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English Electric Canberra ( book ) The English Electric Canberra subtitled " The History and Development of a Classic Jet " ( ISBN 978 - 1844152421 ) is a book by British military historian and author Bruce Barrymore Halpenny about the English Electric Canberra . Illustrated throughout , the book includes interviews with Wing Commander K H Wallis , the man Halpenny attributes as having " saved the Canberra " . The book looks at the development of the aircraft during the early days of jet power and beyond . Each of the many marks and variants are described . The type ' s record of service with RAF Squadrons is given together with descriptions of the many experimental models . In the introduction , the author states , “ it was a matter of producing either a technical book , or one that would appeal to a wider readership , setting out the true Canberra story : marks , variants , overseas orders , squadrons , records , experimental Canberras , camouflage , markings , and most importantly , the truth about bombing up the aircraft ; also serious problems with which the Canberra was sent out to operational R . A . F . stations . " He chose the latter and the finished article is an " outstanding " tribute to a remarkable aeroplane , though those that were deep aviation fans were unhappy that it was not a technical book . A case that the author could not satisfy everyone . The book took 18 years to complete and the acknowledgments cover two full pages - a testimony to the thoroughness of Halpenny ' s research . Among the many firms and names mentioned , one in particular comes in for special mention . W / Cdr . K H Wallis , who saved the life of the Canberra by inventing the system of loading bombs for as late at 1951 at R . A . F . Binbrook , not a single aircraft was capable of delivering bombs , simply because the fuselage was too low to the ground ! With Canberra ' s introduction came the early Rolls Royce Axial Flow Avon engine , a full description of which , its history and development is given in Chapter 2 - the author even tells us how a jet engine delivers its thrust . The book displays a collection of photographs - some never seen before , also the history and deployment of no less than 81 Squadrons each of which flies the Canberra in its various marks and roles .
Henry Bryant Henry Bryant ( May 12 , 1820 – February 2 , 1867 ) was an American physician and naturalist . He was the grandfather of Henry Bryant Bigelow . Biography . Bryant was born in Boston , and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1843 . In 1847 he was forced to abandon medicine because of ill health and turned to natural history , especially ornithology . Bryant was a member of the Megatherium Club a group of young naturalists at the newly formed Smithsonian Institution in the early 1860s . He appears in a famous photograph of the group , seated lower right . Others in the photograph are : Robert Kennicott , Henry Ulke , and William Stimpson . He collected birds in Florida , the Bahamas , Ontario and Labrador , North Carolina , Cuba , Jamaica and Puerto Rico . Bryant served as surgeon in the 20th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the American Civil War , and was injured at the Second Battle of Bull Run . He resigned his commission because of ill health before the end of the war and went to Europe . He bought the Frédéric de Lafresnaye collection of birds in France , and presented it to the Boston Society of Natural History . He died in Puerto Rico .
Sharps - Borchardt Model 1878 The Sharps - Borchardt Model 1878 is a single shot hammerless falling block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company . It closely resembles older Sharps Rifle s but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle . This hammerless dropping - block breech - loader was based on a patent granted to Hugo Borchardt in 1877 . It was the last of the Sharps single shot rifles , and the Borchardt did not sell very well . According to company records 22 , 500 rifles were made in all models from 1877 until the Sharps Rifle Co . closed down in 1881 . Although it was designed for the huge black powder " buffalo " cartridges of the day , it came too late , at the very end of the great bison slaughter . Three variants were produced : Military , Sporting , and Express . The Military Sharps - Borchardt was made only in . 45 - 70 with 32 " round barrels , whereas the Sporting Model 1878 and the Express Model 1878 were offered with octaganol barrels of varying lengths and calibers . The Military version was purchased by the Militias of the states of Michigan , North Carolina , and Massachusetts . Notwithstanding its lack of commercial success the Sharps - Borchardt is admired for its strength and accuracy : reputed to be one of the strongest if not the strongest rifle action ever built before the later 20th century . The gun was revolutionary at its time for its use of coil springs as opposed to flat spring s . These guns were popular among long - range shooters and Creedmore Match competitors . Many were rechambered for use as small bore varmint rifles . Surviving guns are highly prized by collectors , especially unmodified examples chambered for heavy . 45 and . 50 - caliber Sharps big - game cartridges . A company known as Borchardt Rifle Corporation has started fabrication of reproduction M1878 Borchardt rifles .
1992 Nigerian Air Force C - 130 crash On 26 September 1992 a Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C - 130H Hercules crashed three minutes after take - off from Lagos , Nigeria . All 158 people on board were killed , including 8 foreign nationals . The aircraft was taking off at high weight and three engines failed . The aircraft was serial number 911 .
201st Quezon City Ready Reserve Battalion The 201st QC Ready Reserve Battalion , 1502nd Infantry Brigade ( Ready Reserve ) , known officially as The Proud 201st , is one of the battalions of the Philippine Army Reserve Command which is organic to the 1502nd Quezon City Ready Reserve Brigade . It is an infantry unit , and specializes in MOUT , disaster relief , and Civil Military Operations . Units . The following are the units that are presently placed under operational control of the 201st QC Ready Reserve Battalion .
George J . Eade George James Eade ( born October 27 , 1921 ) is a retired United States Air Force four - star general who served as Deputy Commander in Chief , United States European Command ( DCINCEUR ) from 1973 to 1975 . Eade was born in Lockney , Texas , in 1921 . He graduated from York High School in Elmhurst , Illinois , and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology . He entered military service as an aviation cadet in January 1942 from Chicago , Illinois , and , that September was awarded his pilot wings and a commission as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps . He flew 37 combat missions in the European Theater of Operations , where he served almost four years as a pilot , flight commander and operations officer . Eade began a long tour of duty with the Strategic Air Command in August 1946 , when he joined the 43d Bombardment Wing at Davis - Monthan Army Air Field , Arizona , as a pilot of B - 29 aircraft . In September 1947 he was assigned as operations officer and , later , commander of the 1st Strategic Support Squadron , which provided SAC with close airlift support for its global operations . In May 1952 he went to SAC headquarters , where he was chief of the Current Operations Branch , Directorate of Operations . From 1956 through 1958 , he was the deputy director of operations at SAC ' s 7th Air Division in England . After he returned to the United States in November 1958 , he served as deputy commander for operations and then commander of the 4238th Strategic Wing ( redesignated 2d Bombardment Wing ) at Barksdale Air Force Base , Louisiana . From June 1961 to July 1963 , he commanded the 7th Bombardment Wing at Carswell Air Force Base , Texas . In July 1963 General Eade returned to SAC headquarters as chief of the Safety Division . It was during this assignment that SAC was awarded the Daedalian Flying Safety Trophy for 1964 . In January 1965 he was assigned as chief of the Control Division , and in July 1967 he assumed duties as director of operations plans , deputy chief of staff for operations , with additional duties as chief , Single Integrated Operational Plans Division , Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff , of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . Eade was assigned to Headquarters U . S . Air Force in February 1970 as director of plans , office of the Deputy Chief of Staff , Plans and Operations . In January 1971 he assumed duties as the assistant deputy chief of staff , plans and operations , and in April he became the deputy chief of staff , plans and operations . He assumed duties as deputy commander in chief of the U . S . European Command April 20 , 1973 . He retired from the Air Force on September 1 , 1975 . Awards and decorations . His military decorations and awards include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal , Legion of Merit , Air Force Commendation Medal with three oak leaf clusters , and the Army Commendation Medal . He was rated a command pilot .
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 15 Launch Complex 15 ( LC - 15 ) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , Florida is a deactivated launch complex used by LGM - 25 Titan missiles between 1959 and 1964 . It was originally built for conducting test flights of the Titan I , which made its maiden flight from LC - 15 on 6 February 1959 . LC - 15 is the southernmost of the four original Titan launch complexes on Missile Row . The last of ten Titan I launches from LC - 15 occurred in September 1960 . Following this , it was converted for use by the Titan II , which made the first of 16 flights from the complex in June 1962 . The last launch from LC - 15 occurred on 9 April 1964 . Following the last launch , LC - 15 remained active until its retirement from service . Much of the complex , including the tower , launch stand and erector was demolished in June 1967 . The blockhouse , cable tunnel , and parts of the launch table and ramp were abandoned in place , and are still standing .
Siege of Mirandola ( 1510 ) The Siege of Mirandola took place at Mirandola , then the capital of a small state in the Italian region of Emilia , in 1510 , and was carried on by Pope Julius II during the War of the League of Cambrai . The siege was part of an offensive launched by pope Julius II as part of his alliance with the Republic of Venice against France . In October 1510 , he had moved with his court to Bologna , but here he found himself with little troops to counter the advance of French general Charles II d ' Amboise , he started negotiations for a truce . However , once joined by a sized army , he stopped any diplomatic activity and moved against Sassuolo , while the French retreated to Rubiera . Sassuolo fell in two days ; next was the fortified citadel of Mirandola , which he besieged from 19 December 1510 . The pope took personal command of the papal army after his nephew and commander - in - chief , Francesco Maria I Della Rovere , had showed a suspicious negligence . The papal forces stormed the citadel taking advantage of the iced ditches on 20 January 1511 .
Kosmos 2466 Kosmos 2466 ( meaning " Cosmos 2466 " ) is one of a set of three Russia n military satellites launched in 2010 as part of the GLONASS satellite navigation system . It was launched with Kosmos 2465 and Kosmos 2464 . This satellite is a GLONASS - M satellite , also known as Uragan - M , and is numbered Uragan - M No . 738 . Kosmos 2464 / 5 / 6 were launched from Site 81 / 24 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan . A Proton - M carrier rocket with a Blok DM upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 05 : 49 UTC on 2 September 2010 . The launch successfully placed the satellites into Medium Earth orbit . It subsequently received its Kosmos designation , and the international designator 2010 - 041A . The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 27137 . It is in the second orbital plane of the GLONASS constellation , in orbital slot 16 . It started operations on 11 October 2010 .
Portland Castle Portland Castle is one of the Device Forts , also known as Henrician Castles , built in 1539 by Henry VIII on the Isle of Portland to guard the natural Portland anchorage known as the Portland Roads . The castle lies in the far north of the island , in the village now called Castletown , near Fortuneswell . The castle is under the care of English Heritage . The castle artillery forts stretched all around the Kent coast , along the south coast of England , down to Lands End . Strategic sites were chosen protecting possible landing points of an invasion . The area today known as Portland Harbour was a weak point , and Portland castle was built . The entire harbour fell under artillery range from Portland Castle and nearby Sandsfoot Castle . Portland Castle has a low profile offering less of a target , with a traditional rounded wall facing the sea , designed to deflect incoming ordnance . The land side was moated . The castle was bolstered ready to repel the attempted invasion by the Spanish Armada in 1588 . In the event the Royal Navy fended off the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Portland just east of the isle of Portland on 23 . July 1588 . Portland Castle experienced its only real action during the English Civil War 1642 - 1649 . Being an historic Royal Manor , Portland naturally supported King Charles and was a Royalist stronghold . Nearby Weymouth - a merchant town - firmly backed Cromwell ' s Parliamentarians and a succession of battles and ruses saw Portland Castle captured and recaptured several times . Despite being hopelessly undermanned and inadequately armed , the Royalists managed to keep the island out of Cromwellian hands for all but two brief periods of the war . By 1645 , after repeated attacks only Portland , Corfe and Sherborne remained in Royalist hands . When defeat finally came in 1646 Portland ' s surrender was bloodless , and on remarkably generous terms . On the restoration in 1660 , Charles II rewarded Portland ' s loyalty in the Civil War by a special Royal Grant Fund , giving back to the Islanders royalties on stone taken from the crown quarries . The Grant is still made today . The castle again stood by during action in the Anglo - Dutch war with the Battle of Portland , a bloody but indecisive three day sea battle close to the Island coast . Portland castle was armed for the last time during the Napoleonic Wars . In 2007 , it was announced that Portland Castle attracts 25 , 000 visitors a year , despite limited opening hours .
William Burman William Francis Burman ( 30 August 1897 – 23 October 1974 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Details . Burman was 20 years old , and a sergeant in the 16th Battalion , The Rifle Brigade ( Prince Consort ' s Own ) , British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . During the Battle of Passchendaele on 20 September 1917 south - east of Ypres , Belgium , when the advance of his company was held up by a machine - gun at point - blank range , Sergeant Burman shouted to the men next to him to wait a few minutes and going forward to what seemed certain death killed the enemy gunner and carried the gun to the company ' s objective where he used it with great effect . Fifteen minutes later it was seen that about 40 of the enemy were enfilading the battalion on the right . Sergeant Burman and two others ran and got behind them , killing six and capturing two officers and 29 other ranks . The medal . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Imperial War Museum in London , England .
101st Rifle Division ( Soviet Union ) The 101st Rifle Division was a unit of the Soviet Red Army initially formed as a mountain rifle division on 28 August 1938 within the 2nd Separate Red Banner Army in Petropavlovsk - Kamchatsky city . Origins . Initially the division included the 138th Rifle Regiment formed in 1938 from the 292nd rifle regiment of the Pacific Ocean Fleet , which had been created in 1937 from the 10th Separate Territorial Rifle Battalion of the 4th Bashkirs | Bashkir regiment . In 1940 , the division was removed from the roll of first line formations . In June 1942 the division was reorganized into a field rifle division . In 1943 the HQ of the 101st division included : the 128th Mixed Aviation Division , Petropavlovsk Military Naval Base , border security detachment , the 428th howitzer artillery regiment , the 302nd separate rifle regiment , three separate artillery divisions ( battalions ) , the 5th separate rifle battalion , and a number of storage facilities . From 15 January 1945 the division was included in the composition of the Northern Group of Forces of the Far Eastern Front and subordinated to the Kamchatka Defensive Rayon of the Front ( ) . August 1945 Order of Battle . In August 1945 the composition of the 101st rifle division was : For model fulfillment of assignments and displaying combat mastery during the taking of the islands Shumshu and Paramushir in the course of the Kurile desant operation , the Presidium of the Highest Council of the USSR , declared by order of NKO № 0164 , the division was awarded the Order of Lenin on 28 September 1945 . The division appears to have been disbanded in 1945 – 46 . Awards . Order of Lenin – Awarded on 14 September 1945 .
Adam Neder Adam Neder ( 1865 – September 17 , 1910 ) was a German - born soldier in the U . S . Army who served with the 7th U . S . Cavalry during the Indian Wars . He was one of five men received the Medal of Honor for distinguished bravery , participating in search - and - destroy missions along White Clay Creek , at the Battle of Wounded Knee on December 29 , 1890 . Biography . Adam Neder was born in Bavaria , Germany in 1865 . He later emigrated to the United States and enlisted in the U . S . Army in St . Louis , Missouri . Assigned to frontier duty with the 7th U . S . Cavalry , Neder was a participant in the Battle of Wounded Knee on December 29 , 1890 . After fighting broke out between cavalrymen and the Sioux , Neder was among the troopers who , as part of a search - and - destroy mission , took part in skirmishes along White Clay Creek . He and four other men , Sergeant Bernhard Jetter , First Sergeant Theodore Ragner , Corporal William O . Wilson and Farrier Richard J . Nolan , were received the Medal of Honor for distinguished bravery on April 25 , 1891 . Seriously wounded during the battle , Neder was also promoted to the rank of corporal for his actions . He died in San Francisco , California on September 17 , 1910 , and interred in the San Francisco National Cemetery . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Private , Company A , 7th U . S . Cavalry . Place and date : Sioux campaign , December 1890 . Entered service at : - - - - - - . Birth : Bavaria . Date of issue : 25 April 1891 . Citation : Distinguished bravery .
RG - 34 RG - 34 , also known as Iguana FV4 , is a mine - resistant light armored vehicle designed by IADSA . The " Iguana " was developed by IADSA , under contract from Sabiex in Belgium . In June 2009 , BAE Land Systems obtained the rights to develop and manufacture the vehicle . As with all modern South - African military vehicles , special effort has been taken to make the vehicle mine - resistant . It has also a special multi - link hydro - pneumatic suspension , which is mounted on a very rigid structure . This provides the vehicle with excellent road performance , a small turning circle and comfortable clearance over humps . The vehicle is suitable for several multi purpose light operations such as reconnaissance , patrol , command and logistics ( e . g . ambulance ) , fire support ( weapon platforms , including a 90mm low - recoil gun ) and internal security .
Thomas Wogan Thomas Wogan ( born circa 1620 ) was a Welsh Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I . Wogan was the son of Sir John Wogan , who was MP for UK Parliament constituency and High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire . In 1646 Thomas Wogan was elected MP for Cardigan Boroughs . During the Second Civil War , he fought on the side of Parliament at the Battle of St Fagans in 1648 . After this battle , Oliver Cromwell promoted him to Colonel and appointed him as governor of Aberystwyth Castle . An enthusiastic supporter of the army , he was appointed a commissioner of the High Court of Justice at the trial of King Charles . He attended every day and in January 1649 , was 52nd of the 59 signatories on the death warrant of the King . After the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 , Wogan was on 6 June 1660 excepted from the Act of Oblivion ( ie exempted from the general pardon for King Charles ' s enemies ) . He surrendered on 27 June 1664 and was imprisoned . Held in York Castle , he managed to escape on 27 July 1664 and flee to the Netherlands . The last record of him dates from 1666 and has him in Utrecht plotting , with Edmund Ludlow and Algernon Sidney , against the English government .