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USS LST - 939 USS " LST - 939 " was a United States Navy in commission from 1944 to 1948 . " LST - 939 " was laid down on 21 July 1944 at Bethlehem - Hingham Shipyard , Inc . in Hingham , Massachusetts , and commissioned on 14 September 1944 . During World War II " LST - 939 " was assigned to the Asiatic - Pacific Theater and participated in the Asiatic - Pacific campaign , including the assault and occupation of Okinawa , Gunto , from April through June 1945 . Service history . During World War II , " LST - 939 " was assigned to the Pacific Theater of Operations . " LST - 939 " left New York Harbor in the fall of 1944 , arriving first in Havana , Cuba , and then transiting the Panama Canal on its way to Pearl Harbor , Hawaii . She was refueled in Pearl Harbor for her voyage to Guadalcanal where she was attacked by a Japanese suicide swimmer caring several packages of explosives and two grenades . The attack was successfully repelled . " LST - 939 " departed and next beached at Dulag Leyte Gulf in the Philippines on 4 February 1945 and then transited on to Guam . " LST - 939 " participated in the amphibious assault of the beach at Gunto in Okinawa , where it was attacked by a " kamikaze " . The " kamikaze " was successfully destroyed in mid - air by anti - aircraft fire ( AA ) , but a piece of the aircraft struck the forward deck . Upon landing in the Okinawa amphibious assault one crew member standing above the front door was killed by an incoming exploding coastal defense artillery shell and the executive officer , Lieutenant ( j . g . ) George Keat , was temporarily blinded . The ship was later damaged in a collision with that same day during the amphibious assault . " LST - 939 " is also known to have transited through Saipan . Following the war , " LST - 939 " performed occupation operations in the waters surrounding the Home Islands of Japan . She entered Japanese waters in the Port of Tokyo shortly after the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . " LST - 939 " continued to perform occupation duty in the Far East and saw service in China until mid - March 1946 Decommissioning and disposal . " LST - 939 " was decommissioned on 22 June 1946 , and struck from the Naval Register on 31 July 1946 . The vessel was sold for scrap on 12 June 1948 , to Walter W . Johnson Co . of Seattle , Washington .
Fort Bourbon Fort Bourbon was one of the forts built by La Vérendrye during his expansion of trade and exploration west from Lake Superior . Besides providing support for the important fur trade in what is now Manitoba , La Vérendrye wanted to conduct exploration of potential routes for what he believed was an interior western sea . The name " Fort Bourbon " was also given to York Factory , Manitoba while it was occupied by the French . " First Fort Bourbon " was at the mouth of the Saskatchewan River on Lake Winnipeg . The youngest La Vérendrye son , Louis - Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye , led an initial exploration to the area in 1737 . An epidemic of smallpox thwarted the mission . In 1740 Louis - Joseph had a successful trip exploring the Saskatchewan River to a short distance west of Cedar Lake and mapping the site for the first Fort Paskoya at the west end of Cedar Lake . On his return toward Lake Winnipeg , he mapped the area and established a site for the first Fort Bourbon . The map of 1740 indicated a site between the Grand Rapids and Lake Winnipeg , on the northern shore of the Saskatchewan or White River . In 1741 , the elder La Vérendrye sent an expedition of men to establish the fort . " Second Fort Bourbon : " Fort Bourbon was moved upstream at an uncertain date . It was probably at the inflow of the Saskatchewan into Cedar Lake , the same location as first Fort Paskoya . In 1758 , when the French withdrew from the west during the French and Indian War , it was plundered and burned . In 1777 Todd & McGill had a post about a mile and a half upstream .
HMS C31 HMS " C31 " was a C - class submarine built by Vickers , Barrow for the Royal Navy . She was laid down on 7 January 1909 and was commissioned on 19 November 1909 . " C31 " was sunk by mine s off the Belgian coast on 4 January 1915 whilst patrolling off Zeebrugge . There were no survivors .
157th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment 157th New York Infantry Regiment Colonel Philip P . Brown , Jr . , received authority , August 13 , 1862 , to recruit this regiment in the then 23d Senatorial District of the State . It was organized at Hamilton , and there mustered in the service of the United States for three years September 19 , 1862 . June 22 , 1865 , the men not to be mustered out with the regiment were transferred to the 54th Infantry . Organization . The companies were recruited principally : Service Dates . The regiment left the State September 25 , 1862 . Service dates are as follows : Legacy . During the American Civil War the 157th participated in the mud march , the Battle of Chancellorsville , and the Battle of Gettysburg . On the first day at Gettysburg they suffered in heavy fighting north of the town . On the second day they were a reserve regiment rushed to the aid of the 137th New York holding the right flank on Culp ' s Hill . They guarded the " Immortal 600 " Confederate officers at Fort Pulaski , GA . This was a special group of prisoners that were there for the " purpose of retaliation " . Col . Brown and his men , though , treated the prisoners better than their orders specified and this led to an official reprimand for Col . Brown , much to the Confederates ' dismay .
James D . Prentice Captain James Douglas ' Chummy ' Prentice was a Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy officer who served with distinction in the Battle of the Atlantic . In addition to being credited with the destruction of four U - boat s while at sea , he also played a significant role ashore in training the often inexperienced recruits required by the RCN to fulfill its expanded wartime role . Although born and raised in British Columbia , he decided to join the Royal Navy in 1912 when his father forbade him from joining the newly formed Royal Canadian Navy . He retired from the RN in 1934 as a Lieutenant Commander when cutbacks during the Great Depression ended his possibility of promotion . He returned to British Columbia after his retirement from the RN and had been ranching for a living when war broke out in 1939 . After an initial period ashore in Sydney , Nova Scotia Prentice was appointed Senior Officer , Canadian Corvettes under Commodore Leonard W . Murray . This position gave him the dual responsibilities of developing tactical doctrine for all RCN corvettes as well as being Captain of the HMCS Chambly , part of the Newfoundland Escort Force . It was in this latter capacity that Prentice scored the RCN ' s first U - boat kill , shared with HMCS Moosejaw . This action would lead to Prentice receiving the DSO . After his time in corvettes , Prentice was assigned to develop training and doctrine for the new Canadian destroyers that entered into service in 1942 . He received command of HMCS Ottawa and was appointed Senior Captain , Canadian Destroyers in 1943 . After a time as senior officer of Escort Group C5 in the Mid - Atlantic , Prentice became senior officer of Escort Group 11 for Operation Overlord . On 7 July " Ottawa " collaborated in the sinking of in the English Channel . EG11 transferred to the Bay of Biscay in August , where Prentice and " Ottawa " played a part in the sinkings of on the 18th and on the 20th . For these actions , Prentice was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC ) on 28 November and bar a week later . Prentice finished the war as a full Captain . After a time as Aide - de - Camp to the Governor General of Canada , he retired in 1946 . He died in British Columbia in 1979 . See also . Battle of the Atlantic ( 1939 - 1945 ) < br > Royal Canadian Navy < br > Newfoundland Escort Force < br > HMCS Chambly ( K116 ) < br > HMCS Moosejaw ( K164 ) < br > Convoy SC 42 < br > Leonard W . Murray
Merritte W . Ireland Merritte Weber Ireland ( May 31 , 1867 - July 5 , 1952 ) was the 23rd U . S . Army Surgeon General , serving in that capacity from October 4 , 1918 to May 31 , 1931 , Ireland was born on May 31 , 1867 in Columbia City , Indiana , a town in the upper end of the Wabash Valley in Whitley County , Indiana . His father , Dr . Martin Ireland , was born in Chillicothe , Ohio , and his mother , whose maiden name was Sarah Fellers , came from Waynesboro , Virginia . He graduated from the Detroit College of Medicine , receiving an M . D . degree in 1890 . The following year was spent in Jefferson Medical College where again he earned an M . D . degree in 1891 . Decorations . Major General Ireland´s ribbon bar :
Roman Żuliński Roman Żuliński ( January 28 , 1837 - August 5 , 1864 ) - a Polish mathematician and co - commander of the January Uprising . After the uprising he was sentenced to death and hanged near the Warsaw Citadel on August 5 , 1864 , together with other rebel commanders , including Romuald Traugutt .
Tel Aviv – Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack The Tel Aviv – Jerusalem bus 405 attack was a suicide attack on 6 July 1989 carried out by Abed al - Hadi Ghaneim of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad . On a crowded Egged commuter bus line No . 405 en route from Tel - Aviv to Jerusalem ( Israel ) , Ghanim seized the steering wheel of the bus , running it off a steep cliff into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye ' arim . 16 civilians died in the attack — including two Canadians and one American , and 27 were wounded . The incident is described as the first Palestinian suicide attack despite the fact that the attacker survived . The attack . On 6 July 1989 Egged commuter bus line No . 405 began its regular route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem . When the bus passed Neve Ilan , Ghanim attacked the driver , seized the steering wheel of the bus and pulled the bus over a steep precipice into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye ' arim . The driver was unable to stabilize the bus ; as a result the vehicle rolled down the depth of the ravine and caught fire . Some of the passengers were burned alive . Sixteen civilians were killed in the attack , including two Canadians and one American , and 27 were wounded . Students from the Telz - Stone yeshiva who heard the screaming rushed to the scene to administer first aid . One of them , Yehuda Meshi Zahav , went on to found ZAKA , a volunteer rescue service organization . The perpetrator . The perpetrator , who survived the crash , received medical treatment for his injuries in an Israeli hospital . After the attack , it was revealed that the perpetrator was a 25 - year - old Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant named Abd al - Hadi Rafa Ghanim who originated from the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip . Ghanim was convicted and given 16 life sentences for murder , hijacking and terrorism . On 18 October 2011 , Ghanim was released to Gaza as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas .
Alfred Codrington Lieutenant - General Sir Alfred Edward Codrington GCVO KCB ( 4 May 1854 – 12 September 1945 ) was a British Army officer who served in colonial wars in Africa during the late nineteenth century , and later commanded a reserve army during the First World War . Military career . Born in 1854 , the second son of General Sir William John Codrington , he was educated at Harrow and entered the Coldstream Guards in 1873 . He first saw active service during the Anglo - Egyptian War of 1882 , where he was mentioned in despatches . He later commanded the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards in the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902 , where he was wounded twice , mentioned in despatches , and given a brevet promotion as Colonel . He received the Queen ' s medal with three clasps , and the King ' s medal with two . He commanded the 1st London Division of the Territorial Force from 1908 to 1909 , when he was appointed Major - General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District , retiring from this post in 1913 . He returned to duty after the outbreak of the First World War , serving as the Military Secretary to Lord Kitchener , the Secretary of State for War from August until October 1914 . He was then appointed to command Third Army in the Home Forces ; this was based around Luton , and contained four Territorial divisions and two Territorial cavalry brigades . He relinquished command in 1916 . He was appointed to sit on a Pensions Appeal Tribunal in the summer of 1917 , which dealt with appeals against governmental decisions on military pensions , and later published a book on " War Pensions : Past and Present " , co - authored with Edward Abbott Parry , another member of the Tribunal . His final military position was the ceremonial colonelcy of the Coldstream Guards , to which he was appointed in 1918 . Unusually , this had been a position previously occupied by his father . He was appointed chairman of the Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs in 1917 , and President of the Association in 1932 . Family . He married Adela Harriet Portal , the niece of the Earl of Minto , in 1885 ; she died in 1935 . The couple had three sons , Geoffrey , William , and John , and one daughter , Mary . Geoffrey became the High Sheriff of Wiltshire and an usher to both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II , whilst William was the Chief Security Officer to the War Cabinet during the Second World War and later High Sheriff of Rutland . References .
Huff ' s Fort Huff ' s fort was established around 1811 or 1812 northeast of Fort Vallonia in present day Jackson County , Indiana , United States . Huff ' s fort was established for the protection of early settler s land near the east fork of the White River . It was said not to have the fortifications of Vallonia but served as an important outpost as did Ketcham ' s fort a bit closer to Fort Vallonia . John Sage and others built a fort at his place , but the princepal fort was at Vallonia , Huff ' s fort , higher up , and Ketcham ' s fort , still above and outside . The Indians killed Buskirk and stole his two fine horses . The corpse was brought into Ketcham ' s fort the same evening , and on the next morning John Johnson , Robert Sturgeon and others came and hauled the corpse to Huff ' s fort for interment ; after which Sturgeon started home and was killed at the half - mile branch , near Vallonia .
List of Sri Lanka Air Force aircraft losses during the Sri Lankan Civil War The following is a list of Sri Lanka Air Force aircraft losses during the Sri Lankan Civil War ( 1983 - 2009 ) . It covers both helicopters and fixed - wing aircraft , and both accidents and hostile fire losses .
USS Canandaigua ( IX - 233 ) USS " Canandaigua " ( IX - 233 ) , an unclassified miscellaneous vessel , was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Canandaigua , New York . She was acquired by the Navy 20 September 1945 and placed in service . She sank 22 November but was raised and placed out of service at New London , Connecticut , on 5 January 1946 . She was sold there 31 October 1946 .
Greek destroyer Aspis The destroyer Aspis ( , " shield " ) served in the Hellenic Royal Navy in 1907 - 1945 . The ship , along with her three sister ships of s , was ordered from Germany in 1905 and was built in the Vulcan shipyard at Stettin . During World War I , Greece did not enter the war on the side of the Triple Entente until 1917 and , due to Greece ' s neutrality the four " Niki " - class ships had been seized by the Allies in October 1916 , taken over by the French in November and served in the French Navy from 1917 to 1918 . By 1918 , they were back on escort duty under Greek colors , mainly in the Aegean Sea . " Aspis " saw action in the Greco - Turkish War ( 1919 - 1922 ) in the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea . After the war , " Aspis " was refurbished from 1925 to 1927 . She also participated in the Second World War , first carrying supplies in the Ionian Sea and after surviving the German invasion of April 1941 , " Aspis " served in conjunction with the Royal Navy based in Alexandria , Egypt . After the end of World War II , " Aspis " was stricken in 1945 .
Canadian Forces Supplementary Reserve The Supplementary Reserve ( SuppRes ) consists of inactive or retired members of the Canadian Forces who are willing and available for active service when requested . Most members transfer from the Regular Force or the Primary Reserve . However , it is possible for an applicant to join the SuppRes with prior service in a foreign military . Applicants with no prior military service may also be considered if they hold a special qualification for which there is a military requirement . Organization . Currently , the SuppRes is undivided . However , prior to 2002 the two parts of the SuppRes were the Supplementary Holding Reserve ( SHR ) and the Supplementary Ready Reserve ( SRR ) . The Ready Reserve was to provide a pool of individuals with current skills and who have expressed a willingness to volunteer for duty when requested . The Holding Reserve contained those with less than current skills and / or more restricted availability . The individual commands were responsible for administering their own proportion of the ready reserve , while the holding reserve was administered by National Defence Headquarters . Composition . The Supplementary Reserve totaled approximately 47 , 000 personnel in 1995 . It had been reduced to 23 , 600 members as of 1 April 2009 , some of whom were unable to be contacted due to outdated contact information . In an effort to meet the VCDS intent for a more operationally focused Supp Res , members who did not reply to Supp Res request ( s ) for written correspondence within the given timeframe ( minimum 30 days ) or for whom a return to sender letter is received from Canada Post were released . This release was recorded as 5 ( c ) – Service completed for which required QR & O , Vol 1 , Ch 15 . 01 . The goal was to strengthen the Supp Res and to provide a true representation to the Canadian Forces of potentially available members for future employment .
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti - Imperialist Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti - Imperialist ( VVAWAI ) is a small group based in Seattle , Washington claiming to be one of two groups formed after the split of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ( VVAW ) . VVAW , Inc is the other . The VVAW , Inc web site originally described VVAWAI as " the creation of an obscure , ultra - left sect called the Revolutionary Communist Party ( RCP ) . . . designed to pimp off of VVAW ' s history of struggle " and currently uses a modified version of that description omitting reference to the Revolutionary Communist Party . VVAWAI states they have no affiliation with the current VVAW , Inc , but shares the legacy of the original VVAW .
Battle of Ctesiphon ( 198 ) The Battle of Ctesiphon was another successful capture of the severely weakened Parthian capital by Roman forces under Septimus Severus . Unlike previous captures , the Parthians were unable to recover fully from this one . In 224 AD , after numerous concessions to the Romans and vassal Kingdoms , a Sassanid king overthrew the Parthians and started the Roman - Sassanid Wars .
Arthur Borton Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Drummond Borton ( 1 July 1883 – 5 January 1933 ) 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 . Borton was born at Cheveney , Kent and was educated at Eton and Sandhurst , before being commissioned into the King ' s Royal Rifle Corps in 1902 with whom he served in the Second Boer War . In 1908 he was left the Army as unfit for general service . At the start of the First World War , Borton was fruit farming in the United States , he returned to England and re - joined The King ’ s Royal Rifles in 1914 . After further service with The King ’ s Royal Rifles became an observer with The Royal Flying Corps in France where he broke his neck in three places and was declared unfit when his aircraft crashed . Despite this he went to Gallipoli as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve where he won the DSO serving with the RNAS Armoured Cars . Borton was appointed Second - in - Command of the 2nd / 22nd London Regiment ( The Queen ’ s ) in June 1916 , serving in France and Palestine . He was a lieutenant colonel in the 2 / 22nd ( County of London ) Battalion , the London Regiment , British Army , during the First World War , when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 7 November 1917 at Palestine , Borton deployed his battalion for attack and at dawn led his companies against a strongly held position . When the leading waves were checked by withering fire , he moved freely up and down the line under heavy fire and then led his men forward , capturing the position . At a later stage he led a party of volunteers against a battery of field - guns in action at point - blank range , capturing the guns and the detachments . His fearless leadership was an example to the whole brigade . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Queen ' s Royal Surrey Regiment Museum , Clandon Park , Guildford , Surrey . Arthur Borton ' s younger brother was Air Vice - Marshal Amyas Borton . He married Lorna Lockhart in 1915 .
Sayler ' s Creek Battlefield Sayler ' s Creek Battlefield near Farmville , Virginia was the site of the Battle of Sayler ' s Creek of the American Civil War . Robert E . Lee ' s army was retreating from the Richmond to Petersburg line . Here , on April 6 , 1865 , Union General Philip Sheridan cut off and beat back about a quarter of Lee ' s army . Eight Confederate generals surrendered , and 7 , 700 men were lost . This was the last major engagement of the war ; Lee ' s surrender at Appomattox occurred three days later . A portion of the landmarked battlefield area is included in Sailor ' s Creek Battlefield Historical State Park . The battle was composed of three separate engagements , which may be termed the Battle of Hillsman ' s Farm , the Battle of Marshall ' s Cross Roads ( or Battle of Harper ' s Farm ) , and the Battle of Lockett ' s Farm ( or Battle of Double Bridges ) . The Hillsman house served as a hospital for both Confederate and Union troops . Bloodstains still remain on the floor from when it served as a hospital after the battles . The Lockett house is in its original state . The Christian house is also there . Areas in the NHL site include four portions of , , , and . These are indicated on topographical maps included in the Virginia DHR provided version of the NRHP documents . Only are covered by the current state park . It is located on Virginia Routes 617 , 618 , and 619 in Farmville and Burkeville , in Amelia and Prince Edward counties in Virginia . From 1865 to the area ' s nomination for the National Register in 1984 , the area saw little development , and remained much as it was during the battles . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985 . Costumed interpreters station the park throughout the year . Living history performers are active in the park during the anniversary of the battle every April . The land was originally named in the 18th century for a farmer named Saylor . During the Civil War , the name was changed to Sayler . Some official records called it Sailor , which is what the Commonwealth of Virginia uses in its name for the related park .