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Charles T . Lanham Major General Charles T . Lanham ( September 14 , 1902 – July 20 , 1978 ) known as " Buck " was an author , poet , and professional soldier , winning 14 decorations in his career . After retiring from the military , he was active in corporate business . He is the model for one of Ernest Hemingway ' s heroes , and in life was a close friend of the author . Military life . Lanham was born in Washington D . C . . He graduated from West Point in 1924 . He was a short story writer and published poet ( writing sonnets for several magazines ) as well as a soldier . He included among his many military adventures the command of the U . S . 22d Infantry Regiment in Normandy in July 1944 , and was the first American officer to lead a break through the Siegfried Line on September 14 , 1944 . He led a breakout in the Battle of the Bulge after surviving a bloody ordeal in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest . Lanham earned the Distinguished Service Cross in the Huertgen Forest . It was in the Normandy battles that Lanham and Ernest Hemingway first met , and Hemingway later went with Lanham to Huertgen . Hemingway was doing battlefield stories for the American audience for Collier ' s and sought assignment with Lanham ' s regiment . Hemingway described Lanham as , Post military life . Lanham retired from the military at the end of 1954 , as a Major General , to join the Pennsylvania - Texas Corporation of Colt ' s Patent Firearms . He resigned in 1958 and joined Xerox in 1960 as Vice President for Government Relations , retiring from that post at the end of 1970 . He died July 20 , 1978 in Chevy Chase , Maryland from cancer at the age of 76 . He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery . In fiction . Colonel " Buck " Lanham was the model for Colonel Cantwell in Hemingway ' s Across the River and Into the Trees .
HMS Drake ( 1777 ) HMS " Drake " was a 14 - gun sloop - of - war of the British Royal Navy . Originally the merchantman " Resolution " , she was purchased in early 1777 and commissioned in April 1777 , being fitted for RN service at Plymouth from 19 April to 24 May . She served in the American Revolutionary War , and on 24 April 1778 , off Carrickfergus , Ireland , she fought the North Channel naval duel with the 18 - gun sloop of the Continental Navy , commanded by Captain John Paul Jones . Five of " Drake ' s " crew , including her captain , George Burdon , were killed , and after an hour - long engagement , " Drake " surrendered to the Americans . Jones was able to evade capture and deliver " Drake " to Brest , France as his prize on 8 May 1778 . This was the first , and most decisive , American victory over any Royal Navy vessel in British waters .
HMS Fame ( 1759 ) HMS " Fame " was a 74 - gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched at Deptford on 1 January 1759 . She was designed by William Bateley , and was the only ship ever built to her draught . In 1762 , while in company with , she captured the French 10 - gun ship " Ecureuil " . In 1778 , commanded by Captain Stephen Colby , she proceeded to the North American station in a fleet of 14 ships commanded by Vice - Admiral the Hon . John Byron with his flag in . On 6 July 1779 , commanded by Captain John Butchart , " Fame " took part in the Battle of Grenada against the French . The French fleet , under Admiral D ’ Estaing , consisted of 25 ships of the line and several frigate s . The British fleet , under Vice - Admiral Byron , had 21 ships of the line and 1 frigate . The French were anchored off Georgetown on the south - west of the island , and the English approached during the night . D ’ Estaing weighed at 4 am and Byron chased . The British ships attacked in utter disorder and confusion . " Fame " and three other ships got separated from the main body , and were very badly mauled . The French lost no ships and eventually hauled off . The British lost 183 killed and 346 wounded . " Fame " lost 4 killed and 9 wounded . The French lost 190 killed and 759 wounded . This action reflected no credit on either side . In 1782 , commanded by Captain Robert Barbor , she was one of a fleet of 36 ships of the line under Admiral Sir George Rodney , who flew his flag in . They met in the West Indies between Dominica and Guadeloupe a French fleet of 33 ships of the line commanded by Vice - Admiral Comte de Grasse with his flag in " Ville de Paris " . The fighting was spread over several days , and the French were defeated in the Battle of the Saintes . George Vancouver served as lieutenant on this " Fame " under Captain Robert Barbor during this engagement . Vancouver later went on captain his own ship , , on a voyage of discovery to the Pacific Northwest in search of the Northwest passage . In December 1799 , " Fame " was renamed " Guilford " and fitted as a prison ship . She was eventually sold out of the service in 1814 .
Hervé Frankopoulos Hervé ( , ) , called Frankopoulos or Phrangopoulos ( , " Son of the Frank " ) , was a Norman mercenary general in Byzantine service during the 1050s . According to Amatus of Montecassino , Hervé and other Norman mercenaries fought for the Byzantine Empire under George Maniakes against the Muslims in Sicily in 1038 - 1040 . Between 1040 and 1043 , he took part in the campaign against the Greeks of Apulia and received the city of Avellino ( 1042 / 3 ) . At about 1050 , he appears as the leader of the Norman mercenaries under Nikephoros Bryennios the Elder and one of the Greek ' s two chief lieutenants . In the same year , he and Katakalon Kekaumenos were defeated by the Pechenegs near the Danube . In 1056 , he demanded the high court title of " magistros " from Emperor Michael VI Stratiotikos ( r . 1056 – 1057 ) . Refused , he withdrew to his estate in the Armeniac theme . From there , he gathered a following of 300 Normans , and in spring 1057 he marched into eastern Asia Minor , around Lake Van . There , he possibly aimed to set up a state for himself , and entered into wars with the Armenians and the Seljuk Turks . After initial success , he was eventually captured by a ruse by the emir of Ahlat , Abu Nasr . Hervé was shipped back to Constantinople in chains , but there he was apparently reconciled to the Byzantine emperor : a surviving seal records his having received the title of " magistros " , and the positions of " vestiarites " and " stratelates " of the East in the army of Emperor Isaac I Komnenos ( r . 1057 – 1059 ) . In circa 1063 , however , Matthew of Edessa records that the Turks of Amida bribed a certain " Frankabol " , to avoid battle . Whether this was indeed Hervé is uncertain , but he was executed by Emperor Constantine X Doukas ( r . 1059 – 1067 ) shortly after . He was possibly the founder of the late Byzantine Phrangopoulos family .
Cottonclad warship Cottonclads were a classification of steam - powered warship s where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides . This provided some protection from enemy fire , but not to the extent of ironclad s . Cotton - clads were prevalent during the American Civil War , particularly in the Confederate States Navy for riverine service . The heavy bales of cotton slowed small arms fire , but at times the cotton would catch fire from artillery shells .
Kirksville Air Force Station Kirksville Air Force Station ( ADC ID : P - 64 , NORAD ID : Z - 64 ) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station . It is located north of Kirksville , Missouri . It was closed by the Air Force in 1968 . Today the radar site is used by the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) as a Joint Surveillance System ( JSS ) site . History . Kirksville Air Force Station was one of twenty - eight stations built as part of the second segment of the Air Defense Command permanent radar network . Prompted by the start of the Korean War , on July 11 , 1950 , the Secretary of the Air Force asked the Secretary of Defense for approval to expedite construction of the permanent network . Receiving the Defense Secretary ’ s approval on July 21 , the Air Force directed the Corps of Engineers to proceed with construction . Activated at Sublette , MO on 1 May 1951 the 790th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron began operations with a pair of AN / FPS - 10 radars at this site in April , and initially the station functioned as a Ground - Control Intercept ( GCI ) and warning station . As a GCI station , the squadron ' s role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit ' s radar scopes . The station was renamed Kirksville Air Force Station ( AFS ) on 1 December 1953 . One AN / FPS - 10 height - finder radar was phased out in 1958 with the arrival of two AN / FPS - 6 A sets . The other AN / FPS - 10 stayed in operation until 1963 and then was replaced with an AN / FPS - 7 . During 1959 Kirksville AFS joined the Semi Automatic Ground Environment ( SAGE ) system , initially feeding data to DC - 07 at Truax Field , Wisconsin . After joining , the squadron was redesignated as the 790th Radar Squadron ( SAGE ) on 1 November 1959 . The radar squadron provided information 24 / 7 the SAGE Direction Center where it was analyzed to determine range , direction altitude speed and whether or not aircraft were friendly or hostile . On 31 July 1963 , the site was redesignated as NORAD ID Z - 64 . In addition to the main facility , Kirksville operated an AN / FPS - 18 Gap Filler site : Kirksville began SAGE operations in 1959 . The Air Force inactivated the 790th on 8 September 1968 , closing the station on 30 September . After the Air Force inactivated , it was taken over by the Federal Aviation Administration as a Long Range Radar site and was equipped with ARSR - 1 Radar . Now with an ARSR - 3 radar , the site is now data - tied into the Joint Surveillance System ( JSS ) . The USAF facilities are now largely obliterated , a few old buildings overgrown with vegetation remain .
Battle of Entzheim The Battle of Entzheim was fought on 4 October 1674 near Entzheim in present - day Alsace between the French Royal Army under the command of under the command of the Vicomte de Turenne on one side and Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire on the other side during the Franco - Dutch War . Despite the Holy Roman Empire ' s numerical superiority , it ended in a French victory .
Valiant - class submarine The " Valiant " class were a class of nuclear - powered fleet submarine s in service with the Royal Navy from the mid - 1960s until 1994 . They were the first fully British nuclear fleet submarine ; the earlier used an American nuclear reactor . There were only two boats in the class , the first , " Valiant " ( the nameship ) commissioned in 1966 three years after " Dreadnought " , and " Warspite " the following year . Both were built by Vickers at Barrow - in - Furness . Design . The class were based on " Dreadnought " , but were enlarged by 20 feet ( 6 m ) and had a dived displacement of 4 , 900 tons compared to 4 , 000 tons . Improvements made since the original " Dreadnought " meant that they ran significantly quieter under main power , and also had a Paxman diesel - electric generator that could be used for silent running . In most other respects ( outside the power plant ) , the " Valiant " s were identical to " Dreadnought " . According to former head of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors R . J . Daniel , when US Admiral Hyman G . Rickover , widely regarded as the father of the nuclear submarine , initially learned of the proposed rafting system for the " Valiant " class he was dismissive of the concept , with the result that the Royal Navy gained an advantage in submarine silencing that the United States Navy did not introduce until considerably later . The " Valiant " s were primarily used in the anti - submarine role , important during the Cold War . In 1967 " Valiant " set a Royal Navy ( RN ) record of sailing 12 , 000 miles ( 19 , 312 km ) submerged in twenty - eight days , from Singapore to the UK . Both boats received a number of refits , including the capability to use the Harpoon missile . " Valiant " and other nuclear fleet submarines served in the Falklands War in 1982 . The " Valiant " s had long careers : " Warspite " was decommissioned in 1991 , and " Valiant " in 1994 , due to cracks being discovered in her primary to secondary cooling system . They were very successful and served as the template for the " Resolution " - class ballistic missile submarine and subsequent " Churchill " - class fleet submarines . See also . List of submarines of the Royal Navy
Heckler & Koch MP2000 The Heckler & Koch MP2000 was an attempt to improve the MP5 series . Prototypes of the gun showed similarities to the UMP . An interesting feature of this gun was that it featured a silencing system which prevented the bullet from reaching supersonic speeds by venting some of the propellant gases . The gas vent hole could be closed in order to achieve normal bullet velocities .
Fort de la Chartreuse The Fort de la Chartreuse , which dominates the Amercœur neighborhood of Liège in Belgium , was built between 1817 and 1823 to defend the city . History . The fort is built on a strategic height that dominates the valley of the Meuse , which had been occupied by a Carthusian ( " Ordre des Chartreux " ) monastery until the French Revolution . The fort was built by the Dutch , who at the time administered southern Belgium . The fort was abandoned as a fortification by the military in 1891 and was thereafter used as a barracks . From 1914 to 1918 the Germans used it as a prison , and again from 1940 to 1944 . In 1944 - 1945 it was used by the Americans as a military hospital . The Belgian army left the site in 1988 . Environment . The greater part of the fort occupies a green space that is being reforested . The ramparts and glacis are covered with vegetation .
Russian submarine Alexander Nevsky Russian submarine " K - 550 Alexander Nevskiy " is a Russia n nuclear ballistic missile submarine of the fourth generation Borei class ( Project 955A ) in sea - trials . Named after the Russian saint Alexander Nevskiy , the submarine was laid down in March 2004 and was first planned to be launched in 2009 . However budgetary problems and repeated failures of the submarines main weapon , the Bulava SLBM missile , pushed the launch date forward . Russian officials have however claimed that the submarine has been completed on time and even ahead of schedule . The submarine was to have been rolled out from its construction hall on 30 November 2010 . This was postponed to December due to bad weather , according to the shipyard ' s press service . On 2 December 2010 the submarine was rolled out from its construction hall to floating dock and would be launched at an unknown future date . The submarine was inspected by the Russian Prime minister , Vladimir Putin on 13 December 2010 . With an estimated cost of 23 billion RUR ( ~ $ 900 million USD ) , the new submarine has no significant differences from the lead ship , SSBN Yury Dolgoruky . On 24 October 2011 the submarine started its sea trials . It ' s planned to launch the first SLBM from the " Alexander Nevsky " in 2012 . The submarine is expected to enter service in 2013 after successful launch of Bulava in June or July 2013 .
Werner Milch Dr . jur . Werner Milch ( 15 November 1903 – 17 November 1984 ) was a highly decorated Major der Reserve in the Fallschirmjäger during World War II . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . During the Milch Trial , he acted as co - counsel for his brother Generalfeldmarschall Erhard Milch alongside Friedrich Bergold .
USS Gadwall ( AM - 362 ) USS " Gadwall " ( AM - 362 ) was an Admirable - class minesweeper built for the U . S . Navy during World War II . She was built to clear minefields in offshore waters . " Gadwall " was launched 15 July 1943 by Willamette Iron and Steel Works , Portland Oregon ; sponsored by Mrs . Charles McNary ; and commissioned 23 June 1945 , Lt . Robert C . Thompson in command . End - of - war Pacific Theatre activity . " Gadwall " departed Astoria , Oregon , 11 July 1945 for shakedown training out of San Pedro , California , followed by mine warfare exercises and amphibious maneuvers with fleet units off the California bases of Santa Barbara , San Diego , and Newport Beach . Post - war inactivation and decommissioning . On 7 December 1945 she put to sea from San Diego for inactivation overhaul at New Orleans , Louisiana , until 11 April 1946 . She then shifted to Orange , Texas , where she decommissioned 14 June 1946 and was assigned to the Texas Group , Atlantic Reserve Fleet . She was reclassified MSF - 362 on 7 February 1955 and she remained in reserve berthed at Orange , Texas , until struck from the Navy List 1 November 1966 . " Gadwall " was stripped and designated for sale 10 April 1967 .
United States Senate Committee on Armed Services The Committee on Armed Services is a committee of the United States Senate empowered with legislative oversight of the nation ' s military , including the Department of Defense , military research and development , nuclear energy ( as pertaining to national security ) , benefits for members of the military , the Selective Service System and other matters related to defense policy . The Armed Services Committee was created as a result of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 following U . S . victory in the Second World War . It merged the responsibilities of the Committee on Naval Affairs ( established in 1816 ) and the Committee on Military Affairs ( also established in 1816 ) . Considered one of the most powerful Senate committees , its broad mandate allowed it to report some of the most extensive and revolutionary legislation during the Cold War years , including the National Security Act of 1947 . Jurisdiction . According to the Senate Rules Committee , all proposed legislation , messages , petitions , memorials , and other matters relating to the following subjects are referred to the Armed Services Committee : Members , 113th Congress . Source :
Tornikios Prince Tornike Eristavi ( ) also known as Tornikios ( , died in 985 ) was a retired Georgian general and monk who came to be better known as a founder of the formerly Georgian Orthodox Iviron Monastery on Mt Athos in the modern - day northeastern Greece . Tornike came from a notable Georgian noble family and was in the immediate circles of the ruling dynasty of the Bagrationi . His father , Chordvaneli , had been in the suite of the Georgian prince Ashot II Kuropalates who had paid a visit to the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos in Constantinople in c . 950 . Three of his nephews had military careers and one of them , Varazvache , held a post of " katepano " ( military governor ) of the significant Byzantine eastern outpost Edessa in 1037 - 8 . Tornike served a very successful military and court career ( specifically he was " eristavi " , a Georgian equivalent to " strategos " ) under the Georgian Bagratid dynasty and also gained the Byzantine title of " patrikios " . He resigned his position as a general of the Georgian prince David III of Tao in c . 963 and , under the name of Ioane ( Ioannis , or John ) , retired to Athanasius ’ Lavra on Mount Athos . He was joined , in the early 970s , by another retired Georgian officer Ioane and his son Ek ' vt ' ime . In 976 , a rebellion led by Bardas Skleros broke out in the Asian provinces of the Byzantine Empire , the greatest upheaval of the emperor Basil II ’ s early reign . Skleros had won a series of battles against the then - loyal general Bardas Phokas and marched from the east through Anatolia to Constantinople . Basil summoned Ioane - T ’ ornike to his capital to mediate the alliance with David III of Tao , a measure that seemed to be necessary to save the situation . The monk agreed reluctantly , persuaded chiefly by his fellow monks that it would be in the best interests of the Athonite community for him to obey the imperial command . David responded vigorously and entrusted his former general the command of some 12 , 000 Georgian cavalry men sent to reinforce the imperial army . The decisive battle was fought at Pankalia near Caesarea on March 24 , 979 and resulted in the crushing defeat of the rebels . In reward for their support , David was awarded with the lifetime stewardship of the extensive lands in northeastern Anatolia , while Ioane - T ' ornike was conferred with the title " synkellos " ( assistant to patriarch ) . More importantly , the victorious monk - general returned to Athos laden with the spoils of war , " precious objects " as well as twelve kentenaria ( 1 , 200 lb ) of gold , that enabled the Georgians to establish their own house on Athos , called Iviron . Although populated now with Greeks , the monastery is to this day known by the Greek appellation " Iveron " , " of the Iberians " , i . e . , Georgians . The emperor also showered him with lands and privileges , granted him subsidies and exemption from taxes . The new monastic house , destined to become a vibrant center of the Georgian Orthodox culture , was jointly run by Ioane - T ’ ornike as " ktetor " ( founder ) and his friend Ioane as " hegoumenos " ( abbot ) .
Gert Bastian Gert Bastian ( 26 March 1923 – presumably 1 October 1992 ) was a German military officer and politician with the German Green Party . Born in Munich , Bastian volunteered the Wehrmacht at the age of nineteen . In World War II he served on the Eastern Front being wounded by a bullet in the right arm and in the head by a grenade fragment . He was also hit by American machine gun fire in France . After the war he started a business which failed and he rejoined the military . From 1956 to 1980 Bastian served in the Bundeswehr , retiring as a divisional commander with the rank of Major General . During this period Bastian ' s politics changed radically . In the 1950s he had been a member of the Christian Social Union in his native Bavaria . Yet Bastian was also an opponent of the planned stationing of medium - range missiles with nuclear warheads in Europe and joined the peace movement . In 1981 he was the joint founder of a group called " Generals for Peace " . Bastian was , from 29 March 1983 until 18 February 1987 , an elected member of the Greens in the German Federal Parliament . Between 10 February 1984 and 18 March 1986 , he was an independent member of Parliament having separated from the Green ' s Parliamentary group several times over his opposition to the rotation principle for leadership then enforced in the Greens . He was then deselected by the Green Party . In the 1980s , Bastian was , together with his partner Petra Kelly , one of the most important West German supporters of the opposition in the German Democratic Republic . Bastian was found dead in Bonn on 19 October 1992 with Kelly . According to the police report Bastian shot Kelly dead in her sleep and afterwards killed himself . No accurate time of death could be determined because of the delay in finding the corpses . He was buried in the Nordfriedhof in Schwabing , Munich .
No . 576 Squadron RAF No . 576 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Second World War heavy bomber squadron . History . No . 576 Squadron was formed on 25 November 1943 from ' C ' Flight of 103 squadron at RAF Elsham Wolds in Lincolnshire . It started operations in the night of 2 / 3 December 1943 , when seven Avro Lancaster s were sent out to bomb Berlin . Eleven months later 576 Squadron moved to RAF Fiskerton , a little way outside Lincoln . During its brief period of existence 576 Squadron operated only one type of aircraft , the Avro Lancaster four - engined heavy bomber . It carried out 2 , 788 operation sorties with the Lancaster , with the loss of 66 aircraft . The last bombs of the squadron were dropped on 25 April 1945 , when 23 of the squadrons aircraft bombed Berchtesgaden ; its last operational mission was a food dropping to the starving Dutch people in Rotterdam on 7 May 1945 . 576 Squadron was disbanded at Fiskerton on 13 September 1945 . Aircraft operated . Notable aircraft . Four of the Lancasters that flew with 576 squadron managed to survive one hundred operations or more :