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Continental Air Services , Inc Continental Air Services , Inc , better known as CASI , was a subsidiary airline of Continental Airlines set up to provide operations and airlift support in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War . CASI was formed as the South - East Asia Division of Continental in April 1965 with operations starting in September 1965 using approximately 22 , mainly STOL , aircraft . Contintental paid over a million US dollars for BirdAir ( Bird and Sons ) and its 350 employees and 22 aircraft . CASI aircraft in Laos were registered as Air Continental . As of 1998 CASI still operated in the Pacific Islands . Organization . CASI , as a Nevada Corporation , was officially located at One East First Street , Reno , Nevada but its headquarters was located at 7300 World Way West , Los Angeles , California . CASI maintained Overseas Offices in Bangkok Thailand , Vientiane ( Laos ) , & Saigon ( South Vietnam ) . CASI ’ s Southeast Asia headquarters was in Udorn , Thailand with operations bases at Phnom Penh , Cambodia , Vientiane , Laos , Singapore , Bangkok and Udorn , Thailand and Saigon , Vietnam . CASI ’ s original purpose was to operate aircraft and ground facilities to support projects involving construction , oil exploration and engineering companies as well as contracts with USAID and other government agencies . Uniforms . Initially CASI uniforms were locally made khaki uniforms which were manufactured in different parts of Laos , Thailand or Vietnam . Some shirts are 2 - pocket , others are 4 - pocket safari - type jackets . Later CASI uniforms consisted of white shirts and black trousers . Most CASI pilots were issued the baseball cap . A few of the early CASI pilots were issued the " bus driver " hat . Wings were both US - made and Laotian - made and were worn in Vietnam but not in Laos . " I was with CASI from 12 / 1968 to 12 / 1970 . My home was in Vientiane , Laos for that period of time . The company uniform , while I was there , was military style khakis with military style black " jump " boots . We were issued baseball caps with a CASI logo and our wings were embroidered fabric that I believe were the same as Continental Airlines flight crew wings . I still have both my First Officer and my Captains wings . " - Howard ( Duke ) Morton AirFleet . CASI / Bird Air were known to operate the following aircraft : Total fleet : 37 to 45 aircraft by 1976 CASI occasionally leased its assets to others such as :
High ground High ground is a spot of elevated terrain which can be useful . Fighting from an elevated position is easier for a number of reasons . Soldiers will tire more quickly when fighting uphill , will move more slowly , and if fighting in formation will have little ability to see beyond the soldiers in front of them . Likewise , soldiers fighting on the hill won ' t get tired as quickly , will move faster , and will be able to see farther when in formation , aiding them in making smart tactical maneuvers . Furthermore , soldiers who are elevated above their enemies can get greater range out of low - speed projectiles like rocks and javelins . Likewise , rocks and javelins will have less range when thrown uphill . Very steep and / or rocky terrain , like mountain sides , can be an obstacle to tank s and armoured personnel carrier s , or in the past to cavalry and war elephant s . For example , in the Soviet war in Afghanistan , mujahideen guerrilla s based themselves in the mountains of Afghanistan , thereby protecting themselves from the Soviet motorized divisions . This forced the Soviets to rely heavily on helicopter s to conduct the war , but the United States gave the mujahideen FIM - 92 Stinger anti - aircraft missiles , which , arguably , combined with the defense of the mountains , was able to win the war for the mujahideen . The high ground and anti - aircraft missiles made it possible for the mujahideen to use guerrilla warfare against the Soviets without being wiped out . High ground was also employed in the 1423 Battle of Horic in Bohemia , where Taborite soldiers took to high ground , forcing the Utraquist cavalry to dismount to attack them , and also rendering their cannons ineffective . Taborite soldiers were eventually able to make a downhill charge and wipe out the remaining Utraquists . Here again , high ground played a crucial role in the outcome of the battle . However , getting the high ground is not always advantageous . In Battle of Jieting of the Three Kingdoms period of China , Shu Han forces occupied a hilltop , where Cao Wei forces soon surrounded and isolated the Shu forces from water supplies and reinforcements . The Shu forces suffered a humiliating defeat , and the Shu northern expedition had to be aborted .
Egyptian State Railways 545 class The Egyptian State Railways 545 class was a type of standard gauge mixed traffic steam locomotive on Egyptian State Railways ( Egyptian Republic Railways after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 ; now Egyptian National Railways ) . History . Between 1920 and 1938 various locomotive builders supplied ESR with 180 2 - 6 - 0 tender locomotives , of which 80 were of the 545 class . The initial order for 58 of this class was built in Britain in 1928 . Of these , 40 came from the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow , Scotland and 20 from Armstrong Whitworth in Newcastle - upon - Tyne , England . The design was very British in style , but in 1931 Borsig Lokomotiv Werke GmbH in Berlin , Germany supplied ESR with another 20 to the same design . Numbers 551 , 568 , 573 and 596 were rebuilt in 1939 with Caprotti valve gear . Number 590 was damaged at El Daba in June 1942 and withdrawn from stock in September 1943 . In ESR service all members of the class were painted green . In August 1941 Palestine Railways started operating a through passenger service between Haifa and Cairo " via " El Kantara East and a newly completed swing bridge at El Ferdan ; in 1942 – 43 number 560 had " " The Orient Express " " painted on the sides of its cab for hauling this service between Cairo and El Kantara East . All standard gauge steam locomotives in Egypt were withdrawn by 1963 . 545 class in Israel . During the 1956 Israeli invasion of Sinai five members of the class were captured on the former Palestine Railways main line between El Kantara East and Gaza : numbers 546 , 550 and 557 ( NBL works numbers 23683 , 23687 and 23714 ) and numbers 607 and 613 ( Borsig works numbers 13985 and 13991 ) . Israel Railways may have taken four of them into stock and used them around Lod in central Israel for one or two years . They were withdrawn and scrapped by 1959 , when steam traction on Israel Railways officially ceased .
USS Doherty ( DE - 14 ) USS Doherty ( DE - 14 ) was an Evarts class destroyer escort constructed for the United States Navy during World War II . She was sent off into the Pacific Ocean to protect convoys and other ships from Japanese submarines and fighter aircraft . She performed escort and antisubmarine operations in dangerous battle areas and returned home safely at war ' s end . " USS Doherty " was named in honor of John Joseph Doherty , who received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his heroic work in the Marshall Islands which resulted in him being lost in action . The ship , originally intended for transfer to Great Britain , was launched on 29 August 1942 as Berry " ( BDE - 14 ) by Mare Island Navy Yard ; retained for use by the United States Navy ; named Doherty " on 6 January 1943 ; and commissioned on 6 February 1943 , Lieutenant Commander A . Jackson , Jr . in command . Service history . World War II . After escorting a convoy to Cold Bay , Alaska from 23 April - 11 May 1943 , " Doherty " served on escort duty between the west coast and Pearl Harbor from 23 May – 15 September . She sailed from San Francisco , California on 15 September for duty in Alaskan waters where she escorted merchant ships and occasionally served as plane guard for United States Army Air Forces bomber strikes over the Kuriles . " Doherty " returned to San Francisco for overhaul on 28 September 1944 , then sailed to San Diego , California , for training . Leaving San Diego on 23 November , " Doherty " operated as a training vessel in submarine exercises at Pearl Harbor from 2 December 1944 – 5 February 1945 . She arrived at Guam on 16 February on escort duty and for the rest of the war plied between Guam and Okinawa on escort , patrol and air - sea rescue missions . Sailing from Guam on 12 October , " Doherty " arrived at San Pedro , California on 28 October , was decommissioned on 14 December 1945 , and sold for scrap on 26 December 1946 .
Atlanta Campaign Union order of battle The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War . The Confederate order of battle is listed separately . Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign . This order of battle covers the period of May 7 - June 27 , 1864 . For the engagement on July 22 , 1864 see : Atlanta Union order of battle Union Army . Military Division of the Mississippi < br > MG William T . Sherman Army of the Cumberland . MG George Henry Thomas IV Corps . MG Oliver O . Howard XIV Corps . MG John M . Palmer XX Corps . MG Joseph Hooker Army of the Tennessee . MG James B . McPherson XV Corps . MG John A . Logan XVI Corps . MG Grenville M . Dodge ( w ) XVII Corps . MG Francis P . Blair , Jr . Army of the Ohio . MG John M . Schofield XXIII Corps . MG John M . Schofield Cavalry Corps . BG Washington Elliott , Chief of Cavalry , Army of the Cumberland
Maquis de Saint - Marcel The Maquis de Saint - Marcel was a force of French resistance fighters , 3000 men with 200 Free French SAS ( Special Air Service ) , during World War II operating in Brittany , Morbihan . It was created just before the Normandy landings with the objectives of preventing German army reinforcements from reaching the coast , thus facilitating the task of the allied landing forces . The Maquis de Saint - Marcel lasted only a very short time . It had been infiltrated by German spies , allowing the Germans to attack it in an ambush on 18 June 1944 . After it was dissolved , the remaining resistance fighters resumed contact without forming a new maquis .
Richard Hamblin Air Commodore Richard Kaye Hamblin ( 16 December 1906 - 30 August 1988 ) was a Royal Air Force pilot and as one of The Few was part of No . 17 Squadron RAF flying the Hawker Hurricane during the Battle of Britain . History . Hamblin was born in on the 16 December 1906 at Fyzabad in India . By the time of the 1910 Census of Lymington in Hampshire he was a four - year old living with his grandfather a retired Indian civil servant . Hamblin joined the Royal Air Force in 1926 as a flight cadet . On 30 July 1926 he was posted to No . 56 Squadron RAF as a pilot . In 1930 he attended the Electrical and Wireless School to train as a signals officer . In October 1932 he was posted to No . 31 Squadron RAF in India eventually becoming a flight commander with No . 5 Squadron RAF and was promoted to Squadron Leader before leaving India . In 1938 he was appointed commanding officer of No . 142 Squadron RAF operating the Fairey Battle , this was followed by a staff appointment in the Deputy Directorate of War Organisation . During the Battle of Britain he flew operations with No . 17 Squadron RAF . In November 1941 he was appointed Officer Commanding No . 85 Squadron RAF operating the Douglas Havoc . On 12 November 1942 Hamblin married a Women ' s Auxiliary Air Force ( WAAF ) Elizabeth Bond at Durham Cathedral . Hamblin was mentioned in dispatched four times during the war and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 . After the war he was back to staff duties including officer commanding AHQ West Africa , AOA at No . 2 Group and Director of Personnel from 1954 until he retired in 1956 as an Air Commodore . Hamblin died on 30 August 1988 in Hampshire .
HMS Willowherb ( K283 ) During the first year and more after America entered the war against the Axis , the United States Navy suffered from an acute shortage of warships , particularly of antisubmarine warfare and escort types . To fill that need , an extensive ship construction and acquisition program was inaugurated . Part of that program consisted of placing orders with British and Canadian firms already tooled up to produce . Vitality " ( PG - 100 ) was such a ship . However , before she was launched on 15 April 1943 by the Midland Shipyard in Canada , she was traded to the Royal Navy under the terms of the lend - lease agreement for a similar ship being constructed in Canada . The British renamed her HMS " Willowherb , and she served in the Royal Navy for the duration of the war . On 11 June 1946 , she was returned to the custody of the United States Navy . Though carried on the Navy list as PG - 100 following the war , " Vitality " never actively served the United States Navy . She remained idle until sold on 7 May 1947 . To whom she was sold and for what purpose is unknown , but one source indicates that she was not scrapped until 1961 .
Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott ( 1789 – 8 May 1871 ) was a British Rear Admiral during the Victorian era . Background . Born in Forton , Hampshire , he was the son of Robert Arbuthnott , grandson of Robert Arbuthnot , 1st Viscount of Arbuthnott , and his wife Cordelia , daughter of Hon . James Murray . Career . Arbuthnott entered the Royal Navy in 1803 and served as a midshipman aboard the warship " HMS Mars " at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 . He was present at the capture of " Le Rhin " in 1806 and that of four French frigates off Rochefort by Sir Samuel Hood , 1st Baronet ' s Squadron in the same year . Arbuthnott was with the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807 , was at the capture of Antwerp , and escorted the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia to England in 1814 . He was Commander of the " Jasper " , a 10 gun Sloop - of - war , on a mission to St Petersburg in 1823 . In the following year , Arbuthnott was in the " Redwing " and was appointed a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber . He then commanded " HMS Terror " and served in the Syrian Campaign of 1840 . Arbuthnott was promoted to vice - admiral in 1858 and was created a Knight Bachelor a year later . He later served as colonel in the staff of the British Auxiliary Legion during the First Carlist War and made a major - general by Queen Isabella II of Spain . Arbuthnott was invested as a Knight Commander of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Carlos III and held the same rank in the Russian Military Order of the Saint Grand Martyr and the Triumphant George . Family . In 1827 , Arbuthnott married in Kildare Catherine Maria ( " Mary " ) Eustace ( born about 1806 in Ireland ; still alive in 1891 living in Sheepy Magna , Leicestershire , third daughter of Rev . Charles Eustace and descendant of the Viscounts Baltinglass . They had a daughter , Josette Eliza Jane Arbuthnot ( born about 1829 in France ; died 12 January 1909 ) . Arbuthnott died in 1871 in Leicester . He is buried in Shenton , Leicestershire .
Jordan E . Cravens Jordan Edgar Cravens ( November 7 , 1830 – April 8 , 1914 ) was an American politician and a U . S . Representative from Arkansas , cousin of William Ben Cravens . Biography . Born in Fredericktown , Missouri , Cravens was the son of Nehemiah and Sophia Thompson Cravens . He moved with his father to Arkansas the following year , and attended the common schools . He was graduated from the Cane Hill Academy at Boonsboro ( now Canehill ) , Washington County , Arkansas , in 1850 . He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1854 . He commenced practice in Clarksville , Arkansas , and served as member of the State house of representatives in 1860 . He married Emma Batson and they had five children , Jeane , Jane , Felix , Sallie , and Samuella . Career . Cravens entered the Confederate States Army in 1861 as a private in Company C , 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment ( Lemoyne ' s ) . When that regiment underwent consolidation in May 1862 , Cravens was elected Colonel of the new unit : the 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment . The 21st Arkansas was surrendered , at Vicksburg , Mississippi , on July 4 , 1863 . After being declared exchanged , on September 12 , 1863 , Cravens ' unit was consolidated with the 14th Powers ' Arkansas , 15th ( Northwest ) Arkansas , and the 16th Arkansas , to form a new unit : the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment ( Trans - Mississippi ) Department . He was named colonel of the new organization . At the close of hostilities of the Civil War , Cravens returned to Clarksville where he served as prosecuting attorney of Johnson County in 1865 and 1866 and then as member of the State senate from 1866 until 1868 . Cravens was elected as an Independent Democrat to the Forty - fifth Congress and then reelected as a Democrat to the Forty - sixth and Forty - seventh Congresses serving from March 4 , 1877 until March 3 , 1883 . He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882 to the Forty - eighth Congress . He then resumed the practice of law in Clarksville , Arkansas and served as judge of the circuit court from 1890 until 1894 . Death . Cravens died in Fort Smith , Arkansas on April 8 , 1914 , ( age 83 years , 152 days ) and is interred at Oakland Cemetery , Clarksville , Arkansas .
RAF Barford St John Royal Air Force Station Barford St John or RAF Barford St John is a Royal Air Force station just north of the village of Barford St . John , Oxfordshire , England . It is now a non - flying facility , operated by the United States Air Force as a communications centre with many large communications aerials , and is a satellite of RAF Croughton . History . RAF Station Barford St John was opened on 30 July 1941 as a training facility for RAF Flying Training Command . It had three grass runways , used primarily by Airspeed Oxford s of No 15 Service Flying Training School from RAF Kidlington . The airfield was closed in late 1941 and rebuilt as an RAF Bomber Command airfield with paved runways and equipped for night operations . The airfield reopened in December 1942 as a satellite for RAF Upper Heyford . Bomber Command and No 16 Operational Training Unit was stationed there with Vickers Wellington s until December 1944 . No 1655 Mosquito Training Unit replaced the Wellingtons and the unit was renamed No 16 OTU in January 1945 when it moved to RAF Cottesmore . In 1943 the station served as flight test centre for its Gloster E . 28 / 39 and Gloster Meteor jet aircraft from RAF Brockworth . After the war the airfield was closed in 1946 and placed into care and maintenance . The site was used as the airfield in the 1949 film " Twelve O ' Clock High " . USAF use . In 1951 the United States Air Force opened a communications ( transmitter ) centre on the airfield , reporting to the 2130th Communications Squadron ( UK Communications Region ) at RAF Croughton . Given its postwar use by the military , all its runways , perimeter track and hardstands still exist . Unfortunately the World War II buildings have been removed , being replaced by modern buildings on the airfield , secured and guarded with fencing and other security devices .
Armand ' s Legion Armand ' s Legion was formed on June 25 , 1778 at Boston , Massachusetts under the command of Colonel Charles Armand Tuffin of France , for service with the Continental Army . From French Army to American . Armand had previously served in the French Army , serving with the " Garde de Corps " or household guard to the King of France , however he was forced to leave after injuring the King ' s cousin in a duel , heading on to America . George Washington had given permission to Armand to raise a legion in 1776 , but Armand did not fare so well and the Frenchman is reputed to have purchased the legion of a Swiss Major . Swelling Numbers . The Legion was recruited primarily from foreign volunteers to the American Revolution . After hard fighting with Washington in the north Armand ' s Legion had taken heavy loses , however permission was given for its numbers to be renewed from German POW ' s . In 1780 the remnants of Pulaski ' s Legion was added to Armand ' s Legion . 1st Partisan Corps . In 1781 the legion was consolidated with Capt . Henry Bedkin ' s Troop of Light Horse and was reorganized and renamed the 1st Partisan Corps . The Legion would see action at the Battle of Camden , Battle of Guilford Court House and the Battle of Yorktown . Armand had left the legion just after the Battle of Camden for France to gain fresh funds and supplies , returning to meet his legion at Yorktown ' s front lines , participating with them on the successful assault of Redoubt 10 . Disbanding . The Legion was disbanded at York , Pennsylvania on December 25 , 1783 .
No . 265 Squadron RAF No . 265 Squadron RAF was an anti - submarine squadron of the Royal Air Force during two world wars . History . Formation and World War I . Though the squadron was officially formed somewhere in August 1918 at Gibraltar from three former RNAS flights to perform anti - submarine patrols , there is no evidence that the squadron number was actually used . It was officially disbanded in January 1919 . World War II . On 11 March 1943 the squadron was officially reformed at Mombasa , again in the anti - submarine role . The squadron used the Consolidated Catalina to patrol the Indian Ocean from its base at Diego Suarez in northern Madagascar . Although the squadron headquarters remained at Diego Suarez , aircraft were also based in Kenya , Aden , Mauritius and South Africa . The squadrons disbandment date is as clouded as its founding date : sources cite 18 April 1945 ; 30 April 1945 or 1 May 1945 .
Danish Defence Media Agency The Danish Defence Media Agency ( da : " Forsvarets Mediecenter " , abbrev . " FMC " ) was a supporting agency to the Danish Defence . It was organizationally integrated as a part of the Defence Command , but supported the entire defence . It terminated operations on January 31 , 2012 . It produced media and broadcasts for and about the Danish Defence , including the web - TV channel " Forsvarskanalen " . The agency was also providing imagery to national broadcast services and newspapers , published the employee magazine " Forsvaret " and provided services for the Ministry of Defence as well as did media - training for military personnel . 39 persons were employed by the agency on its closing date and at the end it was under editorial management by Vickie Lind .