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Combat Training Center at Arta Beach The Combat Training Center at Arta Beach ( CECAP ) , or " Centre d ' entraînement au combat d ' Arta Plage " , is a French Army training facility located in Arta , Djibouti . The Combat Training Center is run by the members of the French Foreign Legion and is part of the headquarters company of 13th Demi - Brigade of the Foreign Legion . Overview . The Combat Training Center at Arta Beach was established in 1978 as an amphibious warfare training center . However in 1982 CECAP was became the Commando Center reflecting a slight change from its original purpose ; by 2003 CECAP ' s had increasingly become a combat training capability . The similarity of the center ' s environment to Afghanistan was useful to the French armed forces and CECAP began offering courses preparing soldiers for that region ' s environment . Training . Military instruction at CECAP occurs through recurring military exercises held at the Arta Beach Facility . CECAP in addition to training French soldiers accepts American soldiers into its training programs . CECAP has the capacity to accommodate for approximately sixty soldiers in training at any given time .
USS Besboro ( AG - 66 ) USS " Besboro " ( AG - 66 ) was a cargo ship acquired by the U . S . Navy during World War II . She was heavily armed and converted to troopship and cargo ship use in the North Pacific Ocean . Post - war she was sold so that she could return to her civilian career . Constructed in Oregon . " Lurline Burns " — a steamer built in 1918 at Portland , Oregon , by the Albina Engine & Machine works as " Caddopeak " — was purchased by the Navy on 9 June 1943 from the Burns Steamship Company ; renamed " Besboro " ; classified a miscellaneous auxiliary and designated " AG - 66 " ; and commissioned at Seattle , Washington , on 22 September 1943 , Lt . Comdr . Robert M . Baughman , USNR , in command . World War II service . The auxiliary ship reported for shakedown training on 1 October and completed it two weeks later . She got underway for Alaskan waters on the 14th and arrived in Dutch Harbor on the 23d . For almost 31 months — through the end of World War II and during the early postwar period - - " Besboro " steamed along a resupply circuit carrying cargo and troops between Seattle , Washington , and various points on the coast of Alaska . She returned south for the last time early in 1946 . Post - war inactivation . After an inspection and survey at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard , the cargoman was declared surplus to the needs of the Navy . Accordingly , " Besboro " was decommissioned at San Francisco , California , on 3 May 1946 . She was turned over to the U . S . Maritime Commission for disposal on 1 July 1946 , and her name was struck from the Navy list on 8 October 1946 . Subsequent maritime career . On 23 May 1947 , she was sold to the Waterman Steamship Corporation which firm converted her back to mercantile service and restored her former name . However , " Lurline Burns " did not stay long in its service . By 1948 , the Hong Kong firm , Wellem & Co . operated her under Panamanian registry as " SS Shapur " . That company employed her until 1960 or 1961 when all reference to her in mercantile records ceased .
HMS Mersey ( 1913 ) HMS " Mersey " was a " Humber " - class monitor of the Royal Navy . Originally built by Vickers for Brazil and christened " Madeira " , she was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1914 on the outbreak of World War I along with her sister ships " Humber " and " Severn " . She had a relatively successful career in World War I and had two prominent incidents . At the Battle of the Yser in 1914 , off the coast of Belgium , she bombarded German troops as well as artillery positions . In July 1915 she was towed to the Rufiji River delta in German East Africa where she and " Severn " then assisted in the destruction of the Kaiserliche Marine cruiser " Königsberg " . Her log books from March 1915 to December 1917 can be viewed online at naval - history . net . She later went to the Mediterranean and served on the River Danube . In 1921 she was sold to the breakers .
Robert Hawthorne Robert Hawthorne VC ( 1822 – 2 February 1879 ) born in Maghera , County Londonderry 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 . Details . He was approximately 35 years old , and a Bugler in the 52nd ( Oxfordshire ) Regiment of Foot ( later the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry ) , British Army during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed at Delhi took place for which he was awarded the VC : Further information . He died in Manchester , Lancashire on 2 February 1879 . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Green Jackets Museum , Winchester , Hampshire , England . References . Listed in order of publication year
Vic Markov Victor William Markov ( December 28 , 1915 - December 7 , 1998 ) was an American football player . He played college football for the Washington Huskies . He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1976 . Vic Markov is of Croat origin . Markov was a unanimous choice as a lineman on the university ' s centennial team . He earned nine varsity letters in football , wrestling and track and field . After college , he played professional football with the Cleveland Rams in the National Football League before joining the Army . During World War II , he landed at Normandy as a company commander with Gen . George Patton ' s Third Army . He earned the Bronze Star , the Purple Heart and five battle stars while fighting in the Battles of the Bulge and the Ardennes .
USS Brown ( SP - 1050 ) The wooden - hulled tug " Albert Brown " was acquired by the Navy from W . P . Orr , Jr . , of Bristol , Maine , on 20 May 1917 and commissioned on 3 July 1917 . Less than a month later , on 28 July 1917 , Admiral William S . Benson , as Acting Secretary of the Navy , promulgated General Order No . 314 which decreed that all " scout patrol " vessels with compound names would hence forth be officially known by surname only . Thus " Albert Brown " ( SP - 1050 ) become simply " Brown " ( SP - 1050 ) , a name she used continually throughout her commissioned service . The 103 - foot patrol and minesweeping tug , was built at Bristol , Maine , in 1875 as a steam fishing trawler . She was rebuilt in 1897 and remained active in the Menhaden fishery , operating out of Lewes , Delaware , until taken over by the Navy for World War I service . She served in the Delaware Bay area . In 1919 or early 1920 , she was reported to be sunk at the Naval Air Station , Cape May , New Jersey , and was stricken from the Navy list in March 1920 . After efforts to sell the wreck were unsuccessful , Albert Brown ' s remains were removed by Army Engineers . She was officially abandoned by the Navy in early 1923 .
George Gosse George Gosse GC , a mine clearance specialist in the R . A . N . V . R was awarded the George Cross for the heroism he displayed between the 8 May and 19 May 1945 in Bremen Harbour in Germany . His citation was published in the London Gazette on the 30 April 1946 . Divers searching the Undersee Hafen had reported a sighting of what appeared to be a new form of mine and , on the 8 May , Gosse dived and verified that it was a G . D . pressure mine known as the ' oyster ' . Gosse was given the task of recovering the device intact and dived the next day to remove the primer , with improvised tools , rendering the device safe . During this procedure he heard a loud noise which , upon examination after the mine was brought to land , was found to have been caused by the detonator firing as the primer was removed . He later defused two similar mines which were posing a danger to shipping , on both occasions the detonator fired before the mine reached the surface . The George Gosse ward at the former Repatriation General Hospital , Hollywood has been named in his honour .
Stanisław Grodzicki " See also : politician ( b . 1965 ) , member of Bydgoszcz City Council . " Stanisław Grodzicki ( 1912 in Ostrołęka – 1946 ) was a Polish fighter pilot and a Major of the Polish Air Force during World War II . He fought during the The Blitz in 1941 as a night fighter pilot with No . 307 Polish Fighter Squadron , flying the Boulton Paul Defiant . From November 1940 to June 1941 he was also the commanding officer of the unit . He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross . He was killed in 1946 when the Dakota of 435 Squadron RCAF , BAFO ( British Air Force of Occupation ) he was a passenger in crashed during an approach to Croydon Airport in bad weather .
USS California ( SP - 647 ) USS " California " ( SP - 647 ) - - later known as USS " SP - 647 " - - was originally a motorboat used by the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association as a pilot boat . She was leased by the Navy , and outfitted as an armed patrol craft , assigned to patrol and protect San Francisco harbor . At war ’ s end , she was returned to the pilot ’ s association . A California pilot boat . " California " , a 58 ' 2 " motorboat , was built in 1910 at San Francisco , California , for local employment as a pilot boat . She was leased from the San Francisco Bar Pilot ' s Association and commissioned in the Navy as USS " California " ( SP - 647 ) on 28 April 1917 . World War I service . The fourth ship to be so named by the U . S . Navy , " California " ( No . 647 ) , served Section Patrol duties during the war . Later renamed USS " SP - 647 " , the motor boat performed harbor patrol duties and acted as guard boat for Pier 29 at San Francisco until 23 November 1918 Decommissioning . " California " ( No . 647 ) was returned to the San Francisco Bar Pilot ' s Association on 23 November 1918 . Additional photos . The San Francisco Maritime Museum , located in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park , holds additional photographs of the pilot boat " California " in its Livingston Collection .
SMS Frauenlob ( 1855 ) SMS " Frauenlob " ( " Praise of Women " ) was a Prussia n naval schooner . The first German naval vessel of that name , she was financed largely by voluntary contributions of German women following the German Revolution of 1848 . The keel for " Frauengabe " ( Women ' s gift ) was laid down in 1849 and she was launched on 24 August 1855 in Wolgast as " Frauenlob " . She was commissioned on 1 May 1856 . In 1859 , " Frauenlob " participated in the Eulenburg Expedition and was lost on 2 September 1860 in a typhoon off Yokohama with all hands . Her name was later taken by the light cruiser of 1902 and of 1918 .
Avia B . 122 The Avia B . 122 " Vosa " ( " Wasp " ) was a Czechoslovak single - seat biplane trainer aircraft , which was developed in the mid - 1930s . It saw some service in the first years of World War II . History . In the spring of 1934 the Czechoslovak Army Command decided that some Czechoslovak Air Force pilots would participate in the international aerobatic competition Coupe Mondial . For this purpose , the Czechoslovakian aircraft manufacturer Avia was given a task to design and construct an aircraft . The prototype , B . 122 was presented after a mere six weeks time . The Czechoslovak pilots had only a few weeks to learn and master the aircraft as the competition was to be held in July 1934 . Luckily , the design was quite successful and the Czechoslovak pilots managed to win the 4th and the 8th place in the competition . Afterwards , the aircraft was modified , based on the pilots ' inputs , and this resulted in the improved version Ba 122 . The Ba . 122 was equipped with a larger rudder and had a more powerful engine . This version went into production and 35 aircraft were built . In the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , Czechoslovak pilots took 2nd , 3rd and 8th place with their Avias . Some of these aircraft were equipped with 9 - cylinder Walter Pollux engines instead of the 7 - cylinder Castor . 1937 was also a successful year , as the Avias managed to take 1st and 3rd place at the International Flying Meeting in Zurich in July / August 1937 . These successes led to export orders from the Soviet Union and Romania . The aircraft was later further developed into the prototypes Ba . 222 , Ba . 322 and Ba . 422 . The Czech Ministry of Defence ordered 45 Bs . 122 trainers . However , the outbreak of World War II put an end to further development . Some Avias ended up in the German " Luftwaffe " when parts of Czechoslovakia were absorbed into Germany in 1939 . Other aircraft were sold to the Slovakian and Bulgarian air forces . Specifications ( Ba . 122 ) . " Data from " Jane ' s All the World ' s Aircraft 1938
60th United States Colored Infantry Regiment The 60th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was a U . S . C . T . infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War . The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22 , 1863 . Service . The 60th U . S . Colored Infantry was organized from the 1st Iowa Infantry ( African Descent ) in March 1864 and served in various garrison duties in the Department of Arkansas assigned to the VII Corps ( Union Army ) for its entire service . On July 26 , 1864 near Wallace ’ s Ferry in Arkansas , elements of the 60th and 56th Colored Infantry regiments and Battery E of the 2nd U . S . Colored Artillery were attacked by a superior force of Confederate cavalry commanded by Col . Archibald S . Dobbins . Supported by about 150 men from the 15th Illinois Cavalry the infantry regiments organized a fighting retreat and at a crucial moment in the battle made a counter charge into the enemy line . The Union regiments made their way back to Helena . The 60th Regiment did not report any casualties from the battle but Union casualties in the other units were 19 killed , 40 wounded , and 4 missing . Confederate losses are unknown . The 60th U . S . Colored Regiment was mustered out of service on October 15 , 1865 .
Oflag X - C Oflag X - C was a German World War II prisoner - of - war camp for officer s ( " Offizierlager " ) in Lübeck in northern Germany . The camp was located on the corner of " Friedhofsallee " and " Vorwerkstrasse " , close to Lübeck ' s border with the town of Schwartau ( now Bad Schwartau ) , and is often cited as being located in Schwartau rather than Lübeck . Camp history . The camp was opened in June 1940 for French officers captured during the Battle of France . In June 1941 British and Commonwealth officers from the Battle of Crete and the North African Campaign arrived . During 1941 and 1942 many Allied air crews that had been shot down were taken to Lübeck , then later transferred to " Oflag VI - B " , Warburg In early 1945 Polish Officers , inmates of Oflag II - D Gross - Born and Oflag II - C Woldenberg , were marched westwards and finally reached Oflag X - C . The camp was liberated on 2 May 1945 by troops of the British 2nd Army . Prominent Prisoners . French theologian , Yves Congar was placed as a POW at the Lübeck fortress because of his numerous escape attempts from other camps after being captured while serving as an officer in the French army .
Yugoslav World War II monuments and memorials The authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia established many World War II memorials during its existence . Several memorial sites were established between 1945 and 1960 , though widespread building started after the founding of the Non - Aligned Movement . Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battles , and concentration camp sites . They were designed by notable sculptors , including Dušan Džamonja , Vojin Bakić , Miodrag Živković , Jordan and Iskra Grabul , and architects , including Bogdan Bogdanović and Gradimir Medaković . After Tito ' s death , a small number were built , and the monuments were popular visitor attractions in the 1980s as patriotic sites , and since the Yugoslav Wars and the dissolution of Yugoslavia , the sites are abandoned . For the list of World War II monuments in each republic of the Former Yugoslavia , see :
Simon Emil Koedel Simon Emil Koedel was a sleeper agent for the German Abwehr activated during World War II . Operating primarily in New York City , Koedel monitored American ports and US military suppliers . One of the most successful spies of the war , Koedel obtained and forwarded to the Abwehr volumes of information about US companies involved in the war effort over many years ; information which he obtained by ironically posing as a concerned shareholder and businessman within the military - industrial supply chain . Simon E . Koedel Traded Weapons from US to Germany
Craiglockhart Hydropathic Craiglockhart Hydropathic , now a part of Edinburgh Napier University and known as Craiglockhart Campus , is a building with surrounding grounds in Craiglockhart , Edinburgh , Scotland . Origins . The estate in which the Hydropathic ' s building lies was sold in 1773 to Alexander Monro , who was second of three generations to be Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh . It stayed in the Monro family for more than a hundred years . The Hydropathic and the War Hospital . In 1877 , the estate became the property of the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Company , who set about building a hydropathic institute . The Hydropathic was built in the Italian style . Craiglockhart remained as a hydropathic , until the advent of the First World War . Between 1916 and 1919 the building was used as a military psychiatric hospital for the treatment of shell - shocked officers . Probably the most famous patients of Craiglockhart were the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , whose poems appeared in the hospital ' s own magazine called " The Hydra " . Wilfred Owen was the editor of the magazine during his stay . Siegfried Sassoon was sent to Craiglockhart , as a response to his ' Soldier ' s Declaration ' , an anti - war letter . He later wrote about his experiences at the hospital in his semi - autobiographical novel , ' Sherston ' s Progress ' . The best known of the doctors assigned there was W . H . R . Rivers . The Hospital featured in the 1991 book " Regeneration " by Pat Barker – and the 1997 film adaptation by the same name – and in which the institution was known as Craiglockhart War Hospital . Later uses . The building then became a convent for the Society of the Sacred Heart , before serving as a Catholic teacher training college . It then passed to the then Napier College , and was used by that institution and its successor , Napier Polytechnic ; thus it is now part of Edinburgh Napier University . Much of the old building has been retained , and an extensive new wing has been built behind it to house the Business School .
Tom Eastick Sir Thomas Charles ( " Tom " ) Eastick CMG , DSO , ED ( 3 May 1900 – 1988 ) was an Engineer , and , during the Second World War , an Australian soldier . Eastick rose to the rank of ( temporary ) Brigadier , and was military governor of Sarawak in 1945 - 46 . Early life . Eastick was born in Hyde Park , South Australia . He was an engineer by profession and was living in Reade Park , SA when war broke out . He was married to Ruby Eastick . Military career . He served with the Royal Australian Artillery ( RAA ) during World War II . From 1 November 1939 , as a Lieutenant Colonel , he commanded the 13th Field Brigade , RAA . From 26 April 1940 he commanded the 2 / 7th Field Regiment , and led it during the North African campaign , including the Battle of El Alamein . Eastick was Mentioned in Despatches on 15 December 1942 . On 18 February 1943 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order ( DSO ) . In 1943 Eastick returned to Australia , and on 22 June he was appointed commander of artillery for the 7th Division during the New Guinea campaign . In 1944 he assumed the same position with the 9th Division . By September 1945 Eastick had been appointed commander of Kuching Force , a detachment of the 9th Division which supervised the Japanese surrender in the territory of Sarawak , on the island of Borneo . Eastick oversaw the liberation and repatriation of Allied prisoners of war and internees in Sarawak , including the large Batu Lintang camp . He was military governor of Sarawak from 10 September 1945 until January 1946 , when the territory returned to civilian rule . Eastick was subsequently made a Companion of the Star of Sarawak by the last White Rajah of Sarawak , Charles Vyner Brooke . Eastick left the army on 27 February 1946 with the substantive rank of Colonel . Post - war Career . He was later president of the RSL ( the main Australian veterans ' organisation ) in South Australia , and was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George ( CMG ) in the 1953 Coronation Honours List for his work with this organisation . The announcement of Eastick ' s knighthood was made in the 1970 New Year Honours List . It was conferred on him in person by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 April 1970 at Government House , Canberra .
20th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 20th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 20th Illinois Infantry was organized at Joliet , Illinois and mustered into Federal service on June 13 , 1861 for a three year enlistment . The regiment was mustered out of service on July 16 , 1865 . Total strength and casualties . The regiment suffered 7 officers and 132 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 191 enlisted men who died of disease , for a total of 331 fatalities .