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USS Wando ( 1864 ) The first USS " Wando " was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . In commission from 1864 to 1865 , she was used by the United States Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways . Capture . " Wando " was built as the side - wheel steamer SS " Let Her Rip " in 1864 at Glasgow , Scotland , for use as a Confederate blockade runner in the American Civil War . " Let Her Rip " sailed under British colors until May 1864 when the Chicora Import and Export Company of Charleston , South Carolina , purchased her . In July 1864 , after her first blockade - running trip into Wilmington , North Carolina , she was renamed SS " Wando " . " Wando " was captured at sea off Cape Romain , South Carolina , by the Union side - wheel steamer USS " Fort Jackson " on 21 October 1864 as she attempted to slip away from the Confederate coast laden with cotton . The U . S . Navy purchased the ship from the Boston , Massachusetts , prize court on 5 November 1864 , converetd her into a gunboat , and commissioned her as USS " Wando " at the Boston Navy Yard on 22 December 1864 , Acting Master Frederick T . King in command . Union actions . Late in December 1864 , " Wando " proceeded south for duty with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron . She arrived at Port Royal , South Carolina , on 5 January 1865 and was stationed on blockade duty off Charleston in February . " Wando " departed Charleston on 11 February 1865 and joined in amphibious operations against the Confederate fort and batteries at Andersonville , Bull ' s Bay , South Carolina , lasting from 13 February to 17 February 1865 . The fort and batteries were silenced , prompting the evacuation of Charleston on 18 February 1865 . In March , " Wando " joined the blockading force off Georgetown , South Carolina , and then returned to Charleston in April 1865 . Decommissioning and sale . " Wando " remained at Charleston until ordered north to the New York Navy Yard on 28 July 1865 . She was decommissioned there on 10 August 1865 and was sold at public auction on 30 November 1865 to H . Allen . She then became the commercial steamship SS " Wando " , and lasted until February 1872 , when she sank in a storm .
Eisenhower Ten The Eisenhower Ten or E - 10 were a group of U . S . citizens who were secretly tasked by President Eisenhower in 1958 to serve as administrators in the event of a national emergency . There were actually nine positions , but one administrator - designate resigned and was replaced . Eisenhower discussed the issues with each appointee and then personally sent letters of invitation on March 6 , 1958 . The selection and appointment of these administrator - designates was classified Top Secret . In an emergency , each administrator was to take charge of a specifically activated agency to maintain the continuity of government . These agencies would be subordinate to the Director of the Office of Emergency Resources . Gordon Gray , the director of the Office of Defense Mobilization co - ordinated meetings . In May 1961 , Fred Dutton , special assistant to President Kennedy , discovered copies of the letters and informed National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy .
32 Squadron SAAF 32 Squadron was a short lived coastal patrol squadron of the South African Air Force during the Second World War . It was founded in December 1939 and assumed the responsibility for coastal patrols and anti - submarine escorts for shipping . The squadron never had many aircraft ( highest total was seven Ju - 86 and four Avro Anson s ) and remained a small unit for the full duration of its short existence . It was disbanded in August 1940 when its Ju - 86 aircraft were sent to Johannesburg to augment 12 Squadron who were deployed in East Africa .
166th Battalion ( Queen ' s Own Rifles of Canada ) , CEF The 166th ( Queen ' s Own Rifles of Canada ) Battalion , CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War . Based in Toronto , Ontario , the unit began recruiting during the winter of 1915 / 16 from The Queen ' s Own Rifles of Canada , which was based in that city . After sailing to England in October 1916 , the battalion was absorbed into the 12th Reserve Battalion on January 8 , 1917 . The 166th ( Queen ' s Own Rifles of Canada ) Battalion , CEF had one Officer Commanding : Lieut - Col . W . G . Mitchell . References . Meek , John F . " Over the Top ! The Canadian Infantry in the First World War . " Orangeville , Ont . : The Author , 1971 .
HMS Essex ( 1901 ) HMS " Essex " was a " Monmouth " - class armoured cruiser of the Royal Navy which served in the First World War Service history . HMS " Essex " was laid down at Pembroke Dock 2 January 1900 , and launched there on 29 August 1901 , when she was christened by Mrs . Barlow , wife of the Captain - Superintendent of the dockyard . In the view of one man who served aboard Essex around 1911 , she was an unhappy and unpleasant ship and well known as a hot bed of un - natural practices , as told in The Royal Navy , an Illustrated Social History 1870 - 1982 . Men going ashore at Portsmouth wearing an HMS Essex cap would be mocked by local harlots as being unlikely to want their services . On the 16th of June , 1917 , HMS Essex departed from Kantara , Egypt and carried Australian troops ( 4th Light Horse AIF ) back to Australia . She served in the First World War with most of her sisters , and survived to be sold for scrap on 8 November 1921 . " Essex " was eventually broken up in Germany . References . The Royal Navy , an Illustrated Social History 1870 - 1982 . Capt . John Wells . 1984 ISBN 0 - 7509 - 0524 - 7
USS General W . C . Gorgas ( ID - 1365 ) USS " General W . C . Gorgas " ( ID - 1365 ) was a United States Navy troop transport in commission in 1919 , named for William C . Gorgas . Construction and early career . " General W . C . Gorgas " was built in 1902 as the commercial passenger - cargo ship SS " Prinz Sigismund " at Rostock , Germany , by Neptun Aktiengesellschaft , Schiffswerft und Maschinenfabrik for the Hamburg - Amerika Line ( HAL ) . HAL had five of these ships from three builders . The United States Shipping Board seized " Prinz Sigismund " when the United States entered World War I on the side of the Allies in April 1917 . Renamed SS " General W . C . Gorgas " , she carried troops and cargo to Europe during the war under charter operations of the Panama Railroad and Steamship Company of New York City . Her Sisterships " Prinz Eitel Friedrich " and " Prinz Joachim " were too taken over in 1917 by the shipping board and were renamed " Otsego " ( ID - 1628 ) and " Moccasin " ( ID - 1322 ) . United States Navy career . After the war ended on 11 November 1918 , the Shipping Board converted " General W . C . Gorgas " into a troop transport and transferred her to the U . S . Navy in March 1919 for postwar use in bringing American troops home from Europe . The Navy assigned her the naval registry Identification Number ( Id . No . ) 1365 , and commissioned her on 8 March 1919 as USS " General W . C . Gorgas " with Lieutenant Commander James Edward Stone , USNRF , in command . Assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force , " General W . C . Gorgas " departed New York City on 25 April 1919 for Bordeaux , France , where she embarked United States Army troops and loaded cargo . She then returned to the United States , arriving at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , on 2 June 1919 . She again departed for Bordeaux on 5 June 1919 , returning to the United States at Newport News , Virginia , on 4 July 1919 . She brought home 2 , 063 troops from France in these two transatlantic voyages . " General W . C . Gorgas " was decommissioned on 28 July 1919 and transferred the same day to the United States Shipping Board . Later career . Once again SS " General W . C . Gorgas " , she returned to commercial service , operated by Libby , McNeill and Libby . They had bought a year before the " Otsego " , the former Prinz Eitel Fridriech and used it with success for supplying their cannery factories in Alaska . Both former German steamers stayed in service until the war and had the same fate . In November 1941 , she was chartered by the United States Department of War for U . S . Army troop transport service between Seattle , Washington , and the Territory of Alaska as the United States Army Transport ( USAT ) " General W . C . Gorgas " . She continued her Army troopship duties to Alaska until transferred to the War Shipping Administration at Seattle in January 1945 . In 1945 , the War Shipping Administration transferred " General W . C . Gorgas " to the Soviet Union , where she was renamed SS " Mikhail Lomonosov " .
Lindsay Bryson Admiral Sir Lindsay Sutherland Bryson KCB ( 22 January 1925 – 24 March 2005 ) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Controller of the Navy . Naval career . Educated at Allan Glen ' s School in Glasgow , Bryson joined the Royal Navy in 1942 . He served during World War II as an engineering cadet . He commanding the naval engineering training school , HMS " Daedalus " , and then led the Royal Navy ' s guided weapons programmes from 1973 . He was appointed Controller of the Navy in 1981 and served in that role during the Falklands War retiring in 1984 . After leaving the Navy he served in 1985 as president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers . He was Deputy Chairman of GEC - Marconi from 1987 to 1990 . He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex and Brighton and Hove in 1989 . Family . In 1951 he married Averil Curtis - Willson ; they had a son and two daughters .
Peter Hains Peter Hains ( born January 9 , 1872 ) was an Army Captain convicted of killing his wife ' s lover . The case became a sensational murder trial in New York City in 1909 . Abetted by his brother , sea novelist Thornton Jenkins Hains , Peter Hains gunned down prominent magazine editor and Harper ' s contributor William Annis at the latter ' s yacht club in Bayside , Queens . The crime , known as the Hains - Annis Case or the " Murder at the Regatta , " played an important role in the development of criminal and matrimonial law . Peter Hains was convicted of manslaughter and received an eight - year sentence . His brother was initially acquitted but later convicted on retrial before finally receiving a pardon from the governor of New York . It was one of the last cases in which a defendant pleaded Dementia Americana , the psychiatric pathology that allegedly drove American men to kill the lovers of their unfaithful wives . Harry Thaw used a similar defense during his trial for the murder of architect Stanford White . The trial was front page news across the country at the time and ranks with the trials of Josephine Terranova and Richard Bruno Hauptmann as among the most widely watched and reported American criminal trials of the first half of the twentieth century .
USS PC - 1129 USS " PC - 1129 " was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . She was sunk by a Japanese suicide boat in January 1945 in the South China Sea . Career . " PC - 1129 " was launched at Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan in early 1943 . She was sunk on 31 January 1945 by a Japan ese suicide boat off the coast of Luzon in the Philippines . " PC - 1129 " was one of three major ships built at Defoe Shipbuilding Company that were lost during World War II that were ; the others were USS " Rich " ( DE - 695 ) and the United States Coast Guard Cutter " Escanaba " ( WPG - 77 ) .
HMS Moorsom ( K567 ) The second HMS " Moorsom " ( K567 ) was a British Captain - class frigate of the Royal Navy in commission during World War II . Originally constructed as the United States Navy " Evarts " - class destroyer escort DE - 522 , she served in the Royal Navy from 1943 to 1945 . Construction and transfer . The ship was laid down as the unnamed U . S . Navy destroyer escort DE - 522 by the Boston Navy Yard in Boston , Massachusetts , on 14 August 1943 and launched on 24 September 1943 . The United States transferred her to the United Kingdom under Lend - Lease on 10 December 1943 . Service history . The ship was commissioned into service in the Royal Navy as HMS " Moorsom " ( K567 ) under the command of Temporary Lieutenant Gerald Maurice Greenwood , RCNVR , on 10 December 1943 simultaneously with her transfer . She served on convoy escort duty in the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea for the remainder of World War II . In addition , she supported the Allied invasion of Normandy in the summer of 1944 . After the conclusion of the war , " Moorsom " steamed to New York City , arriving there on 16 October 1945 . The Royal Navy decommissioned her there on 25 October 1945 and returned her to the U . S . Navy the same day . Disposal . After her return , " Moorsom " remained in the 3rd Naval District . The U . S . Navy struck her from its Naval Vessel Register on 5 December 1945 and soon sold her for scrapping , which was completed on 12 July 1946 .
Hans Ehlers Hans Ehlers ( 15 July 1914 – 27 December 1944 ) was a former German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II . Hans Ehlers was credited with 55 victories , in addition with some unconfirmed victories in Normandy campaign . Military career . Ehlers was a member of the groundstaff of the Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War . " Unteroffizier " Ehlers was serving with 2 . / JG 3 during the Battle of France . On 18 May 1940 , he recorded his first victories when he claimed two RAF fighters shot down over Valenciennes . He in turn , was shot down by RAF Hawker Hurricane fighters of No . 56 Squadron RAF on the same day and crash - landed his Bf 109 E - 1 south of Valenciennes and was listed as missing . However , Ehlers managed to escape and return to his own lines to rejoin . During the Battle of Britain , Ehlers added a further two victories . Leutnant Ehlers was appointed " Staffelkapitän " of 2 . / JG 1 on 1 October 1943 . On 24 October 1943 , Ehlers was presented the German Cross in Gold by Hermann Göring . On 11 November 1943 , " Oberleutnant " Ehlers became " Staffelkapitän " of 3 . / JG 1 . Hauptmann Ehlers became " Gruppenkommandeur " of I . / JG 1 . He was awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross on 9 June 1944 for 52 victories . On 27 December 1944 , Ehlers led off 18 Fw 190s on a mission to cover ground troops in the Dinant - Rochefort area . Near Mayen , he encountered P - 51 Mustang s of the USAAF 364th Fighter Group and was shot down in his Fw 190 A - 8 . Hans Ehlers was credited with 55 victories . His final score may well be higher if his successes during the Normandy campaign were counted . Ehlers was nominated for the posthumous Oak Leaves to his Knight ' s Cross . This nomination was not approved .
Life support ( aviation ) Life support , or aircrew life support , in aviation , is the field centered on , and related technologies used in , ensuring the safety of aircrew , particularly military aviation . This includes safety equipment capable of helping them survive in the case of a crash , accident , or malfunction . Life support functions and technology are also prominent in the field of human spaceflight .
USS Yacona ( AOG - 45 ) USS " Yacona " ( AOG - 45 ) was a " Mettawee " - class gasoline tanker acquired by the U . S . Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet , and to remote Navy stations . The second ship to be named " Yacona " by the Navy , " AOG - 45 " was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 2071 ) on 23 November 1944 at Bayonne , New Jersey , by the East Coast Shipyard , Inc . ; launched on 14 January 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . Amy Gilhardt ; and commissioned on 7 February 1945 , Lt . Richard A . Urquhart , USNR , in command . World War II service . Following shakedown in Chesapeake Bay , " Yacona " sailed for Miami , Florida , on 19 April . On the 25th , she departed for temporary duty at the Naval Training Station at Miami and operated out of there on training duties into the fall of 1945 . A three - day port visit to Havana , Cuba , from 31 July to 3 August , punctuated her duty in Florida ' s coastal waters . Post - war activity . " Yacona " departed Miami on 4 November , bound for Hampton Roads , Virginia ; and was decommissioned at Norfolk , Virginia , on 20 December 1945 . Decommissioning . Struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1946 , the gasoline tanker was delivered to the War Shipping Administration , Maritime Commission , on 25 July 1946 . Acquired by the Gulf Oil Co . , of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , in 1947 , " Yacona " served this petroleum concern until late in 1976 , when she was purchased by the Sociedad Campania de Navegacion Dormar , Ltd . She served under the Colombian flag , homeported at Isla de San Andrés , Colombia , carrying oil to vessels in Colombia ' s lakes , bays , and sounds . Yacona disappeared from Lloyd ' s List in 1992 and was listed as presumed scrapped at that time .
Rasul Kudayev Rasul Kudayev is a Russia n citizen who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba . Kudayev is a Muslim from the Russian republic of Kabardino - Balkaria . In 1995 , while a young teenager , Kudayev won a wrestling championship . His mother and brother stated that , in 2000 , while still a teenager , Kudayev traveled to Central Asia to advance his sports career . Kudayev , and six other Russian Guantanamo detainees ( including Ruslan Odizhev who also lived in Nalchik ) , were repatriated to Russia , where they faced charges of illegal border crossing , being members of a criminal group and being a mercenary in an armed conflict , but were released without trial shortly after . In 2005 , he was arrested in Nalchik for allegedly taking part in the preparation of the rebel raid , and participation in the attack itself ( taking the road police post in Khasanya suburb of Nalchik ) . On December 2 , 2008 he was reported to have been seriously ill . According to Human Rights Watch Kudayev has yet to stand trial . They reported that he acquired serious liver disease in Guantanamo , which Russian authorities have declined to treat . They report that he was receiving medical treatment for his liver disease at the time authorities assert he was engaging in the Nalchik attack . They claim his confession was coerced through beatings and coercive interrogation techniques . Russian detention . Rasul Kudayev was taken into custody in October 2005 . The " Washington Post " reported he was apprehended : " " in the southern Russian city of Nalchik after an assault on government facilities . " " Russian authorities have held him in extrajudicial detention — they have not laid any charges against him . Pentagon claim he had " returned to the fight " . On May 20 , 2009 , the " New York Times " , citing an unreleased Pentagon document , reported that Department of Defense officials claimed Rasul Kudayev was one of 74 former Guantanatmo captives who " " are engaged in terrorism or militant activity . " " References . < div class = " references - small " >
Kurt von der Chevallerie Kurt Wilhelm Gustav Erdmann von der Chevallerie ( 23 December 1891 – missing as of 18 April 1945 ) was a highly decorated General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 1 . Armee . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Kurt von der Chevallerie was placed on the Führerreserve on 31 January 1945 and disappeared on 18 April 1945 near Kolberg . Von der Chevallerie married Dorothea Zander ( 3 May 1895 – 14 October 1957 ) on 18 December 1918 in Berlin . The couple had four children , one son , Hans - Rudolf ( 11 November 1919 – killed in action as a Leutnant on 11 June 1940 ) , and three daughters .
General Governorate of Belgium The Imperial German General Governorate of Belgium ( ) was a German military government established in occupied Belgium during the First World War . The governorate was set up on 26 August 1914 , when Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz was appointed the military governor of Belgium . He was succeeded by General Moritz von Bissing on 27 November 1914 . Soon after Bissing ' s appointment , the German High Command divided Belgium into three zones . The largest of the zones was the General Governorate , which included the capital Brussels and the surrounding countryside . The second zone , under the control of the German Fourth Army , included the cities of Ghent and Antwerp . The third zone , under the auspices of the German Navy , included all Belgian coastal zones under German occupation . The German occupation tried to keep the pre - war Belgian administrative system as intact as possible and guide it using a small group of German officers and officials with adequate lingual and administrative skills . The occupation tested to destruction what few constraints international law imposed on an occupying power . A heavy - handed German military administration sought to regulate every detail of daily life , both on a personal level with travel restraints and collective punishment as on the economical level by harnessing the Belgian industry to the German advantage and by levying repetitive massive indemnities on the Belgian provinces . Before the War Belgium was the sixth largest economy in the world but the Germans destroyed the Belgian economy thoroughly by dismantling industries and transporting the equipment and machinery to Germany that it never regained its pre - war level . More than 100 , 000 Belgian workers were forcibly deported to Germany to work in the war industry and to Northern France to built roads and other military facilities to the German military ' s benefit . The German High Command hoped to exploit the ethnic tension between the Flemish and Walloons , and envisioned a post - war German protectorate in Flanders , while Wallonia was to be used for industrial materials and labour along with much of northeastern France . In April 1917 Von Bissing died and he was succeeded by Ludwig von Falkenhausen .
Thomas Shaw ( Medal of Honor ) Thomas Shaw ( 1846 – June 23 , 1895 ) was a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and a recipient of America ' s highest military decoration – the Medal of Honor – for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States . Biography . Shaw joined the Army from Pike County , Missouri , and by August 12 , 1881 was serving as a Sergeant in Company K of the 9th Cavalry Regiment . On that day he participated in an engagement at Carrizo Canyon in New Mexico . For his actions during the engagement , Shaw was awarded the Medal of Honor nine years later , on December 7 , 1890 . Shaw died in 1895 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery , Arlington County , Virginia . His grave can be found in section 27 , lot 952 , map grid BB 48 . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Sergeant , Company K , 9th U . S . Cavalry . Place and date : At Carrizo Canyon , N . Mex . , August 12 , 1881 . Entered service at : Pike County , Mo . Birth : Covington , Ky . Date of issue : December 7 , 1890 . Citation : Forced the enemy back after stubbornly holding his ground in an extremely exposed position and prevented the enemy ' s superior numbers from surrounding his command .