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Columbia Air Center The Columbia Air Center was an airfield in Croom , Maryland from 1941 to 1958 . It was started by African American pilots who were not permitted to use other airports , but was also open to whites . It had an all black staff , and a number of the trainers had served in World War II as Tuskegee Airmen . John R . Pinkett founded the airport in Croom , Maryland , in Prince George ' s County on leased land near the Patuxent River . It housed up to five runways , three hangars , ten planes , and an all - black chapter of the Civil Air Patrol . The airport was operated from 1941 - 1954 by John William Greene Jr , and also by Tuskegee Airmen , Herbert Jones Jr . , who would later form International Air Association , the first African - American owned airline . In 1959 , the property was purchased by the Maryland - National Capital Park and Planning Commission and became the first part of the Patuxent River Watershed Park .
USS Virginian ( 1904 ) USS " Virginian " was a United States Navy tug in commission from 1918 to 1919 . " Virginian " was built as the commercial tug " Blue Bell " or " Blue Belle " in 1904 at Camden , New Jersey . She subsequently was renamed SS " Virginian " . The U . S . Navy acquired her for World War I service from her owner , the Southern Transportation Company , at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania probably sometime in late 1917 . The Navy apparently commissioned her sometime in early 1918 as USS " Virginian " . " Virginian " served as a tug in the 5th Naval District — probably at Norfolk , Virginia , through the end of World War I and into the early months of 1919 . On 12 May 1919 , " Virginian " was returned to the Southern Transportation Company and her name was stricken from the Navy List . Unlike most commercial ships commissioned into U . S . Navy service during World War I , " Virginian " never received a naval registry Identification Number ( Id . No . ) .
8th Royal Bavarian Chevau - légers The 8th Royal Bavarian Chevau - légers ( Königlich Bayerisches Chevaulegers - Regiment Nr . 8 ) were a light cavalry regiment of the Royal Bavarian Army . The regiment was formed in 1905 and fought in World War I . The regiment was disbanded in 1919 .
Edgar Kinghorn Myles Edgar Kinghorn Myles ( 29 July 1894 – 31 January 1977 ) was a British 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 . He was deployed with the 8th Battalion , The Welch Regiment , British Army , attached to 9th Battalion , The Worcestershire Regiment . On 9 April 1916 at Sanna - ii - Yat , Mesopotamia , during combat , Second Lieutenant Myles went out alone several times in front of British advanced trenches to assist wounded men on the battlefield . While under heavy rifle fire , and at great personal risk , he carried in a wounded officer to safety . For his service he received the Victoria Cross . The citation . He transferred to the King ' s Regiment ( Liverpool ) as a Lieutenant in 1923 and was later promoted to Captain . His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Worcestershire Regiment Museum , Worcester , England .
Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach ( Ludwig Friedrich ) Leopold von Gerlach ( 1790 , Berlin – 1861 ) was a Prussian army general , adjutant to Frederick William IV of Prussia and a Protestant conservative associate of Otto von Bismarck . Biography . Leopold von Gerlach was the son of Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach , Mayor of Berlin . He and his brother , Ludwig von Gerlach , formed the " Christian Germanic " circle to propagate the ideas of the Swiss jurist Karl Ludwig von Haller .
Franciszek Gągor Franciszek Gągor ( 8 September 1951 – 10 April 2010 ) was a Polish general , Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010 . He died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu - 154 crash near Smolensk with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński . Life and Education . Gągor was born in 1951 in Koniuszowa near Nowy Sącz . He attended the Mechanized Infantry Officer College at Wrocław in 1973 . He also held qualifications at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań ( 1983 - Master of Arts degree in English philology ) ; the National Defence University in Warsaw ( 1998 - doctorate in military science ) ; the NATO Defense College ( 2001 ) , and the National Defense University ( 2002 ) in Washington DC . Military Service . He served in the 2nd Tank Regiment in the 1973 . Afterwards , he became an operations and executive officer responsible for planning and operational activities in United Nations missions . In 1978 he was posted to the Mechanized Infantry Officer College in Wrocław , where he lectured on preparations and training of Polish contingents designated for peacekeeping operations until 1988 and , during that time , took an active part in UNDOF operations ( 1980 – 1981 and 1985 – 1986 ) as an operations officer . Between 1988 and 1990 General Gągor served at UNDOF HQ as Deputy Chief of Logistics . In 1991 he was an executive officer / second - in - command at the Polish Military Contingent for Desert Storm Operation . He later became the Deputy Sector Commander of UN Iraq - Kuwait Observation mission UNIKOM between 1991 and 1992 . In 1993 , as a Colonel , he became the Chief of Polish Armed Forces Peacekeeping Division of the Polish Armed Forces . He was a key member of the Polish Armed Forces preparations team for Polish accession to NATO , taking care of initial and first rounds of NATO Defence Planning for Poland . He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 1997 . On 27 February 2006 , Gagor was made Chief of General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces upon appointment by the President of Poland . He was promoted to General on May the 3rd 2006 . Along with Krzysztof Paszkowski , he wrote the book : “ Defense Doctrine of the Polish Republic for Peacekeeping Operations . ” Gen . Gągor is an author of numerous articles and publications on military affairs and co - operation , defence transformation and armed forces modernization . Personal life . He was fluent in English , and communicated in French and Russian . He had an interest in history , English literature , skiing , tennis , volleyball and jogging . He was married to Lucyna and has two children , Katarzyna and Michał .
John E . Hull General John Edwin Hull ( May 26 , 1895 , Greenfield , Ohio – June 10 , 1975 ) was a U . S . Army general , former Vice Chief of Staff of the U . S . Army , commanded Far East Command from 1953 – 1955 and the U . S . Army , Pacific from 1948 - 1949 . He served in both world war s and was a contemporary of General George Marshall and General Omar Bradley . Because of his primary role in planning Allied operations throughout World War II , he was credited with having more experience integrating strategy with overseas operations than any other Army officer . Hull was a pre - medical student at Miami University in Oxford , Ohio , prior to joining the Army in 1917 . He received an honorary LLD in 1954 . His military education includes the Army War College and the National War College . Prior to the U . S . Army , Pacific , Hull was the Commanding General for Army Ground Forces in the Pacific . From 1953 - 1955 he was Commander in Chief of the Far East Command after the conclusion of the Korean War . This was his last major assignment before retiring on April 30 , 1955 . Other significant assignments for Hull involved major staff duties in Washington , D . C . . Among these were Director of the Weapons Evaluation Group and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Administration for the Office of the Secretary of Defense . At the outbreak of World War II he was assigned to the War Department . Hull died on June 10 , 1975 .
Sandra L . Stosz Sandra Leigh Stosz ( born 1960 , Takoma Park , Maryland ) is a United States Coast Guard rear admiral who was chosen by the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard ADM Robert J . Papp to become the Superintendent of United States Coast Guard Academy in 2011 . As such , she is the first woman to lead a United States military service academy . At the time of her appointment to head the Coast Guard Academy , she was the Coast Guard ' s Director of Reserve and Leadership . Early career . Stosz , a 1982 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London , Connecticut , holds a master of business administration degree from Northwestern University ' s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston , Illinois . Stosz is the first female graduate of the Coast Guard Academy to achieve flag rank . In 1990 , as a Coast Guard lieutenant , Stosz became the first woman to command a Coast Guard cutter in the Great Lakes . The cutter was USCGC " Katmai Bay " ( WTGB 101 ) , which , homeported in Sault Sainte Marie , Michigan , has operated since her 1979 launching in the Great Lakes as a unit of the Ninth Coast Guard District . The " Katmai Bay " is a 140 - foot ice - breaking tug , with a crew of 17 ( 3 officers and 14 enlisted ) . She has also served as the Commanding Officer of United States Coast Guard Training Center Cape May , New Jersey . Flag officer . In her role as leader of the Coast Guard Reserve , early in 2011 she announced plans to raise the Coast Guard Reserve to 8 , 100 personnel from the 7 , 600 reservists available in 2010 ; the reason was partly experience with the " Deepwater Horizon " Oil Spill , during which the Coast Guard struggled with insufficient reserve personnel to support the active - duty contingent . Personal . Stosz is married . In a " People Magazine " profile , she described her Coast Guard career as her lifetime adventure . Her parents were chemical engineer s Max Stosz and his wife Joy . Sandra Stosz has three siblings , all brothers . She has described her " most enjoyable assignment " as being her initial tour , once completing her studies at Coast Guard Academy , as an ensign on the icebreaker USCGC " Glacier " ( AGB / WAG / WAGB 4 ) , which took her to Haiti , New Zealand , various South Pacific islands , and Antarctica . Recently , in April 2013 , Stosz expressed to a United States Coast Guard Academy cadet that her favorite colors were " blue and shades of purple . "
Roberts Ancāns Roberts Ancāns was an Obersturmführer in the Waffen SS during World War II . He was awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross , which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II . Early life . Roberts Ancāns was born on 11 November 1919 , in Tilža parish , Latvia . In 1938 he started law studies in Latvian university . In the autumn 1939 he volunteered in Latvian army . Ancāns was member of Latvian student fraternity " Lacuania " . World War . Ancāns was in the Latvian Army in 1940 , and during the German invasion of the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ) he volunteered to join the first Latvian units in July 1941 and the Waffen SS in February 1942 . He was among those Latvian soldiers who were trapped in Kholm Pocket in early 1942 . There he was wounded and after treatment served in the Latvian Legion near Leningrad , in the Volchov marshes and at the Velikaya river . After the 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( 2nd Latvian ) was formed , he became part of the 19th Reserve Battalion . In the fighting of the Courland pocket on 24 December 1944 , with his company of 180 men , they destroyed a Soviet attack aimed at the point where the 19th SS and the 21st Luftwaffe Field Division met , and they also destroyed 12 tanks in the process . After the 19th SS and the 21st Luftwaffe divisions had been withdrawn , Ancāns ' company had been reduced to 38 men , most of them seriously wounded . For his bravery and leadership in the battle he was awarded the Knight ' s Cross . In May 1945 , he was seriously wounded and evacuated from the pocket . Post war . Ancāns survived the war and until 1955 lived in West Germany , but then emigrated to the United States . He died in New York on 1 January 1982 . Miscellaneous . The Latvian Legion ' s attachment to the SS , unit designations and ranks were considered a formality . Latvian and Estonian soldiers , regardless of whether they volunteered or were drafted , were not members of the Nazi party . In 1949 - 50 , United States Displaced Persons Commission investigated the Estonian and Latvian " SS " and found these military units to be neither criminal nor Nazi collaborators . On 12 September 1950 , Harry N . Rosenfield , the United Nations Refugee Relief Association commissioner , wrote to Jūlijs Feldmanis , Latvia ' s chargé d ' affaires in Washington , saying that « the Waffen - SS units of the Baltic States ( the Baltic Legions ) are to be seen as units that stood apart and were different from the German SS in terms of goals , ideologies , operations and constitution , and the Commission does not , therefore , consider them to be a movement that is hostile to the government of the United States under Section 13 of the Displaced Persons Act , as amended . »
1958 Army Cadets football team The 1958 Army Black Knights football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1958 college football season . Led by head coach Red Blaik , the team finished with an undefeated 8 – 0 – 1 season . The Cadets ' offense scored 264 points , while the defense allowed 49 points . At season ’ s end , the team ranked third in the national standings . On November 30 , Army beat Navy by a score of 22 - 6 .
Urban A . Woodbury Urban Andrain Woodbury ( July 11 , 1838 - April 15 , 1915 ) was an American Civil War veteran , an entrepreneur and a U . S . politician of the Republican Party . Served as the 45th governor of Vermont . Prewar life . Woodbury was born in Acworth , New Hampshire , the son of Albert M . and Lucy L . ( Wadleigh ) Woodbury , natives of Cavendish , Vermont . He was educated in the public schools of Morristown and Morrisville , and graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont in 1859 , but his career as a doctor was short - lived due to the advent of the Civil War . Woodbury married , on February 12 , 1860 , Paulina L . Darling , daughter of Ira and Sarah Darling , of Elmore , Vermont . Civil War . Woodbury enlisted May 25 , 1861 , and mustered in as 1st Sergeant , Company H , 2nd Vermont Infantry , on June 20 . He was taken prisoner on July 21 at the First Battle of Bull Run , where he had the misfortune of losing his right arm , thus becoming Vermont ' s " First Empty Sleeve " . After nearly three months in prison in Richmond , Virginia , he was paroled October 5 , 1861 , and discharged on account of wounds on October 18 . " Undaunted by his trying experience , he again sought to defend his country ' s flag , " and accepted a commission as Captain of Company D , 11th Vermont Infantry . He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on June 17 , 1863 , and resigned from the service March 27 , 1865 . Postwar life . After returning from the war , Woodbury settled in Burlington and engaged in the lumber and hotel businesses . For 19 years , he was manager of the Booth Lumber Company of Burlington , and for 35 years owner and proprietor of The Van Ness House , a hotel he enlarged twice to accommodate 400 guests . As a Republican , he was elected alderman in Burlington ' s 2nd Ward in 1881 and 1882 , being president of the board the second year . From 1884 to 1886 , he served as colonel on the staff of Governor John L . Barstow . He was Mayor of Burlington in 1885 and 1886 , and the 35th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont in 1888 , under Governor William P . Dillingham , and served as governor from 1894 to 1896 . In 1898 , he was appointed by President William McKinley to a commission led by General Grenville Dodge , investigating the conduct of the War Department in the Spanish - American War . Woodbury ' s fraternal associations included Freemasonry , IOOF , Grand Army of the Republic , Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States , Sons of the American Revolution , and Knights of Pythias . Woodbury was also an early member of the Green Mountain Club which was established at a meeting in the Van Ness House in 1910 . The club went on to create the Long Trail , America ' s first long distance hiking trail . He died in Burlington , and is buried in Lakeview cemetery there . At the time of his death he was President of the Mead Manufacturing Company , the Crystal Confectionery Company , and Queen City Cotton Company , all Burlington enterprises . See also . Vermont in the Civil War
Bill Sullivan ( politician ) Sir William Sullivan KCMG ( 8 December 1891 – 17 March 1967 ) , in later life known as Bill Sullivan , was a New Zealand politician of the National Party . He was born in Inglewood in 1891 to Irish parents . He was a Taranaki rugby representative . He served in World War I in the NZEF and in World War II at Trentham Military Camp in New Zealand . He set up a construction company in the Bay of Plenty , and in Whakatane was Mayor 1925 – 1928 , the Harbour Board Chairman 1923 – 1926 and on the Council for almost 26 years . He represented the electorate from a after the death of Gordon Hultquist to 13 February 1957 , when he resigned following the death of his son who ran the family construction business . He was the Minister of Labour , Mines , Housing and the State Advances Corporation in the First National Government from 1949 to 1957 , including the period of the 1951 Waterfront dispute . He was made K . C . M . G . in 1957 . He died in Whakatane on 17 March 1967 .
USS Caledonia ( AK - 167 ) USS " Caledonia " ( AK - 167 ) was an " Alamosa " - class cargo ship commissioned by the U . S . Navy for service in World War II . She was responsible for delivering troops , goods and equipment to locations in the war zone . The second ship to be named " Caledonia " by the Navy , " AK - 167 " was launched 1 January 1945 by Kaiser Cargo , Inc . , Richmond , California , under a Maritime Commission contract ; sponsored by Mrs . V . Brown ; acquired by the Navy 13 March 1945 ; commissioned the same day , Lieutenant F . G . Stelte in command ; and reported to the U . S . Pacific Fleet . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . Assigned to a role in the Navy ' s gigantic logistic task of supplying military forces in the Pacific while still carrying out naval , air , and amphibious warfare , " Caledonia " sailed from San Francisco , California , 1 May 1945 , laden with cargo for the base at Manus , where she began discharging 23 May . The cargo ship completed offloading at Samar , Philippine Islands , on 22 June , then steamed to Darwin , Australia , and Milne Bay , New Guinea , to reload supplies essentially needed in the Philippines . After offloading at Samar and Subic Bay in August and September , " Caledonia " made another voyage to Noumea , New Caledonia , for cargo , returning to Samar , from which she cleared 30 December for Baltimore , Maryland . Post - war decommissioning . " Caledonia " was decommissioned there 25 March 1946 , and was returned to the Maritime Commission four days later .
Franz Bredemeyer Franz Bredemeyer ( 12 October 1913 – 13 February 1985 ) was a highly decorated Oberfeldwebel in the Wehrmacht during World War II . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership .
George P . Dow George Parsons Dow ( August 7 , 1840 – September 28 , 1910 ) was a Union Army sergeant in the American Civil War , notable for receiving the Medal of Honor . Birth . Dow was born on August 7 , 1840 , in Atkinson , New Hampshire , and was living in the city of Manchester when he joined the Union Army . Military career . Dow ' s identity badge is in a well known private collection . He was a member of the 7th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry , Company C , and received the Medal of Honor for " Gallantry in command of his company during a reconnaissance toward Richmond . " This mission occurred in October 1864 . The 7th New Hampshire stood in a single line so that they could see the enemy and collect information regarding the strength of the Confederate defense . Dow later described his experience : Death . He died at age 70 on September 28 , 1910 , and was buried in his hometown of Atkinson , New Hampshire .
27th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 27th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 27th Wisconsin was organized at Milwaukee , Wisconsin and mustered into Federal service March 7 , 1863 . The regiment was mustered out on August 5 , 1865 in Brownsville , Texas . Casualties . The 27th Wisconsin suffered 22 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds , plus another 5 officers and 232 enlisted men who died of disease , for a total of 259 fatalities .
HMS Rover ( 1796 ) HMS " Rover " was a 16 - gun sloop that the Royal Navy purchased in 1796 , commissioned in 1798 , and that was wrecked in early 1798 . In her brief career she captured one French privateer . Design . " Rover " was designed by Goodrich & Co . , and Captain Francis Pender contracted her building in October 1795 . She was initially planned as a brig , but during construction she was lengthened and given a full ship rig . An Admiralty Order of 10 November 1795 agreed the purchase , and she was added to the establishment by a second Admiralty Order dated 1 January 1796 . She was purchased on the stocks and launched in 1796 . Service . " Rover " was rated as a sloop and she was commissioned as such in April 1798 under Commander George Irwin . On 16 May 1798 " Rover " was sailing towards Bermuda when she captured and sent in the French privateer sloop " Jean Bart " . " Jean Bart " was armed with 14 guns and had a crew of 57 men . She was last in Porto Rico and had captured three American ships : Fate . " Rover " was wrecked in the Gulf of St Lawrence on 23 June 1798 , but her crew were saved . She was convoying the transport " Elizabeth " to Quebec when she entered a fog . The pilot got a brief sight of land that he believed was Scaterie Island . As a result , he was comfortable continuing to maintain course . When lookouts spotted breakers ahead early in the evening it was too late to turn her and she struck rocks on Cape Breton Island . Eventually a seaman was able to swim to shore with a line that the crew then used to leave " Rover " , which was by then filling rapidly with water . All the men reached the shore and the crew finally abandoned her on 26 June , at which time they sailed her boats to Sydney , Nova Scotia . The court martial attributed the loss of " Rover " to a very strong current .
USS Wave ( 1836 ) USS " Wave " was a schooner in commission in the United States Navy from 1836 until probably 1846 . " Wave " was a schooner - rigged yacht designed along pilot boat lines by John C . Stevens and built for him in 1832 at New York City by Brown and Bell . The U . S . Navy purchased her in 1836 for use in the Second Seminole War . In that campaign , she cruised the Florida coast in support of United States Army operations until 1840 . After 1840 , " Wave " served as a surveying vessel along the United States East Coast under the command of Lieutenant John R . Goldsborough . In his " History of the American Sailing Navy " , Howard I . Chapelle suggests that she was sold in 1846 . However , no evidence has been found to corroborate or refute that assertion . Chapelle also states that as of the time of his book ' s publication in 1949 , a model of " Wave " resided in the New York Yacht Club s model room .