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HMS Nelson ( 1814 ) HMS " Nelson " was a 126 - gun first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched on 4 July 1814 at Woolwich . , but then laid up incomplete at Portsmouth until 1854 , when work began with a view to commissioning her for service in the Crimean War , but this ended before much work had been done , and the ship returned to reserve . She was converted into a screw ship in 1860 , being cut down to a two decker and fitted with an engine of for a speed of . In 1865 , " Nelson " was gifted to the colony of Victoria as a training ship , and she was finally outfitted and rigged for £42 , 000 and sailed for Australia in October 1867 . Travelling via the Cape of Good Hope , she arrived in February 1868 . She was the first ship to dock in the newly constructed Alfred Graving Dock . Her armament in 1874 was listed as two 7 - in RML , twenty 64 - lb guns , twenty 32 - lb guns and six 12 - lb howitzers . During 1879 - 82 , " Nelson " was further cut down to a single deck and her rig reduced to the main mast only , the ship being reclassified as a frigate . Her old armament was partly replaced by modern breech - loaders . She was laid up at Willamstown in 1891 , her boilers being removed in 1893 . On 28 April 1898 she was put up for auction and sold to Bernard Einerson of Sydney for £2 , 400 . In 1900 . " Nelson " was cut down yet again to create a coal lighter that kept the name " Nelson " , the upper timbers being used to build a drogher named " Oceanic " . In 1908 " Nelson " was sold to the Union Steamship Co . of New Zealand , and in July was towed from Sydney to Beauty Point on the Tamar River , Tasmania , for use as a coal storage hulk . She later foundered there with 1 , 400 tons of coal on board and remained submerged for forty days until finally refloated . In January 1915 she was towed to Hobart for further service as a coal hulk , until sold in August 1920 to Mr . H Gray for £500 and towed an up river to Shag Bay for gradual breaking up , work continuing into the 1930s , although some of her timbers still survive . The ship ' s figurehead was preserved by the NSW Naval Brigade , then the Royal Australian Navy , before it was presented to the Australian National Maritime Museum for display .
United States Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory The United States Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory was a United States Army Corps of Engineers research facility located at Fort Belvoir , Virginia . Among other things , it was responsible for the creation of the ERDL woodland camouflage pattern in 1948 and it established the first U . S . Army research group dedicated to night vision system s in 1954 , called the Research and Photometric Section .
Buyan - class corvette The " Buyan " class corvette was designed by Zelenodolsk Design and designated Project 21630 by the Russian Government . This is the newest corvette of the Russian Navy . The first ship of her class , the Astrakhan was commissioned on January 2006 , and assigned to the Caspian Flotilla . In August 2010 some information about new modified Project 21631 ships was published . The lead ship of this project , Grad Sviyazhsk , was laid down in 27 August 2010 . This ship is a missile version of Project 21630 " Buyan " small - size gunnery ship and is dubbed as " Buyan - M " . This ship of Project 21631 is aimed at dedicated to the defense of national economic zones and its main purpose is engagement of surface warships . This is going to be an up - to - date ship armed with missile and artillery weapons , and equipped with electronic countermeasure equipment . The yard will build five ships including the lead one , since a contract was approved by the Russian defense ministry on May 26 . The export variant similar to Project 21630 called " Tornado " is planned , but no contracts are signed now . See also . Braunschweig class corvette - Deutsche Marine ( German Navy )
Awards of the German Freikorps Awards of the German Freikorps were unofficial military awards displayed by various veteran organizations in Germany during the immediate aftermath of World War I . Upon the assumption of the Nazi Party to power in 1933 , nearly all Freikorps awards were prohibited for wear on Party , State , and Military uniforms . Two notable exceptions were the Baltic Cross and Silesian Eagle . All other Freikorps awards were declared obsolete with World War I service thereafter recognized by a single award , known as the Honor Cross . List of veteran awards . Freikorps awards may be divided into two categories : veteran decorations recognized by the German government as well as paramilitary awards issued under the authority of local Freikorps commanders . Veteran Awards In addition to the awards listed above , there existed hundreds additional veteran decorations issued on behalf of individual regiments and battalions . Paramilitary decorations . The following awards were issued by local Freikorps commands , and usually were only worn and displayed while serving as a member of the issuing command . Freikorps awards References . Lumsden , R . ( 2001 ) , " Medals and Decorations of Hitler ' s Germany " ( Shrewsbury , MBI Publishing )
Dale Bair Dale W . Bair ( birth and possible death unknown ) was a first lieutenant in the 6th Marine Division . He was awarded a Navy Cross and a Purple Heart for his actions in the Battle of Okinawa , during the assault on Sugar Loaf Hill on 13 May 1945 . Bair had previously won the Silver Star at Engebi island during the Battle of Eniwetok in February 1944 . Sugar Loaf Hill . In the assault on Sugar Loaf Hill , Bair was part of an infantry assault supported by four tanks . Three of the four tanks were knocked out early on and many Marines were wounded . Despite his own wounds to the left arm , Bair picked up a Browning M1919 machine gun , draped it over his wounded left arm , and began charging towards the hill while firing the machine gun . Reaching the top of the hill , he sustained two more injuries , one to the leg and one to the buttocks , shortly before a retreat was ordered . When he made it back to the tank where the wounded Marines were being placed for the retreat , he refused to stop firing for medical attention and continued directing machine gun fire onto the enemy while receiving medical attention .
AN / APG - 77 The AN / APG - 77 is a multifunction radar installed on the F - 22 Raptor fighter aircraft . The radar is built by Northrop Grumman . It is a solid - state , active electronically scanned array ( AESA ) radar . Composed of 1500 transmit / receive modules , each about the size of a gum stick , it can perform a near - instantaneous beam steering ( in the order of tens of nanosecond s ) . The APG - 77 provides 120° field of view in azimuth and elevation , which is the highest possible value for a flat phased array antenna . As yet unconfirmed sources suggest that APG - 77 has a ' typical ' operating range of and is specified to achieve an 86 % probability of intercept against a 1 m target at its maximum detection range using a single radar paint . Other source described only as being more than . However , it ' s thought to be closer to , which is much farther than the standard F - 15 ' s radar range More than 100 APG - 77 AESA radars have been produced to date by Northrop Grumman , and much of the technology developed for the APG - 77 is being used in the APG - 81 radar for the F - 35 Lightning II . The APG - 77v1 was installed on F - 22 Raptors from Lot 5 and on . This provided full air - to - ground functionality ( high - resolution synthetic aperture radar mapping , ground moving target indication and track ( GMTI / GMTT ) , automatic cueing and recognition , combat identification , and many other advanced features ) .
Johannes Arndt Johannes Bruno Arndt ( 7 October 1906 – 13 May 1944 ) was a highly decorated Oberst 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 . Johannes Arndt was killed on 13 May 1944 in Molidesno .
Georges Picquart Marie Georges Picquart ( Strasbourg , 6 September 1854 – Amiens , 18 January 1914 ) , was a French army officer and Minister of War . He is best known for his role in the Dreyfus Affair . Early career . Major Picquart began his military career in 1872 , graduating from the " école spéciale militaire de Saint - Cyr " as fifth in his year . Picquart served as an infantry officer in France before seeing service in Indochina . He subsequently studied at the General Staff Academy ( " l ' école d ' État - major " ) where he was second in his class , before becoming a lecturer at the War Academy ( " l ' École supérieure de guerre " ) . One of his students at the latter institute was Alfred Dreyfus . Picquart and the Dreyfus Affair . Picquart was then appointed to the General Staff in Paris . As a staff officer he acted as reporter of the debates in the first Dreyfus court martial for the then Minister of War and the Chief of the General Staff . Picquart was subsequently promoted to the rank of lieutenant - colonel on 6 April 1896 . When appointed chief of the army ' s intelligence section ( " Deuxième Bureau , service de renseignement militaire " ) in 1896 , Picquart discovered that the memorandum ( the " bordereau " ) that had been used to convict Captain Alfred Dreyfus had been the work of Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy . Several high - ranking generals warned Colonel Picquart to conceal his discovery but Picquart persisted and continued his investigation . In this he was hindered and sabotaged by subordinate officers , notably Major Henry . As a consequence Picquart was relieved of duty with the Deuxième Bureau and sent ( December 1896 ) to regimental duty , commanding the 4th Regiment of Tirailleurs ( native infantry ) in French Tunisia . After the trial of Émile Zola , Picquart was himself accused of forging the note that had convinced him of Esterhazy ' s guilt . He was then arrested for forgery and was waiting for a court martial during the period that the French Supreme Court was reviewing the Dreyfus case . After the second court - martial – held as a consequence of the conclusions of the Supreme Court – Picquart resigned from the army . However the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus in 1906 also absolved Picquart , who was , by an act of the Chamber of Deputies , promoted to brigadier - general . This was the rank that an officer of his seniority and experience could normally have expected to reach , had his career not been interrupted by involvement in the Dreyfus affair . Subsequent career . In 1906 General Picquart entered Georges Clemenceau ' s first cabinet as Minister of War . He held that position for the entire duration of the Clemenceau Cabinet , from 25 October 1906 to 24 July 1909 . Picquart then returned to military service as an Army Corps commander . Private life . A keen amateur pianist , Picquart was a regular visitor to the Chaigneau family , whose daughters formed the Trio Chaigneau . He later helped arrange concerts for them . Death . While still a serving army officer , Picquart died on 18 January 1914 from injuries received in a fall from a horse .
HMS Porcupine ( 1895 ) HMS " Porcupine " was a " Janus " - class destroyer of the Royal Navy . She was launched by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in 1895 , served in home waters and was in service during the First World War . She undertook a refit at Chatham in late 1899 , and was passed into the Fleet Reserve 15 January 1900 . The following year she served as part of the Medway Instructional Flotilla . She was sold off in 1920 .
Battle of St . Michaels The Battle of St . Michaels was a battle during the War of 1812 . Similar to the Battle of Craney Island a month earlier , American militia units were able to repulse a British landing attempt in the Chesapeake Bay . Background . After the British defeat at Craney Island and the failure to capture Norfolk , Admiral George Cockburn moved up the Chesapeake Bay . The shipyards at the small town of St . Michaels , Maryland , became an inviting target . In early August , the British Royal Navy approached , and General Perry Benson called out the Talbot County Militia . Benson also had several artillery pieces for the defense ; one battery was placed at the harbor and another was placed in front of the town . Battle . After midnight on August 10 , the militia units manning the harbor battery spotted the British landing party . The British quickly landed and fired on the battery . As soon as the British opened fire the militia units fled . Only Captain William Dodson ( commanding the battery ) and one other man remained . They were able to get off one shot before they were forced to abandon the gun . The British advanced on the town . Benson ' s battery guarding the town was able to hold off the attack , and the British retreated . The British , though , claimed that they captured the town ' s battery and spiked the guns , making an orderly retreat . Local legend has it that the British naval guns had proved ineffective against the town because the townspeople had dimmed the lights in their homes and hung lanterns in trees beyond the town , causing the British gunners to overshoot the town and its defenses . Results . As at the Battle of Craney Island , American militia units had won a decisive victory without a single casualty . The British lost 2 wounded . The battle had been small , but it saved the St . Michaels shipyards from falling to the British .
Defence Security Authority The Defence Security Authority ( DSA ) is an agency in the Defence Intelligence and Security Group of the Australian Department of Defence responsible for protective security , providing vetting services , developing security policy , investigating major security incidents and monitoring security performance . It is the parent agency for the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency ( AGSVA ) and manages the Defence Industry Security Program ( DISP ) . Functions . It monitors and reports on security compliance , performance and risks ; grants security clearances for Defence and Defence Industry Security Program members , conducts clearance revalidations and re - evaluations ; develops and promulgates security policy that complies with Australian Government protective security policy and meets Defence ' s needs and assisting Groups and the Services with security policy implementation .
Harry Pulteney General Harry Pulteney ( 14 February 1686 – 26 October 1767 ) was an English soldier and Member of Parliament . He was the younger son of Colonel William Pulteney , of Misterton in Leicestershire , and Mary Floyd . His elder brother , William was one of the leading English statesmen of the 18th century and was eventually created Earl of Bath ; he had inherited the family fortune including considerable estates in what is now central London , and also the parliamentary borough of Hedon in Yorkshire . Harry entered Parliament in as member for Hedon in 1722 . His brother William had already been its MP for 17 years , and had offered the second seat to his cousin , Daniel Pulteney ; but as Daniel was also elected for the ( more prestigious ) constituency of Preston , this left a vacancy which Harry was able to fill ( William continuing to hold the other seat ) . He was MP for Hedon until 1734 , and again from 1739 to 1741 , and also represented Hull for three years from 1744 , and was also for a period Governor of Hull . In 1739 Pulteney became Colonel of the 13th Regiment of Foot , which as was the custom of the time was consequently referred to as Pulteney ' s Regiment . Under his command the regiment served at Dettingen , Fontenoy and during the Jacobite Rebellion at Falkirk and Culloden . Later they took part in the road - building programme in the Scottish Highlands , and the regiment ' s officers were among those unsuccessfully investigating the famous Appin Murder of 1752 . Pulteney was promoted to Major - General in 1743 , Lieutenant - General in 1747 and to General in 1765 . Pulteney was his brother ' s heir and inherited his fortune on his death in 1764 , but he himself died on 26 October 1767 at the age of 81 . He was buried in Westminster Abbey .
Vandenberg AFB Launch Facility 10 Vandenberg Air Force Base Launch Facility 10 ( LC - 10 ) is a US Air Force Intercontinental ballistic missile launch facility on Vandenberg AFB , California , USA . It was a launch site for the land - based LGM - 30 Minuteman ICBMs .
Landing at Labis The Landing at Labis was an airborne landing by Indonesia n paratroopers on 2 September 1964 near Labis , Johore , Malaysia during the Indonesia – Malaysia confrontation . Transported in three Indonesian Air Force C - 130 Hercules aircraft , which had set off from Jakarta , only two aircraft managed to reach the target drop zone , the third aircraft crashed into the Straits of Malacca while trying to evade interception by a No . 64 Squadron RAF Javelin FAW . 9 launched from RAF Tengah , Singapore . Tropical storms dispersed the parachute drop around Labis , about north of Singapore with 98 paratroopers being inserted . The landing zone was close to the camp of the 1 / 10th Gurkhas , who were later joined in mopping up operations by the 1st Battalion , Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment ( 1 RNZIR ) who were stationed near Malacca with the 28th Commonwealth Brigade . Under the overall command of 4th Malaysian Infantry Brigade , operations to round up the 98 paratroopers took about a month . 1 RNZIR and 1 / 10th Gurkhas accounted for all but eight of the paratroopers , killing 32 and capturing 62 of the intruders at the cost of a New Zealand major killed . Patrols continued throughout the area around Labis throughout October . References . Notes
X Corps ( Union Army ) X Corps was a corps of the Union Army during the American Civil War . It served during operations in South Carolina in the Department of the South , and later in Benjamin Butler ' s Army of the James , during the Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg Campaigns . History . The corps was officially created on September 13 , 1862 , to consist of the majority of Union troops operating in South Carolina and eastern Georgia . ( Other troops in Florida were officially under its command but were not effectively . ) The corps was initially commanded by Ormsby M . Mitchel , who died in October 1862 . He was succeeded by John Milton Brannan , David Hunter , Quincy Adams Gillmore , David B . Birney and Alfred H . Terry . The corps took part in most of the operations against Charleston from 1862 – 63 , including attacks on James Island and Morris Island and the Battle of Fort Wagner . Other elements of the corps based in Florida took part in the disastrous Battle of Olustee . In early 1864 , the corps , now commanded by Gillmore , was transferred to the Army of the James . It took part in the Bermuda Hundred operations and played a principal role in the disastrous Drewry ' s Bluff action . It also took part in the attack on Cold Harbor in conjunction with units of the Army of the Potomac , and the corps played a major role in the early stages of the Petersburg Campaign . In December 1864 , the corps was disbanded ; its white contingent went to the new XXIV Corps , while its black units went to the XXV Corps . A detachment of former X Corps troops took part in the successful attack on Fort Fisher , North Carolina , in early 1865 . The X Corps was " revived " , under the command of Alfred Terry , in March 1865 . It was attached to the Department of North Carolina under Schofield and was part of Sherman ' s Army after Bentonville . After Johnston ' s surrender , it served primarily on garrison duty in South Carolina and Georgia until it was discontinued in August 1865 .
USS Curlew ( 1862 ) USS " Curlew " ( 1862 ) was a Union Navy steamship purchased during the second year of the American Civil War . " Curlew " was a light draft vessel , capable of sailing up shallow streams . She was outfitted with eight heavy howitzers , designed for bombardment , and was assigned to the blockade of the Confederate States of America . Because of the light draft and the howitzers , she was assigned as a mortar gunboat , and she operated on Southern waterways during the course of the war . Built in Pennsylvania in 1862 . " Curlew " , a stern - wheel steamer , was built in 1862 at Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , as " Florence " ; purchased by the United States Navy on 17 December 1862 ; converted to a light - draft gunboat and renamed " Curlew " ; and commissioned 16 February 1863 , acting Master G . Hentig in command . She was named for the curlew , a large bird having long legs and a long , slender , downward - curved bill . Civil War operations . Mississippi River operations . Sailing from Cairo , Illinois , on 17 February 1863 , " Curlew " joined Admiral David Dixon Porter ' s fleet for patrol and convoy duty in the Mississippi River and its tributaries . She had occasional skirmishes with the enemy on shore , including those during an expedition with Union Army troops on 2 June 1863 to engage Confederate troops on the Arkansas shore near Island No . 67 and Island No . 68 . From 12 to 20 July 1863 " Curlew " joined other vessels for an expedition into the Red River , Black River , Tensas River , and Ouachita River during which they captured the steamer " Louisville ' ] , one of the finest Mississippi River packets , and the steamer " Elmira ' ’ , and destroyed stores , two smaller steamers , a large sawmill , and 30 , 000 feet of lumber . Service on the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers . " Curlew " served in the Ohio River and the Tennessee River from 23 December 1863 until 14 January 1864 , when she arrived at Mound City , Illinois , for repairs . She sailed on 12 March carrying a party from the U . S . Coast Survey for a survey of Grand Gulf , Mississippi , returning to Mound City on 31 May . On 24 May she had a heavy engagement with a 12 - gun battery at Gaines Landing , Arkansas , during which she was struck several times . Returning to Mississippi River operations . " Curlew " stood down the Mississippi River again on 30 June 1864 and cruised between Natchez , Mississippi and Vicksburg , Mississippi , having several encounters with enemy land forces . On 24 October she sailed up river to patrol the Ohio River and the Tennessee River . From February to 17 June 1865 " Curlew " conducted surveys in the river around Cairo , Illinois , and Mound City , Illinois . Decommissioning . " Curlew " was decommissioned on 5 July 1865 and sold 17 August 1865 .
Cecil William Buckley Captain Cecil William Buckley VC RN ( 7 October 1828 – 7 December 1872 ) 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 . He was 26 years old , and a lieutenant in the Royal Navy during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 29 May 1855 in the Sea of Azov , Crimea , Lieutenant Buckley of HMS " Miranda " , with a lieutenant ( Hugh Talbot Burgoyne ) from HMS " Swallow " and a gunner ( John Robarts ) from HMS " Ardent " , volunteered to land at a beach where the Russian army were in strength . They were out of covering gunshot range of the ships offshore and met considerable enemy opposition , but managed to set fire to corn stores and ammunition dumps and destroy enemy equipment . On 3 June Lieutenant Buckley carried out another raid with a boatswain ( Henry Cooper ) from " Miranda " . They landed at the town of Taganrog and were successful in destroying enemy equipment and stores , whilst being under enemy fire . First winner of the VC to be actually gazetted on 24 February 1857 . He later achieved the rank of captain .