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Anna Yegorova Lt . Anna Alexandrovna Timofeyeva - Yegorova ( ; September 23 , 1916 – October 29 , 2009 ) was a pilot in the Red Army Air Force ( VVS ) during the Second World War . She learned to fly and became a flight instructor before the war , then volunteered for the front when Germany invaded . In 1941 – 42 , she flew reconnaissance and delivery missions for the 130th Air Liaison Squadron in a wooden biplane , the Polikarpov Po - 2 . After being shot down , she transferred in 1943 to the 805th Attack Aviation Regiment and flew more than 270 missions in the Ilyushin Il - 2 " Shturmovik " , including battles above the Taman Peninsula , Crimea and Poland . During an August 1944 mission to destroy German forces at the Magnuszew bridgehead near Warsaw , Yegorova ' s plane was hit by anti - aircraft fire . Her tail gunner was killed , and the plane was heavily damaged and crashed . Rolling inverted , Yegorova was burned as she left the plane at a low altitude ; her parachute only partially opened and she suffered broken bones and other internal injuries on hitting the ground . She was given first aid by the German captors , then taken to a prisoner of war camp where her wounds were tended by Dr . Georgy Sinyakov . Back at her air base , Yegorova was presumed dead and ' posthumously ' granted the status of Hero of the Soviet Union . On January 31 , 1945 , Yegorova was liberated after Soviet forces overran the Kustrin prisoner camp where she was being held . Yegorova was interrogated as a potential traitor continuously for eleven days at a filtration camp for returning Soviet prisoners . After others vouched for her injuries and her conduct , she was released but invalided out of the Soviet Air Forces for medical reasons in 1945 . Yegorova was the subject of a feature article in the " Literaturnaya Gazeta " in 1961 , and in 1965 , she was finally awarded her Hero of the Soviet Union medal .
George Murray Rolland Major George Murray Rolland VC ( 12 May 1869 – 9 July 1910 ) was a 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 . Early life . He was born on 12 May 1869 at Wellington India and educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College , Sandhurst , before joining the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1889 . Details . He was 33 years old , and a captain in the 1st Bombay Grenadiers , Indian Army , employed Berbera - Bohotle Flying Column during the Third Somaliland Expedition when on 22 April 1903 after the action at British Somaliland , the rearguard got considerably behind the rest of the column . Captain Rolland and William George Walker , with four other men were with a fellow officer when he fell badly wounded and Captain Rolland ran back some 500 yards to get help while the others stayed with the casualty , endeavouring to keep off the enemy who were all round . This they succeeded in doing , and when the officer in charge of the column ( John Edmund Gough ) arrived they managed to get the wounded man on to a camel . He was , however , hit again and died immediately . He later achieved the rank of major . His VC is on display at the Lord Ashcroft Galley in the Imperial War Museum in London .
Arthur Gore , 6th Earl of Arran Arthur Jocelyn Charles Gore , 6th Earl of Arran , KP , PC ( 14 September 1868 – 19 December 1958 ) , known as Viscount Sudley from 1884 to 1901 , was an Anglo - Irish peer and soldier . Biography . Arran was the only son of Arthur Saunders Gore , 5th Earl of Arran , and Lady Edith Elizabeth Henrietta Jocelyn . He fought with the Royal Horse Guards in the Second Boer War 1899 - 1900 , and was promoted a brevet Major in November 1900 . He later fought in the First World War and achieved the rank of Lieutenant - Colonel . He was a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire , County Louth and County Mayo , a Deputy Lieutenant of County Mayo and Essex and served as Lord Lieutenant of County Donegal from 1917 to 1920 . He was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1909 and admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1917 . Lord Arran married , firstly , Maud Jacqueline Marie Beauclerk van Kattendyke , daughter of Huyssen van Kattendyke , 3rd Baron van Kattendyke , in 1902 . After her death in 1927 he married , secondly , Lilian Constance Quick , daughter of Joseph Quick , in 1929 . Lord Arran died in December 1958 , aged 90 , and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Arthur . Lady Arran died in 1961 .
Saltash Passage Saltash Passage ( as it has become known ) is on the Devon side of the River Tamar , opposite Saltash . Shown on maps as ' Riverside ' which is the proper name , it is part of St Budeaux , which in turn forms part of the city of Plymouth . Saltash Passage lies at the northern end of Wolseley Road , previously known as Ferry Road . The local railway station continues to be known as Ferry Road Station . Saltash Passage is named after the ferry route that the ferry took to carry passengers and vehicles between Saltash in Cornwall and Plymouth . The ferry became uneconomic following the construction of the Tamar Bridge in 1961 . Apart from housing , Saltash Passage is home to two pubs : the Royal Albert Bridge Inn ( known locally as the ' RABI ' , pronounced ' rabbi ' ) and the Ferry House Inn . It also hosts the Tamar River Sailing Club , a number of moorings and slipways , and a park that has a children ' s playground ( known as the ' Ooji ' [ spelling uncertain ] ) and gardens . A visit to the gardens forms part of the itinerary of some coach tours . A memorial stone stands in the gardens , commemorating the embarcation of American and British troops for the D - Day landings of World War II . In 2004 , a service was held here on the 60th anniversary of D - Day . Saltash Passage is a popular leisure destination in summer - with children crabbing , fishing and swimming , while their parents enjoy an open - air drink or two .
Leonard Monteagle Barlow Lieutenant Leonard Monteagle Barlow , MC and 2 Bars , ( 5 June 1898 – 5 February 1918 ) was a British World War I flying ace . He was born in Islington , London and studied electrical engineering prior to joining the Royal Flying Corps . Barlow was posted to No . 56 Squadron and scored 20 victories whilst serving with the squadron , being awarded the Military Cross three times for his outstanding airmanship and bravery . Dubbed ' The Gadget King ' , due to his inventiveness , Barlow developed an ingenious way of firing both of his SE5a aircraft ' s machine guns at the same time . On 25 September he claimed 3 Albatros fighters of Jasta 10 , Lt . Weigand and Uzz . Werkmeister being killed and one other pilot wounded . On 5 February 1918 , Barlow was killed at Martlesham Heath whilst test flying a Sopwith Dolphin which broke up in mid air . His final tally consisted of 12 and 1 shared destroyed , 6 and 1 shared ' out of control ' .
47th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment The 47th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men , an effort to augment existing manpower for an all - out push to end the war within 100 days . Service . The 47th Iowa Infantry was organized at Davenport , Iowa , and mustered in for one - hundred days Federal service on June 4 , 1864 as part of a plan to raise short term regiments for service as rear area garrison duty to release veteran troops for Sherman ' s Atlanta Campaign . The 47th Iowa garrisoned strategic points in the District of Arkansas . The regiment was mustered out at Davenport , Iowa , on September 28 , 1864 . Total strength and casualties . A total of 884 men served in the 47th Iowa at one time or another during its existence .
John Cridland Latham John Cridland Latham ( March 3 , 1888 – November 5 , 1975 ) was a United States Army soldier who received the U . S . military ' s highest decoration , the Medal of Honor , for his actions in World War I . Born on March 3 , 1888 , in Windemere , England , Latham immigrated to the United States and joined the Army from Rutherford , New Jersey . By September 29 , 1918 , he was serving as a sergeant in Machine Gun Company , 107th Infantry Regiment , 27th Division . On that day , near Le Catelet in northeastern France , he and two other soldiers , Sergeant Alan L . Eggers and Corporal Thomas E . O ' Shea , left cover to rescue the crew of a disabled American tank . O ' Shea was killed in the process , but Latham and Eggers successfully defended the wounded tank crewmen from German fire all day and carried them to the safety of the Allied lines after nightfall . For this action , all three soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor the next year . Medal of Honor citation . Latham ' s official Medal of Honor citation reads : Becoming separated from their platoon by a smoke barrage , Sgt . Latham , Sgt . Alan L . Eggers , and Cpl . Thomas E . O ' Shea took cover in a shellhole well within the enemy ' s lines . Upon hearing a call for help from an American tank which had become disabled 30 yards from them , the 3 soldiers left their shelter and started toward the tank under heavy fire from German machineguns and trench mortars . In crossing the fire - swept area , Cpl . O ' Shea was mortally wounded , but his companions , undeterred , proceeded to the tank , rescued a wounded officer , and assisted 2 wounded soldiers to cover in the sap of a nearby trench . Sgts . Latham and Eggers then returned to the tank in the face of the violent fire , dismounted a Hotchkiss gun , and took it back to where the wounded men were keeping off the enemy all day by effective use of the gun and later bringing it with the wounded men back to our lines under cover of darkness .
566th Intelligence Squadron The 566th Information Operations Squadron is a support unit to the Aerospace Data Facility in conjunction with the 460th Space Wing , Buckley Air Force Base , Aurora , Colorado . The 566th is a member of the 544th Information Operations Group headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base , Colorado . Mission . To provide the Aerospace Data Facility - Colorado with leading - edge information superiority and technical support in the performance of joint national system missions . History . The 566th Information Operations Squadron ( IOS ) began during World War II , when the 16th Photographic Technical Unit was activated on November 5 , 1944 , at Charleroi , Belgium . The 16th was a squadron to the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group and the 16th was assigned to several bases in Europe : Vogelsang , Limburg , and Eschwege , Germany , and France . After World War II , the unit moved to MacDill Field , Florida , where it was decommissioned on December 21 , 1945 . The 66th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron was Constituted on 15 November 1952 and Activated on 1 January 1953 at Shaw AFB . SC relocated to Shaw AFB , SC : 01 Jan – 25 June 1953 ; Sembach AB , West Germany on 7 July 1953 and moved to Kaiserslautern , West Germany on 13 August 1953 till the unit was Inactivated on 8 February 1958 . While the unit was insctive the 66th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron was Consolidated on 16 October 1984 and the New Unit was designated as the 16th Reconnaissance Technical Squadron . The unit remained inactive until September 7 , 1993 , when the 16th Intelligence Squadron was activated at Buckley Air National Guard Base , Colorado . The unit was re - designated the 566th Operations Support Squadron ( OSS ) on October 1 , 1995 . Renamed later as the 566th Information Operations Squadron ( IOS ) on August 1 , 2000 , this unit aided Buckley in its transition from an Air National Guard base to an active duty Air Force base .
Jan August Cichocki Jan August Cichocki ( 1750 – 1795 ) was a Polish military officer and a general of the Polish Army , notable for his service in the Warsaw Uprising ( 1794 ) . Thanks to a scholarship funded by Alois Bruhl , Cichocki studied artillery tactics in Dresden . Upon his return to Poland , he co - authored the military reforms of 1776 – 1779 . At the same time until May 1792 he was the commanding officer of the Polish 5th Rifle Regiment ( ) , after which he was the creator and the first commander of the Polish 15th Regiment of Foot . One of the commanders of the garrison of Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising ( 1794 ) , he joined the Kościuszko ' s Uprising soon afterwards . On June 20 Tadeusz Kościuszko promoted him to the rank of General and nominated him to the post of the commander of the Narew river front , where however he showed little value as a front commander . Dismissed to some unimportant post in Warsaw , where he died November 18 , 1795 , and was buried at the Holy Cross cemetery in Warsaw .
No . 463 Squadron RAAF No . 463 Squadron RAAF was a Royal Australian Air Force heavy bomber squadron during World War II . The squadron was formed in the United Kingdom on 25 November 1943 from personnel and aircraft allocated from No . 467 Squadron RAAF . The Squadron was equipped with Avro Lancaster bombers and flew its first raids on Germany immediately after being formed . Operating as part of RAF Bomber Command No . 463 Squadron conducted raids against cities , industrial facilities and military targets in Germany , France and Norway throughout 1944 and until the end of the war in May 1945 . Following the war the Squadron evacuated Allied Prisoners of war from Europe until it was disbanded on 25 September 1945 .
Theophilos Erotikos Theophilos Erotikos ( ) was an 11th - century Byzantine general , and governor in Serbia and Cyprus , where he led a short - lived rebellion in 1042 . Biography . Serbian revolts . Around 1034 , according to John Skylitzes , the Serbs renounced Byzantine rule ; Stefan Vojislav , a Serbian lord that held Zeta and Ston , organized a revolt while the Byzantines arranged the succession of the throne . Vojislav was defeated and imprisoned in Constantinople , and his holdings were restored under the control of Erotikos , who had the title " " strategos " of Serbia " . Vojislav however managed to escape his imprisonment at the Byzantine capital , and organized another revolt in late 1037 or early 1038 , targeting the pro - Byzantine Serbian lords in the neighbouring regions of Duklja : Travunija and Zahumlje . Vojislav managed to expel Erotikos and asserted himself as " Prince of the Serbs " . Cyprus . Erotikos was nevertheless appointed as governor of Cyprus , and in 1042 , at the death of Michael V and the resulting turmoil in the imperial government , he decided to take advantage of the situation : he incited the local populace to revolt , especially against the local " krites " ( senior fiscal and judicial official ) , who was accused of excessive taxation and murdered by the rebels . The new emperor , Constantine IX Monomachos , sent a fleet under Constantine Chage , which quickly suppressed the rebellion and arrested Erotikos . The rebel was brought to Constantinople , where he was paraded on horseback in the Hippodrome dressed in women ' s clothes . After this public humiliation , his estates and fortune were confiscated , but Erotikos himself was set free .
Siege of Santo Domingo ( 1655 ) The Siege of Santo Domingo of 1655 , was fought between April 23 , 1655 to April 30 , 1655 at the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo . A force of 2 , 400 Spanish troops led by Governor Don Bernardino Meneses y Bracamonte , Count of Peñalba , successfully resisted a force of 13 , 120 troops and 34 ships of the English Commonwealth Navy led by Admiral Sir William Penn . The English force landed some thirty miles from their objective , the city of Santo Domingo . After a march of four days through heavy rough country with little water , the column was routed in an ambush by a few hundred " vaqueros " . The English fleet ineffectually tried to bombard the city into submission and the army re - embarked its survivors . The British naval historian , N . A . M . Rodger , notes that , " In one afternoon the invincible reputation of the New Model Army had been thrown away . " Due to the valor of Don Bernardino de Meneses y Bracamonte , the site of the victory was named in his honor ; La Puerta del Conde .
Didgori Armoured Personnel Carrier The Didgori ( ) is a Georgian - made armoured personnel carrier family developed by the " Delta " research center of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia and exists in two baseline variants . Technical characteristics . The machine is assembled on the basis of units of the American pickup truck Ford F - Series . Equipped with thermal imaging cameras front and rear view of FLIR Systems . Information from the cameras is displayed on the three displays : one for the driver , one for the commander and one for the infantry team , established with a system of night vision and also with a special navigation system GPS Armor . The armour withstands impacts of 7 . 62×54mmR AP rounds and 6 – 8 kg mine blasts at direct contact and from underneath without heavy damage . Further details are unknown , since the composition of the material is classified . The two baseline models are armed with a 7 . 62×51mm M134 Minigun and the 12 . 7×108mm NSV machine gun , but can be armed with a wide range of armaments , including ATGMs . The monocoque steel v - hull provides protection against small arm s fire , artillery shell shrapnel , anti - personnel / tank mines and IED s . Front wheel arches are designed to be blown away to free blast pockets . External links . < br >
USS Watchman ( AGR - 16 ) USS " Watchman " ( AGR - 16 / YAGR - 16 ) was a " Guardian " - class radar picket ship acquired by the U . S . Navy in 1958 from the " mothballed " reserve fleet . She was reconfigured as a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Pacific Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line . Liberty ship built in Florida . " SS Vernon S . Hood " was laid down under a U . S . Maritime Commission contract ( MCE hull 2343 ) on 17 January 1945 at the Wainwright yard of the J . S . Jones Construction Co . in Panama City , Florida ; launched on 20 February 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . Inez Bulifant ; and delivered to the Maritime Commission on 7 March 1945 . World War II - related service . Following a shakedown cruise in the Gulf of Mexico , the freighter was turned over to the Overtakes Freight Corporation to be operated by that firm under a contract with the Maritime Commission . During her brief period of active operations with the Maritime Commission , 1945 to 1947 , she also served under contract with the Moore - McCormack Lines . Later that year , she was placed out of service and was berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet at James River , Virginia . Reconfigured as a radar picket . The ship remained there until mid - 1958 when she was taken over by the Navy and converted to a radar picket ship at the Charleston Naval Shipyard ( South Carolina ) . During conversion , she was renamed " Watchman " and received the designation " YAGR - 16 " . However , that designation was changed to " AGR - 16 " before she completed her conversion late in the year . On 5 January 1958 , " Watchman " was placed in commission at Charleston , Lt . Comdr . Irvin Boaz in command . " Watchman " conducted shakedown training in the Guantanamo Bay operating area during February . Following post - shakedown availability at Charleston from 5 to 18 March , she completed repairs and got underway for the U . S . West Coast . After transiting the Panama Canal and visiting Acapulco , Mexico , she arrived in her new home port — San Francisco , California — on 11 April . Assigned to the Continental Air Defense Command , she served as one of several radar picket ships operating as seaborne extensions of the command ' s contiguous radar coverage system . She operated from her base at San Francisco during her entire naval career , spending an average of 200 days per year actually at sea engaged in picket patrols . That routine continued until 1 September 1965 , at which time she and the remaining " AGR ' s " were placed out of commission . Deactivation . Her name was struck from the Navy List that same day , and she was returned to the Maritime Administration for lay up with the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay , California . She remained there until 3 October 1974 when she was sold to American Ship Dismantlers for scrapping . Honors and awards . " Watchman " personnel qualified for the following medal :
Charles Thoroton Charles Julian Thoroton , RMLI , was Chief of British Naval Intelligence for the Mediterranean from Gibraltar ( and Spain ) , to North Africa and Greece , 1913 - 1919 . He reported to Admiral Sir Reginald ( Blinker ) Hall , RN , Head of Room 40 . The first full length biography of Colonel Thoroton , RMLI , " Finding Thoroton - The Royal Marine who ran British Naval Intelligence in the Western Mediterranean in World War 1 " is due for publication October 2013 . Thoroton was one of Winston Churchill ' s " brilliant confederacy - whose names even now are better wrapt in mystery " . ( The World Crisis 1911 - 1914 , Chapter XX . ) Published by the Royal Marines Historical Society , the author is Philip Vickers who is a member of the RMHS . He is the author of " Das Reich - Drive to Normandy " ( Pen & Sword Books ) and has spoken on irregular warfare at the CIA Conference in Washington , DC . " Finding Thoroton " breaks new ground due to its extensive research and access to private papers . Fully illustrated it also features three maps .
Battle of Bayou Fourche The Battle of Bayou Fourche , sometimes called the Battle of Little Rock , was a battle in the American Civil War fought on September 10 , 1863 east of the town of Little Rock , Arkansas . The battle was the culmination of a campaign launched by Maj . Gen . Fred Steele , on August 1 , 1863 to capture Little Rock , Arkansas . The campaign includes engagements at Westport , on 14 August , Harrison ' s Landing , on 16 August , Brownsville on 25 August , the Reed ' s Bridge , on 27 August , and Ashely ' s Mills on 7 September 1863 . After the Union army affected a river crossing east of Little Rock , effectively flanking the Confederate defenses north of the river , the Confederates staged a brief delaying action at Bayou Fourche to allow for evacuation of Little Rock . After the fall of Little Rock , Confederate forces retreated to Arkadelphia and Rockport , and established a new state capitol at Washington , in Hempstead County , Arkansas . Battle . On September 10 , 1863 , Maj . Gen . Fred Steele , Army of Arkansas commander , sent Brig . Gen . John W . Davidson ' s cavalry division across the Arkansas River to move on Little Rock , while he took other troops to attack Confederates entrenched on the north side . In his thrust toward Little Rock , Davidson ran into Confederate troops at Bayou Fourche . Aided by Union artillery fire from the north side of the river , Davidson forced them out of their position and sent them fleeing back to Little Rock , which fell to Union troops that evening . Aftermath . Bayou Fourche sealed Little Rock ' s fate . The fall of Little Rock further helped to contain the Confederate Trans - Mississippi theater , isolating it from the rest of the South .
Dietrich Koch Dr . rer . pol . Dietrich Koch ( 8 April 1916 – 22 November 2002 ) was a highly decorated Oberleutnant der Reserve in the Wehrmacht during World War II and 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 . Dietrich Koch was severely wounded in December 1941 and was released from the Wehrmacht in December 1943 .