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USS Wave ( YFB - 10 ) The third USS " Wave " ( YFB - 10 ) was a United States Navy ferryboat commissioned in 1916 and struck in 1938 . " Wave " was a steel - hulled ferryboat either purchased at or built by the Charleston Navy Yard , in 1916 . Soon after being placed in service , " Wave " was assigned to the Torpedo Station at Newport , Rhode Island . That may have been her only assignment since the few records of her service extant suggest that she served in the 2nd Naval District , which contained Newport until it was disbanded , and then in the 1st Naval District , which inherited Newport , throughout the remainder of her active career . In July 1920 , as the Navy instituted its alphanumeric hull classification system , she received the designation YFB - 10 . Her name was struck from the Navy List on 20 January 1938 . No record of her subsequent fate has been uncovered .
HMS Padstow Bay ( K608 ) HMS " Padstow Bay " ( K608 ) was a Bay - class anti - aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy , named for Padstow Bay on the northern coast of Cornwall . Commissioned in 1945 , she served on the American and West Indies Station only until 1946 before being put into reserve , and then sold for scrapping in 1959 . Construction . The ship was originally ordered on 19 January 1944 as the " Loch Coulside " . However , the contract was then changed , and the ship was laid down by Henry Robb of Leith on 25 September 1944 to a revised design as a Bay - class . Admiralty Job No . J11867 was launched as " Padstow Bay " on 28 August 1945 , and completed on 11 March 1946 . Service history . After sea trials , " Padstow Bay " sailed to Plymouth still lacking her full complement . The ship was finally commissioned in June to serve on the American and West Indies Station . In July she sailed for Bermuda , calling at Ponta Delgada , Azores for fuel , and arriving at Bermuda on 8 August . In September and October she carried out an extensive series of visits , stopping at Havana , Cuba , Veracruz , Mexico , Honduras , Kingston , Jamaica , Bluefields , Nicaragua , Cartagena , Colombia , Curaçao , La Guaira , Venezula , Trinidad , Georgetown , British Guiana , Paramaribo , Surinam , and Cayenne , French Guiana , returning to Bermuda by 15 November . After local duties , she sailed on 31 December 1945 with ships of the Squadron for more exercises and another visits programme . In January 1946 she called at Antigua and Tobago , in February , Grenada , then Saint Thomas , U . S . Virgin Islands , Guadaloupe , Marie - Galante and Sint Eustatius in March . After a routine docking at the Royal Naval Dockyard , Bermuda , in June she embarked on a visit to North America with the cruiser . On 1 July she arrived at Halifax , Nova Scotia , to take part in joint exercises with ships of the Royal Canadian Navy . In August she sailed from Halifax to ports in the Eastern Canadian Provinces , calling at Bathurst , New Brunswick , Ellis Bay , Anticosti , Miquelon , and Argentia and St . John ' s , Newfoundland . In September she visited Montreal with " Sheffield " , before returning to Bermuda via Portsmouth , New Hampshire . In October she sailed for the UK , arriving back at Plymouth on 18 November , was decommissioned , and laid - up with the Reserve Fleet in December . " Padstow Bay " remained in the Reserve Fleet until 1958 when the ship was placed on the Disposal List . In 1959 she was sold to BISCO for demolition by an Italian shipbreaker and towed to La Spezia , arriving on 11 August . References .
QLZ87 35mm Automatic Grenade Launcher The QLZ87 ( also known as Type 87 ) is the 35mm automatic grenade launcher developed by NORINCO in the late 1980s . Designed to provide direct fire support for infantry troops , the Type 87 is the first grenade launcher that has entered service with the PLA as a standard weapon equipment . The weapon was described as “ mini infantry artillery ” and has been serving with the PLA infantry ( including airborne forces and the Marine Corps ) at platoon and company level since the mid - 1990s . Programme . The PLA began to study the use of grenade launcher in its infantry units in the 1970s . Reverse - engineering of the U . S . M - 79 40mm grenade launcher and the Soviet AGS - 17 35mm automatic grenade launcher was carried out in the late 1970s , but these weapons did not enter service . In the mid - 1980s , NORINCO introduced the W87 35mm automatic grenade launcher for export market , and the weapon was widely seen as an indication of success in the Chinese indigenous grenade launcher programme . By the late 1980s , NORINCO introduced new improved version of the W87 for the use of the PLA . The weapon entered service with the PLA in the mid - 1990s under the designation QLZ87 . The QLZ87 is available in two variants : the standard variant and the tripod - mounted heavy variant . The standard variant with a combat weight of 12 kg can be carried and fired by a single soldier and is mainly for the engaging targets within 600m distance . The heavy variant with a combat weight of 20 kg is carried by a crew of three and has a longer range ( > 1 , 750m ) . The weapon delivers 25 kg HE or HEAT grenades in either single or burst mode , with a sustained rate of fire of 45rds / min . Compared to the U . S . MK19 - 3 40mm automatic grenade launcher , the QLZ87 is inferior in range , muzzle velocity , and rate of fire . However , the Chinese 35mm grenade , though lighter than the MK19 - 3 ’ s 40mm grenade , has better performance in blasting radius ( MK19 - 3 : 7m ; Type 87 : 11m ) and armour penetration ( MK19 - 3 : 51mm ; Type 87 : 80mm ) . Unlike the MK19 - 3 , which can only be fired on tripod , the Type 87 can be carried and fired by a single soldier . Design . The QLZ87 is a manportable , gas - operated , air - cooled , fully automatic weapon . It fires 35mm HE and HEAT grenades in either single or burst mode . The grenades are fed to the weapon using 6 - round ( standard variant ) or 15 - round ( heavy variant ) cartridge drum . The weapon is equipped with an optical aiming sight . The standard and heavy variants are almost identical in basic designs . The standard variant has a foldable bipod for shooting , while the heavy variant is mounted on a tripod . If necessary , the weapon can also be mounted on vehicles or helicopters . As well as engaging ground targets , the weapon is claimed to be also capable of attacking low - flying airborne targets
Erich Eisenblätter Erich Eisenblätter ( 14 January 1920 – 9 August 1996 ) was a highly decorated Oberfeldwebel 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 .
Spanish cruiser Rapido ( 1889 ) Rapido was a merchant ship requisitioned for use as an auxiliary cruiser by the Spanish Navy in 1898 during the Spanish - American War . " Rapido " was built in 1889 as a passenger ship and was in commercial service as SS " Columbia " with the Hamburg - Amerika Line when the Spanish Navy purchased her for Spanish - American War service as an auxiliary cruiser in 1898 . Armed and renamed " Rapido " , she became part of the relief expedition for the Philippines commanded by Rear Admiral Manuel de Camara and charged with destroying the United States Navy Asiatic Squadron of Commodore George Dewey there , as well as with delivering 4 , 000 Spanish Army troops to reinforce the Philippines . Camara ' s squadron — consisting of battleship " Pelayo " , armored cruiser " Emperador Carlos V " , auxiliary cruiser " Patriota " , destroyer s " Audaz " , " Osado " , and " Proserpina " , and transports " Buenos Aires " , " Panay " , " Alfonso XII " , and " Antonio Lopez " , and four colliers as well as " Rapido " — sortied from Cadiz on 16 June 1898 . " Rapido " and her consorts passed Gibraltar on 17 June 1898 ( first detaching " Alfonso XII " and " Antonio Lopez " to make independent voyages to the Caribbean ) , and arrived at Port Said , Egypt on 26 June 1898 . There Camara requested permission to transship coal , which the Egyptian government finally denied on 30 June 1898 out of concern for Egyptian neutrality . By the time " Rapido " and the rest of Camara ' s squadron arrived at Suez on 5 July 1898 , the squadron of Vice Admiral Pascual Cervera y Topete had been annihilated in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba , freeing up the U . S . Navy ' s heavy forces from the blockade of Santiago de Cuba . Fearful for the security of the Spanish coast , the Spanish Ministry of Marine recalled Camara ' s squadron on 7 July 1898 . " Rapido " and the rest of the squadron departed Suez on 11 July 1898 for Spain , and Camara ' s squadron was dissolved on 25 July 1898 . After the war ended in August 1898 , " Rapido " returned to commercial service . During the Russo - Japanese War of 1904 - 1905 , she became the Russian Navy auxiliary cruiser " Terek " . She was scrapped in 1907 .
243rd Infantry Division ( German Empire ) The 243rd Infantry Division ( " 243 . Infanterie - Division " ) was a division of the Imperial German Army during World War I . The division was established on April 1 , 1917 by the renaming of the 8th Ersatz Division . The 8th Ersatz Division had been officially redesignated a Royal Württemberg infantry division two months earlier and the 243rd Infantry Division retained the ties to that kingdom . The division fought in the Second Battle of the Aisne , also called the Third Battle of Champagne , in the Spring of 1917 . It spent the rest 0f 1917 and the first part of 1918 in positional warfare near Reims and in fighting around Verdun . In 1918 , the division participated in the German Spring Offensive , in the Somme region . The division was on the defensive thereafter , including during the Allied Hundred Days Offensive . The division was demobilized in 1919 . In 1917 , Allied intelligence rated the division a good division , but of mediocre combat value , and by 1918 it was rated a third class division . Organization . The organization of the division on March 24 , 1918 was as follows :
William Doolen William Doolen ( 1841 – September 14 , 1895 ) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for his actions at the Battle of Mobile Bay . Born in 1841 in Ireland , Doolen immigrated to the United States and was living in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , when he joined the U . S . Navy . He served during the Civil War as a coal heaver on the . At the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5 , 1864 , he " rendered gallant service " despite heavy fire , even after receiving a serious wound to the head . For this action , he was awarded the Medal of Honor four months later , on December 31 , 1864 . Doolen ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : On board the U . S . S . " Richmond " during action against rebel forts and gunboats and with the ram " Tennessee " in Mobile Bay , 5 August 1864 . Although knocked down and seriously wounded in the head , Doolen refused to leave his station as shot and shell passed . Calm and courageous , he rendered gallant service throughout the prolonged battle which resulted in the surrender of the rebel ram " Tennessee " and in the successful attacks carried out on Fort Morgan despite the enemy ' s heavy return fire . Doolen died on September 14 , 1895 , at age 53 or 54 and was buried in Cheyenne , Wyoming .
Cecil Leonard Knox Cecil Leonard Knox VC ( 9 May 1889 – 4 February 1943 ) 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 . Details . He was 29 years old , and a temporary second lieutenant in the 150th Field Company , Corps of Royal Engineers , British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 22 March 1918 at Tugny , Aisne , France , Second Lieutenant Knox was entrusted with the demolition of 12 bridges . He successfully carried out this task , but in the case of one steel girder bridge the time fuse failed to act , and without hesitation he ran to the bridge under heavy fire , and when the enemy were actually on it , he tore away the time fuse and lit the instantaneous fuse , to do which he had to get under the bridge . As a practical civil engineer , Second Lieutenant Knox undoubtedly realised the grave risk he took in doing this . Between the wars he joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and suffered from a serious parachute accident . He joined the Home Guard at the beginning of World War II and achieved the rank of major . He died as the result of a motoring accident .
Herbert Taylor ( British Army officer ) Lieutenant - General Sir Herbert Taylor ( 1775 – 1839 ) GCB GCH was the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom . Military career . Taylor was the son of Rev . Edward Taylor of Bifrons , Patrixbourne , Kent and his wife Margaret Payler daughter of Thomas Turner Payler of Ileden , who died at Brussels in 1780 . He joined the 2nd Dragoon Guards as a cornet in 1794 . Later that year he was promoted to lieutenant and then the following year to captain . In 1795 he served as assistant secretary and aide de camp to the Duke of York , then commander - in - chief of the British Army . Taylor was later the Duke of York ' s assistant military secretary , an office he held until 1798 . He was later a Major . In 1798 he was made Aide de Camp , Military Secretary and Private Secretary to the Marquess Cornwallis , Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . In the following year he returned to the Duke of York ' s service and remained there until 1805 , although he was transferred to the 9th West Indian Regiment as a lieutenant - colonel in 1801 . However in the following year , with a period of relative calm in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars , he was placed on half pay . In that year he joined the Coldstream Guards , in which he became a brevet colonel in 1810 . In 1805 he became private secretary to King George III , and then , from 1811 private secretary to Queen Charlotte , the queen consort . He retained that office until 1818 . Taylor commanded a brigade at Antwerp 1813 – 1814 , and was sent on a diplomatic mission to Bernadotte of Sweden in 1814 . He was Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Windsor 1820 – 23 . From 1820 to 1827 he was Ambassador to Berlin and then Military Secretary , having become colonel of the 85th Foot Regiment in 1823 . He was first and principal aide de camp to King George IV in 1827 , and also deputy Secretary at War . From 1828 to 1830 he was Adjutant - General to the Forces . He became private secretary to the new king , William IV , in 1830 . On the death of the king in 1837 he retired , although he was first and principal aide de camp to Queen Victoria 1837 – 39 . Taylor became a Major - General in 1813 , and a Lieutenant - General in 1825 . He was Master of St Katherine ' s Hospital , Regents Park , and Master Surveyor and Surveyor - General of the Ordnance from 1828 . He died in 1839 . The monument to him at St . Katherine ' s is by the sculptor Peter Rouw . References .
Teodor Frunzeti " General - locotenent " Teodor Frunzeti ( born September 4 , 1955 , Bucharest ) was the chief of the Romanian Land Forces Staff from 3 November 2006 to 17 March 2009 . Education . He is author and co - author of 13 books related to military activity and also of 114 specialty articles . Personal life . Teodor Frunzeti is married and has one child .
Battle of Macta The Battle of Macta was fought on 28 June 1835 between French forces under General Camille Alphonse Trézel and a coalition of Algerian Berber tribal warriors under Emir Abd al - Qadir during the French conquest of Algeria . The French column , which had fought an inconclusive but somewhat bloody battle with Abdul - Qadir a few days earlier , was retreating toward Arzew to resupply when Abdul - Qadir attacked in the marshes on the banks of the Macta River in what is now western Algeria . The French panicked and fled to Arzew in a disorganized rout . The disaster led to the recall to France of Trézel and the comte d ' Erlon , the first military governor - general of the French possessions in Africa , and helped Abdul - Qadir gain influence over tribes throughout Algeria .
USS Siwash ( SP - 12 ) USS " Siwash " ( SP - 12 ) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919 . " Siwash " was built in 1916 by the Gas Engine and Power Company at Morris Heights , New York , as a private motorboat of the same name . The U . S . Navy acquired her from her owner , C . A . Schieren of New York City , on 18 June 1917 for World War I service . She was commissioned as USS " Siwash " ( SP - 12 ) on 18 August 1917 . " Siwash " patrolled in the 3rd Naval District in the New York City area until decommissioned on 10 May 1919 . She was transferred to the United States Department of Commerce on 16 June 1919 .
Frank S . Gile Frank S . Gile ( September 15 , 1847 – March 19 , 1898 ) was a Union Navy sailor in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for helping to free his grounded ship . Born on September 15 , 1847 , in Massachusetts , Gile was living in North Andover when he joined the Navy . He served during the Civil War as a landsman on the . On November 16 , 1863 , " Lehigh " was in Charleston Harbor providing support for Union troops on shore when the ship ran aground on a sand bar and came under heavy fire from Fort Moultrie . Several attempts were made to pass a hawser to another Union ironclad , the , but each time the cable snapped due to friction and hostile fire . Officers were about to give an " abandon ship " order when Gile and two other sailors , Landsman William Williams and Seaman Horatio Nelson Young , volunteered to make one more attempt . Despite intense Confederate artillery fire , the men rowed a small boat from " Lehigh " to " Nahant " , trailing a line attached to a hawser . This operation successfully completed , " Nahant " was able to tow " Lehigh " off the sandbar to safety . For this action , Gile , Williams , and Young were each awarded the Medal of Honor five months later , on April 16 , 1864 . Two sailors involved in the earlier attempts to save " Lehigh " , Coxswain Thomas Irving and Gunner ' s Mate George W . Leland , also received the medal at the same time . Gile ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : On board the U . S . S . " Lehigh " , Charleston Harbor , 16 November 1863 , during the hazardous task of freeing the " Lehigh " , which had been grounded , and was under heavy enemy fire from Fort Moultrie . After several previous attempts had been made , Gile succeeded in passing in a small boat from the " Lehigh " to the " Nahant " with a line bent on a hawser . This courageous action while under severe enemy fire enabled the " Lehigh " to be freed from her helpless position . Gile served on three other ships before leaving the Navy . On October 20 , 1864 he joined the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment as a substitute and remained in that unit until the close of the war . A father of seven children , Gile died at age 50 on March 19 , 1898 , in North Andover . He was buried there in Ridgewood Cemetery . His descendants continued the family tradition of military service .
Ferdinand von Sammern - Frankenegg Ferdinand von Sammern - Frankenegg ( March 17 , 1897 – September 20 , 1943 ) was an SS - " Oberführer " ( senior Colonel ) and the SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw area from 1941 . He was in charge of the first offensive operation in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19 , 1943 . After the failed offensive , von Sammern - Frankenegg was replaced by Jürgen Stroop , court - martial ed on April 24 , 1943 , and found guilty of " defending Jews " . He was subsequently transferred to Croatia where in September he was killed in a Yugoslav partisan ambush near the city of Klasznic .
USS Chaffinch ( AM - 81 ) USS " Chaffinch " ( AM - 81 ) was a minesweeper acquired by the U . S . Navy during World War II for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing . Career . " Chaffinch " was built in 1928 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp . , Quincy , Massachusetts , as " Trimont " ; purchased by the Navy 29 November 1940 , and commissioned 16 July 1941 , Lieutenant Edward Fluhr , USNR , in command . Assigned to the 3d Naval District , " Chaffinch " arrived at New York City 10 August 1941 . For the next year and a half , alert to the mounting German submarine menace , she swept for mines and patrolled waters off New York and New London , Connecticut . From 13 February 1943 until 8 January 1944 , she performed similar duty off Newport , Rhode Island , under the 1st Naval District . Continuing her essential support to the movement both of coastwise convoys , and those bound for distant ports , " Chaffinch " again served at New York harbor until 1 August 1945 , when she cleared for Charleston , South Carolina . There she was decommissioned 12 December 1945 , and transferred to the Maritime Commission 23 September 1946 .
HMS Veronica ( 1915 ) HMS " Veronica " was an " Acacia " - class sloop of the Royal Navy , built by Dunlop Bremner & Company , Port Glasgow . She was laid down in January 1915 , launched on 27 May 1915 and completed in August 1915 . The " Acacia " - class fleet sweeping sloops were adapted for escort work , minesweeping and as Q - ship s . She was in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy from 19 September 1920 to 24 February 1934 , where she exercised with cruisers , toured New Zealand ports , took part in ceremonial occasions , and went on annual Pacific Island cruises . This was in conjunction with her sister ship which was similar , but with small differences as they came from different commercial shipyards . HMS " Veronica " assisted survivors in the aftermath of the 1931 Hawke ' s Bay earthquake in New Zealand . Having berthed in Port Ahuriri only three hours before the earthquake , she radioed Auckland for help , which was provided by the cruisers and . She was subsequently docked for inspection for possible bottom damage as the seabed had risen up under her . She left Auckland on 24 February 1934 for paying off at Chatham . She was sold on 22 February 1935 to John Cashmore Ltd , and broken up at Newport , Wales , in 1935 .
Moro River Campaign order of battle Moro River Campaign order of battle is a listing of the significant formations that were involved in the fighting during the Moro River Campaign in December , 1943 , part of the Italian Campaign of World War II . Allied Forces and organisation . Allied Armies in Italy . Eighth Army . Commander : German forces and organisation . German Army Group C . Commander :
Muktar Hussein Afrah Colonel Muktar Hussein Afrah ( ) is an officer in the army of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia . He was commander of forces in Beledweyne after the Battle of Beledweyne . On January 7 , 2007 he was arrested by Ethiopian troops for releasing Islamic Court Union ( ICU ) leader Sheik Farah Moalim Mohammed , based on the written authority of local elders , setting off controversy and violent protests . Ethiopia n troops demanded the ICU leader be turned over to them . He was released on January 10 , 2010 .
John Henry Tudhope John Henry Tudhope ( 17 April 1891 - 12 October 1956 ) was a South African flying ace credited with 10 victories in World War I . After the war , Tudhope emigrated to Canada and joined the RCAF . Tudhope surveyed routes for the Trans - Canada Air Lines , receiving the McKee Trophy for his work in 1930 . In 1937 he flew the first dawn to dusk flight across Canada , from Montreal to Vancouver . Tudhope became president of the first Aviation Insurance Group in Canada . He died in London , England , while serving as telecommunications attache at Canada House .