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Basil L . Plumley Basil L . Plumley ( January 1 , 1920 – October 10 , 2012 ) was a career soldier and airborne combat infantryman in the United States Army who eventually achieved the rank of Command Sergeant Major . He is most famous for his actions as Sergeant Major of the US Army ' s 1st Battalion , 7th Cavalry Regiment , at the Battle of Ia Drang ( Vietnam , 1965 ) . Lieutenant General Hal Moore , who , as a Lieutenant Colonel , was Plumley ' s battalion commander during the Battle of Ia Drang , praised Plumley as an outstanding NCO and leader in the 1992 book about this battle , " We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young " . The book was the basis for the 2002 film " We Were Soldiers " , in which Plumley was played by actor Sam Elliott . Plumley was known affectionately by his soldiers as " Old Iron Jaw " . Military career . Plumley enlisted in the US Army as a private on March 31 , 1942 . He was a member of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment , 82nd Airborne Division , with which he made four combat jumps and was awarded multiple decorations . He confirms this during interviews conducted with author Phil Nordyke , who has written four books relating to the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II . Plumley went on to make one combat jump in Korea with the 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment . He retired as a Command Sergeant Major on December 31 , 1974 , having been awarded 28 different personal , unit , campaign and service awards and decorations ( 40 total ) in almost 33 years of military service , spanning World War II , the Korean War , and the Vietnam War . After his retirement , he worked 15 more years for the Army as a civilian in administration at Martin Army Community Hospital and at various Troop Medical Clinics around Ft . Benning ( Fort Benning , Georgia ) , retiring again in 1990 . Personal life . Plumley was born on January 1 , 1920 , in Shady Spring , West Virginia , the second son and fifth child of coal miner Clay Plumley ( born 1879 ) and his wife Georgia ( born c . 1895 ) , both of West Virginian stock . After two years of high - school , he worked as a chauffeur / driver before enlisting in the US Army on March 31 , 1942 . In 1948 / 49 , Plumley married Deurice Dillon , who died on May 28 , 2012 , ending 63 years of marriage . Basil Plumley died of cancer after nine days in Columbus Hospice ( Columbus , Georgia ) , on October 10 , 2012 . He is survived by his daughter , Debbie Kimble , a granddaughter , and two great - grandchildren . In popular culture . Plumley was a prominent and central figure in the 1992 book " We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young " by Lt . Gen Hal Moore and Joseph L . Galloway about the Battle of Ia Drang and was portrayed by actor Sam Elliot in the 2002 film adaption of the same name .
RML 40 pounder gun The RML 40 - pounder gun was a British rifled muzzle - loading siege and fortification gun designed in 1871 . It was intended to supersede the RBL 40 pounder Armstrong gun after the British military reverted to rifled muzzle - loading artillery until a more satisfactory breech - loading system than that of the Armstrong gun s was developed . Description . The original Mk I short barrel of 18 calibres suffered from irregular velocity and hence accuracy , due to incomplete burning of the powder charge , hence only 20 were built . Mk II of 1874 with barrel lengthened to 22 calibres solved this problem and became the definitive model . The gun consisted of a central toughened steel " A " tube surrounded by wrought - iron coils , with a trunnion ring and cascabel . Rifling was the " Woolwich " pattern of three broad grooves , with a uniform twist of 1 turn in 35 calibres ( i . e . in 166 . 25 inches ) .
Yūgumo - class destroyer The were a class of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy . They were all completed from 1941 to 1944 . The IJN called them from their plan name . The " Yūgumo " - class destroyers were similar to the preceding " Kagerō " class . The main differences were a slightly different bridge design and the introduction of a new type of turrets for the main guns which were capable of 75 - degree elevations giving better AA capabilities . Despite these improvements , none survived the war .
Type 051B destroyer The Type 051B Luhai - class is a class of destroyer built by the People ' s Republic of China . It consists of only one ship , No . 167 " Shenzhen " . When " Shenzhen " was commissioned into the People ' s Liberation Army Navy in 1998 , it was then , the largest surface combatant that China had ever built . It resembles in many ways an enlarged version of the , and is one of the first PLAN ships with a slope - sided hull to reduce radar signature . History . " Shenzhen " was laid down by Dalian Shipyard in Northeastern China in May 1996 . The " Shenzhen " made the switch from the " Luhu " - class ' Diesel - Gas - Turbines to Gas Turbine engines . Some sources claim that the ship is powered by 2 Ukrainian AM50 Gas Turbine Engines while others claim that the ship may be powered by two indigenous steam turbine engines . The " Luhai " - class is 2 , 000 tons larger than the Type 052 destroyer , " Luhu " - class . The launch was in 1997 although official revelation of the ship ' s existence did not come until the year following its commissioning . The chief designer of this class is academic , Mr . Pan Jingfu ( 潘镜芙 ) , who is also the designer of the predecessor and follow - up of this class of ship . Analysts speculated that the ship would be equipped with VLS system in the forward section for air - defense SAMs . However , when the ship was finally revealed , it was still armed with the 8 - cell HQ - 7 SAM launcher . These SAMs lack effectiveness against sea skimming missiles with multiple approach angles . The PLAN was unhappy with the design and no further ships of this class were built . The sole Type 051B destroyer 167 " Shenzhen " participated in the PLA Navy ’ s first goodwill visit to Africa in 2000 , the first visit to Europe in 2001 and the first visit to Japan in 2007 . In 2004 , the ship received its mid - life modernization refit , with its original 100mm main gun and the HQ - 7 air defense missile system being replaced by improved models . Type 051B destroyer 167 " Shenzhen " visited Kochi , India for four days in August 2009 , after deployment in the Gulf of Aden on anti - piracy operations .
George P . Hawkes George Perkins Hawkes ( March 7 , 1824 – September 21 , 1903 ) was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War . He commanded the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry from April 1863 to July 1864 . In March 1867 , he was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general , United States Volunteers , to rank from March 13 , 1865 , seven months after his resignation of his commission in the army ( due to poor health ) . Civil War . Shortly after the beginning of the Civil War , Hawkes was commissioned captain of Company A of the 21st Massachusetts on August 21 , 1861 . He was promoted to major on September 2 , 1862 , and to lieutenant colonel on December 18 , 1862 . From July 1862 to March 1863 , the 21st Massachusetts was attached to the Army of the Potomac and participated in several of the largest battles of the Civil War , including the Second Battle of Bull Run , the Battle of Antietam and the Battle of Fredericksburg . Lt . Col . Hawkes took command of the 21st Massachusetts after the resignation of Col . William Smith Clark in April 1863 . By this time , the 21st Massachusetts had been transferred to eastern Kentucky as part of the Army of the Ohio and was primarily engaged in fighting guerrilla s . In the fall of 1863 , Maj . Gen . Ambrose Burnside moved the Army of the Ohio into eastern Tennessee and took the city of Knoxville . Confederate forces under the command of Lt . Gen . James Longstreet attempted to drive the Union army out of eastern Tennessee during the Siege of Knoxville . Lt . Col . Hawkes was placed in the role of an acting brigade commander during this campaign and led two regiments . When the 21st was transferred back to the Army of the Potomac in May 1864 , Hawkes led the regiment during the Battle of the Wilderness , the Battle of Spotsylvania and the Battle of Bethesda Church . Poor health forced him to resign from the army on July 3 , 1864 . Hawkes was nominated by President Andrew Johnson on March 26 , 1867 for the award of the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general , U . S . Volunteers , to rank from March 13 , 1865 , for faithful and meritorious services . The U . S . Senate confirmed the award on March 30 , 1867 .
HMS Grampus ( 1802 ) HMS " Grampus " was a 50 - gun fourth - rate ship of the line of the " Diomede " Class of the Royal Navy . She was commissioned in March 1803 at Portsmouth by Captain Hugh Downman , but in the following month command passed to Captain Thomas Gordon Caulfield . The ship was completed on 11 April 1803 and was ordered to the Downs on 7 May . As soon as her complement of men was completed and her bounty paid she sailed to join Admiral Thornborough ' s squadron off Gorée . She returned to Portsmouth from Guernsey on 20 June to fit out for the East Indies and sailed with a convoy under her protection on 29 June . She carried £100 , 000 being shipped by the British East India Company to Bengal . She spent 1805 in the East Indies . In March 1806 Captain James Haldane Tait took command of " Grampus " , leaving while she was employed in India . Later she was stationed at the Cape of Good Hope , and returned home in the summer of 1809 , escorting a large convoy of East India Company ships which Captain Tait had taken under his protection at St . Helena . He was presented by the Court of directors with a sum of money for the purchase of a piece of plate . " Grampus " was paid off because of her poor condition at the end of 1809 . The " Grampus " underwent a repair and refit at Chatham between then and February 1810 ; in January 1810 she was recommissioned under the command of Captain William Hanwell . On 28 April 1811 " Grampus " joined an East India convoy to see them through to the coast of Africa . On 30 September , back at Portsmouth , a court martial was convened on board in Sheerness harbour to try Lieutenant John Cheshire of " Grampus " . Captain Hanwell accused him of insolence , contempt , and disrespect on 11 April and similar conduct , coupled with neglect of duty , on 15 April . The court found the charges unfounded and acquitted Lieutenant Cheshire . In November 1811 Commodore George Cockburn hoisted his broad pendant on board " Grampus " , preparatory to proceeding as one of three commissioners ( the others were Messrs . Sydenham and Morier ) nominated by the Prince Regent to mediate between Spain and her colonies . They received final instructions on 2 April 1812 , and arrived in Cádiz on 21 April to find the Spanish government and the majority of the Cortes resolved to retain absolute control over their South American possessions instead of taking a liberal view as proposed by the British government . He returned from his unsuccessful mission on 4 August . In 1816 " Grampus " was taken out of commission at Woolwich , where she was converted to a troopship and then used as a hospital ship at Deptford from 1820 until being lent to the Society for Destitute Seamen at Deptford in 1824 . She served as a hospital ship until 1831 . The society relocated at this time to and in due course provided the foundation for the UK ' s Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Seamen ' s Dreadnought Hospital at Greenwich Hospital , later relocated to St Thomas ' s Hospital .
1956 B - 47 disappearance The 1956 B - 47 disappearance occurred on 10 March 1956 over the Mediterranean Sea . Flight . A Boeing B - 47 Stratojet took off from MacDill Air Force Base , Florida , in the United States for a non - stop flight to Ben Guerir Air Base , Morocco and completed the first aerial refueling without incident . After descending through solid cloud to begin the second refueling , at 14 , 000 ft ( 4 , 267 m ) , B - 47E serial number " 52 - 534 " , failed to make contact with its tanker . The unarmed aircraft was carrying two capsules of nuclear weapon s material in carrying cases ; a nuclear detonation was not possible . Aftermath . Despite an extensive search , no debris were ever found , and the crash site has never been located . The crew has been declared dead .
HMS Blenheim ( 1813 ) HMS " Blenheim " was a 74 - gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched on 31 May 1813 at Deptford Dockyard . She was placed on harbour service in 1831 . Her captain , Humphrey Fleming Senhouse , died on board " Blenheim " in the morning of 13 June 1841 , from fever contracted during operations in Canton in May 1841 . In 1854 / 5 she saw service in the Baltic as a 60 - gun steam screw . During this service she received a 32 - pound cannonball to her mast . " Blenheim " was eventually broken up in 1865 .
Batetela Rebellions The Batetela Rebellions were a series of uprisings by the Batetela people that occurred between 1895 and 1908 against the government of the Congo Free State . The rebellions began as a response to 1893 execution of Batetela leader Gongo Lutete during the 1892 - 1894 war in the Eastern Congo , but soon spread to other tribal groups and was a manifestation of widespread African discontent with the colonial authorities . The first outbreak , in 1895 , was put down by Francis Dhanis , and was followed by another from 1897 – 1899 , which was more difficult to put down . Scattered pockets of resistance persisted and were not put down until 1908 .
Ivan Sovetnikov Ivan Gerasimovich Sovetnikov ( ) ( June 13 , 1897 - February 1 , 1957 ) was a Soviet military leader . Commanded the 5th Army in the 1939 Polish campaign . Ivan Sovetnikov was awarded two Orders of Lenin , four Orders of the Red Banner , and numerous medals .
USS Maria A . Wood ( 1861 ) USS " Maria A . Wood " ( 1861 ) was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries . The wooden sailing vessel " Maria A . Wood " was purchased at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , 21 September 1861 and commissioned there 19 November 1861 , Master Anthony Chase in command . Assigned to the West Gulf Blockade . Assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron , " Maria A . Wood " arrived Fort Pickens , Pensacola , Florida , 17 December 1861 to assume patrol duties in the Gulf of Mexico . In West Pass early in 1862 , she participated in the Union occupation of Pensacola 10 May . She was ordered to Santa Rosa Island 5 September to blockade East Pass , to the mouth of the Mississippi River in early November , and to Horn Island Pass in late November . Second tour of duty in the West Gulf Blockade . In January 1863 , she was ordered to Philadelphia for repairs . Returning to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron in 1864 , she operated off New Orleans , Louisiana , Pensacola , Florida , and Mobile Bay into 1865 . She removed obstructions in Blakely Channel and Spanish River , near Mobile , Alabama , in April 1865 and remained in the gulf squadron after its cutback in October . End - of - war decommissioning and sale . " Maria A . Wood " sailed north early in 1866 , decommissioned 22 August and was sold at New York City to W . H . Allen 6 September 1866 .
Richard Dawson ( British Army officer ) Lieutenant General Richard Dawson ( died circa 1800 ) was a soldier and administrator who served as the second Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man . Career . Dawson served in the Royal Engineers reaching the rank of Major in 1772 . From 1775 Dawson acted as Lieutenant Governor and Deputy to the Governor of the Isle of Man . Promoted to Colonel in 1783 , he retired to Canterbury in Kent in 1790 . He was given the rank of Major - General in 1793 and Lieutenant General in 1798 but died two years later . His wife died following a house fire in 1804 .
Washington Gardner Washington Gardner ( February 16 , 1845 – March 31 , 1928 ) was a lawyer , minister , politician and Civil War veteran from the U . S . state of Michigan . Biography . Gardner was born in Morrow County , Ohio . He entered the Union Army and served in Company D , Sixty - Fifth Regiment , Ohio Volunteer Infantry , from October 1861 to December 1865 . He was severely wounded in action at the Battle of Resaca in Resaca , Georgia . After the war , he attended school at Berea , Ohio , then at Hillsdale College , Hillsdale , Michigan , and graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University , Delaware , Ohio , in 1870 . He studied in the school of theology at Boston University , in 1870 and 1871 and graduated from the Albany Law School in 1876 . He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Grand Rapids , Michigan . He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church , in which he served twelve years . He was commander of the Department of Michigan , Grand Army of the Republic , in 1888 . He was professor in Albion College , 1889 – 1894 . On March 20 , 1894 , Gardner was appointed Michigan Secretary of State by Governor John T . Rich to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of John W . Jochim . He was then twice elected to the position in 1894 and 1896 , serving until 1899 . In 1898 , he defeated incumbent Democrat Albert M . Todd to be elected as a Republican from Michigan ' s 3rd congressional district to the 56th United States Congress . He was subsequently re - elected to the five succeeding Congresses , serving from March 4 , 1899 to March 3 , 1911 . He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor in the 61st Congress . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the 62nd Congress . He was commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1913 and 1914 . He was an unsuccessful candidate in the primary election for Governor of Michigan . He served as Commissioner of Pensions from March 22 , 1921 , to March 4 , 1925 . He retired from public life and died in Albion , Michigan in 1928 . He was interred in Riverside Cemetery , in Albion . Legacy . Washington Gardner Middle School ( formerly Washington Gardner High School ) in Albion , Michigan , is named in his honor .
Thomas M . Scott Thomas Moore Scott ( 1829 – April 21 , 1876 ) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War . He saw active service in several battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War . He was a planter before and after the war . Early life . Thomas M . Scott was born in Athens , Georgia in 1829 but moved to Louisiana , Tennessee , back to LaGrange , Georgia and finally back to Louisiana where he was a planter . American Civil War . Scott was appointed colonel of the 12th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on August 13 , 1861 . He served at the Battle of Belmont , although not actively engaged , and at the battles of Island Number Ten , New Madrid , Fort Pillow , the Siege of Vicksburg , including the Battle of Baker ' s Creek and the operations of General Joseph E . Johnston in Mississippi in which he tried to relieve the forces besieged at Vicksburg , and during the Atlanta Campaign , initially under the command of Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk . Scott was promoted to the grade of brigadier general on May 10 , 1864 after distinguished service at the beginning of the Atlanta campaign . He was severely wounded in the back from concussion of a shell on November 30 , 1864 at the Battle of Franklin and apparently saw no further action . No record of his parole has been found . Aftermath . Scott returned to farming in Louisiana , operating a sugar plantation on the Gulf Coast for some years . Thomas Moore Scott was found dead in a chair in the Sample Coffee House in New Orleans , Louisiana on April 21 , 1876 . He died from alcoholic arrest of brain functions . He is interred in Greenwood Cemetery , New Orleans .
State of Scott The State of Scott was the result of a secessionist movement by Scott County ( in the Eastern Division of Tennessee ) , which officially passed a proclamation during the American Civil War to secede from Tennessee and form the Free and Independent State of Scott in protest of the state ' s separation from the United States . Scott became an enclave community of the Union within Tennessee . Although its edict had never been officially recognized by any government , the county didn ' t officially rescind its act of secession until 1986 . History . Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union . On June 8 , 1861 , the people of Scott County , spurred on , in part , by a speech delivered 4 days earlier on the steps of the Huntsville courthouse by then senator ( and future president ) , Andrew Johnson , a democrat and himself a slave holder , voted overwhelmingly ( 541 - 19 ) against Tennessee ' s referendum on secession from the Union . Later that year , the county court voted to approve the Scott County Assembly ' s unanimous resolution of secession from Tennessee , while allowing the immediate formation of the " Independent State of Scott , " an enclave community whose sympathies remained strongly loyal to the Union . Of little strategic value , the mountainous State of Scott was not the site of any fighting on a major scale during the Civil War , instead seeing mostly " guerrilla war - style " fighting and skirmishing , which was often of a very vicious and violent nature . Aftermath . The proclamation was finally repealed by Scott County in 1986 . The county successfully petitioned the state of Tennessee for readmission , which was ceremonially granted , even though its secession had not been recognized by the state — nor the federal governments of either the Union or the Confederacy . Remnants . Roadside marker . Today , a roadside marker on Highway 63 , near the county seat , Huntsville , Tennessee , reads : Annadale cemetery . A cemetery in the Annadale ( sometimes Annadel or Annadell ) community of Scott County is the only cemetery ever recognized as a national cemetery by the State of Scott . The cemetery ( which is also known as Botts Cemetery ) , surrounds what is now the Annadale Baptist Church . In early 1947 , John F . Ellis announced that all properties held by his family would be donated to the Independent State of Scott " as a sanctuary for the fallen soldiers of Scott County " and as a standing monument to Jennings , Gason , and Marion Ellis . Jennings and Marion Ellis were highly decorated World War II soldiers .
Marian Porwit Marian Porwit ( 1895 - 1988 ) was a Polish military officer , a Colonel of the Polish Army and a military historian . A commander of one of the sections of the Polish front during the Siege of Warsaw of 1939 , after the war he became one of the most renowned historians documenting the history of the Invasion of Poland . Born September 25 , 1895 in Gorlice ( then in Austro - Hungarian Galicia ) , following the outbreak of the Great War Porwit joined the Polish Legions , where he served with distinction . In 1918 he joined the re - established Polish Army and fought in the Polish - Bolshevik War . In 1926 during the May Coup he supported president Stanisław Wojciechowski and the legal government of Wincenty Witos . For this reason when Józef Piłsudski forced the government to resign , Porwit ' s military career slowed down until World War II . By 1939 he was promoted to the rank of colonel . Attached to the staff of General Walerian Czuma , Porwit became the commanding officer of the Western Area of the defense of Warsaw during the siege of 1939 . The troops under his command defended the westernmost approach towards the city center from September 8 to September 28 before collapsing . Taken prisoner of war by Nazi Germany , Porwit spent the remainder of World War II in POW camps . Liberated in 1945 , he moved to London , where he became a member of the Sikorski Institute . However , in 1946 he decided to return to Poland . He settled in Warsaw , where he continued his historical career . He died April 26 , 1988 in Warsaw . Porwit ' s son , Krzysztof Porwit , became an economist .