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George F . Emmons George Foster Emmons ( 23 August 1811 – 23 July 1884 ) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy , who served in the early to mid 19th century . Biography . Born in Clarendon , Vermont , Emmons began his distinguished career as a midshipman on 1 April 1828 . As a lieutenant aboard the he participated in the Wilkes Exploring Expedition of 1838 to 1842 , which discovered the Antarctic Continent , and throughout the South Seas . He was assigned command of the expedition ' s overland party conducting surveys and exploration from Puget Sound south to San Francisco . He served with great honor in the Mexican and Civil Wars . As commander of the from 1867 to 1868 , he carried to Alaska the commissioners who took formal possession for the United States . He became commodore in 1868 , chief of the Hydrographic Office in 1870 , and rear admiral in 1872 . As a Rear Admiral , he commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard until his retirement in 1873 . Rear Admiral Emmons died in Princeton , New Jersey . He is buried in Green Mount Cemetery , Baltimore , Maryland . Namesake . In 1941 , the was named in his honor .
Babafemi Ogundipe Babafemi Ogundipe was the " de facto " Vice President of Nigeria during Johnson Aguiyi - Ironsi ' s 1966 military government . He was born on September 6 , 1924 to Yoruba parents from Ago - Iwoye , in present - day Ogun State in western Nigeria . He joined the Royal West African Frontier Force in 1941 , serving in Burma between 1942 and 1945 . He re - enlisted after the second World War , and rose to the rank of Brigadier in May 1964 . He served as the Chief of Staff , Supreme Headquarters Nigerian Defence Forces between January 1966 and August 1966 . After the coup which overthrew Aguiyi - Ironsi , and following an agreement with the new military government led by Yakubu Gowon , he left the country for the United Kingdom , where he attended the 1966 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting as Nigeria ' s representative in September . Thereafter he took up appointment as Nigeria ' s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom , a post he held until August 1970 , when he left public service . He died in London in November 1971 . He was criticized in some quarters for his refusal to take the mantle of office of his supreme commander , who had been murdered in the August 1966 coup , and that this aggravated the pogroms that eventually followed . He was the most senior military officer after the death of Ironsi , and the thinking was that he ought to have taken power himself . The fact is that this was not a viable thing for him to have done . He had no troops , and he was unable to rely on the few individuals available to him , many of whom were northern and were unwilling to take orders from a Christian southerner . Furthermore , he was basically a soldier and had no personal political ambitions . He understood that the preservation of Nigeria as one country meant that a southern Christian would be unable to hold the country together , and he took himself out of the power equation by accepting Yakubu Gowon ( several years his junior ) as the head of the new military government .
George Black ( RAF officer ) Air Vice - Marshal George Phillip Black CB OBE AFC RAF ( Rtd ) was a British Royal Air Force pilot , a senior Royal Air Force officer in the 1970s and 1980s and a Commandant Royal Observer Corps . From 1971 to 1973 , Black was Station Commander of RAF Wildenrath in West Germany . Service History . Early years . In 1950 Black left No . 107 ( Aberdeen ) Squadron Air Training Corps in the rank of Sergeant to commence National Service duty in the RAF . After undergoing flying training in Canada he joined No . 263 Squadron RAF at RAF Wattisham in the rank of Flying Officer . In 1952 his National Service was converted to a permanent commission and he was seconded to the Fleet Air Arm . He returned to the RAF in 1961 in the rank of Flight Lieutenant and served with No . 74 Squadron RAF flying English Electric Lightning s . Promoted to Wing Commander in 1964 he became Commanding Officer of No . 111 Squadron RAF , also equipped with Lightnings . On promotion to Group Captain in 1972 Black was appointed Station Commander at RAF Wildenrath in Germany . He became Commander Allied Sector One , Brockzetel in May 1980 on promotion to the rank of Air Commodore and was later appointed Aide - de - Camp to HM The Queen in July 1981 . Royal Observer Corps . Black was appointed as the 18th Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps , replacing Air Commodore R J Offord in February 1983 , an appointment he held until September 1984 when he was further promoted to Air Vice Marshal . Later service and retirement . Following his promotion he became Deputy Chief Staff Operations at HQ Allied Air Force Central Europe . Black retired from the RAF in July 1987 . On its formation in 1986 Air Vice Marshal Black became Honorary President of the Royal Observer Corps Seaborne Association , an appointment he continues to hold . Career after the RAF . Between 1987 and 1992 Black was the senior defence advisor at Ferranti Defence Systems in Edinburgh , moving to an appointment as Director of Military Business for Marconi Electronic Business Systems Ltd from 1993 until 1999 . He then spent a year as the Defence Advisor to the Sensor Division of British Aerospace , transferring to the BAe Systems Avionics division in 2000 . Since 2000 Black has been the Defence Consultant for Selex Ltd . Black was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Management in 1977 and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautics Society in 2000 Air Vice Marshal Black is a member of the RAF Historical Society and during his career recorded over 5 , 000 flying hours on around 100 different types of aircraft . He is married and has two sons , both of whom serve as officers in the Royal Air Force . Awards . Black was awarded an Air Force Cross in 1962 while with No . 74 Squadron and achieved a bar in 1971 . He was awarded an OBE in 1967 and became a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1987 .
Caer Gybi ( fort ) Caer Gybi was a small fortlet in Roman Wales in the Roman province of Britannia Superior . Its name in Latin is unknown . Today it stands at the centre of Holyhead in the Welsh county of Anglesey . Holyhead is named " Caergybi " in Welsh , after the fort . The fort is one of Europe ' s only three - walled Roman forts . The fourth side fronted the sea and was probably the site of a quay . Its date is unknown , but it is generally thought to be part of a late - 4th - century scheme , associated with Segontium , which was set up to defend the west coast against Irish sea - raiders . The Romans also built a watch tower , within Mynydd y Twr on the top of Holyhead Mountain , which was almost certainly used as the fort ' s look - out point . Both were probably abandoned around 393 , when the troops were probably sent to respond to the revolt of Eugenius of Gaul . In the 6th century , the old fort was given to Saint Cybi , who founded a monastery there . The Church of St Cybi still stands on the site today , with a small detached chapel over Cybi ' s grave .
1st South Carolina Regiment The 1st South Carolina Regiment was raised on June 6 , 1775 at Charleston , South Carolina for service with the Continental Army . The regiment saw action at the Siege of Savannah and the Siege of Charleston . The regiment was captured at Charleston on May 12 , 1780 together with the rest of the Southern Department by the British Army . The regiment was reorganized December 11 , 1782 , furloughed May 14 , 1783 at Charleston and disbanded on November 15 , 1783 .
Hans Bennemann Hans Bennemann ( 30 August 1921 – 7 April 1993 ) was a German Luftwaffe bomber pilot and recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Hans Bennemann joined the Bundeswehr in the 1950s and retired in 1978 as an Oberstleutnant .
34th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 34th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry , known as the " Rock River Rifles , " was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . The volunteers of this Regiment came from northwestern Illinois , the valley of the Rock River ; thus they mainly came from Whiteside , Lee , Ogle , and Carroll counties , but some came further south from Christian , Morgan , Randolph , and Edgar counties . Edward N . Kirk , an attorney from Sterling in Whiteside County , raised the regiment and became its first Colonel when the regiment mustered in for three years service on September 7 , 1861 . Service . The 34th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler , Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 7 , 1861 , and moved October 2 to Columbus , Ohio , thence to Lexington , Kentucky , and then to Camp Nevin , Kentucky , where it remained until February 14 , 1862 . It was then in Kirk ' s Brigade of Rousseau ' s Division , marched to Bowling Green , and thence via Nashville , Franklin and Columbia , to Savannah on the Tennessee River . It fought at the Battle of Shiloh , being then in McCook ' s Brigade of Buell ' s Army , losing fifteen killed , and one hundred and twelve wounded . It was later assigned to the 2nd Brigade , 2nd Division , McCook ' s Corps , afterward to the 14th Corps , Army of the Cumberland , participating in the following engagements : Siege of Corinth , Mississippi ; Lavergne , Knob Gap or Nolensville , Stone River or Murfreesboro , Triune and Liberty Gap , Tennessee ; Chickamauga , Graysville , Rocky Face Ridge , Resaca , Rome , Dallas or New Hope Church , Lost Mountain , Kennesaw Mountain , Peach Tree Creek , Siege of Atlanta , Jonesboro , and March to the Sea , Georgia ; Campaign of the Carolinas , including Averasboro , Bentonville , North Carolina ; and a number of minor engagements and skirmishes . After the surrender of General Joseph E . Johnston to General William T . Sherman at Bennett House , the regiment marched with Sherman ' s Army to Washington , D . C . and took part in the Grand Review May 24 , 1865 . The regiment was mustered out on July 12 , 1865 and discharged July 17 , 1865 at Chicago , Illinois . Total strength and casualties . The regiment suffered 11 officers and 129 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 119 enlisted men who died of disease , for a total of 261 fatalities .
Azeville Airfield Azeville Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield , which is located near the commune of Azeville in the Basse - Normandie region of northern France . Located just outside of Azeville , the United States Army Air Force established a temporary airfield shortly after D - Day on 16 June 1944 , shortly after the Allied landings in France The airfield was one of the first established in the liberated area of Normandy , being constructed by the IX Engineering Command , 819th Engineer Aviation Battalion . History . The area was formerly home to a German gun battery , which consisted of four captured French 105mm guns . The battery was captured on 9 June 1944 by the U . S . 22nd Infantry Regiment ( 4th Division ) moving inland from Utah Beach . Known as Advanced Landing Ground " A - 7 " , the airfield consisted of a single 5000 ' ( 1500m ) Square - Mesh Track runway aligned 08 / 26 . In addition , with tents were used for billeting and also for support facilities ; an access road was built to the existing road infrastructure ; a dump for supplies , ammunition , and gasoline drums , along with a drinkable water and minimal electrical grid for communications and station lighting . Combat units stationed at the airfield were the 365th Fighter Group , which based P - 47 Thunderbolt fighters at Azeville from 28 June through 15 August 1944 , and the 363d Fighter Group , which based P - 51 Mustang fighters at the airfield during August and September 1944 . The fighter planes flew support missions during the Allied invasion of Normandy , patrolling roads in front of the beachhead ; stafing German military vehicles and dropping bombs on gun emplacements , anti - aircraft artillery and concentrations of German troops in Normandy and Brittany when spotted . After the Americans moved east into Central France with the advancing Allied Armies , the airfield was closed on 15 September 1944 . Today the airfield is a mixture of agricultural fields .
93rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 93rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 93rd Illinois Infantry was mustered into state service at Chicago , Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 13 , 1862 . The regiment was mustered out on June 23 , 1865 and discharged at Chicago , Illinois on July 7 , 1865 . Total strength and casualties . The regiment suffered 4 officers and 147 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 147 enlisted men who died of disease , for a total of 294 fatalities .
London Armoury Company The London Armoury Company was a London arms manufactory that existed from 1856 until 1866 . It was the major arms supplier to the Confederacy during the U . S . Civil War . The company was founded on February 9 , 1856 , with its factory established on the former site of the South - Eastern Railway Company in the Bermondsey section of London . The principal shareholder was Robert Adams , inventor of the Adams revolver . Another important stockholder was Adams ' cousin , James Kerr , who later invented the Kerrs Patent Revolver . Adams had had a falling - out with his former partners , the Deane brothers , and intended that the Armoury manufacture his popular revolver . However the company obtained a British government contract for infantry rifle s and in 1859 the company ' s board of directors decided to expand rifle production , for which there was greater demand . Revolver production was decreased and Adams , disagreeing with the decision , sold his stock and left the company . Kerr then became the Armoury ' s dominant figure . Kerr , a former foreman at Deane Brothers , made improvements to the Enfield 1853 pattern rifled musket which the Armoury was manufacturing under contract . When Adams left the company he had taken his revolver patents with him , and Kerr therefore designed a new revolver in . 36 and . 44 ( 54 bore ) caliber . Production of the new revolver began in April 1859 , but the company was not able to obtain a contract for it from the British government and civilian sales were modest . However the following year the U . S . Civil War began and the governments of both the United States and the Confederacy began purchasing arms in Britain . In November 1861 buyers for the Union army purchased 16 Kerr revolvers for $ 18 . 00 apiece . Two years later Confederate arms buyers Major Caleb Huse and Captain James Bulloch contracted for all the rifles and revolvers the Armoury could produce . The British company Willoughbe , Willoughbe & Ponsonby played a prominent role in the blockade running of these shipments to the south . The Confederacy was now the London Armoury Company ' s principal client and it manufactured and shipped more than 70 , 000 rifles and about 7 , 000 revolvers ( out of a total production run of about 10 , 000 ) to the South . However these weapons had to pass through the Union blockade and the number that actually reached the Confederate army is unknown . Confederates acclaimed the Armoury ' s guns as the best weapons made in Britain . The London Armoury Company was almost completely dependent on sales to the Confederacy and survived for only a year after the end of the war , dissolving in the Spring of 1866 - however , most of the gunsmiths and staff of the London Armoury Company went on to form London Small Arms Co . Ltd in that same year .
Saker LSV The Wessex Saker Light Strike Vehicle was a British Army light vehicle similar to a sandrail . They were produced in the late 1980s for the British Special Air Service . Design was by Wessex and Devonport Management Limited . The frame was welded tube and power , to the rear wheels only , was from a Volkswagen 1 . 6 litre air - cooled petrol engine . It was a two man vehicle which could be armed with either a 7 . 62 mm GMPG or a 0 . 5 inch M2 machine gun .
Hans Ender Hans Ender ( 6 August 1910 – 11 January 1993 ) was a highly decorated Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Hans Ender joined the Bundeswehr in 1956 and retired in 1970 as an Oberst der Reserve .
Siege of Ceuta ( 1419 ) The Siege of Ceuta of 1419 ( sometimes reported as 1418 ) was fought between the besieging forces of the Marinid Sultanate of Morocco , led by Sultan Abu Said Uthman III , including allied forces from the Emirate of Granada , and the Portuguese garrison of Ceuta , led by Pedro de Menezes , 1st Count of Vila Real . After the loss of the city in a surprise attack in 1415 , the Sultan gathered an army four years later and besieged the city . The Portuguese gathered a fleet under the command of princes Henry the Navigator and John of Reguengos to relieve Ceuta . According to the chroniclers , the relief fleet turned out to be quite unnecessary . In a bold gambit , D . Pedro de Menezes led the Portuguese garrison in a sally against the Marinid siege camp and forced the lifting of the siege before the relief fleet even arrived . Blamed for losing Ceuta , the Marinid sultan was assassinated in a coup in Fez in 1420 , leaving only a child as his heir . Morocco descended into anarchic chaos , as rival pretenders vied for the throne and local governors carved out regional fiefs for themselves , selling their support to the highest bidder . The political crisis in Morocco released the pressure on Ceuta for the next few years .
USNS Potomac ( T - AO - 181 ) The fifth USNS " Potomac " ( T - AO - 181 ) was a United States Navy oiler in non - commissioned service with the Military Sea Transportation Service , later Military Sealift Command , from 1976 to 1983 . " Potomac " , sixth U . S . Navy ship to bear the name , was laid down as SS " Shenandoah " at Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Chester , Pennsylvania , on 1 March 1964 and launched on 10 October 1964 . She was built using the 200 - foot ( 61 m ) salvaged stern section of the oiler USNS " Potomac " ( T - AO - 150 ) — a ship which had been destroyed by a fire on 26 September 1961 — to which a new forward section was added . She was the first ship equipped with an offshore petroleum discharge system ( OPDS ) , allowing her to supply petroleum products to forces ashore by pumping it directly over the shore instead of having to deliver it in a port . The U . S . Navy acquired " Shenandoah " on 10 October 1964 , and delivered her to Keystone Shipping Company on 11 December 1965 . Keystone Shipping then chartered the ship to the Navy ' s Military Seas Transportation Service ( MSTS ) , which later became the Military Sealift Command ( MSC ) , on a bareboat basis , with Keystone Shipping providing the ship and MSTS providing crew and operating expenses . " Shenandoah " operated with a civilian crew in this manner until the MSC purchased her on 12 January 1976 . The Navy then designated the ship T - AO - 181 and renamed her USNS " Potomac " , making her the sixth U . S . Navy ship of the name . In MSC service , " Potomac " continued to operate with a civilian crew . The oiler transported bulk petroleum products to the United States armed forces deployed overseas in the Pacific , and on 30 September 1978 was reclassified as a transport oiler and redesignated T - AOT - 181 . On 26 September 1983 , " Potomac " was taken out of MSC service and on 4 March 1984 was transferred to the Ready Reserve Force ( RRF ) , becoming SS " Potomac " . In 1990 , " Potomac " , operated by Bay Ship Management , owned by the Maritime Administration , and under charter to the Navy , was transferred to the Maritime Prepositioning Force ( MPF ) and spent more than 10 years stationed at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . During this time she participated in sorties , exercises , and training activities , assisted in a humanitarian food relief effort for Rwanda , assisted forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina , and earned the U . S . Navy ' s " E " for excellence ship award during convoy exercises in the Indian Ocean . SS " Potomac " left Diego Garcia and the MPF in 2000 and was transferred back to the RRF . She was transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Beaumont , Texas . In 2006 she was downrated from the Ready Reserve Force and placed in the National Defense Reserve Fleet .
USS PC - 565 USS " PC - 565 was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . She was later renamed Gilmer " ( PC - 565 ) but never saw active service under that name . Career . " PC - 565 " was laid down by Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston , Texas on 14 August 1941 and launched on 27 February 1942 , sponsored by Miss Jacqueline B . Perry . USS PC - 565 was commissioned on 25 May 1942 with Lt . Walter T . Flynn in command . After shakedown off Florida , PC - 565 engaged in anti - submarine warfare training , then performed convoy escort and patrol duty in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean . On 2 June , while escorting a southbound convoy from New York to Cuba , soundman Cisco Reeh made underwater sound contact and PC - 565 immediately attacked . After PC - 565 dropped a depth charge barrage the submarine U - 521 surfaced to be met with 20mm gunfire . Several hits were scored , and the enemy U - boat went under only to be met with another depth charge barrage . Large oil slicks and debris resulted , proving the destruction of the German U - boat . The only survivor of the 52 men aboard , Captain Klaus Bargsten , was rescued by PC - 565 and his testimony substantiated PC - 565 ' s victory . Departing New York on 25 March 1944 , PC - 565 sailed to England where she joined the amphibious forces in preparation for the D - Day landings . On 4 June she sailed from England arriving off the Normandy beaches 2 days later . There she performed ASW patrols , antiaircraft defense , and shuttle control duties . Throughout the rest of the war , PC - 565 remained in Europe on escort and patrol missions in the North Sea - English Channel area . Departing Bremerhaven 4 October 1945 , the submarine chaser steamed for the United States , arriving Norfolk on the 22nd . Two months later she arrived at Green Cove Springs , Fla . and was decommissioned on 26 April 1946 , joining the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . PC - 565 was renamed Gilmer on 15 February 1956 . She was stricken from the Navy List 1 July 1960 , and sold to Venezuela as Alcatras . Honors and awards . PC - 565 received two battle star s during World War II service .