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Walter Kuntze Walter Kuntze ( 23 February 1883 – 1 April 1960 ) was a highly decorated General der Pioniere ( US equiv . Lieutenant General of Engineers ) in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 12 . Armee . 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 . Walter Kuntze was captured by Allied troops in 1945 and was tried at the Hostages Trial in 1947 . He was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment , but was released in 1953 due to ill health . He died on 1 April 1960 .
USS Kirk ( FF - 1087 ) USS " Kirk " ( FF - 1087 ) was a " Knox " - class destroyer escort , originally designated as DE - 1087 and reclassified as a frigate ( 1975 ) in the United States Navy . Her primary mission of ASW remained unchanged . She was named for Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk . Awarded to the Avondale Marine on 25 August 1966 , " Kirk " was laid down on 4 December 1970 , launched on 25 September 1971 and commissioned on 9 September 1972 . In April 1975 " Kirk " participated in Operation Eagle Pull , the evacuation of Phnom Penh , Cambodia and Operation Frequent Wind , the evacuation of Saigon , Vietnam . As part of the evacuation of South Vietnam , the USS Kirk carried out one of the most significant humanitarian missions in U . S . military history . Under the direction of a civilian , Richard Armitage , the Kirk rescued the South Vietnamese Navy , and along with it , tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees , and led them to the Philippines . From there , most of the refugees ultimately emigrated to the United States . In 2010 , under the direction of VADM Adam Robinson , Fmr . Surgeon General of the US Navy , the US Navy created a documentary entitled " The Lucky Few . " It has since been translated into Vietnamese as well . She served in the US Navy up until 6 August 1993 , when the ship was decommissioned and leased to Republic of China Navy in Taiwan . In Taiwanese service she was renamed " Fen Yang " ( ) with the hull number changed to 934 . On 29 September 1999 , the ship was finally purchased by Taiwan .
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse , unincorporated Plaquemines Parish , Louisiana , United States . NAS JRB New Orleans is home to the 159th Fighter Wing , USCG Air Station New Orleans , a Marine Corps Reserve unit as well as other US Navy & US Army activities . The base has a 24 / 7 operating schedule to support both the 159th FW ' s NORAD air defense / homeland security requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue / maritime law enforcement missions . It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field which is located three nautical miles ( 6 km ) south of the central business district of New Orleans . The base ' s predecessor , NAS New Orleans , occupied the current location of the University of New Orleans ' s principal campus until 1957 . Facilities . New Orleans NAS JRB ( Alvin Callender Field ) has two runways with PEM surfaces : 4 / 22 is 9 , 999 by 200 feet ( 3 , 048 x 61 m ) and 14 / 32 is 6 , 000 by 200 feet ( 1 , 829 x 61 m ) .
Charles du Houx de Vioménil Charles Joseph Hyacinthe du Houx de Vioménil , Marquis of Vioménil ( August 22 , 1734 - March 5 , 1827 ) was a Marshal of France . Viomesnil entered the French army at age 13 as a lieutenant of the regiment of Limousin . He served in the War of the Austrian Succession where he took part in the Battle of Lauffeld and the capture of Bergen op Zoom . During the Seven Years ' War he served as an aide de camp to general François de Chevert ( 1757 - 1758 ) . Viomesnil was made a knight of the Order of Saint Louis in 1760 . He was promoted to colonel in 1761 . In 1768 he commanded an infantry brigade during the annexation of Corsica . Upon his return to France in 1769 he was made colonel of the Légion de Lorraine en 1770 . Promoted maréchal de camp in 1780 , Viomesnil served under Rochambeau in America during the Yorktown campaign . After his return from the American Revolutionary War he was made inspector - general of the cavalry ( 1783 - 1788 ) . In 1789 - 1790 he served as governor of Martinique . After the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1791 Viomesnil decided to emigrate and join the army of Condé . In 1798 he entered Russian service and with the rank of lieutenant - general he commanded an army in Lithuania . Originally designated to command the Russian forces sent to Italy he was replaced by Alexander Suvorov and sent instead to Jersey and Guernsey in anticipation of a joined invasion of France . When the Russian troops returned home , Viomesnil went to Portugal but had to leave Portugal in 1803 upon the demand of the French ambassador Jean Lannes . After the Bourbon Restoration in 1814 Viomesnil was a made a Peer of France . During the Hundred Days he followed Louis XVIII of France to Ghent . After Waterloo and the Second Restoration , he was given command of a military division centered at Bordeaux . In 1816 at age 82 he was made a Marshal of France , the next year he was made a marquis . in 1820 he was given the Order du Saint - Esprit and in 1823 he was made an Officer in the Légion d ' honneur .
BL 6 inch Mk XXIII naval gun The 50 calibre BL 6 inch gun Mark XXIII was the main battery gun used on the Royal Navy and British Commonwealth ' s conventional ( non - anti - aircraft ) light cruiser s built from 1930 through the Second World War , and passed into service with several other navies when ships were disposed of after the end of the War . Description . It replaced the BL 8 inch Mk VIII naval gun used on earlier Washington Naval Treaty cruisers . These built - up gun s consisted of a tube and 4 . 5 metre jacket with a hand - operated Welin breech block . Cloth bags contained 14 kg ( 30 pound ) charges of cordite or flashless ( NQFP ) powder for a 51 - kg ( 112 - pound ) projectile . Useful life expectancy was 1100 effective full charge s ( EFC ) with standard cordite and 2200 EFC with NQFP per barrel . The typical maximum rate of fire was eight rounds per gun , per minute . The Mk XXIII turret design was improved through a " long trunk " ammunition hoist , which reduced the crew requirements and increased the speed of the ammunition hoists . As in the MK XXII turret loading could be accomplished at any angle up to 12 . 5 degrees gun elevation . A RN gunnery officer on " HMS Bermuda " gave details of the loading cycle which could be attained in the Mk XXIII turret with a well trained crew : " . . . a loading cycle of four and a half to 5 seconds was attained at low elevation , another two to three seconds being required with the guns elevated for long range . The time would lengthen as fatigue set in , but was creditable . . . "
Richard Secord Major General Richard V . Secord , Retired ( born 1932 in LaRue , Ohio ) , is a United States Air Force officer convicted for his involvement with the Iran - Contra scandal . He was exonerated after a 1990 Supreme Court case found the statute used to be illegal . He graduated from West Point in 1955 and was then commissioned in the USAF . He was President of Stanford Technology Trading Group Intl . , also known as the " Enterprise " , a company involved with arms sales to Iran during the Reagan presidency . In 2002 , retired General Secord was named CEO and Chairman at Computerized Thermal Imaging . He has since retired and now serves as president of the Air Commando Association , a Florida based charity . Laos . Richard Secord was involved in the Secret War in Laos during the Second Indochina War . He flew close air support missions in Vietnam in 1962 , and was the CIA chief of tactical air support in Laos on detail from the USAF in 1966 , 67 and 68 . See his book , " Honored and Betrayed " published in 1992 . Iran - Contra . Secord was the USAF Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group ( MAAG ) in Iran from 1975 - 78 . In this capacity he managed all USAF military assistance programs in Iran as well as some US Navy and Army programs . During this time he oversaw Project Dark Gene and Project Ibex . Secord filed a libel case against Leslie Cockburn , Andrew Cockburn , Morgan Entrekin , Atlantic Monthly Press , and Little , Brown and Company , Inc . for publishing a book in 1987 entitled " Out of Control : The Story of the Reagan Administration ' s Secret War in Nicaragua , the Illegal Pipeline , and the Contra Drug Connection " . The court ordered summary judgment on behalf of the defendant . Trial . On March 16 , 1988 , Secord was indicted on six felony charges . On May 11 , 1989 , Secord received a second indictment on nine counts of impeding and obstructing the Congressional Committees Investigating The Iran - Contra Affair . Secord was scheduled to stand trial on 12 charges . On November 8 , 1989 , Richard Secord pled guilty to one felony count of false statements to Congress , and on January 24 , 1990 he was sentenced to two years probation . In 1992 the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia issued a writ of " coram nobis " which expunged the conviction on the grounds that the US Supreme Court had earlier found the underlying indictment to be illegal and without effect " ab initio " , i . e . , from the beginning . The Justice Dept . did not oppose the matter . Thus the entire Iran - Contra imbroglio ended for Secord . Awards and decorations . His military decorations and awards include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal , Legion of Merit , Distinguished Flying Cross , Meritorious Service Medal , Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters , Air Force Commendation Medal , Republic of Thailand Most Exalted Order of the White Elephant and Republic of Korea Order of National Security Merit Cheonsu Medal .
Strategikon of Kekaumenos The Strategikon of Kekaumenos ( , ) is a late 11th century Byzantine manual offering advice on warfare and the handling of public and domestic affairs . The book was composed between 1075 and 1078 by its author , a Byzantine general of partly Armenian descent . In it , he offers advice , based on his own personal experience and drawing upon numerous historical examples from the events of the 11th century . It is divided in six parts : The book is valuable to historians for its portrayal of the mindset of the Byzantine provincial aristocracy in the closing decades of the 11th century , and especially the social relations , as revealed in the third part . It also contains much otherwise unknown information about historical events , and is the first book to record the presence of the Vlachs in Thessaly .
Fairuz Yamulky Fairuz Yamulky is an Iraqi - born Canadian , from Calgary , Alberta , who was working in Iraq for GSF Cement and Sand Company , when she was kidnapped and held captive for 16 days in northern Iraq . Yamulky was kidnapped on September 6 , 2004 , when she was on her way to Fallujah . Her driver and a colleague were not taken . According to her family , kidnappers threatened to execute her , unless they were paid $ 2 . 5 million and 50 Iraqi prisoners were released . At approximately 9 : 45 p . m . local time , September 21 , 2004 , a Black Hawk helicopter , which had been on routine patrol , was diverted to the desert in the north to retrieve Yamulky . A reporter was also aboard . About an hour later , a car arrived with Yamulky in it , to transfer her to a secure location . US Army , and Iraqi forces , were said to be assisted by one of the kidnappers , whom Yamulky promised to keep safe if he helped her to escape . Yamulky , who had gone back to Iraq to assist in rebuilding the country , was not on any missing persons list . The Canadian government , however , was aware that she had been kidnapped .
Hans Hecker Hans Hecker ( 26 February 1895 – 1 May 1979 ) was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several divisions . 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 . Hans Hecker was captured by Allied troops in 1945 and was released in 1947 .
Sima Xin Sima Xin ( died 204 BC ) was a military general of the Qin Dynasty . He surrendered to Xiang Yu after the Battle of Julu in 207 BC . In 206 BC , following the collapse of the Qin Dynasty , he was conferred the title of " King of Sai " by Xiang Yu and given part of the lands in Guanzhong as his fief when the latter split the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms . Biography . In 209 BC , Chen Sheng and Wu Guang started the Daze Village Uprising to overthrow the Qin Dynasty . The Qin emperor , Qin Er Shi , placed Zhang Han in command of the imperial army , with Sima Xin and Dong Yi serving as his deputies , to quell the rebels . In 207 BC , Zhang Han attacked the insurgent Zhao kingdom and besieged Zhao forces at Julu . Xiang Yu of the Chu kingdom came to Zhao ' s aid and defeated the Qin army at the Battle of Julu , despite having a smaller force . Zhang Han sent Sima Xin to the capital Xianyang to request for reinforcements . However , the eunuch Zhao Gao deceived Qin Er Shi and the emperor refused to send aid . Sima Xin escaped from Zhao Gao ' s assassins along the return journey and reported to Zhang Han that the state power of Qin had fallen into the hands of the eunuch . Zhang Han pondered over the situation and realised that even if he defeated the rebels , Zhao Gao would later frame him for treason and have him executed . Hence , he surrendered to Xiang Yu . After the fall of the Qin Dynasty in 206 BC , Xiang Yu divided the former Qin Empire into the Eighteen Kingdoms and granted the land of Guanzhong ( heartland of Qin ) to the three surrendered Qin generals ( the three fiefs were collectively known as the Three Qins ) . Sima Xin was given part of Guanzhong as his fief and received the title of " King of Sai " ( 塞王 ) . Later that year , Liu Bang ( King of Han ) attacked the Three Qins and defeated Zhang Han . Sima Xin and Dong Yi surrendered to Liu Bang . In 205 BC , during the Chu – Han Contention , Liu Bang was defeated by Xiang Yu at the Battle of Pengcheng . Sima Xin and Dong Yi defected to Xiang Yu ' s side . The following year , Liu Bang attacked Xiang Yu at the Battle of Chenggao . Liu Bang lured Cao Jiu ( 曹咎 ) , the defending general , to pursue and attack him . The Chu army fell into an ambush at the Si River and was defeated by Liu Bang ' s forces . Cao Jiu , Dong Yi and Sima Xin committed suicide . The " Book of Han " says that , after his death , Liu Bang had Sima Xin ' s head suspended on a pole in the marketplace of Yueyang ( 櫟陽 ; present - day Yanliang District , Xi ' an , Shaanxi ) , his previous capital , because the latter had traitorously gone over to Xiang Yu after surrendering to Liu Bang in September 206 .
French frigate Vénus ( 1782 ) The Vénus was an 38 - gun " Hébé " class frigate of the French Navy . In the summer of 1782 , " Vénus " operated as a transport between Rochefort and Île de Ré . She served in Martinique during the American War of Independence . From 1785 to 1788 , " Vénus " undertook a scientific expedition in the Indian Ocean , under captain de Rossily . " Vénus " was wrecked in a storm on her way back to France , on 31 December 1788
Günther Angern Günther Angern ( 5 March 1893 – 2 February 1943 ) was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded several panzer divisions . 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 . Günther Angern committed suicide on 2 February 1943 before the surrender of German forces at Stalingrad .
Narayan Menon Air Marshal Narayan Menon ( born 27 September 1944 ) was a former Air Officer - in - Charge ( Personnel ) with the Indian Air Force . He was commissioned on 24 December 1964 . He received Ati Vishisht Seva Medal on 26 January 1998 , Uttam Yudh Seva Medal on 15 August 1999 and Param Vishisht Seva Medal on 26 January 2004 .
RAF Rhoose RAF Rhoose is a former Royal Air Force ( RAF ) airfield located near Cardiff , Wales . History . It opened on 7 April 1942 as an RAF training base for Supermarine Spitfire pilots . No . 53 Operational Training Unit Llandow was the parent station , and Rhoose was a satellite landing ground . Other units included :
HMAS Bungaree HMAS " Bungaree " was an auxiliary minelayer of Royal Australian Navy ( RAN ) , serving during World War II . The ship was built as a cargo vessel for the Adelaide Steamship Company by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Dundee , and launched in 1937 . The ship operated in Australian waters and was requisitioned by the RAN in October 1940 . Decommissioned on 7 August 1946 and returned to her owners on 5 November 1947 , she was sold in 1957 and renamed " Dampier " . She was then sold in 1960 and renamed " Eastern Mariner " and while operating in South Vietnamese waters she struck a mine on the Saigon River and was sunk on 26 May 1966 . Acquisition . The civilian merchant freighter " Bungaree " was requisitioned by the RAN in October 1940 , and was commissioned into the RAN on 9 June 1941 after being converted into a minelayer . Following her conversion , HMAS " Bungaree " had a capacity of 423 naval mine s and was originally armed with two guns for protection . She was later modified to carry 467 mines . Operational history . " Bungaree " laid her first minefield off Port Moresby in August 1941 and , as Australia ' s only minelayer , laid over 10 , 000 mines in defensive minefields in Australian and New Zealand waters during World War II . " Bungaree " was present in Sydney Harbour during the Japanese midget submarine attack on 31 May 1942 . As the Allies moved onto the offensive the need for defensive minefields lessened , with " Bungaree " re - tasked as a survey ship from January 1944 and a store ship from August 1944 . " Bungaree " was awarded the battle honour " Pacific 1942 - 43 " for her wartime service . Decommissioning and fate . HMAS " Bungaree " was decommissioned on 7 August 1946 and was returned to her owners on 5 November 1947 . The mines she laid in Australian waters were swept by the RAN between 1945 and 1948 . She was sold in 1957 and renamed " Dampier " . She was sold again in 1960 and renamed " Eastern Mariner " . The vessel was lost on 26 May 1966 , after striking a mine in the Saigon River , South Vietnam .
Alfred Haines Lieutenant Alfred John Haines was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories . Haines flew a Sopwith Camel in Italy as part of 45 Squadron . He destroyed an Albatros D . V on 4 February 1918 . On 7 June , he set two Albatros D . III s afire . He destroyed an Aviatik on 23 July ; on the 29th , he destroyed two Austro - Hungarian Phönix D . I s . On 10 August 1918 , he was flying at 10 , 000 feet and took a direct hit from antiaircraft cannon . His body fell into " No Mans Land " . The Austro - Hungarians returned his body under flag of truce . References . " Above the Trenches : a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915 - 1920 . " Christopher F . Shores , Norman L . R . Franks , Russell Guest . Grub Street , 1990 . ISBN 0 - 948817 - 19 - 4 , ISBN 978 - 0 - 948817 - 19 - 9 .
Christian Nissen Christian Nissen aka Hein Mück ( 1893 – after 1955 ) was a German sailor and yachtsman , who served with the Abwehr and its special forces , the Brandenburgers in World War II . Biography . Nissen was a very experienced sailor , who had sailed around Cape Horn several times and belonged to the international guild of " Cape Horniers " . As an experienced yachtsman too he got in the focus of Germany ' s Abwehr . The ghost sailors were an asset of Abwehr chief Admiral Wilhelm Canaris . Experienced yachtsmen trained by his special forces , the Brandenburgers , sailed the northern and southern Atlantic in World War II . Operation Lobster I . In June 1940 Nissen had been called to the Sabotage School at Brandenburg an der Havel to prepare for Operation Lobster I and asked to find a boat suitable for transporting three agents to Ireland . Nissen had served in World War I aboard the Imperial German Navy full rigged ship Melpomene . Melpomene had been captured by the Royal Navy west of the port of Queenstown , now Cobh , in County Cork . He was interned first at Templemore in Tipperary , then in Oldcastle , County Meath , and finally on the Isle of Man . Therefore , Nissen was familiar with this area . He selected the " " Soizic " " , a luxurious yacht from the harbour in Brest Bay for the voyage . The boat was fitted out like a French fishing vessel and had previously belonged to the French military attaché in Berne . The mission was successful , but the agents were arrested in Ireland two hours after getting at shore . Operation Seagull . Operation Lobster was followed by Operation Seagull ( Ireland ) in late summer 1940 . Nissen ' s orders were to transport an NCO . from the Brandenburgers , Helmut Clissmann , and one Abwehr I . radio operator to the southern coast of Ireland to carry out their mission . The vessel chosen was the " " Anni Braz - Bihen " " . Clissmann was stationed at Westende , Belgium in readiness for the operation . Nissen received his orders from his direct superior in the Regiment , Captain Hollman . The mission failed . Operation Hawthorne . Operation Hawthorn , in German " Operation Weissdorn " was a piece of outstanding yachtmanship in those days . Lieutenant " zur See " , See meaning " see or naval " , Christian Nissen , also known as " Hein Mück " brought , together with his brother Arndt Georg " Age " Nissen , Paul Temme and three other " Ghost sailors " ( ) , the South African boxer Robey Leibbrandt with a confiscated French sailboat , " Kyloe " from St . Malo , France , down to South Africa and dropped him with a rubber dinghy at the coast northwest of Cape Town . Klyoe had a crew of six , including Heinrich Garbers , who later on became such a commander too . They performed a non - stop voyage of , which ended in Spanish Sahara , from where they took the plane to Rome and further on home to Berlin .
Leo Passianos Leo Passianos ( died 22 June 1017 ) was the Byzantine general sent by the Catapan of Italy Leo Tornikios Kontoleon to fight the Lombard rebel Melus of Bari in 1017 . He is not to be confused with the other Passianos killed in Melus ' first rebellion while fighting the Saracens under Ishmael of Montepeloso . Passianos met Melus on the Fortore at Arenula . The battle was either indecisive ( William of Apulia ) or a victory for Melus ( Leo of Ostia ) . Tornikios then took command himself and led them into a second encounter near Civita . This second battle was a victory for Melus , though Lupus Protospatharius and the anonymous chronicler of Bari record a defeat . Passianos was killed in this battle .
MG 13 The MG 13 ( shortened from German Maschinengewehr 13 ) was a German general - purpose machine gun obtained by rebuilding a World War I water - cooled machine gun , the little - known Dreyse 1918 , into an air - cooled version . The MG 13 was introduced into service in 1930 , where it served as the standard light machine gun . It was superseded by cheaper , faster firing models : the MG 34 and then later the MG 42 . It was officially withdrawn from service in 1934 ; most of the MG 13s were sold to Portugal , where they were used into the late 1940s as the Metralhadora 7 , 92 mm m / 938 Dreyse . Those MG 13s that were not sold were placed into storage , and these later saw use in World War II by second line German units . The MG 13 was designed to work with either a 25 - round box magazine or a 75 round saddle drum . It was equipped with a folding butt stock and a carrying handle . It was used in the tail gunner ' s position in the Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber and in the turret of the Panzer I tank . The Chinese Nationalist Government also imported the MG 13 with the Panzer I tank from Germany . The MG 13 was also used against the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second Sino - Japanese War .