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HMS Ringarooma ( 1889 ) HMS " Ringarooma was an " Pearl " - class cruiser of the Royal Navy , originally named HMS " Psyche , built by J & G Thomson , Glasgow and launched on 10 December 1889 . Renamed on 2 April 1890 , as " Ringarooma " as part of the Auxiliary Squadron of the Australia Station . She arrived in Sydney with the squadron on 5 September 1891 . She was damaged after running aground on a reef at Makelula Island , New Hebrides on 31 August 1894 and was pulled off by the French cruiser " Duchaffault " . Spending between 1897 and 1900 in reserve at Sydney , she left the Australia Station on 22 August 1904 . She was sold for £8500 in May 1906 to Forth Shipbreaking Company for breaking up .
German submarine U - 419 German submarine " U - 419 " was a Type VIIC U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . She carried out one patrol . She was a member of one wolfpack . She did not sink or damage any ships . She was sunk by a British aircraft in mid - Atlantic in October 1943 . Service history . The submarine was laid down on 7 November 1941 at the " Danziger Werft " ( yard ) at Danzig ( now Gdansk ) , as ' werk ' 120 , launched on 22 August 1942 and commissioned on 18 November under the command of " Oberleutnant " Dietrich Giersberg . She served with the 8th U - boat Flotilla from 18 November 1942 and the 11th flotilla from 1 August 1943 . Patrol and loss . The boat ' s only patrol was preceded by a trip from Kiel in Germany to Bergen in Norway . " U - 419 " then left Bergen on 13 September 1943 and headed for the Atlantic Ocean via the ' gap ' between Iceland and the Faroe Islands . On 8 October , she was attacked and sunk by depth charge s dropped by a British B - 24 Liberator of No . 86 Squadron RAF . Forty - eight men went down with the U - boat ; there was one survivor .
Edwin R . Rainwater Edwin R . Rainwater ( 1813 – unknown ) was a soldier in the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution , noted for a daring action during the Battle of San Jacinto that helped seal the decisive Texian victory . Biography . Rainwater came to Texas at the age of 22 , sometime between May 2 , 1835 and March 2 , 1836 . He enlisted in the Texas army and was a member of Captain Henry Wax Karnes ' Company of Cavalry and was one of the men who assisted in destroying Vince ' s Bridge . The others who were with him on that mission were Deaf Smith , John Coker , Dimer W . Reaves , Young Perry Alsbury , John T . Garner and Moses Lapham . He evidently left Texas soon after the Mexican - American War . He did not apply for the Bounty and Donation land due him for his services in the army and he assigned his land rights to Samuel Fuller on January 25 , 1848 . He served in Company A , Captain Benjamin Hill ' s Company , Texas Mounted Volunteers during the Mexican - American War and he served from April 14 , 1847 to June 16 , 1847 . He became an early citizen of Rio Grande City , TX in Starr county , where he was involved in organizing the county government in the fall of 1848 to address the increasing influence of outlaws in this border town at the termination of the Mexican - American war . His disappearance from Texas records at this point suggest he either joined one of the parties of Starr County citizens who left Texas for the California gold rush , or that he died in the cholera epidemic in the spring of 1849 , that killed a significant portion of the early residents of Rio Grande City .
Harry Taylor ( engineer ) Harry Taylor ( June 26 , 1862January 27 , 1930 ) was a U . S . Army officer who fought in World War I , and who served for a time as Chief of Engineers . Early life . Taylor was born in Tilton , New Hampshire , and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1884 and commissioned in the Corps of Engineers . Military career . After serving in engineer offices in Wilmington , North Carolina , and New York City , Taylor served from 1891 to 1900 on fortifications and rivers and harbors construction work in Oregon and Washington . Later he pursued similar work in New England and New York . Transferred to the Philippines , he supervised all fortification work there in 1904 – 05 . Taylor was district engineer in New London , Connecticut , from 1906 to 1911 . He then headed the River and Harbor Division in the Office of the Chief of Engineers for five years . During World War I he served as Chief Engineer , American Expeditionary Force s in France ( mid - 1917 to mid - 1918 ) . In this capacity he supervised the construction of railways , barracks , wharves , and shelters throughout France . Taylor was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and the French " Légion d ' honneur " ( Legion of Honor ) . After serving as Assistant Chief of Engineers six years , he was named Major General , Chief of Engineers , on June 19 , 1924 . Wilson Dam was completed during his tenure . General Taylor retired June 26 , 1926 . He died from pneumonia on January 27 , 1930 , in Washington , D . C . , and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery . In 1943 , the navy transport ship USS " General Harry Taylor " ( AP - 145 ) was named in his honor .
Jeff Sutherland Dr . Jeff Sutherland is one of the inventors of the Scrum software development process . Together with Ken Schwaber , he created Scrum as a formal process at OOPSLA ' 95 . They have extended and enhanced Scrum at many software companies and IT organizations . Jeff is a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy , a Top Gun of his USAF RF - 4C Aircraft Commander class and flew 100 missions over North Vietnam . Jeff has advanced degrees from Stanford University and Ph . D from University of Colorado School of Medicine . He is currently a Chief executive officer of Scrum , Inc in Boston , Massachusetts and Senior Advisor to OpenView Venture Partners .
USS Nashua ( YTB - 774 ) Construction and commissioning . The contract for " Nashua " was awarded 31 January 1964 . She was laid down down on 27 August 1964 at Marinette , Wisconsin , by Marinette Marine and launched 11 May 1965 ; placed in service without ceremony 20 June 1964 . Operational history . " Nashua " was assigned to the Subic Bay Naval Station , Philippines . In addition to providing assistance to other naval ships and craft during berthing and docking evolutions , she also rendered towing and waterfront fire protection services . " Nashua " was likewise available to serve as an inner harbor patrol craft and to render assistance in emergency and disaster situations . " Nashua " was stricken from the Navy List 6 May 1994 . NVR indicates that ex - " Nashua " is under the custodial care of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit One , Pearl Harbor , Hawaii . Another source reports that ex - " Nashua " was sold . Nashua is currently an underwater reef , asfter being sunk by MUSU Unit 1 in early 2012 . She lays in 65 feet of water just off Honolulu Harbor .
USS Dobbin ( AD - 3 ) USS " Dobbin " ( AD - 3 ) is the name of a United States Navy destroyer tender of World War II , named after James Cochrane Dobbin , the Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857 . " Dobbin " was launched on 5 May 1921 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard . She was commissioned on 23 July 1924 , and served for 22 years before being decommissioned on 27 September 1946 , and transferred to the United States Maritime Commission for disposal . Missing captain . In July 1941 Commander Thomas C . Latimore , " Dobbin " s captain , disappeared while hiking the local Aiea Hills . His body was never found and was the subject of much local news coverage and rumor before being overshadowed by the Pearl Harbor attack . Attack on Pearl Harbor . " Dobbin " was present during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 . At the time of the attack she was moored northeast of Ford Island with five destroyers , , , , and . " Dobbin " s watched helplessly as Japanese planes targeted Battleship Row , but as the battleships each took heavy damage the Japanese pilots looked for other targets . The aircraft seeing that the ship had admiral flags tried to bomb " Dobbin " but the ship only took shrapnel damage . " Dobbin " s small craft spent the morning picking up survivors and taking the wounded to shore . The ship picked up hundreds of sailors from other ships and when she left the harbor in search of the Japanese fleet had 200 men from alone aboard . World War II . After the attack , " Dobbin " served in the Hawaiian area until May 1942 and then she was sent to Sydney , Australia . " Dobbin " was one of several Allied vessels located in Sydney Harbor during the Japanese midget submarine attack of 31 May 1942 . On 25 June 1943 she was sent to Brisbane , Mackay , Townsville , and Cleveland Bay , Australia , before arriving at Milne Bay , New Guinea , 30 September 1943 . She stayed near New Guinea until 14 February 1945 at which point she returned to America and decommissioned 27 September 1946 , and transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 24 December 1946 . " Dobbin " received one battle star for World War II service .
Hector Gray Flight Lieutenant Hector Bertram Gray ( 1911 – 1943 ) of the Royal Air Force , and member of the British Army Aid Group , was posthumously awarded the George Cross for " most conspicuous gallantry " in resisting torture after the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941 . Early life . Gray was born on 6 June 1911 in Gillingham , Kent the son of Lionel and Adela ( née Duff ) Gray , his father was a musician . Gray joined the Royal Air Force as an aircraft apprentice at RAF Halton . Long distance flight . In November 1938 Gray , then a Sergeant Pilot with the RAF Long Range Development Flight , was acting as a radio operator / mechanic in one three Vickers Wellesley bombers that flew flew non - stop for two days from Ismailia , Egypt to Darwin , Australia ( 7 , 162 mi / 11 , 525 km ) setting a world distance record . The Wellesley ' s record remained unbroken until November 1945 but it remains the longest by a single engined aircraft . Gray was awarded the Air Force Medal for the flight . British Army Aid Group . Gray smuggled medicine into the POW camp to help the many seriously ill prisoners incarcerated there and was a conduit for news from the outside world . When the Japanese grew suspicious he was tortured and interrogated for six months but refused to divulge the names of fellow officers , such as Captain Douglas Ford of the Royal Scots , and Colonel Lanceray Arthur Newnham of the Middlesex Regiment . He was executed by firing squad , with fellow prisoners , on 18 December 1943 and buried in Stanley Military Cemetery in Hong Kong . Notice of his award was published in the London Gazette on 19 April 1946 .
Blohm & Voss Ha 140 The Ha 140 was a German multi - purpose seaplane of the 1930s . It was designed for use as a torpedo bomber or long - range reconnaissance aircraft . Design and development . The Ha 140 was a developed as a twin - engine floatplane , with an all - metal structure and an inverted gull wing , similar to the larger Ha 139 . The crew consisted of a pilot and radio operator , with a gunner in a revolving turret in the nose or in a second gun position to the rear . The torpedo or bomb load was accommodated in an internal bomb bay . Three prototypes were built , but the design was not carried any further , as the similar Heinkel He 115 was selected for service .
Hill 10 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Hill 10 Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in the former Suvla Bay sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula , Turkey . The battles at Gallipoli , some of whose participating soldiers are buried at this cemetery , was an eight - month campaign fought by Commonwealth and French forces against Turkish forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war , to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front ( France / Belgium ) and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea . The main landings were in April 1915 , but failure to make any progress led to a further landing at Suvla Bay to the North of the existing Allied positions on 6 August . However indecision and confusion led delays allowing the Turkish defenders to reinforce their positions , resulting in a stalemate . Hill 10 was a small hill North of the Suvla Bay salt lake and was captured by 9th Lancashire Fusiliers and the 11th Manchesters the following morning . Originally a burial site containing just 3 graves from November 1915 , the cemetery was greatly enlarged after the Armistice , when graves consolidated from six smaller cemeteries - the 88th Dressing Station , 89th Dressing Station , Kangaroo Beach , ' B ' Beach , 26th Casualty Clearing Station and Park Lane cemeteries . 150 of the graves are unidentified , but there are memorials to the 55 British soldiers and sailors and the single Royal Australian Navy Bridging Train member known to be amongst them .
Josceline Bagot Josceline Fitzroy Bagot ( 22 October 1854 – 1 March 1913 ) was an English soldier and politician . Josceline Fitzroy Bagot was born in Ashtead , Surrey , the son of Col . Charles Bagot and Sophia Louisa Percy . He joined the Army and received a commission in the Grenadier Guards in 1875 and was appointed Aide - de - Camp to the Governor - General of Canada in 1881 - 1882 and 1888 - 1889 . He also saw service in the Boer War in 1899 - 1900 , where he was mentioned in despatches and was the chief Military Censor . His wife was also in South Africa during the war , running a military hospital . He later gained the rank of Honorary Lieutenant - Colonel in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Imperial Yeomanry . He was twice returned as Conservative MP for Kendal ( 1892 – 1906 and 1910 – 1913 ) , and served as a Parliamentary Secretary at both the Treasury and the Home Office . He was nominated for a baronetcy in 1913 but died the same year . The baronetcy was conferred instead on his only son , Sir Alan Bagot , 1st Baronet . Josceline Bagot was buried in St Peters churchyard , Heversham , Cumbria . Family . He married on 11 June 1885 Theodosia Leslie ( 1865 - 1940 ) , daughter of Sir John Leslie , 1st Baronet . His wife was appointed a Lady of Grace of the Order of St . John ( DStJ ) in July 1901 . They had four children , Alan Desmond ( who became the 1st and last Baronet Bagot of Leven ) , Dorothy , Marjorie Constance and Mary . They lived at Levens Hall , near Kendal which Bagon had inherited from a distant relative , Mary Howard
Hermann Lang ( SS officer ) Hermann Lang was an Oberscharführer , in the Waffen SS during World War II who was awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . This was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II . At the time of his award he was an Unterscharführer and platoon commander in the , 5th Company , 6th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment " Theodor Eicke "
Seaman apprentice Seaman apprentice is the second lowest enlisted rank in the U . S . Navy , U . S . Coast Guard , and the U . S . Naval Sea Cadet Corps just above seaman recruit and below seaman ; this rank was formerly known as seaman second class . The actual title for an E - 2 in the U . S . Navy varies based on the community to which the sailor belongs . Likewise , the color of their group rate marks also depends on their community . No stripes are worn on the working uniforms - coveralls or utilities . In October 2005 , the dental technician rating was merged with the hospital corpsman rating , eliminating the dentalman apprentice title . Those who once held the rank of dentalman apprentice have instead become hospitalman apprentices . Sailors who have completed the requirements to be assigned a rating and have been accepted by the Bureau of Naval Personnel as holding that rating ( a process called " striking " ) are called designated strikers , and are called by their full rate and rating in formal communications ( i . e . , " machinist ' s mate fireman apprentice " , as opposed to simply " fireman apprentice " ) , though the rating is often left off in informal communication . Those who have not officially been assigned to a rating are officially referred to as " undesignated " or " non - rates . "
Yehiam convoy The Yehiam convoy was a Haganah convoy was sent from Haifa during the 1947 – 1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine to reinforce and re - supply the Yehiam kibbutz which had been holding out against constant Arab attacks . On March 27 , 1948 , the convoy was attacked and destroyed by an Arab ambush . Convoy ambush . Ben Ami Pachter ( born 1919 ) planned to lead a convoy on 21 March 1948 , from Kiryat Haim Haifa because supplies were short and the defenders of Kibbutz Yehiam were running out of ammunition . The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine put Yehiam within the limits of the Arab state rather than the Jewish State . The original date had to be postponed as word reached that many enemy troops were deployed along the route . On 27 March 1948 , seven trucks , loaded with supplies and personnel , set off . Obstacles in the way forced the convoy to proceed slowly . As the convoy neared al - Kabri the convoy ' s seven trucks were ambushed . From both sides of the road the bushes exploded with bullets . Ben Ami Pachter who was in the lead car shouted to those behind that it was an ambush and that they should get out anyway they could . After giving the warning he was struck in the head by a bullet , the armoured car , with his body and others who were wounded , reached Yehiam shortly afterwards . The Scotsman published an account of the convoy ambush : In the ambush 47 Haganah members were killed and 6 Arabs . Serious allegations were made against the Carmeli Brigade commander that he had not rushed to the aid of the Yehiam convoy . Retribution . During Second phase of Operation Ben Ami the Arab siege of Yehiam was lifted and the first retaliatory attack was carried out against al - Kabri , Umm al - Faraj and al - Nahr , where the commander gave to order : - “ To attack with the aim of capturing the villages of al - Kabri , Umm al - Faraj and al - Nahr , to kill the men [ and ] to destroy and set fire to the villages . ” The order was carried out . During Mivtza Dekel the 7th Brigade and 21st battalion of the Carmeli carried out an attack on Kuweikat on 9 July 1948 believing that some of the inhabitants had taken part in the attack on the Yehiam convoy the barrage was particularly heavy . The handful of Kuweikat villages ( mostly elderly ) who had stayed put when the village fell were subsequently expelled to the neighbouring Druze village of Abu Sinan . The Druze village refused to give most of the Kuweikat villages shelter . Subsequently the Kuweikat villages moved to Upper Galilee and Lebanon .
Nanjing Military Region The Nanjing Military Region ( 南京军区 , nánjīng jūnqū ) is one of seven military command regions for the Chinese People ' s Liberation Army . Its jurisdiction covers all military and armed police located in Anhui , Jiangsu , Zhejiang , Jiangxi , Fujian , and Shanghai . It also covers Taiwan , which is claimed by the People ' s Republic of China but administered by the Republic of China . The current head of the region is Zhao Keshi . The International Institute for Strategic Studies lists the formation with an estimated 250 , 000 personnel , three group armies , two armoured , one mechanised infantry , three motorised infantry , and one artillery division . There are also one armoured , four motorised infantry , two artillery , three anti - aircraft brigades , plus an anti - tank regiment . The headquarters for the East Sea Fleet are located within the region , at Ningbo .
Special Security Office The Special Security Office ( SSO ) is a function within multiple arms of the United States federal government and armed forces with the mission to provide a reliable and secure means to receive and disseminate Sensitive Compartmented Information ( SCI ) and Special Access Programs ( SAP ) to authorized recipients in the United States government and military organizations . In the military , they are administered by the Defense Intelligence Agency . Systematic handling of compartmented information probably is most associated with the Special Liaison Units ( SLU ) originally for the distribution of British Ultra COMINT . Cleared personnel in these units and the equivalent US Special Security Offices ( SSO ) , usually brought material to indoctrinated recipients , perhaps waited to answer questions , and took back the material . In some large headquarters , there was a special security reading room .
Casper Sporck His correct name is Kaspar and not Casper . Kaspar " Antoine " Sporck was a Unterscharführer in the Waffen SS during World War II . He was awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross , awarded for battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany . He was the third Dutchman to be awarded the Knight ' s Cross . Early life . Kaspar Sporck was born on 10 August 1922 , in Heerlen , the Netherlands . World War II . Kaspar Sporck volunteered to join the Waffen SS in April 1941 . He was commander of a Sdkfz 251 / 9 half - track " Schützenpanzerwagen " ( armored personnel carrier ) equipped with a 75 mm L / 24 low velocity gun , nicknamed " Stummel " . The " panzerwagen " was attached to the 5th ( Heavy ) Company , 11th SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion , 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division " Nordland " . He took part in Operation Barbarossa , the invasion of the Soviet Union , and was awarded the Eastern Front Medal for service on the Eastern Front during the first Russian winter of the war . He was wounded for the first time in April 1942 near Veliky Novgorod . Evacuated to hospital , he remained there until July , when he was sent to Bussum in the Netherlands to recuperate until October 1942 . He was awarded the Knight ' s Cross for his actions near the town of Gubanizy in January 1944 . A Russian tank force had broken the German line and entered the town . Sporck drove his " Stummel " into their midst and began to engage them , eventually making 11 kills . Later , during the last hours of the Kingisepp – Gdov Offensive during the Battle for Narva Bridgehead on 31 January 1944 , Sporck stayed back alone with his " Stummel " and patrolled to the east of the main battle lines , seeking out enemy vehicles and providing protection for stragglers . At dusk , with the enemy close behind , Sporck ' s vehicle was the last to cross into the German lines . For his bravery he was recommended for the Knight ' s Cross by his battalion commander , Rudolf Saalbach . Kaspar Sporck did not survive the war . He died from wounds that he received at the Stettin Bridgehead . He died in a field hospital in Bayreuth on 8 April 1945 . He was buried on 14 - 4 - 1945 . His grave Nr . 413 is at the Ehrenfriedhof St Georgen in Bayreuth .