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Eurocopter AS532 Cougar The Eurocopter AS532 Cougar is a twin - engine , medium - weight , multipurpose helicopter developed by France . The AS532 is a development and upgrade of the Aérospatiale Puma in its militarized form . ( Its civilian counterpart is the Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma . ) The AS532 has been further developed as the Eurocopter EC725 . Design and development . The AS332 Super Puma , designed as a growth version to replace the SA 330 Puma , first flew in September 1977 . It was fitted with two 1 , 330 kW Turbomeca Makila 1A1 turboshaft engines , composite rotor blades , improved landing gear and a modified tailfin . In 1990 all military Super Puma designations were changed from " AS 332 " to " AS 532 Cougar " to distinguish between the civil and military variants of the helicopter . Canada had considered purchasing the Cougar to replace their CH - 113 Labrador , but opted in the end to purchase the CH - 149 Cormorant . In 2012 France began a €288 . 8m project ( €11 . 1m / unit ) to upgrade 23 Army Cougars and 3 for the Air Force to address obsolescence issues and to deliver similar avionics to their EC225 and EC725 helicopters .
Trần Đại Nghĩa Trần Đại Nghĩa ( 13 September 1913 – 9 August 1997 ) was a scientist , military engineer , and father of the defense industry of Vietnam . He was a Major - General and an Academician . He was awarded the Order of Ho Chi Minh and named a Hero of Labor . He was elected as a Academician to the former USSR Academy of Sciences . Early life . Trần Đại Nghĩa was born Phạm Quang Lễ in Chánh Hiệp , Tam Bình commune , Vĩnh Long Province , to a poor Catholic peasent family on 13 September 1913 . He received a bachelors in 1933 in Hanoi . After two years working in the U . S . embassy , he met journalist Dương Quang Ngưu who helped him obtain a Chasseloup - Laubat Fellowship to study in Paris . In 1935 , he arrived in France and subsequently graduated with bachelors in engineering and mathematics having attended , among others , the École Polytechnique . He then went to work at the École nationale supérieure de l ' aéronautique . In 1942 , he moved to Germany , where he worked in various factories on the production of weapons and aircraft . Revolutionary activities . Nghia met Ho Chi Minh in Paris in 1946 and returned to Vietnam with him on the " SS Dumont de Urville " , joining the rebels in the north of the country , where he participated in the organization of the production of weapons in the mountain forests . On 5 December 1946 he received from Ho Chi Minh his new " revolutionary " name , Trần Đại Nghĩa , and because of his military and technical knowledge was made chief of artillery of the Vietnam People ' s Army . In 1947 he successfully tested his design for a built - in - North - Vietnam bazooka , the first of many weapon systems that he divised for in - country manufacture . In 1948 he received the rank of Major General , and the following year was then given the new position as Director of Military Research ( now the Institute of Military Science and Technology ) . In 1950 Nghia left the military and began developing the industrial capacity of the North . In the years 1950 to 1960 he was Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce . In 1952 he was given the title Hero of Labor and inducted into the Order of Ho Chi Minh . On 6 March 1956 became the first rector of the Polytechnic University established in Hanoi . From 1960 to 1962 he was Minister of Heavy Industry . In 1965 he was appointed Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology for Vietnam . Trần Đại Nghĩa died in Ho Chi Minh City on 9 August 1997 , at the age of 85 . Honors . In 1996 , a year before his death , Nghia was awarded the Ho Chi Minh Award . In 2000 , the Tran Dai Nghia High School was named after him . in 2010 , an ocean survey vessel was named after him . In 2013 , the Vietnam Post issued a stamp honoring him on the 100th anniversary of his birth .
Sirianus Sirianus ( ) was the Catepan of Italy from 1062 to 1064 . He was the second recorded holder of that title since the disappearance of Argyrus in 1057 , succeeding Maruli . He was appointed by Constantine X Ducas , the last Byzantine emperor who took an interest in recovering ground in Italia .
Richard Prescott Richard Prescott ( 1725 – 1788 ) was a British officer , born in England He was appointed a major of the 33rd Regiment of Foot , on 20 December 1756 , transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758 , and on 14 December 1761 , lieutenant - colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot , before in May 1762 , transferring to the 50th Regiment of Foot , with which regiment he served in Germany during the Seven Years War . He afterward transferred to the 7th Regiment of Foot before he was brevetted colonel in the army on 25 June 1772 , before he went to Canada in 1773 . On the reduction of Montreal by the Americans in 1775 , Colonel Prescott , who had the local rank of brigadier - general , attempted to descend to Quebec with the British troops and the military stores , but was obliged to surrender to the Americans on 17 November . In September , 1776 , he was exchanged for General John Sullivan . In November he became colonel of his regiment , and in December he was third in command of the expedition against Rhode Island , where he remained in command of the British forces prior to the Battle of Rhode Island . On Prescott Farm in Rhode Island , he was abducted from his quarters at night on 10 July 1777 , by Lieutenant - Colonel William Barton and a force of 40 men including Jack Sisson . The Americans took him to Providence . Prescott was again exchanged , this time for General Charles Lee . Prescott resumed his command in Rhode Island , but was almost immediately superseded by Sir Robert Pigot . He became a major - general , 29 August 1777 , and lieutenant - general , 26 November 1782 . His treatment of American prisoners was harsh and cruel . See " The Capture of Prescott by Lieutenant - Colonel William Barton " , an address at the centennial celebration of the exploit , by Jeremiah Lewis Diman ( Providence , 1877 ) .
5th Kentucky Infantry The 5th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . In 1863 it became part of the First Kentucky Brigade . Service . The 5th Kentucky Infantry , initially recruited in Hager Hill , Kentucky , was organized October 21 , 1861 at Prestonsburg , Kentucky and mustered in under the command of Colonel John Stuart Williams . The regiment saw action in eastern Kentucky early in the war serving in the Army of Eastern Kentucky under Brigadier General Humphrey Marshall . On October 20 , 1862 , Marshall disbanded the regiment , but gave the men three choices : honorable discharge , reenlist in the new regiment , or transfer to one of the cavalry regiments . In May 1863 , command of the army passed to Brigadier General William Preston and was moved to Knoxville , Tennessee , becoming a division in Lieutenant General Simon B . Buckner ' s Army of Tennessee . Following the Battle of Chickamauga , the 5th Kentucky Infantry was transferred to the First Kentucky Brigade , remaining in that organization until the end of the war . The First Kentucky Brigade became part of the Atlanta Campaign on May 7 , 1864 when they left their winter camps at Dalton , Georgia and took up positions on Rocky Face Ridge . The regiment became part of the fighting retreating force as Major General William T . Sherman pushed the Confederates further back toward Atlanta . At the Battle of Dallas near New Hope Church , the First Kentucky Brigade made an unsupported charge , losing 51 % of its strength . At the Battle of Jonesboro on August 31 , 1864 the brigade was ordered to attack the entrenched federal position . At an unseen deep ravine , the attack came to a halt . The following day , the Confederates were overwhelmed when two - thirds of a Union Army division attacked and began to surround their positions . Many of the men of the 2nd Kentucky Infantry , 6th Kentucky Infantry , and 9th Kentucky Infantry were captured . The remnants of the brigade fell back and managed a successful defense against the Union assault , bringing it to a halt . On September 4 , only 500 men were present for duty in the entire First Kentucky Brigade . That same month , the regiment was converted to mounted infantry . The regiment was engaged in delaying tactics during Sherman ' s March to the Sea , following him all the way to Savannah , Georgia , finally moving to Augusta , Georgia in early 1865 . The regiment ' s last engagement was on April 29 , 1865 in a skirmish near Stateburg , South Carolina . The regiment was ordered to Washington , Georgia and surrendered on May 7 , 1865 .
Daniel Burges Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Burges VC , DSO ( 1 July 1873 – 24 October 1946 ) 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 45 years old , and a temporary lieutenant - colonel in the The Gloucestershire Regiment commanding the 7th ( S ) Battalion , The South Wales Borderers , British Army , during the First World War at the Battle of Doiran when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC . On 18 September 1918 at Jumeaux , in the Balkans , valuable reconnaissance of the enemy front line trenches enabled Lieutenant Colonel Burges to bring his battalion , without casualties , to the assembly point , but later while some distance from the objective they came under severe machine - gun fire . Although he himself was wounded the colonel continued to lead his men with skill and courage until he was hit again twice and fell unconscious . He was taken prisoner by the Bulgarians , but was abandoned in a dug - out with one of his legs shattered . A marble plaque was unveiled at Arnos Vale Cemetery , Bristol , on 24 October 2006 ( which was 60 years to the day he died ) by Les Turner .
USS Oleander ( 1863 ) USS " Oleander " ( 1863 ) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries . " Oleander " , a wooden , side - wheel steamer built at Keyport , New Jersey , was launched 10 January 1863 ; purchased by the Navy at New York City from James Howe and C . W . Copeland 28 March 1863 ; and commissioned in the following fortnight , as she joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron upon arriving at Port Royal , South Carolina , 11 April . Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockade . Originally commanded by Acting Master Woodbury H . Polley , the steamer served in Union blockade of the Confederate coast operating along the coasts of South Carolina , Georgia , and Florida . Participating in the attack on New Smyrna , Florida . On 28 July 1863 , with and boats from and , " Oleander " attacked New Smyrna , Florida , shelling the town and capturing a sloop loaded with cotton and ready to sail . They also caused Confederates to burn several other vessels to prevent capture and the Union force destroyed a number of buildings and large quantities of cotton ashore . Post - war decommissioning and sale . After the fighting stopped , " Oleander " decommissioned at New York City 18 August 1865 , and was sold at auction there 5 September 1865 to Smith and Downing .
Technological and Logistics Directorate The Israeli Technological and Logistics Directorate ( acronym : Atal ) is a directorate in the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces , responsible for its logistics responses and tasks , and in particular : the building of military bases , maintaining a medical infrastructure during peacetime and times of war and emergencies , caring for the nutrition of soldiers , as well as for the fuel and maintenance of the managerial and military vehicle fleet of the IDF . The Directorate is the third manifestation of the Technological and Logistics Directorate , overseeing the Logistics Corps , which saw many of its units and much of its authority transferred to the Ground Forces . During an emergency , the directorate is also responsible for the deployment of most non - combat reserve units . As of 2012 , it is headed by Aluf Kobi Barak . History . The directorate was created in February 1948 as the Quartermasters Directorate and renamed to Supply Directorate in 1972 . In 1997 it was renamed to Technological and Logistics Directory , and in 2006 to Logistics , Medical , and the Centers Directorate . In 2008 the name was changed back to its current name .
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy , MC ( 27 June 1883 – 8 March 1929 ) , was an Anglican priest and poet . He was nicknamed ' Woodbine Willie ' during World War I for giving Woodbine cigarettes along with spiritual aid to injured and dying soldiers . Early life . Born in Leeds in 1883 , Studdert Kennedy was the seventh of nine children born to Jeanette Anketell and William Studdert Kennedy , vicar of St Mary ' s , Quarry Hill in Leeds . He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College , Dublin , where he gained a degree in classics and divinity in 1904 . After a year ' s training at Ripon Clergy College , he became a curate in Rugby and then , in 1914 , the vicar of St . Pauls , Worcester . Military career . On the outbreak of World War I , Studdert Kennedy volunteered as a chaplain to the army on the Western Front , where he gained the nickname ' Woodbine Willie ' . In 1917 , he was awarded the Military Cross at Messines Ridge after running into no man ' s land to help the wounded during an attack on the German frontline . He wrote a number of poems about his experiences , and these appeared in the books " Rough Rhymes of a Padre " ( 1918 ) , and " More Rough Rhymes " ( 1919 ) . During the war he supported the British military effort with enthusiasm . Attached to a bayonet - training service he toured with boxers and wrestlers to give morale - boosting speeches about the usefulness of the bayonet . Later life . After the war , Studdert Kennedy was given charge of St Edmund , King and Martyr in Lombard Street , London . Having been converted to Christian socialism and pacifism during the war , he wrote " Lies " ( 1919 ) , " Democracy and the Dog - Collar " ( 1921 ) ( featuring such chapters as " The Church Is Not a Movement but a Mob , " " Capitalism is Nothing But Greed , Grab , and Profit - Mongering , " and " So - Called Religious Education Worse than Useless " ) , " Food for the Fed Up " ( 1921 ) , " The Wicket Gate " ( 1923 ) , and " The Word and the Work " ( 1925 ) . He moved to work for the Industrial Christian Fellowship , for whom he went on speaking tours of Britain . It was on one of these tours that he was taken ill , and died in Liverpool . He is mentioned in the Divine Comedy song " Absent Friends " : " Woodbine Willie couldn ' t rest until he ' d / given every bloke a final smoke / before the killing , " and in Finnegans Wake by Irish author James Joyce : " . . . tsingirillies ' zyngarettes , while Woodbine Willie , so popiular with the poppyrossies . . . " Honours . Studdert Kennedy was awarded the Military Cross ( MC ) during World War I . His citation read : Studdert Kennedy is honoured with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on 8 March . He is also commemorated in the Church of England Calendar on 8 March . The Museum of Army Chaplaincy also honours Kennedy with a large display about his life . There is a commemorative plaque is located in Ripon , North Yorkshire , dedicated to the Ripon Clergy College and Studdert Kennedy . It was unveiled in February 2013 by John Packer , Bishop of Ripon and Leeds .
Mobile submarine simulator The mobile submarine simulator ( MOSS ) MK70 is a sonar decoy used by submarine s of the United States Navy . It was a 10 - inch vehicle , without an explosive warhead , but able to generate both an active sonar echo and a passive sound signature recorded to be extremely similar to that of the launching submarine . The purpose of MOSS was to create multiple targets all with the same acoustic signature . MOSS was originally developed by Gould until Westinghouse acquired that division . Some current underwater training targets are modeled after MOSS ' design . The MOSS first entered service in 1976 and was deployed on all American ballistic missile submarines from the 1980s until it was withdrawn in the mid 1990s .
Eugene Smith ( aviator ) Eugene Smith ( 1918 – November 21 , 2012 ) was an American military aviator and attorney . He was a lieutenant with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II , escorting bomber s in Europe , and then served as a military flight instructor . Returning to Ohio , he earned a law degree . He practiced law for over 50 years , including argument of a first amendment case before the Supreme Court of the United States and leading the efforts toward racial integration of juries . Early life and education . Smith was born in 1918 in Franklin , Ohio . He attended Withrow High School in Cincinnati , where he ran track and played baseball , graduating in 1936 . He then studied at Kentucky State University in Frankfort , Kentucky , receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree . Military career . After college , Smith enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps . Because of his mixed European and Native American ancestry , his birth certificate was marked " C " ( for " colored " , as was common at the time ) , and he was assigned to serve with the African - American units known as the Tuskegee Airmen . He flew bomber escort missions during World War II in Europe with the 332nd Fighter Group and later served as a flight instructor . Professional career . After returning from military service , Smith attended Franklin College of Law in Columbus , Ohio . He practiced law in Cincinnati for over 50 years , including argument of a first amendment case before the Supreme Court of the United States . While serving as Chief Trial Lawyer in the Hamilton County , Ohio Public Defender ’ s Office , he led the controversial efforts to integrate juries in the county . Later life . In the early 1990s , Smith retired to a houseboat at the Turtle Creek Marina in Florence , Indiana on the Ohio River ( the border with Kentucky ) . He died at the Harrison County Hospital in Cynthiana , Kentucky on November 21 , 2012 . He is survived by three children and several grandchildren and great grandchildren .
Dip Prasad Pun Dipprasad Pun ( ) CGC is a Nepalese corporal of the Royal Gurkha Rifles who was decorated with the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for an act of bravery during the War in Afghanistan on the night of 17 September 2010 . Pun , then an Acting Sergeant , single - handedly defeated 12 - 30 Taliban insurgents who were storming his control post near Babaji in Helmand province . Immediately prior to the engagement , Pun , who was with the 1st Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles , was on sentry duty at a checkpoint guarding his unit ' s compound . Taliban fighters , planting bombs near the compound gate under the cover of darkness , suddenly surrounded and attacked his post with AK - 47s and RPGs . Corporal Pun , alone and believing he was about to die , decided to kill as many of the enemy as possible . During the engagement he reportedly spent all his ammunition , more than 400 rounds ; used 17 hand grenades and a Claymore mine before battering the last fighter with the tripod of his machine gun . Two Taliban were still attacking his post when he set off the Claymore mine . Upon receiving the award , Corporal Pun said that he had no choice but to fight ; the reason being that the Taliban had surrounded his checkpoint , and that he was alone . During the engagement , Pun saved the lives of three of his comrades and prevented his post from being overrun . His actions are cited as " the bravest seen in his battalion during two hard tours " . Pun originally hails from Bima in western Nepal , and lives with his wife Shobha in Ashford . His grandfather and father both served with the Gurkhas .
Ernst - August Roth Ernst - August Roth ( 19 April 1898 – 26 September 1975 ) was a highly decorated Generalleutnant in the Luftwaffe during World War II . He was also a recipient of the Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight ' s Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership . Ernst - August Roth was captured by British troops in June 1945 and was held until March 1948 .
River - class frigate The River - class frigate was a class of 151 frigate s launched between 1941 and 1944 for use as anti - submarine convoy escorts in the North Atlantic . The majority served with the Royal Navy ( RN ) and Royal Canadian Navy ( RCN ) , with some serving in the other Allied navies ; the Royal Australian Navy ( RAN ) , the Free French Navy ( FFN ) , the Royal Netherlands Navy and , post - war , the South African Navy ( SAN ) . Ten ships built in Canada were assigned to the United States Navy ( USN ) to cover for a shortage of suitable convoy escorts until American - built ships became available . In the event , only two were commissioned in the USN , the remaining eight were commissioned in the RN and RCN . Twelve River - class frigates were built in Australia for the RAN ( four to a modified design ) , the last of which is , preserved as a museum ship at the Queensland Maritime Museum in Brisbane , Australia . After World War II they found employment in many other navies the world over ; several RCN ships were sunk as breakwaters . One , , was purchased by Aristotle Onasis and converted into the luxury yacht " Christina O " . Design . The River - class ships were designed by naval engineer William Reed to have the endurance and anti - submarine capabilities of the " Black Swan " - class sloops , while being quick and cheap to build in civil dockyards using the machinery ( e . g . reciprocating - steam engines instead of turbines ) and construction techniques pioneered in the building of the s . The River - class design was used as the basis for the United States Navy ' s " Tacoma " class ( which served in the Royal Navy as the ) , and the hull design was later elaborated into the , and subsequently the . Ships in class . 151 frigates were built for seven navies during World War II .
HMS Powerful ( 1826 ) HMS " Powerful " was an 84 - gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched on 21 June 1826 at Chatham Dockyard . From 1 January 1839 to the end of 1840 she was commanded by Captain Charles Napier , mainly in the Mediterranean and for much of the time as lead ship of a detached squadron under Napier ' s orders . On the evening of 29 May 1839 she was anchored in the Cove of Cork , Ireland when Napier received urgent orders from the Admiralty to proceed at once to Malta in view of the imminent probability of war with Egypt . He was also informed that the ships - of - the - line HMS " Ganges " and HMS " Implacable " had already started from England . Wishing to overtake them , Napier set sail at 2 a . m . on the 30th for Gibraltar . " Powerful " arrived at Gibraltar on 12 June to hear the other two ships were three days ahead of her , but by superior seamanship Napier overtook them in the Mediterranean and " Powerful " entered the harbour of La Valletta , Malta on the evening of 24 June , with band playing and under every stitch of canvas , twelve hours ahead of her rivals . After a year in the Mediterranean while the political situation changed , the ship took a prominent part in the Syrian War against the expansionist designs of Mehmet Ali , notably at the bombardment of Acre , 3 November 1840 , where she sustained damage but no casualties . " Powerful " was then flagship of the squadron that blockaded Alexandria from 25 November . In 1841 Napier was succeeded as her captain by George Mansel , and then Sir Michael Seymour , who commanded her from 1841 until she paid off at Portsmouth in 1843 . She was recommissioned in 1848 under the command of Sir Richard Saunders Dundas under whom she again served in the Mediterranean . She was used as a target in 1860 , and was broken up in 1864 .