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George W . Corliss Captain George W . Corliss ( 1834 to May 15 , 1903 ) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War . Corliss received the country ' s highest award for bravery during combat , the Medal of Honor , for his action during the Battle of Cedar Mountain in Virginia on 9 August 1862 . He was honored with the award on 10 September 1897 . Biography . Corliss was born in Connecticut in 1834 . He enlisted into the 5th Connecticut Infantry at New Haven in Connecticut . During his act of bravery for which he earned a Medal of Honor , Corliss was injured in his right leg and was therefore captured by Confederates . He was held at Libby Prison until he was exchanged around January 1863 . He soon resigned from active service due to his disability but rejoined as a commissioned 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant with the 3rd Veterans Reserve Corps . He was brevetted major in 1865 . Corliss was married to Catherine Bounce and they resided in Mississippi where he was assistant Sub - Commissioner of the District of Vicksburg within the Bureau of Refugees . After leaving this post in 1869 he resided in New Haven , Connecticut and then Manhattan , where he was an insurance broker . He was married again to Mary Harriet Munson , after the death of his first wife . His second marriage produced two children . Corliss died on 15 May 1903 and his remains are interred at the Maple Grove Cemetery in New York .
I Armored Corps ( United States ) I Armored Corps was a World War II corps of the United States Army . The army made its debut in Operation " Torch " on November 1942 under the command of Major - General George S . Patton . In July 1943 it was redesignated as the Seventh United States Army .
Bolzano Victory Monument The Victory Monument is a monument in Bolzano , northern Italy , erected on the personal orders of Mussolini . The 19 metre wide Victory Gate was designed by architect Marcello Piacentini . Its construction was dedicated to the " Martyrs of World War I " . The following Latin script can be seen on the façade : The monument was inaugurated on 12 July 1928 by King Victor Emmanuel III . The inscription , referring to Roman imperial history , was seen as provocative by many German - speaking people living in the province of South Tyrol . On the day of the inauguration there was a counter - demonstration with 10 , 000 people in Innsbruck . Today , the monument still is a focal point of the tensions between the Italian and German speaking communities in Bolzano , and it is fenced off to protect it from defacement .
Battle of Artaxata ( 57 ) During the reign of Tigranes II , the Armenian kingdom expanded and conquered many territories in the south and west , ultimately reaching the Mediterranean Sea . Due to the remoteness of Artashat in the greater context of the empire , Tigranes built a new capital called Tigranakert . However , in 69 the Roman general Lucullus invaded Armenia , defeated Tigranes ' forces at the outskirts of Tigranakert , and sacked the new capital . As the harassed Roman forces continued to move northeast in pursuit of the Armenian king , a second prominent battle took place , this time at Artashat where , according to Roman sources , Tigranes II was defeated once again . Artashat was restored as capital of Armenia in 60 B . C . However , the city remained a hotly contested military target for the next two centuries . It was occupied by Capadocia n legions under the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo , who razed it to the ground in 59 AD as part of the first , short - lived , Roman conquest of Armenia . After Emperor Nero recognized Tiridates I as king of Armenia in 66 , he granted him 50 million " sesterces " and sent architects and construction experts to help in the reconstruction of the ruined city . The city was temporarily renamed Neronia , in honor of its sponsor , Nero . Artashat remained the capital of Armenia until 120 when the see of power was moved to Vagharshapat during the reign of Vologases I ( Vagharsh I ) 117 / 8 – 144 . After his death , the Romans led by Statius Priscus invaded Armenia and destroyed Artashat in 162 A . D . Archaeological excavations conducted during the Soviet era uncovered a Latin inscription bearing the full titles of the Emperor Trajan that was probably inscribed upon the governor ' s palace , dating back to the first quarter of the second century . Artashat remained one of the principal political and cultural centres of Armenia until 369 when it was thoroughly destroyed by the Persian invading army of king Shapur II . In 449 , just prior to the Battle of Avarayr , the city witnessed the " Artashat Council " where the political and religious leaders of Christian Armenia gathered to discuss the threats of the Persian Sassanian king Yazdegerd II . However , after losing its status as a capital to Vagharshapat and later Dvin , Artashat gradually lost its significance . The exact location of ancient Artashat was defined during the 1920s , but the archaeological excavations started only in 1970 .
Hans Traupe Hans Traupe ( 4 May 1913 – 26 June 2004 ) was an Obersturmbannführer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) and Oberstleutnant of Schutzpolizei in the Waffen SS during World War II , who 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 . Early life . Hans Traupe was born in Kunern on 4 May 1913 . From 1919 to 1924 he attended elementary school , and then worked in the family business in Volksen until April 1934 , when he joined the Army . He served in the 71st Infantry Regiment of the Reichswehr and was stationed in Göttingen . After completing his military service , Traupe volunteered to join the SS - VT in 1936 ( SS service number 121 , 951 ) . He was selected to become an officer and was posted to the SS - Junkerschule at Bad Tölz from 1936 to 1937 . Following graduation , he was promoted to Untersturmführer ( Second Lieutenant ) . In May 1937 he was also made a Leutnant of Schutzpolizei and sent to Berlin to serve with the Polizeigruppe Nord . From January to June 1938 , Traupe worked at the officer cadet school at Köpenick and was then a teacher at the Police school in Rathenow . World War II . During World War II , Traupe was attached to the 4th SS Polizei Division and served in the Battle of France , during which he was awarded the Iron Cross ( 2nd class ) . He was next involved in Operation Barbarossa ( the invasion of the Soviet Union ) . In September 1941 , he was awarded the Iron Cross ( 1st class ) . He was promoted to Hauptsturmführer ( Captain ) and Hauptmann of Schutzpolizei in September 1942 . Traupe was awarded the Knight ' s Cross for his command performance in January 1944 , when the Soviet troops had broken the German lines at Leningrad and threatened to encircle the 18th Army . Traupe and his battalion defended the Libunici sector and the German forces were able to pull back to a new position . As well as being awarded the Knight ' s Cross , he was promoted to Sturmbannführer ( Major ) and Major of Schutzpolizei . He was given command of the III . Battalion , 1st SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Regiment . Traupe received his final promotion of the war in July 1944 to Obersturmbannführer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) and Oberstleutnant of Schutzpolizei and then led what was left of the 4th SS Polizei Division back to the Kurmark training area . In August 1944 he was selected to attend a regimental commanders and armoured vehicle training course at Fallingbostel . After he completed the training course , he was posted to the 10th SS Panzer Division " Frundsberg " and given command of the 22nd SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment . Postwar life . Traupe survived the war and resided in the Dresden area until his death on 23 June 2004 .
David Conner ( naval officer ) Commodore David Conner ( 1792 – 20 March 1856 ) was an officer of the United States Navy , whose service included the War of 1812 and the Mexican - American War . During the 1840s , he served on the Board of Navy Commissioners and as the first Chief of the Bureau of Construction , Equipment , and Repair . Early life . Conner was born in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania . After youthful employment in Philadelphia , he became a U . S . Navy Midshipman on 16 January 1809 and during the next few years served in the frigate . Military career . During the War of 1812 Conner served in during her chase of and her actions with in February 1813 and the March 1815 capture of , during the latter of which he was wounded . For a time early in the conflict , he was a prisoner of war . He received promotion to Lieutenant in July 1813 . In the decade following the war , Lieutenant Conner served in the Pacific , had shore duty at Philadelphia and commanded the schooner . Attaining the rank of Commander in March 1825 , he was Commanding Officer of the sloops of war and before receiving promotion to Captain in 1835 . He served as a Navy Commissioner in 1841 and 1842 , and upon the establishment of the bureau system in the Navy became the first Chief of the Bureau of Construction , Equipment , and Repair . Conner was given the title Commodore , but his official naval rank remained unchanged . The title " commodore " added nothing to his pay or to his permanent rank of captain . Not until 1862 , six years after Conner ' s death in 1856 , did the title commodore come to signify a higher grade or an increased salary . During the Mexican - American War , Commodore Conner commanded the Home Squadron which operated in the Gulf of Mexico in 1846 and 1847 and executed a brilliant amphibious assault against the city of Veracruz . Commodore Matthew C . Perry , USN was his vice commander during the war . Leaving seagoing service soon afterwards , Conner subsequently commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard . Ill health , however , kept him from seeing much other active employment . Commodore Conner died at Philadelphia on 20 March 1856 at age 64 . Two destroyer s of the Navy have been named in his honor .
Fitzroy Talbot Vice - Admiral Sir Arthur Allison Fitzroy Talbot KBE CB DSO & Bar DL ( 22 October 1909 – 16 June 1998 ) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander - in - Chief , Plymouth . Naval career . Educated at the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , Fitzroy Talbot joined the Royal Navy in 1926 . He went to sea as a midshipman in the battleship HMS " Royal Oak " . He served in World War II initially as commander of the 10th Anti - Submarine Striking Force in the North Sea and then as Commander of the 3rd Motor Gun Boat Flotilla in the Channel . He commanded the destroyer s HMS " Whitshed " and , in the latter capacity supporting the advance through Italy . Finally he was Chief of Staff to the Commodore , Western Isles . After the War he became Chief Staff Officer ( Operations ) for the Far East Station before taking command of the frigate HMS " Alert " in 1949 . In 1950 he was appointed Naval Attaché in Moscow and then , as Commander of 3rd Destroyer Squadron , he took part in the Suez Crisis in 1956 after which he became Commodore , Royal Navy Barracks , Portsmouth in 1957 . His next appointment was as Flag Officer Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf in 1960 before being made Commander - in - Chief , South Atlantic and South America in 1963 . He was made Commander - in - Chief , Plymouth in 1965 and retired in 1967 . In retirement he became Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset in 1973 . Family . In 1940 he married Joyce Gertrude Linley ; they went on to have two daughters . Following the death of his first wife , he married Elizabeth Durlacher in 1983 .
Paul F . Straub Paul Frederick Straub was an Surgeon in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Philippine - American War . He also worked in the Office of the Surgeon General ; his papers from his time there can be found at the National Library of Medicine . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Surgeon . 36th Infantry , U . S . Volunteers . Place and date : At Alos , Zambales , Luzon , Philippine Islands , December 21 , 1899 . Entered service at : Iowa . Birth : Germany . Date of issue : October 6 , 1906 . Citation : Voluntarily exposed himself to a hot fire from the enemy in repelling with pistol fire an insurgent attack and at great risk of his own life went under fire to the rescue of a wounded officer and carried him to a place of safety .
SS Volo SS " Volo " was a British steam cargo ship that was built on Tyneside in 1938 and sunk by a German U - boat in the Mediterranean Sea off North Africa in 1941 . Building . " Volo " was one of a pair of sister ships that Swan , Hunter and Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne built for Ellerman ' s Wilson Line Ltd . The first was , which Swan Hunter completed in February 1938 . " Volo " was completed in April 1938 . Ellerman ' s registered both ships in Hull . The line named " Volo " after the port of Volos in Thessaly , Greece , which is one of many Mediterranean ports with which the company traded . " Volo " had six corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of heating two 210 lb / in single - ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a three - cylinder triple expansion steam engine that in turn exhausted into a low - pressure steam turbine . The turbine had double - reduction gearing , the two engines drove a single screw and their combined power output was rated at 335 NHP . Career and sinking . In the Second World War " Volo " served in a number of convoys , starting in September and October 1939 with two round trips between the Bristol Channel and the Loire . From November 1939 until May 1940 she made four round trips between Liverpool and Gibraltar , then in June 1940 she sailed from the Dardanelles to Port Said . From August 1940 until December 1941 she operated from ports in Egypt to support UK and Allied forces in the Siege of Malta and the Battle of Greece . In December 1941 " Volo " was a member of Convoy ME - 8 from Malta to Alexandria . Her Master was George Ronald Whitefield , MBE . Early on the morning of 28 December the attacked the convoy . The U - boat torpedoed " Volo " , sinking her about northwest of Mersa Matruh , Egypt . Captain Whitefield , 20 crew members and three DEMS gunners were killed . Nine crew members and five DEMS gunners survived , were rescued by the Royal Navy Landing Ship , Tank HMS " LCT - 11 " and taken to Alexandria . Two of ME - 8 ' s escorts , the destroyers and , pursued " U - 75 " . After two and a half hours " Kipling " sank the U - boat with depth charges , killing 14 of her 44 crew .
X Brigade , Royal Horse Artillery X Brigade , Royal Horse Artillery was a brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery which existed in the early part of the 20th Century . It served as a training formation ( as X ( Reserve ) Brigade , RHA ) in the First World War before being dissolved at the end of the war . Formation . Royal Horse Artillery brigades did not exist as an organizational or operational grouping of batteries until 1 July 1859 when the Horse Brigade , Royal Artillery was formed . The brigade system was extend to five ( later six ) brigades when the horse artillery of the Honourable East India Company had been transferred to the British Army in 1861 . These brigades were reduced to five in 1871 , then to three ( of 10 batteries each ) in 1877 and to two ( of 13 batteries each ) in 1882 . The brigade system was finally abolished in 1889 . As battery designations were tied to the brigade that the battery was assigned to , batteries were redesignated in a bewildering sequence as they were transferred between brigades . For example , E Battery of C Brigade ( E / C Bty ) might become N Battery of A Brigade ( N / A Bty ) upon transfer . Henceforth , batteries were designated in a single alphabetical sequence in order of seniority from date of formation . The brigade system was revived in 1901 . Each brigade now commanded just two batteries and a small staff ( a Lieutenant - Colonel in command , an adjutant and a brigade sergeant major ) . Initially , batteries were not assigned to brigades in any particular order , but in 1906 , at the insistence of Edward VII , brigades were redesignated so that batteries were roughly in order of seniority ( hence I Brigade commanded A Battery and B Battery ) . X Brigade , RHA was formed on 1 March 1901 as XII Brigade - Division , RHA with P Battery and R Battery . In 1903 it was redesignated as XII Brigade , RHA and was stationed at Mhow , India . On 1 October 1906 , it was redesignated as X Brigade , RHA . By the time World War I broke out , the brigade was at Woolwich attached to 4th Cavalry Brigade . On mobilization , the brigade took on a training role and was redesignated X ( Reserve ) Brigade , RHA . It remained at Woolwich throughout the war . On 18 October 1916 , AA Battery was reformed and joined the brigade . At the end of the war , the brigade was broken up . P and R Batteries were transferred to IV Brigade , AA Battery transferred to VIII Brigade and the brigade ceased to exist by October 1919 .
Arthur Herbert Procter Arthur Herbert Procter VC ( 11 August 1890 – 27 January 1973 ) 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 . Details . He was 25 years old , and a private in the 1 / 5th Battalion , The King ' s ( Liverpool ) Regiment , British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 4 June 1916 near Ficheux , France , Private Procter noticed some movement on the part of two wounded men who were lying in full view of the enemy about 15 yards in front of the trenches . He at once went out on his own initiative and , although heavily fired at , ran and crawled to the two men , got them under cover of a small bank dressed their wounds and promised that they would be rescued after dark . He left them with warm clothing and then returned to the trenches , again being heavily fired at . The men were rescued at dusk . Further information . He was ordained in 1927 , later becoming a vicar in . In the Second World War he served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force . He died on 27 January 1973 , aged 82 . The medal . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Museum of the King ' s Regiment , Liverpool , England .
Battle of Lopate The Battle of Lopate ( ) took place in 1796 between Old Montenegro and the Ottoman Empire near Lopate . Using Mahmut - pasha Bushatli ' s attack on Montenegro ( see Battle of Krusi ) , Ottoman forces from Nikšić , Kolašin , Bihor , Bijelo Polje , Gusinje ; likewise from Foča , Gacko , Stoci , Blagaj , Nevesinje , Trebinje and Korjenići ; began advancing to the Montenegrin border . In early October 1796 , when the Battle of Krusi occurred , a unit was organized , consisting of the soldiers from the mentioned towns . This unit attacked the mountains of Morača ( Mount Lopatice , near Lopate ) against the tribespeople of Trebješani , Morača and Rovci . The unit suffered noticeable casualties . According to available sources , both sides lost about forty people .
Bell X - 14 The Bell X - 14 ( Bell Type 68 ) was an experimental VTOL aircraft flown in the United States in the 1950s . The main objective of the project was to demonstrate horizontal and vertical takeoff , hover , transition to forward flight , and vertical landing . Design and development . Bell constructed the X - 14 as an open - cockpit , all - metal ( Aluminium ) monoplane for the USAF . It was powered by two Armstrong Siddeley Viper turbojet engine s equipped with thrust deflectors sited at the aircraft ' s centre of gravity . The engines are fixed in position ; transition from vertical to horizontal flight is achieved with a system of movable vanes that control the direction of engine thrust . Top speed was 180 miles per hour with a service ceiling of 20 , 000 feet . The X - 14 was designed using existing parts from two Beechcraft aircraft : wings , ailerons , and landing gear of a Beech Bonanza and the tailcone and empennage of a Beech T - 34 Mentor . Operational history . The X - 14 first flew on 19 February 1957 as a vertical takeoff , hover , then vertical landing . The first transition from hover to horizontal flight occurred on 24 May 1958 . In 1959 , its Viper engines were replaced with General Electric J85 engines . That year the aircraft was also delivered to the NASA Ames Research Center as the X - 14A . During the development of the P . 1127 , Hawker test pilots Bill Bedford and Hugh Merewether visited NASA Ames to fly the X - 14 and acquaint themselves with jet V / STOL aircraft handling prior to the first flights of the prototype P . 1127 . It served as a test aircraft with NASA until 1981 . The X - 14 project provided a great deal of data on VTOL ( Vertical TakeOff and Landing ) type aircraft and flight control systems . The X - 14A also was used by NASA for research on lunar landing maneuvers . The X - 14A aircraft flight control system was similar to the one proposed for the Lunar Module . Neil Armstrong , the first man to walk on the Moon , once flew it as a lunar - landing trainer . In 1971 , the X - 14A was fitted with new engines ( General Electric J85 - GE - 19 ) and redesignated the X - 14B . An onboard computer and digital fly - by - wire control system were also installed to enable emulation of landing characteristics of other VTOL aircraft . The X - 14B was used in this test role until it was damaged beyond repair in a landing accident on 29 May 1981 . At the time , there were plans to develop an X - 14C with an enclosed cockpit . There were also plans for an X - 14T trainer . None of these further versions got beyond the planning stage . During all of its years of service , the X - 14 was flown by over 25 pilots with no serious incidents or injuries . Aircraft serial numbers . Although there was only one airframe , it changed serial numbers with every major upgrade . Survivor . The X - 14 was rescued from the scrap yard in 1999 and is currently undergoing renovation as part of a private collection in western Indiana . The collection is displayed at the Ropkey Armor Museum .