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30th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 30th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 30th Michigan Infantry was organized at Detroit , Michigan and mustered into Federal service on January 9 , 1865 . The regiment served as garrison of the Detroit and St . Clair Rivers on the border with Canada and saw no service in the field . The regiment was mustered out on June 30 , 1865 . Total strength and casualties . The regiment suffered 18 enlisted men who died of disease , for a total of 18 fatalities .
USS LST - 1108 USS " LST - 1108 " was an " LST - 542 " - class tank landing ship in the United States Navy . Like many of her class , she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation . " LST - 1108 " was laid down on 16 December 1944 at Evansville , Indiana , by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co . ; launched on 1 February 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . Edward H . Barnard ; and commissioned on 27 February 1945 , Lt . C . V . Lieb in command . Following World War II , " LST - 1108 " performed occupation duty in the Far East until early December 1945 . She was decommissioned on 15 August 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 25 September that same year . On 10 January 1948 , the ship was sold for service in Argentina and renamed " Doña Irma " . In Argentine Navy service , " Doña Irma " was renamed ARA " Cabo San Sebastian " ( BDT - 11 ) ( Buque Desembarco de Tanques ) . She was retired in 1966 .
Defence Storage and Distribution Agency The Defence Storage and Distribution Agency was an executive agency of the Government of the United Kingdom under the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) . The DSDA operated from locations in the United Kingdom and northern Germany and was the storage and distribution arm of the Defence Equipment and Support ( DE & S ) organisation . Its role was to store , maintain , issue , process and distribute materiel for the MoD and other designated users . Following a review , the MoD took the decision to remove the DSDA ' s executive agency status from 1 August 2010 with the intent to outsource its functions to the private sector where economically practical . At that point DSDA ceased to exist , becoming part of the Joint Support Chain ( Services ) ( JSC ( S ) ) .
14 . 5×114mm The 14 . 5×114 mm ( . 57 Cal ) is a heavy machine gun and anti - materiel rifle cartridge used by the Soviet Union , the former Warsaw Pact , modern Russia , and other countries . It was originally developed for the PTRS and PTRD anti - tank rifle s , but was later used as the basis for the KPV heavy machine gun that formed the basis of the ZPU series anti - aircraft guns that is also the main armament of the BTR series of armoured personnel carrier s from the BTR - 60 to the BTR - 80 . Cartridge dimensions . The 14 . 5×114 mm has 42 . 53 ml ( 655 grains HO ) cartridge case capacity . The exterior shape of the case was designed to promote reliable case feeding and extraction in bolt action rifles and machine guns alike , under extreme conditions . 14 . 5×114 mm maximum cartridge dimensions . All dimensions in millimeters ( mm ) . Americans would define the shoulder angle at alpha / 2 ≈ 22 . 50 degrees . The common rifling twist rate for this cartridge is 455 mm ( 1 in 17 . 91 in ) , 8 grooves , Ø lands = 14 . 50 mm , Ø grooves = 14 . 95 mm . According to the official guidelines the 14 . 5×114 case can handle up to 360 MPa ( 52213 psi ) piezo pressure . In C . I . P . regulated countries every rifle cartridge combo has to be proofed at 125 % of this maximum C . I . P . pressure to certify for sale to consumers . Ammunition types . Cartridges use lacquered steel cases and a percussion primer . Some countries also use brass cartridge cases . The propellant consists of 28 . 8 g smokeless powder with seven tubes , designated as 5 / 7NA powder . Two different versions of bullet series are known , the earlier had a conventional bullet jacket with boat - tail . These had a long engraving portion that caused considerable barrel wear . The newer bullet types have a smaller engraving portion with a rounder boat - tail and were used from about 1957 on . 14 . 5×114mm ammunition has been manufactured in Bulgaria , China , Egypt , Hungary , Iraq , North Korea , Poland , Romania , Russia , and the former Czechoslovakia . Of special note are the new Chinese armor - piercing types : Chambered weapons . Anti - materiel rifles Machine guns Other
USS Pretoria ( 1897 ) USS " Pretoria " was a United States Navy troop transport in commission in 1919 . SS " Pretoria " , a sister ship of SS " Graf Waldersee " and SS " Patricia " , was built in 1897 as a commercial passenger ship at Hamburg , Germany , by Blohm + Voss for Hamburg - Amerikanische Paketfahrt A . G . . The U . S . Navy acquired her on 28 March 1919 and commissioned her on 29 March 1919 at Cowes , England , as USS " Pretoria " with Commander Archibald Grahame Stirling in command . " Pretoria " crossed the Atlantic in April 1919 . Upon arriving at Boston , Massachusetts , on 28 April 1919 , she was assigned to the New York Division of the Cruiser and Transport Force . Between 11 May 1919 and 25 August 1919 , she made four transatlantic crossings from Brest , France , to New York City , during which she returned 10 , 380 U . S . military personnel to the United States after their World War I service in Europe . Among the United States Army units that " Pretoria " brought home were the 8th , 149th , and 150th Machine Gun Battalion s , the 149th Field artillery Artillery Battalion , and the 144th Infantry Battalion . " Pretoria " was reassigned to the custody of the Commandant of the 3rd Naval District in late September 1919 and subsequently was decommissioned . She was transferred to the United States Shipping Board at New York City on 25 November 1919 . " Pretoria " was ceded to the United Kingdom on 10 September 1920 . She then operated for the Ellerman Line under the British flag . She was scrapped in November 1921 . Unlike most commercial ships commissioned into U . S . Navy service during and just after World War I , " Pretoria " never received a naval registry Identification Number ( Id . No . ) . The Pretoria transported many immigrants to America in her early years .
Sikorsky S - 67 Blackhawk The Sikorsky S - 67 Black Hawk is the protoype of helicopter that leaded to the development of the UH - 60 Black Hawk . Description . When the Cheyenne failed to live up to expectations , Sikorsky offered an intermediate aircraft consisting of an armed version of its S - 61 ( which evolved into the " Sea King " ) . Sikorsky then designed a simplified AAFSS using the maximum number of components from the S - 61 . The result was the Sikorsky ( S - 67 ) Blackhawk , which featured a five - bladed main rotor and tail rotor . The main wheels were retractable . It had speed brakes on the wing trailing edges , which also improved maneuverability . The Blackhawk was put through a long series of tests from 1970 to 1974 , but was judged unsatisfactory by the Army . The S - 67 was fitted with night vision systems , a Tactical Armament Turret ( TAT - 140 ) with a 30mm cannon , 16 130mm TOWs , and 2 . 75 inch rockets or Sidewinder air - to - air missiles . The S - 67 established an E - 1 class world speed record on December 14 , 1970 by flying at 216 . 84 mph ( 249 . 53 knots ) over a 1 . 86 mile ( 3 km ) course . Near the end of the test program , the Blackhawk , by substituting a ducted fan for the tail unit , reached a speed of 230 mph ( 264 . 7 knots ) in a test dive in 1974 . The Blackhawk was powered by two General Electric T58 - GE - 5 1500 shp engines .
USS Cambridge ( 1860 ) USS " Cambridge " ( 1861 ) was a heavy ( ) steamship purchased by the Union Navy at the start of the American Civil War . She was outfitted as a gunboat , with two powerful rifled guns , and assigned to the blockade of ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America . Built in Massachusetts in 1861 . " Cambridge " — an armed steamer — was built in 1860 by Paul Curtis , Medford , Massachusetts ; purchased at Boston , Massachusetts on 30 July 1861 ; and commissioned on 29 August 1861 , Commander W . A . Parker in command . Civil War blockade duties . Assigned to the North Atlantic blockade . Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron from 9 September 1861 – 5 October 1864 , and to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron from 9 February 1865 until the close of the war , " Cambridge " helped tighten the stranglehold on the Confederacy as she cruised off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina . Determined vigilance and alert action won her 11 prizes , some of them taken under the guns of Confederate shore batteries . In a brief five days , she and two other ships in company took four blockade runner s , and chased a fifth ashore . Shore party captured . In one of her most daring exploits , " Cambridge " s guns drove a schooner ashore near Masonboro Inlet , North Carolina on 17 November 1862 . Boat parties from " Cambridge " rowed through boiling surf , which swamped one of the boats , to burn the schooner , only to be made prisoner themselves by a party of armed Confederate men who sprang out of the brush . Decommissioning . " Cambridge " was decommissioned at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and sold there on 20 June 1865 . Historical Relevance . " Cambridge " is notable for having picked up escaped slave William B . Gould I off Cape Fear , North Carolina .
Otto Kirchner Otto Kirchner was an Obersturmführer ( First Lieutenant ) in the Waffen SS during World War II . He was awarded the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross , which was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II . Obersturmführer Otto Kirchner was awarded the Knight ' s Cross on the 21 April 1944 , when with the HQ Squadron , 16th SS Cavalry Regiment , 8th SS Cavalry Division " Florian Geyer " . He did not survive the war but was killed in the closing days on the 3 May 1945 .
HMS Dunkirk ( D09 ) HMS " Dunkirk " ( D09 ) was a later or 1943 Battle - class fleet destroyer of the British Royal Navy ( RN ) . Though there were other ships of the Navy that had been named " Dunkirk " , as far back as the 1650s , it held added meaning after the dramatic , and at times , tragic and heroic evacuation from Dunkirk between late May and early June 1940 , in which over 300 , 000 British , as well as French troops , were rescued by a ragtag fleet of ships . " Dunkirk " was built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Govan . She was launched on 27 August 1945 and commissioned on 27 November 1946 . In the year of her commissioning , " Dunkirk " joined the 4th Destroyer Flotilla of the Home Fleet . In 1950 , " Dunkirk " was placed in Reserve , as were many of her sister - ships in the 1950s . She subsequently performed a variety of duties and in 1958 , while in the Mediterranean , " Dunkirk " , in broad daylight , collided with her sister - ship during naval manoeuvres off Malta , causing minor damage . In 1961 , " Dunkirk " , along with the cruiser and the frigate , undertook a tour of the South American continent . Instead of returning home to the UK from the deployment ' s culmination " Dunkirk " deployed to the Mediterranean to take up the duties of , a Weapon - class destroyer of the 7th Destroyer Squadron , based in the Mediterranean , which had experienced some engine problems and therefore had to be replaced . " Dunkirk " finally returned home in 1963 . Just two years later , " Dunkirk " was scrapped at Faslane .
Edmund D . Ellis Colonel Edmund DeTreville Ellis ( March 1890 - 1995 ) was a member of the U . S . Military Academy Class of 1915 ( the class the stars fell on ) which included Henry Aurand , Omar Bradley , Dwight D . Eisenhower , John W . Leonard , Henry Sayler , James Van Fleet , and a number of other famous generals . Ellis served as class secretary for many years and compiled periodic news letters which contained information about the members of the class and their families and were distributed to surviving classmates and spouses . The newsletter was discontinued after 1982 due to the decline in the number of classmates .
15th Carrier Air Group The 15th Carrier Air Group of the Fleet Air Arm was formed on 30 June 1945 . It was based on the aircraft carrier HMS " Venerable " for service in the British Pacific Fleet and contained 814 NAS flying the Fairey Barracuda and No . 1851 NAS flying the F4U Corsair . It was disbanded in 1947 .
USS Converse ( DD - 291 ) The first USS " Converse " ( DD - 291 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I . She was named for George A . Converse . History . " Converse " was launched 28 November 1919 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation , Squantum , Massachusetts ; sponsored by Miss E . C . Colt ; commissioned 28 April 1920 , Lieutenant Commander E . G . Haas in command ; and reported to the Atlantic Fleet . " Converse " was placed in reserve status 11 June 1920 operating in New England waters with 50 percent of her complement on training cruises for members of the Naval Reserve . After testing the Arma gyro compass , " Converse " operated from 15 November 1921 with Scouting Fleet . Returned to full commission 1 July 1922 , she cruised on the east coast and in Caribbean waters . " Converse " with Lieutenant Commander A . Mc Glassen commanding , sailed from Newport , Rhode Island 18 June 1924 to join U . S . Naval Forces in European Waters , visiting Antwerp , Amsterdam , Cherbourg and Southampton before returning to New York 16 July 1925 . In 1926 and 1927 " Converse " again served as training ship for the Naval Reserve making two cruises each summer to Newport and the Caribbean . From 23 February 1927 she tested the Flettner rudder during her cruising . In 1928 " Converse " was designated as Experimental Ship , Scouting Fleet . She made test runs for the Bureau of Engineering in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay , then fired experimental torpedoes at Newport and Charleston , South Carolina . She rejoined her squadron at Norfolk , Virginia 4 January 1929 for regular operations until decommissioned at Philadelphia , Pennsylvania 1 May 1930 . She was sold 17 January 1931 to be scrapped in accordance with the London Naval Treaty which called for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments .
Military Ordinariate of Kenya The Military Ordinariate of Kenya is a military ordinariate of the Roman Catholic Church . Immediately subject to the Holy See , it provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the Kenyan Armed Forces and their families . History . It was established as a military vicariate on 20 January 1964 with the first military vicar appointment on the same day . It was elevated to a military ordinariate on 21 July 1986 .
Frank Bingham Frank Miller Bingham ( 17 September 1874 – 22 May 1915 ) was an English doctor , all round sportsman and army officer who was killed in the First World War . As a cricketer , he played for Derbyshire in 1896 . Bingham was born in Alfreton , Derbyshire , the son of Dr Joseph Bingham . He was educated at St Peter ' s School , York , and qualified as a doctor at St Thomas ' s Hospital . Bingham made one first - class appearance for Derbyshire , against Marylebone Cricket Club during the 1896 season . He made seventeen runs , batting in the lower order . He also played rugby union for Blackheath F . C . and Middlesex . He was in practice at Alfreton for four years and then went to Lancaster . Bingham was an enthusiastic Territorial Army officer . He was first commissioned as a medical officer with the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 24 March 1910 , unusually he transferred to 5th Battalion , King ' s Own Royal Regiment ( Lancaster ) on 26 November 1910 as a line officer , and so in the First World War served as a combatant rather than as a military doctor . He was promoted captain in 1914 and commanded a company . He took part in the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915 and was killed on a reconnaissance mission after stopping to dig a man out of a collapsed trench . He has no known grave , but is commemorated on the Menin Gate .
7th Guards Army ( Soviet Union ) The Red Army ' s 7th Guards Army was re - designated from the Soviet 64th Army on April 16 , 1943 . 64th Army had originally been formed from 1st Reserve Army in July 1942 , and alongside the 62nd Army , fought the German offensive during the Battle of Stalingrad to a standstill , for which it was raised to Guards status . General Lieutenant M . S . Shumilov , who had commanded the 64th Army , continued to command 7th Guards Army through the rest of the war , though he was promoted to General Colonel in October 1943 . It included the 15th , 36th , 72nd , 73rd , 78th and 81st Guards Rifle Division s , which were incorporated in the 24th and 25th Guards Rifle Corps . As part of the Voronezh Front and the Steppe Front since July 18 , 1943 , the Army participated in the Battle of Kursk and the Battle for the Dnieper River from July through August , 1943 . Subsequently , as part of the 2nd Ukrainian Front , it participated in the Kirovograd Offensive , and those of Uman and Botoşani , Iassy - Kishinev , Debrecen , Budapest , Bratislava and Brno , and Prague . The 7th Guards Army was stationed in Austria as part of the Central Group of Forces briefly after the war . In 1946 it comprised three rifle corps totaling nine divisions , and that year General Ivan Fedyuninsky took command for a period . These formations were reassigned to the North Caucasus , Tavria and Kiev Military Districts and the Army HQ arrived at Yerevan in the Transcaucasus Military District to take control of the 75th and 261st Rifle Divisions , soon followed by the 26th Mechanised Division and the 164th Rifle Division . In the late 1980s the Army consisted of : In November 1988 Colonel Lev Rokhlin became the commander of the 75th MRD . In early 1990 the division was transferred to the Soviet Border Troops of the KGB , and Rokhlin was promoted to major - general in February of the same year . Later the division was transferred to the Azerbaijani Army , but to the representatives of the Nakhichivan government rather than authorities from the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence . The 7th Guards Army was disbanded circa 1989 - 92 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union . General Lieutenant Fyodor Reut was among the Army ' s last commanders .
Bilbao ' s Iron Ring Bilbao ' s Iron Ring ( , ) , was a vast , labyrinthine fortification around Bilbao , consisting of bunkers , tunnels , and fortified trenches in several rings , protected by artillery . It was hurriedly built during the Spanish Civil War by the Basque Government . However , it was quite an antiquated defence concept akin to First World War fortifications , so it was vulnerable to modern warfare weapons of its time such as aircraft and artillery , and only 30 , 000 troops were defending it ( it was conceived to be defended by 70 , 000 ) — therefore the Iron Ring was rather easily overcome by the Nationalist faction forces in the battle of Bilbao .
Rafael Boban Rafael " Ranko " Boban ( born December 22 , 1907 - Unknown ) was a member of the Croatian World War II Ustaše regime , and the commander of the Black Legion of the Ustaše militia . Early life . Boban was born in Sovići near Grude , which was at that time part of the Austro - Hungarian Empire . Little is known of his early life prior to his Ustaše Service . Ustaše Service . Rafael Boban became a member of the Ustaše ( Croatian Revolutionary Movement ) in 1932 . Initially , the movement was based in Fascist Italy , as they were outlawed in Yugoslavia . He returned with the movement to Croatia in 1932 and took part in the unsuccessful Velebit Uprising . Following the unsuccessful rebellion , he became part of Ante Pavelić ' s inner circle . In November 1941 , following the outbreak of war in the Balkans , Boban was promoted to Captain ( Satnik ) . He later joined the Black Legion ( Crna Legija ) , an elite Croatian unit . After the death of Jure Francetić , Boban became the sole commander of the Black Legion . Following the Legion ' s breakup , Boban became the commander of the 5th Ustaša Active Brigade . The unit served in Podravina until the end of the war , when they retreated to Bleiburg , in modern - day Austria . Boban and a group of his followers refused to surrender with the rest of the unit , and returned to Croatia . Here they joined the Crusaders , an anti - communist guerrilla group . His unit was known as the " Death Company " ( Ceta Smrti ) . They continued to fight in the vicinity of Podravina until at least 1946 . From then on , his fate becomes unclear . Some claim that he was killed in action here in late 1946 . Others , such as Croatian historian Ante Vrban , claim that he was seen in Herzegovina in 1946 , and was killed there . Boban was awarded the Order of the Iron Trefoil , which entitled him to use the title " vitez " ( Knight ) .
Battle of Bekeriyah ( 1904 ) Battle of Bekeriyah was a major battle of the Saudi – Rashidi War , during the Unification of Saudi Arabia campaign , between Rashidi and Saudi rebels . It occurred in June 1904 at the town of Bekeriyah in Qassim region . After Ibn Saud ' s victory in the Battle of Dilam , Ibn Saud tried to expand his power by capturing Qassim , weakening his Rashidi enemies and their Ottoman allies . The battle ended in Saudi victory with heavy casualties on both sides .
Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory , also known as AFP No . 67 , for Air Force Plant 67 was a United States Air Force test facility located in the Dawson Forest in Dawsonville , Georgia . It was the site of Lockheed ' s lab for investigating the feasibility of nuclear aircraft . The site was used for irradiating military equipment , as well as the forest to determine the effect of nuclear war , and its effects on wildlife . The area was closed in 1971 and acquired by the city of Atlanta for a second airport , but its topography was determined to be ill - suited for an airport . Documents explaining what went on at the site remain highly classified , and the entrance to the underground portion of the facility has been buried . The only objects left above ground were the concrete foundations on which the buildings and reactors were placed .
USS Ford ( FFG - 54 ) USS " Ford " ( FFG - 54 ) , an , is a ship of the United States Navy named for Gunner ' s Mate Patrick O . Ford ( 1942 – 1968 ) . Ford was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for his heroism as a patrol river boatman in the Vietnam War . A description of Gunner ' s Mate Ford ' s actions can be found here . " Ford " was laid down by Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp . , in San Pedro , California on 11 July 1983 . She was launched on 23 June 1984 , and commissioned 29 June 1985 , captained by Commander J . F . Eckler . Ford will be decommissioned 31 October 2013 . " Ford " deployed on 28 November 1995 , stopping first in San Diego to pick up HSL 45 Det ONE , the embarking SH - 60F Detachment . After a five hour stop " Ford " was underway to rendezvous with the Nimitz Battle Group under the command of Rear Admiral Lyle Bien , Commander , Carrier Group 7 . The battle group then transited the Pacific Ocean from 2 – 20 December en route for Hong Kong . FORD participated in two ASW exercises with a U . S . Los Angeles Class SSN and a new state - of - the - art Diesel submarine of the Japan Maritime Self - Defense Force . " Ford " remained part of the Carrier Group 7 battlegroup during the events of the Third Taiwan Straits Crisis . On 16 February 2007 , " Ford " was awarded the 2006 Battle " E " award . " Ford " completed a Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training ( CARAT ) deployment starting 4 May 2007 and returning home on 20 September 2007 . " Ford " made port visits to Japan , Philippines , Thailand , Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia , Saipan , and Guam .