th Tank Battalions were organized at Patton ' s school , while the 301st Heavy Tank Battalion was raised at Camp Meade , Maryland , and transported to the British Tank School in Bovington , England , for training . Combat operations . The 326th ( under the command of Sereno E . Brett ) and 327th Tank Battalions ( later renamed the 344th and 345th and organized into the 304th Tank Brigade ) , were the first into combat , beginning with the Battle of St . Mihiel ( as part of the US IV Corps ) on 12 September 1918 , followed by the Meuse - Argonne Offensive ( as part of the US V Corps ) on 26 September . The small French Renault FT tanks they were equipped with found the going hard and many were lost or ran out of fuel crossing the battlefield – the Germans , forewarned , had largely retreated from the salient . The 331st Tank Battalion ( organized into the 306th Tank Brigade ) first saw action in the Meuse - Argonne Offensive ( as part of V Corps ) in November . The 301st , equipped with British Mark V s , suffered large casualties in the Battle of St . Quentin Canal on 29 September as part of the British 4th Tank Brigade , under the control of the Australian Corps . Some tanks were hit by shelling before the start line , while others were lost crossing an unreported British minefield . Of the 34 participating tanks , only 10 made rallying . The 301st then seized the village of Brancourt on 8 October , fought in the Battle of the Selle on 18 October , and participated in a night attack on 22 – 23 October in the vicinity of the Sambre Canal . Postwar . The AEF Tank Corps was disbanded after the November 11 , 1918 armistice and remaining tank corps personnel transferred to the United States , where the Tank Corps , National Army was disbanded with the National Army in 1920 . Headquarters and Headquarters Company ( HHC ) , 304th Tank Brigade , Tank Corps transferred to Camp Meade , Maryland and consolidated with HHC , 305th Tank Brigade on 22 June 1921 , reorganized and was redesignated HHC , 1st Tank Group . This organization was reorganized and redesignated HHC , 1st Tank Regiment on 1 September 1929 . The 1st Tank Regiment was reorganized and redesignated the 66th Infantry Regiment ( Light Tanks ) on 25 October 1932 .
Tesfaye Gebre Kidan Tesfaye Gebre Kidan ( 1935 ? – 2 June 2004 ) was an Ethiopia n general who was President of Ethiopia for one week in late May 1991 . Tesfaye was a student at Holetta Military Academy , where he met Mengistu Haile Mariam ; according to Gebru Tareke , along with Legesse Asfaw and Gebreyes Wolde Hana Tesfaye was part of Mengistu ' s inner circle , his " pals Mengistu knew more intimately in less pressing times , men who played and drank with him and stood by him during the bloody factional days of the Derg . " While a colonel , Tesfaye was a member of the Derg , the military committee which seized power from Emperor Haile Selassie , and which would later order the executions of his officials and allegedly the murder of the deposed Emperor himself . He had military successes in Somalia and Eritrea , notably as commander of the forces around Jijiga during the Ogaden War . Elevated to the rank of Lt . General , Tesfaye Gebre Kidan went on to serve as the longtime Minister of Defence , then on 14 May 1988 was made military governor and general commander in Eritrea . He was recalled to Addis Ababa from Asmara to serve on the military tribunal , which tried the high - ranking officers who had tried to depose President Mengistu in 1989 following the decisive defeat at the Battle of Shire . He became vice - President of the People ' s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia until 21 May 1991 , when Mengistu fled as rebel forces closed in on the capital , making him acting president . Upon assuming power , General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan found his government falling apart as the Ethiopian People ' s Revolutionary Democratic Front marched into Addis Ababa and seized power on 28 May . " Government troops turned on one another , " read one contemporary account . " Soldiers wantonly looted state property . " Tesfaye informed the U . S . chargé d ' affaires in Addis Ababa that he could no longer control the situation , then after announcing a unilateral cease - fire he fled for the safety of the Italian Embassy . The General remained a virtual prisoner in the Embassy until 2 June 2004 , when he was killed in a brawl with his fellow Derg member and former Foreign Minister Birhanu Bayeh , who had accompanied him into the Embassy 13 years earlier . Notes .
Horst Hofmann Horst Hofmann ( 18 January 1919 in Cranzahl , Erzgebirge – 14 June 1978 in Lübeck ) was a German watch officer and coxswain on a U - boat in 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 .
Hans - Hartwig Trojer Hans - Hartwig Trojer ( 22 January 1916 – 27 September 1943 ) was a German U - Boat commander in 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 . Naval career . He joined the Kriegsmarine in April 1936 and was a member of the Olympia crew . Because he had been born in Transylvania , he was nicknamed " Count Dracula " by his comrades . In 1938 he joined the U - boat service , and spent his first two years as watch officer on the and . After completing his commander training , Trojer was promoted to " Oberleutnant zur See " and took command of the . In March 1942 he was assigned to command the new Type VIIc boat . He sank six ships for a total of 29 , 682 GRT on his first patrol and he and his crew earned a mention in the " Wehrmachtbericht " for this . On his third patrol he was informed by a radio message that he had received the Knights cross . On 1 April 1943 he received a promotion to " Kapitänleutnant " . Hans - Hartwig Trojer was killed when " U - 221 " was sunk with all hands by a British Halifax bomber south of Ireland on 27 September 1943 .
Twenty - Ninth Army ( Japan ) The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II . History . The Japanese 29th Army was initially raised on January 6 , 1944 in the Taiping in Perak state in Japanese - occupied Malaya as a garrison force , and in anticipation of Allied attempted to invade and retake the Malay Peninsula . Initially under command of the Southern Expeditionary Army Group , the IJA 29th Army was transferred to the Japanese Seventh Area Army on March 27 , 1944 . As the war situation on the Pacific front grew increasingly desperate for Japan , the Imperial Japanese Army was unable to provide reinforcements and resupply to units south of the Philippines , and the IJA 29th Army was demobilized at the surrender of Japan without having seen combat .
84 Avenue Foch Number 84 Avenue Foch was a building in Paris used by the Nazi SS during the German occupation of Paris during World War II . The location is found on Avenue Foch , a wide residential boulevard in the XVIe arrondissement which connects the Arc de Triomphe and the Porte Dauphine . During the German occupation of northern France , the buildings at numbers 82 , 84 and 86 of the Avenue Foch were taken over by the counter - intelligence branch of the SS , known as the Sicherheitsdienst , or SD . Number 84 was used for imprisonment and interrogation of foreign agents captured in France , such as those of the British Special Operations Executive . There were frequent transfers of prisoners between number 84 and Fresnes prison on the outskirts of the city . The second floor housed the SD ' s wireless section controlled by Josef Goetz , from where the ' radio game ' with SOE was conducted , using captured wireless sets and code s to transmit bogus messages . The fourth floor was taken up by the office and private quarters of SS Sturmbannführer Josef Kieffer , who was in charge at number 84 , and the office of his assistant . On the fifth ( top ) floor were the guardroom , an interpreter ' s office , and cells for the confinement of prisoners under interrogation . A senior interrogator at number 84 was Ernest Vogt , a Swiss - German civilian who since 1940 had been attached to the SD as a civil auxiliary in the capacity of translator and interpreter .
William J . Sharkey William J . Sharkey ( 20 March 1885 – 5 October 1918 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I . Biography . Born in Auburn , New York , Sharkey attained the enlisted rate of Chief Gunners Mate . He was appointed Ensign on 15 March 1918 and assigned to the submarine . On 5 October 1918 , fumes were reported in the after battery room , and Lieutenant ( junior grade ) Sharkey was killed as he tried to prevent the explosion that followed . Namesake . was named for him .
Hans - Joachim Heyer Hans - Joachim Heyer ( 20 April 1922 – 9 November 1942 ) was a German Luftwaffe 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 . Hans - Joachim Heyer was shot down near Leningrad , Russia on 9 November 1942 . He was posthumously awarded the Knight ' s Cross on 25 November 1942 . During his career he was credited with 53 aerial victories , all of them on the Eastern Front .
Delta G Scientific Company Delta G Scientific Company was originally a front company established April 1982 in Weldegraan by the South African Defence Force to research and produce chemical weapons within a covert operation known as Project Coast . Medchem Consolidated Investments - was registered in the Cayman Islands by a David Webster on behalf of Wouter Basson , who held 75 % of Delta G shares . Delta G was acquired in 1993 by Dow Sentrachem .
Fortuna Glacier Fortuna Glacier is a tidewater glacier at the mouth of Cumberland Bay on the island of South Georgia . It flows in a northeast direction to its terminus just west of Cape Best , with an eastern distributary almost reaching the west side of Fortuna Bay , on the north coast of South Georgia . It was named in about 1912 , presumably after the whale catcher " Fortuna " . It is the largest glacier on the island , and is notable for two major events in the 20th Century . 1916 . In mid - April 1915 , explorer Ernest Shackleton ' s ship " Endurance " , carrying the 27 members of his Antarctic expedition , became locked in the polar ice in the Weddell Sea just off Antarctica . In the spring of 1916 , as the ice warmed and drifted north , the ship was crushed . The party used the lifeboats to get to Elephant Island , a desolate , uninhabited island at the edge of the Antarctic Peninsula . There they were stranded . Shackleton and five others crammed into a lifeboat , the " James Caird " , sailed across the Scotia Sea for , reaching South Georgia two weeks later . They landed on the island ' s uninhabited west side at King Haakon Bay . Poor weather preventing them from setting sail again to one of the whaling stations on the island ' s east side , which were the only human habitation on South Georgia . Instead they had to cross the largely unknown interior of the island . Shackleton beached his boat and with two others made his traverse of the island , crossing the Fortuna Glacier in the process . Thirty - six hours later they reached Stromness whaling station . 1982 . When Argentina militarily occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia , the British Armed Forces recaptured the island in ' Operation Paraquet ' , thereby removing the Argentinian military presence and restoring the island to British Sovereignty . It was decided to land a mountain troop of Special Air Service soldiers on the glacier , to approach Grytviken from the most unlikely direction . After the troops were landed on the glacier in conditions of extremely poor visibility and gale extreme force winds on 21 April , their conditions deteriorated rapidly still further . During several repeated rescue attempts the following day by a Wessex 3 ( Antrim ) and two Wessex V ( Tidespring ) helicopters , the Wessex V aircraft crashed in extreme weather conditions . The Wessex 3 , crewed by Lt Cdr Ian Stanley , Lt Chris Parry , Sub Lt Stewart Cooper and PO ACMN David Fitzgerald , succeeded in rescuing all troops and aircrew in an amazing feat of flying and navigation just before dark . On returning to Antrim , the Wessex 3 ( which can be seen at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton , Somerset ) held 16 personnel instead of its normal 4 capacity .
Nikonov NA - 2 and NA - 4 The NA - 2 and NA - 4 were two early factory prototypes created by Gennadiy Nikonov during the development of AN - 94 . Although they used a similar mechanism with the later prototypes of Nikonov AS and ASM , the NA series differed in that they were of bullpup configuration , which was later abandoned by Nikonov stating with the first AS prototype . The pistol grip of NA - 2 and NA - 4 is rather unusual even for this type of design . It is angled forward rather than backward , forcing the shooter to lean significantly into the gun ; it was also located very close to the magazine . As with the early prototypes of AN - 94 , these guns cold fire a three - round burst at 1 , 800 rpm before switching to a lower cyclic rate of 600 rpm . ( The 1 , 800 rpm cycle was reduced to just two rounds later in the development of the AS - series prototypes . )
Dudley Beaumont Dudley John Beaumont ( 1877 – 24 November 1918 ) was a British army officer and painter . He was the first husband of Sibyl Hathaway , 21st Seigneur of Sark , and grandfather of her successor , Michael Beaumont . Life . Beaumont was the son of William Spencer Beaumont and the great grandson of John Thomas Barber Beaumont , both British Army officers . While painting a portrait of her , Beaumont became infatuated with Sibyl Collings , the daughter of Seigneur William Frederick Collings of Sark . Despite her father ' s severe opposition , the couple eloped and married . Beaumont and Collings together had seven children : Bridget Amice Beaumont ( 1902 – 1948 ) ; Francis William Lionel Beaumont ( 1903 – 1941 ) , father of John Michael Beaumont ; Cyril John Astley Beaumont ( 1905 – 1973 ) ; Basil Ian Beaumont ( 1908 – 1909 ) ; Douce Alianore Daphne Beaumont ( 1910 – 1967 ) ; Richard Vyvyan Dudley Beaumont ( b . 1915 ) ; Jehanne Rosemary Ernestine Beaumont ( 1919 – 88 ) . Collings writes extensively about her relationship with Beaumont in her 1961 autobiography . Beaumont first joined the British Army as a part - time second lieutenant in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion , Gloucestershire Regiment on 5 August 1905 , but he resigned that commission on 24 March 1908 . When the First World War began in 1914 , Beaumont joined the 2 / 5 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment , By 25 August 1915 he was a temporary lieutenant and was transferred to the General List for service with the West African Frontier Force ( WAFF ) . On 1 May 1916 he was transferred back to the Glosters still in the rank of temporary lieutenant but was granted seniority in that rank from 27 September 1914 . He was then further transferred to a labour battalion , the 36th Battalion , Royal Fusiliers on 17 June 1916 . He relinquished his commission on 19 July 1917 due to ill - health . Official records show his date of qualification for the Silver War Badge as 11 September 1915 , suggesting that whatever wound or disease eventually led to his discharge occurred or was contracted on that date . This source also indicates that he served in Cameroon . There is some contradiction of the official sources in family accounts : in an announcement of his son ' s marriage in 1924 , his rank is given as captain ; and his wife writes in relation to his death that in 1918 Beaumont was deployed in France when the Spanish flu pandemic brokeout and then had misfortune of being sent to London on leave at the height of the pandemic in that city . Beaumont died of the Spanish flu on 24 November 1918 at the age of 41 . He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Brookwood , Surrey , England .
TKB - 517 The TKB - 517 assault rifle was designed by Gherman A . Korobov . This rifle was similar externally to the AK - 47 but based on the delayed blowback mechanism invented by Pál Király . It turned out to be more reliable and accurate , and easier to produce and maintain . Like the AK series , it was also manufactured with folding stocks , long heavier barrels with bipods forming light support weapons and even a belt - fed variant . Its rejection was because of a greater proficiency with the AK - 47 among the Russian military . Overview . The TKB - 517 is externally similar to the AK - 47 and field - strips similarly , but instead it uses Lever - Delayed Blowback for its operation , slightly reducing recoil and making it more controllable . The receiver is made from pressed steel with laminated wood stock , grip and handguards .
James Conlin James Conlin ( 6 July 1881 – 23 June 1917 ) was an English footballer who played club football for Bradford City between 1904 and 1906 . He represented the English national side once , in 1906 , in a match against Scotland . He was killed in June 1917 in Flanders , during the First World War .
Battle of Lipnic The Battle of Lipnic ( or Lipnica , or Lipniţi ) was a battle between the Moldavia n forces under Stephen the Great , and the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde led by Khan Mamak , and which took place on the August 20 , 1470 . The battle . In the summer of 1470 ( other sources give 1469 ) , Mamak ( Ahmed Khan ) , the Great Khan of the Great Horde , the central principality of the Mongol - Tatar Golden Horde , organized an attack against Moldavia , the Kingdom of Poland , and Lithuania . Stephen and the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon were previously informed of the future attack by the Khan of the Crimean Khanate , Meñli I Giray ( 1466 - 1515 , with intermittence ) , who was an occasional ally of Stephen the Great , and had a clear stance against the Golden Horde . The hordes unleashed a three - directional attack via Podolia , being conducted by the brother and son of the Khan . They first raided and pillaged the eastern territories of Poland , and as Casimir failed to gather enough forces to attack them , the Tatars then headed southwards against Moldavia . Chronicle s speak of several clashes and two other battles both of which being won by the Moldavians . Nevertheless , the final and most violent was to take place at Lipinţi , a village near the Dniester , in the Soroca County , modern Republic of Moldova . By this time , the Tatars had started to retreat carrying into slavery several thousand women and children , hundreds of herds of cattle , horses , and flocks of sheep . By August 20 , Stephen managed to swerve this Tatar convoy , and to divert them to a trap set at the edge of the lime tree forest near Lipnic , and to force the Tatars to face the Moldavians in an open battle . There are no actual descriptions of the battle , but it is accounted as to have been a bloody and violent one . Large numbers from the ranks of both the Moldavians and of the Tatars perished . While most of the Tatars died in the battle itself , a large number of them actually drowned in the Dniester while attempting escape by fleeing . Numerous Tatars were captured , including the Khan ’ s son . The Khan ’ s brother died in the battle . Aftermath . Stephen conditioned the life of the Khan ' s son on his father ' s making peace on Moldavia , stating that his son would live until the exact day that a Tatar would touch the land of Moldavia . However , the Khan ' s son was eventually killed , after an episode at Stephens ' s court . This episode is mentioned by Stanislaus Sarnicius ( Sarnicki ) , as well as by Jan Długosz in his " Historia Polonica " : Mamak Khan failed to organize a new attack against Stephen . By 1502 , the Great Horde was completely destroyed by Meñli I Giray of the Crimean Khanate . Stephen took measures to protect his eastern frontier , strengthened the Orhei and Tighina fortresses , and built the Soroca fortress , thus completing the Eastern line of defence along the river Nistru . Tatar attacks continued against Moldavia , this time from the other Tataric states from north of the Black Sea .
820th Bombardment Squadron The 820th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . Its last assignment was with the 41st Bombardment Group , based at Fort Lawton , Washington . It was inactivated on 4 January 1946 . History . Formed in late 1942 and equipped with Lockheed Ventura antisubmarine patrol aircraft . Assigned to Third Air Force and performed antisubmarine patrols over the Southeast Atlantic coast until July 1943 . Realigned as a B - 25 Mitchell medium bomber squadron after the Navy took over the antisubmarine mission . Trained under Third Air Force , then deployed to California before being deployed to Seventh Air Force . Completed final training in Hawaii and moved to Tarawa in the Central Pacific in December 1943 . Entered combat and attacked enemy installations , airfields , and shipping in the Marshall Islands in preparation for the invasion by US forces , and after February 1944 staged through captured fields on Eniwetok to attack shipping in the Caroline Islands . In April 1944 moved to Makin where its missions were directed primarily against shipping and bypassed islands in the Marshalls and Carolines . Returned to Hawaii in October 1944 for training with rockets and new B - 25 ' s . Moved to Okinawa , May – June 1945 . Bombed airfields , railways , and harbor facilities on Kyushu until August 1945 . Also flew some missions against airfields in China . Moved to Manila in December 1945 . Inactivated in the Philippines on January 27 , 1946 .