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RAF Great Massingham RAF Great Massingham was a World War II era RAF Heavy Bomber airfield located just to the east of the Norfolk village of Great Massingham . The airfield was built as a satellite airfield of RAF West Raynham in 1940 . The airfield closed in 1945 , although remained in use for storage until the 1950s . The airfield was sold in 1958 and returned to agricultural use . Although the runways are still present and still used , the control tower has been demolished .
James R . Soley James Russell Soley ( 1 October 1850 – 11 September 1911 ) was a lawyer and Naval historian and in the Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the U . S . Navy . Biography . Born in Roxbury , Massachusetts , Soley graduated from Harvard College in 1870 . He was appointed Assistant Professor of Ethics and English at the United States Naval Academy on 1 October 1871 . Only two years later , he became Head of the Department of English Studies , History , and Law . On 9 June 1882 , Soley was assigned to the Bureau of Navigation . He served as Superintendent of the naval war records office and he headed the Navy Department Library : Office of Naval Records and Library . During this duty , Soley began the collection of the naval documents of the American Civil War and started the editorial work which culminated in the publication of the 31 - volume collection , The " Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion " . These years also saw the publication of several of Soley ' s books and articles on American naval history . In 1884 , Commodore Stephen B . Luce appointed Soley instructor in International Law at the newly established United States Naval War College , thereby becoming that institution ' s first civilian faculty member . While serving in Washington , D . C . , Soley studied law at Columbian University ( now called George Washington University ) and received his law degree in 1890 . On 16 July 1899 , he resigned his commission so that he would be free to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy . After retiring from public service in March 1893 , Soley practiced law in New York City , specializing in international law . In this field , he won renown as counsel for Venezuela , in 1899 during the arbitration at Paris with the United Kingdom over the Venezuelan boundary dispute which had culminated in the Venezuela Crisis of 1895 . Soley died in New York City on 11 September 1911 . Legacy . was named for him .
Transportable Port Security Boat The 25 ft ( 8 m ) Transportable Port Security Boat ( TPSB ) : ( AKA The Guardian ) is a twin outboard motor , open deck , all weather , high performance , moderately - armed platform capable of operating in inner harbor / near shore environments in light sea conditions . It was first built in FY97 by Boston Whaler in Edgewater , Florida , for the US Coast Guard , Maintenance and Logistic Command . The 25 ft ( 8 m ) TPSB is designed and configured to support Port Security Unit s as an inshore / harbor surface interdiction response asset in accordance with Required Operational Capabilities ( ROC ) and Projected Operational Environment ( POE ) for Coast Guard Port Security Units ( PSU ) , COMDTINST 3501 . 49 ( series ) . The basic design is based on the standard Boston Whaler 25 ft ( 8 m ) Guardian hull , customized to functionally suit the TPSB mission requirements . The basic craft arrangements consist of a centrally positioned control console and leaning post with an open work deck and low non - obstructive gunwales . The TPSB is outfitted as a military gunboat with three ( 3 ) hardened weapon positions : ( 1 ) forward . 50 caliber ( 12 . 7 mm ) tri - pod , ( 2 ) gunwale - mounted 7 . 62 mm M240B Machine Gun pipe pedestals , port and starboard .
Alaska Defense Command Alaska Defense Command ( ADC ) was established on 4 February 1941 as the command formation of the U . S . Army responsible for coordinating the defense of the Alaska Territory of the United States . The first commanding general of ADC was Brigadier General Simon Bolivar Buckner , Jr . . Until 1 November 1943 , Alaska Defense Command was under the jurisdiction of the Western Defense Command , headquartered at the Presidio of San Francisco . ADC was dissolved on 31 October 1943 and replaced by the Alaskan Department , still commanded by now Lieutenant General Buckner but now reporting directly back to the War Department in Washington , D . C .
Frederick Jeremiah Edwards Frederick Jeremiah Edwards ( 3 October 1894 – 9 March 1964 ) was an Irish 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 . Biography . Edwards was born in Queenstown , ( now named Cobh ) , County Cork , Great Britain , now Ireland . He was 21 years old , and a private in the 12th Battalion , The Middlesex Regiment ( Duke of Cambridge ' s Own ) , British Army during the First World War , and was awarded the VC for his deeds on 26 September 1916 at Thiepval , France : part of the line was held up by machine - gun fire and all the officers had become casualties . There was confusion and indication of retirement . Private Edwards , grasping the situation and on his own initiative , dashed out towards the gun , which he knocked out with his bombs . This very gallant act , coupled with great presence of mind and disregard of personal danger , made further advance possible and cleared up a dangerous situation . He was later promoted to corporal and after leaving the army he was forced to sell his medal to make ends meet . He died at Richmond , Surrey . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the National Army Museum , Chelsea , England . In popular culture . Edwards was portrayed by Adam Webb in the 2006 BBC docudrama " The Somme - From Defeat to Victory " References . Listed in order of publication year
176th Perevolochensky Regiment The 176th Perevolochensky Regiment was a regiment in the Imperial Russian Army . World War I . At the outbreak of World War I , the 176th Perevolochensky Regiment was part of the 21st Army Corps and quartered at Chernigov . Upon mobilisation , the regiment was immediately transferred to its winter barracks so that the summer camp could be used by the 316th Khvalinsky Regiment . At that time , the regiment was under the command of Mikhail Dmitriyevich Bonch - Bruyevich , who gave the troops a patriotic speech before marching them to the railway station at Kruty . Bonch - Bruyevich experienced some problems with maintaining discipline . However , he was lenient with a group of 100 soldiers who had gone AWOL and another group of drunken reservists who had tried to give a beating to Captain Kotsubinsky , the unpopular commanding officer of the 7th Company . The unit travelled via Kiev to Lutsk , whence it joined the 44th Infantry Division at Torgovitsy .
Colquhoun Grant ( British cavalry general ) Lieutenant General Sir John Colquhoun Grant KCB ( 1764 – 1835 ) was a British soldier . Military career . Sir Colquhoun Grant in joined the 36th Regiment as an ensign in 1793 , exchanging ( some years later ) to the cavalry ( 25th Light Dragoons ) , with which he served at Seringapatam , but returning to the infantry in 1802 to command the 72nd regiment , which he led for six years . He exchanged to the 15th Hussars in 1808 , and took part in Sir John Moore ' s expedition , being wounded at Sahagún . He returned to Spain in January 1813 , in command of a cavalry brigade ; serving in this capacity , with one interruption , until the end of the campaign . Wellington was less than impressed with the performance of Grant ' s hussar brigade at the Battle of Vitoria and Grant was eventually replaced in command . However , Grant ' s political influence meant that he soon returned to the Peninsula to take over command of the light dragoon brigade of Robert Ballard Long . He was appointed KCB in 1814 . At Waterloo Grant commanded the 5th Cavalry Brigade , consisting of the 7th and 15th Hussars with the 13th Light Dragoons attached , which was stationed in the centre of the allied position ; during the battle he had five horses shot under him . Grant was promoted to lieutenant - general in 1830 , and he served as a Tory Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the rotten borough of Queenborough from 1831 until the borough was disenfranchised under the Reform Act 1832 . Grant was a groom of the bedchamber to Prince Ernest Augustus , Duke of Cumberland , later King of Hanover . He was reputed to have been the strongest man in the British Army , and was given the nickname " The Black Giant . " He was appointed colonel of the 15th Hussars in 1827 , succeeding the Duke of Cumberland , a post he held until his death .
H - class blimp The " H " class blimps were observation airships built for the U . S . Navy in the early 1920s . The design originated with a suggestion by Commander Lewis Maxfield ( who was to have commanded the ZR - 2 , better known as the " R38 " , and died in its crash ) for a small airship which could be used either as a tethered kite balloon , or be towed by a ship until releasing its cable it would be able to scout on its own . The results was an airship similar to the later Army Motorized Kite Balloons . Operational history . After test flights at Wingfoot Lake , the first in the class , " H - 1 " was shipped to Rockaway in May 1921 . During the summer of 1921 , " H - 1 " completed six flights and , on its seventh , a hard landing pitched the crew out of the control car . " H - 1 " free ballooned as far as Scardale , New York where a farmer was able to grab the rip cord and tie the blimp down . During the night it was deflated . The deflated " H - 1 " was shipped back to Rockaway in time to be destroyed in the hangar fire of August 31 , 1921 . A second H - type was acquired on a Navy contract but supplied directly to the U . S . Army which operated it as the OB - 1 and lost in crash at Highland , IL on September 28 , 1923 .
Siege of Marune The was a battle during the Sengoku period ( 16th century ) of Japan . Marune was a frontier fortress in the possession of Oda Nobunaga . Tokugawa Ieyasu , who was at the time a forced retainer of the Imagawa , captured the fortress as part of the Imagawa advance that led to the fateful Battle of Okehazama in 1560 . Throughout Ieyasu ' s siege of this castle , he made good use of concentrated arquebus fire . During the siege Sakuma Morishige , the commander of the fortress , was killed by a bullet . References . " The Samurai Sourcebook "
Olinto M . Barsanti Olinto Mark Barsanti ( November 11 , 1917 – May 2 , 1973 ) was commander of the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam from 1967 – 1968 , commanding during the Tet Offensive and during subsequent operations around Bien Hoa and Huế . He previously served during World War II ( in Normandy , Brittany , and Belgium ) and the Korean War ( at Seoul , Inchon , and with X Corps ) and he is one of the most highly decorated American soldiers in history , receiving approximately 60 decorations , including the DSC , DSM , 5 Silver Stars , 2 Legions of Merit , 8 Bronze Stars , 8 Air Medals , 7 Purple Hearts , and the Croix de guerre with Palms . Barsanti died of cancer in 1973 . In his memory , the University of North Texas has established the Barsanti Military History Center . The current director of the Barsanti program is Geoffrey Wawro . He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery . Fort Campbell held a dedication ceremony for the Olinto M . Barsanti Elementary School , a Department of Defense Education Activity school . The new school is located in the southern portion of the Fort Campbell Army Post . The 93 , 000 square - foot , $ 18 million building was built to accommodate the growing availability of on - post - housing , and serves the Gardner Hills and The Woodlands housing areas . It opened its doors to approximately 550 Pre - K through 5th grade students on January 3 , 2011 .
Rogelio Miranda Rogelio Miranda Valdivia was a Bolivian general . He was also Bolivia Ambassador to the United Kingdom ( 1974 – 1978 ) . In 1970 , Miranda lead a military coup against president Ovando , subsequently declaring himself as president over the junta that he was planning on installing . However , the revolt not long after by the troops under General Torres led to a merging of the two groups and the instatement of Torres as president instead .
James rifle James rifle is a generic term to describe any artillery gun rifled to the James pattern for use in the American Civil War . Charles T . James developed a rifled projectile and rifling system . Modern authorities such as Warren Ripley and James Hazlett have suggested that the term " James rifle " only properly applies to 3 . 80 " bore field artillery pieces rifled to fire James ' projectiles . They contend that the term does not apply to smoothbores that were later rifled to take the James projectiles in 3 . 67 " caliber or other calibers , and that those should instead be referred to as " Rifled 6 ( or other ) pounder " , etc . Field artillery . Early in the war there were many 6 - pounder bronze guns in service with the field artillery and few rifled pieces available . A number of these guns were rifled to fire the 3 . 67 " caliber James projectile . These are classified as " rifled 6 - pounder guns " or alternately as 12 - pounder James rifles . James worked with Ames Manufacturing Company , Chicopee , Massachusetts to produce 3 . 80 " bore rifled cannon in at least six known variants . Collectively these are referred to as 14 - pounder James rifles . The initial type was reaming of existing 6 - pounder Model 1841 guns to 3 . 80 " , then rifling . This eliminated any deviations from tube wear — a common problem with bronze cannon that had already seen service . The other five types were new pieces all using the smooth curves of the Ordnance profile . The first five variants were bronze , while the final type was iron . The James projectiles were falling out of favor by the time of the inventor ' s death in late 1862 , and the various James rifles were gradually phased out of service in favor of other types . Those still in service often used Hotchkiss ammunition . A key factor in demise of these pieces was how quickly " bronze rifles became inaccurate through wear or stretching or both . " Siege & naval rifles . During the early part of the war , the Federal army lacked rifled siege artillery . To fill this gap , the army rifled existing smoothbore pieces with the system developed by Charles T . James . Firing shot and shells also designed by James , these newly - rifled smoothbores gave good service during the April 1862 bombardment of Fort Pulaski . However they were retired from frontline service soon after . Smoothbore guns Rifled with James System
HMS G4 HMS " G4 " was a British G class submarine of the Royal Navy from World War I . War service . Like the rest of her class , " G4 " ' s role was to patrol the North Sea in search of German U - boats .
German submarine U - 244 German submarine " U - 244 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . The submarine was laid down on 24 October 1942 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft yard at Kiel as ' werk ' 678 , launched on 2 September 1943 and commissioned on 9 September under the command of " Oberleutnant " Ruprecht Fischer . In four patrols , she sank no ships . She surrendered to the Allies in May 1945 . Service history . After training with the 5th U - boat Flotilla at Kiel , " U - 244 " was transferred to the 9th flotilla for front - line service on 1 August 1944 . She was reassigned to the 11th flotilla on 1 November . 1st patrol . The boat ' s first patrol was preceded by short trips between Kiel , Horten in Norway and Bergen , also in Norway . It was while she was travelling between these latter two places that she was attacked by two Norwegian Mosquito aircraft of No . 333 Squadron RAF on 25 July 1944 . One man was killed , seven others were wounded . The patrol proper began with " U - 244 " s departure from Bergen on 9 August 1944 . Her route took her south of Iceland . She returned to Bergen on 1 November . 2nd and 3rd patrols . More short voyages followed , between Bergen and Stavanger , but they were not listed as patrols . The boat ' s second sortie in December 1944 , passed without incident . Her third foray saw her reach as far as the English Channel , off Worthing . At 64 days , it was her longest patrol . 4th patrol . The submarine surrendered at Loch Eriboll in Scotland on 14 May 1945 . Later that same day , she was being towed to scuttling grounds as part of Operation " Deadlight " when the tow parted ; the boat was then sunk with gunfire from the Polish destroyer " Piorun " .
Robert A . Lower Robert Alison Lower ( 11 April 1844 - 31 January 1918 ) was a Private in the Union Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the American Civil War . Lower joined the 55th Illinois Infantry in October 1861 , and was mustered out in October 1864 . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization . Private , Company K , 55th Illinois Infantry . Place and date : At Vicksburg , Miss . , May 22 , 1863 . Entered service at : Elmwood , Ill . Birth : Illinois . Date of issue : September 2 , 1893 . Citation : Gallantry in the charge of the " volunteer storming party . "
USS Ardent ( MCM - 12 ) The third USS " Ardent " ( MCM - 12 ) is an " Avenger " - class mine countermeasures ship in the United States Navy . She was built by Peterson Shipbuilders , Sturgeon Bay , Wisconsin . " Ardent " is homeported at Bahrain and is part of the U . S . 5th Fleet . " Ardent " was featured in a front - page article in the 31 July 2006 edition of DefenceNews that pointed out that " Ardent " and USS " Dextrous " ( MCM - 13 ) were suffering from equipment failures that made them unable to perform their role .
Bronisław Pieracki Bronisław Wilhelm Pieracki ( 28 May 1895 in Gorlice - 15 June 1934 in Warsaw ) was a Polish military officer and politician . As member of Polish Legions in World War I , Pieracki took part in the Polish - Ukrainian War ( 1918 – 1919 ) and he later supported the 1926 May Coup of Józef Piłsudski . Pieracki was a deputy to Polish Sejm from the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government in 1928 and afterwards deputy of Chief of Staff . He was a minister of internal affairs from 27 May 1931 to the time of his death in 1934 and posthumously awarded Poland ' s highest civilian and military decoration , the Order of the White Eagle . On 15 June 1934 , Pieracki was assassinated by a Ukrainian nationalist from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists . His death gave the Sanacja government an excuse to the creation of the Bereza Kartuska Detention Camp , which was established only two days after Pieracki ' s assassination . The first detainees consisted of almost whole leadership of the Polish nationalist far - right National Radical Camp ( ONR ) , arrested on July 6 – 7 , 1934 . Stepan Bandera and Mykola Lebed were also sentenced to death for the assassination . Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment but Lebed escaped when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939 .
USS Laburnum ( 1864 ) USS " Laburnum " ( 1864 ) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was used by the Navy as a tugboat and dispatch boat to serve Union ships on blockade duty . " Lion " , a screw tug built at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , in 1864 , was purchased by the Navy 24 June 1864 , renamed " Laburnum " , and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 7 July 1864 , Acting Master A . A . Owens in command . Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockade . The new tug joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Port Royal , South Carolina , 17 July 1864 . For the remainder of the Civil War she operated in the vicinity of Charleston , South Carolina , on blockade duty and assisting other ships of the squadron towing and acting as dispatch vessel . Such modest but vital service by ships contributed greatly to the effectiveness of the blockade which ultimately strangled the Confederacy and restored peace to the divided nation . On 15 February " Laburnum " captured a boat with seven men from blockade runner " Sylph " which had run aground on Sullivan ’ s Island while attempting to escape from Charleston and the tentacles of General W . T . Sherman ’ s army . Four days later , after the South had evacuated Charleston , " Laburnum " began removing obstructions between Mount Pleasant , South Carolina , and Fort Sumter and she continued to labor restoring order to the waters of South Carolina until after the end of the war . Post - war decommissioning and civilian maritime career . " Laburnum " decommissioned 24 January 1866 and was sold at auction in New York City to L . J . Belloni 16 March 1866 . The tug was redocumented as " D . P . Ingraham " 14 May 1866 and served commercial shipping until sold to a foreign purchaser in 1878 .
Captain ' s clerk A captain ' s clerk was a rating , now obsolete , in the Royal Navy for a person employed by the captain to keep his records , correspondence , and accounts . The regulations of the Royal Navy demanded that a purser serve at least one year as a captain ' s clerk , so the latter was often a young man working his way to a purser ' s warrant . He had high status , with an office on the quarterdeck or upper deck on most ships . He was paid at the same rate as a midshipman in 1800 , but by 1815 he had almost the same monthly pay as a standing warrant officer . On large ships , he had his own cabin in the gunroom , but on smaller vessels he lived with the midshipmen on the orlop deck . Duties . Once commissioned , a ship required a great deal of paperwork to keep her in good order . The recognized office staff consisted of captain ' s clerk , the purser , and the purser ' s steward . On most ships the first lieutenant was allowed a " writer " to help him draw up the watch and station bills , chosen from among the most literate landmen , otherwise the paperwork was done by the officers themselves . Occasionally the clerk had clerk ' s assistants , similar to how most warrant officers had mates . In order to have his accounts passed at the Admiralty , a captain had to present at least 25 different completed books and forms . Some were quite simple , such as a copy of his commission , others were complex , such as the two copies of the log book or the muster book which had to be sent periodically . The main job of the captain ' s clerk was to prepare these documents , and to copy out the general correspondence of the captain . The captain ' s clerk worked closely with the purser , especially regarding the muster book which was used to determine how much to feed the crew . End of rating . By 1837 , a Royal Commission sat for the purpose of determining the modes of promotion and retirement for naval officers , and one of their recommendations was to reduce the number of pursers , and to create an examination for clerks and all rated ships were to carry two clerks , one of which , a " passed clerk " , had passed the examination . By 1852 , the rank of purser was renamed Paymaster of the Navy , a distinct rating of Clerk ' s Assistant was created , for boys between 15 and 18 , who took the same examinations on entry as naval cadets and had to serve for two years in the rank prior to promotion to clerk . A " passed clerk " was appointed by commission and ranked with a mate , while clerk and clerk ' s assistants were appointed by order in the same way as midshipmen and cadets , and continued to live in the gunroom or midshipmen ' s berth . In 1855 , passed clerks received the title Assistant Paymaster , and in 1918 , the rating Clerk disappeared when the paymasters received new military titles . Assistant Paymasters became Paymaster Sub - lieutenants , Clerk became Paymaster Midshipmen and Assistant Clerks , Paymaster Cadets .