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USS Captor ( PYc - 40 ) USS " Captor " ( PYc - 40 ) , briefly the seventh ship to bear the name USS " Eagle " ( AM - 132 ) , was a Q - ship of the United States Navy . Built as " Harvard " , a steel - hulled trawler , in 1938 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Quincy , Massachusetts , and handed over to General Sea Foods Corporation , Boston , and put into service as " Wave " . Service history . Minesweeper . The fishing trawler was acquired by the Navy as part of the Auxiliary Vessels Act on 1 January 1942 . Reporting to the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery , Maine , the trawler began conversion to war service as a minesweeper on 8 January . With the work complete on 28 February , she was named " Eagle " , given the hull classification symbol AM - 132 , and placed in commission on 5 March 1942 , Lieutenant Commander Leroy E . Rogers , USNR , in command . Q - ship . Along with and , " Eagle " was selected early to participate in a secret " Q - ship " program . The intention was to disguise the ship as a defenseless civilian vessel and , after luring an enemy submarine into close quarters on the surface , open fire with hidden guns and sink the unsuspecting U - boat . For this reason , " Eagle " remained at Portsmouth , where she underwent further conversion into a Q - ship and received weapons and sonar gear . During this second conversion , the minesweeper was renamed " Captor " and redesignated PYc - 40 on 18 April . With alterations complete on 19 May , the vessel reported for duty with the 1st Naval District at Boston . Unlike the other four ships eventually in the Q - ship program , " Captor " did not sail in convoys or along coastal shipping routes . Instead , she operated in the waters near Boston – in Massachusetts Bay , north to Casco Bay , east to the Georges Bank , and south to Nantucket Sound and Rhode Island Sound . While at sea , the disguised Q - ship also helped cover the coastal convoy routes coming north from New York . As growing air and sea patrols had driven most U - boats away from the New England coast in May 1942 , " Captor " had little chance to spot an enemy submarine and ended her wartime career without a single sighting . With the decline in the U - boat threat to the east coast of the United States late in the war , " Captor " was decommissioned at Boston on 4 October 1944 . Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 14 October 1944 , the trawler was transferred to the War Shipping Administration and sold on 21 February 1945 . The ultimate fate of the ship is unknown . As of 2005 , no other ship in the United States Navy has been named " Captor " .
Victor Matthys Victor Matthys ( 20 March 1914 – 10 November 1947 ) was a Belgian politician who served as both deputy and acting leader of Rexism . He was later executed for collaboration with Nazi Germany . An early member of the Rexist movement , Matthys took over the editorship of the movement ' s journal , " Le Pays Réel " , in 1936 and in May 1941 was promoted to director of propaganda . He became official leader of Rex that same July after Léon Degrelle left to serve in the Waffen SS . He was nominated for the position as he was a weak character who posed no real threat to Degrelle ' s position as leader . Matthys was also popular with the Germans as he had a long standing admiration for Adolf Hitler . As Rexist leader Matthys proved as weak and ineffective as Degrelle had hoped , although he also demonstrated a propensity towards violence to mask his failings . His position eventually came under scrutiny after he ordered the massacre of 20 people in Courcelles as a reprisal against resistance activity . The move was roundly condemned as being too heavy - handed and Matthys gave up the leadership of the Rexists in favour of Louis Collard . He was sentenced to death for collaborationism and executed .
Battle of Plains Store The Battle of Plains Store or the Battle of Springfield Road was fought May 21 , 1863 , in East Baton Rouge Parish , Louisiana , during the campaign to capture Port Hudson in the American Civil War . The Union victory closed the last Confederate escape route from Port Hudson . Background . The 1st Division , XIX Corps , commanded by Maj . Gen . Christopher C . Augur , left Baton Rouge and was moving north towards Port Hudson to secure a landing for the rest of Maj . Gen . Nathaniel P . Banks ' s forces . Battle . Union cavalry under Brig . Gen . Benjamin H . Grierson , leading the advance of Augur ' s division , began skirmishing with Confederate forces under Col . Frank W . Powers . Union infantry approached and the fighting escalated . Col . William R . Miles left Port Hudson at noon , but when he reached the field , Powers ' s forces had already retreated and the fighting subsided . Miles nevertheless attacked , and at first succeeded in pushing back the Union infantry . Augur rallied his troops and counterattacked , driving the Confederates from Plains Store and back to the Port Hudson defenses , ending the battle . Aftermath . The battle closed off the last escape route for the Confederate garrison at Port Hudson . The next day Nathaniel Banks invested the fortress and began the siege of Port Hudson .
3rd ( Royal Marine ) Brigade The 3rd ( Royal Marine ) was an infantry brigade of the Royal Marines . It was assigned to the 63rd ( Royal Naval ) Division and served on the Western Front during the First World War . The brigade then known as the Royal Marine Brigade , was raised in August 1914 , from surplus naval reserves . On 2 August 1915 , the brigade was reduced from four to two battalion s and transferred to the 2nd Royal Naval Brigade . The Royal Marine Brigade was then disbanded . In May 1916 , the Royal Marine Brigade was reformed . In July 1916 , it was re - designated the 1st ( Royal Naval ) Brigade and then the 188th Brigade later the same month .
HMS L9 HMS " L9 " was a British L class submarine built by William Denny and Brothers , Dumbarton . She was laid down on in October 1916 and was commissioned on 27 May 1918 . HMS " L9 " was sunk during a typhoon in Hong Kong harbour on 18 August 1923 . She was salved on 6 September 1923 and then recommissioned . HMS " L9 " was sold in Hong Kong on 30 June 1927 .
Action of 29 September 1662 The Action of 29 September 1662 took place between Kos and Kalimnos , Greece , when a Venetian fleet attacked and defeated the regular Turkish cargo fleet and its escort which were on their way to Alexandria . Ships involved . Turkey . " Tre Naranceri " 40 - Burnt < br > " Gran Duca " - Captured < br > " San Carlo / Filippoto " - Captured < br > " ? " ( pink ) - Captured < br > 13 other ships < br > 5 galleys < br > 36 saiks - 28 sunk or captured < br >
RAF Sopley RAF Sopley was a WWII airbase , codenamed " Starlight " , near the village of Sopley in Hampshire . The Radar Station was opened in December 1940 . In 1959 it became an air traffic control radar station , and finally closed on 27 September 1974 . Nearby Sopley Camp was built in the early 50 ' s as a domestic site for the radar station and is probably best known as the initial home of the Vietnamese Boat People , in 1979 . The camp was sold in 1993 to a local partnership under the name Merryfield Park . History . The site started out as a Ground Controlled Interception ( GCI ) radar station . Its purpose to detect , locate and track enemy aircraft and provide inland radar coverage for Britain . Initially a mobile station , by 1943 it was a permanent fixture with rotating ariel array , transmitter equipment stored in an underground bunker , operations block , emergency back up power supply and guard hut . In 1943 an Advanced Landing Ground called RAF Winkton was constructed to the southeast of the radar station . RAF Winkton operated for less than a year and was officially closed in January 1945 . In 1946 RAF Sopley was re - classified as a master GCI station and reserve Sector Operations Centre . As part of the UK ' s programme to update its air defences , Sopley underwent much modernisation during the 1950s including a new guardhouse providing access to a two storey underground operations centre . It was also in the early 50 ' s that the domestic camp was built near Bransgore . In 1958 the School of Fighter Control moved in and from 1959 an Air Traffic Control Research Unit was established . The Fighter Control School disbanded in 1960 and the station taken over by Air Traffic Control . RAF Sopley fulfilled a number of other roles before closing in September 1974 . The two level operations bunker was modernised in the 1970s when it was occupied by a Royal Signals unit from Signals Research and Development Establishment at Christchurch . The entire site transferred to the army soon after and for the duration of the Cold War was used by 2 Signals Brigade from the UK Land Forces at Wilton . The only surviving surface features of the site are the guardhouse , which has been refurbished , the generator building and a small blockhouse that doubles as an emergency exit for the bunker . The bunker too remains intact and is used by a private company for data storage .
Haakon Bruun - Hanssen Haakon Stephen Bruun - Hanssen ( born July 8 , 1960 in Bergen ) is a Norwegian officer with the rank of Admiral , former Inspector General of the Navy and the current head of the operational headquarters of the Norwegian Armed Forces and Chief of defence . Military career . In 1980 , Bruun - Hanssen started his military career with an officer course at KNM « Harald Haarfarge » and in 1981 he was discharged as a second lieutenant after completion of Officer School of the Norwegian Navy . He studied at the Naval Academy in Laksevaag 1983 . From 1987 to 1995 he served in the Submarine guard . He was from 1991 Commanding Officer on the submarines KNM « Kobben » in the Kobben Class and KNM « Utstein » in the Ula Class . He has completed Naval Staff College , 1st Class , Dutch Staff College 2nd class , and all Total Defense courses at the Defence Academy . Haakon Bruun - Hanssen has been a staff officer at the Naval Affairs staff , and worked at Strategic plan office at the same place . In the years 2003 - 06 he was chief of the Naval operation centre at the Armed Forces ' joint operational headquarters in Jåtta in Stavanger . From 2006 to 2008 Bruun - Hanssen served as Chief of Staff of the Naval Staff , later as the Inspector General of the Navy . In 2011 Haakon Bruun - Hanssen was appointed to the post of Chief of the Armed Forces Joint Headquarters in Bodø . He has not participated in combatitself , but has been in staff management for Norwegian military units in combat . 21 June 2013 , he was appointed Chief of Defence . He succeeded General Harald Sunde in the autumn of 2013 , after Sunde retired as military chief a few months before the end of his term and retirement . At the announcement of Bruun - Hanssen ' s appointment , Bruun - Hanssen stated that he would continue the renewal of the defense forces in the same direction as done in the last ten years . Bruun - Hanssen was at the appointment the first Chief of Defence from the Navy since 1994 , when Admiral Torolf Rein stepped down as Chief of Defence after five years . In 2013 , there were five applicants for the position . Awards . Bruun - Hanssen holds The Defence Medal with laurel branch , Defence Medal with one star and The Royal Norwegian Navy ' s Prowess Medal with three stars . In 2009 Bruun - Hanssen was appointed Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . In April 2011 Bruun - Hanssen was awarded the American dedcoration Legion of Merit .
Ramón Alcaraz Ramón Alcaraz was an officer in the Mexican Army who wrote many books about the Mexican - American War , including 1848 ' s " Apuntes para la historia de la guerra entre México y los Estados Unidos " ( which in 1850 Albert C . Ramsey translated into English as " The Other Side , or : Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States , Written in Mexico " ) .
Tuggerah Aerodrome Tuggerah Aerodrome was an aerodrome constructed in 1942 by the Royal Australian Air Force as a dispersal ground and landing ground at Tuggerah , New South Wales , Australia during World War II . The runway ran south west to north east and was 5000 ft long x 150 ft wide . The aerodrome had eight hideouts for medium bombers constructed . The United States Navy ' s Fleet Air Wing leased the aerodrome as a satellite field for Fleurs Aerodrome near Kemps Creek , New South Wales . The aerodrome was abandoned after World War II .
Louis Victor de Blacquetot de Caux Louis Victor de Blacquetot de Caux ( born 23 May 1773 Douai - 6 June 1845 ) was a Lieutenant - General of Engineering , State Councilor , Minister , Commander of St . Louis and the Legion of Honor . Life . He was the son of Jean Baptiste de Caux of Blacquetot . He studied at College of Juilly , and he joined the Army , a second lieutenant in the engineers on 1 March 1793 . He was in the campaign of the armies of the Ardennes , the Rhine , and Moselle . He distinguished himself in fighting at the Battle of Erbach , Dillingen , at the Battle of Neresheim and crossing the Danube , and at Korich , and Bourgrieden . He was appointed Battalion commander in 1799 , and was appointed by Moreau , to settle with the Ferdinand , Graf Bubna von Littitz , an armistice on the streets of Ulm , Ingolstadt and Philipsburg , occupied by the Austrians . He was employed successively to the Army Reserve in 1806 , where he served as Chief of Staff , Engineer . In 1807 he directed the personnel offices of the Department of War , and equipment of the imperial corps of engineers . He was one of the senior officers at the Walcheren Campaign . In 1813 , he was awarded , the title of baron and the rank of colonel . During the invasion , he was commissioned by the Duc de Richelieu to settle with the occupation of foreign troops on French territory . He was appointed a brigadier on April 20 , 1814 , and Director of military and police , and State Councilor in 1817 , and Viscount and Commander of St . Louis in 1817 , Lieutenant - General July 30 , 1823 . He was Minister of War from January 21 , 1828 to August 8 , 1829 . He created a supreme council of war under the presidency of the Dauphin . He was named Peer of France in 1832 . He died in June 1845 at the age of 70 years .
USS Propus ( AK - 132 ) USS Propus ( AK - 132 ) was an " Crater " - class cargo ship commissioned by the U . S . Navy for service in World War II . She was responsible for delivering troops , goods and equipment to locations in the war zone . " Propus " ( AK – 132 ) was laid down 31 January 1944 by the St . Johns River Shipbuilding Company , Jacksonville , Florida , as MCE hull 2471 ; launched 29 March 1944 ; chartered by the Navy 10 April 1944 ; converted by Merrill - Stevens Dry Dock Co . , Jacksonville , Florida ; and commissioned 22 June 1944 , Lt . Comdr . Harvey A . Seeley in command . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . Following shakedown in Chesapeake Bay , " Propus " ( AK – 132 ) proceeded via the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean . In 1944 she operated at San Francisco , California , in September ; Pearl Harbor and San Francisco in October ; and San Pedro , California , in December . In 1945 her cargo duties took her to Noumea and Espiritu Santo in January ; Pearl Harbor , San Francisco and back to sea in February and March ; Eniwetok , Saipan , and Tinian in April ; San Francisco in May ; Manus in June ; Emirau and Manus in July ; Pearl Harbor in August ; San Francisco in September ; and Norfolk , Virginia , in October . Post - war decommissioning . Decommissioned 20 November 1945 , she was redelivered to the War Shipping Administration 21 November and struck from the Naval Vessel Register 5 December . She was sold for commercial service by the Maritime Commission in 1947 , to a Greek shipping company and renamed " SS Nicolaou Georgios " . She was burnt in 1951 , repaired , and renamed " MV Gabbiano " ( Motorized ) . Final Disposition : scrapped in 1970 . Military awards and honors . No battle stars are indicated for " Propus " in current Navy accounts . However , her crew was eligible for the following medals :
Moe Spahn Morris " Moe " C . Spahn ( May 3 , 1912 – June 11 , 1991 ) was an American basketball player . Early life , and college basketball career . Spahn , who was Jewish , was born in New York , New York . He attended Bryant High School , in Queens , New York , where he played basketball . He attended City College of New York ( CCNY ) , where he was an All - American and All - Metropolitan basketball player at the guard position under coach Nat Holman in 1932 and 1933 , leading the team to a 32 – 2 record over those two years . He was captain of the team in his senior year , and eighth in scoring in the Metropolitan area . After he graduated , he became an assistant coach at CCNY under Nat Holman , as he worked toward a masters degree . He earned a Ph . D . in education from New York University . Professional basketball career . Spahn became a professional basketball player in 1934 . He played for a number of teams in the American Basketball League ( ABL ) — the Brooklyn Visitations , the Jersey Reds , the New York Jewels , and the Philadelphia SPHAs . He played on five ABL championship teams during the 1930s . In his rookie season with the Reds , he led the league in scoring . He finished fifth in the league in scoring in 1936 ( as Bobby McDermott led the league ) , and fourth in 1937 as Jersey won the championship . In 1938 , he was second in the league in scoring , and the Reds won the championship . The next year , he was third in scoring . In 1940 – 41 he was fifth in scoring in the league , as Petey Rosenberg led the league in scoring . In 1941 – 42 , he was eighth in scoring , for the Wilmington Bombers , who won the regular season to claim the ABL championship . He was that ABL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) runner - up in 1936 - 36 , and in 1936 – 37 . He was the ABL ' s MVP in 1937 – 38 , winning the David Soden Trophy . He retired in 1943 , and finished as the fifth all - time leading scorer in ABL history . From 1934 to 1938 , he led the ABL in free throw s made . He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1993 . He was also inducted into the City College of New York Athletic Hall of Fame . Hall of Famer Nat Holman said he was among the 10 greatest players of all time . Life after basketball . He later became a camp director and private - school headmaster . He was headmaster of the Franklin School ( later known as the Anglo - American International School ) in Manhattan from 1950 to 1975 , director of Camp Winaukee in New Hampshire from 1938 to 1975 , and director of the Tripp Lake Camp in Maine from 1958 to 1982 . He was also a president of the Association of Private Camps . In addition , he coached basketball teams at West Point . His son Steve Spahn was an All - Ivy League basketball player for Dartmouth College in the 1960s . He died of heart failure at the New York University Medical Center in Manhattan at the age of 79 . At the time , he was a resident of Manhattan .
Belapur Fort Belapur Fort is a fort near the township of Belapur in Navi Mumbai ( New Bombay ) , Maharashtra , India . The fort was built by the Siddi s of Janjira . It was later conquered by the Portuguese , and then Marathas . In the early 19th century , the fort was captured by the British . After the British gained supremacy in the region , with the expansion of the Bombay Presidency , the strategic importance of the fort declined , and it fell into disuse . History . Built in 1560 – 1570 by the Siddis , after they wrested control of the area from the Portuguese , it is located atop a hillock , near the mouth of the Panvel Creek . In 1682 , the fort was recaptured by the Portuguese , who had managed to annex the regions controlled by the Siddis , near Belapur ( at that time known as Shabaz ) . In 1733 , the Marathas , led by Chimnaji Appa , wrested control of the fort from the Portuguese . He had made a vow that if it were to be successfully recaptured from the Portuguese , he would place a garland of beli leaves in a nearby Amruthaishwar temple , and after the victory the fort was christened as Belapur Fort . The Marathas ruled the area until 23 June 1817 , when it was captured by Captain Charles Gray of the British East India Company . The British partially destroyed the fort under their policy of razing any Maratha stronghold in the area . During its active days , the fort stationed four companies each of 180 men , and 14 guns ranging from in weight . An underground tunnel is also supposed to exist , which many locals believe connects it to Gharapuri Island , the site of the Elephanta Caves . Restoration . The fort comes under the jurisdiction of City and Industrial Development Corporation ( CIDCO ) . It lies in a dilapidated state . Plans are underway to renovate the fort which is in danger of being lost to encroachments . Residents have used the Right to Information Act to save the fort from dumping and debris . A pond in the vicinity that supplies water to the area is also in danger of being choked .
George Gauld Lieutenant George William Gladstone Gauld was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories . Gauld ran up a string of five victories late in World War I while flying a Royal Aircraft Factory SE . 5 a for 74 Squadron . On 30 July 1918 , in concert with fellow aces Ira Jones and Harold Shoemaker , he flamed a Rumpler reconnaissance plane . On 2 August , he and Frederick Gordon cooperated to capture an LVG recon plane . On 26 October , Gauld drove down a Fokker D . VII out of control . On 1 November 1918 , he captured a Fokker D . VII and drove another one down out of control . 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 .
Walter S . Crosley Walter Selywn Crosley ( 30 October 1871 – 6 January 1939 ) was an American naval officer . He graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 2 June 1893 . During the Spanish – American War , he distinguished himself by taking the into the Nipe Bay through a narrow channel that was supposedly mined . Under musket fire from shore , he discovered the Spanish gunboat " Jorge Juan " and engaged in a heated action until the remainder of the squadron came up and sank the enemy ship . Later , during the Puerto Rican Campaign , Crosley supported American troops with broadsides from " USS Leyden " at the Battle of Fajardo . Crosley served as assistant naval attaché in Russia and received the Navy Cross for conducting a party of Americans out of Russia under difficult and trying conditions in April 1917 . He served as Navy hydrographer , commanded organizations in the operating forces and naval districts , and was a member of the Navy General Board . Crosley retired on 1 November 1935 and died in Baltimore , Maryland in 1939 . Namesake . In 1944 , the destroyer escort USS " Crosley " ( DE - 226 ) was named in honor of R . Adm . Crosley , sponsored by his widow , Mrs . W . S . Crosley .
Drummond Shiels Sir ( Thomas ) Drummond Shiels MC ( 7 August 1881 – 1 January 1953 ) was a Scottish Labour politician . The son of James Drummond Shiels and Agnes Campbell of Edinburgh , he was educated at Edinburgh University where he graduated MB ChB . He was commissioned into the Royal Scots in 1915 and served in World War I with the 9th ( Scottish ) Division . He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre . He ended the war as a Captain . He was a member of Edinburgh Town Council and Labour Member of Parliament for UK Parliament constituency from 1924 - 1931 . He served in government as Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for India in 1929 and as Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1929 - 1931 . He was a Fellow and Senior President Royal Medical Society and Deputy - Secretary of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association . He was knighted in 1939 .