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USS Bailey ( TB - 21 ) The second USS " Bailey " ( Torpedo Boat No . 21 / TB - 21 / Coast Torpedo Boat No . 8 ) was laid down on 30 April 1898 at Morris Heights , N . Y . , by the Gas Engine & Power Co . & Charles L . Seabury Co . ; launched on 5 December 1899 ; sponsored by Miss Florence Beekman Bailey ; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 10 June 1901 , Lt . George W . Williams in command . Service history . Three days after commissioning , " Bailey " got underway for the Torpedo Station , Newport , R . I . , where she served for several months . She headed south in October and arrived at Port Royal , S . C . , on the last day of the month . The torpedo boat stayed there until June 1902 when she moved to Norfolk , Va . , where she was placed out of commission on the 14th of the month . The warship was put into commission , in reserve , on 27 January 1904 . As a unit of the Reserve Torpedo Flotilla , she spent most of her time tied up at a pier in Norfolk because of a shortage of personnel . However , the warship did put to sea occasionally to test her machinery , armaments , and equipment . She was placed back in full commission on 7 November 1909 for the voyage to the Charleston Navy Yard where she again went into reserve on 22 December 1909 . " Bailey " was returned to full commission on 1 June 1910 and cruised the Atlantic coast for several months in the 1st Torpedo Division . Detached from that organization on 14 September 1910 , the torpedo boat moved to Annapolis , Md . , where she undertook duty training midshipmen at the U . S . Naval Academy and performing services for the engineering experimentation station located there . In October 1911 , " Bailey " joined the Reserve Torpedo Division at Annapolis and continued in that status until she was placed in ordinary at the Naval Academy on 1 April 1914 . " Bailey " remained inactive at Annapolis until two months before the United States entered World War I . On 6 February 1917 , she was returned to full commission and assigned temporarily to patrol duty out of Norfolk , Va . On 10 May 1917 , the torpedo boat departed Norfolk for her permanent wartime station New York City . She spent the remainder of the war patrolling the waters in and around New York state , and , on 1 August 1918 , in order to clear the name " Bailey " for a new destroyer , the ship was renamed Coast Torpedo Boat No . 8 . Following the armistice , she continued active service at New York until ordered to Philadelphia on 17 January 1919 . She arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 5 February 1919 and was placed out of commission for the last time on 18 March 1919 . Her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 October 1919 , and she was sold to the U . S . Rail & Salvage Corp . , Newburgh , N . Y . , on 10 March 1920 for scrapping .
Australian landing ship medium Clive Steele ( AV 1356 ) The Australian landing ship medium " Clive Steele " ( AV 1356 ) was a United States Navy landing ship medium which was later sold to Australia and operated by the Australian Army . The ship was built by the Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston , Texas and was commissioned into the United States Navy ( USN ) as USS " LSM - 547 " on 25 January 1946 . She was decommissioned on 11 March 1947 and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . Recommissioned on 22 September 1950 and served during the Korean War between 1951 and 1953 . She was decommissioned on 5 July 1955 and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet . The ship was purchased by the Australian Army on 26 January 1960 and was named " Clive Steele " ( AV 1356 ) in honour of the Australian World War II general Clive Steele . The ship was one of four LSMs operated by the newly formed 32nd Small Ship Squadron , Royal Australian Engineers . From 1960 to 1970 she performed routine duties in support of the Australian Army , and carried equipment between ports in Australia , New Guinea , Malaysia and New Zealand . The ship was deployed to Vung Tau in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War where she operated in South Vietnamese waters . " Clive Steele " was decommissioned on 30 September 1971 when the 32nd Small Ship Squadron was disbanded . She was sold to Pacific Logistics .
William Sweeney ( Medal of Honor ) William Sweeney ( born 1856 , 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 1856 in Boston , Massachusetts , Sweeney joined the Navy from that state . By June 15 , 1880 , he was serving as a landsman in the engineering department of the . On that night , while " Jean Sands " was outside the Norfolk Naval Shipyard , he and another sailor , Landsman James F . O ' Conner , jumped overboard and rescued a young girl from drowning . For this action , both Sweeney and O ' Conner were awarded the Medal of Honor four years later , on October 18 , 1884 . Sweeney ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : For jumping overboard from the U . S . S . " Jean Sands " , opposite the Navy Yard , Norfolk , Va . , on the night of 15 June 1880 , and rescuing from drowning a young girl who had fallen overboard .
East River ( Florida ) The East River is a river entirely within Wakulla County , Florida , draining part of the St . Marks National Wildlife Refuge into the St . Marks River . A dam within the refuge , crossed by the Florida Trail , creates the impoundment known as the East River Pool , with a boat ramp allowing access by canoes and small boats . Oyster bars are abundant around the mouth of the river . During the early 19th century , salt works were established along the East River , and were destroyed by a tropical storm in June 1863 . Later during the American Civil War , a small skirmsh was fought between Union and Confederate troops along the East River on March 3 – 5 , 1865 , resulting in the capture of the East River Bridge by Union forces prior to the Battle of Natural Bridge .
Finnish motor torpedo boats of World War II The Finnish Navy used several different types of motor torpedo boats during World War II . Four Soviet motor torpedo boats were captured and commissioned by the Finnish Navy during the World War II . One of these was of larger D - 3 class while three others belonged to G - 5 class . Captured D - 3 class motor torpedo boat . Finnish ship of the class . Vasama : Ex - TK 52 in Soviet service . She was a Soviet D 3 type motor torpedo boat . She was found sunk at Borstö in October 1941 , having run aground in a storm . She probably had tried to escape the German attack on Hiiumaa and Saaremaa . She was used as a torpedo boat in 1943 , and changed into a patrol boat in 1943 . Returned to Soviet Union after the Continuation War . Captured G - 5 class motor torpedo boats . Finnish ships of the class . All G - 5 class motor torpedo boats were returned to Soviet Union after the Continuation War .
AFB Makhado Air Force Base Makhado , formerly Air Force Base Louis Trichardt , is an airbase of the South African Air Force . It is the SAAF ' s northernmost base , situated at Louis Trichardt near the border with Zimbabwe , as well as being its most modern , and is known unofficially as " Fighter Town , RSA . " The base motto is " Castrum Borealis " ( Fortress of the North ) . History . The base was officially opened on 14 October 1987 as AFB Louis Trichardt , but changed its name to match that of the nearby town on 7 November 2003 . The town has since reverted to its old name , but the base name remains unchanged . External links .
Siege of Takatō ( 1582 ) The 1582 was one of the final battles of the Takeda clan against the forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu . After the destruction of the Takeda in Kai province in 1582 , resulting in the death of Takeda Katsuyori and many others , Takeda Morinobu ( also known as Nishina Morinobu ) , the fifth son of the famed Takeda Shingen , fortified himself within the Takatō castle . Oda Nobutada ordered that a certain priest would be sent to Morinobu to mediate , but Morinobu responded by cutting the unfortunate man ' s nose and ears , and then sent him back . Following this , Nobutada launched a full - scale attack on the castle , effectively killing Morinobu . References . " The Samurai Sourcebook "
59th Mountain Infantry Division Cagliari The 59th Mountain Infantry Division Cagliari was an infantry division of the Italian Army during World War II . As part of the Italian I Corps , the " Cagliari " participated in the Italian invasion of France in June 1940 . It remained in France until September when it returned home to Italy . In January 1941 , it was sent to Albania and then joined the Italian VIII Corps for the Greco - Italian War . It remained in Greece as an occupation force until the Italian surrender to the Allies in September 1943 . Mountain divisions are not to be confused with the " Alpini " specialized mountain troops . The mountain divisions had pack horse artillery instead of the usual towed type . Garrisoned in Vercelli , the division was made up almost entirely of men from northern Piedmont , especially from Vercelli and Ivrea . Commander . General Antonio Scuero
North - West Europe Campaign of 1944 – 1945 North - West Europe Campaign of 1944 – 1945 is a battle honour earned by regiments in the Commonwealth forces during the Second World War . It refers to the land campaign starting with the landings in Normandy and ended with Field Marshal Montgomery taking the German military surrender of all German forces in Holland , Northwest Germany and Denmark on Lüneburg Heath in Northwest Germany . The campaign was conducted by Supreme Headquarters , Allied Expeditionary Force , of which the British 21st Army Group was a component , along with the American 12th Army and 6th Army . Together , the three army groups comprised the Allied effort on the Western Front which at its longest stretched from the North Sea to Switzerland .
Mikhail Kolesnikov ( politician ) General of the Army Mikhail Petrovich Kolesnikov ( ; 30 June 1939 , Yeysk , Russian SFSR – 26 March 2007 ) was a member of Boris Yeltsin ' s administration and briefly served as acting Defence Minister of the Russian Federation after Pavel Grachev was fired by Yeltsin . Kolesnikov also served as Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1996 .
Charles Smith Rutherford Charles Smith Rutherford VC MC MM ( 9 February 1892 – 11 June 1989 ) was a Canadian 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 . Early years . Rutherford was born on a farm in Colborne , Ontario on 9 January 1892 . He joined The Queen ' s Own Rifles of Canada in 1916 and was posted to the 5th Battalion . World War I . He began his service in the ranks , and as a sergeant was awarded the Military Medal on 23 February 1918 . After being commissioned , he was also awarded the Military Cross , the full citation was not published until after that of his VC , in a supplement to the " London Gazette " of 10 January 1919 ( dated 11 January 1919 ) : Rutherford was 26 years old serving in the 4th Battle of the Scarpe near Monchy , France when he was awarded the Victoria Cross . On 26 August 1918 , while commanding an assaulting party , he found himself a considerable distance ahead of his men and at the same moment saw a fully armed strong enemy party outside a pill - box in front of him . By masterly bluff he managed to persuade the enemy that they were surrounded and the whole party of 45 , including two officers and three machine - guns , surrendered . The lieutenant then observed that gun fire from another pill - box was holding up the assault , so with a Lewis gun section he attacked it capturing another 35 prisoners and their guns . The full citation was published in a supplement to the " London Gazette " of 12 November 1918 ( dated 15 November 1918 ) : He later achieved the rank of captain . Post World War I . From 1934 to 1940 , Rutherford was the Sergeant at Arms of the Ontario Legislature when Mitchell Hepburn was Premier . He was the first sergeant to eject a member of the Legislature . During World War II he served with the Veterans Guard of Canada , reaching the rank of Captain . C . S . Rutherford was the last winner of the Victoria Cross from World War I to die , on 11 June 1989 at the age of 97 . He is buried at The Union Cemetery , Colborne , Ontario , Canada .
Westland Walrus The Westland Walrus was a British spotter / reconnaissance aircraft built by Westland Aircraft . Design and development . In 1919 the Royal Navy had an urgent need for a three - seat spotter / reconnaissance aircraft . In order to save money , it was decided to adapt the existing Airco DH . 9A , for which part completed airframes were available in large numbers following the end of the First World War and the subsequent cancellation of production orders . The initial attempt was carried out by Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft , adding provision for an observer and removing the stagger from the wings to produce the Armstrong Whitworth Tadpole . Further development , however , was passed on to Westland , who further modified the aircraft to produce the Walrus , with a 450 hp ( 336 kW ) Napier Lion II engine replacing the Liberty engine of the DH . 9A and Tadpole . Like the DH . 9A , the Walrus was a single - engined , two - bay biplane . It was fitted with an extra cockpit for the observer / radio operator behind the gunner ' s cockpit , while the observer also had a prone position for observing in a ventral pannier . The undercarriage was jettisonable and the aircraft was fitted with floatation bags and hydrovanes to aid safe ditching , together with arresting gear to aid landing on aircraft carrier s . The wings were detachable to aid storage . The prototype first flew in early 1921 , proving to have poor flying characteristics , being described by Westland ' s Test pilot , Stuart Keep as " a vicious beast " . Despite this , a further 35 were ordered . Operational history . Production aircraft began to be delivered to No . 3 Squadron RAF at RAF Leuchars in 1921 . No . 3 Squadron was split up to form independent Fleet Spotter Flights in 1923 , although despite the extensive navalisation , the Walrus never operated from carriers . The Walrus continued in service in the Fleet spotting role until replaced by the Avro Bison and Blackburn Blackburn in late 1925 .
Kashin - class destroyer The " Kashin " class destroyers were a group of guided missile destroyer s built for the Soviet Navy in the 1960s and early 1970s . Their Soviet designation was Project 61 . As of 2007 , one ship is in service with the Russian Navy , and five modified ships are in service with the Indian Navy as s . In the USSR they were officially classified as " guard ships " ( " storozhevoi korabl " - SKR ) , then " large ASW ships " ( BPK ) or " large missile ships " ( BRK ) , but in the rest of world they are commonly regarded as missile destroyers due to their size and armament . They were the first Soviet purpose - built anti - air warfare ships and the first to carry an ASW helicopter . Design . The design specification was approved in 1957 ; the first ship was laid down in 1959 and commissioned in 1962 . Much new equipment was developed for these ships , including surface - to - air missiles , radar s and gas turbine engines . The gas turbines were arranged in two separate spaces and could be removed via the funnels for servicing . These were also the first Soviet ships designed to be closed down for nuclear fallout and had an operations room deep inside the ship rather than a large bridge . Six ships were modernised in the 1970s as the Project 61M or 61MP ( " Kashin - Mod " ) , by being fitted with four SS - N - 2 C Styx anti - ship missiles , new towed - array sonar , a raised helipad and four close range AK - 630 Gatling guns . The two RBU - 1000 ASW rocket launchers were mounted aft , but later removed . The " Smetlivy " was modernised ( mk01090 ) in Mykolaiv in the early 1990s and fitted with new Kh - 35 ( SS - N - 25 Switchblade , " Harpoonski " ) anti - ship missiles and MNK - 300 sonar . She is the only " Kashin " currently active in the Russian Navy . The " Rajput " class modification built for Indian Navy has the after gun turret replaced by a hangar for a helicopter , as well as SS - N - 2C anti - ship missiles on the sides of the bridge . Ships . In all , twenty ships were built for the Soviet Navy , one ship ( ORP " Warszawa " ) was later transferred to Poland , while five similar ships were built to a modified design for the Indian Navy as the s .
Château de Blâmont The Château de Blâmont is a castle built at the end of the 13th century in the French commune of Blâmont , in the département of Meurthe - et - Moselle . It underwent successive alterations and extensions in the 13th , 14th and 17th centuries which have made it one of the most beautiful medieval castle ruins in Lorraine , thanks to the preservation of five towers . Château de Blâmont is listed as a " monument historique " by the French Ministry of Culture .
Charles William Train Charles William Train VC ( 21 September 1890 – 28 March 1965 ) was an 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 . He was 27 years old , and a corporal in the 2 / 14th ( County of London ) Battalion , The London Regiment ( London Scottish ) , British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 8 December 1917 at Ein Kerem , near Jerusalem , in Ottoman controlled Palestine , when his company was unexpectedly engaged at close range by a party of the enemy with two machine - guns and brought to a standstill , Corporal Train on his own initiative rushed forward and engaged the enemy with rifle grenades and succeeded in putting some of the team out of action by a direct hit . He shot and wounded an officer and killed or wounded the remainder of the team . After this he went to the assistance of a comrade who was bombing the enemy from the front and killed one of them who was carrying the second machine - gun out of action . He later achieved the rank of sergeant . He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the London Scottish Regiment in London , England .
Stalag IV - E Stalag IV - E Altenburg was a World War II German Army prisoner - of - war camp located near Altenburg in the state of Thuringia , south of Leipzig . Camp history . The camp was opened in June 1940 to hold French prisoners from the Battle of France . Most of the prisoners were sent to " Arbeitskommando " ( " Work Camps " ) . During Easter 1942 the orchestra and choir performed a " Mass of Consolation and Hope " composed by Jean Lashermes while prisoner in the camp . On 1 June 1942 it was renamed Stalag 384 . In October 1944 , several hundred women soldiers of the Polish Home Army were transferred to Altenburg from Stalag IV - B and were assigned to various " Kommandos " in the area . In mid - April 1945 the camp was liberated by units of the 76th Infantry Division , US 7th Army .
Sanctuary Wood Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Sanctuary Wood Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission ( CWGC ) cemetery for the dead of the First World War , 5 km east of Ypres , Belgium in the municipality of Zillebeke . Located off the main Ieper - Menin Road on Canadalaan ( Canada Lane ) . The Canadian Hill 62 Memorial is 100 metres further down the road from the cemetery . Sanctuary Wood itself was named by British troops in November 1914 when it was used to shelter troops . Fighting took place in it in September 1915 and it was fought over by Canadian and German soldiers during the Battle of Mount Sorrel in early June 1916 . Three small commonwealth cemeteries were established in it between May and August 1915 but were largely obliterated during the Battle of Mount Sorrel . When the war finished , traces of one of them were found , containing 137 graves , and became the core of the present Sanctuary Wood Cemetery . It was greatly expanded between 1927 and 1932 with graves being moved in from surrounding areas , with a few being moved from as far away as Nieuport . The majority of these graves were from the battles around Ypres in 1914 and the Allied offensive in late 1917 . One of the 637 identified graves belongs to Lieutenant Gilbert Talbot of the Rifle Brigade ( Plot 1 , Row G ) , in whose memory Talbot House at Poperinghe was established in December 1915 by two army chaplains , Talbot ' s brother Neville Talbot and Philip ' Tubby ' Clayton . Just outside of the cemetery is a Celtic cross , with an engraved sword on top , a memorial to Second Lieutenant Thomas Keith Hedley Rae . He was killed on 20 July 1915 at Hooge , and the memorial was built there in 1921 , but transferred to its present location in the 1960s .
Floyd K . Lindstrom Floyd K . Lindstrom ( June 21 , 1912 – February 3 , 1944 ) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military ' s highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in World War II . Lindstrom joined the Army from Colorado Springs , Colorado in June 1942 , and by November 11 , 1943 was serving as a private first class in the 3rd Infantry Division . On that day , near Mignano , Italy , he single - handedly charged and captured a German machine gun . Lindstrom was killed in action three months later and , on April 20 , 1944 , was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions near Mignano . Lindstrom , aged 31 at his death , was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs , Colorado . Medal of Honor citation . Private First Class Lindstrom ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty . On 11 November 1943 , this soldier ' s platoon was furnishing machinegun support for a rifle company attacking a hill near Mignano , Italy , when the enemy counterattacked , forcing the riflemen and half the machinegun platoon to retire to a defensive position . Pfc . Lindstrom saw that his small section was alone and outnumbered 5 to 1 , yet he immediately deployed the few remaining men into position and opened fire with his single gun . The enemy centered fire on him with machinegun , machine pistol s , and grenades . Unable to knock out the enemy nest from his original position , Pfc . Lindstrom picked up his own heavy machinegun and staggered 15 yards up the barren , rocky hillside to a new position , completely ignoring enemy small arms fire which was striking all around him . From this new site , only 10 yards from the enemy machinegun , he engaged it in an intense duel . Realizing that he could not hit the hostile gunners because they were behind a large rock , he charged uphill under a steady stream of fire , killed both gunners with his pistol and dragged their gun down to his own men , directing them to employ it against the enemy . Disregarding heavy rifle fire , he returned to the enemy machinegun nest for 2 boxes of ammunition , came back and resumed withering fire from his own gun . His spectacular performance completely broke up the German counterattack . Pfc . Lindstrom demonstrated aggressive spirit and complete fearlessness in the face of almost certain death .