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USS Charles Lawrence ( DE - 53 ) USS " Charles Lawrence " ( DE - 53 / APD - 37 ) , a of the United States Navy , was named in honor of Ordnanceman Charles Lawrence ( 1916 – 1941 ) , who was killed in action during the Japan ese attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 . " Charles Lawrence " was laid down on 1 August 1942 at the Bethlehem - Hingham Shipyard , Inc . , in Hingham , Massachusetts , launched on 16 February 1943 , sponsored by Mrs . S . Lawrence , and commissioned on 31 May 1943 , with Lieutenant Commander L . S . Kintberger in command . Service history . Assigned first to escort central Atlantic convoys of tankers between Norfolk , Virginia , and Casablanca , " Charles Lawrence " made one such voyage between 16 August and 24 September 1943 . She was then transferred to the high - speed tanker convoys formed at New York from ships which had sailed independently up the east coast , now swept of the submarine menace , from West Indian oil ports . Between 13 October 1943 and 23 September 1944 , " Charles Lawrence " escorted eight such convoys to Northern Ireland , returning with the tankers in ballast to New York . This flow of the fuel of war was so safely guarded by her group that only one tanker was lost in any of their passages . Along with the constant alertness against submarine attack , " Charles Lawrence " had to maintain a high standard of seamanship to keep the seas in all kinds of weather . At one time , during what was known as the " Christmas Hurricane " of 1943 , the ships of her convoy were virtually hove - to for 20 hours . " Charles Lawrence " was reclassified APD - 37 on 23 October 1944 , and was converted to a high speed transport in New York City , and became the name ship of the class . After a brief shakedown , she cleared Norfolk , Virginia , on 27 January 1945 for Pearl Harbor , where she replenished between 22 February and 5 March . She was routed on to Ulithi , where she arrived on 23 March to join the Northern Attack Force Screen for the assault on Okinawa . " Charles Lawrence " arrived off the Hagushi beaches on 1 April 1945 , in the screen for a group of 20 transports . She remained close inshore to guard the launching of the initial assault waves , then moved out to sea to take her place on the semi - circular screen established around the transport area . For three months , she continued to patrol watchfully off Okinawa , guarding against attack by suicide boats and aircraft or submarines . The only interruptions to this vigil came when she was ordered to escort shipping away from the embattled island to ports in the Philippines , Marianas , and Carolines . Firing often against the desperate kamikaze s , she escaped injury . After the war , " Charles Lawrence " covered the landing of occupation forces in the Inland Sea , then acted as transport between the Philippines and Manus . She returned to San Diego on 16 December 1945 , and to Norfolk , Virginia , on 30 December . On 21 June 1946 she was decommissioned , in reserve at Green Cove Springs , Florida . Awards . " Charles Lawrence " received one battle star for World War II service .
USS Mississinewa ( AO - 144 ) USS " Mississinewa " ( AO - 144 ) was a " Neosho " - class fleet oiler of the United States Navy in service from 1955 to the early 1990s . The second " Mississinewa " was laid down by New York Shipbuilding Corporation , Camden , New Jersey , in May 1953 and was launched on 12 June 1954 , sponsored by Mrs . Wright . She was commissioned on 18 January 1955 , Captain M . J . Jensen in command . Service history . United States Navy , 1955 – 1976 . " Mississinewa " , second of a class designed to provide fuel , food , stores , and mail services rapidly and for sustained periods to ships at sea , operated primarily along the U . S . East Coast , with one brief Mediterranean deployment , until 1 May 1956 . She then departed her original home port , Newport , Rhode Island , for Naples , Italy . With Naples as her home port , the tanker cruised the Mediterranean servicing the 6th Fleet in normal and crisis operations until 1964 . During the fall of 1956 and early winter 1957 , she supported 6th Fleet ships as they stood by in case they were called on to intervene in the Suez Crisis and the tense period that followed . Again , in mid ‑ July 1958 , she got underway on short notice to provide logistic support to ships of the 6th Fleet during an emergency in the Middle East , this time in Lebanon . Remaining off the Lebanese coast until September , she refueled over 200 ships as the U . S . 6th Fleet landed the U . S . Marine Corps and then stood by at the request of President Chamoun of Lebanon , in " Operation Blue Bat " . From 1962 to 1964 , " Mississinewa " s responsibilities were increased as she served as flagship of Commander Service Force , 6th Fleet . Prior to the reassignment of Newport as her home port in September 1964 , " Mississinewa " had returned to the United States only for regularly scheduled yard periods . During those intervals she received new equipment during overhaul , which included in 1957 the installation of a helipad and the assignment of a helicopter for use in vertical replenishment . Since 1964 , into 1969 , she operated in the western Atlantic , from Newfoundland to the Caribbean , with regular deployments to the Mediterranean and one , in August 1966 , to northern Norway for NATO exercises . Military Sealift Command , 1976 – 1991 . " Mississinewa " was decommissioned on 15 November 1976 by the U . S . Navy , and placed in service with the Military Sealift Command as USNS " Mississinewa " ( T - AO - 144 ) , continuing her service with a civilian crew . She was placed out of service in 1991 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 16 February 1994 . Disposal . " Mississinewa " was transferred to the United States Maritime Administration ( MARAD ) on 1 May 1999 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet , James River , Fort Eustis , Virginia . " Mississinewa " departed the National Defense Reserve Fleet , James River Group , under a disposal contract on 30 January 2007 to be scrapped at International Shipbreaking Ltd . ( ESCO ) , Brownsville , Texas .
Ralyn M . Hill Ralyn M . Hill ( May 6 , 1899 – March 25 , 1977 ) was a soldier in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during World War I . Biography . Hill was born in Lindenwood , Illinois on May 6 , 1899 and died March 25 , 1977 . He is buried in Abilene Cemetery , Abilene , Kansas . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Corporal , U . S . Army , Company H , 129th Infantry , 33d Division . Place and date : Near Donnevoux , France , 7 October 1918 . Entered service at : Oregon , Ill . Born : 6 May 1899 , Lindenwood , Ill . G . O . No . : 34 , W . D . , 1919 . Citation : Seeing a French airplane fall out of control on the enemy side of the Meuse River with its pilot injured , Cpl . Hill voluntarily dashed across the footbridge to the side of the wounded man and , taking him on his back , started back to his lines . During the entire exploit he was subjected to murderous fire of enemy machineguns and artillery , but he successfully accomplished his mission and brought his man to a place of safety , a distance of several hundred yards .
306th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron The 306th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron is a provisional United States Air Force unit . It is assigned to Air Mobility Command , and operates from Joint Base Andrews , Maryland . Mission . Attached to the 89th Airlift Wing , Joint Base Andrews , Maryland , with 60 maintenance personnel , and also nearly a dozen operations personnel supporting four C - 17 Globemaster III s . The squadron supports presidential airlift , through a mission known as " Banner Express " . Aircraft and personnel are pre - positioned to support an expected surge in airlift requirements . It is expected to commence operations in April 2012 and will inactivate in late November . History . Activated in September 1943 under I Troop Carrier Command and equipped with C - 47 Skytrain s . Trained in various parts of the eastern United States until early 1944 . Deployed to England and assigned to IX Troop Carrier Command , Ninth Air Force . Prepared for the invasion of Nazi - occupied Europe . Began operations by dropping paratroop s of the 101st Airborne Division in Normandy on D - Day ( 6 June 1944 ) and releasing gliders with reinforcements on the following day . The unit received a Distinguished Unit Citation and a French citation for these missions . After the Normandy invasion the squadron ferried supplies in the United Kingdom . After moving to France in September , the unit dropped paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division near Nijmegen and towed gliders carrying reinforcements during the airborne attack on Holland . In December , it participated in the Battle of the Bulge by releasing gliders with supplies for the 101st Airborne Division near Bastogne . When the Allies made the air assault across the Rhine River in March 1945 , each aircraft towed two gliders with troops of the 17th Airborne Division and released them near Wesel . The squadron also hauled food , clothing , medicine , gasoline , ordnance equipment , and other supplies to the front lines and evacuated patients to rear zone hospitals . It converted from C - 47s to C - 46s and the new aircraft to transport displaced persons from Germany to France and Belgium after V - E Day . Inactivated in Germany in September 1946 . Postwar the squadron was activated in the air force reserve in 1940 at Fairfax Field , Kansas , operating C - 46 Commandos for Tactical Air Command Eighteenth Air Force . Inactivated during the Korean War in 1951 , its aircraft and personnel being used as fillers for active duty units , then inactivated .
USS Choctaw ( 1898 ) The second USS " Choctaw was a yard tug in the United States Navy from the Spanish – American War to World War II . She was renamed USS " Wicomico in 1918 . USS " Choctaw " . A steam tug built at Philadelphia by Neafie & Levy as " C . G . Coyle " , she was completed in 1892 . Acquired by the Navy from W . G . Coyle Co . for service during the Spanish - American War , the tug was renamed " Choctaw " and commissioned on 19 April 1898 . Attached to the Auxiliary Naval Force for patrol duty during the brief war with Spain , " Choctaw " operated in the Gulf of Mexico through the cessation of hostilities . That same year , on 26 August , she was decommissioned at the Pensacola Navy Yard . Recommissioned the following year on 15 June , " Choctaw " sailed for Portsmouth , New Hampshire , with USS " Monongahela " in tow , before reporting to the naval training station at Newport , Rhode Island for duty as a yard tug and ferry . Subsequently detached and sent to the Norfolk Navy Yard for repairs , the ship was again placed out of commission on 15 July 1902 . Placed back in active service in 1904 , " Choctaw " served at the Washington Navy Yard through World War I . She was renamed " Wicomico " on 20 February 1918 . USS " Wicomico " ( YT - 26 ) . On Memorial Day ( 30 May ) 1918 , " Wicomico " took part in a memorial ceremony , sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution , for all victims of World War I who died at sea , particularly victims of the sinking of RMS " Lusitania " . A floral wreath was thrown into the Potomac from " Wicomico " ' s deck . The former Vanderbilt steam yacht HMS " Warrior " also took part in the ceremony . On 17 July 1920 " Wicomico " was designated YT - 26 . Transferred to the Norfolk Navy Yard on 21 April 1921 , she served in the 5th Naval District through the outbreak of World War II . On 15 February 1940 , " Wicomico " collided with the destroyer USS " Goff " in Hampton Roads and sank shortly thereafter . Struck from the Navy list on 27 February 1940 , the ship was salvaged and subsequently scrapped .
Garibaldi Legion The Garibaldi Legion ( or Garibaldians ) was a small unit of Italian volunteers who fought for Polish independence in the January Uprising of 1863 . The unit was named after the Italian revolutionary and nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi , organized in Italy by his son Menotti Garibaldi and led by the general Francesco Nullo . Nullo was a supporter of the Polish cause , and called for volunteers in his hometown of Bergamo . Having gathered a number of volunteers , he arrived in Kraków from Italy in April 1863 . The Italians have crossed the borders of Congress Poland on May the 3rd near Krzeszowice , joining with a group of Polish insurgents led by colonel Józef Miniewski . That day the unit ' s first battle in Poland occurred at Podłęże where it defeated a Russian force . Subsequently , on May the 5th , it took part in the Battle of Krzykawka , where it suffered heavy casualties ; Nullo was killed together with the Polish commander Miniewski ; Nullo ' s adjutant Elia Marchetti was mortally wounded and died several days later . After the battle , some Garibaldians were taken prisoner and deported to Siberia ; others managed to escape the battlefield and returned to Italy . Most sources estimate the strength of this unit to be about twenty . While the military contribution of the Garibaldi ' s Legion was hardly significant , as a symbol of foreign support for the Poles it was vividly remembered . A number of streets , as well as schools , in many cities in Poland are named in honor of Nullo or his unit .
Roy Redgrave ( British Army officer ) Major - General Sir Roy Michael Frederick Redgrave , KBE MC ( 16 September 1925 – 3 July 2011 ) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong . Military career . Educated at Lambrook preparatory school and Sherborne School , Redgrave joined Royal Horse Guards as a trooper in 1943 . In 1953 he managed the Hyde Park Horse Camp for the Coronation of the Queen . Then in the late 1950s he was deployed to Cyprus at the height of the EOKA resistance campaign . He was made Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Regiment in 1962 and of the Royal Horse Guards in 1964 . He became Commandant of the Royal Armoured Corps Centre in 1974 and Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1975 . He went on to be Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong in 1978 and retired in 1980 . He was related to the Redgrave family of actors , via his father Robin Roy Redgrave , who was the patriarch Roy Redgrave ' s son by his first wife . Thus he was a nephew of Sir Michael Redgrave and a half - blood first cousin of Vanessa , Corin and Lynn Redgrave . He had two sons .
Alexander McCormick , Jr . Alexander Agnew McCormick , Jr . ( 15 December 1897 – 24 September 1918 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during World War I . Biography . Born in Chicago , Illinois , McCormick was the son of " Chicago Evening Post " editor and Chicago city alderman Alexander A . McCormick ( better known as " A . A . McCormick " ) and his wife Maude Warner . He attended the University of Chicago High School , and entered Yale University with the Class of 1919 . He enlisted as a Seaman ( 2nd Class ) in the U . S . Naval Aviation Forces on 16 April 1917 and trained at Buffalo , New York with the Aerial Coast Patrol Unit No . 2 , which had been organized at Yale shortly after the United States declared war on Germany . He was commissioned in the U . S . Naval Reserve Force as an ensign on 2 November 1917 and was stationed at the Naval Air Station , Pensacola , Florida , until 28 May 1918 . He was assigned to Squadron 214 of the Royal Air Force and served in France . On 24 September 1918 , Lieutenant ( Junior Grade ) McCormick received fatal injuries in battle while an aerial gunner with the Northern Bombing Group in a mission near Calais . Buried in the military cemetery at Calais , he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross . He received the degree of B . A . , " post obitum " , " honoris causa " , from Yale University in June 1919 . He had been selected for membership in Skull and Bones . His remains now lie at the Somme American Cemetery in Aisne , France . His nephew , Alexander McCormick Sturm , was co - founder of firearms manufacturer Sturm , Ruger in 1949 . Namesake . The destroyer USS " McCormick " ( DD - 223 ) was named for him .
Australian Corps The Australian Corps was a World War I army corps that contained all five Australian infantry division s serving on the Western Front . It was the largest corps fielded by the British Empire army in France . Formed on 1 November 1917 , the corps replaced I Anzac Corps while II Anzac Corps , which contained the New Zealand Division , became the British XXII Corps . Following the hard fighting of 1917 , where the Australian divisions suffered heavily at Bullecourt , Messines and the Third Battle of Ypres , the Australian Imperial Force ( AIF ) was facing a manpower crisis . One referendum for conscription had already failed and another would be defeated on 1 December 1917 . Voluntary recruitment was declining . Plans to form a 6th Australian Division were scrapped and the incomplete formation was disbanded . To make up the numbers , it was proposed to disband the Australian 4th Division , numerically the weakest , but this was strongly resisted by the members of the AIF . General William Birdwood , commander of the AIF , suggested that , in forming the Australian Corps , the weakest division could serve as a depot , providing reserves for the fighting divisions . Field Marshal Douglas Haig , commander of the British Expeditionary Force , accepted this proposal . He had originally resisted combining the five Australian divisions into a single corps as he considered it too unwieldy . The Australian nature of the corps was enhanced by the attachment of No . 3 Squadron AFC plus Australian siege artillery batteries . It was also considered appropriate to appoint Australian officers to all senior command positions . However , Birdwood remained in command of the corps . General Hubert Gough was dismissed from command of the British Fifth Army following its failure to withstand the German Spring Offensive of 1918 . When Haig decided to reform the Fifth Army , he offered its command to Birdwood who accepted . This paved the way for an Australian to assume command of the corps , the highest field command held by an Australian in the war . The two candidates were Major General Cyril Brudenell White ( Birdwood ' s chief - of - staff ) and Major General John Monash ( commander of the 3rd Division ) . Monash , who was senior , had experience commanding troops in battle and was favoured by Haig and Birdwood , got the post in May 1918 . The Australian Corps was used extensively throughout the Hundred Days Offensive during which it achieved great success . The 4th Division saw little rest in its role as the " depot " . In December 1917 it was moved into reserve near Péronne following the German counter - attack in the Battle of Cambrai ( 1917 ) . In January 1918 , the division was returned to the front line south of Ypres as Haig acquiesced to French demands to take over more of the front . From this time until the Australians were withdrawn from fighting in early October , all divisions of the corps saw nearly continuous action . Rather than disbanding entire divisions , any consolidation of strength was made under the British system of reducing brigade s from four battalion s to three .
Battle of Round Mountain The Battle of Round Mountain was the first battle in the Trail of Blood on Ice campaign for the control of Indian Territory during the American Civil War and occurred on November 19 , 1861 . The physical location of the battle is in dispute . Some historians believe it to be near Keystone while others contend that it is near Yale , Oklahoma Col . Douglas H . Cooper , Confederate commander of the Indian Department , was unable to reconcile differences with Chief Opothleyahola , commander of a band of Unionist Creeks and Seminoles . Cooper set out on November 15 , 1861 , with about 1 , 400 men to either compel Opothleyahola ' s submission or “ drive him and his party from the country . ” Cooper ' s force rode up the Deep Fork of the Canadian River to find Chief Opothleyahola ’ s camp deserted . On November 19 , Cooper learned from captured prisoner s that part of Opothleyahola ’ s band was erecting a fort at the Red Fork of the Arkansas River . Cooper ’ s men arrived there around 4 : 00 p . m . Charging cavalry discovered that Opothleyahola ’ s followers had recently abandoned their camp . The Confederates located and followed stragglers ; the 4th Texas blundered into Opothleyahola ’ s warriors on the tree line at the foot of the Round Mountains . The Federal response chased the Confederate cavalry back to Cooper ’ s main force . Darkness prevented Cooper ' s counterattack until the main enemy force was within 60 yards . After a short fight , Opothleyahola ’ s men set fire to the prairie grass and retreated . The following morning , Cooper advanced on Opothleyahola ’ s new camp but found that the Federal forces had fled . The Confederates claimed victory because Chief Opothleyahola had left the area . This was the first of three encounters between Opothleyahola ’ s Union bands and Confederate troops . The chief was forced to flee to Kansas at the end of the year . The Confederate loss in the engagement was 1 captain and 5 men killed , 3 severely and 1 slightly wounded , and 1 missing . Opothleyahola lost about 110 killed and wounded . Order of battle . " Cooper ' s Brigade " - Col . Douglas Hancock Cooper " Creek and Seminole Indians " - Chief Opothleyahola
Botswana military ranks and insignia Ranks and Insignia BDF Ranks The Botswana Ground Force and the Botswana Air Force maintain the same rank system , which is loosely based on British or Commonwealth ranks systems . In an unusual arrangement , warrant officers in the BGF are considered to be enlisted , and rank with NCOs . The ranks are as follows : Enlisted Officers
Chief of Defence Materiel The Chief of Defence Materiel is a senior post in the British armed forces created in April 2007 . It merges the roles of Chief of Defence Procurement and Chief of Defence Logistics into a single post responsible for leading Defence Equipment and Support . The command may be held by a four - star officer , admiral , general , or air chief marshal appointed from the three services , and also by civilians .
French frigate Pomone ( 1805 ) The Pomone was a 40 - gun " Hortense " - class frigate of the French Navy , built at Genoa for the puppet government of the Ligurian Republic , which was annexed as part of France in June 1805 , a month after the " Pomone " was completed . On 30 January 1807 , she collided with the " Muiron " . In May 1807 , " Pomone " , " Annibal " , " Incorruptible " and the corvette " Victorieuse " engaged off Cabrera in the Mediterranean . Capture and fate . " Pomone " was captured near Corfu during the Action of 29 November 1811 and briefly added to the Royal Navy as HMS " Ambuscade " , although she was never brought into service . She was broken up for material in November 1812 at Woolwich Dockyard .
William Walsh ( officer ) William Walsh , Irish soldier and officer , fl . 1605 - 1616 . Captain Walsh was from Galway . He was awarded a commission in 1605 after recruiting sixty soldiers in Ireland at his own expense . Significantly , the majority of levies among Irish exiles that year were conducted by Old English captains . Walsh was wounded in 1616 while in the service of Colonel John O ' Neill . He is listed in " Priests in Ireland and Gentlemen gone abroad " , written c . 1618 .