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Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer VC , DFC & Bar ( 7 July 1920 – 23 December 1944 ) 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 . Early life . Palmer was born at Gillingham , Kent on 7 July 1920 the son of Arthur and Lilian Palmer . As a boy Palmer attended Gravesend Grammar School in Kent , where a memorial portrait and his VC citation hang to this day in the school ' s hall . Details . Palmer first flew operations in January 1941 and took part in the first 1 , 000 - bomber raid against Cologne in 1942 . He was one of the first pilots to drop a 4 , 000 - lb . ' Cookie ' bomb . In 1943 he served with 20 OTU at Lossiemouth in Scotland . By the end of 1944 Palmer had completed 110 bombing missions , many as a member of the Pathfinder force , necessitating deep penetration of enemy territory and low - level ‘ marking ’ operations against heavily defended targets . He was 24 years old , and a Royal Air Force Squadron Leader serving in 109 Squadron , during the Second World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 23 December 1944 over Cologne , Germany , Squadron Leader Palmer was leading a formation of Lancaster bomber s on a daylight raid to bomb the Gremberg marshalling yard s in Cologne . It was the task of his Lancaster PB371 to use the " Oboe " radio bombing aid and mark the target as " master bomber " for the other bombers to aim for . Palmer flew one of 27 Lancasters and three Mosquitoes from No . 8 Group to attack the Gremberg railway yards . The raid went badly . The force was split into three formations , each led by an Oboe - equipped Lancaster with an Oboe - equipped Mosquito as reserve leader . During the outward flight , two Lancasters collided over the French coast and both their crews killed in the crash . On approaching the target , it was found that the forecast cloud cover had cleared , and because the formations would have been very vulnerable to Cologne ' s flak defences during the long , straight Oboe approach it was thus decided to allow the bombers to break formation and bomb visually . Unfortunately the order to abandon the Oboe run did not reach Palmer , who continued on with his designated role , even though his aircraft was already damaged by flak . Some minutes before reaching the target two engines were set on fire , but disdaining the possibility of taking evading action and being determined to provide an accurate and easily visible aiming point for the other bombers , he managed to keep the badly damaged aircraft on a straight course , made a perfect approach and released his bombs . The Lancaster was last seen spiraling to earth in flames and only one member of his crew , the Rear Gunner , escaped . The formation suffered a Lancaster and a Mosquito shot down by Flak and fighters , with a further Lancaster abandoned by its crew over Belgium . The losses were thus six aircraft out of the 30 dispatched . Palmer is buried at the CWGC ' s Rheinberg War Cemetery in Germany .
Josiah Harmar Josiah Harmar ( November 10 , 1753 – August 20 , 1813 ) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Revolution War and the Northwest Indian War . He was the senior officer in the Army for seven years . Biography . Harmar was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and educated at a Quaker school . He started his military career during the American Revolutionary War , receiving a commission as a captain in 1775 . He served under George Washington and Henry Lee during the war , and at its conclusion , by then a colonel , was chosen by Congress in 1784 to relay the ratified Treaty of Paris ( 1783 ) to commissioner Benjamin Franklin in Paris . Harmar was the senior officer in the United States Army , from 1784 to 1791 , and was given command of the First American Regiment in 1784 . He signed the Treaty of Fort McIntosh in 1785 , the same year that he ordered the construction of Fort Harmar near Marietta , Ohio . He also supervised the construction of Fort Steuben near present - day Steubenville , Ohio . Harmar was promoted to brigadier general in 1787 . General Harmar directed the construction in 1789 of Fort Washington , Cincinnati , Ohio , which was built to protect the settlements in the Northwest Territory . The fort was named in honor of President Washington . In 1790 , Harmar was sent on expeditions against Native Americans and remaining British in the Northwest Territory . After a few initial military successes , his force of Federal troops was defeated by a tribal coalition led by Little Turtle , in an engagement known as the " Harmar ' s defeat " , " Battle of the Maumee " , Battle of Kekionga " , or " Battle of the Miami Towns " . Later , Harmar returned with a somewhat larger force and engaged the coalition , but fought to a draw . Consequently he was relieved of this command and replaced by General Arthur St . Clair . Harmar was subsequently court - martial ed , at his own request , on various charges of negligence , and exonerated by a court of inquiry . After his retirement from the Army in 1792 , Harmar served as adjutant general of Pennsylvania ( 1793 – 1799 ) . He died near Philadelphia at his estate , " The Retreat . " He is buried at the Episcopal church of St . James , Kingsessing , in West Philadelphia . See also . Trans - Appalachian Wars
George Campbell Ross George Campbell Ross C . B . , C . B . E . ( 1900 – 1993 ) , was an Engineer and a Rear Admiral in Britain ' s Royal Navy . He was also the son of Sir Archibald Ross OBE ( 1867 - March 19 , 1931 ) , a pioneering marine engineer . Service biography . World War I . He served on HMS Warspite , HM Submarine P59 and HMS Vendetta during World War I . Interwar . Engineering Courses at RN College , Greenwich , and RN Engineering College , Keyham 1919 - 1921 ; HMS Hawkins , Flagship of China Station 1921 - 1924 . Lecturer in Marine Engineering , RN Engineering College 1924 - 1927 ; HMS Effingham , Flagship of East Indies Station 1927 - 1929 ; HM Dockyard , Chatham 1929 - 1931 ; HMS Rodney , Atlantic Fleet 1931 - 1933 ; Invergordon Mutiny 1931 ; Assistant Naval Attache , British Embassy , Tokyo 1933 - 1936 ; Liaison Officer to Japanese Flagship Asigara , Coronation Review 1937 ; introduced Oerlikon 20 mm cannon to the RN 1937 ; HMS Manchester , East Indies Station 1937 - 1939 . World War II . Engineer - in - Chief ' s Department , Admiralty 1939 - 1941 ; Engineer Officer , HMS Nelson , and Staff Engineer Officer to Flag Officer , Force H , Malta Convoy , North Africa and Sicily 1941 - 1943 ; HMS ST ANGELO , Malta , as Staff Engineer Officer , on staff of Capt , Force ' H ' , Aug – Dec 1943 ; surrender of Italian Fleet 1943 ; Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department , Admiralty 1943 - 1947 ; Postwar . Chief of Staff to R Adm , Reserve Aircraft 1948 - 1949 ; Director of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair , Admiralty 1949 - 1953 ; retired 1953 . After retirement from the Royal Navy Ross joined Armstrong Siddeley as a liaison officer between the company and the Admiralty . Family life . He married , on September 16 , 1929 Alice Behrens , daughter of the banker Paul Behrens ( of the Salomon Oppenheim bank ) in Berlin , the first German women to marry an Englishman after World War I . References . Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives ( Kings College London , University of London )
Operation Hawthorn Operation Hawthorn was the codename for a series of British Commando raids on Sardinia during the Second World War . The raids between June and July 1943 were carried out by L Detachment Special Boat Squadron . The raiders were landed either by parachute or submarine and most of those who landed were killed or captured and the detachment had to be reconstituted .
Thaddeus Parker Thaddeus Parker was born on 13 November 1923 in Cross City , Florida . Navy career . " Parker " enlisted in the United States Navy on 27 June 1941 . Upon completion of basic training , " Parker " was assigned to the U . S . Naval Hospital , Norfolk , Virginia , as a Hospitalman Apprentice on 30 August . On 31 October 1941 , he was stationed at the Marine Corps Base , Quantico , Virginia , where he served as a hospital corpsman in the U . S . Naval Hospital , and , after 29 March 1942 , in the First Raider Battalion , Fleet Marine Force . Awarded the Navy Cross . " Parker " accompanied the Raider Battalion when that unit was ordered to the South Pacific . He was awarded the Navy Cross The citation further stated : Awarded the Silver Star . Killed in action at New Georgia , Solomon Islands , on July 20 , 1943 , " Parker " was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart medal and the Silver Star Medal with the following citation : Namesake . USS Thaddeus Parker ( DE - 369 ) was named in his honor . She was laid down on 23 May 1944 at Orange , Texas , by Consolidated Steel Corp . ; launched on 26 August 1944 ; sponsored by Miss Iva Lee Parker ; and commissioned on 25 October 1944 , Lt . Comdr . Duane R . Stoneleigh , USNR , in command .
Rokosz A rokosz ( ) originally was a gathering of all the Polish " szlachta " ( nobility ) , not merely of deputies , for a " sejm " . The term was introduced to the Polish language from Hungary , where analogous gatherings took place at a field called Rákos . With time , " " rokosz " " came to signify an armed rebellion by the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth ' s " szlachta " against the king , in the name of defending threatened liberties . The nobles who gathered for a " rokosz " formed a " confederation " ( " konfederacja " ) . The institution of the rokosz , in this later sense , derived from the medieval right to resist royal power . The rokosz took its authority from the right to refuse obedience to the king , as stipulated in the Privilege of Mielnik ( " przywilej mielnicki " , signed October 23 , 1501 ) and later in the Henrician Articles of 1573 . Two of the best - known rokoszes are the 17th - century Zebrzydowski Rebellion and the 16th - century Chicken War .
Henry Flad Henry Flad ( 1823 Bavaria - 1898 ) was a German - born civil engineer who mostly worked in the United States . Biography . He was educated at the College of Spire , Rhenish Bavaria , and at the University of Munich , where he graduated in 1846 . He became assistant engineer on various government public works , chiefly with improvement of the Rhine , but in 1849 became a captain of the Baden revolutionary army . The failure of the revolutions of 1848 / 49 rendered his position in Germany insecure and he fled to the United States , where he was engaged in the engineering departments of several railroads until the outbreak of the Civil War , when he enlisted and rose to the rank of colonel of engineers . From 1867 to 1874 he was chief assistant to James Eads on the great bridge over the Mississippi River at St . Louis . After 1877 , he was president of the Board of Public Improvements of St . Louis and for many years served as member of the Mississippi River Commission .
Royal Aircraft Factory A . E . 3 The Royal Aircraft Factory A . E . 3 ( Armed or Armoured Experimental ) , also known as the Farnborough Ram , was a prototype British armoured ground attack aircraft of the First World War . The A . E . 3 , which was a development of the Royal Aircraft Factory ' s N . E . 1 night fighter , was a two - seat single - engined pusher biplane . Three were built in 1918 , but the type was unsuccessful , with no further production ensuing . Development and design . In late 1917 , the Royal Aircraft Factory started development of a two - seat , heavily armoured contact patrol aircraft for the Royal Flying Corps , designed to carry out observation in contact with the infantry , a job that required flying at low altitudes over the front line , exposing the aircraft to heavy small - arms fire from the enemy ' s trenches . Three prototypes of the resulting design , designated A . E . 3 , were ordered . It was a single - engined pusher biplane , based on the N . E . 1 night fighter . It retained much of the structure of the N . E . 1 , including the outer wings , undercarriage , tailplane and tail booms , but had a new armoured nacelle constructed completely of armour plate . Two Lewis gun s were fitted on an armoured mounting in the front of the nacelle that allowed the guns to be depressed to attack targets below , while another Lewis gun was mounted on a pillar mounting between the gunner and pilot to defend the aircraft from attack . The A . E . 1 was originally intended to be powered by the same Hispano - Suiza engine that had powered the N . E . 1 , but there were severe shortages of this engine , with over 400 S . E . 5A fighters waiting incomplete due to lack of engines in January 1918 , and it was decided to use alternative engines , with the Sunbeam Arab being chosen for the first prototype , and the Bentley BR . 2 rotary engine ( which would have been used if the aircraft was chosen for production ) for the second . The first A . E . 1 flew during April 1918 , with the second prototype following on 1 June 1918 , while the third prototype , which was powered by an Arab engine , and fitted with face - hardened armour , was finished later that month . By this time the Royal Aircraft Factory had been renamed the Royal Aircraft Establishment , and the A . E . 1 was given the name Farnborough Ram , the only Royal Aircraft Factory designed aircraft to be given an official name , with the Arab powered aircraft being named Ram I and the Bentley powered aircraft Ram II . The Ram II was sent to France at the end of June , for trials in its suitability for operational use . These were not successful , with the Ram being considered slow , heavy on the controls and unsuitable for manoeuvering near the ground . Following these trials , Major General John Salmond , the commander of the RAF in the field , stated in a letter to the Air Ministry that " I do not consider this machine as useful for any military purpose . . . I would recommend that all further work on this machine should cease . " No further development followed this condemnation .
Ronald W . Yates General Ronald Wilburn Yates ( born October 3 , 1938 ) served as Commander , Air Force Materiel Command , Wright - Patterson Air Force Base , Ohio . As AFMC Commander , Yates was responsible for research , development , test , acquisition and logistics support for the Air Force from 18 specialized centers and 116 , 000 military and civilian employees around the world . Background . Yates graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1960 . He has served as a test pilot , flying a variety of modified fighter aircraft , as program manager for a variety of weapon systems , and as commander of a test wing . General Yates also served as commander of Air Force Systems Command . He is a command test pilot with more than 4 , 400 flying hours , and flew 100 combat missions in Southeast Asia . In March 1994 he was inducted into the AFMC Order of the Sword . He retired from active duty on July 1 , 1995 .
Skierstins The Skierstins is a medieval Stienhús built c . 1300 out of brick in Feanwâlden . It is the only remaining Stienhús in Friesland and is listed as Rijksmonument , number 11700 and is rated with a very high historical value . The building is first mentioned in 1439 on a piece of parchment .
Tunisian UAVs Short range UAV demonstrator Nasnas . The TAT Nasnas is an unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ) . Tunisia was the first Arab country to develop this industry in 1997 . In 2003 , it was joined by the United Arab Emirates . The UAVs are constructed and designed in Tunisia . They are produced by the company Tunisia Aero Technologies ( TAT ) . The flight of the first Tunisian drone , " TAT Aoussou " , took place in October 1997 . It served primarily as an aerial target for anti - aircraft units . It was designed and built in eight months . The first flight of the prototype " TAT Nasnas " ( or anasnas ) took place in August 1998 . It was designed and built in six months . " Data from Jane ' s : Maxinmum take off weight 120 kg Dimensions . Power Plant : Twin opposed cylinders engine , 22 hp to 38 hp . Use : TADA , Surveillance , Intelligence , pipeline surveillance , meteo , remote sensing for mapping . TAT Jebelassa 650 . The Jebelassa 650 ( means in Arabic : Mountain Watch ) has evolved subsequently to give birth to a new version of the Smaller Nasnas which is " stronger and more polished " . The first flight of the prototype Jebelassa took place in 2004 . It has a larger radius of action the UAV can carry more payloads and missions . safety and gyroscopic stability , full 3 - D capability to achieve UAV to helicopter dogfight supremacy and maximal manoeuvrability in urban areas . Sources . website of Tunisia Aero Technologies
Battle of Mengo Hill The Battle of Mengo Hill refers to the successful 1966 assault upon the residence of the Kabaka of Buganda by the army of Uganda . In February 1966 , Prime Minister Milton Obote had changed the constitution , taking the powers of the presidency , formerly held by the Kabaka , for himself . The Kabaka is the ruler of Buganda , the largest and most influential of the five traditional kingdoms within Uganda , and the capital of the kingdom , Kampala , is also the capital of the country . The Kabaka at the time was Mutesa II . Kabaka Mutesa II protested Obote ' s actions , ordering Obote to leave Buganda lands and appealing to United Nations Secretary - General U Thant to intervene . Obote immediately accused the Kabaka of high treason and ordered his protégé , Idi Amin Dada , to lead troops against the Kabaka ' s residence on Mengo Hill , which was promptly surrounded . The Kabaka called for his subjects to defend him , and many responded by acts of sabotage throughout Buganda , while thousands of monarchists attempted to set up blockades to hinder Amin ' s troops and engaged in running street skirmishes . However , the Kabaka ' s bodyguards were lightly armed with hunting rifles , especially as compared to the army units and , two days after the palace was surrounded , the palace was overrun and set alight . Kabaka Mutesa II himself escaped the compound during a cloudburst in the middle of the battle . Jumping over bodies as they fled , Mutesa and 20 royal soldiers hauled each other over the six foot high brick walls of the palace . Unfortunately , Kabaka Mutesa landed in a precarious angle that left his back bone injured . But the king was free and that ’ s all that mattered . " Volunteers carried over 200 bodies of fallen Baganda to the morgue , while the military buried uncounted numbers in mass graves . Within a few days the Kabaka and two of his bodyguards were able to cross the border to Burundi and exile . After brief stays in Nairobi and Addis Ababa he was given asylum in the United Kingdom where he stayed until death , under mysterious circumstances , in 1969 . Various Baganda chiefs , members of the royal family and others thought loyal to the Kabaka , were imprisoned . The Lubiri Palace was almost completely destroyed in the course of the fighting and the looting which followed . Priceless historic artefacts and royal regalia were stolen and destroyed , including the sacred " Mujaguzo " drums . This desecration caused immense psychological suffering for many Bugandans who regarded the event as an apocalypse . Mutesa II died in exile , but was allowed to be buried in Buganda by a new president , Idi Amin . Amin promoted the narrative of a Muslim boy from the poor outskirts of the country taking on the Christian leader of Uganda ' s dominant tribe . The mystique of this action granted him greater legitimacy at least in some sub - populations .
CCGS N . B . McLean The CCGS " N . B . McLean " was a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker . Constructed in 1930 at Halifax Shipyards , she was commissioned as CGS " N . B . MacLean " and served in the Department of Transport ' s Marine Service , using the prefix " Canadian Government Ship " . She was transferred into the newly created Canadian Coast Guard in 1962 . She served in the St . Lawrence River and Gulf of St . Lawrence until she was decommissioned in 1979 , and taken to Taiwan to be scrapped in 1989 . She was replaced by CCGS " Pierre Radisson " .
Henrik Angell Henrik August Angell ( 1861 – 1922 ) was a Norwegian military officer , sportsman , and writer . He was a ski pioneer , and the first Norwegian delegate to the International Olympic Committee , IOC . He was a colonel in the Norwegian army from 1911 . He joined the French Légion étrangère in 1918 , and participated for France in World War I . He published several books . He was admitted to the skiing club SK Ull in 1898 .
USS Tide ( SP - 953 ) USS " Tide " ( SP - 953 ) was a minesweeper in the United States Navy . " Tide " was a tug built in 1916 at Manitowoc , Wisconsin , by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co . — was acquired by the U . S . Navy on 14 June 1918 from the Bay State Fishing Co . , of Boston , Massachusetts , to serve as a minesweeper in the 1st Naval District . Military service . Though never commissioned by the U . S . Navy , she may have been armed and manned by naval reservists to patrol the waters of the 1st Naval District during the closing months of World War I . Deactivation . In any event , her name was struck from the Navy List sometime between November 1918 and October 1919 .
Walter E . Zink Walter E . Zink II is a major general in the United States Army . He is the current commander of Operational Command Post ( OCP ) 1 , United States Army North . He commands the OCP as a task force in response to consequence management operations . He also commands a Joint Task Force , leading and coordinating air , ground , and naval forces in homeland defense and civil support operations . He previously served as the deputy commanding general of the Fifth US Army . Major General Zink is a member of the Army Reserve Forces Policy Committee . As a member he identifies , considers , and addresses reserve component force structure , resourcing , manning , and mobilization issues for the Secretary of the Army . On May 5 , 2009 he was elected to the Lincoln Airport Atuority