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Canopus - class ship of the line The Canopus " - class ships of the line were a class of nine 84 - gun two - deck second rate s of the Royal Navy . Their design was based on an enlarged version of the lines of the captured French ship " Franklin " , since commissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS " Canopus " , although this ship herself was not included as a member of the class . The earlier ships were initially ordered as 80 - gun third rate s , but this classification was altered by changes in the rating system in February 1817 . This class of ships is sometimes referred to as the Formidable " class .
High Seas Fleet Badge High Seas Fleet Badge ( ) is a German military decoration ( worn on the lower part of the left breast pocket of the naval service tunic , underneath the 1st class Iron Cross if awarded , or equivalent grade ) awarded for service to the crews of the High Seas Fleet , mainly of the battleship s and cruiser s , but also those ships that supported them operationally for which there was no other award given . Required qualifications included e . g . active duty on 1 or more 12 week cruises , wounds or sinking in action . Although the award was instituted in April 1941 , it could be awarded for actions that took place prior to this date and could highlight the struggle against the British fleet . Criteria . To be eligible to receive the badge one must have twelve weeks service on a battleship or cruiser , with proof of distinction and good conduct . The number of weeks were reduced if one of these conditions were met :
Fort Bliss National Cemetery Fort Bliss National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the United States Army post of Fort Bliss , in El Paso , Texas . It encompasses , and as of the end of 2005 , had 42 , 141 interments . History . Fort Bliss itself was not established until the 1840s , but burials were made in the area of the cemetery as early as 1833 . The fort was used as a Confederate infantry post during the American Civil War , and later it was changed to a cavalry post for training during World War I , and then became a demobilization camp after the war . In 1914 the cemetery was only , and another 2 . 2 acres were added during the war . In 1939 , funds were allocated for improvements and plans were approved to make it into a National Cemetery . Aside from American soldiers , Fort Bliss National Cemetery was chosen by the Chinese government the place of interment for 55 Chinese air force cadets who died while training at the Fort in 1944 . There are also several German prisoners of war , and three Japan ese civilians who were transferred from a cemetery in Lordsburg , New Mexico , as well as one German scientist who died while participating in research projects at Fort Bliss during World War II . An officer of the British Royal Air Force from the same war is also buried here . In 1955 , to make way for highway construction , the Fort ' s namesake Lieutenant Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss was disinterred from Girard Street Cemetery in New Orleans , Louisiana and brought to Fort Bliss , along with the monument erected in his memory .
Alfred " Teen " Blackburn Alfred " Teen " Blackburn ( born in Hamptonville , North Carolina , April 26 , 1842 – March 8 , 1951 ) was the last Confederate Civil War veteran to receive a Class B pension in North Carolina . He was known throughout Yadkin County for his strength , size and longevity . He was the last living person in Yadkin County to have been a slave . He was also believed to be one of the last living survivors of slavery in the United States who had clear recollection of it ( i . e . : not born a slave and freed as a child . ) Born a slave . Blackburn was born a slave on the plantation of the Hampton and Cowles families in Yadkin County , North Carolina . According to family accounts , he was the son of Fannie Blackburn , a Cherokee Indian , and Augustus Blackburn , a white plantation owner . He described holding " the best job " on the plantation . " It was my duty to shoo the flies from the table , serve at parties when the well - to - do . . . were guests and take care of the children . " He said the field slaves were jealous of his job . Blackburn was the " body servant " of his father , Col . John Augustus Blackburn of Company F , 21st North Carolina Regiment . Blackburn ' s brother , Wiley Blackburn , is listed in Co . B , 38th North Carolina Regiment roster also as a " body servant " . Blackburn was a cook , servant and helper for the regiment for almost two years during battles , including the First Battle of Bull Run . In a 1938 interview , Blackburn said he did not carry a gun during his service because " a knife was handier . " He described defending Col . Blackburn with his knife , " he just turned around and walked off , " he said . " He didn ' t say a word . " He returned to Yadkin County after Col . Blackburn was furloughed due to injuries . At the close of the war , Blackburn described seeing Gen . George Stoneman ' s men in Hamptonville , " riding three abreast and burning everything along the way . " Post - Civil War . After the war , Teen Blackburn moved to Davie County and farmed for four years . Then , he worked for Sheriff Tom Watts . He then worked for Clayton Cooper Mines in Ashe County , but quit after one day . Blackburn returned to Hamptonville . In 1883 , he became a contract mail carrier , supervising other carriers , black and white . He worked for 60 years , carrying the mail on foot and later by horse from Jonesville to Hamptonville , a distance of more than every other day . In 1880 , Blackburn married Lucy Carson – the daughter of Robert Carson , an uncle of Kit Carson – and had 10 children . He worked other jobs around the county and on his farm , tending tobacco , to help give each of his children a formal education . For his service during the Civil War , Blackburn received a Confederate Class B veteran ' s pension of $ 200 per year . He is buried in the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church cemetery in Carsontown , a community in Iredell County south of Hamptonville . Blackburn died on March 8 , 1951 , at the age of 108 . Blackburn ' s home , which was on Teen Blackburn Road south of U . S . Highway 21 and U . S . Highway 421 was destroyed by a fire in December 2003 .
Dance - class minesweeper The " Dance " class minesweepers were originally designed as a shallow - draft twin - screw tunnel tugs , and were taken over by the Admiralty as coastal minesweeping sloops . They were completed between November 1917 and September 1918 under the Emergency War Programme .
USS Investigator ( AGR - 9 ) USS " Investigator " ( AGR - 9 / YAGR - 9 ) was a " Guardian " - class radar picket ship acquired by the U . S . Navy in 1956 from the “ mothballed ” reserve fleet . She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line . Liberty ship built in Florida . " Investigator " ( YAGR - 9 ) was launched by J . A . Jones Co . , Inc . , Panama City , Florida , as Liberty Ship " Charles A . Draper " 9 January 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . E . L . Cills ; and delivered 24 January 1945 to Polarus Steamship Co . , Inc . World War II service . The ship carried replacement aircraft and cargo until the end of the war and entered the James River National Defense Reserve Fleet 26 October 1945 . 1957 - 1965 radar picket duty . After a brief period of service in 1947 , she entered the Reserve Fleet at Mobile , Alabama , and was acquired by the Navy 2 July 1956 . Renamed " Investigator " , she was converted to Navy use at Charleston Naval Shipyard and commissioned there 16 January 1957 , Lt . Comdr . J . H . Mehus in command . Equipped with the latest in air search and tracking systems , the ship conducted her shakedown training in the Caribbean and departed Guantanamo Bay for her new home port , Davisville , Rhode Island . " Investigator " began her operational pattern of three - to four - week cruises in the North Atlantic Ocean as the seaward extension of the Continental Air Defense Command ' s air early warning system . Operating with search aircraft , she could detect , track , and report aircraft at long ranges , and could control high speed U . S . interceptor aircraft and direct them to targets . The ship was reclassified " AGR - 9 " effective 28 September 1958 . She continued radar picket station duties for the Continental Air Defense Command , detecting and tracking inbound airborne objects and controlling jet interceptor aircraft until decommissioned 29 March 1965 . Decommissioning . Her name was struck from the Navy List 1 April 1965 . She was transferred the same day to the U . S . Maritime Commission and entered the Maritime Hudson River Defense Reserve Fleet , New York , where she remained until sold for scrap in Spain , 15 May 1971 .
Brassard A brassard or armlet ( British English ) is an armband or piece of cloth or other material worn around the upper arm , the term typically restricted to use as an item of uniform worn as military uniform or by police or other uniformed persons . Unit , role or rank badge s or other insignia are carried on it instead of being stitched into the actual clothing . The brassard , when spread out , may be roughly rectangular in shape , where it is worn merely around the arm ; it may also be a roughly triangular shape , in which case the brassard is also attached to a shoulder strap . The term is originally French , deriving from " bras " meaning " arm " . Brassards are also used with the uniforms of organizations which are not military but which are influenced by and styled upon the military , such as police , emergency services , volunteer services , or militaristic societies and political parties . A brassard is often used : Brassard ( also " brassart " or " brasset " ) is also used to refer to pieces of armour worn to cover the entire arm ( encompassing vambrace , rerebrace , and possibly a couter ) .
Fishermans Airfield Fishermans Airfield ( also known as Daugo Island Airfield ) is a former World War II airfield near Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea . It was part of a multiple - airfield complex in the Port Moresby area , located offshore of Port Moresby . The island ' s name is derived from the names of the island ' s two villages - Dag ( on the western tip ) and Ugo ( eastern tip ) . It is also known as Fisherman ' s Island . The airfield on the island was built by the RAAF c . 1944 as an emergency airfield . It was abandoned and has been disused since the war .
SS Alcantara ( 1913 ) SS " Alcantara " was an ocean liner that went into service just weeks before the start of World War I , was converted to an armed merchant cruiser in 1914 , and was sunk by the German armed merchant cruiser on 29 February 1916 in the North Sea . " Alcantara " was built by Harland & Wolff for Royal Mail Lines , launched in October 1913 and made her maiden voyage in June 1914 , following a Southampton - South America route . In 1915 the ship was armed with six 6 - inch guns , anti - aircraft gun s and depth charges , and commissioned as HMS " Alcantara " . Battle with " Greif " . " Greif " was disguised as the Norwegian " Rena " out of Tonsberg , Norway when intercepted by " Alcantara " on the morning of 29 February . " Alcantara " closed to 2000 yards and slowed to lower a boarding cutter when " Greif " hoisted the German battle ensign , increased speed , and opened fire . " Alcantara " returned fire from the port side guns . Range was never more than 3000 yards . One of " Greif " s torpedoes detonated amidships against " Alcantara " s port side , and one of " Alcantara " s shells exploded the ready ammunition for " Greif " s after gun . Both ships lost speed . " Greif " s crew abandoned ship 40 minutes after opening fire . " Alcantara " sank first . The C - class light cruiser and M - class destroyer then arrived to sink the stationary " Greif " and rescue 210 German survivors .
Second League of Armed Neutrality The Second League of Armed Neutrality or the League of the North was an alliance of the north European naval powers Denmark – Norway , Prussia , Sweden , and Russia . It occurred between 1800 and 1801 during the War of the Second Coalition and was initiated by Paul I of Russia . It was a revival of the First League of Armed Neutrality , which had been quite successful during the American War of Independence in isolating Britain and resisting attempts to interfere with their shipping , but the Second League was less successful than the First . The Second League was intended to protect neutral shipping against the Royal Navy ' s wartime policy of unlimited search of neutral shipping for French contraband , in an attempt to cut off military supplies and other trade to the First French Republic . The British government , not yet anxious to preserve Russian goodwill , openly considered it a form of alliance with France and attacked Denmark , destroying parts of its fleet in the first Battle of Copenhagen and forcing it to withdraw from the League . In addition to this Prussia invaded Hanover in April 1801 as a way to attack the British . Paul ' s death in March 1801 and the accession of Alexander I led to a change of policy in Russia , and the alliance collapsed . Russia later joined the British in a coalition against Napoleonic France . Legacy . The prospect of a third league of armed neutrality potentially including Britain and France was briefly proposed in the 1860s , during the American Civil War , following the Trent Incident in which a British vessel had been stopped by the US Navy and two Confederate diplomats taken off . Ultimately neither country formed a league , but maintained the principle of the freedom of the seas , and both remained neutral .
Raimon Escrivan Raimon Escrivan was a Toulousain troubadour . He may be identified with the canon Raimundus Scriptor of Saint - Étienne in Toulouse or perhaps Raimon de Costiran , a victim of the Papal Inquisition at Avinhonet in 1242 . His surname , " Escrivan " , means " writer " ( Latin " scriptor " ) and was commonly adopted by notaries at that time . While trapped in the city during the Siege of Toulouse in 1218 , he wrote a mock " tenso " between a trebuchet ( " trabuquet " ) and a siege engine called a " cat " ( " cata " ) . " Senhors , l ' autrier vi ses falhida " , as it begins , has been interpreted as cleverly disguised obscenity , but there is no reason not to take it at face value . During the siege a trebuchet was constructed by the citizens and successfully employed to destroy the besiegers ' cat , just as the " trabuquet " of the poem defeats the " cata " . The " Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise " contains a description of the siege ( from a Toulousain viewpoint ) which echoes the tenor of Escrivan ' s song .
Francis Matthews ( British Army officer ) Major General Francis Raymond Gage Matthews CB DSO ( 1903 – 1976 ) was Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong . Military career . Matthews was commissioned into the York and Lancaster Regiment in 1923 . He transferred to South Wales Borderers in 1935 while Aide - de - camp to the Governor and Commander - in - Chief of Malta . He served in World War II as a General Staff Officer and then as Commanding Officer of a battalion within the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force . He was made Director of Military Training for the Middle East in 1943 before becoming Commander of 168th Brigade and then Commander of 13th Brigade in Italy and then Commander of 185th Brigade in North West Europe . He was made General Officer Commanding a Division within British Army of the Rhine in 1945 . After the War he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong . He was made President of the Regular Commissions Board at the War Office in 1949 and General Officer Commanding 1st Division in 1950 . He went on to be Director of Infantry at the War Office in 1952 , Director of Civil Defence for Wales in 1956 , Commandant of the Civil Defence Staff College in 1956 and Director of Civil Defence for the South West Region in 1960 . He was also Colonel of the South Wales Borderers from 1954 to 1961 .
RAF Limavady Royal Air Force Station Limavady or more simply RAF Limavady is a former Royal Air Force station , also known as Aghanloo airfield , near the city of Londonderry , Northern Ireland . Beginnings . The station was built in 1940 during the Second World War . Squadrons . After the Second World War the airfield was further used by the Fleet Air Arm when it was known as RNAS Limavady until 1958 when it was finally sold off .
George W . Reed George W . Reed ( 1831 – December 21 , 1906 ) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for his actions at the Battle of Globe Tavern . Born in 1831 in Cambria County , Pennsylvania , Reed was living in the city of Johnstown when he enlisted in the Army . He served as a private in Company E of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry . During the Battle of Globe Tavern near Petersburg , Virginia , on August 21 , 1864 , he was captured in a thickly wooded area by a group of five Confederate soldiers , including a color bearer , from the 24th North Carolina Infantry . When it became clear that the Confederates were lost , Reed stated that they were in danger of stumbling into Union forces and being killed . He convinced the soldiers that the safest decision was to give him back his weapon and surrender themselves to him . The Confederates agreed , and Reed led them to the Union lines as his prisoners . Two weeks later , on September 6 , 1864 , he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle , specifically for capturing the flag which the Southern color bearer had held . Reed ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : Capture of flag of 24th North Carolina Volunteers ( C . S . A . ) Reed was promoted to corporal before leaving the military . He died on December 21 , 1906 , at age 74 or 75 and was buried at Grandview Cemetery in Johnstown , Pennsylvania . A government - issued marker was placed on his grave , however it mistakenly identified him as a Confederate soldier . A new gravestone noting his service in the Union Army and his status as a Medal of Honor recipient was dedicated at a ceremony on November 11 , 2006 .
Charles D . Ablard Charles D . Ablard ( born ca . 1930 ) is a United States lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Army from 1975 to 1977 , and who has been an administrative judge in the United States Department of Defense since 2003 . Biography . Charles D . Ablard was educated at the University of Oklahoma , receiving a bachelor ' s degree in business administration and the University of Oklahoma College of Law , receiving an LL . B . in 1954 . From 1954 to 1956 , he served as a judge advocate officer in the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General ' s Corps , with assignments in Japan and at the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base . He then attended the Georgetown University Law Center , receiving an LL . M . in 1959 . Professionally , Ablard practiced law as a partner in the Washington , D . C . law firm of Ablard & Harrison ; as General Counsel and Congressional Liaison for the United States Information Agency ; Vice - President and Counsel for the Magazine Publishers Association , Inc . , and the American Society of Magazine Editors ; Special Counsel to the American Bar Association ' s Special Committee on Legal Services and Procedure ; and Judicial Officer of the United States Post Office and Chairman of the Post Office ' s Board of Contract Appeals . In the course of his practice in the 1960s , Ablard became a recognized expert on U . S . administrative law , and was the founder of the American Bar Association ' s " Administrative Law News " newsletter in 1962 . In 1972 , Ablard joined the United States Department of Justice as Associate Deputy Attorney General . In 1975 , President of the United States Gerald Ford nominated Ablard to be General Counsel of the Army and , after Senate confirmation , he held this position from February 25 , 1975 until January 19 , 1977 . From 1980 to 1984 , Ablard was a member of the Board for International Broadcasting . He later became a partner at the Washington , D . C . law firm of Gage & Tucker . In 2003 , United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld appointed Ablard to the United States Department of Defense ' s Office of Hearings and Appeals .
Battle of Monastir The Battle of Monastir took place near the town of Bitola , Macedonia ( then known as Monastir ) during the First Balkan War , from 16 to 19 November 1912 . As an ongoing part of the Balkan Wars , the Ottoman Vardar Army retreated from the defeat at Kumanovo and regrouped around Bitola . The Serbian 1st Army , marching for Bitola , encountered heavy Ottoman artillery fire and had to wait for its own artillery to arrive . On 18 November , following the destruction of the Ottoman artillery by Serbian artillery , the Serbian right flank pushed through the Vardar Army . The Serbs then entered Bitola on 19 November . With the conquest of Bitola the Serbs controlled southwestern Macedonia , including the symbolically important town of Ohrid . Aftermath . After the battle of Monastir , the five - century - long Ottoman rule of Macedonia was over . The Serbian 1st Army continued fighting in the First Balkan War . At this point some Serbs wanted the 1st Army to continue its advance down the valley of the Vardar to Thessaloniki . Vojovoda Putnik refused . The threat of war with Austria - Hungary loomed over the issue of a Serbian presence on the Adriatic . In addition , with the Bulgarians and Greeks already in Thessaloniki , the appearance of Serbian forces there would only muddle an already complicated situation .
German submarine U - 31 ( 1936 ) German submarine " U - 31 " was a Type VIIA U - boat of the Nazi German " Kriegsmarine " during World War II . She was laid down on 1 March 1936 as " Werk " 912 , launched on 25 September and commissioned on 28 December 1936 . Service history . During her career " U - 31 " was involved in seven war patrols , and attacked the first convoy of World War II , OB - 4 on 16 September 1939 , sinking the British steamer SS " Aviemore " . In " U - 31 " s entire career she sank 11 ships , totalling , and one auxiliary warship of . A mine laid by " U - 31 " damaged the British battleship of 33 , 950 tons . On 11 March 1940 " U - 31 " was sunk in the Jade estuary by bombs from a British Blenheim bomber with the loss of all 58 crew . The U - boat was raised later that month , repaired and returned to service in July . " U - 31 " was sunk again on 2 November 1940 , north - west of Ireland , by depth charge s from the British destroyer , which picked up 44 survivors ( or 43 , sources vary ) , from the crew of 46 .
Fritz Lindemann General Fritz Lindemann ( 11 April 1894 – 22 September 1944 ) was a German Artillery officer and member of the resistance to Adolf Hitler . Life and career . He was born in Charlottenburg , Berlin . After service in World War I he was a temporary member of the German peace delegation in Versailles . He then served in the Reichswehr and trained staff officers . In World War II he served in Poland , France and on the Eastern Front . Lindemann also served at the Division Commander of the German 132nd Infantry Division from January 1942 to August 1943 , before appointment as Chief of Staff of the Artillery Oberkommando des Heeres . He also developed contacts with conspirators against Adolf Hitler including General Helmuth Stieff and following the assassination of Hitler it was proposed that he would read the conspirators proclamation to the German people over the radio , but he did not appear at the Bendlerblock on 20 July 1944 in order to do so . After the failure of the 20 July plot coup attempt he went into hiding in Dresden and Berlin . He was found and seriously wounded during his arrest by the Gestapo in September 1944 and died in hospital from his injuries . Erich and Elisabeth Gloeden , Elisabeth Kuznitzky , Hans Sierks and Carl Marks were executed for helping him .