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Herbert Sawyer Admiral Sir Herbert Sawyer KCB ( fl . 1783 – 1833 ) was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the American Revolution , the French Revolutionary War , the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars . He eventually rose to the rank of Admiral . Family and early life . Sawyer was born the eldest son of Admiral Herbert Sawyer and followed his father into the navy . He saw service during the American Revolution , serving with his father who ( by this time ) was a captain and commanded a number of ships during the war . By the end of the war , the younger Sawyer was in command of the sloop . He was promoted to Post - Captain in 1789 and took command of the 28 - gun frigate . He served aboard her on the North American Station , operating off Newfoundland . His father was the commander of the base at Halifax during this time . Service in the wars . On the outbreak of the war with France in 1793 , Sawyer was commander of , moving to the 64 - gun in 1795 . He sailed with " Nassau " as part of the North Sea Fleet until 1797 when he took command of the 74 - gun . By 1799 , he was commander of where he remained until the spring of 1801 . He then moved aboard and sailed to the West Indies with Sir Robert Calder ' s fleet . On Sawyer ' s return to Britain , he was put in charge of the payment of ships based at Plymouth , a job he held until he was promoted to rear - admiral on 2 October 1807 . By early 1810 , he was made second - in - command of Portsmouth dockyard and , by the end of the year , was again promoted ; this time to the rank of vice - admiral . In 1810 he was appointed to the post of commander - in - chief of the North American Station - his father ' s old command - which he held during the War of 1812 before relinquishing it in 1813 . He then became commander - in - chief of the base at Cork . He became a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 2 January 1815 and was promoted to Admiral of the White in 1825 . He died in Bath , Somerset in 1833 .
Leesburg Army Airfield Leesburg Army Airfield , was a World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield , located east - northeast of Leesburg , Florida . History . The airfield was constructed in 1942 and was commissioned in January 1943 as Leesburg Army Airfield ( AAF ) . It was used as a United States Army Air Forces training airfield by the Army Air Force School of Applied Tactics at Orlando Army Air Base . Leesburg was a sub - base of Alachua AAF with the 322d Service Squadron performed third echelon maintenance and supply for the operational units assigned to the station . The 313th Fighter Squadron was assigned to the airfield from 5 January - 17 November 1943 training students with the P - 40 Warhawk , with the 1158th School Squadron providing instruction in twin - engine fighter aircraft ( predominately the P - 38 Lightning ) . Leesburg was also a repair depot with several aircraft supply and ground maintenance units . On 1 May 1944 , the 910th Army Air Forces Base Unit ( Fighter , Two Engine ) , took over the mission of the 313th Fighter Squadron , section " F " assuming the operations of the 1158th School Squadron . Closure . The airfield was closed after the end of World War II and jurisdiction of the airfield was transferred to Air Technical Service Command ( ATSC ) , whose mission was the transfer of any useful military equipment to other bases around the country . Under ATSC , buildings and equipment were sold and any useful military equipment was transferred to other bases around the country . The base was declared as surplus in 1946 and was turned over to the War Assets Administration ( WAA ) for disposal and return to civil use . The facility was subsequently turned over to the City of Leesburg .
James Knowles ( aviator ) Lieutenant James Knowles , Jr . was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories . He was one of the final aces in the war . Knowles was a Harvard student who was accepted into the U . S . Army Air Service in April 1917 . In June 1918 , he reported to the 95th Aero Squadron for duty as a Spad XIII pilot . Between 25 July and 8 November 1918 , he shot down three German Fokker D . VII s and two Rumpler reconnaissance planes ; one of the latter victories was shared with Sumner Sewall and three other pilots . He came out of the war as an ace with the Distinguished Service Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster , the Croix de Guerre , and the Aero Club of America Medal .
USS Commodore Hull ( 1862 ) USS " Commodore Hull " ( 1862 ) was a ferryboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America . Built in New York . " Commodore Hull " — a side - wheel ferryboat — was built at New York in 1860 ( or 1861 ) as the civilian ferryboat " Nuestra Señora del Regla " , intended for use at Havana , Cuba . Purchased by the Union Navy on 1 September 1862 , she was converted to a gunboat and commissioned on 27 November 1862 , Acting Master W . G . Saltonstall in command . " Commodore Hull " was named in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull ( 1773 - 1843 ) , a significant U . S . Naval commander during and after the War of 1812 . There were four subsequent s , all destroyers . Civil War Service . Assigned to the North Atlantic blockade . " Commodore Hull " s ferryboat design made her especially useful for operations in sheltered waters , so she was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and operated along the coasts and rivers of Virginia and North Carolina . She took part in the siege of Washington , N . C . from 30 March - 16 April 1863 . In Albemarle Sound , she took part in the 5 May 1864 battle with the Confederate ironclad CSS " Albemarle " . As a picket , " Commodore Hull " was the first to sight the formidable ram approaching and fired at her from close quarters in the three - hour engagement . Siege of Plymouth . " Commodore Hull " joined in the attacks on and the capture of Plymouth , N . C . on 29 October . On 31 October , she was heavily damaged by Confederate batteries , losing four killed and three wounded . Coxswain Patrick Colbert was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on that date . Colbert ' s Medal of Honor citation reads : End of service . " Commodore Hull " was repaired and remained active until the end of the Civil War . She was decommissioned on 8 June 1865 at the New York Navy Yard . " Commodore Hull " was sold at the Yard on 27 September . She was subsequently renamed to " Waccamaw " in civilian employment , which lasted until sometime prior to 1885 . Abandoned on the Cape Fear River across from downtown Wilmington , North Carolina , the steamboat was burned to the waterline in 1886 . Some of her remains are still visible at low tide .
Siege of Yanagawa The 1600 siege of Yanagawa took place just after the decisive battle of Sekigahara in which Tokugawa Ieyasu secured his control over Japan . Tachibana Muneshige remained one of the chief opponents to Tokugawa on Kyūshū , and was besieged in his castle at Yanagawa by Katō Kiyomasa and Kuroda Yoshitaka . Muneshige surrendered under the assumption that he could then switch sides and aid the Tokugawa - loyal forces against the Shimazu clan of Satsuma , but Ieyasu forbade this plan from going through .
Otto Lasch Otto Lasch ( 25 June 1893 - 29 April 1971 ) was a highly decorated General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the LXIV . Armeekorps . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Life and career . Otto Lasch was born in Pleß ( Pszczyna ) as son of the high master forester of the Prince of Pless in Silesia . Lasch after graduation took part in World War I in the Jäger - Battalion „ Fürst Bismarck “ Nr . 2 in Kulm ( Westprussia ) . After 1918 he joined the police and in 1935 the Wehrmacht . He advanced to the rank of Generalleutnant and functioned as Commandant of Königsberg in East Prussia from November 1944 . Following heavy fighting and surrounding of the city during the Battle of Königsberg by the 36 - division strong 3rd Byelorussian Front under Ivan Chernyakhovsky , Lasch , with only badly crippled divisions under his command , decided to surrender the city to the Red Army on 9 April 1945 . For this act , Hitler condemned him in absentia and his family to death . His wife and daughters were arrested in Berlin and Denmark . However at the end of the war they were released . Lasch was to remain until 1953 in Soviet labor camp captivity in Workuta , but was released late October 1955 , when due to Adenauer ' s Moscow visit remaining German war prisoners were released . Lasch died in Bonn in 1971 . In 1958 he wrote the book : " So fiel Königsberg . Kampf und Untergang von Ostpreußens Hauptstadt " about the battle and fall of Königsberg , capital city of East Prussia . 1965 he wrote about the years of his time in Soviet war prison , titled " Zuckerbrot und Peitsche " .
Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service The Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service is the second highest award presented by the Secretary of Defense to non - career Federal employees , private citizens , and foreign nationals for contributions , assistance , or support to Department of Defense functions that are extensive enough to warrant recognition , but are lesser in scope and impact than is required for the DoD Medal for Distinguished Public Service . The Secretary of Defense is the approval authority . This award consists of a silver medal , a miniature medal , a rosette , and a citation signed by the Secretary of Defense . An individual may receive this award more than once . Subsequent awards consist of the foregoing recognition devices and a bronze , silver , or gold palm , as appropriate .
Sir Arthur Gooch , 14th Baronet Brigadier Sir Arthur Brian Sherlock Heywood Gooch , 14th Baronet DL , ( born 1 June 1937 ) is an English baronet and retired regular officer of the British Army . He was also an aide - de - camp to Queen Elizabeth II . Gooch is descended from Sir William Gooch , 1st Baronet , Royal Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749 , for whom Goochland County , Virginia is named . The son of Colonel Brian Sherlock Gooch DSO TD and of Monica Mary ( née Heywood ) , Gooch was educated at Eton and Sandhurst , before serving in The Life Guards , the senior regiment of the British Army , which he commanded from 1978 to 1981 . In 1963 , he married Sarah Diana Rowena Perceval JP and they have two daughters . Lady Gooch serves as Under Sheriff of Wiltshire . On 14 March 1989 , Gooch was appointed as aide - de - camp to Queen Elizabeth II , replacing Brigadier Robert Baddeley . He was Honorary Colonel of the Kent and County of London Yeomanry from 1992 to 1999 and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire in 1999 . When his cousin Major Sir Timothy Robert Sherlock Gooch MBE , 13th Baronet , late the Life Guards , died on 9 April 2008 , Gooch inherited the baronetcy . His heir presumptive is a brother , Thomas Sherlock Heywood Gooch , who was born on 12 November 1943 , in 1971 married Elizabeth Clarice Joan Peyton , and has one son ( Robert Brian Sherlock , born 1976 ) and one daughter . He is a member of the Army and Navy Club and lives at Chitterne , Wiltshire .
Hastings Edward Harrington Hastings Edward Harington VC ( 9 November 1832 – 20 July 1861 ) 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 . Background . Harington was born in Hinton Parva , Wiltshire in 1832 and educated at Reading School . Military career . Harington ' s military career began on June 12 , 1852 when he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery . During the Indian Mutiny he was severely wounded at Trimmoo Ghat . He was present throughout the Siege of Delhi , and after the fall of the city he proceeded with the Grethed ' s column towards Cawnpore taking an active part in the engagements at Maligurh Fort , Allygurh and Agra . He was present at the relief of the garrison at Lucknow , where his courage gained him the Victoria Cross , for which he was elected by the vote of his fellow officers . During these operations he was most dangerously wounded . He was afterwards present at the siege and capture of Lucknow and joined in the pursuit of the rebels towards Rohileund until he was severely wounded at Rooyah . This last wound compelled him to go to the Himalayas to recover his health ; but deriving only temporary relief and still being troubled by a bullet which remained in his back , he was obliged to return to England and after undergoing a painful operation the bullet was extracted . His health being partially restored he returned to his duty in October 1860 . Shortly after his arrival in India he proceeded on service with the Sikkim Field Force and was afterwards appointed adjutant 6th Battalion Bengal Artillery at Agra where he died from cholera on July 20 , 1861 having achieved the rank of captain . Victoria Cross details . Harington was 25 years old , and a lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery , Indian Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deeds took place at the Relief of Lucknow for which he was awarded the VC :
Moxley Sorrel Gilbert Moxley Sorrel ( ; February 23 , 1838 – August 10 , 1901 ) was a Confederate States Army officer and historian of the Confederacy . Early life . Sorrel was born in Savannah , Georgia , the son of one of the wealthiest men in the city , Francis Sorrel . He was the brother - in - law of William W . Mackall , who was a Confederate general and chief of staff to Braxton Bragg . Civil War . In 1861 , Moxley left his job as a Savannah bank clerk , taking part in the Confederate capture of Fort Pulaski as a private in the Georgia Hussars . With letters of introduction from Colonel Jordan , from Gen . P . G . T . Beauregard ' s staff , and a friend of his father , he reported to Brig . Gen . James Longstreet at Manassas , Virginia , on July 21 , 1861 , serving as a volunteer aide - de - camp . Longstreet wrote that his young aide " came into the battle as gaily as a beau , and seemed to receive orders which threw him into more exposed positions with particular delight . " On September 11 , 1861 , Sorrel received his commission as captain , and was assigned as General Longstreet ' s chief of staff . He was promoted to major on June 24 , 1862 , and lieutenant colonel on June 18 , 1863 . He served under Longstreet until October 1864 when he was appointed brigadier general . Sorrel then commanded Sorrel ' s Brigade of Maj . Gen . William Mahone ' s division at Petersburg and Hatcher ' s Run , being wounded in both battles . Richard L . DiNardo wrote " Even Longstreet ' s most virulent critics have conceded that he put together the best staff employed by any commander , and that his de facto chief of staff , Lieutenant Colonel Moxley Sorrel , was the best staff officer in the Confederacy . " Postbellum life . After the Civil War , Sorrel returned to Savannah and was an executive for the Ocean Steamship Company , and served on the board of the Georgia Historical Society . When Robert E . Lee visited Savannah months before his death in 1870 , Sorrel led the Savannah delegation , greeting General Lee at the train station , and escorting him around the city . Sorrel wrote " Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer " , which was published in 1905 after his death . Historian Douglas Southall Freeman considered Sorrel ' s book to be one of the best accounts of the personalities of the major players in the Confederacy , characterized by " a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterization . " Sorrel died in Roanoke , Virginia , and is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery , Savannah . The Sorrel Weed House , where he grew up , is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States . Designed in 1836 by Charles Clusky , it was one of the first two houses in Georgia to be designated a state landmark . The house is open to the public for tours in Savannah . In popular media . Sorrel was played by Kieran Mulroney in the film " Gettysburg " . Sorrel is also a minor character in the Pulitzer Prize - Winning novel , " The Killer Angels " detailing the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg , where he reports to Lieutenant General James Longstreet .
Mission Command Mission Command is a style of military command , derived from the Prussian - pioneered mission - type tactics doctrine , promoting relatively decentralised subsidiarity of command , freedom and speed of action , and initiative , within certain constraints . Subordinates , understanding the commander ' s intentions , their own missions and the context of those missions , are told what effect they are to achieve and the reason why it needs to be achieved . They then decide within their delegated freedom of action how best to achieve their missions . Orders provide only enough detail to establish intent and objectives , allowing freedom of action . Mission Command is closely related to civilian management concept of workplace empowerment . It is advocated , but not always used , by the Chain of command in the United States , Canadian , Dutch and the British Army . Mission Command is compatible with modern military net - centric concepts , and less centralized approaches to command and control ( C2 ) in general .
General ( United Kingdom ) General is currently the highest peace - time rank in the British Army and Royal Marines . It is subordinate to the Army rank of Field Marshal , has a NATO - code of OF - 9 , and is the equivalent of a multinational 4 star rank . A general ' s insignia is a crossed sword and baton . This appeared on its own for the now obsolete rank of Brigadier - General . A Major - General has a pip over this emblem ; a Lieutenant - General a crown instead of a pip ; and a full General both a pip and a crown . The insignia for the highest rank of Field Marshal consists of crossed batons within a wreath and surmounted by a crown . List of British Generals Brigadier s , although equivalent to Brigadier Generals in other armies , are not considered to be general officers in the British Army .
Wanda Radio Station Wanda Radio Station ( Polish " Radiostacja Wanda " ) was a Soviet Polish language propaganda broadcast station during World War II . Created in 1944 , the Wanda Radio Station was attached to the Red Army units fighting on the Eastern Front . It operated daily , broadcasting news , lectures , and recorded Polish songs . Before the Warsaw Uprising the broadcasts vowed for an armed uprising to be started in Warsaw in order to ease the crossing of the Vistula river by the Red Army . However , after the Uprising did break out the station halted all broadcasts and started to play music only . After the capitulation of the uprising on September 2 , 1944 the broadcasts were restarted . Soviet propaganda underlined that general Tadeusz Bór - Komorowski was a traitor and that the Home Army started the uprising with no coordination with the Soviets . There was also a German - controlled Wanda Radio Station in Rome during World War II . It was created in late 1943 and its main purpose was to encourage Polish troops fighting in Italy to desert .
USS Patrol No . 5 ( SP - 29 ) USS " Patrol No . 5 " ( SP - 29 ) , often rendered as USS " Patrol # 5 " , was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919 . " Patrol No . 5 " was built as a private motorboat of the same name in 1916 by Britt Brothers at Lynn , Massachusetts . She was one of five motorboats built to the same design for private owners by Britt Brothers as part of the civilian Preparedness Movement program with an understanding that they would enter U . S . Navy service in time of war , the others being " Patrol No . 1 " , which later became USS " Patrol No . 1 " ( SP - 45 ) ; " Patrol No . 2 " , which later became USS " Patrol No . 2 " ( SP - 409 ) ; " Patrol No . 3 " , which never entered U . S . Navy service ; and " Patrol No . 4 " , which later became USS " Patrol No . 4 " ( SP - 8 ) . The U . S . Navy purchased " Patrol No . 5 " from her owner , Roland C . Nickerson of East Brewster , Massachusetts , on 7 April 1917 and commissioned her for service during World War I as USS " Patrol No . 5 " ( SP - 29 ) on 13 April 1917 . She operated in the 2nd Naval District , headquartered at Newport , Rhode Island , on patrol during the remainder of the United States ' participation in World War I . " Patrol No . 5 " was decommissioned postwar and sold to Reinhard Hall of Brooklyn , New York , on 23 April 1919 .
Who Dares Wins Who Dares , Wins ( Latin : " Qui audet adipiscitur " , ) is a motto that originated with the British Special Air Service . It is normally credited to the founder of the SAS , David Stirling . Among the SAS themselves it is sometimes humorously corrupted to " Who cares [ who ] wins ? " The catchphrase " He Who Dares , Wins " was commonly used by Del Boy in British sitcom " Only Fools and Horses " . The motto has been used by twelve elite special forces units around the world that in some way have historical ties to the British SAS . An early statement of the idea is " " Τοις τολμώσιν η τύχη ξύμφορος " " ( " Fortune favors the bold " ) from the Ancient Greek soldier and historian Thucydides ( ) .
149th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 149th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps ( 149 RAC ) was an armoured regiment of the British Army ' s Royal Armoured Corps that served in the Burma Campaign during World War II . Origin . 149th Regiment RAC was formed on 22 November 1941 by the conversion to the armoured role of 7th Battalion of the King ' s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ( KOYLI ) . Raised in 1940 , 7th KOYLI had been serving with 207th Independent Infantry Brigade ( Home ) , a Home Defence formation in Essex that was broken up in August 1941 and its battalions transferred to the RAC . In common with other infantry units transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps , all personnel would have continued to wear their KOYLI cap badge on the black beret of the RAC . Burma Campaign . 7th KOYLI arrived in India on 24 October 1941 , and was assigned for conversion to the Heavy Armoured Brigade , which was soon afterwards redesignated 50th Indian Tank Brigade . 149 RAC moved to the Manipur Road area in April 1944 , and came under the command of 254th Indian Tank Brigade in July , when it was equipped with Grant Mk II tanks . The Brigade fought with the 5th Indian Division and the 7th Indian Infantry Division s in Burma and was involved in the Battles at Imphal , Kohima , Kyaumaung Bridgehead , Meiktila , and Rangoon Road . In August 1944 149 RAC returned to Bombay in India , and then in April 1945 moved to Ahmednagar where it came once again under command of 50th Indian Tank Brigade and remained in India for the remainder of the war . 149 RAC was disbanded in 1946 .