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Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of San Antonio in Bexar County , Texas . It encompasses , and as of the end of 2008 , had 120 , 982 interments . History . Although the Army post in the area was established in 1875 , and construction of Fort Sam Houston began the following year , no burials were made in the area that is currently the cemetery until 1926 . In 1931 were added as an addition to San Antonio National Cemetery . In 1937 , the addition became a National Cemetery in its own right , renamed Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery . In 1947 several other forts in Texas , including Fort McIntosh , were closed and their cemetery interments were transferred to Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery . Interred at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery are 140 Axis prisoners of war ( POWs ) from World War II who died in captivity . 133 are German , 4 are Italian , and 3 are Japanese . These POWs were disinterred from various Texas prisoner of war camp s and reburied at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery . Among these POWs is Hugo Krauss , a German murdered by fellow German POWs at Camp Hearne in 1943 . When originally interred , these graves were isolated from the American graves . There are two POW graves that have been erroneously documented as " Nazi " graves because they are marked with the Knight ' s Cross , a symbol often associated with Nazism . In the context of these POW headstones , the Knight ' s Cross markings indicate that these two soldiers were awarded the Knight ' s Cross , one of Germany ' s highest military awards . These soldiers were probably members of Germany ' s famed " Afrika Korps " , and may have been taken prisoner in North Africa .
John M . Wever John Madison Wever ( February 24 , 1847 - September 27 , 1914 ) was a U . S . Representative from New York . Biography . Wever was born in Ganges Township , Michigan . He attended the common schools and Albion College . During the Civil War he entered the Union Army at the age of sixteen and served in the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Ohio . At the close of the war , he settled in Plattsburgh , New York , and engaged in banking . He was elected the county treasurer of Clinton County in 1884 and reelected in 1887 . Wever was elected as a Republican to the Fifty - second and Fifty - third Congresses , serving from March 4 , 1891 to March 3 , 1895 . He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894 to the Fifty - fourth Congress . He was cashier and later president of the Merchants ’ National Bank of Plattsburgh . He died in Plattsburgh and is buried there in Riverside Cemetery .
John Grider Miller John Grider Miller ( born 23 August 1935 in Radford , Virginia – died 31 August 2009 in Annapolis , Maryland ) was a Colonel in the United States Marine Corps , who served as Managing Editor , of " U . S . Naval Institute " Proceedings " " and of " Naval History " . Career . After graduating from Yale in 1957 , Miller was commissioned in the Marine Corps . He was an infantry officer , commanded a U . S . Marine battalion , and served as an advisor to the Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps during the Vietnam War . Later in his career , he was Deputy Director of the Marine Corps ' History and Museums Division and was a speechwriter to three Commandant of the Marine Corps . He joined the United States Naval Institute staff on 19 September 1985 and served until 31 August 2000 , becoming managing editor of " Proceedings " and " Naval History Magazine " , the latter of which he had helped to establish in 1988 . He wrote several books of which the best known is " The Bridge at Dong Ha " , the story of Navy Cross recipient John Ripley ( USMC ) .
Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below ( FBCB2 ) is a Linux - based ( older versions are Solaris based ) communication platform designed for commanders to track friendly and hostile forces on the battle field . It increases a vehicle commander ' s situational awareness of the battlefield by gathering information near real - time based on vehicle locations being updated on the battlefield . This information is viewed graphically , and exchanged via both free and fixed text message formats ( instead of verbal collection of reports ) . Development . The development of the system is managed by Project Manager , Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below , a component of the U . S . Army ' s Program Executive Office – Command Control and Communications Tactical ( PEO C3T ) . PEO C3T is based at APG at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen , Maryland . FBCB2 was tested under the First Digitized Division 4th Infantry Division based in Fort Hood , Texas , and a series of what were called " Advanced Warfighting Experiments " at the National Training Center near Barstow , California , starting in 1997 . The division conducted Limited User Test on the equipment in 1998 , and the system was approved for production . It was then tested and implemented under the Force XXI concept that stemmed from Operation Desert Storm / Shield . The system was first used in actual military operations in the former Yugoslavia in 1998 . It played a key role in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan starting in 2003 , where it is still in use . The United States Army awarded TRW ( as of 2002 , a part of Northrop Grumman ) the prime contract for FBCB2 in 1995 ; ESP ( Engineering Solutions and Products ) is now the prime contractor for the system . Work has begun on plans to reach the level of nearly 160 , 000 tracking systems in the Army within a few years ; recently the United States Army , the United States Marines Corps have reached agreement to standardize on a new variant of the system to be called Joint Battle Command - Platform . The FBCB2 system , and the BFT system , which is a variant of it , have won numerous awards and accolades , including : recognition in 2001 as one of the five best - managed software programs in the entire U . S . Government , the 2003 Institute for Defense and Government Advancement ’ s award for most innovative U . S . Government program , the 2003 Federal Computer Week Monticello Award ( given in recognition of an information system that has a direct , meaningful impact on human lives ) , and the Battlespace Information 2005 “ Best Program in Support of Coalition Operations " .
Ranks and insignia of the Confederate States The Ranks and insignia of the Confederate States were a rank insignia system devised by the forces of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War . While based on the Union rank system , changes were introduced to differentiate the " gray " from the " blue " . Junior officers up to captain had a less elaborate pattern of braid on their tunic cuffs and wore collar insignia of three horizontal bars for a captain , two for a first lieutenant and one for a second lieutenant . Majors , lieutenant colonels , and colonels wore respectively one , two , and three stars on the collar , and all grades of general had the insignia of three stars ( the middle being slightly larger ) in an open top wreath pattern . Most officers wore buttons in two rows of seven . Generals could be recognised by the eagles on their buttons and the placement of the buttons in groups of two . While there was no official distinction for different grades of general , some major generals adopted the pattern of their Union counterparts by wearing two row of nine buttons in groups of three .
Courtney ' s and Steel ' s Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Courtney ' s and Steel ' s Post Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located near ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey . It contains the graves of some of the former British Empire troops who died during the Gallipoli Campaign . The campaign lasted eight months and was fought by British Empire and French forces against the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea . British , French and other Allied troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 at Cape Helles in the south whilst Australian and New Zealand troops ( the ANZAC corps ) landed on the west coast . Courtney ' s Post was named after Lieutenant - Colonel Richard Courtney of the 14th Australian Infantry Battalion who took command of it on 27 April . Steel ' s Post , named after Major Thomas Steel was just to the South West of it . Both positions were captured on the day of the landings and held until the Allies withdrew in December . The cemetery contains special memorials to 58 casualties believed to be buried amongst 160 unidentified graves . Spelling . Steel ' s Post was officially , but incorrectly , named Steele ' s Post . The inscription on the cemetery follows this spelling and labels it Courtney ' s and Steele ' s Post but the CWCG lists the cemetery as " Courtney ' s and Steel ' s Post " .
Battle of Uedahara The was the first defeat suffered by Takeda Shingen , and the first field battle in Japan in which firearms were used . Takeda Shingen met up with his force that had taken Shika castle , and led 7000 men north to face the threat posed by Murakami Yoshikiyo . Shingen ' s vanguard was led by Itagaki Nobukata ; when they charged head - on into Murakami ' s vanguard , the charge was absorbed , and Itagaki was killed . Murakami made use of 50 " ashigaru " armed with Chinese arquebus es , who were meant to serve as support for archers . All in all , 700 of Takeda ' s men were killed , including Itagaki , and two other generals , Amari Torayasu and Hajikano Den ' emon . Shingen himself even suffered a spear wound to his side .
10th Division ( Australia ) The 10th Division was a division of the Australian Army , which served briefly during World War II . It was initially formed on 15 April 1942 from the Militia units of the Newcastle Covering Force , however , manpower shortages within the Army at that time led to it being disbanded in August that year . As the war progressed and plans were made for the invasion of the Japanese home islands — Operation Downfall — it was planned to re - raise the 10th Division using personnel drawn from the Second Australian Imperial Force . However , the war came to an end before this operation took place and as a consequence the division was never re - raised . History . Formation and disbandment . Following the start of the Pacific War , the Newcastle Covering Force , a Militia formation composed of the 1st and 32nd Brigades under the command of Major General John Murray , was renamed the 10th Division on 15 April 1942 following a complete re - organisation of the higher command of the Australian Army . However , on 27 August 1942 , personnel shortages caused the division to be disbanded . Australian Prime Minister John Curtin referred to this in a letter to Winston Churchill in October 1942 , saying : Plans to re - raise . Much later in the war , as Allied forces approached the Japan ese home islands , planning began for a Commonwealth Corps , including an Australian Imperial Force ( AIF ) division , to be the re - raised 10th Division . The division was to be made up of experienced personnel from the existing divisions . The corps would have included British and Canadian divisions , and was to be part of a landing on Honshū in 1946 . Regardless , the planned landing would have been dominated by US forces , and was known as Operation Coronet . However , the introduction of nuclear weapon s , and their use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused Japan to surrender before the invasion took place . As a result , the 10th Division was never re - raised . Instead , the decision was made to raise the 34th Brigade for occupation duties in Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force . This formation consisted of men drawn from the three remaining AIF divisions — the 6th , 7th and 9th Divisions .
Isaac Sapp Isaac Sapp ( born 1844 , date of death unknown ) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor . Born in 1844 at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , Sapp later joined the Navy from that state . By December 15 , 1871 , he was serving as a seaman in the engineering department of the . On that day , while the " Shenandoah " was at Villefranche - sur - Mer , France , he jumped overboard and , with Midshipman Miller , rescued Seaman Charles Prince from drowning . For this action , he was awarded the Medal of Honor two months later , on February 8 , 1872 . His first name was misspelled as " Isacc " on the citation . Sapp ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : On board the U . S . S . " Shenandoah " during the rescue of a shipmate at Villefranche , 15 December 1871 . Jumping overboard , Sapp gallantly assisted in saving Charles Prince , seaman , from drowning .
Abdul Rahman ( GC ) Havildar Abdul Rahman was posthumous ly awarded the George Cross , the highest British ( and Commonwealth ) award for bravery out of combat . He was awarded the decoration for the gallantry he showed in attempting an aircrash rescue on 22 February 1945 in Kletek in Java . He was serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Jat Regiment in the Indian Army during World War II which had fought in the Battle of Cauldron against Rommel ' s forces and saw action at Imphal in 1943 . His award was announced in the London Gazette of 10 September 1946 . His surname is sometimes spelled " Rehman " .
USS LST - 712 USS " LST - 712 " was a built for the United States Navy during World War II . The ship was laid down on 22 May 1944 at the Jefferson Boat & Machine Company in Jeffersonville , Indiana ; launched on 7 July 1944 , sponsored by Mrs . Elma Mae Goodhue , and commissioned on 2 August 1944 . Service history . During World War II , " LST - 712 " was assigned to the Asiatic - Pacific Theater . It participated in two operations : the invasion of Lingayen Gulf in January 1945 , and the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto , which took place from April to June 1945 . Following the war , " LST - 712 " performed occupation duty in the Far East until mid - December 1945 . She returned to the United States and was decommissioned on 20 May 1946 , and struck from the Navy List on 28 August that same year . On 27 May 1948 , the ship was sold to the Basalt Rock Company of Napa , California , and subsequently scrapped . Awards . USS " LST - 712 " earned two battle star s for World War II service .
Sidon Sea Castle History . Sidon ' s Sea Castle ( Arabic : قلعة صيدا البحرية " Kalaat Saida al - Bahriya " ) is one of the most prominent archaeological sites in the Sidon , Lebanon . The City of Sidon is found on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon . This ancient Phoenician city has been of great religious , political and commercial value ; it is said to be inhabited since 4000 B . C . During the 13th century , the Crusaders built Sidon ' s Sea Castle as a fortress on a small island connected to the mainland by a narrow 80m long roadway . The island was formerly the site of a temple to Melqart , the Phoenician version of Heracles . The beauty of the Castle can be seen in old illustrations of it ; however , after bearing several wars , it has been damaged and renovated several times . It was partially destroyed by the Mamluks when they took over the city from the Crusaders , but they subsequently rebuilt it and added the long causeway . The castle later fell into disuse , but was again restored in the 17th century by Emir Fakhreddine II , only to suffer great damage . There is a possibility that the island where the castle was built on was the location of the Phoenician King ' s palace and several other Phoenician monuments which were destroyed by Esarhaddon and then by natural earthquakes . This island has also served as a shelter from inside attacks on the city . Great Sidon , Little Sidon , powerful fortresses , pastures , cisterns and fortifications are all mentioned in the Assyrian king Sennacherib ' s recordings of his attacks on Sidon and nearby cities . Description . Today , the castle consists primarily of two towers connected by a wall . In the outer walls , Roman columns were used as horizontal reinforcements , a feature often seen in fortifications built on or near former Roman sites . The rectangular west tower to the left of the entrance is the better preserved of the two . There is a large vaulted room scattered with old carved capitals and rusting cannonballs . A winding staircase leads up to the roof , where there is a small , domed Ottoman - era mosque . From the roof , there is a view across the old city and fishing harbor . The east tower isn ' t as well preserved and was built in two phases ; the lower part dates to the Crusader period , while the upper level was built by the Mamluks . There has also been evidence of the old Phoenician city being buried under the sea in the area surrounding the castle : structures of walls , columns , stairways , remains of buildings , statues and cisterns .
HMS Scorpion ( 1746 ) HMS " Scorpion " was a 14 - gun two - masted " Merlin " - class sloop of the Royal Navy , built by Wyatt and Major at Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire , England and launched on 8 July 1746 . She foundered in the Irish Sea in September 1762 .
Samarai Advanced Seaplane Base Samarai Advanced Seaplane Base was a US Navy seaplane base at Samarai Island , Papua New Guinea during World War II . The advanced seaplane base was built by a detachment of the 84th Naval Construction Battalion ( Seabees ) with help from members of USS San Pablo ( AVP - 30 ) , a seaplane tender . The base was built within 42 days and included a ramp , small hangar , apron , barrack accommodation for 270 men and four 1 , 000 barrel aviation fuel tanks . The seaplane tenders sailors worked around the clock to fuel , repair , arm , control the seaplanes , feed and care for the PBY Catalina crews . Operations from the base included attacking enemy shipping along the coasts of New Guinea , New Britain , New Ireland , and the Bismarck Sea . Heavy losses were inflicted upon Imperial Japanese inter - island barge traffic and shipping . The aircraft harassed enemy troops with night bombing and strafing missions , conducted photo intelligence operations , provided air - sea search and rescue support for downed allied pilots and sailors of sunken vessels . They also transported high - ranking officers , friendly coast watchers , and native guerrilla units . The seaplane base appears to have been abandoned in May 1944 .
USS Kenwood ( 1863 ) USS " Kenwood " ( 1863 ) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways . " Kenwood " , a stern wheel steamer was launched 3 April 1863 , by H . A . Jones at Cincinnati , Ohio ; purchased for the Navy by Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter and commissioned at Cairo , Illinois , 24 May 1863 , Acting Master John Swaney in command . " Kenwood " joined the Mississippi River squadron , 1 June 1863 , and operated on the Arkansas River in the vicinity of Fort Pillow . Following brief river convoy duty , " Kenwood " participated in the joint Army - Navy expedition which captured Yazoo City , Mississippi , 13 July 1863 . " Kenwood " was sent to the Port Hudson , Louisiana , Division , 19 August 1863 and served as a convoy and patrol gunboat at Baton Rouge , Louisiana , until 10 February 1865 , when she was ordered to the 4th River District at Natchez . After helping to neutralize Rebel forces west of the Mississippi , " Kenwood " was sent 28 May 1865 to New Orleans , Louisiana , as a transport for officers . Following this duty , she steamed to Mound City , Illinois , and decommissioned 7 August 1865 . " Kenwood " was sold at Mound City to W . J . Priest 17 August 1865 . After merchant service , as " Cumberland " , she exploded and sank at Shawneetown , Illinois , 14 August 1869 with the loss of 18 lives .
No . 16 Squadron ( Finland ) No . 16 Squadron ( or " LLv . 16 " , from 3 May 1942 " Le . Lv . 16 " ) , renamed No . 16 Reconnaissance Squadron ( Finnish : " Tiedustelulentolaivue 16 " or " TLe . Lv . 16 " on 14 February 1944 ) was a reconnaissance squadron of the Finnish Air Force during World War II . The squadron was part of Flying Regiment 1 during the Winter War and Flying Regiment 2 during the Continuation War . Organization . Winter War . The equipment consisted of 8 Blackburn Ripon IIs , 4 Fokker C . V Es , 3 Junkers W 34 and K 43 , and 3 Fokker C . X s . Continuation War . The equipment consisted of 5 Gloster Gladiator IIs , 3 Fokker D . X s , 4 Westland Lysander Is , 6 VL Myrsky IIs , and an undisclosed number of de Havilland Moth s .
41st Air Refueling Squadron The 41st Air Refueling Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit . It was last assigned to the 380th Operations Group , stationed at Griffiss AFB , New York . It was inactivated on 15 February 1993 . History . World War II . Activated 1 April 1944 at Dalhart Army Airfield , Texas . Initially equipped with B - 17 Flying Fortress es for training , due to shortage of B - 29 Superfortress es . Moved to Harvard Army Airfield , Nebraska , in August 1944 and equipped with B - 29B limited production aircraft . After completion of training deployed to Central Pacific Area ( CPA ) , assigned to XXI Bomber Command , Northwest Field ( Guam ) for operational missions . B - 29Bs were standard production aircraft stripped of most defensive guns to increase speed and bomb load , The tail gun was aimed and fired automatically by the new AN / APG - 15B radar fire control system that detected the approaching enemy plane and made all the necessary calculations . Mission of the squadron was the strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands . Dntered combat on 16 June 1945 with a bombing raid against an airfield on Moen . Flew first mission against the Japanese home islands on 26 June 1945 and afterwards operated principally against the enemy ' s petroleum industry . Flew primarily low - level , fast attacks at night using a mixture of high - explosive and incendary bombs to attack targets . Flew last combat mission on 15 August 1945 , later flew in " Show of Force " mission on 2 September 1945 over Tokyo Bay during formal Japanese Surrender . Inactivated on Guam 15 April 1946 , personnel returned to the United States and aircraft sent to storage in Southwest United States . Air Force Reserve . Allotted to the Air Force Reserve as a Tactical Air Command B - 26 Invader light bomb group in 1947 . Inactivated in 1949 due to budget restrictions . Cold War . Stationed at Griffiss AFB , the squadron provided air refueling to Strategic Air Command and other tactical aircraft using KC - 135 Stratotanker s ( 1966 - 1976 ) on a worldwide scale . Lineage . 41st Bombardment Squadron 41st Air Refueling Squadron
Comox Air Force Museum The Comox Air Force Museum collects , preserves , interprets and exhibits artifacts relating to CFB Comox , its squadrons and its units . The museum is located at the main gate of CFB Comox , located in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island , British Columbia . The museum opened its doors in the current location 12 September 1987 . In addition to the exhibits , the museum has an aviation reference library and an aviation art gallery . The Heritage Air Park where the aircraft are on display is located 500 metres down the road from the museum as is the Y2K Spitfire restoration hangar . Aircraft . The following aircraft are on display int the Comox Air Force Museum ' s Heritage Air Park located 500 meters from the Museum : Exhibits . First World War . This exhibit displays artifacts from the First World War focusing on airman from the West Coast . Second World War . This exhibit has many artifacts from the Second World War some of which include : UN Peacekeeping . This exhibit displays many artifacts from Canada ' s part in UN Peacekeeping missions . Affiliations . The Museum is affiliated with : CMA , CHIN , OMMC and Virtual Museum of Canada .