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Michael Gannon ( historian ) Michael V . Gannon ( born 1928 ) is an American military historian , academic and former war correspondent . He was born in Oklahoma and attended high school in St . Augustine , Florida . He has spent most of his career in Florida . During World War II , Gannon was a member of the American Field Service , in the 1950s he wrote on European military topics . Gannon later studied theology at the University of Louvain in Belgium and became a priest in 1959 . He received his PhD in history from the University of Florida in 1962 . In 1968 , he was a war correspondent in Vietnam for the Catholic magazine " America " . He taught at the University of Florida since 1974 with a teaching career spanning 38 years . He taught about the history of World War II , and became Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History . One well known work by Gannon is " Operation Drumbeat " ( 1990 ) , sub - titled " The dramatic true story of Germany ' s first u - boat attacks along the American coast in World War II " . Although written , in large parts , as a dramatic story , Gannon had researched the subject extensively , travelling to Europe to view sites and interview surviving participants . Official documents , on both sides of the Atlantic , were obtained to provide further information and the work is supported by significant notations . It chronicles the u - boat cruise of in January 1942 under Reinhard Hardegen to the American east coast and analyses the factors behind a major naval defeat for the United States which could have upset the western allies ' war strategy . Gannon is also known for his study of Spanish colonial history . Among numerous awards and honours , he is a Knight Commander of the Order of Isabel the Catholic , granted by King Juan Carlos I of Spain . Publications . Gannon ' s published works include :
The Nek Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery The Nek Cemetery is a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey . The cemetery was constructed following the Armistice in 1919 on the site of the Battle of the Nek , at which time the ground was still covered with the remains of Australian 8th and 10th Light Horse troopers killed in the battle four years previously . It is likely that they form the majority of the unknown graves in the cemetery . The cemetery has the graves of only five identified soldiers and special memorials to another five known to be buried there .
J . Vreeland Moore J . Vreeland Moore ( born in 1824 – died in 1903 ) was a brigadier general of the 1st New Jersey Regiment who played a major role in the history of Leonia , New Jersey . A resident of Leonia for over 50 years , he was a member of the first council which was formed when Leonia was incorporated as a borough in 1894 . He served as council president for two terms . The following is the letter Moore wrote stating the name change from West Fort Lee to Leonia : Moore died in 1903 at the age of 79 . In Leonia , the roads Vreeland Avenue and Moore Avenue were named after him .
USS Black Hawk ( 1848 ) USS " Black Hawk " ( 1848 ) was a large steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was assigned by the Union Navy to gunship duty in the waterways of the rebellious Confederate States of America . Built as " New Uncle Sam " at New Albany , Indiana , in 1848 . " Black Hawk " , a side - wheel river steamer , was built in 1848 as " Uncle Sam " at New Albany , Indiana ; purchased by the Navy at Cairo , Illinois , 24 November 1862 as " New Uncle Sam " ; commissioned 6 December 1862 , Lieutenant Commander K . R . Breese in command ; and renamed " Black Hawk " 13 December 1862 . Civil War service . During most of her service " Black Hawk " served as flagship for Rear Admirals David Dixon Porter and Samuel Phillips Lee , successive commanders of the Mississippi Squadron . She participated in the following operations : Subsequent patrols and sinking . Thereafter she patrolled in the Mississippi River and its tributaries . On 22 April 1865 she accidentally burned and sank , three miles above Cairo , Illinois . Her wreck was raised and sold at St . Louis , Missouri , in April 1867 .
USS Edith ( 1849 ) USS " Edith " , a screw steamer , was transferred from the War Department to the U . S . Navy under congressional legislation of 3 March 1849 , and turned over to Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones , Commander - in - Chief of the Pacific Squadron , at San Francisco , California . On 16 June Lieutenant James McCormick was ordered to report on the condition of the steamer ; subsequently , he was placed in temporary command with orders to transport representatives to the California State Constitutional Convention . USS " Edith " departed Sausalito , California on 23 August 1849 en route to Santa Barbara , California , but encountered dense fog which made accurate observations impossible . On the morning of 24 August she grounded on an uninhabited part of the coast and was lost . A court of inquiry held in January 1850 exonerated her commander and his crew from any guilt .
Vitturi Castle The Vitturi Castle is a 15th - century castle in Kaštel Lukšić , a town within the administrative area of Kaštela in Dalmatia , Croatia . History . Vitturi Castle was built by the aristocratic family Vitturi from Trogir , at the end of the 15th century . Two noblemen from Trogir , Nikola and Jerolim Vitturi , built the castle in order to provide protection not only for the Vitturi family but also for the population of the nearby village of Ostrog . The castle was built in the style of a luxurious renaissance palace and it was completed in 1564 . It consisted of a residential building and two defence towers and it was connected to the mainland with a drawbridge . In the 18th century the drawbridge was replaced with a stone bridge . Near the castle there is a classicistic park dating from the second half of the 18th century . The park was also designed by the Vitturi family . In 1968 it was proclaimed a monument of park architecture . Nowadays , the renovated Vitturi castle has become the cultural centre of Kaštel Lukšić , as a place where numerous exhibitions , concerts and plays are held . In addition to that , the town museum and other cultural institutions are situated in the former residential part of the castle . The Vitturi castle is famous not only for its beauty but also for a legend concerning one of its inhabitants – Dobrila Vitturi . Legend of Miljenko and Dobrila . The legend of Miljenko and Dobrila is a tragic story about two lovers from Kaštel Lukšić , who are often described as the Croatian Romeo and Juliet . The legend was used as a basis for a number of novels , operas and plays . The story dates from the second half of the 17th century , when two noble families lived in Kaštel Lukšić – the Vitturi family with their daughter Dobrila and the Rušinić family with their son Miljenko . According to the legend , Miljenko and Dobrila fell in love , but they had to keep their relationship secret because of a long - lasting feud between their families . When their parents found out about their relationship , they decided to separate them . Miljenko was sent off to Venice , while Dobrila ’ s father arranged for her to marry a much older nobleman from Trogir . However , Miljenko found out about his plans and came back from Venice just in time to stop the wedding . As a result , he was banished from Kaštel Lukšić and Dobrila was sent to a convent . However , she escaped with the intention of being reunited with Miljenko and marrying him secretly . When Dobrila ' s father found out that she had escaped from the convent , he decided to bring her home at any cost . He sent a messenger to find the two lovers and to tell them that he would no longer oppose their marriage and that they could come home . The lovers accepted his proposal , returned to Kaštel Lukšić and got married . But when the wedding celebration was over , Dobrila ’ s father , consumed with rage , killed Miljenko . Several months later Dobrila died of sadness . Her only wish was to be buried next to Miljenko . Their grave can be found in the church of St . John in Kaštel Lukšić , and it is famous for the inscription ‘ Rest in peace , lovers ’ .
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis ( 22 January 1887 – 14 December 1912 ) was a Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and an Antarctic explorer who was a member of Sir Douglas Mawson ' s 1911 Australasian Antarctic Expedition . Antarctica 1911 - 1912 . Following the fame he achieved on Ernest Shackleton ' s 1907 Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica , Douglas Mawson travelled to England in early 1910 to raise interest and sponsorship for an Australian Expedition focussed on scientific outcomes . On that trip he purchased the whaler " Aurora " and in London he loaded it with the many items of specialist equipment he was able to obtain there including 49 sledging dogs . Ninnis joined the Expedition in London as a minder of the Greenland dogs , and sailed with the " Aurora " on its voyage from London to Sydney commanded by Captain John King Davis . On the trip Ninnis formed a firm friendship with Dr . Xavier Mertz , a Swiss mountaineer who joined the Expedition in London and who was also appointed to handle the dogs . Ninnis was in the 36 - man party who set sail from Hobart on 2 December 1911 . A base was built at Macquarie Island and a small party of five men were deployed to man a radio relay station and to conduct research . Ninnis landed in Antarctica with the main party Commonwealth Bay on 8 January 1912 , and established the Main Base . The summer was spent building a hut at Cape Denison for the 18 man Adelie Land base party to winter in . Ninnis was part of the three - man sledging team , the Far Eastern Party , with Mawson and Mertz who headed east on 10 November 1912 to survey King George V Land . After three weeks of excellent progress the party was crossing the Ninnis Glacier , when Ninnis fell through a snow - covered crevasse . Mertz had skied over the crevasse lid , Mawson had been on his sled with his weight dispersed but Ninnis was jogging beside the second sled and his body weight is likely to have breached the lid . Six dogs , most of the party ' s rations , their tent and other essential supplies disappeared into a massive crevasse 480 km east of the main base . Mertz and Mawson spotted one dead and one injured dog on a ledge down but Ninnis was never seen again . Family of polar explorers . Ninnis was the son of British arctic explorer Belgrave Ninnis MD ( 1837 - 1922 ) , Inspector Surgeon General of the Royal Navy and member of Captain Sir George Nares ' British Arctic Expedition of 1875 - 1876 . Ninnis ' cousin Lieut . Aubrey Howard Ninnis was an engineer on Shackleton ' s 1914 - 1917 Imperial Trans - Antarctic Expedition , Ross Sea Party .
Museum of the fortifications in Hlučín The museum of the fortifications in Hlučín is a museum of 1930 ' s military fortifications near the city of Hlučín , Czech Republic . The fort s MO S - 18 " Obora " , MO S - 19 " Alej " and MO S - 20 " Orel " are parts of the museum .
USS Raeo ( SP - 588 ) USS " Raeo " ( SP - 588 ) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 . " Raeo " was built as a private motorboat of the same name by the City Island Shipbuilding Company at City Island in the Bronx , New York , in 1908 . In 1917 , the U . S . Navy purchased her from W . Schall of New York City for use as a section patrol boat during World War I . She was commissioned as USS " Raeo " ( SP - 588 ) on 19 May 1917 . Assigned to the 2nd Naval District in southern New England and based at Newport , Rhode Island , " Raeo " carried out patrols for the rest of World War I and into 1919 . " Raeo " was transferred to the United States Bureau of Fisheries on 17 October 1919 and stricken from the Navy List on 21 October 1919 .
Petrozavodsk Airport Petrozavodsk Airport ( , ; ; ex : Besovets , Petrozavodsk - 2 ) is a joint civil - military airport in Russia located northwest of Petrozavodsk in Besovets , Shuya Rural Settlement ( municipality ) . It services small airliners . It is a minor airfield with 12 parking stands and a small amount of tarmac space . The airfield has seen military use as an interceptor base . During the 1960s or 1970s Sukhoi Su - 15 aircraft were based at Besovets . During the 1970s it was home to the 991 IAP ( 991st Interceptor Aviation Regiment ) , which flew MiG - 25 Foxbat aircraft . In 1992 - 93 , the 159 IAP ( 159th Interceptor Aviation Regiment ) transferred in from Poland , having left the 4th Air Army . It flies the Sukhoi Su - 27 aircraft and is now part of the 54th Air Defence Corps , 6th Air Army . Accidents and incidents . On 20 June 2011 , a RusAir Tupolev TU - 134 , Flight 9605 , operating for RusLine , with 43 passengers and nine crew crash landed , broke up , and caught fire on a highway short of the runway at Petrozavodsk Airport while en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk , killing 47 people and leaving five survivors .
Leo Walmsley Leo Walmsley was an English writer . He was born at 7 Clifton Place , Shipley in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892 , and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood ' s Bay on the coast of present - day North Yorkshire , where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel . He was the son of the painter Ulric Walmsley . During World War I he served as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps in East Africa , was mentioned in dispatches four times and was awarded the Military Cross . After a plane crash he was sent home , and eventually pursued a literary career . He settled at Pont Pill near Polruan in Cornwall , where he became friendly with the writer Daphne du Maurier . He was married three times . First in 1919 to Elsie Susanna Preston , whom he divorced in 1932 , then in 1933 to Margaret Bell Little and following their divorce in about 1946 , finally to Stephanie Gubbins in 1955 . He died in Fowey , Cornwall , on 8 June 1966 . Many of his books are mainly autobiographical , the best known are his " Bramblewick " trilogy set in Robin Hood ' s Bay - " Three Fevers " , " Phantom Lobster " and " Sally Lunn " , the first of which was filmed as " Turn of the Tide " .
William H . Sage William Hampden Sage ( April 6 , 1859 – June 3 , 1922 ) was a Brigadier General in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Battle of Zapote Bridge , an action of the Philippine - American War . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Captain , 23d U . S . Infantry . Place and date : Near Zapote River , Luzon , Philippine Islands , June 13 , 1899 . Entered service at : Binghamton , N . Y . Birth : Centerville , N . Y . Date of issue : July 24 , 1902 . Citation : With 9 men volunteered to hold an advanced position and held it against a terrific fire of the enemy estimated at 1 , 000 strong . Taking a rifle from a wounded man , and cartridges from the belts of others , Capt . Sage himself killed 5 of the enemy .
Dionizy Poniatowski Dionizy Poniatowski ( 1750 – 1811 ) was a Polish 18th century military commander and a high - ranking commander of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko ' s Uprising . A relative of the king Stanisław August Poniatowski , Dionizy Poniatowski served in the Royal Horse Guards Regiment since 1765 . He passed all ranks from a mere cadet to a Colonel and the commanding officer of the unit . He took part with his unit in the Warsaw Uprising ( 1794 ) , for which Tadeusz Kościuszko promoted him to the rank of Major General . In 1795 he was made a Knight of the Order of Saint Stanislaus .
Eldon Regua Eldon Regua ( Born 1955 ) is a major general in the United States Army Reserve , serves as Deputy Commanding General / Chief of Staff ( Wartime ) ( Individual Mobilization Augmentee ) for 8th United States Army headquartered in Yongsan , Korea , having just completed an assignment as Commanding General , 75th Mission Command Training Division in Houston , Texas in July 2011 . As of 2010 , he was the senior most active , or reserve , non - retired flag or general officer of Filipino American ethnicity . He is also half Mexican American ethnicity . Biography . Born and raised in San Jose , he grew up with his parents and four brothers and two sisters . His father Felipe ( Philip ) , dropped out of school in the fifth grade , and became a Filipino agricultural laborer who emigrated from the Philippines in 1929 . His mother Evangeline , a Mexican American , was born in El Paso , Texas met his father , in 1951 . His family eventually settled in the Evergreen District of San Jose in 1968 . As a young boy he and his family and worked the fields picking prunes , walnuts , green beans and apricots also working in an apricot dry yard . In 1973 he graduated from Silver Creek High School . After high school he was admitted to Santa Clara University where he participated in the Army ROTC program and graduate in 1977 earning a B . S . in Commerce in accounting . Eventually he would go on and earn Master degree from Chapman University , and a Master of strategic studies degree from the United States Army War College . All four of his brothers would also go on to earn college degrees . Following SCU , he became a newly commissioned officer in the Air Defense Artillery Branch , serving initially in Giessen , Germany during the Cold War after his Officer Basic Course at Fort Bliss . He would also work with a tactical evaluation team under Allied Air Forces Central Europe evaluating allied Improved Hawk units . Following a stint on active duty , he joined the Army Reserve , being promoted multiple times , serving in multiple units to include 91st Division ( Training Support ) , 63rd Regional Support Command , and the 104th Division ( Institutional Training ) . He was briefly activated in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom during the first half of 2003 , and oversaw certification of units heading " downrange " ; this activation also fell under Operation Noble Eagle . His deactivation from active duty , in 2003 , was connected to the selection as Chief of Staff and later approval of his promotion to Brigadier General by then President George Bush , to the position of Assistant Division Commander ( Operations ) as well as Commanding General of the 104th Division from 2007 - 2008 . He has visited in both Iraq and Afghanistan on several occasions . He serves on the Board of Advisors of RightStep Services , while serving as Deputy Commanding General / Chief of Staff ( Wartime ) of the 8th US Army . MG Regua recently served on the Secretary of the Army ' s Reserve Forces Policy Committee ( ARFPC ) .
Jack Easton ( GC ) Lieutenant Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was awarded the George Cross for his gallantry in defusing a bomb which had fallen on Hoxton , in the East End of London , during the Blitz on 17 October 1940 . Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette on 23 January 1941 . Later in the war he skippered armed trawlers and minesweepers . Born on 28 May in 1906 he was educated at Pangbourne College and was a solicitor by profession . He died on 29 November 1994 in Chichester in Sussex . See also . Ordinary Seaman Bennett Southwell GC , killed while working with Lieutenant Easton List of George Cross recipients
Byron Farwell Byron Edgar Farwell ( 20 June 1921 , Manchester , Iowa – 3 August 1999 in Purcellville , Virginia ) was an American military historian and biographer . Biography . Farwell graduated from Ohio State University and the University of Chicago ( Master of Arts , 1968 ) . He served in World War II as a captain of engineers attached to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in the British Eighth Army area and later also saw combat in the Korean War . He separated from the military after seven years of active duty . As a civilian , he became director of public relations and director of administration for Chrysler International from 1959 to 1971 . He also served three terms as mayor of Hillsboro , Virginia ( 1977 – 81 ) . He published articles in the " New York Times " , " Washington Post " , " American Heritage " , " Harper ' s " , " Horizon " , " Smithsonian Magazine " as well as serving as a contributing editor to " Military History " , " World War II " , and " Collier ' s Encyclopedia " . Farwell also published biographies of Stonewall Jackson , Henry M . Stanley , and Sir Richard Francis Burton . He was a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a member of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature . Farwell gave his papers to the University of Iowa .
Medal of Independence ( Turkey ) Medal of Independence ( ) was a special military decoration issued in limited number by Grand National Assembly of Turkey in accordance with the Act 66 of November 29 , 1920 . It was awarded to military personnel and civilians , who had made important contributions to the country during the Turkish War of Independence . Also upon the flags of all the regiments of the Turkish National Forces , which took part in the campaigns during the occupation of Izmir between May 15 , 1919 and September 9 , 1922 , were bestowed a medal .
Frederick W . Gibb Frederick William Gibb ( July 24 , 1908 – September 6 , 1968 ) was an United States Army officer with the rank of Major General . Gibb commanded the 16th Infantry Regiment during World War II . His last assignment was the Commander of the 2nd Infantry Division ( " " Indianhead " " ) at Fort Benning , Georgia . Biography . Frederick William Gibb was born on July 24 , 1908 in New York City as a son of Frederick Innes Gibb and his wife Jessie Anna ( néé Leake ) . Gibb subsequently attended the United States Military Academy at West Point , New York and graduated in July 1933 . He was then commissioned a Second lieutenant of Infantry . His first assignment was at 20th Infantry Regiment of the 2d Infantry Division at Fort Francis E . Warren , Wyoming . He also served with the 65th Infantry Regiment at San Juan , Puerto Rico in October 1939 . Decorations . Here is the ribbon bar of Major general Gibb :