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Cyril Joe Barton Cyril Joe Barton VC ( 5 June 1921 – 31 March 1944 ) 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 . RAF career . Cyril Barton volunteered for aircrew duties and joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve , RAFVR on 16 April 1941 , qualifying as a Sergeant Pilot 10 November 1942 . He then trained at No . 1663 Heavy Conversion Unit at Rufforth , Yorkshire . On 5 September 1943 , Barton and his crew joined no . 78 squadron , and Barton was commissioned as a Pilot Officer three weeks later . Undertaking their first operational sortie against Montlucon , Barton completed 9 sorties with No . 78 squadron until 15 January 1944 , and was then posted to No . 578 Squadron at Burn in North Yorkshire . Their second sortie with the new squadron was to Stuttgart in Halifax LK797 ( codename LK - E ) . By 30 March 1944 , they had completed 6 sorties in LK797 - which the crew had named " Excalibur " . On 30 March 1944 in an attack on Nuremberg , Germany and while from the target , Pilot Officer Barton ' s Handley Page Halifax bomber ( serial LK797 ) was badly damaged by two night fighters , and two fuel tanks were punctured , both the radio and rear turret disabled , the starboard inner engine was on fire and the intercom lines were cut . Despite several determined attacks by a Junkers Ju 88 night fighter , and with the aid of his crew , Barton managed to avoid further attacks . A misinterpreted signal resulted in three of the crew bailing out , and Barton was left with no navigator , bombardier or wireless operator . He pressed on with the attack however , releasing the bombs himself . On the return journey as he crossed the English coast the fuel ran out and with only one engine working he crashed trying to avoid the houses and pit head workings of the village of Ryhope , near Sunderland . He was pulled alive from the wreckage but died before reaching the hospital . One miner died , when he was hit by part of the crippled plane , but the remaining three crew members survived . His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum in Hendon , London Memorials . Barton Green in New Malden , Surrey , where he had attended Beverley Boys School , was named in his honour during the early 1950s and Barton Road at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington , North Yorkshire was named in his honour , on the 46th anniversary of his death . A housing estate in Ryhope , Barton Park , was also named after him , while a nearby street was named Halifax Place , after the bomber he flew . Kingston College , which Barton attended , also offers an annual prize for the student of the year , which is named after him . A painting in his memory hangs in the Wheatsheaf pub at Burn , North Yorkshire where 578 Squadron was once based .
Wayne MacVeagh Isaac Wayne MacVeagh ( April 19 , 1833 – January 11 , 1917 ) was an American lawyer , politician , diplomat and the 36th Attorney General of the United States . Biography . Born in Phoenixville , Pennsylvania , he attended Yale University , where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity ( Phi chapter ) , and graduated 10th in his class in 1853 . He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and was District Attorney of Chester County , Pennsylvania , from 1859 through 1864 . He led militia forces organized to battle back threatened Confederate invaders in 1862 and 1863 and served in the Union army during the American Civil War as an infantry captain and as a major in the cavalry . He became a leader in the Republican party , and was a prominent opponent of his father - in - law , Simon Cameron , in the fight within the party in 1871 . MacVeagh was U . S . Ambassador to The Ottoman Empire in 1870 through 1871 , and was a member of the state of 1872 and 1873 . In 1875 , he co - founded the Philadelphia - based law firm known today as Dechert LLP . He also served as chairman of the MacVeagh Commission , sent in 1877 by President Rutherford B . Hayes to Louisiana , which secured the settlement of the contest between the two existing state government s and thus made possible the withdrawal of U . S . troops from the state . MacVeagh was the 36th Attorney General of the United States in 1881 under President James A . Garfield , but resigned shortly after Garfield ' s death . In 1892 he supported Grover Cleveland , the Democratic nominee for the presidency , and from 1893 to 1897 was U . S . Ambassador to Italy . He returned to the Republican party in 1896 . In 1903 he was chief counsel of the United States before the Hague tribunal in the case regarding the claims of Germany , Britain and Italy against the republic of Venezuela . His brother Franklin MacVeagh was a U . S . Treasury Secretary .
Castle of Thy - le - Château The Castle of Thy - le - Chateau is a medieval castle located in Namur , Belgium . Originally built in the 12th century , it served as the military fortress for several noble clans until the French Revolution , when it fell into disrepair . The castle was successfully restored in 1939 .
Erich Rossner Erich Rossner was a Unterscharführer 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 . Eric Rossner was born on the 26 May 1918 in Helmbrechts . He volunteered to join the SS and was posted to the 2nd Battery , 2nd SS Panzerjäger Battalion , " Das Reich Division " . He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class on the 25 July 1941 , 1st class on the 3 August 1941 and the Knight ' s Cross on the 25 August 1941 , for destroying 13 Russian tanks before being fatally wounded . Rossner died of his wounds on the Eastern Front on the 12 September 1941 .
Wilhelm Lorenz Wilhelm Lorenz ( 25 April 1894 – 2 January 1943 ) was a highly decorated Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht 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 . Lorenz was wounded on 27 December 1942 , and died from his wounds on 2 January 1943 in Demyansk , Russia . He was posthumously promoted to Generalmajor .
Air Vietnam Flight 706 Air Vietnam Flight 706 was a Boeing 727 which crashed on September 15 , 1974 near Phan Rang Air Base in South Vietnam . Hijack . Le Duc Tan , a ranger in the South Vietnamese army who had recently been demoted from captain to lieutenant for the theft of two cars in Da Nang , smooth - talked his way past security checkpoints . After taking off from Danang in South Vietnam on a regularly scheduled flight for Saigon , the flight was hijacked by Tan , holding two grenades . He demanded to be flown to Hanoi in North Vietnam . For unknown reasons the pilots approached the airfield at Phan Rang but aborted the landing . The aircraft overshot the base leg and initiated a left turn , during which the aircraft lost control . Shortly after that , the airplane plunged to the ground from an altitude of , killing all 75 people aboard . Even though the exact cause remains unclear , it has been speculated that the hijacker caused the crash by setting off his grenades after the pilots refused to give in to his demands .
10th Indian Division The 10th Indian Division was a formation of the British Indian Army during World War I . It was the basis of Indian Expeditionary Force F which served in Egypt and was disbanded in March 1915 . The division was formed in October 1914 , from the 28th , 29th and 30th brigades . The 31st Brigade joined from the 11th Indian Division in January 1916 , but was disbanded a month later . The 29th Brigade was later detached to form the Indian Expeditionary Force G for service in the Gallipoli Campaign and the 30th Brigade was transferred to the 12th Indian Division in Mesopotamia .
Heslington Hall Heslington Hall is a grade II listed rebuilt manor house near the village of Heslington , North Yorkshire , England , within the city of York . The hall is located on the campus of the University of York . The present Victorian building comprises a central nine bay two - storey block with attics and two two - storey wings at each end . It is built of brick in English bond with sandstone ashlar dressings . History . The original Manor house was constructed in 1568 for Sir Thomas Eynns , the Secretary and Keeper of the Seal to the Council of the North ; and his wife Elizabeth . Eynns died in 1573 and the estate were sold in 1601 by his nephews to the Hesketh family . On the death of Thomas Hesketh in 1708 , the Hall passed by marriage to the Yarburgh family , who lived in it for several generations . Major Nicholas Yarburgh , who lived at the hall from 1825 to 1852 and was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1836 , won the St Leger Stakes in 1839 with his horse Charles the Twelfth . On the death of Nicholas in 1852 , ownership passed to his nephew Yarburgh Greame of Sewerby Hall , who adopted the surname Yarburgh and commissioned architect Philip Charles Hardwick in 1854 to completely rebuild the hall in the Victorian style . Parts of the original manor house which were preserved include two staircase towers , the courtyard and the pendant stucco ceiling of the great hall . The house was inherited on his death in 1856 by his own nephew , George John Lloyd ( who then added the name Yarburgh ) and in 1875 by George ' s daughter , Mary Elizabeth Yarburgh . She had married George William Bateson in 1862 and he then assumed in 1876 the additional surname of de Yarburgh by Royal license . He later became the 2nd Baron Deramore after the death of his brother in 1890 . His two sons , Robert Wilfred de Yarburgh - Bateson ( 3rd Baron Deramore ) ( 1865 – 1936 ) and George Nicholas de Yarburgh - Bateson ( 4th Baron Deramore ) ( 1870 – 1943 ) , occupied the Hall after him . At the outbreak of the Second World War , the house was vacated by the family , allowing it to be taken over by the Royal Air Force as the headquarters of No . 4 Group RAF , part of RAF Bomber Command . The hall was abandoned after the war until 1962 , when Dr . Bernard Feilden supervised its conversion into the administrative headquarters of the University of York . In 1955 the hall was given Grade II * listed building status .
13th Light Bomber Squadron The 13th Light Bomber Squadron ( , 13 MΕΒ ) , was one of the three World War II aircraft squadron s in service with the Royal Hellenic Air Force , exiled in the Middle East , that fought under the auspices of the British Royal Air Force . It was the first Greek military unit founded after the German invasion and conquest of Greece in April – May 1941 . Background . After the failed Italian attack against Greece ( October 28 - November 13 , 1940 ) , the Greek forces counterattacked and penetrated deep into Italian held Albanian territory . However , with the German intervention in April 1941 , Greece capitulated . By April 15 , 1941 , the Royal Hellenic Air Force was virtually eliminated by the numerically and technically superior German " Luftwaffe " . Part of the Greek air force personnel managed to escape to Egypt together with five Avro Anson aircraft . These aircraft formed the 13th Light Bomber Squadron during the summer of 1941 , which was thus the first Greek military unit formed in the Middle East . During the following months two additional Greek squadrons were founded , the 335th and 336th Pursuit Squadrons . Activity . Middle East . Its first commander was Squadron Leader Spyros Dakopoulos and the personnel was mainly provided from the former 13th Naval Cooperation and 32nd Bomber Squadrons . Its first mission was assigned on July 14 , 1941 . At December 1941 the Squadron was equipped with Bristol Blenheim s Mk IV and based at Dekheila Airfield . The following months it was reequipped with Blenheims Mk V , which were used primarily for maritime patrol missions . Convoy escort and anti - submarine patrols were the main missions of the Squadron during 1942 . In various occasions enemy submarines were spotted in the Eastern Mediterranean and bombed . From early 1943 the Squadron operated with Martin Baltimore s . Apart from anti - submarine patrols and convoy escorts , the Squadron also executed reconnaissance and bombing missions in the occupied Greek islands . At November 12 , the fortified German positions at the port of Souda , in Crete , were bombed . In general , the 13th Sqr based in the Middle East counted a total of 1 , 600 missions with over 4 , 550 flying hours . Italy and Greece . In May 14 , 1944 , the Squadron was transferred to southern Italy , where operations included bombing of enemy positions in Yugoslavia and Albania , as part of the Allied Balkan Air Force . During this period it executed a total of 1 , 400 operations that included bombing train stations , bridges , ammunition and fuel depots . In November 14 , while the Axis troops were retreating from Greece , the aircraft of the Squadron landed in Ellinikon , near Athens . Although mainland Greece was liberated , Crete and other islands were still under German occupation . Alongside the Spitfire fighters of the two other Greek Squadrons , 335th and 336th , which had also arrived in Greece , the 13th was engaged in bombing missions against the remaining German garrisons in the Aegean islands and Crete ( April – May 1945 ) . The Squadron was disbanded on April 19 , 1946 .
13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery The 13th Independent Battery Wisconsin Light Artillery , was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 13th Independent Battery was mustered into service at Milwaukee , Wisconsin on December 29 , 1863 and spent its entire service in garrisons at New Orleans , Louisiana and Baton Rouge , Louisiana . The battery was mustered out on July 20 , 1865 . Total strength and casualties . The 13th Independent Battery initially recruited 156 officers and men . An additional 32 men were recruited as replacements , for a total of 188 men . The battery suffered 14 enlisted men who died of disease , for a total of 14 fatalities .
Dover Patrol The Dover Patrol was a Royal Navy command of the First World War , notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge Raid on 22 April 1918 . The Dover Patrol formed a discrete unit of the Royal Navy based at Dover and Dunkirk for the duration of the First World War . Its primary task was to prevent enemy German shipping — chiefly submarines — from entering the English Channel " en route " to the Atlantic Ocean , thereby obliging the German Navy to travel via the much longer route around Scotland which was itself covered by the Northern Patrol . In late July 1914 , with war looming , 12 " Tribal " - class destroyer s arrived at Dover to join the near obsolete destroyers already at anchor in the harbour , most of them built in the late 19th century . These destroyers formed the nucleus of the fledgling Dover Patrol , which , from its early beginnings as a modest and poorly equipped command , became one of the most important Royal Navy commands of the First World War . The Dover Patrol assembled cruiser s , monitor s , destroyers , armed trawler s and drifter s , paddle minesweeper s , armed yachts , motor launch es and coastal motor boats , submarine s , seaplane s , aeroplanes and airships . With these resources it performed several duties simultaneously in the Southern North Sea and the Dover Strait s : carrying out anti - submarine patrols ; escorting merchantmen , hospital and troop ships ; laying sea - mines and even constructing mine barrages ; sweeping up German mines ; bombarding German military positions on the Belgian coast and sinking U - boat s . During the war , the Dover Patrol was maintained by the Dover Engineering Works , an Iron Foundry which employed and housed many hundreds of workers in Dover Town and was managed by Vivian Elkington , nephew of Walter Emden . The company still exists today operating from a reduced premises at Holmestone Road , under the name of Gatic . After the war , a fund was set up to erect a memorial to the Dover Patrol . In July 1921 , the memorial at Leathercote Point near St Margaret ' s Bay was unveiled . Similar memorial obelisks stand at Cap Blanc Nez on the French Coast and at Fort Hamilton , overlooking New York harbour .
No . 22 Squadron RNZAF No . 22 Squadron RNZAF was a squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force . Formed in August 1942 , during World War II , at RNZF Station Onerahi equipped with the Hawker Hind , co - ordinating with New Zealand Army units providing training for air liaison officers . Reformed on 19 June 1944 at RNZAF Station Ardmore , equipped with Chance - Vought F4U - 1 Corsair fighter bombers . The squadron served at airfields in Espiritu Santo , Guadalcanal , Bougainville and Emirau before being disbanded in September 1945 .
Liaison Squadron of 3rd Aviation Corps The Liaison Squadron of 3rd Aviation Corps ( " Serbo - Croatian : Eskadrila za vezu 3 . vazduhoplovnog korpusa / Ескадрила за везу 3 . ваздухопловног корпуса " ) was an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force formed in 1950 at Bornogaj airfield . Squadron was part of 3rd Aviation Corps . It was equipped with various aircraft . Squadron was disbanded after 1956 , estimated 1959 .
List of prisoner - of - war escapes This list of prisoner - of - war escapes includes successful and unsuccessful attempts in chronological order , where possible . World War II . Axis . Of the hundreds of thousands of POWs shipped to the U . S . , only 2222 tried to escape . There were about 600 escape attempts from Canada during the war , including at least two mass escapes through tunnels . Four German POWs were killed attempting to escape from Canadian prison camps during the Second World War . Three others were wounded . Most escapees tried to reach the United States when it was still neutral , though Karl Heinz - Grund and Horst Liebeck made it as far as Medicine Hat , Alberta before being apprehended by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police . The two men had planned to travel to Vancouver , British Columbia and leave Canada courtesy of the Japan ese Merchant Marine . The Angler breakout was the single largest escape attempt orchestrated by German POWs ( 28 ) in North America during the war . The December 23 , 1944 breakout of 25 Kriegsmarine and merchant seamen from Papago Park , Arizona was the second largest . In both instances , all escapees were recaptured or killed .
John P . Beech Sergeant John P . Beech ( May 1 , 1844 to November 27 , 1926 ) was an English soldier who fought in the American Civil War . Beech was awarded the United States ' highest award for bravery during combat , the Medal of Honor , for his action during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia on May 12 , 1864 . He was honored with the award on June 5 , 1894 . Biography . Beech was born in Stratfordshire , England and enlisted into the army at Trenton , New Jersey in 1861 . On May 12 , 1864 , during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House , most of the members of an artillery battery , deployed in front of Beech ' s company , were killed by enemy fire . Beech voluntarily assisted the remaining artillery men , despite being under heavy fire . It is for this act of bravery that he was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1894 . Beech died in New Jersey on November 27 , 1926 and his remains are interred at the Mercer Cemetery , Trenton , New Jersey .
110th Brigade ( United Kingdom ) The 110th Brigade was a formation of the British Army during the First World War . It was raised as part of the new army also known as Kitchener ' s Army and assigned to the 37th Division . The brigade was also known as the Leicester Tigers Brigade was transferred to the 21st Division in July 1916 .
Defense Contract Management Agency The Defense Contract Management Agency ( DCMA ) is the agency of the United States federal government responsible for performing contract administration services for the Department of Defense and other authorized federal agencies . Its headquarters is at Fort Lee , VA . DCMA often handles Foreign Military Sales contracts . History . Performance of Contract Administration Services ( CAS ) within DoD has been studied and modified for many years . In the early 1960s , a study was commissioned by the Secretary of Defense to examine the entire DoD contracting process . Known as “ Project 60 , ” the findings pointed to numerous benefits to consolidating contract administration functions . At that time , each agency and military service was performing their own contract administration which resulted in a great amount of duplicate effort . Many of the contract administration responsibilities were eventually moved to the Defense Logistics Agency ( DLA ) . However , the military services continued to retain oversight of the major acquisition programs . Defense Contract Management Command ( DCMC ) . The CAS process was again reviewed in 1989 . Citing continued problems with the manner in which the services were performing CAS , Defense Management Review Decision ( DMRD ) 916 recommended the establishment of a joint command to perform CAS for DoD , to ensure that consistent policies and standards were applied to the acquisition process . DCMC was established as a command within the Defense Logistics Agency in February 1990 to satisfy the findings of DMRD 916 . DCMA . On March 27 , 2000 , DCMC was renamed as the Defense Contract Management Agency and established independently from DLA . DoD Directive 5105 . 64 formally established the purpose and mission of DCMA and , save for specific exceptions detailed in DFARS , all DoD activities are required to delegate contract administration functions to DCMA . The DCMA headquarters moved from northern Virginia to Fort Lee , Va . , as part of the federal 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process . The new headquarters was dedicated as Herbert Homer Hall on Sept . 15 , 2011 . Homer was a DCMA employee killed in the Sept . 11 , 2001 terrorist attacks . The current director is Mr . Charlie E . Williams , Jr .