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Battle of the Selle The Battle of the Selle , ( October 17 – 26 , 1918 ) was a battle between Allied forces and the German Army , fought during what is known as The Last Hundred Days of World War I . Prelude . After the Battle of Cambrai , the allies advanced almost two miles and liberated the French towns of Naves and Thun - Saint - Martin . Although the capture of Cambrai was achieved significantly quicker than expected , and with moderately low casualties , German resistance northeast of the town stiffened . By 11 October , The British Fourth Army had closed up upon the retreating Germans near Le Cateau , with the German Army taking up a new position immediately to the east of the Selle River . General Henry Rawlinson was faced with three problems : crossing the river itself ; the railway embankment on the far side ; and the ridge above the embankment . The decision was made to commence the assault at night and , as the river was not so very wide at this point , planks would be used for the soldiers to cross in single file . Later , pontoons would be required for the artillery to cross the river . Field Marshal Douglas Haig , sensing the enemy ’ s near exhaustion , initiated a series of operations designed to get British troops in strength across the river , and clear a way for a move against the Sambre - Oise Canal , a further five miles to the east . Battle . After a six - day halt for preparations and artillery bombardments Fourth Army troops attacked at 5 . 20am on Thursday 17 October ; infantry and tanks , preceded by a creeping barrage , moved forward on a ten mile wide front south of Le Cateau . The centre and left of the Fourth Army forced crossings of the river despite unexpectedly strong German resistance and much uncut barbed wire . Fighting was particularly fierce along the line of the Le Cateau – Wassigny railway . The right of the attack , across the upland watershed of the Selle , made most progress and by nightfall enemy defences had been broken and Le Cateau captured . Severe fighting continued on 18 and 19 October , by which time Fourth Army , much assisted by the French First Army on its right , advanced over five miles , harrying the Germans back towards the Sambre - Oise Canal . The British Third and First Armies , immediately to the north of Fourth Army , maintained the offensive pressure the following day . In a surprise joint night attack in the early morning of 20 October Third Army formations secured the high ground east of the Selle . Following a two day pause , to bring up heavy artillery , the attack was renewed on 23 October with a major combined assault by Fourth , Third and First Armies ; the fighting , which continued into the next day , resulted in further advances . At this stage , the German Army was retreating at a forced but controlled pace . On 24 October , the German Army counterattack ed at the Canal de la Dérivation , but were repulsed and pushed back by the Belgian Army . Aftermath . Lt . Frederick William Hedges earned a Victoria Cross . On 26 October , Erich Ludendorff , First Quartermaster General of the German army , resigned under pressure from Kaiser Wilhelm II .
Paul Ambrose Oliver Paul Ambrose Oliver ( July 18 , 1831 – May 17 , 1912 ) was an American explosive s inventor , American Civil War Union Army captain and staff officer who was appointed to the brevet grade of brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient . He was born on the " Louisiana " , his father ' s merchant ship , during one of its voyages in the English Channel . Before the Civil War , he worked as a shipping merchant . In January 1862 , Oliver joined the 12th New York Infantry as a second lieutenant . During the war , he served as an aide to no less than 4 generals , including Daniel Butterfield , George Meade , Joseph Hooker and Gouverneur K . Warren . While he accepted a promotion to Captain in April 1864 , he declined further promotions . On March 8 , 1865 , President Abraham Lincoln nominated Oliver for appointment as a brevet brigadier general to rank from March 8 , 1865 and the U . S . Senate confirmed the appointment on March 10 , 1865 . Oliver resigned his commission on May 6 , 1865 . Oliver was an inventor and powder manufacturer after the Civil War . Paul Ambrose Oliver died May 17 , 1912 at Laurel Run , Pennsylvania . He was buried at Green Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn , New York . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Captain , Company D , 12th New York Infantry . Place and date : Resaca , Ga . , 15 May 1864 . Entered service at : New York , N . Y . Born : 18 July 1831 , at sea in the English Channel . Date of issue : 12 October 1892 . While acting as aide assisted in preventing a disaster caused by Union troops firing into each other .
Choctaw Naval Outlying Field Choctaw Naval Outlying Field is the United States Navy ' s designation for an auxiliary airfield that was originally constructed during World War II as Eglin Field ( now Eglin AFB ) Auxiliary Field # 10 . It is located 16 . 6 miles northeast of Pensacola , Florida . History . Constructed in Santa Rosa County , the westernmost of Eglin ' s ten satellite fields , Auxiliary Field 10 was originally named Dillon Field for Capt Barclay H . Dillon , USAAF , a test pilot of the Fighter Section of the 1st Proving Ground Group , Eglin Field , killed 2 October 1943 when his P - 38J - 5 - LO Lightning , " 42 - 67103 " , crashed 8 miles W of Milton , Florida . Field 10 was later named Eglin Dillon Airdrome . The field was constructed in 1942 by the Army Air Forces as part of the Eglin Field military reservation . It initially consisted of three 4 ' 000 asphalt runways in an " A " type configuration . No ground station was constructed . It was transferred to the United States Navy in 1943 as NAF 05822 and was designated an Outlying Field for NAS Whiting Field . Now used primarily for U . S . Navy basic flight training , the Navy refers to it as Outlying Field Choctaw ( OLF ) , a satellite field for Training Air Wing SIX at Naval Air Station Pensacola and Training Air Wing FIVE at Naval Air Station Whiting Field . It is also used for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [ UAV ] training by the U . S . Marine Corps . It is expected that Air Force , Navy and Marine Corps F - 35 Lightning II s assigned to the 33d Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base will utilize OLF Choctaw for training .
USS Pentheus ( ARL - 20 ) USS " Pentheus " ( ARL - 20 ) was one of 39 " Achelous " - class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II . Named for Pentheus ( a king of Thebes , according to Greek legend ) , she was the only U . S . Naval vessel to bear the name . Originally laid down as " LST – 1115 " by the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company of Seneca , Illinois on 29 September 1944 ; launched 22 December 1944 ; and placed in reduced commission 4 January 1945 . Proceeding to Baltimore , Maryland , she decommissioned 6 February 1945 ; underwent conversion ; and was commissioned in full as USS " Pentheus " ( ARL – 20 ) 7 June 1945 with Lieutenant Mason E . Brock , USNR , in command . Service history . Following shakedown in Chesapeake Bay , " Pentheus " took on pontoons at Providence , Rhode Island , and on 15 July got underway for the Canal Zone . Crossing into the Pacific 26 July , she steamed on to Subic Bay , Philippines . Arriving 17 October , she engaged in repair work there until sailing for Pearl Harbor 5 January 1946 . From Pearl Harbor , she steamed to Johnston Island for two weeks duty prior to getting underway for Green Cove Springs , Florida and inactivation . Arriving 20 April she decommissioned and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet , where she remained until struck from the Naval Vessel Register 1 January 1960 . She was sold on 13 June 1960 to Ships , Inc . of Florida . Her final fate is unknown .
Battle of Gloucester ( 1777 ) The Battle of Gloucester was a skirmish fought on November 25 , 1777 , during the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War . It was the first battlefield command for the Marquis de Lafayette . Background . In mid - 1777 , British General William Howe embarked on a plan to regain control of Britain ' s rebellious Thirteen Colonies by capturing Philadelphia , the city where the Continental Congress met . He successfully captured the city in September 1777 , and then , after consolidating his command of the city by repulsing an attack from General George Washington ' s Continental Army at Germantown in October , sought to gain control of the Delaware River as far north as the city , on which his army depended for supplies . After a Hessian assault on Fort Mercer , one of the principal defenses on the New Jersey side of the river , was repulsed in the Battle of Red Bank , Howe sent part of his army across the Delaware to Gloucester , New Jersey under the command of Lord Cornwallis to take Fort Mercer . Washington reacted to this by detaching forces under General Nathanael Greene across the Delaware just north of Gloucester . Greene was accompanied by the Marquis de Lafayette , a young French officer who had accompanied Washington at the Battle of Brandywine . Lafayette had been wounded in the foot in that battle , and , while it was not fully healed , he was eager to join the action . Greene ordered Lafayette out to on a reconnaissance mission to determine the location and strength of Cornwallis ' army . Battle . Lafayette led 350 men toward the British position . He carefully scouted the British camp , at times personally coming within firing range of British sentries . He then led his men in a surprise attack on a forward picket of jägers . The 400 Hessian s were caught completely unprepared , and began a disorganized fighting retreat toward the main British camp , with Lafayette and his men giving chase . Cornwallis sent some grenadier s to provide covering fire as the Germans retreated , and Lafayette withdrew under cover of darkness , returning to Greene . Aftermath . Lafayette ' s reconnaissance was a success . He suffered only one killed and five wounded , against 60 casualties on the British side . Word of the operation was instrumental in a decision by Congress to award him a commission as a major general in the Continental Army .
Andrew Bruce , 11th Earl of Elgin Andrew Douglas Alexander Thomas Bruce , 11th Earl of Elgin and 15th Earl of Kincardine , KT , CD , DL , JP ( born 17 February 1924 ) , styled Lord Bruce before 1968 , is a Scottish peer . Background and education . Bruce is the eldest son of Edward Bruce , 10th Earl of Elgin and the Honourable Katherine Elizabeth Cochrane , daughter of Thomas Cochrane , 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults . He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College , Oxford . He served in the 3rd ( Armoured ) Bn Scots Guards as a lieutenant and was wounded in the break out from Normandy in August 1944 . Since 1970 , he has been Colonel - in - Chief of the 31 Combat Engineer Regiment ( The Elgins ) , and of the 153 ( Highland ) Transport Regiment from 1976 to 1986 . Career . Elgin has held a number of business appointments , including as President of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society ( 1975 – 1994 ) , and Chairman of the National Savings Committee for Scotland . He was President of the Royal Scottish Automobile Club , and the Scottish motor racing team , Ecurie Ecosse . He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1951 , was Deputy Lieutenant of Fife 1955 – 1987 , and Lord Lieutenant 1987 – 1999 . In 1980 he was appointed by HM The Queen as Her Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and reappointed in 1981 . In 1982 HM The Queen installed him as a Knight of the Thistle . He was awarded the Canadian Forces Decoration in 1981 , and the Norwegian Order of St . Olav in 1994 . He is a Captain of the Royal Company of Archers and a former convenor of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs . He was County Cadet Commandant for Fife from 1952 to 1965 , Brigade President of the Boys ' Brigade from 1966 to 1985 , and Grand Master Mason of Scotland from 1961 to 1965 . He is a Freeman of Bridgetown , Regina , Saskatchewan , Port Elgin , Winnipeg , Manitoba , St . Thomas , Ontario , and Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan . Lord Elgin is a former President of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club , and is the Life President of the Broomhall Curling Club . He skipped the Scottish curling teams that defeated the Governor General of Canada ' s teams in a series of matches in Ottawa in 1982 . Lord Elgin is Chief of Clan Bruce , and President of the Bruce Family Organization which is the main association for members of the Bruce family . Family . In 1959 he married Victoria Mary Usher and they have five children : The Countess is a Patroness of the Royal Caledonian Ball . The Earl succeeded to the earldoms and other titles on the death of his father in 1968 .
Ouvrage Monte Grosso Ouvrage Monte Grosso is a work ( " gros ouvrage " ) of the Maginot Line ' s Alpine extension , the Alpine Line , also known as the Little Maginot Line . The ouvrage consists of one entry block , four artillery blocks and two observation blocks facing Italy . It was the largest " ouvrage " in the Alps It is part of the fortifications surrounding Sospel , which protect the approaches to Nice from the north . Description . Monte Grosso , like L ' Agaisen to the southeast , features gun turrets on a commanding height , at 967 meters . Monte Grosso possesses two turrets , one of 75mm and a unique 135mm turret , both retractable . Monte Grosso was built between November 1931 and June 1935 , by a contractor named Borie . The cost was 40 . 4 million francs , of which 4 . 6 million francs were for the access road . An additional block near the entrance with a GFM cloche and two 75mm mortars was never built . The galleries extend along the length of the Monte Grosso ridge . History . On 15 June 1940 , as Italian troops advanced into France , Monte Grosso fired on Italian mortar positions . On the 20th , it received fire from Italian 149mm guns , with a hit on its 75mm turret . The gun remained in operation
William Marshall ( British Army officer ) Lieutenant General Sir William Raine Marshall GCMG , KCB , KCSI ( 1865 – 1939 ) was a British Army officer who in November 1917 succeeded Sir Frederick Stanley Maude ( upon the latter ' s death from cholera ) as Commander - in - Chief of the British forces in Mesopotamia . He kept that position until the end of the First World War . Military career . Marshall was born at Stranton , near Hartlepool , co . Durham , on 29 October 1865 , the younger son of William Marshall , solicitor , of Foggy Furs , Stranton , and his wife , Elizabeth Raine . He first went to Repton School and then Royal Military College , Sandhurst . He received a commission into the Sherwood Foresters in 1886 , after which he served on the Malakand expedition , on the North West Frontier and on the Tirah expedition before fighting in the Second Boer War . Commander Officer of 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters on the Western Front during 1914 - 15 , Marshall was then posted to command of a brigade of 29th Division in the ill - fated expedition to Gallipoli , during which he received a promotion to Major - General in June 1915 . A series of divisional commands followed - 42nd , 29th and 53rd - before he was posted to Salonika with 27th Division , and then with III ( Indian ) Corps on the Mesopotamian Front . It was while commanding III Corps that Marshall successfully participated in the capture of Kut - al - Amara in February 1917 , and subsequently in the capture of Baghdad the following month . With Sir Frederick Maude ' s death as Commander - in - Chief from cholera ( most probably from contaminated milk ) , the hugely popular commander was replaced by the careful and meticulous Marshall , appointed by Sir William Robertson at the War Office in London , the latter determined to scale back operations in Mesopotamia . It was in this capacity that Marshall accepted the surrender of the Turkish army at Mosul on 30 October 1918 . His post - war career took him back to India commanding the Southern Army and remaining there until 1923 ; he retired the following year .
Soryu Class Aircraft Carrier The Soryu and Hiryu his half - brother , unlike his predecessors , were designed from the outset as aircraft carriers , and the improved version of Hiryu Soryu , with larger displacement and mouth and the island moved to port ( amendment unsuccessful , thus causing more accidents ) . Formed the 2nd Carrier Division , participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor actions in the East Indies and the Battle of Midway , where both were sunk .
Roy Traill Robert Henry " Roy " Traill ( 1 December 1892 – 11 September 1989 ) was a resident and wildlife ranger of Stewart Island in New Zealand . In the course of his work , Traill hiked throughout most the island and as a result became a source of information on the biota of the island for botanists and zoologists . Traill was born in Ringaringa , Stewart Island . He attended primary school at Halfmoon Bay School in Oban and high school at Southland Boys ' High School in Invercargill , on the South Island . He was a fisherman by trade , and in January 1915 he was enlisted in the New Zealand Army and sent to Egypt to fight in World War I . In 1916 , he was wounded in the Battle of the Somme and hospitalised in England . Traill returned to New Zealand in 1917 . In 1925 , Traill began working for the State Forest Service and the Department of Lands and Survey on Stewart Island . He travelled by foot across most parts of the island and was primarily responsible for preventing people from hunting the native bird species . In spite of his responsibilities , Traill later admitted to having made stew out of a number of bird species , including the weka and the kaka . Traill was also active in attempting to exterminate any wild mammals that had managed to arrive on the island . Traill marked many tracks on Stewart Island that are still used today , including one from Halfmoon Bay to Port Pegasus . With his knowledge of the island , he was able to assist botanists , zoologists , and conservationist s who were studying the biota of Stewart Island later in his career . Traill retired in 1958 and continued to live in Oban with his son . In the 1963 New Year Honours he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Stewart Island community . He spent his last years in a hospital in Invercargill and died there at age 96 .
Prism paralleloscope A prism paralleloscope is an item of kit used by artillery units as a gun aiming point when laying a gun for firing in the indirect fire mode . It is a long mirror aligned horizontally ( to move in line with the guns dial sight ) without parallax errors .
USS Darter ( SS - 576 ) USS " Darter " ( SS - 576 ) , a unique submarine based on the , but incorporating many improvements , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the darter ( fish ) , a type of small American fresh - water fish closely related to the perch . The contract to build " Darter " was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton , Connecticut on 30 June 1954 and her keel was laid down on 10 November 1954 . She was launched on 28 May 1956 sponsored by Mrs . G . L . Russell , and commissioned on 20 October 1956 , with Lieutenant Commander Ralph R . Blaine in command . " Darter " was used to experiment with numerous innovations including a three - man helmsman - planesman station using aircraft - style stick controls . Service history . " Darter " operated on various training exercises in the Atlantic , both locally from her home ports of Newport , Rhode Island , and Charleston , South Carolina , and to Canada and Northern Europe on NATO maneuvers . In the 1970s she moved to San Diego and made several WestPac cruises . While on one of these in 1978 , the head valve failed to close while snorkeling , and the ship had to emergency surface amongst U . S . surface units participating in an antisubmarine warfare exercise . In 1979 , " Darter " changed homeport again to Sasebo , Japan , where she operated as a forward - deployed submarine . In September 1985 , " Darter " was involved in a collision with the merchant ship " Kansas Getty " which disabled her . " Darter " was decommissioned on 1 December 1989 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 17 January 1990 . On 7 January 1992 , ex - " Darter " was sunk as a target by off Pearl Harbor , Hawaii .
Leon Berbecki Leon Berbecki ( 28 July 1875 , Lublin – 23 March 1963 , Gliwice ) was a Polish army officer , who fought in the Russo - Japanese War and World War I with the Imperial Russian Army . Following the foundation of the Second Polish Republic , Berbecki served in the Polish Army . Early life . Peter Leon Berbecki , born on a farm in Kalinowszczyzna in what is now Lublin , was one of four children . After graduating from grammar school , Berbecki enlisted in the army in 1891 . Military career . After a short stint as an enlisted man in the 44th Infantry Regiment , Berbecki was sent to a Junkers military school , returning to his regiment in 1893 . After serving as a junior officer , including a stint as quartermaster of his regiment , he left the army in 1901 to study at the Kharkiv Institute of Technology . In early 1903 , he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army as an officer . He later joined the Polish Legions during World War I ( commander of a regiment , battalion , member of headquarters ) , distinguishing himself in the Battle of Raśna in 1915 . After the Oath crisis in 1917 , he headed the Polish Auxiliary Corps and was the training inspector of the Polnische Wehrmacht . After Poland regained its independence in 1918 , he joined the Polish Army . Promoted to general in June of that year , Berbecki fought in the Polish - Ukrainian War and Polish - Soviet War , commanding the 3rd Polish Legions Division . During the interwar period , he held various functions in the Polish Army and retired in March 1939 . He did not participate in the Polish September Campaign that marked the start of World War II but was arrested by Nazi Germany and interned along with other Polish officers . He returned to Poland in 1945 , and published his memoirs " Pamiętnik generała broni " ( Memoires of a General ) in 1959 . Honours and awards . Recipient of Virtuti Militari ( V class ) , Cross of Independence with Swords , Cross of Valor ( 4 times ) and Cross of Merit ( 5 times ) .
S6W reactor The S6W reactor is a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warship s . The S6W designation stands for : The S6W ' s reactor core was prototyped in the land - based S8G plant at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory ' s Kesselring Site in West Milton , NY starting in March 1994 . The three ships of the " Seawolf " class submarine were built with S6W reactors .
RAF Oxenhope Moor RAF Oxenhope Moor was a British Second World War radio station , located on Cock Hill Moor near the village of Oxenhope in Yorkshire . It was known by a number of different names , including Oxenhope Laboratory , Oxenhope Radar Station and Oxenhope Weather Station . The station was built during the Second World War and was used as part of the GEE navigation system ( started in March 1942 ) used to guide bombers to their targets in Europe . The station was maintained by the RAF as No . 585 Signals Unit until 1970 , and was then taken over by the University of Bradford .