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No . 672 Squadron RAF No . 672 Squadron RAF was a glider squadron of the Royal Air Force active during the Second World War . History . No . 672 Squadron was formed at Bikram , Patna in India on 16 November 1944 as a glider squadron , with the intention of being used for airborne operations by South East Asia Command . It continued to train , as part of No . 344 Wing RAF , until the surrender of Japan , when it became surplus to requirements . The squadron was disbanded as last unit of 344 Wing at Chaklala on 1 July 1946 . Present . The squadron today is represented by 672 Squadron of 9 Regiment , Army Air Corps .
HMCS St . Eloi HMCS " St . Eloi " was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN ) . Named after the Action of the St . Eloi Craters , she was built by Polson Iron Works , in Toronto , Ontario , and was commissioned on 13 November 1917 . Decommissioned in 1920 , she was turned over to the Department of Marine and Fisheries , and like sister ships , , and was converted to a lightship , eventually being designated Lightship No . 20 . Returned to the RCN in 1940 , " St . Eloi " became a gate vessel , designated " Gate Vessel 12 " , and spent part of the war at Shelburne , Nova Scotia . Handed over to the Department of Transport in June 1945 , " St . Eloi " was ultimately disposed of in 1962 .
Star of Courage ( Canada ) The Star of Courage ( ) is a decoration that is the second highest award for bravery within the Canadian system of honours , and one of the three Canadian Bravery Decorations gifted by the Canadian monarch , generally through his or her viceroy - in - Council . Created in 1972 , the medal is presented to both living and deceased individuals deemed to have performed " acts of conspicuous courage in circumstances of great peril , " and grants recipients the ability to use post - nominal letters ; for Anglophones " SC " , and for Francophones " ÉC " . Design . The Star of Courage is in the form of a wide silver compass star Celeste with a maple leaf in each angle . On the obverse is a gold roundel at the centre of the star , bearing a maple leaf surrounded by a laurel wreath . The reverse bears on the upper arm the Royal Cypher of the reigning monarch beneath a St . Edward ' s Crown , symbolizing the Canadian monarch ' s role as the fount of honour , and the inscription " COURAGE " . Below this is engraved the name and rank of the recipient . This medallion is worn on the left chest , on a wide ribbon coloured red with two vertical blue stripes : for men , hung from a bar , and for women , on a ribbon bow , both pinned to the left chest . Should an individual already possessing a Star of Courage be awarded the medal again for subsequent acts of bravery , he or she is granted a medal bar , in gold and bearing a maple leaf , for wear on the ribbon from which the original medal is suspended ; a small gold maple leaf is also added to the ribbon bar . Eligibility and receipt . On 1 May 1972 , Queen Elizabeth II , on the advice of her under Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , created the Star of Courage to recognize acts of great bravery . Any person , living or deceased , may be nominated for the Star of Courage ; it is not necessary that the act of bravery take place in Canada , nor must the person who carried out the act be a Canadian . However , the event must have involved Canadians and / or Canadian interests . Nominations can be made no later than two years following either the act of bravery itself or the conclusion of any coroner ' s or court ' s inquest into the events for which the person was nominated . As of August 2009 , the Star of Courage has been presented to 417 people , though no bars have yet been issued .
Xian Y - 7 The Xian Y - 7 ( ) is a transport aircraft designed and built in the Peoples Republic of China . It is based on the Soviet - designed Antonov An - 24 series . Development . The People ' s Republic of China imported the Antonov An - 24 from early in its production run and also negotiated licences for production of the aircraft and its engines . In 1966 , Xi ' an aircraft factory started the project of local production of An - 24 . The first Chinese - assembled An - 24T had its maiden flight on 25 December 1970 . Production was launched in 1977 at the Xi ' an aircraft factory but progress was slow due to the deleterious effects of the Cultural Revolution , with a pre - production aircraft displayed to the public at Nanyuan air base , near Beijing , on 17 April 1982 . WJ - 5A1 turboprop engine was chosen as Y - 7 ' s power source . The first production aircraft was not flown until February 1984 , illustrating the slow progress ( eighteen years from licence to production ) . The Chinese aircraft equated to the An - 24RV , having a full complement of windows and the booster jet engine . The majority of early deliveries were to the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force ( PLAAF ) , mostly as transports , with a few in 52 - seat airliner configuration for the Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ) . After the initial licenced production run the Y - 7 was developed separately from the An - 24 with a succession of upgrades culminating in the MA60 ( Modern Ark ) series . A tactical transport derivative was copied , un - licenced , from the Antonov An - 26 and emerged as the Y - 7H , incorporating the cargo ramp door and military equipment of the An - 26 .
914th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron The 914th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . It was last assigned to the Duluth Air Defense Sector , Air Defense Command , stationed at Armstrong Air Station , Ontario , Canada . It was inactivated on 1 November 1962 . The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of North America .
Prosper Garnot Prosper Garnot ( 13 January 1794 – 8 October 1838 ) was a French and naturalist . Garnot was born at Brest . He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on " La Coquille " during its circumnavigation of the globe ( 1822 – 25 ) . Along with Rene Primevere Lesson he collected numerous natural history specimens in South America and the Pacific . Garnot had a severe attack of dysentery and was sent back with some of the collection on the " Castle Forbes " . The specimens were lost when the ship was wrecked off the Cape of Good Hope in July 1824 . With Lesson he wrote the zoological section of the voyage ' s report , " Voyage autour du monde exécuté par order du roi sur la corvette La Coquille " ( 1828 – 32 ) . He died , aged 44 , in Paris .
HMAS Mindari HMAS " Mindari " was a Royal Australian Navy gunnery instruction centre at Woolloomooloo , Sydney , Australia , during World War II . The gunnery instruction centre was commissioned on 1 January 1943 . HMAS " Mindari " was decommissioned on 30 April 1948 . The site is now occupied by the Gunnery Art Gallery .
James Calhoun ( soldier ) James Calhoun ( August 24 , 1845 – June 25 , 1876 ) was a soldier in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Black Hills War . He was the brother - in - law of George Armstrong Custer and was killed along with Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn . Early life . Calhoun was born in Cincinnati , Ohio into a prestigious and wealthy merchant family that included his brother Frederick . When the American Civil War broke out , he was travelling in Europe and two years later , both joined the Union army . Both brothers were to forgo the merchant life for the frontier to the dismay of their parents . Career . Upon returning to the United States , he enlisted in the Union Army in 1864 . By the end of the war , he was a Sergeant . After the war , he was appointed as a second lieutenant in the infantry . He met Margaret Custer while she was visiting the Custers in 1870 , and they fell in love . His soon to be brother - in - law George Armstrong Custer had him appointed to first lieutenant in the U . S . 7th Cavalry Regiment , assigned to Company C . Personal life . Calhoun was known as " The Adonis of the Seventh " due to his handsome features , but he was never a womanizer as he married Margaret in 1872 . He was part of the so - called " Custer Clan , " which was a clique of close - knit relatives and friends of the former Civil War general . Calhoun was also the brother - in - law of fellow Clan member Myles Moylan . He often wrote letters to his brother and to Margaret , or Maggie as she was called , writing with disdain of his limited understanding of complex native culture , adherents to which naturally resisted military conquest . He often referred to them as " heathens " and imagined a day when post - industrial population explosion would make hunting and gathering impossible in the face of western resource exploitation without conscience , which he understood to be a good thing . Death . At the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory during the Black Hills War , he was acting as temporary commander of L Company , whose commander was on detached service as aide to General Philip H . Sheridan , and killed along with most of the company . Evidence at the hill where he died , later known as Calhoun Hill , showed that he and his men fought fiercely until they were killed . He and his second in command , Lt . John Crittenden , were found within feet of each other and their men had been deployed in a defensive perimeter on the hill . His remains were initially buried on the battlefield , but were reinterred in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas , in 1877 . A marble slab on the Little Bighorn battlefield marks the place where his body was discovered and initially buried .
7th Air Division ( Japan ) The 7th Air Division ( 第七飛行師団 , Dai 7 Hikō Shidan ) was a land - based aviation force of the Imperial Japanese Army . The division was formed on 29 January 1943 in the Netherlands East Indies as part of the Eighth Area Army . It was incorporated into the Fourth Air Army based at Rabaul on 28 July 1943 . The division moved its headquarters to Wewak in June 1943 . The division was disbanded 24 July 1945 .
Sagat Singh Sagat Singh PVSM ( 14 July 1918 – 26 September 2001 ) was a General in the Indian army notable for his participation in liberation of Goa and later in Bangladesh . He held man prestigious command and staff appointments throughout his military career . He was born at a small Village - Kusumdesar ( Moda ) in Churu district of Rajasthan in 1918 . He was commissioned in the Jaipur State Forces . On amalgamation of the State Forces in 1950 he joined Third Gorkha Rifles . He commanded the Second and Third Battalions of the Third Gorkha Rifles . In September 1961 He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and posted as the Brigade Commander of India ’ s only Parachute Brigade , the 50th . The Parachute Brigade led by him played a prominent part in liberation of Goa and his men were the first to enter Panjim on 19 December 1961 . As a Major General he commanded a Mountain Division and later a Communication Zone where he played a pivotal role in taking counter insurgency operations in Mizoram . For his distinguished services he was awarded the PVSM . In December 1970 he took over the command of HQ 4 Corps as a Lieutenant General . The Corps made the famous advance to Dacca over the River Meghna during Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 . He witnessed in Dacca the signing of the surrender instrument by General Niazi . For his leadership and command for the race to Dacca the Government of India honored Sagat Singh through an award of Padma Bhushan , Sagat Singh being the only other corps commander besides T N Raina and Sartaj Singh to be so awarded in 1971 . Sagat Singh retired from the army on 30 November 1976 . He had a personal tragedy in 1976 . His son Captain Digvijay Singh died in a jeep accident in Poonch in May 1976 . He died at Army Hospital Research & Referral , New Delhi on 26 September 2001 .
Battle of Zacatecas ( 1811 ) The Battle of Zacatecas was a military action of the Mexican War of Independence fought on 15 April 1811 at Zacatecas , Zacatecas . The battle was fought between the royalist forces loyal to the Spanish crown and the Mexican rebels fighting for independence from the Spanish Empire . The Mexican insurgents were commanded by General Ignacio López Rayón and the Spanish by José Manuel de Ochoa . The battle resulted in a victory for rebel forces . Context . Following the retreat of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and an army of insurgents to the north of Mexico after their defeat at the Battle of Calderón Bridge on 16 March 1811 , a meeting of the rebel leaders was convened in Saltillo , Coahuila . The meeting was convened for the purpose of naming a leader to coordinate the rebel forces from a base in the north with the end goal of achieving Mexican independence . Despite being career soldiers , both Mariano Abasolo and turned down nominations for the position . Eventually , Ignacio López Rayón was named supreme chief of insurgent forces and his second in command . The Battle . After hearing news of the capture of insurgent commanders in , López Rayón left Coahuila on 26 March and made way with his forces to Zacatecas . His march to Zacatecas was pursued by the Royalist army of José Manuel Ochoa who López Rayón defeated at the Battle of Puerto de Piñones . The victory was not decisive and the Royalist army continued to harass the insurgents until they were defeated again at Zacatecas on 15 April 1811 . López Rayón took the town of Zacatecas and used it as an industrial base to produce artillery , gunpowder , and uniforms for his soldiers . Aftermath . After his capture of Zacatecas , López Rayón marched to La Piedad , Michoacán where he joined his forces together with those of
SS Conte Rosso SS " Conte Rosso " was an Italian ocean liner active in the early 20th century . Named after Amadeus VII , Count of Savoy , the so - called " Red Count " , the " Conte Rosso " was noted for her lavish Italian interior decoration . Because much of its sailing would be in warmer waters , the designers included an outdoor dining area , unusual for ships of this era . Her sister ship was . Service history . She was built in the Glasgow yards of William Beardmore and Company for the Italian Lloyd Sabaudo Line and entered service in 1922 carrying passengers between Italy and New York . She was the first new transatlantic liner built after World War I and the largest Italian liner to date . In 1928 , she was replaced on the New York route by the newer and began service between Italy and South America . She was acquired by the Italian Line in 1932 when it took over the Lloyd Sabaudo Line . In 1932 , she began serving the Trieste – Bombay – Shanghai route , and thus became one of the major escape routes for the Jewish population of Germany and Austria as Shanghai was one of the few places that did not require paid emigration visas . She also served briefly as an Italian troopship during the Second Italo - Ethiopian War in the 1930s . Incidents . On 31 January 1925 Antonietta Gigliobianco mysteriously fell overboard the " Conte Rosso " to her death at age 19 , orphaning her two - year old son Ernesto . After being turned over to the ship ' s chaplain , a media outcry in the City of New York ensued which reunited the boy with his father Leonardo Gigliobianco . Sinking . During World War II , she was used as a troop ship by the Italian Government until 24 May 1941 , when she was torpedo ed and sunk by . The sinking occurred 16 km off the coast of Sicily while in convoy from Naples to Tripoli . Of the 2 , 729 soldiers and crew aboard , 1 , 300 were killed .
First warrant officer First warrant officer ( 1WO ) is a warrant officer rank in the Singapore Armed Forces . It is senior to second warrant officer but junior to master warrant officer . First warrant officers may be given appointments such as battalion regimental sergeant major . They may serve tours as instructors , or on various staffs . As comparatively senior warrant officers , they may be given appointments normally given to commissioned officer s at such as quartermaster at non - combat units or platoon commander at training units .
Rus ' – Byzantine War ( 907 ) The Rus ' – Byzantine War of 907 is associated in the Primary Chronicle with the name of Oleg of Novgorod . The chronicle implies that it was the most successful military operation of the Kievan Rus ' against the Byzantine Empire . Paradoxically , Greek sources do not mention it at all . Primary Chronicle . The chronicle describes the raid of 907 in considerable detail . The memory of the campaign seems to have been transmitted orally among several generations of the Rus . This may account for the abundance of colorful facts that belong to folklore rather than to history . We are told at first that the Byzantine envoys attempted to poison Oleg before he could approach Constantinople . The Rus ' leader , renowned for his oracular powers , refused to drink from the poisoned cup . When his navy was within sight of Constantinople , he found the city gate closed and the entry into the Bosporus barred with iron chains . At this point , Oleg resorted to subterfuge : he effected a landing on the shore and had some 2 , 000 monoxyla e equipped with wheels . After his boats were thus transformed into vehicles , he led them to the walls of Tsargrad and fixed his shield to the gates of the Imperial capital . The threat to Constantinople was relieved by peace negotiations which bore fruit in the Russo - Byzantine Treaty of 907 . Pursuant to the treaty , the Byzantines paid a tribute of twelve grivna s for each Rus ' boat . Interpretations . That Oleg ' s campaign is not fiction is clear from the authentic text of the peace treaty , which was incorporated into the chronicle . Current scholarship tends to explain the silence of Greek sources with regard to Oleg ' s campaign by the inaccurate chronology of the Primary Chronicle . Some assume that the raid actually took place in 904 , when the Byzantines were at war with Leo of Tripoli . A more plausible conjecture has been advanced by Boris Rybakov and Lev Gumilev : the account of the campaign in fact refers to the Rus ' - Byzantine War ( 860 ) , erroneously described in Slavonic sources as a Kievan failure . Despite recurrent military conflicts , the relations between the Rus ' and Byzantium seem to have been predominantly peaceful . The First Christianization of the Rus ' was reported by Patriarch Photius in the 860s . In one of his letters , Patriarch Nicholas Mysticus threatened to unleash a Rus ' invasion of Bulgaria . Historians infer from his account that the Byzantines were able to manipulate the Rus ' of Oleg ' s time for their own political ends . Furthermore , substantial contingents of the Rus ' joined the imperial service and took part in the Byzantine naval expeditions throughout the 10th century . A squadron of 700 Rus ' mercenaries participated in the Crete expedition of 902 . A unit of 415 Varangians was involved in the Italian expedition of 936 . Thirteen years later , 629 Rus ' troops sailed on nine vessels to accompany the Greeks in their expedition against the Emirate of Crete .
Dexippus Publius Herennius Dexippus ( , ca . 210 – 273 ) , Greek historian , statesman and general , was an hereditary priest of the Eleusinian family of the Kerykes , and held the offices of " archon basileus " and " eponymous " in Athens . When the Heruli overran Greece and captured Athens ( 269 ) , Dexippus showed great personal courage and revived the spirit of patriotism among his fellow - countrymen . A statue was set up in his honour , the base of which , with an inscription recording his services , has been preserved . It is remarkable that the inscription is silent as to his military achievements . Photius ( cod . 82 ) mentions three historical works by Dexippus , of which considerable fragments remain : The " Chronicle " was continued by Eunapius of Sardis , who opens his own history with a critique of his predecessor . The " Chronicle " also appears to be the primary source of the Historia Augusta between 238 and 270 , but Paschoud has demonstrated that the author of the " Historia Augusta " sometimes attributes material to Dexippus falsely , and so this evidence must be used with caution . Photius speaks very highly of the style of Dexippus , whom he calls a second Thucydides .
1st Medium Regiment , Royal Canadian Artillery The 1st Medium Regiment , Royal Canadian Artillery was one of six Canadian medium artillery regiment s that served in the European Theatre of World War II . History . The Adjutant of the 1st Medium Regiment , RCA , was Captain Horace Trites ; Trites was awarded a " Mention in Dispatches " in Italy . Trites and G . P . O . ( Gun Position Officer ) Lieutenant ' Buck ' Buchanan later became pilots at 43 OTU , RAF Andover , and fought in northwest Europe with No . 665 Squadron RCAF .
Paul Schulte Paul Schulte OMI ( 1896 - 1975 ) , was a German priest and missionary , known as the " Flying Priest " , who founded MIVA ( " Missionary International Vehicular Association " ) to provide automobiles , boats and airplanes for the service of missions throughout the world . Schulte ' s training for the priesthood was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I . He was conscripted and served in the Prussian 4th Guard Grenadier Regiment . After 2½ years he was wounded . On his recovery he joined the Air Force to be trained as a pilot , and served in Palestine . Following the war he returned to his studies at the scholasticate in Hünfeld , and was ordained an Oblate Priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in 1922 . As a first obedience he was sent to South Africa as a missionary . In 1925 his childhood friend and fellow soldier Father Otto Fuhrmann died in South - West Africa of pneumonia complicated by malaria . It had taken him five days to reach the hospital of the Protestant Finnish mission where he died . This led Fr . Schulte to found MIVA , the " Missionalium Vehiculorum Associatio " , known in German as the " Missions - Verkehrs - Arbeitsgemeinschaft " , and the " Missionary International Vehicular Association " in English , to provide training and modern vehicles for missionaries , especially in Africa , Asia and Latin America , with the motto " Obviam Christo terra marique et in aera " ( " Toward Christ by land and sea and in the air " ) . Despite some opposition from his superiors he finally received the blessing of the Archbishop of Cologne . In 1929 Schulte made his first journey to the United States to raise funds . Finally the Pope himself gave his unqualified approval . In 1936 Father Schulte flew to the US on the airship " Hindenburg " and with papal permission celebrated the world ' s first aerial Mass in memory of his brother Lieutenant Franz Schulte who had died of influenza in 1919 while a POW in England . By that time MIVA had bought a dozen aircraft , and more than 150 automobiles and motorboats , used by mission stations in Albania , Latvia , Africa , Madagascar , Korea , New Guinea , Brazil and the Solomon Islands . Schulte was then assigned to a parish in Northern Canada . There , in August 1938 , Schulte mounted a 2 , 200 mile medical evacuation on behalf of Father Julien Cochard from Arctic Bay , the most northerly Catholic mission in the world , to Chesterfield Inlet . In his Stinson Reliant floatplane Schulte flew through storm force winds and thick fog in order to rescue Cochard , and received a special blessing from Pope Pius XI for his services . Schulte was transferred to St . Henry ' s Seminary in Belleville , Illinois during World War II where he helped found the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows . He continued his work with MIVA until his death in Swakopmund , Namibia , in 1975 . He is buried beside his boyhood friend , Father Otto Fuhrmann . In 2007 MIVA celebrated its 80th anniversary . It has branches all over Europe , the United States and Korea , and still raises money to provide everything from aircraft to horses .