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USS Kaweah ( AO - 15 ) USS " Kaweah " ( AO - 15 ) was the lead ship of her class of fleet replenishment oilers in the United States Navy . " Kaweah " was launched in 1919 by William Cramp & Sons , Philadelphia , under USSB account ; acquired by the Navy 20 October 1921 ; and commissioned 28 December 1921 , Lt . Comdr . O . Beuilagua , USNRF , in command . After sea trials " Kaweah " departed New Orleans early January 1922 and arrived Philadelphia 18 January . She departed 14 March for a cruise to the Canal Zone and the Gulf of Mexico . She returned to Norfolk 7 May and decommissioned 15 August 1922 . " Kaweah " recommissioned 16 December 1940 , Commander Charles B . McVay III , USN in command . From early 1941 until late fall , she made oil runs between ports on the East Coast and the Caribbean . She arrived NS Argentia , Newfoundland , 17 November for duty in the North Atlantic . For the next 14 months she operated between Iceland , Greenland , and Boston , supplying the fleet with gasoline and diesel oil . She departed New York 13 January 1943 with a cargo of diesel oil for Casablanca , returning New York 12 March . " Kaweah " made another round trip cruise to Casablanca in April before resuming fueling operations at Halifax , Nova Scotia , 26 June . For the remainder of 1943 she cruised in convoy between New England and Iceland supplying the fleet units with vital fuel . For the duration of the war the oiler cruised along the North American coast , Greenland , and the Caribbean with aviation fuel and diesel oil . Throughout the war " Kaweah " remained almost constantly at sea on the important , never - ending duty of keeping the fleet supplied with petroleum products . Following the cessation of hostilities 14 August 1945 , " Kaweah " arrived Hampton Roads , Va . , 26 September and decommissioned at Norfolk 16 November 1945 . She was transferred to the WSA 28 May 1946 and sold to Boston Metals Co . , Baltimore , for scrapping .
Martin Richard Hoffmann Martin Richard Hoffmann ( born April 20 , 1932 ) is a U . S . administrator . He served as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1975 and 1977 . Early life . Martin was born in Stockbridge , Massachusetts , on April 20 , 1932 . Government career . Hoffmann served as general counsel of the Department of Defense , 1974 - 75 . He was appointed as Secretary of the Army from August 5 , 1975 until February 13 , 1977 .
19th Marine Regiment ( United States ) The 19th Marine Regiment was an engineer regiment of the United States Marine Corps subordinate to the 3rd Marine Division . It existed from September 1942 until September 1944 . Subordinate units . The regiment consisted of three battalions and a headquarters and service company : The 1st Battalion was an engineer battalion , the 2nd was a pioneer battalion and the 3rd a Naval Construction Battalion . History . World War II . Occupation and Defense of Cape Torokina , Bougainville 1 November – 15 December 1943 Consolidation of the Northern Solomons 15 December 1943 – 9 January 1944 Capture and Occupation of Guam 21 July – 15 August 1944
HMS Begum ( D38 ) The USS " Bolinas " ( CVE - 36 ) ( originally AVG - 36 , then later ACV - 36 ) was an escort aircraft carrier launched 11 November 1942 by Seattle - Tacoma Shipbuilding , Tacoma , Washington ; sponsored by Mrs . G . B . Sherwood , wife of Commander Sherwood ; and commissioned 22 July 1943 , Captain H . L . Meadow in command . Service history . On 2 August 1943 after being decommissioned " Bolinas " was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend - Lease and renamed HMS " Begum " ( D38 ) . " Begum " served with the Royal Navy during World War II , doing anti - submarine sweeps in the Indian Ocean with 832 Squadron as her complement , participating in the sinking of U - 198 . After her return she was declared surplus by the U . S . Navy . She was stricken for disposal 19 June 1946 and sold by the Navy into merchant service 16 April 1947 as " Raki " and later " I Yung " . She was scrapped in Taiwan in March 1974 . Design and description . These ships were all larger and had a greater aircraft capacity than all the preceding American built escort carriers . They were also all laid down as escort carriers and not converted merchant ships . All the ships had a complement of 646 men and an overall length of , a beam of and a draught of . Propulsion was provided a steam turbine , two boilers connected to one shaft giving 9 , 350 brake horsepower ( SHP ) , which could propel the ship at . Aircraft facilities were a small combined bridge – flight control on the starboard side , two aircraft lifts by , one aircraft catapult and nine arrestor wires . Aircraft could be housed in the by hangar below the flight deck . Armament comprised : two 4 inch Dual Purpose guns in single mounts , sixteen 40 mm Bofors anti - aircraft gun s in twin mounts and twenty 20 mm Oerlikon anti - aircraft cannons in single mounts . They had a maximum aircraft capacity of twenty - four aircraft which could be a mixture of Grumman Martlet , Vought F4U Corsair or Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter aircraft and Fairey Swordfish or Grumman Avenger anti - submarine aircraft .
Maximin de Bompart Maximin de Bompart , Marquis de Bompard ( 1698 – 1773 ) was a French naval officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Martinique between 1750 and 1757 . In 1759 he led a French naval force attempting to relieve Guadeloupe which was under attack from British forces during the Seven Years War . However he landed on Guadeloupe too late to save the island which had formally surrendered on 1 May 1759 . Reluctantly Bompart was forced to withdraw and acknowledge British occupation of the island .
XXXIV Corps ( India ) The Indian XXXIV Corps was formed in March 1945 to be part of the British Fourteenth Army for Operation Zipper , the invasion of British Malaya . Significant formations under Fourteenth Army for ' Zipper , ' possibly under XXXIV Corps , included 5th Indian Division , 23rd Indian Division , 25th Indian Infantry Division , and 26th Indian Infantry Division . Since Japan surrendered before the operation could be executed , the corps , under the command of Lieutenant - General Ouvry Roberts , did not see wartime service . It did , however , see occupation duty after the conflict was over . XXXIV Corps was still active in September 1945 in Malaya , with HQ 2nd British Infantry Division , 25th Indian Division , 50th Indian Tank Brigade , and 150th Indian Infantry Brigade , which was en route to Hong Kong .
USS Zeta ( 1844 ) USS " Zeta " ( 1844 ) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was used by the Union Navy as a torpedo boat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways . Purchased at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . " J . G . Loane " — a small wooden steamer built at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , in 1844 — was purchased by the Navy on 3 June 1864 at Philadelphia from William S . Mason . Renamed " Tug No . 6 " , and often as " Picket Boat No . 6 " . Renamed " Tug No . 6 " and commissioned on 8 June 1864 , Acting Ensign Frederick W . Mintzer in command , this small craft was sometimes referred to as " Picket Boat No . 6 " in dispatches . Assigned as a torpedo boat in the James River . Renamed " Zeta " in the following November , she served as a torpedo tug in the James River until April 1865 . Transferred in that month to the Potomac River flotilla of Comdr . Foxhall A . Parker , " Zeta " guarded the Bush River ( Maryland ) Bridge until sent to the Washington Navy Yard in May . Post - war decommissioning and sale . Her services no longer required , " Zeta " was sold to C . Vanderwerken on 24 June 1865 .
Allied Joint Command Lisbon The Joint Command ( JC ) Lisbon or JC Lisbon is one of the three main subdivisions of NATO ' s Allied Command Operations . It is based in Oeiras , near Lisbon , Portugal . In 2009 a French lieutenant general took command from the previous US Navy admiral who had filled the post for a number of years . Joint Command Lisbon is responsible for : From 1972 , for many years during the Cold War , Oeiras was home to Commander - in - Chief , Iberian Atlantic ( Commander Iberian Atlantic until 1982 ) , a Portuguese - led command which was responsible to SACLANT in Norfolk , Virginia . On 1 September 1999 , the CINCIBERLANT command was upgraded to CINCSOUTHLANT , a NATO Regional Command with new Terms of Reference and a greater area of responsibility . The headquarters becomes Regional Headquarters South Atlantic ( RHQ SOUTHLANT ) . On 12 June 2003 , command authority for CINCSOUTHLANT was transferred from SACLANT to SACEUR , NATO ' s European command in Belgium . 0n 4 December 2006 , SACEUR rewarded JCL with a Campaign Pennant to recognize the operational contribution during the Pakistan Earthquake Relief Operation . JC Lisbon is currently responsible for providing assistance to the African Union on request , principally as regards airlift for the mission in Darfur ; preparing staff to command the NATO Response Force ; mounting a sea - based Combined Joint Task Force Headquarters ; and support for cooperation and dialogue under the Partnership for Peace and Mediterranean Dialogue programmes . During the 2000s ( decade ) , the commander was a United States Navy Vice Admiral who simultaneously held the position of Commander United States Sixth Fleet and Commander , Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO ( STRIKFORNATO , the old STRIKFORSOUTH ) , both located in Naples , Italy . The admiral resided in Lisbon and commanded the three commands separated by the western Mediterranean through a rigorous travel schedule and electronic means , including frequent video teleconferences . Vice Admiral Bruce W . Clingan was the last U . S . commander to hold the three commands simultaneously .
Empire Oak Empire Oak was a 484 GRT ocean going tug which was built by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co . Ltd . of Goole . The ship was launched on 15 March 1941 and completed in July 1941 . She was torpedoed on 22 August 1941 and sunk by at while a member of Convoy OG 71 . She was armed with a 12 - pounder and two Hotchkiss machine guns . She also carried two PAC ( parachute and cable ) rockets . Ship history . She sailed from Oban on 15 August 1941 , captained by F . E . Christian , and joined Convoy OG - 71 ( Outward Gibraltar ) . On Tuesday , 19 August 1941 , she joined the search for survivors from the merchantman " Alva " which had been sunk by , and spent approximately an hour searching and picked up several survivors before putting on speed to catch up with the convoy . On returning to the convoy Captain F . E . Christian spotted starshells going up , on arrival he spotted a number of red lights in the water which he took to be the red lights attached to merchantmen ' s lifejackets ( at this time Royal Navy lifejackets didn ' t ) . These were survivors from the merchantman " Aguila " , and after a long search " Empire Oak " picked up six crew members . On Friday , 22 August 1941 , during the night Captain Christian was standing on the starboard wing of the bridge when " Empire Oak " was struck by a torpedo fired from on the starboard side of the engine room . She sank within seconds with the captain been washed off the bridge . The destroyer then launched a depth charge attack on " U - 564 " , the shock waves of which caused distress and injuries to the survivors in the water . Captain Christian was in the water for over two hours with his chief officer plus the chief officer from " Aguila " before the corvette found them , unfortunately during the rescue the chief officer from the " Aguila " became separated and was lost . " Empire Oak " lost 14 out of her 20 crew , she was also carrying 6 survivors from " Aguila " and 11 from " Alva " , nine of these were lost including all from " Aguila " .
James De Wolf James DeWolf ( March 18 , 1764December 21 , 1837 ) , nicknamed " Captain Jim , " was a United States Senator from Rhode Island , a long - time state legislator and a successful privateer during the war of 1812 . Biography . Born in Bristol , Rhode Island to a shipping family , DeWolf shipped as a sailor on a private armed vessel during the American Revolutionary War . He participated in several naval encounters and was captured twice by the British . He became captain of a ship before he was 20 and engaged in commercial ventures , including trading in slaves , with Cuba and other West Indian islands . In 1790 , he married Nancy Ann Bradford , the daughter of William Bradford , who would become U . S . Senator of Rhode Island before him . In 1791 , DeWolf was indicted for murder by a Newport , Rhode Island grand jury . He was alleged to have had a female slave sick with typhoid fever thrown overboard while gagged and tied to a chair , this after almost his entire crew refused to participate in the murder . DeWolf heard the indictment and immediately left for the Gold Coast of Africa . Two members of the crew , one of whom had participated in the killing , stated in a 1794 deposition taken in St . Eustatius , Leeward Islands that the action was necessary in order to save those on board from the disease . DeWolf testified in St . Thomas , West Indies in 1795 with no one present to oppose his testimony , and the judge ruled in his favor . The case was dismissed , upon petition from the district attorney , as being without merit . DeWolf went on to finance another 25 slaving voyages , usually with other members of his family . His business empire included three sugar plantations in Cuba . During the War of 1812 , DeWolf fitted out privateers under the authority of the President of the United States . One of his ships , the " Yankee " , became the most successful privateer of the war . DeWolf was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1797 – 1801 , again from 1803 – 1812 , 1817 – 1821 , and 1829 - 1837 . He served as speaker of the House from 1819 to 1821 . He was a pioneer in cotton manufacturing and built the Arkwright Mills in Coventry , Rhode Island in 1812 . DeWolf became the wealthiest man in the state , if not the region , and by the end of his life was said to be the second richest person in the United States . DeWolf was elected as a Democratic - Republican ( later Crawford Republican ) to the U . S . Senate and served from March 4 , 1821 , to October 31 , 1825 , when he resigned . He died in New York City in 1837 at the age of 73 , and was buried in the DeWolf private cemetery , Woodlawn Avenue , Bristol . Legacy . DeWolf was featured prominently in a 2008 documentary , " " , which described the DeWolf family ' s role in the slave trade .
8th Bavarian Reserve Division ( German Empire ) The 8th Bavarian Reserve Division ( " 8 . Bayerische Reserve - Division " ) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I . The division was formed at the end of December 1914 and organized over the next month , arriving in the line in late January 1915 . It was part of the second large wave of new divisions formed at the outset of World War I . The division was disbanded in 1919 , during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I . The division was recruited in the Kingdom of Bavaria and was considered to be skilled in mountain warfare . Combat chronicle . The 8th Bavarian Reserve Division initially fought on the Western Front , seeing its first action in the trenches in Alsace , where it remained until May 1915 . It was then transferred to the Eastern Front , fighting in the breakthrough battle at Lubaczów and in the 1915 Battle of Lemberg . It was sent back to the Western Front in July , again fighting in Alsace , where it remained until July 1916 . From 19 July to 22 August , it fought in the Battle of the Somme . In October 1916 , the division entered the Romanian Campaign , where it engaged in mountain warfare . The division remained in combat in various parts of Romania until December 1916 , and then engaged in positional warfare in Transylvania until July 1917 , when it went back on the offensive . In October 1917 , the division returned to the Western Front , fighting in Flanders . It fought in the trenches and saw action in the Battle of Armentières in April 1918 , part of the Battle of the Lys ( also known as the Lys Offensive and the Fourth Battle of Ypres ) . It continued fighting along the Western Front until the end of the war . Allied intelligence rated the division as first class . Order of battle on formation . The 8th Bavarian Reserve Division , unlike the other divisions of its wave and like earlier German divisions , was initially organized as a square division . The order of battle of the division on December 31 , 1914 was as follows : Order of battle on June 28 , 1918 . The division was triangularized in October 1916 , losing the 15th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Brigade headquarters and the 18th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment . Over the course of the war , other changes took place , including the formation of artillery and signals commands . The order of battle on June 28 , 1918 was as follows :
Prince Hulon Preston , Jr . Prince Hulon Preston , Jr . ( July 5 , 1908 – February 8 , 1961 ) was an American politician , educator and lawyer . Preston was born in Monroe , Georgia . He graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens and was admitted to the Georgia state bar in 1930 . He became a practicing lawyer in Statesboro , Georgia . After serving in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1935 through 1938 , Preston enlisted as a private in the United States Army in 1942 and was promoted through the ranks to captain by the time of his discharge on October 13 , 1945 . He was then elected as a judge for the Statesboro city courts ; however , he also won election to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat to served in the 80th United States Congress and never took the bench . A staunch segregationist , in 1956 , Preston signed " The Southern Manifesto . " Preston was reelected for six additional terms before losing his reelection bid in 1960 . He died the next year in Savannah , Georgia on February 8 , 1961 , and was buried in Stateboro ' s Eastside Cemetery .
Kosmos 1851 Kosmos 1851 ( meaning " Cosmos 1851 " ) is a Soviet US - K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1987 as part of the Soviet military ' s Oko programme . The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . Kosmos 1851 was launched from Site 43 / 4 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Russian SSR . A Molniya - M carrier rocket with a 2BL upper stage was used to perform the launch , which took place at 07 : 40 UTC on 12 June 1987 . The launch successfully placed the satellite into a molniya orbit . It subsequently received its Kosmos designation , and the international designator 1987 - 050A . The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 18103 .
77th SS - Standarte The 77th SS - Standarte was a regiment formation of the Allgemeine - SS that operated from the city of Schneidemühl in eastern Germany ( now Poland ) . The Standarte was established in 1934 , one year after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party assumed power , and by 1935 was at full complement . One notable member of the Standarte was Richard Glücks who assumed command of the unit in 1935 . Glücks would later rise to command Germany ' s concentration camp network as head of the SS - Totenkopfverbände . In the late 1930s , the 77th Standarte mainly engaged in mustering drill formations and parades . At the start of World War II , most of the Standarte members were called up to serve in the regular Germany military ( Wehrmacht ) since the mustering formations were not exempt from conscription . The unit continued to actively operate until 1943 at which time the regiment had lost nearly all of its members and war - time activities in eastern Germany superseded the need for part time musters and Nazi parades . The last commander of the 77th SS - Standarate , SS - Obersturmbannführer Paul Becker , was detached on July 1 , 1943 and from this point on the unit existed only on paper . The Standarte was formally disbanded in May 1945 with the defeat of Nazi Germany .
RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun The RML 64 pounder 64 cwt gun was a Rifled , Muzzle Loading ( RML ) naval , field or fortification artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century , which fired a projectile weighing approximately . " 64 cwt " refers to the gun ' s weight rounded up to differentiate it from other " 64 - pounder " guns : 1 hundredweight ( cwt ) = 112 pounds . Description . The calibre of 6 . 3 inches was chosen to enable it to fire remaining stocks of spherical shells originally made for the obsolete 32 pounder guns if necessary . Mark I ( adopted in 1864 ) and Mark II ( adopted 1866 ) guns , and Mark III guns made from 1867 - April 1871 had wrought - iron inner " A " tubes surrounded by wrought - iron coils . Mark III guns made after April 1871 were built with toughened mild steel " A " tubes , and earlier Mark III guns were re - tubed with steel and were classified as a siege gun in land service . Remaining guns with iron tubes were used for sea service . Rifling of all guns consisted of 3 grooves , with a uniform twist of 1 turn in 40 calibres ( i . e . 1 turn in 252 inches ) . Ammunition . The gun ' s standard shell was " common shell " , for firing on troops in cover , ships and buildings , weighed when empty with a bursting charge of . Shrapnel shell s could also be fired ; a shell with a bursting charge propelling 234 metal balls .
Rob Lockhart General Sir Rob McGregor MacDonald Lockhart KCB CIE MC ( 1893 – 1981 ) was a British Indian Army general of World War II and an early Scouting notable . Military career . Lockhart was commissioned as an unattached officer in the Indian Army in 1913 . He joined the 51st Sikhs in 1914 and then served in World War I . In 1934 he was appointed Military attache to Afghanistan . Then in 1939 he was appointed Deputy Director of Staff Duties in the India Office . He served in World War II as Director of Staff Duties in the India Office from 1940 to 1941 when he became Military Secretary to the India Office . He was appointed General Officer Commanding Southern Command in India in 1945 . He was appointed acting Governor of the North West Frontier in India in June 1947 and then became Commander - in - Chief , India in August 1947 . He retired in 1948 but was recalled as Director of Operations during the Malaya Emergency between 1951 and 1952 . He became Deputy Chief Scout for the Boy Scouts Association from 1951 to 1961 . He served on the World Scout Committee of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1953 to 1959 . He was awarded the Bronze Wolf Award , the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement , awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting , in 1961 . References .
Battle of Guelta Zemmour ( 1989 ) The 1989 Battle of Guelta Zemmur took part on 7 October 1989 , when POLISARIO guerrillas commanded by Lahbib Ayub attacked the Moroccan Wall on the Guelta Zemmur section . The attack was the bigger battle in the war since 1988 , as the Polisario Front saw the negotiations with Morocco on a dead end . Hassan II reacted to the Sahrawi offensive denying a second encounter with the POLISARIO leaders . According to the Spanish newspaper El País , at least a hundred soldiers from both sides were killed in the clashes .