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Bert Hall Weston Birch " Bert " Hall ( November 7 , 1885 – 1948 ) was a military aviator and writer . Hall was one of America ' s first combat aviators , flying with the famed Lafayette Escadrille in France before the U . S . entered World War I . Hall was born near Higginsville , Missouri , the son of George Hall . He was one of the seven original members of the Lafayette Escadrille . However , he was greatly disliked by his comrades . Besides having an abrasive personality , he was known to be a liar . Upon joining the French Air Service , he claimed to have flying experience , but when he was asked to prove it , he rolled a training aircraft down the runway and crashed into a barn , wrecking the airplane . He then confessed he had never flown before . Nonetheless , the French were greatly impressed by his audacity and kept him . He learned to fly , but after a while began making excuses to avoid flying . It finally reached the point where he was asked to resign . Dennis Gordon wrote a book called " Autobiographies of the Lafayette Escadrille " published by the Doughboy Historical Society - POB 3912 Missoula , MT 59806 . According to this book , Bert Hall was a four - flusher , a liar , and a deserter . He did get four confirmed kills in the LS and several medals and was the squadron adjutant . But he was a liar and a good poker player who could read his opponents . and usually cleaned the table . Hall wrote two books about his exploits in the Lafayette Escadrille , " En L ' air " ( 1918 ) and " One Man ' s War : The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille " ( 1929 ) . The former was the basis of the 1918 film " A Romance of the Air " , in which he starred as himself . In civilian life , he was a con man . He once obtained $ 20 , 000 or so from the Chinese government to buy surplus planes from the U . S . government and return to China to set up an air service for them . He spent the money on other things and was charged and sent to prison . Bert Hall was released from McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary in May 1936 . He lived in Seattle for a few months before heading to Hollywood to work for Twentieth Century Fox studios . Weary of Hollywood , in 1940 he moved to Dayton , Ohio and in 1944 settled in Castalia , Ohio , where he started the Sturdy Toy Factory . On December 6 , 1948 , he died of a massive heart attack while driving down the highway near Fremont , Ohio . His ashes were scattered over his hometown of Higginsville , Missouri on January 20 , 1950 . A character in the 2006 film " Flyboys " is supposedly a composite of Hall and another person . Bibliography . Hall wrote books about being a " Flyboy " in the Lafayette Escadrille :
USS Intrepid ( 1874 ) The second USS " Intrepid " , was a steam - powered torpedo ram built in 1874 that had the distinction of being the first U . S . Navy ship armed with self - propelled torpedo es . In concept and design she was roughly comparable to the Royal Navy ' s , although " Intrepid " was completed more than half a decade earlier . Construction . " Intrepid " , like the other torpedo rams , was a product of the confusion that followed the invention of the self - propelled torpedo , which saw the world ' s navies struggle to find a way to effectively utilize the earliest torpedo designs . Her keel was laid down at the Boston Navy Yard and she was launched on 5 March 1874 , sponsored by Miss H . Evelyn Frothingham Pooke . After construction completed , " Intrepid " was commissioned into the U . S . Navy on 31 July . Her commanding officer was Commander Augustus P . Cooke . Service . As with most of the earliest torpedo - armed warships , " Intrepid " was a largely experimental vessel of little true value as an actual fighting ship . After her commissioning ceremony , she departed Boston on 3 August for the naval base at Newport , Rhode Island . Since she was a new and untried design , " Intrepid " remained in coastal waters for the majority of the voyage , and arrived in Newport the next day . After a little less than a month at Newport she was transferred to New York . Leaving on 31 August , she arrived at the New York Navy Yard on 1 September . The following two months were devoted to torpedo trials along the North Atlantic Coast , which showed that " Intrepid ' s " design was generally unsatisfactory . Her final trial cruise ended when she returned to New York Navy Yard on 24 October , and she was decommissioned a week later on 30 October . " Intrepid " remained out of service at New York for the remainder of 1874 and the first half of 1875 before being recommissioned on 28 August . Even though she would remain in commission for the remainder of the decade , with the exception of brief visits to New England ports in 1875 and 1876 , she remained at the Navy Yard . Despite her unsatisfactory and experimental nature , the financially starved Navy Department looked for ways to utilize her to some good purpose , since money and congressional support for new warships was almost non - existent during this period . The Navy eventually decided to convert " Intrepid " to a light - draft gunboat for service in Chinese waters . As a result she was decommissioned on 22 August 1882 and moved to the shipyard at the New York Navy Yard for conversion . The work proceeded slowly and was suspended altogether in 1889 . Years of inactivity had taken their toll on the ship , and a survey undertaken in early 1892 found that she had become unserviceable . Since the funding needed to restore " Intrepid " would be far more than could be possibly be justified by her future value as a gunboat , it was decided to dispose of her . " Intrepid " was stricken from the Navy List , and on 9 May 1892 she was sold to a certain Mathew Gill , Jr . , of Philadelphia . She was probably broken up soon afterwards .
X - 41 Common Aero Vehicle X - 41 is the designation for a still - classified U . S . military spaceplane . Specifications or photos of the program have not been released to the public yet ; as a result not much is known about its goals . It has been described as an experimental manoeuvring re - entry vehicle capable of transporting a 1 , 000 lb payload on a sub - orbital trajectory at hypersonic speeds and releasing that payload into the atmosphere . The technology required for the X - 41 is not yet known and is still undecided by the government . It is believed a new type of hypersonic travel is also being studied for the X - 41 that will apparently be able to travel past Mach 7 and perhaps onto Mach 9 . This vehicle is now a part of the FALCON ( Force Application and Launch from Continental United States ) program sponsored by DARPA and NASA .
USS LST - 843 USS " LST - 843 " was an built for the United States Navy during World War II . " LST - 843 " was laid down on 13 October 1944 at Ambridge , Pennsylvania , by the American Bridge Company ; launched on 29 November 1944 ; sponsored by Mrs . R . S . Dyson ; and commissioned on 23 December 1944 with Lieutenant V . W . Tracy in command . Service history . During World War II , " LST - 843 " was assigned to the Asiatic - Pacific theater and participated in the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto from April through June 1945 . Following the War , the ship performed occupation duty in the Far East and saw service in China until early December 1947 . She was decommissioned on 18 December 1947 , transferred to the Philippines and renamed BPR " Bulacan " . On 22 January 1948 the tank landing ship was struck from the Naval Vessel Register . " LST - 843 " earned one battle star for World War II service .
USNS John Glenn ( T - MLP - 2 ) USNS " John Glenn " ( T - MLP - 2 ) is a United States Navy ship to be named in honor of John Glenn , a United States Marine Corps veteran of World War II and the Korean War , astronaut , and United States senator . " John Glenn " s keel was laid down on 17 April 2012 at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company ( NASSCO ) shipyard in San Diego , California . The Mobile Landing Platform is a new concept , part of the Maritime Prepositioning Force of the future . To control costs , the ships will not be built to combat vessel standards and are designed primarily to support three military hovercraft ( such as the Landing Craft Air Cushion ) , vehicle staging with a sideport ramp and large mooring fenders . A decision was made to eliminate helicopter capability and ship - to - ship transfer of heavy equipment . The propulsion motors are of British design and build . Power conversion company Converteam was selected as the supplier of Integrated Power Systems with the award of an additional contract to design and supply the electric power , propulsion and vessel automation system . An auxiliary support ship , " John Glenn " s role would be a seagoing pier for friendly forces in case accessibility to onshore bases are denied . Such flexibility would be useful following natural disaster s and for supporting US Marines once they are ashore . The MLP in its basic form possesses a core capability set that supports a vehicle staging area , side port ramp , large mooring fenders and up to three landing craft air cushioned vessel lanes . " John Glenn " is expected to be delivered in 2014 to the Military Sealift Command ' s Maritime Prepositioning Force . As an MLP , the ship is expected to come under the command of the United States Navy ' s Military Sealift Command , and thus will not be commissioned into the US Navy ( hence her designation prefix , " USNS " ) .
Heinrich Borgmann Colonel Heinrich Borgmann ( 15 August 1912 – 5 April 1945 ) was a German Army officer who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II . He is notable for being awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and for being seriously injured by the 20 July plot bomb planted by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg at the Wolf ' s Lair headquarters in Rastenburg , East Prussia . He joined the infantry in 1932 and by the outbreak of World War II was a Hauptmann . He then took part in the invasions of Poland and France and he was awarded the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross ( ) for his role in the latter campaign on 19 July 1940 . He was then posted to Eastern Front and was awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross on 11 February 1942 when serving with Infanterie - Regiment 46 . He was promoted to Major and appointed to the Army Staff at Adolf Hitler ' s headquarters in October 1943 and was then promoted to Oberstleutnant . On 20 July 1944 he was standing at the end of the conference table close to von Stauffenberg ' s briefcase bomb . Generalmajor Rudolf Schmundt and Oberstleutnant Heinz Brandt who were standing to his left and stenographer Heinich Berger to his right were all killed by the explosion , but Borgmann survived with serious injuries . After recovering he was posted to an infantry division as an Oberst . He was killed during a low level air attack in the final weeks of the war .
Moritz von Bissing Moritz Ferdinand Freiherr von Bissing ( 30 January 1844 – 18 April 1917 ) was a Prussian General der Kavallerie . Early life . Bissing was born at Ober Bellmannsdorf in the Province of Silesia . In 1865 Bissing entered the Prussian Army and raised steadily through the ranks until he became major - general in 1894 , lieutenant - general in 1897 and General der Kavallerie . From 1901 to 1907 von Bissing commanded the VII Army Corps in Münster . He retired from the army in 1908 . During his retirement , he participated in the 1912 Wimbledon Championships , losing in the 2nd round . World War I . Upon the outbreak of the war , von Bissing was recalled to active duty as deputy commander of the VII Army Corps from August 1914 until November 1914 . After the fall of Belgium during the First World War , Bissing was promoted to colonel - general and appointed governor - general of occupied Belgium , serving from December 1914 until his death near Brussels . He signed the warrant for the execution of Edith Cavell . As governor - general von Bissing executed the German Flamenpolitik during which he netherlandized the Ghent University as the first solely Dutch - speaking university . As German Chancellor Bethmann - Hollweg encouraged Flemish nationalist leaders to declare independence and to integrate into the German sphere , Von Bissing convened a commission to organise the division Belgium , and in a decree issed on 21 March 1917 , separated Belgium into two administrative areas : Flanders and Wallonia . Taking into account the 1912 decision by Walloon nationalists to recognize Namur as the most central city of Wallonia , he established the Walloon administration there . Wallonia then consisted of four southern Belgian provinces and one part of the province of Brabant : the district of Nivelles , realizing also another revendication of the Walloon movement : the creation of the Walloon Brabant . The Flemish region had Brussels as its capital , and was made up of the four northern provinces of Belgium , as well as the districts of Brussels and Leuven . This was the first attempt at dividing Belgium along linguistic lines . He is buried at the Invalidenfriedhof .
Zasław concentration camp Zwangsarbeitslager Zaslaw was the German concentration camp for Jews established in occupied Poland near the village of Zasław , ( now part of Zagórz in Poland ) . Zaslaw was a " work camp " where Jews from Sanok were deported . On January 15 , 1943 , the prisoners of Zaslaw were transported to the Belzec extermination camp , where they were killed . A small memorial to these Jews was put up in Zasław by the employees of the bus company in Sanok . The Jewish memorial sits almost directly opposite from the Roman Catholic cemetery in Zasław .
General officer commanding General officer commanding ( GOC ) is the usual title given in the armies of Commonwealth ( and some other ) nations to a general officer who holds a command appointment . Thus , a general might be the GOC II Corps or GOC 7th Armoured Division . A general officer heading a particularly large or important command may be called a general officer commanding - in - chief ( GOC - in - C ) . The equivalent term for air force officers is air officer commanding . In the United States Armed Forces , the equivalent is commanding general .
Greenbank Military Range The Greenbank Military Range is a 4 , 500ha live training facility for the Australian Defence Force located approximately south - west of Brisbane , Queensland . The location is heritage listed and also serves as a flaura and fauna reserve . The site has been the location of several controversial brumby cullings . History . 1945 Bristol Beaufort crash . On 10 April 1945 , a RAAF Bristol Beaufort crashed at Greenbank after taking part in an air gunnery exercise at the Gailes Gunnery Range , killing all four crew members . Inland Port Proposal . Tom Richman of the King ' s Counsel , ( a biannual newsletter of King & Co Property Consultants ) proposed in June 2007 that the Greenbank Military Range ' s land should be used for an inland port . Richman claims that an inland port at this location would greatly reduce current demands on the Port of Brisbane . He has suggested that the facilities at the range be moved to one of several other suitable locations that Richman has determined , the details of these locations are yet to be released . Redevelopment . In early - 2010 it was announced that in Greenbank would be redeveloped with new facilities to be built there , while a reserve unit , the 25th / 49th Battalion , Royal Queensland Regiment , would relocate there from Enoggera following completion . The new facilities will include new buildings for range control , a safe driving area and new lines for 25 / 49 RQR , including a Battalion Headquarters and two Rifle Companies , a new Q Store , a transport compound and accommodation .
USS Valeria ( AKA - 48 ) USS " Valeria " ( AKA - 48 ) was an named after the minor planet " 611 Valeria " , discovered in 1906 by Joel Hastings Metcalf , an amateur astronomer who made the initial identification of 41 minor planets . The meaning of the name is unknown . " Valeria " served as a commissioned ship for 8 months . " Valeria " ( AKA - 48 ) was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 1909 ) on 8 April 1945 at Providence , R . I . , by the Walsh - Kaiser Co . , Inc . ; launched on 29 May 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . A . D . Hunter ; and transferred to the Navy on 28 June 1945 and commissioned the same day , Lt . Comdr . Robert Smith Trower III in command . Service history . The new attack cargo ship departed Boston on 9 July ; conducted shakedown training in the Chesapeake Bay ; and got underway on 29 July , bound for the Canal Zone . She transited the Panama Canal on 5 August and steamed westward , conducting gunnery exercises en route . During her passage to Oahu , hostilities ended in the Pacific . On the 18th , " Valeria " moored at Pearl Harbor . On 7 September , she got underway for Noumea . Ten days later , the ship reached Espiritu Santo where she took on troops from and . On the 19th , " Valeria " proceeded to Nouméa where she disembarked her passengers . Underway again the next day , she returned to Espiritu Santo on the 22d . There , on the 25th , the attack cargo ship loaded elements of the 85th Construction Battalion and departed the New Hebrides the following day . She steamed via Eniwetok and delivered her cargo and passengers at Wake Island early in October . She completed discharging her cargo there on the 12th and reported for " Magic Carpet " duties — transporting returning servicemen from the Pacific islands to the United States mainland . Before the end of the year , she made two round trips carrying returning Army veterans from Eniwetok and Saipan to West Coast ports . Assigned to the 5th Naval District on 5 January 1946 , " Valeria " departed Los Angeles , California , on the 11th , steamed via the Panama Canal to the Atlantic coast , and arrived at Norfolk on 1 February . She was decommissioned on 18 March , and her name was struck from the Navy list on 17 April . Valeria was delivered to the War Shipping Administration at Lee Hall , Va . , on 26 June 1946 .
Fort Nassau , Banda Islands Fort Nassau was the first Dutch fort built on Banda ( or Bandaneira ) Island , the main island of the Banda Islands , part of Maluku in Indonesia , completed in 1609 . Its purpose was to control the trade in nutmeg , which at that time was only grown in the Banda Islands . The Portuguese had previously attempted to build a fort in this location in 1529 , but after constructing the foundations , they abandoned the work due to hostility from the Bandanese people . On 25 April 1609 , the Dutch fleet commander , Admiral Verhoeven , sent 750 soldiers ashore to commence their fort , choosing the Portuguese foundations as the location . The Bandanese , threatened by the new fort and the strength of the Dutch presence , and opposed to the Dutch plan to monopolise the Bandanese nutmeg industry attacked the Dutch , killing Admiral Verhoeven and 40 of his men . The Dutch hurried the fort to completion , and it served as their principal administrative and military base in the Banda ' s , later supplemented by other forts on Banda Besar , Forts Hollandia and Concordia , and Ai , Fort Revenge . Fort Nassau was a large four - bastioned quadrilateral structure , located by the channel between Banda and Banda Besar Islands . Today Fort Nasssau is overlooked by the more impressive Fort Belgica . It is currently damaged and dilapidated , however two bastions and substantial walls can still be seen .
Coutzes Coutzes or Cutzes ( ; " floruit " 528 ) was a general of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Emperor Justinian I ( r . 527 – 565 ) . Biography . Coutzes appears in the sources in 528 , as joint " dux " of Phoenice Libanensis together with his brother , Bouzes . The dual command had been instituted the year before by Emperor Justinian I ( r . 527 – 565 ) , and Coutzes led the troops stationed at Damascus , while his brother led the troops at Palmyra . The 6th - century historian Procopius described both brothers as being young at the time . Coutzes also had another brother , Benilus or Venilus , and was most probably the son of the general and rebel Vitalian . In 528 , a year after the outbreak of the Iberian War against Sassanid Persia , the two brothers were ordered , along with other commanders , to reinforce Belisarius ( then " dux Mesopotamiae " ) who was protecting the construction of a fort at Thannuris . When the Byzantines attacked a Persian army , however , they suffered a heavy defeat in the Battle of Thannuris . Coutzes ' s fate is uncertain ; Procopius writes that he was taken prisoner and never seen again , while Zacharias of Mytilene records that he was killed .
Piranha V The Piranha V Infantry Fighting Vehicle ( IFV ) is one variant of the fifth generation of the MOWAG Piranha family of vehicles . It was designed by General Dynamics European Land Systems - Mowag GmbH . Design . Mobility . The Piranha V is powered by a MTU 6V199 TE21 diesel engine which produces 430 kW . Survivability . STANAG 4569 Level 4 / 4a / 4b ( independently certified ) - STANAG 5 also available
Werner Buxa Werner Buxa ( 16 October 1916 – 20 May 1998 ) was a highly decorated Hauptmann in the Wehrmacht during World War II and an Oberstleutnant der Reserve in the Bundeswehr . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership .
Frances Cluett Frances Cluett ( June 25 , 1883 – November , 1969 ) was an army nurse and educator from Newfoundland , noted for her service during World War I , and especially for her many letters back home beginning in 1916 that conveyed the eye - opening experiences of a young woman leaving home for the first time and explaining in vivid detail the horrors of war . Cluett was born in Belleoram , Newfoundland , and during the war served in the Volunteer Aid Detachment in Europe . Cluett ' s two dozen letters give a detailed account of her departure from St . John ' s , travels to New York , London , France , and Constantinople , and of her amazement at the horrors of the front line . These letters are currently housed in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at the Memorial University of Newfoundland , and are in the process being published to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the battle at Beaumont Hamel in which so many Newfoundland men lost their lives . Cluett wrote of her time spent attending countless soldiers at the 10th General Hospital in Rouen , France . Cluett was a spirited woman with a strong devotion to church and family — she describes in her letters the terror and awful suffering and yet it never dampens her spirit , which is best summed up in the last line of her expressive Easter Sunday letter , perhaps the darkest she wrote : " Nothing would induce me to give it up . "
John Christopher Guise Lieutenant General John Christopher Guise VC , CB ( 27 July 1826 – 5 February 1895 ) was a British Army officer and English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces . Guise attended Sandhurst and served in the Crimean War albeit briefly as he was forced to return home after falling ill . During the Indian Mutiny , on 16 and 17 November 1857 at Lucknow , India , whilst a major in the 90th Regiment of Foot ( later The Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles ) ) , Guise , together with sergeant ( Samuel Hill ) , saved the life of a captain at the storming of the Secundra Bagh and also went in under heavy fire to help two wounded men . For this he was elected by the regiment to be awarded the VC . His citation reads : He later achieved the rank of lieutenant general . His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum , London .