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SM U - 86 SM " U - 86 " was a Type U 81 style submarine manufactured in the Germaniawerft , Kiel shipyard for the German Empire during World War I . On 27 June 1918 , under the command of Lieutenant Helmut Patzig , " U - 86 " sank the Canadian hospital ship HMHS " Llandovery Castle " off the coast of Ireland in violation of international law . When the crew took to the lifeboats , U - 86 surfaced , ran down all the lifeboats except one , and shot at the people in the water . Only the 24 people in the remaining lifeboat survived . They were rescued shortly afterwards and testified as to what had happened . The 234 others on board the Llandovery Castle were lost , including fourteen nursing sisters . , the former Hamburg America ocean liner SS " Cincinnati " , was torpedoed by " U - 86 " on 1 July 1918 and sank the next day . Covington was the 17th largest ship sunk or damaged by Uboats during the war . After the war the captain of " U - 86 " Helmut Patzig , and two of his lieutenants were arraigned for trial on war crime s , but Patzig fled to the Free City of Danzig , and his trial was stopped on 20 March 1931 by virtue of the Laws of Amnesty . Lieutenants Ludwig Dithmar and Johan Boldt were convicted and sentenced to four years in prison , but were released after only 4 months . " U - 86 " was surrendered after the war and sank in the English Channel on the way to be broken up in 1921 .
USS Bancroft ( DD - 598 ) USS " Bancroft " ( DD - 598 ) was a in the United States Navy during World War II . She was the third ship named for George Bancroft . " Bancroft " was launched 31 December 1941 by Bethlehem Steel Company , Quincy , Massachusetts ; sponsored by Mrs . Hester Bancroft Berry , great - granddaughter of George Bancroft ; commissioned 30 April 1942 , Lieutenant Commander J . L . Melgaard in command , and reported to the Pacific Fleet . Service history . " Bancroft " arrived at Dutch Harbor , Alaska , 17 September 1942 and remained in the Aleutian Islands until late August 1943 , supporting the occupation of Amchitka ( 12 January 1943 ) , Attu ( 11 May – 2 June ) , and Kiska ( 15 August ) Islands . Between September 1943 and July 1945 she was a wheelhorse in fire support , screening , and escort duties in the Wake Island raid ( 5 – 6 October 1943 ) ; Tarawa , Gilbert Islands raid ( 18 September ) and occupation ( 20 November – 6 December ) ; Kwajalein , Marshall Islands , seizure ( 31 January – 16 February 1944 ) ; Mille Atoll , Marshall Islands , landings ( 17 – 18 March ) ; Palau and Woleai raid ( 29 March – 2 April ) ; Hollandia operation ( 21 – 24 April ) ; Truk - Satawan - Ponape raid ( 28 – 30 April ) , Wotje Atoll , Marshall Islands , Mid ( 23 May ) ; Saipan occupation ( 25 June – 22 July ) ; Maloelap Atoll , Marshall Islands , raid ( 8 August ) ; Philippine Islands operations ( 8 3 March April 1945 ) ; and the Borneo operations ( 1 May – 5 July ) . Between September and November 1945 , " Bancroft " escorted convoys between the Philippine Islands , Okinawa , and Japan . On 9 December 1945 , she arrived at Norfolk , Virginia and went out of commission in reserve at Charleston , South Carolina , 1 February 1946 . She was scrapped in 1973 . Awards . " Bancroft " received eight battle star s for her World War II service .
Francis Godolphin Bond Francis Godolphin Bond ( 23 January 1765 – 26 October 1839 , Exeter ) was a Rear - Admiral in the British Royal Navy . He was a nephew of William Bligh and grandfather of Frederick Bligh Bond . He sailed as Bligh ' s First Lieutenant on HMS Providence , Bligh ' s second breadfruit mission to Tahiti following the ill - fated Bounty voyage . In 1798 as a Lieutenant he commissioned the newly acquired . Under his command , " Netley " captured numerous French and Spanish privateers , including " Egyptienne " . In all , under Bond " Netley " captured some 45 prizes , including 19 armed privateers . " Reina Luisa " was valued for purposes of prize money at £24 , 000 . If Bond received the full ¼ due the captain of the capturing vessel ( s ) , his share would have been £6 , 000 , or an amount equivalent to about 15 years pay for a senior captain ( in rank ) . This would have been in addition to the prize money for all his other captures . Bond received his promotion to Commander on 11 December 1800 and left " Netley " . Bond returned to England . He was promoted to post captain on 29 April 1802 . In June 1803 he received a command in the Sea Fencibles . He received no further command and though he rose to the rank rear admiral on 10 January 1837 through seniority , he actually appears never to have gone to sea again in a naval capacity after his service in " Netley " . Bond died at Exeter , about three years later , on 26 October 1839 , aged 74 . References . William Bligh , Francis Godolphin Bond ( 1953 ) " Fresh light on Bligh : being some unpublished correspondence of Captain William Bligh , R . N . , and Lieutenant Francis Godolphin Bond , R . N . , with Lieutenant Bond ' s manuscript notes made on the voyage of H . M . S . " Providence , " 1791 - 1795 " . ( D . S . Ford , Printers ) .
CCGS Ann Harvey CCGS " Ann Harvey " is a Canadian Coast Guard Buoy tender and SAR vessel with Light icebreaker duties . She was constructed in 1987 by Halifax Dartmouth Industries , in Halifax , Nova Scotia . The vessel was named after the daughter of a local Newfoundland fisherman from Isle aux Morts on Newfoundland ' s southwest coast . In the year 1828 , 17 - year - old Ann , and her younger brother of 12 , helped their father to rescue 160 crewmembers and passengers from the ship " Despatch " , which had been driven onto the rocks near their home . Again in 1838 , Ann and her father rescued 25 crewmembers from the distressed vessel " Rankin " . Both rescues were due largely to Ann ' s strength , determination and courage . CGS St . John ' s . Vessels at this base :
Army Historical Program The Army Historical Program is the collective effort of a number of United States Army historical organizations to capture , record and preserve the history of the United States Army . The Program is led by the United States Army Center of Military History , which creates the regulations and procedures for collecting , recording and regulating historical materials , and includes other organizations and individuals , including unit historians , the Army Heritage and Education Center and the Combat Studies Institute .
Edward Israel Edward Israel ( 1859 - 1884 ) was an astronomer and Polar explorer . Early years . Israel was born in Kalamazoo , Michigan on July 1 , 1859 . He was the son of Mannes and Tillie Israel , the first Jews to settle in Kalamazoo . After graduating from the Kalamazoo Public School System , Israel went to the University of Michigan , where he studied astronomy . Just before his graduation in 1881 , one of Israel ' s professors nominated him to serve as the astronomer on an official US expedition to the Arctic . After graduation , Israel briefly returned to Kalamazoo to visit his family . The Polar Expedition . Israel left for Washington , D . C . on April 28 , 1881 to join the Lady Franklin Bay Polar Expedition with 23 other men under the leadership of Adolphus Greely . The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition was commissioned by the US government to collect scientific information about the polar regions . Israel received the assignment of collecting astronomical , magnetic and meteorological data . The ill - fated expedition left Washington on June 9 , 1881 , reaching Newfoundland later in the month . From there , the crew boarded a special polar - equipped ship and went to Lady Franklin Bay , to a site far above the Arctic Circle . Israel and the rest of the crew spent two years at a camp they called Fort Conger . In 1882 , the annual supply ship did not arrive , and by August 1883 , the expedition ran out of supplies . They took off trying to find the ship , guided only by Israel ' s astronomical data . When the expedition reached Cape Sabine , it was found that their supply ship had hit ice and sunk . The expedition members had to struggle through the winter of 1883 with virtually no supplies . Three weeks before the crew of the expedition was rescued by the US Navy , Israel died . Too weak and ill to bury Israel ( or other dead expedition members ) , the remaining members of the crew returned Israel ' s body to Kalamazoo on August 11 , 1884 . Burial Place . Edward Israel was given full honors from the city of Kalamazoo upon the return of his body . His body is buried in the Jewish cemetery next to Mountain Home Cemetery . In 1972 , the state of Michigan erected an historical marker commemorating Israel at the site of his grave . External links . " Edward Israel : Arctic Explorer 1859 - 1884 " , Kalamazoo Public Library Local History , http : / / www . kpl . gov / collections / LocalHistory / AllAbout / biography / Israel . aspx " Edward Israel : Arctic Explorer " Michigan State Historical Marker , http : / / www . michmarkers . com / startup . asp ? startpage = L0203 . htm References . Ashlee , Laura Rose . " Traveling Through Time : A Guide to Michigan ' s Historical Markers " , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2005 , p . 210 .
HMS Bedouin ( F67 ) HMS " Bedouin " was a destroyer of the British Royal Navy that saw service in World War II . She was launched on 21 December 1937 by William Denny and Brothers . She served in the Second Battle of Narvik , where she was slightly damaged , and in the 1941 commando raid on the Lofoten islands . During the Battle of Mid - June , she was sunk by the combined action of Italian cruisers and and an SM . 79 torpedo bomber on 15 June 1942 . She was hit by at least 12 six - inch rounds and near - misses from the cruisers and an aerial torpedo before sinking . " Bedouin " managed to shoot down the torpedo bomber which delivered the " coup de grâce " to her . 28 men from her complement were killed in action and 213 were taken as prisoners of war by the Italian Navy .
Adolf von Schwarzenberg Count Adolf von Schwarzenberg ( 1547 – July 29 , 1600 ) was a renowned general of the Holy Roman Empire whose sword , along with that of his descendant Prince Karl Philipp , is preserved in the arsenal of Vienna . He fought in the wars of religion , but was chiefly distinguished in the wars on the Eastern frontier against the Turks . He was killed in a mutiny of the soldiers at Papa in Hungary in 1600 . His only son was Adam von Schwarzenberg ( 1583 – 1641 ) , advisor of George William , Elector of Brandenburg during the Thirty Years ' War .
Royal Horse Guards The Royal Horse Guards ( RHG ) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army , part of the Household Cavalry . Founded August 1650 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Sir Arthur Haselrig on the orders of Oliver Cromwell as the Regiment of Cuirassiers , the regiment became the Earl of Oxford ' s Regiment during the reign of King Charles II . As the regiment ' s uniform was blue in colour at the time , it was nicknamed " the Oxford Blues " , from which was derived the nickname the " Blues . " In 1750 the regiment became the Royal Horse Guards Blue and eventually , in 1877 , the Royal Horse Guards ( The Blues ) . The regiment served in the French Revolutionary Wars and in the Peninsular War . Two squadrons fought , with distinction , in the Household Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo . In 1918 , the regiment served as the 3rd Battalion , Guards Machine Gun Regiment . During the Second World War the regiment was part of the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment . The RHG was amalgamated with the Royal Dragoons ( 1st Dragoons ) to form the Blues and Royals ( Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons ) in 1969 . Colonels — with other names for the regiment . On 1 July 1751 a royal warrant provided that in future regiments would not be known by their colonels ' names , but by their " number or rank " . < br >
Thomas D . Collins Sergeant Thomas D . Collins ( August 14 , 1847 to May 26 , 1935 ) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War . Collins received the country ' s highest award for bravery during combat , the Medal of Honor , for his action during the Battle of Resaca in Georgia on 15 May 1864 . He was honored with the award on 14 August 1896 . Biography . Collins was born in Neversink Flats , New York on 14 August 1847 . He enlisted into the 143rd New York Infantry at Liberty , Sullivan County in New York . He died on 26 May 1935 and his remains are interred at the Methodist Cemetery in Sullivan County , New York .
David Westheimer David Westheimer ( April 11 , 1917 in Houston , Texas – November 8 , 2005 ) was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel " Von Ryan ' s Express " which was adapted as a 1965 movie starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard . Ironically , one of his most popular novels , and perhaps his most enduring , was not credited to him for much of its shelf life : In its original printing , he was by - lined as the author of the novelization of " Days of Wine and Roses " based on the screenplay by his friend J . P . Miller . But the book proved hugely popular and the story had become so iconic that its publisher Bantam Books ( and one supposes the authors , by mutual arrangement ) took Westheimer ' s name off the book to move it into the " literature " category and keep it in print ( which they did , for decades ) . Subsequent printings were branded only " J . P . Miller ' s Days of Wine and Roses " without an explicit by - line for the novel . Westheimer , a Rice University graduate , worked as an assistant editor for the " Houston Post " from 1939 to 1946 except for those years spent with the United States Army Air Forces during World War II . As a navigator in a B - 24 he was shot down over Italy on December 11 , 1942 and spent time as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft III . His first novel , " Summer on the Water " , was published in 1948 .
Vickers F . B . 24 The Vickers F . B . 24 was a British two - seat fighter aircraft of the First World War . Only a few prototypes were built , as although it had good performance , the Bristol F . 2 Fighter was preferred . Design and development . In the early years of the First World War , Vickers Limited designed a number of aircraft to use the 150 hp ( 112 kW ) Hart radial engine , the development of which was being funded by Vickers , including two single seat fighters , the F . B . 12 pusher and the tractor F . B . 16 . A third design planned to use the Hart was the F . B . 24 , a two - seat fighter reconnaissance aircraft . The Hart engine proved to be unreliable , however , and was abandoned prior to the first prototype being completed in December 1916 , and it became necessary to find a new powerplant for the F . B . 24 , with the Hispano - Suiza 8 being chosen . The first two prototypes , the F . B . 24A and F . B . 24B used a 150 hp Hispano - Suiza , with the first probably flying in March 1917 . but were converted to use a 200 hp ( 149 kW ) Hispano - Suiza , becoming the F . B . 24D . The F . B . 24D was a two - bay biplane with a rectangular section fuselage . The pilot and observer / gunner sat close together in separate open cockpits , with the pilot directly under the upper wings . Despite transparent panels built into the upper wings , the pilots view was very poor . The F . B . 24C was similar to the Hispano - Suiza powered aircraft , but was slightly larger and heavier , and was powered by a 275 hp ( 205 kW ) Lorraine - Dietrich 8Bd water - cooled V8 , with the cylinder blocks being enclosed in bulky fairings that protruded from the upper corners of the cowling , further restricting the pilot ' s view . The type was tested by the French , and although Vickers claimed good performance , the French found the aircraft ' s climb performance was not as claimed by Vickers , and the type was not adopted . The F . B . 24E was an attempt to improve the poor view for the pilot , with the fuselage being raised so that the top was level with the upper wing , and the pilot sitting with his head protuding through the gap between the two wing spars . The final version was the F . B . 24G . This was of similar layout to the F . B . 24E , but was larger still , and was powered by a 375 hp ( 280 kW ) Lorraine - Dietrich V12 engine single example was built by Darracq in France , not flying until after the end of the war .
Chester Nimitz , Jr . Chester William " Chet " Nimitz , Jr . ( February 17 , 1915January 2 , 2002 ) was an American submarine commander in the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War , and businessman . He was awarded the Silver Star three times , for valor in battle . He was the son of U . S . Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W . Nimitz . Early life . Nimitz was born to Chester William , Sr . , and Catherine Vance ( née Freeman ) Nimitz at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital in Brooklyn , New York , while the couple , with their daughter Catherine Vance " Kate " ( born the year before ) , lived at 415 Washington Avenue , Brooklyn , and Nimitz , Sr . , was working on the at the Brooklyn Navy Yard . Nimitz attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis , Maryland , graduating with the class of 1936 . Nimitz married Joan Leona Labern at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 18 June 1938 . She was born in León , Nicaragua in 1912 to British parents , William Oscar Stonewall and Frances Mary ( née Wells ) Labern . With her parents she returned to England at the outbreak of World War I in 1914 , and was raised in England . Joan came to the United States in 1938 to study dentistry at the University of California Dental School in San Francisco , and met Chester at a cocktail party at Mare Island . She would make news in 1944 when she failed her test to become a United States citizen , two days later she did become an American citizen . The couple would have three daughters , Frances Mary , Elizabeth Joan , and Sarah Catherine . Later life . Chester Nimitz Jr . retired from the Navy as Rear Admiral in 1957 . He joined Texas Instruments , and spent four years there . He later joined Perkin - Elmer Corporation , a manufacturer of scientific instruments based in Norwalk , Connecticut . He became president , chief - executive - officer ( CEO ) and a director in 1965 , and was elected Chairman of the Board in 1969 , serving until retirement in 1980 . He was an Honorary Trustee and Honorary Member of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . Death . The health of Chester and his wife , Joan , had deteriorated in their later years . Joan was blind , and Chester had lost 30 pounds due to a prolonged stomach disorder . He was also suffering from congestive heart failure . On January 2 , 2002 , Chester Nimitz Jr . committed suicide with his wife Joan by ingesting a quantity of sleeping pills in their home at a retirement residence in Needham , Massachusetts . He left a note stating : Our decision was made over a considerable period of time and was not carried out in acute desperation . Nor is it the expression of a mental illness . We have consciously , rationally , deliberately and of our own free will taken measures to end our lives today because of the physical limitations on our quality of life placed upon us by age , failing vision , osteoporosis , back and painful orthopedic problems . Chester and Joan are buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Wellfleet , Massachusetts .
Grand Han Righteous Army The Grand Han Righteous Army ( 大漢義軍 ) was a collaborationist Chinese army cooperating with the Empire of Japan in campaigns in northern China and Inner Mongolia immediately prior to the official start of hostilities of the Second Sino - Japanese War . History . The Grand Han Righteous Army was formed by minor warlord and commander of the Chahar People ' s Anti - Japanese Army Wang Ying after his defeat by the Imperial Japanese Army in what now part of Inner Mongolia in 1936 . Wan defected to the Kwantung Army , and persuaded the Japanese to permit him to recruit unemployed Chinese soldiers in Chahar Province to form a mercenary army with Japanese advisors . He managed to recruit approximately 6 , 000 men , who were then trained by the Japanese and organized into four infantry brigades in Japanese - occupied northern Chahar . The troops were armed with weapons seized from Northeastern Army armories and warehouses in northern China . This force was attached another Japanese proxy army , the Inner Mongolian Army , under the overall command of Mongol Prince Teh Wang . During the Invasion of Suiyuan the Inner Mongolian Army attacked Hongort on November 15 , 1936 . After several days of fighting the attackers failed to capture the town . On November 17 a Chinese counterattack surprised the invaders and led to a disorganized retreat . Taking advantage of the disorder among the Mongolian forces , Chinese General Fu Tso - yi made a flanking movement to the west of the Mongolian headquarters at Pai - ling - miao and attacked , capturing it and routing the defenders . The Japanese transported Wang and his Grand Han Righteous Army by trucks into a location near Pai - ling - miao and launched a counterattack , which failed dismally on December 19 . With the bulk of its men captured or killed , the Grand Han Righteous Army ceased to exist as an effective combat force , and the Japanese disbanded the remnants .
St Mawes Castle St Mawes Castle ( ) and its larger sister castle , Pendennis , were built as part of a defensive chain of fortresses by Henry VIII to protect the south coast of Cornwall , England , United Kingdom . This chain of coastal fortifications are known as Henrician Castles or Device Forts . St Mawes Castle was built between 1540 and 1545 , halfway down the hillside on the eastern shore of the River Fal estuary to provide protection to the large inland expanse of water known as the Carrick Roads , near Falmouth . History . St Mawes castle is a Device fort built between 1540 and 1545 as part of Henry VIII ' s south coast fortifications . Together with its sister castle at Pendennis , St Mawes defended the approaches to Carrick Roads , one of the largest natural harbours in the country . It was built just above an earlier fortification dating to the late 1530s . The building work was supervised by Thomas Treffry , who supervised the building of Pendennis Castle at about the same time . St Mawes was constructed with a central tower overlooking three huge circular bastions attached on the sides in a clover leaf pattern , providing a wide area for gun placements , with gun ports covering every angle of approach to the estuary . The clover - leaf plan was originally designed to mount " ship - sinking " guns . The castle was occupied by the Royalists in the English Civil War , but it was not defensible from land attack , and it surrendered to Parliamentary forces in 1646 . In the late 17th century a lead - covered dome ( cupola ) was added to the castle ' s stair turret as a navigational aid or daymark . At the end of the 18th century , a lower gun battery beneath St Mawes castle was built during the Napoleonic Wars – it was armed with twelve guns and built with three flanks . In about 1870 , the battery was armed by four 64 pounder guns , but the battery was remodelled in 1898 to house two 6 pounder quick - firing guns and a heavy machine gun . These were served by a new underground magazine situated beneath the battery . The lower battery was superseded by a more powerful battery built on higher ground by 1903 . During World War II , the battery was part of an extensive system of defences set up on the headland .
Air Officer in Charge of Administration The Air Officer In Charge Administration , is one of the Principal Staff Officers to the Chief Of Air Staff . The post is occupied by an Air Marshal of the Administration Branch of the Indian Air Force . He is generally either an Air Traffic Controller or Fighter Controller or a Pure Administration Branch Officer .