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War Assets Administration The War Assets Administration was established in the Office for Emergency Management , effective March 25 , 1946 , by EO 9689 , January 31 , 1946 . American factories had produced massive amounts of weaponry during the World War II . Hundreds of thousands of tons of surplus military equipment , from mess kits to tanks , airplanes , machine guns , artillery , and even warships , were now being offered for sale as scrap by the War Assets Administration ( WAA ) . Functions . Disposed of surplus consumer , capital , and producer goods ; industrial and maritime real property ; and airports and aircraft located in the United States and its territories . Abolished . By the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act ( 63 Stat . 738 ) , June 30 , 1949 . Successor Agencies . General Services Administration , as liquidator . References . Records of the War Assets Administration ( WAA ) in the holdings of the US National Archives and Records Administration . < refrences > http : / / www . palestine - studies . org / enakba / military / Calhoun , % 20Arming % 20David . pdf < / refrences >
SS Empire Cloud Empire Cloud was a 5 , 969 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1940 by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd , Sunderland for the Ministry of War Transport ( MoWT ) . She was torpedo ed on her maiden voyage , but repaired and returned to service . In 1942 , she was torpedoed and sank whilst under tow to port . Description . The ship was built by William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd , Sunderland . She was launched on 27 December 1940 and completed in April 1941 . The ship was long , with a beam of and a depth of . She had a GRT of 5 , 669 and a NRT of 3 , 546 . The ship was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine , which had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke . The engine was built by George Clarke ( 1938 ) Ltd , Sunderland . History . " Empire Cloud " was built for the MoWT . She was placed under the management of Allen , Black & Co Ltd . Her port of registry was Sunderland . The Code Letters BCGC and United Kingdom Official Number 168668 were allocated . " Empire Cloud " was a member of a number of convoys during the Second World War . Convoy OB 318 departed from Liverpool on 2 May 1941 and dispersed at sea on 10 May . " Empire Cloud " was on her maiden voyage . At 14 : 28 on 9 May , " Empire Cloud " was torpedoed and damaged by when east northeast of Cape Farewell ( ) . Five crew were killed , the survivors were picked up by . The ship was abandoned , but assisted in the protection of her while the Dutch tug " Thames " was despatched from Reykjavík , Iceland . also assisted " Empire Cloud " . " Thames " arrived on 13 May and towed " Empire Cloud " at to Greenock , where she arrived on 20 May . She was repaired and returned to service . " Empire Cloud " may have sailed in Convoy HX 167 , which departed Halifax , Nova Scotia on 27 December 1941 and arrived at Liverpool on 11 January 1942 . She is noted under Convoy SC 63 as having come from HX 167 . Convoy SC 63 departed from Sydney , Cape Breton on 3 January 1942 and dispersed at sea on 13 January . " Empire Cloud " was carrying a general cargo and was bound for Manchester . " Empire Cloud " was a member of Convoy TAW ( S ) . At about 10 : 10 on 19 August 1942 , " Empire Cloud " was torpedoed by northeast of Trinidad with the loss of three crew members . The Dutch tug " Roode Zee " took her in tow , but she sank on 21 August at . The surviving crew were rescued by other ships in the convoy . They were landed at Key West , Florida and Mobile , Alabama . Those lost on " Empire cloud " are commemorated at the Tower Hill Memorial , London .
Qurra ibn Sharik al - Absi Qurra ibn Sharik al - Absi was the governor of Egypt in 709 – 715 , under the Umayyad Caliphate . His governance was effective , and the chronicler al - Kindi reports that he " reorganized the " diwan " " ( the list of those entitled to " ata " , government salary ) , rebuilt the mosque of Fustat and began irrigation works in the desert . According to Hugh N . Kennedy , he is " in some ways Qurra is the best - known of all the Umayyad governors of Egypt " , since " it is from his period of office that the richest collection of administrative papyri survive " . He died in office in 715 .
Chief Earth Woman Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth - century Ojibwa . She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream , and for this reason , accompanied the men on the warpath . She was born around 1878 near Waterloo , Ohio as Birtha Snyder , Snider or Snidow . She married a man named " White Owl " in 1893 , and she frequently traveled from Ohio to Michigan . She lived in a place called " Old Man ' s Cave " while in Ohio .
Aero A . 102 The Aero A . 102 was a Czechoslovakia n fighter aircraft that flew in prototype form in 1934 . It was developed in response to a Czech Air Force requirement of that year , but was passed over in favour of the Avia B . 35 . The A . 102 was of gull winged monoplane configuration with tailwheel undercarriage , and was perhaps inspired by the successful PZL P . 11 .
USNS Alan Shepard ( T - AKE - 3 ) USNS " Alan Shepard " ( T - AKE - 3 ) is a " Lewis and Clark " - class dry cargo ship in the United States Navy . It is named for astronaut Rear Admiral Alan Shepard ( 1923 - 1998 ) . The contract to build it was awarded to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company ( NASSCO ) of San Diego , on 16 July 2002 . Construction began on 13 September 2005 . It was launched 6 December 2006 , sponsored by Laura Churchley , daughter of RAdm . Shepard . It is scheduled to be part of the Pacific Fleet .
Joanna Żubr Joanna Żubr ( " ca . " 1770 - 1852 ) was a Polish soldier of the Napoleonic Wars , a veteran of the Polish - Austrian War , and the first woman to receive the Virtuti Militari , the highest Polish military decoration . After the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars and creation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1808 , Joanna Żubr with her husband , Michał , left Austrian - ruled Volhynia . Both joined the army of the new Duchy , with Joanna initially a camp - follower . Soon she enlisted in the 2nd Infantry Regiment ( 4th company , 2nd battalion ) as a private , hiding that she was a woman from both her superiors and fellow soldiers . In 1809 , Joanna took part in the Galician Campaign , distinguishing herself in the Battle of Zamość on May 19 of that year . For her bravery , Prince Józef Poniatowski awarded her the medal of Virtuti Militari ; Joanna was the first female soldier to be awarded the decoration and one of the first women in the world to receive a military award for bravery in battle . After the campaign , she joined the 17th Infantry Regiment in Dąbrowski ' s Division , under Jan Henryk Dąbrowski . Her husband was an ensign in the same regiment and Joanna Żubr was promoted to sergeant , as the first woman in the Polish Army . Their division , renamed the Greater Polish Division , took part in Napoleon ' s invasion of Russia and his campaign in present - day Belarus . During the battles and Napoleon ' s retreat , she was separated from her division , but she managed to escape from Russia on her own . In the summer of 1813 , weeks after Prince Józef Poniatowski ' s forces had abandoned Kraków , she reached Polish units in Saxony and served with distinction until the signing of the Treaty of Fontainebleau and the end of the war . Joanna and her husband returned to Poland . Because she could return to neither Austrian - occupied nor Russian - held parts of Poland , they settled at Wieluń . She died there during a cholera epidemic in 1852 , at the age of about eighty .
Armand - Octave - Marie d ’ Allonville Viscount Armand - Octave - Marie d ' Allonville ( 21 January 1809 – 19 October 1867 ) was a French general of division which distinguished himself during the French conquest of Algeria and the Crimean War . He was later appointed senator . Biography . Origins . Armand d ' Allonville was born 21 January 1809 in Hanover , then under French occupation , from viscount Antoine Jean Baptiste d ' Allonville ( 1765 – 1811 ) and Céleste Octavie de La Bourdonnaye ( 1787 – 1863 ) . His family has a military heritage that dates back from the Crusades . A noble from Brittany , his father had emigrated during the French Revolution and d ' Allonville was re - naturalized French in Rennes in 1830 . Early military career . After his graduation from the École d ' application du Corps royal d ' état - major , he entered the cavalry . He witnessed the Siege of Antwerp in 1832 , as aide - de - camp of General Rullière . During the conquest of Algeria , he commanded an indigenous irregular cavalry squadron . After the battle of the Smala , he received the officer cross of the Légion d ' honneur . At the Battle of Isly , he distinguished himself by taking the Moroccans ' cannons with his Spahi s . In 1839 , he was appointed lieutenant - colonel of the 1st Regiment of Spahis by Marshall de Saint Arnaud . Napoleon III ' s coup . Colonel of the 5th Hussar Regiment in 1845 , he was promoted general of brigade in 1851 and participated to Napoléon III ' s coup d ' état , 2 December 1851 . He commanded a division of cavalry on the Champs - Élysées , but didn ' t meet hostility from the Parisian crowd . Crimean War . D ' Allonville was the commandant of the Chasseurs d ' Afrique brigade during the Charge of the Light Brigade . Under his command , the Chasseurs d ' Afrique cleared the two half batteries of guns , two infantry battalions and Cossacks on the Fedyukhin Heights to ensure the British Light Brigade would not be hit by fire from that flank and later provided cover for the remaining elements of the Light Brigade as they withdrew . For this brilliant feat of arms , d ' Allonville was promoted general of division and commanded , from 20 May 1855 , the 1st brigade , comprising the 1st and 4th hussar regiments , and the 2nd brigade , comprising the 6th and 7th dragoon regiments . At the battle of Eupatoria , d ' Allonville led the 4th hussar and the 6th and 7th dragoon regiments and was made Grand - Croix of the Légion d ' honneur and received the Order of the Bath and the Order of the Medjidie . Later life . D ' Allonville ' s declining health led him to leave active service in the French army and he became conseiller - général of Ille - et - Vilaine . He was appointed senator in December 1865 and died 19 October 1867 in Versailles . He was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris .
Battle of South Mills The Battle of South Mills , also known as the Battle of Camden , took place on April 19 , 1862 in Camden County , North Carolina as part of Union Army General Ambrose E . Burnside ' s North Carolina expedition during the American Civil War . Learning that the Confederates were building ironclads at Norfolk , Burnside planned an expedition to destroy the Dismal Swamp Canal locks to prevent transfer of the ships to Albemarle Sound . He entrusted the operation to Brig . Gen . Jesse L . Reno ' s command , which embarked on transports from Roanoke Island on April 18 . By midnight , the convoy reached Elizabeth City and began disembarking troops . On the morning of April 19 , Reno marched north on the road to South Mills . At the crossroads a few miles below South Mills , elements of Col . Ambrose R . Wright ' s command delayed the Federals until dark . Reno abandoned the expedition and withdrew during the night to the transports at Elizabeth City . The transports carried Reno ' s troops to New Bern where they arrived on April 22 .
VL Kotka VL E . 30 Kotka ( ) was a Finnish two - seat , biplane maritime patrol aircraft , designed by Kurt Berger at the State Aircraft Factory ( " Valtion lentokonetehdas " ) . It was meant to replace the Blackburn Ripon s that were in service with the Finnish Air Force . The prototype made its first flight on September 30 , 1930 . In 1931 the State Aircraft Factory began producing a series of five aircraft . These were used as liaison aircraft until 1944 . One aircraft ( no . 4 , KA - 147 ) is still preserved and on display at the Päijät - Häme Aviation Museum .
Charles Hovey Charles Emerson Hovey ( 10 January 1885 – 24 September 1911 ) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Philippine - American War . Born in Portsmouth , New Hampshire , Ensign Hovey graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1907 . He served aboard the in the Philippines in 1911 . While in charge of a shore party on the island of Basilan , Ensign Hovey was killed by gunshot when attacked by natives on 24 September 1911 .
HMS H47 HMS " H47 " was a British H class submarine built by William Beardmore and Company , Dalmuir . She was laid down on 20 November 1917 and was commissioned on 25 February 1919 . HMS " H47 " was sunk in a collision with British L class submarine " L12 " off Milford Haven , Wales on 9 July 1929 . Twenty one of the crew were lost with only three survivors .
USS Elmasada ( SP - 109 ) USS " Elmasada " ( SP - 109 ) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919 . " Elmasada " was built as a civilian motorboat in 1909 by Robert Jacobs at City Island , New York . In mid - May 1917 her owner , C . B . Fox of New Orleans , Louisiana , was ordered to turn her over to the U . S . Navy for use as a patrol boat during World War I . The Navy purchased her from Fox later in May and commissioned her on 4 June 1917 as USS " Elmasada " ( SP - 109 ) . " Elmasada " was attached to the 8th Naval District and employed in patrol and transport duties in the New Orleans area . " Elmasada " was stricken from the Navy List on 20 May 1919 and transferred to the United States Lighthouse Service at New Orleans in June 1919 .
Fort Assumption Fort Assumption ( or Fort De L ' Assomption ) was a French fortification constructed in 1739 on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff on the Mississippi River at present day Memphis , Tennessee . The fort was used as a base against the Chickasaw in the abortive Campaign of 1739 . History . In 1739 , Jean - Baptiste Le Moyne , Sieur de Bienville led an army of 1 , 200 Frenchmen into the area of what is modern day Shelby County , Tennessee to eradicate the native Chickasaw Indians in order to secure and prepare the land for settlement by the French . As a base for the operation he chose the fourth Chickasaw Bluff and ordered the construction of a fortification on top of the bluff . On August 15 , 1739 , the day of the Feast of the Assumption , the fort was finished and named " Fort Assumption " in commemoration of the holy day . The French stronghold consisted of three bastion s facing the land and two bastions fronting the Mississippi River . On the slope from the river to the top of the Bluff seven wide terraces protected from attacks . During the winter of 1739 / 40 , the garrison was plagued by " weather , disease , desertion and drunkenness " . The Chickasaw had taken French hostages during the eradication campaign , the hostages were released on March 20 , 1740 after negotiations . On March 31 , 1740 the discouraged and exhausted French troops were withdrawn and the fortification was abandoned by the French army . Although the French presence on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff only lasted for a few months , the area was claimed by France for eighty years . Some historical research indicates that Fort Assumption could have been built on or near the site of an earlier French stockade fortification , Fort Prudhomme . Cavelier de La Salle ' s canoe expedition of the Mississippi River Delta constructed Fort Prudhomme in 1682 .
Oxygen Breathing Apparatus An Oxygen Breathing Apparatus or OBA is a rebreather . It is used primarily in firefighting . Its oxygen is generated by chemicals contained in the green canister , which is inserted at the base of the breathing device . As of early 2001 , the US Navy has been replacing the OBA for firefighting with the SCBA . The SCBA is more cost - effective than the OBA , and also does not produce hazardous waste , a problem with the chemical oxygen generation system .
William Scull William Scull ( 1739 - 1784 ) was an American cartographer and officer during the Revolutionary War . Scull was the grandson of Nicholas Scull , who was the colonial Surveyor General of Pennsylvania . In 1770 , he published a map of Pennsylvania with Robert Sayer and John Bennett and engraved by Henry Dawkins and James Nevil in Philadelphia . It was republished in many editions in France and England , although it is considered a compilation of the work of other cartographers . He was commissioned an officer with the rank of Captain in the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment . He retired from that position on July 1 , 1778 , to take a position on the staff of Robert Erskine in the Geographer ' s Department of the Continental Army . William Scull was also a member of the American Philosophical Society from Reading , Pennsylvania .
91st Division ( IDF ) The Israel Defense Forces 91st Division , known also as the Galilee Formation ( , " Utzbat HaGalil " ) , is a regional division in the IDF Northern Command , responsible for the front with Lebanon , from Rosh HaNikra to Mount Hermon . Its headquarters are located at Biranit , Israel , along with a military police investigations base .
34th Indian States Forces Infantry Brigade The 34th Indian State Forces Infantry Brigade was an Infantry formation of the Indian Army during World War II . It was formed in June 1941 , in Karachi for garrison service in East Africa by the re designation of HQ Baghdad Line of Communications Sub Area . It was the only complete brigade formed by Indian State Forces during the war . In April 1942 it was broken up and in June 1942 , converted to HQ Abadan Line of Communications Sub Area . Which was itself converted to 34th Indian Infantry Brigade in January 1944 , under command 12th Indian Infantry Division . The Brigade was finally disbanded in October 1944 .
Chevalier Paul Jean - Paul de Saumeur ( off Marseille , 1598 — Toulon , 20 December 1667 ) , often called Chevalier Paul was a French admiral who served in several Mediterranean campaigns . Saumeur began sailing at the age of twelve in the navy of the Order of Malta . He distinguished himself in a naval engagement by defeating two Turkish galleys , replacing his captain after he was killed . Saumeur kept the command of the ship and in another fight he defeated five Ottoman ship , sinking two of them and capturing a third . He was knighted in 1637 . As Richelieu was seeking officers for the newly organised French Navy , Saumeur enlisted and was given command of the ship " Neptune " . He took part in several campaigns against Spain , commanding the " Grand Anglois " and the " Licorne " on which he played an important part in winning the Battle of Guetaria . In 1650 , Saumeur was titled and promoted to squadron commander , setting his flag on the " Reine " . He was again promoted to " Lieutenant général " in 1654 , and wounded the next year .
HMS Impregnable ( 1786 ) HMS " Impregnable " was a Royal Navy 98 - gun second rate . This ship of the line was launched on 15 April 1786 at Deptford Dockyard . She was wrecked in 1799 off Spithead . Service . In 1794 , " Impregnable " served as Rear - Admiral Benjamin Caldwell ' s flagship at the Glorious First of June . Fate . She was lost off Chichester on 18 October 1799 . She had escorted a convoy of 12 merchantmen from Lisbon to the Isle of Wight and her master , Michael Jenkins , was anxious to get into Spithead that night . The result was that she ended up on the Chichester Shoals . She anchored overnight and cut away her masts . At dawn her crew discovered that she had beaten a mile and a half over the shoals and lay near the entrance to Langstone Harbour . The following day she was found to have bilged . After she was stripped of her guns and anything else that could be retrieved , the Admiralty sold " Impregnable ' s " remains to a Portsmouth merchant , A . Lindenegren . The court martial on 30 October dismissed Master Jenkins from the service .
Jean - Baptiste Marchand Major Jean - Baptiste Marchand ( 2 November 1863 – 13 January 1934 ) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa . Marchand is best known for commanding the French expeditionary force during the Fashoda Incident Marchand was born in Thoissey , Ain and attended l ’ Ecole militaire de Saint - Maixent . He participated in the French conquest of Senegal and was severely wounded in 1889 at the capture of Diena by the French . In 1890 he was sent to explore the sources of the Niger River and the Nile and to occupy the areas around Fashoda ( now known as Kodok in Sudan ) and bring it under French control . After a 14 - month trek by foot and boat across Africa , Marchand ' s expedition of 20 French officers and NCOs and 130 French Senegalese troops arrived at Fashoda , an abandoned fort on the Nile , on 10 July 1898 . Marchand rebuilt the fort , but the expected support from other French columns and from Abyssinia did not arrive , and on 11 September a flotilla of British gunboats , led by Sir Herbert Kitchener , commander of the Anglo - Egyptian army that had just defeated the forces of the Mahdi at the Battle of Omdurman , reached Fashoda . Both sides insisted on control of Fashoda . This led to several weeks of intense debate between Paris and London , at the end of which , Marchand was ordered to leave Fashoda to the British . He greeted his recall with extreme disgust and returned to France through Abyssinia ( Fashoda Incident ) . Marchand later fought with French expeditionary forces in China during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion . He was promoted to the rank of General in 1915 during World War I and was wounded in 1915 in the Battle of Champagne and again in 1916 in the Battle of the Somme . He retired from the Army in 1919
Nikolay Krasnov Nikolay Ivanovich Krasnov ( ) ( January 29 , 1833 – September 15 , 1900 ) was a major - general of the Imperial Russian Army . Nikolay Krasnov was born in the stanitsa Veshenskaya of the Don Voisko Province into the family of the Ataman of Don Cossack Voisko , lieutenant - general Ivan Krasnov ( 1800 – 1871 ) . He graduated from the 1st Cadets Corps in Saint Petersburg and since 1851 served at the Life Guards of " Don Cavalry and Artillery Battery " in the rank of praporshik . During Crimean War ( 1853 – 1856 ) . In 1855 , Krasnov took part in the Siege of Taganrog in the rank of sotnik , while his father , Lieutenant - General Ivan Krasnov , commanded the city ' s defense . In 1858 , he graduated from the Academy of General Headquarters and served at the General Headquarters from 1860 to 1889 . In 1863 , Krasnov participated in the Polish campaign and was awarded with an Order of St . Anne of the 3rd degree . He was promoted to the rank of major - general in 1880 and gave his resignation in 1891 . Krasnov settled in the city of Taganrog in 1860s and besides his government and military career , published several articles and books on history of Don Cossacks and Don Voisko Province . His best known books are : " The Land of the Don Voisko " ( " Земля Войска Донского " ) , published in Saint Petersburg in 1863 , and " The Military Review of the Land of the Don Voisko " ( " Военное обозрение земли Войска Донского " ) , published in Saint Petersburg in 1864 . General Nikolay Krasnov died in the city of Taganrog on September 15 , 1900 and was buried at the Taganrog ' s " Old Cemetery " .