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USS Scurry ( AM - 304 ) USS Scurry ( AM - 304 ) was a steel - hulled Admirable - class minesweeper constructed for the U . S . Navy during World War II . She was crewed by sailors who were trained in minesweeping , and quickly sent to the Pacific Ocean to clear minefield s so that Allied Forces could invade Japanese - held beaches . For this dangerous work , often under enemy fire , she was awarded four battle stars . She was laid down on 24 May 1943 by Associated Shipbuilders , Seattle , launched on 1 October 1943 ; sponsored by Miss Winette DeLaye ; and commissioned on 29 July 1944 , Lt . Charles E . Dunston in command . The spelling of her name was changed from Skurry to Scurry on 3 August 1944 . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . Following shakedown between 15 August and 19 September 1944 , " Scurry " departed the West Coast on 1 October escorting a convoy to Eniwetok . After arriving there on 3 November , " Scurry " escorted convoys in the vicinity of Eniwetok and Manus until returning to Pearl Harbor on 13 December . Between 31 December 1944 and 18 January 1945 , the ship underwent two six - day periods of minesweeping training off Maui . Supporting the Invasion of Iwo Jima and Okinawa . She sailed on 22 January to support the landings at Iwo Jima . Arriving there three days before the assault she swept the assault and transport areas in preparation for the larger ships . Departing Iwo Jima on 3 March , the ship arrived off Okinawa on 25 March and carried out a week of preparatory sweeps before the landings there . She remained off Okinawa until 8 July , sweeping mines and maintaining antisubmarine patrols around the transports . The minesweeper underwent overhaul at Leyte , Philippines , from 13 July to 17 August and , after escorting a convoy to Okinawa , sailed from there on 30 August to clear minefields off Japan . End - of - War Pacific Theatre operations . " Scurry " swept mines in the Yellow Sea between 1 and 7 September , and then helped to sweep the approaches to Sasebo and Nagasaki , Japan . She was one of the last American ships to enter these ports after the war . Between 17 and 26 September , she acted as pilot vessel at Nagasaki for transports repatriating Allied prisoners of war . She then returned to mine clearance operations , sweeping in the Korea Strait until sailing from Sasebo for the United States on 10 December . Post - War decommissioning . The minesweeper arrived at Orange , Texas , on 24 April 1946 , and was decommissioned and placed in reserve there on 29 June 1946 . " Scurry " was reclassified MSF - 304 on 7 February 1955 . She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 May 1967 and converted into a salvage training hulk for use by the U . S . Navy at Norfolk , Virginia . Used as a test target " Scurry " was sunk off the Virginia Capes on 14 August . Awards . " Scurry " received 4 battle star s for her World War II service .
HMS B8 HMS " B8 " was a Royal Navy B class submarine , built at Vickers , Barrow - in - Furness , launched 23 January 1906 and completed 10 April 1906 . " B8 " was deployed to the Mediterranean soon after the outbreak of World War I . Due to the lack of spare parts this group of submarines were not used after September 1915 . In 1917 the Italian Navy converted " B8 " into to surface patrol boat " S8 " to serve in the Adriatic . " B8 " was sold on 31 October 1919 in Malta .
Raxwerke Raxwerke or Rax - Werke was a facility of the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik at Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria . During World War II , the company also produced lamps for Panzer tanks and anti - aircraft guns . Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousand forced laborers from the Mauthausen - Gusen concentration camp ( on June 20 , 1943 , Mauthausen delivered ~ 500 prisoners to the Rax - Werke ) . Operations . Part of the Eastern Works ( V - 2 facilities in the Vienna - Freidrichshafen area ) , the 30 meter - high Serbs hall at the Raxwerke was selected for V - 2 manufacturing . A few V - 2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when on November 2 , 1943 , the US Fifteenth Air Force targeted the nearby Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke ( WNF ) plant in Operation Crossbow and hit the Raxwerke . Rax test equipment was subsequently moved to the site of the Redl - Zipf brewery in central Austria ( code name Schlier ) where V - 2 test stands were built . < / ref > Werner Dahm was sent from Peenemünde Army Research Center in Germany to the Raxwerke for the construction of an engine test stand for the " Wasserfall " anti - aircraft missile ( construction was never completed ) .
Lenino ( air base ) Lenino ( Russian : Ленино ( Камчатка ) ) is a former air base in Kamchatka Krai , Russia located 11 km west of Lenino . It is a large abandoned military base 120 km west of Petropavlovsk , and may have been designed for Tupolev Tu - 16 operations during the 1950s and 1960s . It appears to be have been abandoned in the 1970s .
Battle of Pacocha The naval Incident of Pacocha took place on 29 May 1877 when Nicolás de Piérola was leading a revolution to overthrow then Peruvian President Mariano Ignacio Prado . Piérola ' s supporters used the Peruvian monitor " Huáscar " as a raiding ship . She harassed the shipping especially off El Callao , the main commercial port of Peru . However , after she boarded some British merchant ships , British authorities sent Rear Admiral de Horsey to capture the vessel . The Peruvian warship managed to outrun the British squadron after a fierce exchange of fire . " Huascar " guns were undermanned , and the monitor fired just 40 rounds . " Shah " ´s mast was damaged by splinters . On the British side , " Shah " fired 237 shots and " Amethyst " 190 , but none of them carried armor - piercing ammunition . " Huascar " was hit 60 times , but her armor shield defeated all the rounds . There was a last - ditch effort to stop or sink the rebels when two small torpedo ram s from " Shah " attempted to find the " Huascar " , but the Peruvian ship managed to escape under the cover of darkness . The rebel crew was forced to surrender their ship to the Peruvian government just two days later . This battle saw the first use of the newly - invented self - propelled torpedo which , at the time , had just entered limited service with the Royal Navy . The torpedo was dodged by the rebel monitor .
Guy Baring Honourable Guy Victor Baring ( 26 February 1873 – 15 September 1916 ) was a British Army officer and politician . He became a Conservative member of the British Parliament but was one of 22 Members killed in action in the First World War . Background . Baring was a member of the Baring family of Barings Bank , a younger son of Alexander Baring , 4th Baron Ashburton ( 1835 – 1889 ) and his wife the Hon . Leonora Caroline Digby . He was educated at Eton College and Sandhurst , and joined the Coldstream Guards in 1893 . In 1899 Baring ' s unit was sent to fight in the South African War , and he was present at the battles of Belmont , Graspan , Modder River , Magersfontein , and Driefontein , as well as the occupation of Bloemfontein . During the fighting in South Africa he was mentioned in despatches , and received the Queen ' s South Africa Medal with three clasps . Baring was the commander of a detachment of the Coldstream Guards in 1900 which went with the Australia and New Zealand Imperial Representative Corps to the inauguration of the Earl of Hopetoun as Governor - General of Australia . He was promoted to Captain in March 1901 , attached to the King ' s African Rifles and was a special service officer with the Jubaland Expedition in 1901 against the Ogaden Somalis and was awarded a medal with clasp . Career . He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Winchester in the 1906 general election , and was re - elected in the January and December 1910 elections with increased majorities . Although he had formally left the Coldstream Guards in 1913 , he rejoined immediately on the outbreak of war in 1914 . He was posted to Windsor where he commanded a training company , until July 1915 when he was posted to France . He was second - in - command of the 4th ( Pioneer ) Battalion ; after the Battle of Loos he commanded the first Battalion of the Coldstream Guards ; Death . During the Battle of the Somme on the morning of 15 September 1916 , Baring ' s Battalion were advancing along the Ginchy - Lesboeufs road to attack German positions , together with two others . It was the first time in history that three Coldstream Guard battalions attacked together , but despite advancing " as steadily as though they were walking down the Mall " the action took a heavy toll . 17 officers and 690 other ranks went into battle , but only three officers survived ( one injured ) and 221 other ranks . Baring was buried in The Citadel New Military Cemetery near Fricourt . Family . Baring married on 16 July 1903 Olive Alethea Smith , daughter of Hugh Colin Smith and Constance Maria Josepha Adeane , and they had six children , including the cricketer Giles Baring . Their great grandchildren include the actress Rachel Ward and the actress and environmentalist Tracy Worcester .
François Franceschi - Losio François Franceschi - Losio ( 3 July 1770 – 1810 ) was an Italo - French general , who entered the French Revolutionary army in 1795 . Born in Milan , he served through the Italian campaign of 1796 - 97 , and subsequently , like Franceschi - Delonne , with Masséna at , and at the headquarters of King Joseph Bonaparte in Italy and Spain . He was killed in a duel by Carlo Filangieri in 1810 .
148th Division ( People ' s Republic of China ) The 148th Division was a military formation of the People ' s Volunteer Army ( Chinese People ' s Volunteers ( CPV ) or Chinese Communist Forces ( CCF ) ) during the Korean War with a standard strength of approximately 10 , 000 men . It was a component of the 50th Army , consisting of the 442nd , 443rd , and 444th Regiments . Current . The current status of the unit is unknown .
René - Émile Godfroy René - Émile Godfroy ( January 10 , 1885 – January 16 , 1981 ) was a French admiral , who was interned with his command at Alexandria during World War II . Biography . Godfroy was born at Paris . In June 1940 , he commanded French naval forces at Alexandria , where he negotiated , with British Admiral Andrew Cunningham , the peaceful internment of his ships . The French squadron consisted of the battleship " Lorraine " , four cruisers , three destroyers and a submarine . The French emptied their fuel bunkers and removed the firing mechanisms from their guns . Cunningham promised to repatriate the ships ' crews . Later , on 17 May 1943 , after Northern Africa had been cleared of Axis forces by Allied forces that included the French , the British Commander - in - Chief , Levant , received a letter from Godfroy , expressing the desire " to join the French Navy in North Africa " . Docking of the French warships was at once started at Alexandria . René - Emile Godfroy died at Fréjus , southern France , in January 1981 , aged 96 .
USS Absegami ( SP - 371 ) USS " Absegami " ( SP - 371 ) was a motorboat acquired on a free lease by the United States Navy during World War I . She was outfitted as an armed patrol craft and assigned to patrol the Delaware River from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , to Cape May , New Jersey on the Delaware Bay . When the Navy found her excess to their needs , she was returned to her former owner . Built in New York . " Absegami " ( SP - 371 ) was a motor boat built in 1916 at New York City by the New York Yacht , Launch & Engine Co . ; acquired by the Navy on free lease from her owner , Allen K . White , Atlantic City , New Jersey , on 2 May 1917 ; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 30 April 1917 , Ensign W . G . Morse in command . World War I service . Following her commissioning , " Absegami " was assigned to section patrol duty in the 4th Naval District . Throughout World War I , the boat patrolled the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean waters off Cape May , New Jersey . Decommissioning . " Absegami " was decommissioned at Philadelphia on 2 December 1918 and returned to her owner four days later .
105th Regiment of Foot ( Madras Light Infantry ) The 105th Regiment of Foot ( Madras Light Infantry ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1862 to 1881 , when it was amalgamated into The King ' s Own Light Infantry ( South Yorkshire Regiment ) . The regiment was originally raised by the Honourable East India Company in 1839 as the 2nd Madras ( European ) Regiment , redesignated the 2nd Madras ( European ) Light Infantry in 1842 , and served in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 . As with all other " European " units of the Company , they were placed under the command of the Crown in 1858 , and formally moved into the British Army in 1862 , ranked as the 105th Foot . As part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 , the regiment was amalgamated with the 51st ( the 2nd Yorkshire West Riding ) or King ' s Own Light Infantry Regiment to form The King ' s Own Light Infantry ( South Yorkshire Regiment ) .
Ernest Millington Ernest Rogers Millington , DFC ( 15 February 1916 – 9 May 2009 ) was a British Common Wealth and later Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) . Biography . Millington was educated at Chigwell , the College of St Mark and St John , Chelsea , and Birkbeck College , London . He served with the RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War , where he rose to the rank of wing commander and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945 . He was elected as MP for Chelmsford at a by - election in April 1945 , for the short - lived Common Wealth Party . The vacancy was created by the death of the previous Conservative member , Colonel John Macnamara , killed on active service in Italy . Millington wore his DFC ribbon on his uniform when attending the House of Commons , as was customary at the time . Many years later he fondly recalled being reprimanded by a Conservative MP who bemoaned the fact that Millington ' s ribbon was being incorrectly worn . Millington told the BBC , " I was approached by a Tory MP dressed in civilian clothes and with a hand in his trouser pocket . ' Your DFC ribbon is worn too wide ' . He was , I think , not expecting my reaction . ' If you are talking to me as an RAF officer : stand to attention ; take your hand out of your trouser pocket and address a senior officer as Sir . If you are talking to me as a fellow Member of Parliament , mind your business and bugger off . ' " Millington saw himself " as a communist with a small c " , and advocated a socialist program based on nationalisation of the land and public ownership . At the by - election he overturned a Conservative majority of 16 , 624 to win by 6 , 431 votes , becoming the " Baby of the House " . He was one of the first public figures to question the morality of the area bombardment of Germany . Millington held his seat in the 1945 general election and joined the Labour Party in April 1946 . He lost his seat in the 1950 general election . Millington rejoined the RAF in 1954 , but later embarked on a career in education , becoming the Head of Education at Shoreditch Comprehensive School in 1965 . He later retired to France , where he lived until his death . Millington and his second wife emigrated to France in the early 1980s . Following the death of John Profumo on 10 March 2006 , Millington was the only living former MP from the 38th Parliament , elected prior to the 1945 general election . He was also the last surviving person to have served as a Common Wealth Party MP . Millington ' s autobiography , " Was That Really Me ? " , was published in 2006 . Millington is survived by his four daughters , all of whom were by his first wife , who died in 1979 .
French protected cruiser Châteaurenault The Châteaurenault was a protected cruiser of the French Navy intended for commerce raiding . She was the first ship of the French Navy named in honour of François Louis de Rousselet , Marquis de Châteaurenault . Launched on 24 March 1898 , " Châteaurenault " was commissioned in October . In 1904 , she was damaged after accidentally running into an underwater rock . In 1910 , she ran aground on Spartel , and had to be taken in tow by the " Victor Hugo " . From 1913 , she was used as a schoolship in Toulon . Recommissioned at the outbreak of the First World War , " Châteaurenault " patrolled the Mediterranean . In 1917 , she was used as a troopship , ferrying soldiers from Taranto to Itea . On 5 October , she rescued the liner " Gallia " , torpedoed by , and saved 1 , 200 men . Sinking . On 14 December 1917 , at , German U - boat , commanded by Hans Hermann Wendlandt , met the convoy comprising " Châteaurenault " and her escorts , " Rouen " and " Lansquenet " . " UC - 38 " approached and fired one torpedo at 06 : 47 , striking " Châteaurenault " amidships . " UC - 38 " then dived to , while the " Mameluck " and " Rouen " rushed to the launching position of the torpedo , and " Lansquenet " started picking up people thrown overboard by the explosion . " Châteaurenault " requested her escorts to close in and evacuate Army personnel , which was completed by 07 : 26 . The trawler " Balsamine " came to the rescue and made attempts to take " Châteaurenault " in tow . Rising to periscope depth , " UC - 38 " saw " Châteaurenault " still afloat , and fired a second torpedo , which hit at 8 : 20 ; " Châteaurenault " foundered quickly , though the surviving crew aboard were rescued . " Lansquenet " , in the process of picking up her launches , rushed to the launching point and dropping 7 depth charges . One caused a slight leak in the submarine ; Wendlandt ordered a dive to bring his ship below the area targeted by the depth charges , but a false manœuvre made " UC - 38 " climb instead , and a second explosion caused a large leak , forcing Wendlandt to surface and abandon ship . " UC - 38 " surfaced briefly and was immediately targeted by the guns of " Mameluck " , which continued her attack by launching several depth charges . " UC - 38 " surfaced again , and this time both " Mameluck " and " Lansquenet " opened fire , hitting her several times and killing several of her crew as they abandoned ship . She sank at 08 : 40 , and the French destroyers picked up the survivors . German sources claim that 25 men were rescued and 9 killed ; a sailor of " UC - 38 " claimed that 20 men were saved out of a 28 - man crew ; French enquiry reports 20 rescued and 5 confirmed dead out of a 27 - man crew . From " Châteaurenault " 1 , 162 men were saved by " Rouen " , " Mameluck " and " Lansquenet " , and by a number of trawlers who had rushed to the scene , amounting to most of the personnel aboard . The victims were those killed by the initial explosion and the consecutive flooding of watertight compartments .
USS Farquhar ( DD - 304 ) The first USS " Farquhar " ( DD - 304 ) was a " Clemson " - class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I . She was named for Norman von Heldreich Farquhar . History . " Farquhar " was launched 18 January 1919 by Union Iron Works , San Francisco ; sponsored by Mrs . J . Reed ; and commissioned 5 August 1920 , Lieutenant Commander R . A . Hall in command . From her home port , San Diego , where she first arrived 26 August 1920 , " Farquhar " operated with the Pacific Fleet in training , maneuvers , and war problems along the west coast from the coast of Washington state to the Panama Canal Zone . In August 1921 , she rescued 42 passengers of SS " San Jose " , stranded off the coast of Mexico . In 1924 and 1927 , she joined in fleet concentrations in the Caribbean , and during the second cruise , sailed north to visit New York , Newport , Rhode Island and Norfolk , before returning to San Diego . " Farquhar " sailed to Hawaii on maneuvers in April 1925 , and joined a large force for a cruise to Samoa , Australia , and New Zealand , returning to the west coast in September . April through June 1928 again found her in the Hawaiian Islands for exercises of the complete Battle Fleet . She carried reservists for training in July 1929 , and the next month began inactivation at San Diego . Fate . " Farquhar " was decommissioned 20 February 1930 , and after temporary service as a barracks ship for submariners , was scrapped in accordance with the London Treaty limiting naval armaments . The scrapped materials were sold 23 April 1932 .
Alexander Smyth Alexander Smyth ( 1765 – April 17 , 1830 ) was an American lawyer , soldier , and politician from Virginia . Smyth served in the Virginia Senate , Virginia House of Delegates , United States House of Representatives and as a general during the War of 1812 . Smyth County , Virginia is named in his honor . Early life . Smyth was born on the Island of Rathlin , Ireland . He immigrated to the United States and settled in Botetourt County , Virginia in 1775 where he completed preparatory studies . He studied law , and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Abingdon , Virginia . Smyth moved to Wythe County , Virginia , and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1792 , 1796 , 1801 , 1802 , and from 1804 to 1808 . He served in the Virginia Senate in 1808 and 1809 . Military career . Smyth served in the United States Army from 1808 to 1813 . Commission ed as a colonel in 1808 , he served as Inspector General to William Eustis , the acting War Secretary . During the Battle of Queenston Heights he refused to support his commander , General Stephen Van Rensselaer , a militia commander with no experience . After Van Rensselaer ' s disgrace , Smyth was given command and proved himself equally inept . His plan to invade Canada started with the Battle of Frenchman ' s Creek but was then abandoned because of problems due to poor organization . After the failed attack on Canada , Smyth is insulted by Brigadier General Peter B . Porter , who accuses Smyth of cowardice . Smyth challenged Porter to a duel , but both men went unscathed . The historian John R . Elting wrote of the duel , stating , " Unfortunately , both missed . " In the wake of his failure , Smyth ' s name was removed from the U . S . Army rolls . Post war career . After the war , Smyth resumed the practice of law , and again became a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1816 , 1817 , 1826 , and 1827 . He was elected to the Fifteenth United States Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth , Seventeenth , and Eighteenth Congress es , serving from March 4 , 1817 to March 3 , 1825 . He was elected again to the Twentieth and Twenty - first Congress es , serving again from March 4 , 1827 until his death . Smyth died in Washington , D . C . , and was interred in the United States Congressional Cemetery . Smyth County , Virginia is named after him . Electoral History . 1817 . Smyth was elected to the U . S . House of Representatives with 66 . 99 % of the vote , defeating Federalist Benjamin Estill . 1819 . Smyth was re - elected unopposed . 1821 . Smyth was re - elected unopposed .