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Harry Shepard Knapp Harry Shepard Knapp ( June 27 , 1856 – April 6 , 1928 ) was a Vice Admiral of the United States Navy , Military Governor of Santo Domingo , and Military Representative of the United States in Haiti . Biography . Born in New Britain , Connecticut , Knapp graduated from the United States Naval Academy on 20 June 1878 . After serving in screw steamer , as cadet midshipman , and in the steam frigate and the sloop as a midshipman , he was commissioned as ensign on 8 July 1882 . Following assignments to a number of ships and stations ashore , he was ordered to the gunboat as executive officer at the outbreak of the Spanish - American War . Outstanding service in a variety of important billets afloat and ashore was rewarded on 3 August 1908 when Knapp assumed command of the protected cruiser . Promoted to captain in 1909 , Knapp was assigned to the General Board on 8 January 1910 . At about this time he served intermittently on the Joint Army and Navy Board for Defense of the Panama Canal . He was in charge of while she was fitted out and commanded the battleship when she first commissioned on 15 September 1911 . He took command of Cruiser Force , Atlantic Fleet on 8 November 1915 . He succeeded Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal as leader of Santo Domingo in 1916 . Knapp was promoted to rear admiral on 17 March 1917 and a week before the United States entered World War I was appointed Military Governor of Santo Domingo and Military Representative of the United States in Haiti . " Meritorious service " in this post , laboring to protect Allied shipping from German U - boat s and to make the Caribbean Sea secure from enemy aggression , earned Rear Admiral Knapp the Navy Cross . Soon after the armistice , he was Naval Attaché in London with staff duties and on 4 February 1920 assumed command of U . S . Naval Forces operating in European waters with rank of vice admiral . Even after Vice Admiral Knapp was placed on the retired list effective 27 June 1920 , the Navy utilized his singular abilities . This won him temporary active duty as a consultant and as quasi - diplomat . He died at Hartford , Connecticut on 6 April 1928 . Namesake . The was named in his honor .
Mendoza - class destroyer The " Mendoza " class were a group of destroyer s built in Britain for the Argentine Navy in the 1920s . They were the first part of the Argentine re - armament programme of the 1920s Design . The ships were based on British Destroyer leaders built at the end of World War I , with minor modifications . British pattern weapons were used . There was a limited modernisation in the 1950s when 40mm Bofors guns and updated sensors were fitted Ships . All three ships were built by J . Samuel White & Co in Cowes , Isle of Wight , The ships were named after provinces of Argentina
William A . Matheny Brigadier General William Albert Matheny , ( June 5 , 1902 – August 8 , 1973 ) a native of Carrington , North Dakota , entered the Army Air Corps as a flying cadet in February 1928 , two years after his graduation from Marquette University , Milwaukee , Wisconsin , with a degree in electrical engineering . He was awarded the William H . Cheney Award in 1929 following his graduation from pilot training and commissioning as a second lieutenant in the Air Corps . The Cheney Award is presented by the chief of staff annually for an act of valor , extreme fortitude or self - sacrifice and humanitarian interest , performed during the preceding year in connection with aircraft . General Matheny served with distinction during World War II in the Asiatic - Pacific theater of operations , taking part in the Central Pacific campaigns . He was decorated by Admiral Chester W . Nimitz , Pacific Fleet commander , for his outstanding service in the Pacific theater during World War II . In early 1948 he assumed command of the U . S . Air Force Advisory Group in Greece . General Matheny entered the Air Defense Command in June 1950 , with his assignment as commanding officer of the 28th Air Division of the Western Air Defense Force at Hamilton Air Force Base , California , and subsequent reassignment to the command of the 34th Air Division , Kirtland Air Force Base , New Mexico . Prior to his assignment as chief of staff Allied Air Forces Northern Europe with headquarters at Kolsas , Norway , General Matheny commanded the 31st Air Division , Fort Snelling , Minnesota . He was rated as a command pilot and aircraft observer . He was a graduate of the National War College in Washington , D . C . , attended by high level military officers of all branches of the service and their counterparts in government service . General Matheny ' s decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster , the Distinguished Service Medal , the Legion of Merit , the Soldier ' s Medal for heroism and numerous campaign and service ribbons . He was a member of the first group of Air Corps pilots to ever attempt to fly military aircraft ( Keystone Bombers ) from the United States ( Langley Field ) to Panama . While the flight was successful , Lieutenant Matheny ' s plane did crash in the jungle on the last leg of the flight to France Field , Panama ; it was during this incident that he received the Cheney Award . Matheny died on August 8 , 1973 .
Barney Rawlings Bernard ( Barney ) Wayne Rawlings ( 1920 – July 19 , 2004 ) was the Eighth Air Force co - pilot of the B - 17 bomber , " G . I . Sheets " , which was shot down over Belgium in 1944 . With the aid of resistance fighters in Belgium and France , Rawlings made his way to Spain where , after a brief incarceration , he was repatriated . His story is recounted in " Half a Wing , Three Engines , and a Prayer " by Brian D . O ' Neill ( McGraw - Hill Professional , 1999 ) , and " The Last Airman " , by Roger Rawlings ( Harper & Row , 1989 ) . Following the war , Barney Rawlings became a pilot for Trans World Airlines , ultimately becoming a 747 captain . He retired in 1987 . A year prior to his retirement , he and the surviving members of his World War II crew returned to Belgium where , in the town of Solre - Saint - Géry , a granite monument had been erected in their honor - and , by extension , in honor of all Allied air crews who fought for the liberation of Europe . The dedication ceremony included presentations by NATO , the United States Air Force , and the Belgian Air Force , which conducted a fly - over by four Belgian jet aircraft .
USS Winnemucca ( YTB - 785 ) Construction and commissioning . The contract for " Winnemucca " was awarded 31 January 1964 . She was laid down on 23 September 1965 at Marinette , Wisconsin , by Marinette Marine and launched 23 December 1965 . Operational history . " Winnemucca " was initially assigned to the 5th Naval District and operated in the Norfolk , Virginia area until the following spring . Reassigned at that time to Vietnam , she arrived in that country on 10 June 1967 and , for the remainder of America ' s involvement in the Vietnam War , she served with Task Force 117 , the Mobile Riverine Force . During her almost six years of combat operations on the rivers and in the swamps of South Vietnam , " Winnemucca " earned two Presidential Unit Citations , four Navy Unit Commendation s , and 13 campaign stars . In 1973 , she was reassigned to the 17th Naval District and operated out of Adak , Alaska . That tour of duty ended late in 1975 when she began service at San Francisco , attached to the 12th Naval District . Stricken from the Navy List 22 December 2003 , she was sold , 21 January 2004 , by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service ( DRMS ) for reuse / conversion to LMW Investments Inc . Chula Vista , CA . for $ 67 , 822 . Converted to civilian use , ex - " Winnemucca " was renamed " Noelani " and provides tug services from San Francisco , California .
Bernd Gallowitsch Bernd Gallowitsch ( 23 February 1918 – 23 December 1983 ) was a German Luftwaffe ace and recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Bernd Gallowitsch was credited with 64 aerial victories , and the destruction of 23 tanks in 480 combat missions .
William E . Haynes William Elisha Haynes ( October 19 , 1829 - December 5 , 1914 ) was a U . S . Representative from Ohio , cousin of George William Palmer . Biography . Born in Hoosick Falls , New York , Haynes moved to Ohio with his parents , who settled in Lower Sandusky ( now Fremont ) in 1839 . He attended the common schools . Apprenticed as a printer . He worked at the " Sandusky Clarion " and the " Cleveland Plain Dealer " . He served as clerk on a steamer on Lake Superior in 1848 and 1849 . He engaged in mercantile pursuits at Fremont 1850 - 1856 . Auditor of Sandusky County , Ohio from 1856 to 1860 . Enlisted in the Union Army as a private April 16 , 1861 , in the Eighth Regiment , Ohio Volunteer Infantry . Commissioned captain and served in western Virginia , the Shenandoah Valley , and in the Army of the Potomac until November 1862 , when he was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Tenth Regiment , Ohio Volunteer Cavalry , and served with it in the Army of the Cumberland until 1864 , when he was honorably discharged . He served as collector of internal revenue for the ninth district of Ohio in 1866 and 1867 . He again engaged in mercantile pursuits 1866 - 1873 . He engaged in banking 1873 - 1914 . He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880 and 1884 . Haynes was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty - first and Fifty - second Congresses ( March 4 , 1889 – March 3 , 1893 ) . He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1892 . He resumed banking in Fremont , Ohio , in which he continued until his death there on December 5 , 1914 . He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery ( Fremont , Ohio ) . Haynes was married to Maria H . Harmon of Fremont on February 8 , 1855 . They had children named Julia M . , William P . , and George W . Haynes .
Takeo Hirose , ( May 27 , 1868 – March 27 , 1904 ) was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy . His selfless sacrifice during the Russo - Japanese War elevated him to the status of a deified national hero . Born in what is now Taketa , Ōita , his father Shigetake was a judge , while his elder brother Katsuhiko was a rear admiral . He studied at the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in Etajima , graduating in 1889 . He served aboard the ironclad warship " Fusō " during the First Sino - Japanese War and saw action at the Battle of Yalu River on September 17 , 1894 . From 1897 to 1899 he was sent to study in Russia and stayed on as the resident military attaché in St . Petersburg until 1902 . During his time as attaché he went on a tour of Germany , France and Great Britain . He was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1900 . When Japan went to war against Russia in the Russo - Japanese War in 1904 , Hirose served aboard the battleship " Asahi " as torpedo officer . However , during the Battle of Port Arthur he became the commander of the " Fukuimaru " which was used as a blockship during the second attempt to blockade the harbor . On March 27 , while searching for his missing subordinate he was fatally shot . Because of his heroism , he was posthumously promoted to commander , and deified as a " military god " ( 軍神 " gunshin " ) , and a Shinto shrine was built in his honor in Taketa , Oita . A statue of him was also erected outside the Manseibashi Railway Station .
3rd Virginia Cavalry The 3rd Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia . The Virginia 3rd Cavalry was organized with independent companies and entered Confederate service on July 1 , 1861 . The regiment was formed with eleven companies , later reduced to ten . It was also called 2nd Regiment until October . Its members were raised in the counties of Mecklenburg , Elizabeth City , New Kent , Halifax , Nottoway , Cumberland , Dinwiddie , and Prince Edward . For a time six companies served in the Department of the Peninsula and four in the Valley District . Later the unit was assigned to General F . Lee ' s , Wickham ' s , and Munford ' s Brigade , Army of Northern Virginia . It fought in many conflicts from Williamsburg to Fredericksburg , then was involved in the engagements at Kelly ' s Ford , Chancellorsville , Brandy Station , Upperville , Gettysburg , Bristoe , Mine Run , The Wilderness , Todd ' s Tavern , Spotsylvania , Haw ' s Shop , and Cold Harbor . The 3rd went on to participate in Early ' s operations in the Shenandoah Valley and the Appomattox Campaign . It took 210 effectives to Gettysburg , but only 3 surrendered on April 9 , 1865 . Its commanders were Colonels Thomas F . Goode , Robert Johnston , and Thomas H . Owen ; Lieutenant Colonels William R . Carter , William M . Feild , and John T . Thornton ; and Majors Henry Carrington and Jefferson C . Phillips . Future Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Virginia Benjamin W . Lacy commanded a company in the 3rd Virginia . Confederate surgeon and Civil War diarist Dr . Richard Eppes initially served with the 3rd Virginia , before furnishing a substitute to complete his term of service .
Fort Saint Vrain Fort Saint Vrain was an 1837 fur trading post built by the Bent , St . Vrain Company , and located at the confluence of Saint Vrain Creek and the South Platte River , about 20 miles ( 32 km ) east of the Rocky Mountains in the unorganized territory of the United States . This area later became part of the State of Colorado . A historical marker notes the place where Old Fort St . Vrain once stood , today at the end of Weld County Road 40 , located about seven miles north of Fort Vasquez , Colorado . Among those who helped to establish the fort was Ceran St . Vrain , after whom it was named . William Clark , governor of the territory , granted the Bent , St . Vrain Co . a license to trade on November 8 , 1836 . Like neighboring forts , the structure was built as a two - story adobe structure whose walls encased an interior courtyard . It accommodated trade with Native American tribes and mountain men engaged in fur trapping . It resembled the adobe building and plaza reconstructed at Fort Vasquez and Bent ' s Old Fort . Marcellin St . Vrain , Ceran ' s brother , managed the trading post . He employed such notable people as James Beckwourth , a mountain man , and Jean Baptiste Charbonneau , who was born to Sacajewea during the 1804 - 1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition . She helped guide the expedition with her husband , the trapper Toussaint Charbonneau . After the Taos Revolt in 1847 , the St . Vrain brothers both returned to St . Louis . After Ceran St . Vrain sold his shares of the Bent , St . Vrain Co . , William Bent became sole proprietor by 1849 . Bent moved to Fort St . Vrain temporarily before building a new Fort Bent in the Big Timbers area .
Operation Defeat Al Qaeda in the North Operation Defeat Al Qaeda in the North or OP DAN was an operation conducted by Marines , A co . 2 / 504th Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division , an attachment of the 101st Airborne Division , and Iraqi security forces in 2008 in Al Anbar Province , Salah Ad Din Province , and Ninewa Province to hunt down and rid the Northern part of Iraq of insurgents . It was known that the desert north of Lake Tharthar was being used by insurgents to move weapons , munitions , and foreign fighters from Syria to Mosul . During Spring and Summer of 2008 , a task force of Marines and paratroopers established a base of operations in the desert to the north of the lake and conducted patrols of the surrounding area to break the supply lines . The US forces managed to locate and destroy a large number of explosives and weapons , as well as kill or capture known enemy combatants . In the process , A co . 2 / 504th PIR conducted the first company - sized operation using the Bell Boeing V - 22 Osprey . As these operations continued , Iraqi Army outposts were built and staffed , allowing for the Iraqi Army to assume the US forces ' duties in Fall 2008 .
TM - 89 mine The TM - 89 is a Russia n anti - tank mine first publicly shown in 1993 . The mine uses a Misznay Schardin effect warhead capable of producing a 60 mm diameter hole in 100 mm of armour . The mine is fitted with a two - channel magnetic influence fuze , and can be laid from the GMZ - 3 mine layer or by the VMR - 2 helicopter mine layer .
Robert Allen ( general ) Robert Allen ( March 15 , 1811 – August 5 , 1886 ) was a career officer in the United States Army , serving as a general during the American Civil War . Early life and career . Allen was born in tiny West Point in Columbiana County , Ohio , and was educated in the public schools . He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy and graduated in 1836 , ranking 33rd out of 49 cadets . He was assigned as a second lieutenant in the 2nd U . S . Artillery and assigned to garrison duty in various outposts . He saw his first combat during the Mexican - American War , where he received a brevet promotion to major for his actions at the Battle of Cerro Gordo . Allen was transferred to the Quartermaster ' s Department , and was eventually promoted to the chief quartermaster at Benicia , California , for the Department of the Pacific with the permanent rank of major . Civil War service . At the outbreak of the Civil War , Allen was reassigned to the Department of the Missouri , where he was again chief quartermaster , as well as a colonel . Becoming recognized for his efficiency , he was soon promoted to command the supplies for the entire Mississippi Valley . From his headquarters in Louisville , Kentucky , Allen supervised the Federal supplies for all the region ' s major campaigns , including Vicksburg and Atlanta . He was able to secure a wide variety of surplus railcars from various Northern railroads and arranged to have them ferried across the Ohio River from Jeffersonville , Indiana , and used for military purposes to transport food and supplies to the field armies along former Confederate railways . As a result of his performance , he was promoted to brigadier general and given command all quartermaster operations west of the Mississippi River , except for California . Allen ranked only behind Quartermaster General Montgomery C . Meigs ( a fellow USMA 1836 graduate ) in terms of responsibility and influence . His efficiency in large scale logistics helped ensure that the Federal armies in his theater of war were much better equipped and fed than their Confederate opponents . On January 16 , 1866 , President Andrew Johnson nominated Allen for the award of the brevet grade of major general to rank from March 13 , 1865 and the U . S . Senate confirmed the award on March 12 , 1866 . On July 17 , 1866 , President Johnson nominated Allen for the award of the brevet grade of major general , U . S . Army , also to rank from March 13 , 1865 , and the U . S . Senate confirmed the award on July 23 , 1866 . He was mustered out of the volunteer service on September 1 , 1866 . Postbellum . After the war , Allen stayed in the Regular Army until his retirement on March 21 , 1878 as the army ' s assistant quartermaster general , at the permanent grade of colonel , spending some $ 111 million during his lengthy career . Allen died in Europe while traveling , and was buried in Chène - Bougeries Cemetery in Geneva , Switzerland .
177th Airlift Squadron The 177th Airlift Squadron ( 177 AS ) is a unit of the North Dakota Air National Guard 119th Wing located at Fargo Air National Guard Base , North Dakota . The 177th is equipped with the C - 21A Learjet . Overview . The 177th Airlift Squadron accomplishes several missions including Operational Support Airlift ( OSA ) , transportation of distinguished visitors , and a responsive aeromedical airlift system to move eligible patients . History . The squadron was authorized by the North Dakota Military Department in 2008 and activated at Fargo AFB when the 119th Airlift Wing was equipped with the MQ - 1 Predator UAV . The 178th Airlift Squadron was re - designated as the 178th Reconnaissance Squadron , with the C - 21A Learjet being assigned to the new 177th AS . Support equipment and personnel from the 178th AS were reassigned to the 177th AS . In 2009 , the 177th AS deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom . It was the first deployment into a combat zone for the North Dakota Air National Guard . The squadron transported more than 400 service members during their two - month - long rotation in theater . They accomplished this by flying more than 200 sorties during 90 missions , as part of the 379th Expeditionary Operations Group . In 2013 , the squadron is programmed to receive the twin - turboprop C - 27J Spartan medium transport aircraft .
Earl Johnson ( baseball ) Earl Douglas Johnson ( April 2 , 1919 – December 3 , 1994 ) was an American professional baseball player and scout and a decorated World War II veteran . He was a left - handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers . Johnson , who was nicknamed the " smiling Swedish southpaw " , had a brother Chet who also pitched in the major leagues for the St . Louis Browns . He was born in Redmond , Washington . Army Life . Earl Johnson was also famous for being a World War II veteran , having served with the Army 120th Infantry Regiment , 30th Infantry Division . He enlisted in December 1941 and during that time he was awarded a Silver and Bronze Star and was commissioned a lieutenant . On the bronze star it read : Major League Baseball . Johnson ' s debut was on July 20 , 1940 . For eight years , Johnson pitched for the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers . He also pitched two years at Saint Mary ' s College of California and four years in the minor leagues ( three at AAA ) . For over 44 years , he was associated with the Red Sox as a player and scout , and during his time , he was affiliated in signing some players such as Ted Bowsfield , Mike Garman and Steve Lyons . His final game was on June 3 , 1951 . At the age of 75 , he died in Seattle , Washington .
Southwestern Division The United States Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division ( SWD ) is one of the eight permanent divisions of the Army organization , providing civil works and military water resource services and infrastructure . It also supports economically viable and environmentally sustainable watershed management and water resources development in Texas , Arkansas , Oklahoma , Louisiana and New Mexico . The Southwestern Division ( SWD ) is headquartered in Dallas , Texas , and has been providing service to the region since 1937 . The Division was originally located in Little Rock , Arkansas , but in 1941 moved to its current location in Dallas . Its territory stretches from Mexico to Kansas , and covers all or part of seven states . The Southwestern Division civil works encompass of public land and water . The military works include 10 Army installations and 11 Air Force installations within the SWD boundaries . And SWD ' s recreation areas are the most visited in the Corps , with more than of shoreline and 1 , 172 recreation sites . The Division Commander is directly responsible to the Chief of Engineers . The SWD Commander directs and supervises the individual District Commanders . The current SWD commander is Brigadier General Thomas W . Kula . SWD duties include : Districts . The Division ' s four districts are headquartered in :