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USS Trilby ( SP - 673 ) USS " Trilby " ( SP - 673 ) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during 1917 . " Trilby " was built as a private wooden - hulled motorboat of the same name . On 29 June 1917 , the U . S . Navy acquired her from her owner , Carl E . Milliken ( 1877 – 1961 ) , the Governor of Maine ( 1917 – 1921 ) , for use as a section patrol boat during World War I . She received the section patrol number SP - 673 on 13 July 1917 and was commissioned as USS " Trilby " ( SP - 673 ) . Assigned to the 1st Naval District in northern New England , " Trilby " conducted patrols in the harbor at Bath , Maine , beginning on 11 August 1917 . She soon was declared unfit for naval use ; no records exist documenting " Tilby " s naval service beyond 11 November 1917 . " Trilby " was returned to Governor Milliken on 5 July 1918 .
German submarine U - 288 German submarine " U - 288 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . The submarine was laid down on 7 September 1942 at the " Bremer Vulkan " yard at Bremen - Vegesack as ' werk ' 53 . She was launched on 15 May 1943 and commissioned on 26 June under the command of " Oberleutnant " Willy Meyer . She did not sink or damage any ships . She was sunk by British aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm from two escort carriers in April 1944 . Service history . " U - 288 " served with the 8th U - boat Flotilla for training from June 1943 to January 1944 and operationally with the 13th flotilla from 1 February . 1st patrol . The boat ' s initial foray began with her departure from Kiel on 26 February 1944 for the Norwegian Sea and finished at Narvik on 11 March . 2nd patrol and loss . She departed Narvik on 23 March 1944 . On 3 April she attacked Convoy JW 58 but was sunk by rockets and depth charge s from a Fairey Swordfish of 819 Naval Air Squadron and a TBM Avenger and a Wildcat ( or ' Martlet ' in FAA parlance ) , both of 846 squadron . The Swordfish had come from HMS " Activity " , the Avenger and the Wildcat had been launched from HMS " Tracker " . Forty - nine men died ; there were no survivors .
Loring R - 3 The Loring R - 3 was a 1920s Spanish two - seat sesquiplane reconnaissance aircraft designed by Comandante ( Major ) D . Eduardo Barron and built by Dr . Jorge Loring ' s company — Talleres Loring . The plane had two tandem open cockpits and was powered by a 600 hp ( 447 kW ) Hispano - Suiza engine . Some R - 3s remained in service until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War .
Sydney Knowles Sydney Knowles , BEM , ( 3 September 1921 - 31 July 2012 ) was a British frogman in and after World War II . Life . Knowles was one of a group of underwater guard divers who checked for limpet mine s in Gibraltar Harbour during the period of Italian frogman and manned torpedo attacks . The group dived with Davis Escape Set s , which until then had not been used much if at all for swimming down from the surface . At first they swam by breaststroke without swimfin s . On 17 December 1942 , during one such attack , two of the Italian frogmen ( Lt . Visintini and Petty Officer Magro ) died , probably killed by depth charge s . Their bodies were recovered , and their swimfins were taken and from then on used by Sydney Knowles and Commander Lionel Crabb . In 1955 Crabb took frogman Sydney Knowles with him to investigate the hull of the Soviet cruiser Sverdlov to evaluate its superior manoeuvrability . According to Knowles , they found a circular opening at the ship ' s bow and inside it a large propeller that could be directed to give thrust to the bow . Crabb disappeared after a dive on the Sverdlov ' s sister ship , Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth harbour in 1956 but 14 months later a body in a frogman suit was found floating off Pilsey Island . The body was mutilated and identification by relatives proved difficult , but Sydney Knowles said that Crabb had had a similar scar on the left knee . An inquest jury returned an open verdict but the coroner announced that he was satisfied that the body was that of Lionel Crabb . On 26 March 2006 , The Mail On Sunday published an article by Tim Binding entitled " Buster Crabb was murdered - by MI5 " . Binding wrote a fictionalised account of Crabb ' s life , Man Overboard which was published by Picador in 2005 . Binding stated that , following the book ' s publication , he was contacted by Sydney Knowles , who now lived in Málaga , Spain . Binding alleged that he then met Knowles in Spain and was told that Crabb was known by MI5 to have intentions of defecting to the USSR . This would have been embarrassing for the UK — Crabb being an acknowledged war hero . Knowles has suggested that MI5 set up the mission to the Ordzhonikidze specifically to murder Crabb , and supplied Crabb with a new diving partner ordered to kill him . Binding stated that Knowles alleges that he was ordered by MI5 to identify the body found as Crabb , when he knew it was definitely not Crabb . Knowles went along with the deception . Knowles has also alleged that his life was threatened in Torremolinos in 1989 , at a time when Knowles was in discussions with a biographer . Sydney Knowles also stated on televised interview on that Crabb didn ' t dive alone on his fatal last mission . Knowles was played by Michael Craig in the fictionalised 1958 film " The Silent Enemy " about World War II divers in Gibraltar .
Battle of Novara ( 1849 ) The Battle of Novara or " Battle of Bicocca " ( Bicocca is a borough of Novara ) was one of the battles fought between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia during the First Italian War of Independence , within the era of Italian unification . Lasting the whole day of 22 March 1849 and ending at dawn on 23 March , it resulted in a severe defeat and retreat of the Piedmontese ( Sardinian ) army . An uneasy armistice made in 1848 between Austria and Sardinia lasted less than seven months , before Charles Albert , King of Sardinia , denounced the truce on 12 March 1849 . The Austrian army took the military initiative in Lombardy . Under the command of Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz , it seized the fortress town of Mortara . The seizure of Mortara led to a battle between Austrian and Piedmontese troops at Novara , west of Milan . 70 , 000 Austrian troops , more disciplined than the 85 , 000 Piedmontese , thoroughly routed their opponent as they had at the Battle of Custoza the previous year . Piedmont also suffered from a lack of support from the smaller Italian states . General Girolamo Ramorino was accused of disobeying orders before the Battle of Novara , and , that same year , he was executed . The Piedmontese were driven back to Borgomanero at the foot of the Alps , and the Austrian forces occupied Novara , Vercelli and Trino , with the road to the Piedmontese capital , Turin , lying open to them . Austrian general Baron Julius von Haynau subdued Brescia , 54 miles NE of Milan , and Charles Albert abdicated in favor of his son Victor Emmanuel , who would later become the first king of a unified Italy . Friedrich Engels wrote " that , after this defeat , a revolution and proclamation of a republic in Turin is expected , arises from the fact that the attempt is being made to prevent it by the abdication of Charles Albert in favour of his eldest son . " A Piedmontese Republic was not created , though a Roman Republic had already been proclaimed in February , and there existed a Venetian Republic as well . Charles Albert exiled himself to Oporto , Portugal , and died shortly thereafter . A peace treaty was signed on 9 August . Piedmont was forced to pay an indemnity of 65 million francs to Austria . A reenactment of the battle occurs every year . The Austrian frigate " Novara " , which went on a round - the - world scientific expedition between 1857 and 1859 , was named after this Austrian victory .
William George Thompson William George Thompson ( January 17 , 1830 – April 2 , 1911 ) was a Civil War officer , trial - court judge , territorial justice , and Republican Representative in the U . S . House of Iowa ' s 5th congressional district . Biography . Thompson was born and raised in Butler , Pennsylvania , the younger brother of future Pennsylvania Congressman John McCandless Thompson . In 1853 , he was admitted to the bar and moved to Marion , Iowa . He became the prosecuting attorney for Linn County , Iowa in 1854 , then left in 1856 to serve in the Iowa Senate , serving until 1860 . When the Civil War broke out he became a major in the 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment . After the War , he served as district attorney for Iowa ' s eighth judicial district for six years . He then served briefly as Chief Justice of the Territory of Idaho , from January to April 1879 . In April 1879 , Thompson resigned as Chief Justice to run as a Republican to represent Iowa ' s fifth district in the Forty - sixth Congress , to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rush Clark . Thompson won the special election , and served in most of the Forty - sixth Congress . In 1882 , he was re - elected , serving in the Forty - seventh Congress , but chose not to run in 1884 for the Forty - eighth . On his return to Iowa , Thompson served on the Marion City Council , and ran for the Iowa General Assembly . He served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1885 to 1887 . Returning to the bench , he was elected as judge of Iowa ' s eighteenth judicial district , serving from 1894 to 1906 . He retired to Kenwood Park , Iowa where he died April 2 , 1911 . He is interred at Oak Shade Cemetery in Marion .
Lothar Kmitta Lothar Kmitta ( 19 January 1921 – 13 May 2009 ) was a highly decorated Leutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II , and 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 .
Sibley tent The Sibley tent was invented by the American military officer Henry Hopkins Sibley and patented in 1856 . Of conical design , it stands about twelve feet high and eighteen feet in diameter . It can comfortably house about a dozen men . The Sibley design differed from other conical tents , or bell tent s in a number of ways . Sibley ' s design was supported by a central pole which would telescope down into the supporting tripod so that it took less space to pack and store . The tripod could be erected over a firepit for cooking and heat . The Sibley design also required no guy rope s , being held down by twenty - four pegs around the base . Additionally , unlike earlier designs , the use of a cowl over the central pole allowed for ventilation and for the escape of smoke , regardless of wind direction . History . The US Patent Office granted Sibley his patent April 22 , 1856 ( no . 14 , 740 ) . The US Army used the tent exclusively during the Utah Expedition during the winter of 1857 - 58 , proving the design . Several of the Plains Indian Wars veterans noted the tent ' s similarity to Indian lodges — the smoke hole , the tent peg s around the outer edge , the fire pit , etc . In accordance with an 1858 agreement with the Department of War , Sibley would have received $ 5 USD for every tent made . However , Sibley resigned from the US Army to join the Confederate States Army after the outbreak of the American Civil War . He received no royalties on his patent . The Union Army produced and used nearly 44 , 000 Sibley tents during the war . After Sibley ' s death , his relatives attempted unsuccessfully to collect the royalties from the War Department .
Convoy PQ 2 Convoy PQ - 2 was the third of the Arctic Convoys of World War II by which the Western Allies supplied material aid to the Soviet Union in its fight with Nazi Germany . The Convoy sailed from Liverpool on 13 October 1941 and arrived at Archangelsk on 30 October 1941 . Ships . This Convoy consisted of 6 merchant ships and was escorted by : - Escorted ships convoy PQ - 2 in the coastal waters of the USSR ( 29 - 30 Oct 1941 ) All ships arrived safely
Quang X . Pham Quang Pham , a Vietnamese American , was born in 1964 , in Saigon , South Vietnam . He is a business owner , Marine Corps veteran , author and community leader who has lived in Orange County , California since 1990 . Pham was running for Congress in the 47th Congressional District to defeat Loretta Sanchez . Early life . During the invasion of South Vietnam by the Communist North Vietnamese Army , Quang , his three sisters , and his mother left their ancestral homeland , while the Army of the Republic of Vietnam ( ARVN ) was defending their country and its capital city of Saigon . His father , Hoa Van Pham , a member of the South Vietnamese Air Force , remained in South Vietnam and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army while he was supporting the Republic of Vietnam , resulting in his twelve years in re - education / prison camps . Quang and his family immigrated to the United States and settled in California . Education . Quang graduated from the University of California Los Angeles ( UCLA ) , and he went on to complete Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in 1986 . Military service . He was the first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator ' s wings in the U . S . Marine Corps and flew CH - 46 helicopter missions in the Persian Gulf War . Civilian life . He is a renowned author and wrote , " A Sense of Duty : Our Journey from Vietnam to America . " In 2000 , he founded Lathian Systems , a pharmaceutical promotions company , raised $ 14 million from investors , and was chairman and CEO . D & R Communications acquired Lathian in 2012 . He has served on the boards of the Marines Memorial Association , Orange County Forum , and Chapman University Business School Board of Advisers . See also . On March 26 , 2010 the US Army War College held a question and answer with Quang X . Pham where he discussed his book and American involvement in Vietnam . http : / / www . youtube . com / watch ? v = SZ _ k5yY3wZ8
Gisi Fleischmann Gisi Fleischmann ( 1894 – 18 October 1944 ) was a leader of the best known Holocaust era Jewish rescue group : the Bratislava Working Group . Mrs . Fleischmann was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp . The Working Group ' s co - leader was Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl . Thanks to the efforts of the Working Group , which bribed German and Slovakian officials and paid negotiated ransom to the Germans , the mass deportation of Slovakian Jews was delayed for two years , from 1942 to 1944 . At Rabbi Weissmandl ' s initiative the Working Group was also responsible for the ambitious but ill - fated Europa Plan which would have seen large numbers of European Jews rescued from the Nazi and Fascist murderers . An agreement was negotiated with the Nazis in late 1942 and one to two million dollars ransom was required to stop most transports . The Germans asked for a 10 % down payment . Unfortunately the down payment was never made . The Working Group also played a central role in distribution of the " Auschwitz Report " in spring 1944 . Rabbi Weissmandl ' s version ultimately reached George Mantello in Switzerland via Budapest . He immediately published the report ' s summary . That triggered a major Swiss grass roots protest in the Swiss press , churches and streets . It was a major factor leading to President Roosevelt , Winston Churchill and others threatening Hungary ' s Fascist regent Horthy with post - war retribution if he did not immediately stop the transports . This significantly influenced Horthy to stop the transports . At the time about 12 , 000 Jews a day were transported from Hungary to Auschwitz . Consequently Raoul Wallenberg was able to go to Budapest , where he and other diplomats like Carl Lutz , Angelo Rotta and others rescued large number of Jews .
No . 519 Squadron RAF No . 519 Squadron RAF was a meteorological squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War . History . No . 519 Squadron was formed on 15 August 1943 at RAF Wick from 1406 Flight , equipped with Handley Page Hampden s and Supermarine Spitfire s . Its purpose was collecting meteorological data from the northern waters of the North Sea all the way to Norway . It soon replaced the Hampdens with Lockheed Hudson s and Lockheed Ventura s . The squadron base moved on a number of times along the east coast of Scotland but the squadron ' s role remained the same . In November 1944 the squadron started using the Boeing Fortress , which it operated to the end of the war . With the war over the squadron standardised on the Halifax Mk . III , until it was disbanded at RAF Leuchars on 31 May 1946 .
5th Army ( Yugoslavia ) The 5th Army was a Royal Yugoslav Army formation which commanded five divisions and two independent detachments during the German - led Axis invasion of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in April 1941 during World War II . It was commanded by General Vladimir Čukavac , and was responsible for the Romanian and Bulgarian borders between the Iron Gates and the Greek border .
USS Prince Georges ( AK - 224 ) USS " Prince Georges " ( AP - 165 / AK - 224 ) was a " Crater " - class transport and cargo ship in the service of the United States Navy in World War II . Named after the Prince Georges County , Maryland , it was the only ship of the Navy to bear this name . " Prince Georges " was laid down on 20 September 1942 as liberty ship SS " Richard March Hoe " ( MCE hull 426 ) by Permanente Metals Corporation , Yard No . 2 , Richmond , California , under a Maritime Commission contract ; launched on 30 October 1942 , sponsored by Mrs . Patricia Montgomery ; served the Army Transport Service making runs to the Aleutian Islands with Army troops ; acquired by the Navy under bareboat charter on 25 October 1943 ; and commissioned on 10 November 1943 , Lt . Comdr . W . J . Lane in command . Service history . On 16 December " Prince Georges " departed Pearl Harbor on her first Navy operation , which took her to the bloody shores of Tarawa , where she spent Christmas 1943 and New Year ' s Day of 1944 , before returning to Pearl Harbor . In February she steamed from Pearl Harbor to disgorge men and material on Kwajalein Atoll , Makin Island and Abamama , Kiribati . After a return to Pearl Harbor , " Prince Georges " was back in the Gilberts and Marshalls in April . She participated , as part of TF 51 , in her only invasion — Saipan , 20 to 25 June , returning to Pearl Harbor in July . Reclassified AK – 224 , on 20 August 1944 , " Prince Georges " departed Pearl Harbor again in early September to back up the invasion of the Palaus , anchoring in Kossol Roads on 31 October . In December she delivered troops to Nouméa , then put into Auckland before heading north and west reaching the Solomons and Marianas in January 1945 . She was employed as a troop carrier in the Central Pacific until June . Returning to Pearl Harbor in June , she proceeded on to San Francisco . The end of the war found her back in Hawaii , whence she carried occupation troops to Saipan and Japan . Then reporting for " Magic - Carpet " duty , at the end of October , she steamed for the United States with a load of returning veterans , arriving Seattle on 10 November . She then proceeded to Okinawa on another " Magic - Carpet " run . Reaching San Francisco on 13 February 1946 , she decommissioned and was returned simultaneously to the War Shipping Administration on 12 April 1946 . Her name was struck from the Navy List on 1 May 1946 . Awards . " Prince Georges " received one battle star for World War II service .
Russian submarine Vladimir Monomakh The Vladimir Monomakh ( Russian : АПЛ " Владимир Мономах " ) is a Russia n Ballistic missile submarine of the fourth generation " Borei " class ( Project 955 ) currently in sea trials . It is named after Vladimir Monomakh ( 1053 – 1125 ) , the Grand Duke of Kievan Rus ' . The project was developed by the Rubin Design Bureau , and the chief designer was Sergey Kovalev . The keel was laid down on 19 March 2006 at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk . The hull of the Akula class submarine " K - 480 Ak Bars " was used in the construction of " Monomakh " . The submarine will be armed with 16 of the newest submarine - launched ballistic missile developed in Russia , the " Bulava " ( NATO designation SS - NX - 30 ) . The " Vladimir Monomakh " and its sister ships will replace the " Delta III and IV " classes in the Russian Navy . The submarine was launched on December 30 , 2012 and had begun moored tests in January 2013 . The submarine is expected to enter sea trials by the summer of 2013 and enter service in 2014 . The submarine finished its first sea trials on 8 October 2013 when returning from a 25 day trial at sea .
VSTOL Support Ship The VSTOL Support Ship ( VSS ) was a proposed light aircraft carrier design for the United States Navy in the late 1970s that would be smaller and less expensive than the Navy ' s existing aircraft carriers such as the . The design would cost one - quarter as much , although the V / STOL aircraft it would carry would have reduced performance . The United States Senate and others supported the design , but it was ultimately rejected by the Navy .
Avro Bison The Avro 555 Bison was a British single - engined fleet spotter / reconnaissance aircraft built by Avro . Development and design . The Bison was designed to meet the British Specification 3 / 21 for a carrier based fleet spotter and reconnaissance aircraft . An order for three prototypes was placed in October 1921 , together with three of the competing design from Blackburn Aircraft , the Blackburn Blackburn . Avro ' s design , the Type 555 Bison , was a two - bay biplane , powered , like the Blackburn , by a Napier Lion engine . The deep slab - sided fuselage was constructed of steel tube , with the pilot sitting in an open cockpit forward of the wings , and the engine cowling sloping steeply down ahead of the pilot . An enclosed cabin with large rectangular windows on each side housed the navigator and radio operator and all their equipment , with sufficient room room to stand upright , while a cockpit for a gunner armed with a Lewis gun on a Scarff ring was provided in the rear fuselage . The upper wings were mounted directly on the top of the fuselage . The first prototype flew in 1921 , with an order for 12 Bison Is following . The aircraft had handling problems , however , caused by interference of the pilots cockpit with the airflow over the upper wing . This was resolved by revising the wing design of the second prototype , raising the centre section of the upper wing by 2 ft ( 0 . 6 m ) and removed dihedral from the upper wings , flying in this form in April 1923 . Further production orders followed with these modification incorporated as the Bison II , while some Bison Is were modified to a similar standard , sometimes known as the Bison IA . A Bison I was fitted with floats and retractable wheels but tests proved the design was not suitable for seaborne use . Operational history . Although designed for a naval requirement the first deliveries were to the Royal Air Force in 1922 to replace the Westland Walrus for coastal reconnaissance work with No . 3 Squadron RAF . In April 1923 , 3 Squadron was broken up to form a number of Fleet Spotter Flights of the Fleet Air Arm , Naval aircraft served on , and and on - shore at Gosport , England and Hal Far , Malta . The aircraft were retired in 1929 when they were replaced by the Fairey IIIF .