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Leroy Johnson ( Medal of Honor ) Leroy Johnson ( December 6 , 1919 - December 15 , 1944 ) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military ' s highest decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions in World War II . Camp Leroy Johnson in New Orleans , LA , was renamed after him in 1947 . Biography . Johnson joined the Army from Oakdale , Louisiana in 1943 , and by December 15 , 1944 was serving as a Sergeant in Company K , 126th Infantry Regiment , 32nd Infantry Division . On that day , near Limon , Leyte , the Philippines , he smothered the blast of two enemy - thrown grenade s with his body , sacrificing himself to protect those around him . For this action , he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor ten months later , on October 2 , 1945 . Johnson was buried at the Manila American Cemetery in Manila , the Philippines . A bronze memorial plaque in his honor was mounted on the wall of the Oberlin , Louisiana , courthouse . Johnson was from Oakdale , just a few miles north of Oberlin in Allen Parish . Medal of Honor citation . Sergeant Johnson ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads :
Tony Jonsson Þorsteinn Elton Jónsson ( known in English as Tony Jonsson ; October 19 , 1921 — December 30 , 2001 ) was the only pilot from Iceland to serve with Royal Air Force in World War II , and went on to a significant career in civil aviation . His parents were Snæbjörn Jónsson ( 1887 - 1978 ) and Annie Florence Westcott Jónsson ( 1893 - 1936 ) . Second World War . Although his mother was English , and Jonsson aspired to join the RAF as a child , he was told by the British legation in Iceland that he was ineligible on account of his nationality . However , he took passage to England by trawler and enlisted at Padgate in 1940 . As a sergeant pilot , Jonsson flew hurricanes with 17 Squadron at Elgin ; he then served in 111 Squadron , flying Spitfires first North Weald and later in North Africa in connection with Operation Torch , during which Jonsson was awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal . He was later commissioned . On a second tour of duty with 65 Squadron , he flew Mustangs over Normandy . Jonsson is credited officially with having shot down five enemy planes ( though claims have been made for eight ) , making him Iceland ' s only second - world - war ace . He wrote a wartime memoir called " Dancing in the Skies " , in 1994 . Civil aviation career . After the war , Jonsson flew Douglas DC - 3 s on some of Iceland ' s very first domestic flights , applying his skills to Iceland ' s difficult weather conditions and nascent infrastructure , before flying international routes for both Icelandair and Loftleiðir . Seeking more adventurous work , Jonsson moved to Kinshasha ( then Leopoldville ) in the Belgian Congo from 1956 - 1960 , flying for Sabena and working , " inter alia " , as Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba ' s personal pilot . After a period flying ice patrols over the east Greenland coast , Jonsson delivered hundreds of tonnes of relief shipments for Nordchurchaid from São Tome to Uli in Biafra in the Nigerian Civil War as part of the Biafran airlift . Jonsson flew 413 of his missions at night , landing on a road lit by rudimentary lighting , switched on only shortly before landing . Towards the end of his career Jonsson flew jumbo jets for Cargolux . On retirement after 47 years as a pilot , Jonsson had logged 36 , 000 hours . He charted his postwar career in Icelandic civil aviation in " Lucky , no 13 : The Eventful Life of a Pilot " . Personal life . Jonsson was married three times : to an English wife Marianne from 1946 to 1952 ; from 1952 to 1965 or 1967 to Margrét Þorbjörg Thors , one of his Dakota stewardesses and daughter to Ólafur Thors , four times Iceland ’ s Prime Minister ; and to Katrín Þorðardóttir from 1969 to her death in 1994 . In retirement , Jonsson focused on devoting time to his wife , to fishing , watercolour painting , and writing . He was survived by six of his seven children .
Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe The Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe ( ) is a German military award instituted on 31 March 1942 by the commander - in - chief ( ) Hermann Göring . It was awarded for achievement in ground combat . Designed by Professor Sigmund von Weech , the badge consists of a Luftwaffe eagle , clawing a Swastika , flying above a storm cloud , from which a lightning bolt strikes rough ground . Award criteria . The general criteria for its presentation was the participation in three separate combat operations on separate days . Luftwaffe soldiers who had already been awarded medals or orders of the Heer such as Assault Badge or the Infantry Assault Badge , were required to exchange their badges for the Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe . Grades . As the war progressed it became necessary to further distinguish those soldiers who had already exceeded the awarding criteria . To accomplish this distinction four numbered grades were introduced on 10 November 1944 based on the number of combat operations .
Department of Oregon The Department of Oregon was one of two Army Departments created September 13 , 1858 , replacing the original Department of the Pacific and was composed of the Territories of Washington and Oregon , except the Rogue River and Umpqua Districts , which were assigned to the Department of California . Its creation was authorized by General Orders , No . 10 , of the United States Department of War , Adjutant - General ' s Office , September 13 , 1858 . Its Headquarters was at Fort Vancouver , in the Washington Territory . Commanders . Its first commander was Brevet Brigadier General William S . Harney , U . S . Army , from 1858 to June 1860 . Shortly after he took command he sent troops under Captain George E . Pickett to San Juan Island precipitating the Pig War with Great Britain . Due to these altercations with the British he was recalled in June 1860 by the United States Secretary of War who reassigned Harney to the Department of the West , replacing him with the victor of the Oregon Indian Wars , Colonel George Wright , of the U . S . 9th Infantry Regiment , from June 8 , 1860 . The Department of Oregon was merged into the restored Department of the Pacific on January 15 , 1861 , as the District of Oregon administering the same territories , under Col . Wright .
Joseph H . Earle Joseph Haynsworth Earle ( April 30 , 1847May 20 , 1897 ) was a United States Senator from South Carolina . Born in Greenville , he attended private schools in Sumter . He was a first year cadet at the South Carolina Military Academy ( now The Citadel ) at the outbreak of the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army . He graduated from Furman University ( Greenville ) in 1867 , taught school for two years , studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Anderson . He returned to Sumter in 1875 and continued the practice of law ; he was also interested in the logging business and in agricultural pursuits . Earle was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1878 to 1882 , and was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1882 to 1886 . He was South Carolina attorney general from 1886 to 1890 , declined the nomination for Governor , and ran unsuccessfully for that office in 1890 . He returned to Greenville in 1892 , was elected a circuit judge in 1894 , and was elected as a Democrat to the U . S . Senate , serving from March 4 , 1897 until his death in Greenville on May 20 , 1897 . Interment was in Christ Churchyard in Greenville . Joseph Earle was a great - grandson of Elias Earle , a cousin of John Laurens Manning Irby , and a nephew of William Lowndes Yancey , all of whom were members of the U . S . Congress ( Yancey also the C . S . Congress ) .
Ōba Kagechika Facing off against Minamoto no Tametomo during the Hōgen Rebellion , Kagechika is credited with challenging Tametomo , crying " Lord Hachiman ! During the Three Years War , in the attack upon the stockade at Kanazawa , Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa , then only sixteen years of age , went to the front of the battle , and when his left eye was pierced by an arrow through his visor he loosed a shaft in return and took his assailant . I am the youngest descendant of that Gongorō , Oba Heita Kageyoshi ' s son , Oba Saburō Kagechika . Come on and fight ! " Many years later , during the Genpei War , he led Taira clan forces to a victory against Minamoto no Yoritomo at Ishibashiyama in September 1180 . However , two months later , Oba submitted to Yoritomo and was decapitated .
USS Constant ( AM - 86 ) USS " Constant " ( AM - 86 ) was an of the United States Navy . Laid down on 21 February 1942 by the Commercial Iron Works , Portland , Oregon , and launched on 9 May 1942 , the ship was commissioned on 21 September 1942 . World War II Pacific Theatre operations . From 20 December 1942 to 4 March 1943 " Constant " escorted convoys between San Francisco , California , and Pearl Harbor . She sailed from Pearl Harbor 8 March for Espiritu Santo , arriving 25 March for local escort duty , operating from Espiritu Santo and Noumea in support of the Guadalcanal operation . On 3 September 1943 she arrived at Tulagi and remained in the Solomons on inter - island escort and minesweeping duty with occasional convoy voyages to Nouméa and Espiritu Santo until 3 April 1944 when she steamed to Auckland , New Zealand for a brief overhaul . She returned to Port Purvis in the Solomons 13 May . Reclassified as a submarine chaser . On 1 June 1944 her name was canceled and she was reclassified as a submarine chaser PC - 1590 . She continued her service at Espiritu Santo , Nouméa , Samoa and Tongatapu until 6 May 1946 . Post - war activity . She then returned to Pearl Harbor , where she was decommissioned 19 June 1946 . Assigned to the 14th Naval District for Naval Reserve training 28 October 1946 , " PC - 1590 " was placed in commission in reserve 5 May 1950 , and in full commission from 20 March 1951 until decommissioned 22 October 1954 . She was sunk as a target .
Efficiency Decoration The Efficiency Decoration ( ED ) is a defunct medal of Britain and the Commonwealth awarded for meritorious and long service in the Territorial Army of the UK , the Indian Volunteer Forces and Colonial Auxiliary Forces . This award superseded the awards to officers throughout the volunteer forces of Britain and the Commonwealth including the Territorial Decoration . The criteria were for a minimum of 12 years service in the Territorial Army , with war service and West African peacetime service counting double . Bars for further periods of six years were also awarded . The medal was superseded in the UK in 1999 by the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal . In other Commonwealth Nations , Canada was the first to have another decoration supersede it ; the Canada Decoration of October 1942 , to present . The equivalent award for other ranks was the Efficiency Medal . Scroll Inscriptions . The fixed suspender bar was decorated with an inscribed scroll the inscription of which had a number of variations . The countries were : Name and post - nominal Variations . When the Efficiency Decoration was awarded to a Territorial Army officer , it continued to be known as the Territorial Decoration or as Efficiency Decoration ( Territorial ) and the recipient still used the letters TD after their name . Note regarding South Africa . The Efficiency Decoration ( South Africa ) is a very similar medal but is not included in the above Commonwealth Country types because it is a separate medal . The scroll inscription read " UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA " , but the inscription also had the Afrikaans equivalent below as well as the reverse of the medal bearing a bilingual inscription .
USS Bullfinch ( AM - 66 ) USS Bullfinch ( AM - 66 ) was a of the United States Navy during World War II . She was laid down as the MV " Villanova " on 22 May 1937 by Bath Iron Works , Bath , Maine , for F . J . O ' Hara and Sons , Inc . , Boston , Massachusetts . She was the last trawler built at Bath Iron Works for a United States owner ) . Launched on 21 October 1937 , and delivered on 1 November 1937 , she was acquired by the U . S . Navy on 6 August 1940 . " Villanova " was renamed " Bullfinch " on 14 August 1940 , and commissioned in ordinary , on 16 August 1940 . She then commenced conversion to a minesweeper at the Norfolk Navy Yard , Portsmouth , Virginia . She was placed in full commission as USS " Bullfinch " ( AM - 66 ) , on 22 October 1940 . Her conversion was completed on 22 April 1941 . Service history . World War II , 1941 – 1944 . " Bullfinch " was assigned to special duty with the Mine Warfare School at Yorktown , Virginia . She spent her entire career operating under the auspices of the Commandant , 5th Naval District . Except for one cruise up Chesapeake Bay to visit Baltimore , Maryland , the minesweeper restricted her operations to the waters around Norfolk and Yorktown . She continued minesweeping and mine warfare training duties until decommissioned at Yorktown on 15 September 1944 . Decommissioning . " Bullfinch ' s " name was struck from the Navy List on 23 September 1944 . Apparently , the former minesweeper was berthed somewhere in the Norfolk - Yorktown area for about 11 months . On 28 August 1945 , she was transferred to the Maritime Commission ' s War Shipping Administration at Little Creek , Virginia , for disposal .
USS Sequatchie ( AOG - 21 ) USS " Sequatchie " ( AOG - 21 ) was a acquired by the U . S . Navy for the dangerous task of transporting gasoline to warships in the fleet , and to remote Navy stations . " Sequatchie " ( ex - " Royston " ) was laid down on 1 June 1943 by Todd - Galveston Dry Dock Inc . , Galveston , Texas , under Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 790 ) ; launched on 21 December 1943 ; sponsored by Mrs . Hazel Tometich ; delivered on 5 August 1944 , and commissioned on 2 September 1944 , Lt . Bertram W . Richelt , USNR , in command . World War II service . Assigned to Service Force , Pacific , " Sequatchie " departed Galveston on 22 September ; transited the Panama Canal at the end of the month , and joined Service Squadron ( ServRon ) 8 at Pearl Harbor in early November . During that month and in December , she shuttled fuel to Johnston Island and to bases in the Hawaiian Islands . On 31 December , she sailed southwestward to begin duty as a unit of ServRon 10 . By mid - January she was in the Marshalls , and on 12 February , she arrived at Saipan , where she discharged cargo during March . At the end of that month , she commenced shuttling fuel to Iwo Jima and continued that duty , alternating it with station ship duty at Saipan , into August . End - of - war activity . At the end of the war , " Sequatchie " was at Saipan where she remained until 26 September , when she returned to Iwo Jima to assume station ship duties there . At the end of November , she returned to Saipan . Post - war decommissioning . The tanker remained in the Central Pacific until ordered back to the United States for inactivation in 1946 . In March , she arrived on the U . S . West Coast . At the end of May , she got underway for the Gulf Coast ; and , on 26 June , she was decommissioned at New Orleans , Louisiana . Her name was struck from the Navy List on 15 August ; and , on 7 October , she was returned to the Maritime Commission and laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Mobile , Alabama . Final Disposition : fate unknown .
Eighth Army ( Ottoman Empire ) The Eighth Army of the Ottoman Empire ( Turkish : " Sekizinci Ordu " ) was one of the field armies of the Ottoman Army . It was established during World War I . World War I . On 2 October 1917 , Enver Pasha activated the new Eighth Army , commanded by Kress von Kressenstein , and deployed it along with the Seventh Army , commanded by Mustafa Kemal to the Yildirim Army Group , commanded by Erich von Falkenhayn . Order of Battle , January 1918 . In January 1918 , the army was structured as follows : Order of Battle , September 1918 . In September 1918 , the army was structured as follows : After Mudros . Order of Battle , November 1918 . In November 1918 , the army was structured as follows :
Vickers Valentia The Vickers Valentia was a British flying boat designed during the First World War . History . Three Valentia prototypes were built by the Vickers Company at their Barrow works ( Walney Island perhaps ) , having been ordered in May 1918 as a potential replacement for the Felixstowe F . 5 . Two were cancelled when the First World War ended , and the third went to the S . E . Saunders works at Cowes for completion . Captain Cockerall began test - flying it in the Solent in March 1921 . Airframe crashed and was written off , June 1922 . The name was later re - used for a transport aircraft .
August Zingel August Zingel was a Untersturmführer ( Second Lieutenant ) , 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 . August Zingel was born on the 20 January 1922 , at Heidmühle near Oldenburg . He volunteered to join the SS and took part in the Anschluss of Austria , the occupation of the Sudetenland and the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia . He participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union , ( Operation Barbarossa ) and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class in October 1941 and the 1st class award in February 1942 . His award of the Knight ' s Cross was in September 1942 , serving in the 15th Company , 1st SS " Totenkopf " Regiment ( 3rd SS Division Totenkopf ) , as part of Kampfgruppe Krauth ( battle group Krauth ) . Post war . Zingel died on 22 December 2000 .
Stickney ' s Regiment of Militia Stickney ' s Regiment of Militia , also known as the 11th New Hampshire Militia Regiment , was at Fort Ticonderoga during the spring of 1777 reinforcing the Continental Army garrison . The regiment was again called up on July 21 , 1777 , at Pembroke , New Hampshire for Gen . John Stark ' s Brigade gathering at Charlestown , New Hampshire during the Saratoga campaign . Part of Stickney ' s Regiment under Lt . Col . Nataniel Emerson was sent to Otter Creek on August 4 to clear out any remaining Loyalists . On August 16 , 1777 , Stickney ' s regiment , along with Hale ' s and Hobart ' s Regiment , made the main attack on Friedrich Baum ' s redoubt during the Battle of Bennington as Nichols ' attacked from the rear ( west ) and Simonds ' attacked from the south . Lt . Col . Emerson ' s detachment arrived along with Seth Warner ' s Green Mountain Boys in time to rout Heinrich von Breymann ' s reinforcements . Stickney ' s Regiment would continue on in Stark ' s Brigade to cut off British Gen . John Burgoyne from retreat or supply after the Battle of Freeman ' s Farm . The regiment would be disbanded on October 26 , 1777 , in northern New York .
Stanisław Jankowski Stanisław Jankowski , ' Agaton ' ( 1911 , Warsaw - 2002 , Warsaw ) was a Polish officer and architect . Student and assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology , Jankowski was mobilized as an officer during German invasion of Poland in 1939 . He escaped after having been captured by the Soviet Union forces and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West . He became a commando ( Cichociemny ) and in 1942 was parachuted into occupied Poland , where he became an expert document forger ( codename " Agaton " ) for the Polish resistance . In 1944 he took part in the Warsaw Uprising ( member of the Batalion Pięść in the Radosław Group ) , taken prisoner by the Germans after its end , he became an aide - de - camp of the commander of the also interned Armia Krajowa leader , general Tadeusz Bór - Komorowski . After the war he resumed his career as an architect . He took part in the reconstruction of Warsaw ; many of his projects have taken him abroad ( to Iraq , Peru , Yugoslavia or Vietnam ) . Honours and awards . Jankowski was the recipient of many medals and awards , military and civilian :
Walther Schwieger Walther Schwieger ( 7 April 1885 , Berlin – 5 September 1917 , North Sea ) was an officer of the Imperial German Navy ( " Kaiserliche Marine " ) and a U - boat commander during World War I , noted for his role in the sinking of the . In 1903 he joined the Imperial German Navy and from 1911 onwards he served with the U - boat Service . In 1912 he took over the command of the . After the outbreak of World War I in 1914 he was promoted to " Kapitänleutnant " and given command of the . On 7 May 1915 , Schwieger was responsible for " U - 20 ' s " torpedoing of the passenger liner RMS " Lusitania " leading to the deaths of 1 , 198 people , an event that played a role in the United States ' later entry into World War I . He also torpedoed SS " Hesperian " on 4 September and on 8 May 1916 . Schwieger was killed in action when his U - boat , , was chased by , hit a British mine , and sank on 5 September 1917 , north of Terschelling at . At the time of his death , Schwieger had sunk 49 ships with with three submarines on 34 missions . He was the sixth most successful submarine commander of World War I . His body remains entombed in " U - 88 " .
Henry F . Schroeder Henry Frank Schroeder ( December 7 , 1874 – January 26 , 1959 ) was a Sergeant in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor during the Philippine - American War at Carig in the Philippines . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Sergeant , Company L , 16th U . S . Infantry . Place and date : At Carig , Philippine Islands , September 14 , 1900 . Entered service at : Chicago , Ill . Birth : Chicago , Ill . Date of issue : March 10 , 1902 . Citation : With 22 men defeated 400 insurgents , killing 36 and wounding 90 . After the war . Schroeder would eventually reach the rank of Major before retiring and settling in California . He died in 1959 and is buried at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery at Point Loma , California .
Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha ( 1780 – 1859 ) was grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire twice under Mahmud II " Adlî " ( r . 1808 – 1839 ) and three times under Abdülmecit I ( r . 1839 – 1861 ) during the Tanzimat period of reformation . According to Shaw and Shaw , Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha and his predecessor , Mustafa Reşit Pasha , " acted mainly as mediators " for Mahmud II , " attempting to balance conflicting interests while participating in the factional activities and disputes endemic in Ottoman governmental life . "