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William Rankin Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Rankin ( October 16 , 1920 — July 6 , 2009 ) was the only known person to survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm cloud . He was a pilot in the United States Marine Corps and a World War II and Korean War veteran . He was flying an F - 8 jet fighter over a cumulonimbus cloud when the engine failed , forcing him to eject and parachute into the cloud . Lieutenant Colonel Rankin wrote a book about his experience , " The Man Who Rode the Thunder . " The Ejection . On July 26 , 1959 , Rankin was flying from Naval Air Station South Weymouth , Massachusetts to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina . He climbed over a thunderhead that peaked at , then — at and at mach 0 . 82 — he heard a loud bump and rumble from the engine . The engine stopped , and a fire warning light flashed . He pulled the lever to deploy auxiliary power , and it broke off in his hand . Though not wearing a pressure suit , at 6 : 00 pm he ejected into the air . He suffered immediate frostbite , and decompression caused his eyes , ears , nose , and mouth to bleed . His abdomen swelled severely . He did , however , manage to make use of his emergency oxygen supply . Five minutes after he abandoned the plane , his parachute hadn ' t opened . While in the upper regions of the thunderstorm , with near - zero visibility , the parachute opened . After ten minutes , Rankin was still aloft , carried by updraft s and getting hit by hailstone s . Violent spinning and pounding caused him to vomit . Lightning appeared , which he described as blue blades several feet thick , and thunder that he could feel . The rain forced him to hold his breath to keep from drowning . One lightning bolt lit up the parachute , making Rankin believe he had died . Conditions calmed , and he descended into a forest . His watch read 6 : 40 pm . He searched for help and eventually was admitted into a hospital at Ahoskie , North Carolina . He suffered from frostbite , welts , bruises , and severe decompression .
Breakwater Battery Breakwater " Battery " , was a coastal defence battery at Port Kembla , New South Wales , Australia during World War II . Constructed in 1939 to provide protection for Port Kembla from enemy shipping and submarines . Two 6 inch Mk XI gun emplacements with related underground facilities were constructed near the southern breakwater at Port Kembla . The battery and observation post ( now a military museum ) were key structures of the command centre for Fortress Kembla during World War II .
Adolf Reeb Adolf Reeb was an Obersturmführer ( First 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 . Biography . Adolf Reeb was born on 22 August 1920 at Spirkelbach . He volunteered to join the SS and was posted to the " Das Reich " Division . He became a platoon commander in the 7th Company , 2nd SS Panzer Regiment and was awarded the Knight ' s Cross during the Ardennes Offensive . Reeb was killed in action on 25 December 1944 , at Manhay , Eifel , Belgium .
Hugo Spadafora Hugo Spadafora Franco ( September 6 , 1940 – September 13 , 1985 ) was an Italian and Panamanian doctor and guerrilla fighter in Guinea - Bissau and Nicaragua . He criticized the military in Panama , which led to his murder in 1985 . Biography . Born in Chitré , Spadafora was a doctor , graduated from the University of Bologna , in Italy . He served as a combat doctor with the independence guerrilla of Guinea - Bissau . Originally a critic of the military regime headed by Omar Torrijos , he served as its Vice - Minister of Health . In 1978 , he organized the Victoriano Lorenzo Brigade , formed by a group of Panamanian fighters to fight against the Anastasio Somoza Debayle regime in Nicaragua . Concerned about the increased Soviet and Cuban influence in the Sandinista regime of Nicaragua and the delay of free elections , Spadafora joined the Sandino Revolutionary Front ( FRS ) alongside Edén Pastora ( " Comandante Zero " ) , hero of the August 1978 seizure of Somoza ' s palace . The rise of Manuel Noriega as authoritarian ruler of Panama compelled Spadafora to denounce Noriega ' s protection of drug trafficking . Spadafora was detained by Noriega ' s forces when entering Panama from Costa Rica in September 1985 , and his decapitated body was later found stuffed in a post office bag . The autopsy later found Spadafora ' s stomach full of the blood he had ingested during the slow severing of his head . He had also endured hours of severe torture , as is quoted in Gary Webb ' s book , Dark Alliance : " His body bore evidence of unimaginable tortures . The thigh muscles had been neatly sliced so he could not close his legs , and then something had been jammed up his rectum , tearing it apart . His testicles were swollen horribly , the result of prolonged garroting , his ribs were broken , and then , while he was still alive , his head had been sawed off with a butcher ' s knife . " His head was never found . President Nicolás Ardito Barletta tried to set up a commission to investigate the murder but was forced to resign by Noriega , which increased suspicions that the military ordered the beheading . It was not until the administration of President Guillermo Endara that a court found Noriega ( " in absentia " ) and other followers guilty of a conspiracy to murder Spadafora .
Wilhelm Jürgensen Wilhelm Jürgensen ( 1762 in Schleswick – 1842 ) was a Norwegian military officer . He had the rank of Captain from 1802 , and the rank of Major from 1814 . He commanded the " Lærdalske lette infanterikompani " from its establishment in 1802 . He was decorated Knight of the Order of Dannebrog for his war merits .
Battle of Mokra ( 1445 ) The Battle of Mokra took place on October 10 , 1445 near mountain Mokra ( today in Makedonski Brod , Macedonia ) . It was an Ottoman retaliation to a message sent by Skanderbeg to Murad II . The Albanian forces under Skanderbeg defeated the Ottoman forces under Firuz Pasha . It was the second major Albanian victory over the Ottoman Empire . Background . After his victory at Varna , Murad II attempted to establish peace with Skanderbeg . Murad sent a message to Skanderbeg in which he reminded him of how he had taken the Albanian as his son and raised him in his court and tried to intimidate him by reminding him of the size and power of the Ottoman army . Skanderbeg received the letter and decided to respond . Skanderbeg reminded Murad how he had broken the Ottoman army at Torvioll and that with " the true faith of Jesus Christ , [ he was ] sure that [ he ] had chosen the greatest side . " When the Turkish ambassador left to send the message to Murad , Skanderbeg told his men to prepare for an incursion . The battle . When the sultan had received the message , he gave command to Firuz Pasha a force of about 9 , 000 men . His task was to control Skanderbeg ' s movements and prevent him from moving into Macedonia . Firuz set out from Skopje planning to move quickly into Krujë and surprising the Albanians . A large number of soldiers advanced thinking that they were going to battle with Hunyadi , who was regathering his army . Firuz had heard that the Albanian army had disbanded for the time being , so he planned to move quickly around the Black Drin valley and through Prizren . These movements were picked up by Skanderbeg ' s scouts who moved to meet Firuz . Kastrioti awaited the Turkish army at a valley near Prizren , and only brought along his personal guard of 3 , 500 men , composed of 2 , 000 cavalry and 1 , 500 infantry , while sending the rest of his troops home . The Albanian troops were commanded to move into forest of Mokra inside of a thin valley of which they knew the terrain . The Turks entered the valley and could not find an easy way out since the Albanians had blocked most of the main trails . The Ottoman cavalry were allowed limited movement due to the woods and were assaulted by the Albanian infantry . The Ottoman force routed leaving behind 1 , 500 dead and 1 , 000 wounded men or stragglers that were imprisoned by the Albanians . Firuz Pasha died in the battle . Aftermath . The Europeans were reassured by the battle of Mokra after the loss at Varna . Pope Eugene IV raised a hymn as a praise that Christendom has been provided with a new defender after he heard of the battle . Alfonso V of Aragon sent many praises to Skanderbeg along with the papacy to Durazzo . The papal ambassadors arrived at Krujë sending the news that a new bishop , Peter Perlati , had been appointed . Skanderbeg sent four Ottoman standards that he had captured to Alphonso to prove his victories . Skanderbeg and Alphonso became close allies while also establishing connections with other European states .
60th Infantry Division Sabratha The Italian 60th " Sabratha " Infantry Division was an Italian division during World War II . " Sabratha " was mobilized in October 1939 for service in Libya . On 13 September 1940 , the division took part in the invasion of Egypt . In December , during Operation Compass , the division was destroyed near Derna . " Sabratha " was reformed early 1941 and was again sent to Libya . The reformed division met with mixed fortune during the balance of the Western Desert Campaign . The " Sabratha " took part in the Battle of Gazala and played an important role in the capture of 6 , 000 prisoners at Gazala on 16 June 1942 after the " Trieste " and 15th Panzer Division had defeated the British 2nd and 4th Armoured Brigades . During the protracted fighting in the First Battle of Alamein 835 Italian troops that were largely part of an infantry battalion and artillery group of the division were taken prisoner by the Australian 2 / 48th Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel H . H . Hammer on 10 July 1942 at Tel el Eisa . The Italians reacted vigorously and a battalion of the " Trento " with the assistance of Bersaglieri troops were ordered to retake the position . While the Italian counterattack failed to achieve its objective , it bought time to allow the Italian XXI Motorised Corps to rush in a battalion of the " Trieste " Division and L3 and M13 / 40 tanks of the 3rd " Novara " Armoured Group and Major Gabriele Verri ' s 11th Armoured Battalion to affected sector and contain the Australian advance . In the meantime the " Sabratha " Division had recovered from the initial blow and Colonel Angelozzi ' s 1st Battalion 85th Infantry Regiment of the " Sabratha " Division , launched a fierce counterattack on the forces on Tel el Eisa on 14 July supported by Italian tanks and succeeded in piercing the defences , between the feature and the main Tel el Eisa Ridge . Under fierce pressure the Australian troops were forced to withdraw from their forward positions , but their main defences remained largely intact .
USS Corkwood ( AN - 44 ) USS " Corkwood " ( AN - 44 / YN - 63 ) was an which served with the U . S . Navy in the western Pacific Ocean theatre of operations during World War II . Her career was without major incident , and she returned home safely after the war with one battle star to her credit . Built in Everett , Washington . " Corkwood " ( AN - 44 ) was launched as " YN - 63 " , 29 March 1944 by Everett - Pacific Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company , Everett , Washington ; sponsored by Miss D . Anerson ; reclassified " AN - 44 " and named " Corkwood " 20 January 1944 ; and commissioned 16 May 1944 , Lieutenant J . L . Driggs , USNR , in command . World War II Service . Sailing from Seattle , Washington , 27 August 1944 with district harbor tug ( small ) " YTL - 422 " in tow , " Corkwood " arrived at Pearl Harbor 6 September for duty towing target rafts and for replacing buoys and radar rafts until 16 October . From 27 October until 6 March 1945 " Corkwood " conducted net operations and laid cruiser moorings at Eniwetok . Sailing by way of Ulithi to Leyte , she joined Amphibious Group 7 and sortied with an " LST " flotilla for the Okinawa operation . She served as harbor entrance control ship at Kerama Retto between 26 March and 6 July . She also conducted salvage and net maintenance operations , frequently under enemy attack . Arriving at San Pedro Bay , Leyte , 12 July 1945 , " Corkwood " underwent repairs , then sailed to Ulithi , arriving 17 August . She tended nets at this port until 16 October when she departed for the U . S . West Coast . Post - war decommissioning . She arrived at San Diego , California , 29 November and remained there until decommissioned 7 March 1946 . She was transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal 13 March 1946 . Honors and awards . " Corkwood " received one battle star for World II service .
KSVK 12 . 7 The KSVK 12 . 7 is a large caliber anti - material sniper rifle developed in Russia for the purpose of counter sniping and penetrating thick walls , as well as light armored vehicles . Development . The KSVK anti - material ( or large caliber sniper ) rifle was developed in the late 1990s by ZID plant , based in Kovrov , Russia . It is based on the SVN - 98 12 . 7mm experimental rifle . Initially known as ASVK , KSVK is currently used in small numbers by various Russian Special Operation units in Chechnya as a counter - sniper rifle , capable of penetrating a brick or thick wooden walls and disabling people behind them . Design . KSVK is a bullpup - configured , bolt - operated , magazine fed rifle . It is equipped with a massive muzzle device which acts as an effective muzzle brake and a sound dampener . KSVK is equipped with standard Russian side - mounted scope rails ( dovetail ) , and can be fitted with a variety of day and night scopes . Open iron sights are installed for backup or emergency purposes .
Ottoman – Saudi War The Ottoman – Saudi War , also known as the Egyptian – Wahhabi War , was fought from early 1811 to 1818 , between Egypt under the reign of Muhammad Ali Pasha ( nominally under Ottoman rule ) and the army of the First Saudi State . It resulted in the destruction of the First Saudi State . Background . The Wahhabi movement was part of a fundamentalist / revisionist movement within Islam that would lead to creation of the first Saudi State , and its crushing by the Ottoman empire ’ s Egyptian viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha . Muhammad ibn ‘ Abd al - Wahhab and the amir Muhammad ibn Sa ’ ud launched their campaign to reform Islam and consolidate power in Arabia from their power - base in Diriyah . By 1805 , the Wahhabis controlled Mecca and Medina , had attacked Karbala and the Imam Husayn Shrine . The Wahhabis also attacked Ottoman trade caravans which interrupted the Ottoman finances . The Saudi amir denounced the Ottoman sultan and called into question the validity of his claim to be caliph and guardian of the sanctuaries of the Hejaz and when the Ottoman empire ordered the upstart Muhammad ‘ Ali , viceroy of Egypt , to fight the Wahhabis . The Ottoman empire was suspicious of Muhammed Ali ’ s ambition , and thought that by ordering Ali against the Wahhabis , the defeat of either would be beneficial . Campaigns . Muhammad ‘ Ali was ordered to crush the Saudi state as early as December 1807 by Sultan Mustafa IV , however internal strife within Egypt prevented him from giving full attention to the Wahhabis . The Egyptians were not able to recapture the holy cities until 1811 . However , it would take until September 1818 for the Wahhabi state to end with the surrendering of the its leaders . Ibrahim Pasha , Muhammad ‘ Ali ’ s son , had taken over the campaign in 1817 . Gaining the support of the volatile Arabian tribes by skillful diplomacy and lavish gifts , he advanced into central Arabia to occupy the towns of Unaizah and Buraidah . Joined now by most of the principal tribes , he appeared before the Saudi capital Diriyah in April 1818 . With their march to Diriyah plagued by Wahhabi attacks , they arrived in Diriyah in April 1818 . It took until September for the Wahhabis to surrender , in part due to Ibrahim ’ s poorly trained army . Diriyah was destroyed on June 1819 , and Egyptian garrison s were posted in the principal towns . The head of the Wahhabi state , Amir ‘ Abd Allah , was sent to Constantinople to be executed . Aftermath . Amir ‘ Abd Allah , as head of the Wahhabi state , was sent for execution to Istanbul , while most of the political leaders were treated well . The empire was far more harsh with the religious leaders that inspired the Wahhabi movement . The execution of Sulayman ibn ‘ Abd Allah and other religious notables reflects the resentment of these extremist views . Religious leaders were thought to be uncompromising in their beliefs and therefore a much bigger threat than political leaders .
Alfred Gissing Alfred Charles Gissing ( Epsom , Surrey , 20 January 1896 – 27 November 1975 , Valais , Switzerland ) , was an English writer and headmaster , the son of George Gissing . Childhood and education . After the early death of their father , the novelist George Gissing , on 28 December 1903 , his sons , Walter Leonard ( born at Exeter in 1891 ) and Alfred Charles , benefited from a small government pension . The following report was published in The Times newspaper for 24 June 1904 : At the time , Walter was a boarder at school in Norfolk , and Alfred had moved in 1902 to live with foster parents , a Mr and Mrs Smith who were farmers at Treverva Farm , Mabe , near Falmouth , Cornwall . Alfred lived with them until he left school . Like his brother Walter , Alfred went as a boarder to Gresham ' s School , Holt . He was there between 1910 and 1914 , becoming a prefect . Military service . After leaving school , and with war apparent , Alfred joined the British Army in late July , 1914 . He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 16 December 1915 , and promoted to lieutenant on 7 July 1917 . He was in India when the news reached him of his brother Walter ' s death during the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916 . After the war , Alfred Gissing remained in the army , serving in Iraq and then working for the " Inter - Allied Censorship Committee " between May 1919 and February 1920 , when he left the service with the rank of Captain . Writer . At about the time he left the army , Alfred Gissing assumed his father ' s posthumous interests from Algernon Gissing , and he went to live at Fernleigh , St Mark ' s Avenue , Leeds , Yorkshire , which had been Margaret and Ellen Gissing ' s home . He began to develop a collected edition of his father ' s works and to correspond with publishers and collectors as literary executor . From 1924 until 1927 , he lived in Richmond , Surrey . He wrote a preface for " A Victim of Circumstances " by George Gissing ( Constable and Dutton , 1927 ) , a collection of his father ' s short stories , and he edited a compendium of his father ' s work , " Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing " ( Jonathan Cape , 1929 ) . In his own right , Alfred Gissing wrote biographies . Marriage and children . On 26 July 1938 , he married Frances Muriel Smith , a widow whose maiden name was Braham , in Broadway , Gloucestershire . They had three children , Michael , Charles William , and Jane , the last of whom became a British Olympic skier . Teacher . After the Second World War , Alfred Gissing settled at Salvan in the Swiss canton of Valais , an area well known to George Gissing , where Alfred founded and ran an English school for children displaced by the war . The Gissing family moved to Les Marécottes , near Salvan , in 1951 , and remained there for the rest of Alfred Gissing ' s life . He died and was buried at Salvan in 1975 .
Vis - en - Artois Memorial The Vis - en - Artois Memorial is a World War I memorial located near the commune of Vis - en - Artois , in the Pas - de - Calais département of France . The memorial lists 9 , 843 names of British and South African soldiers with no known grave who were killed during the Advance to Victory , from 8 August 1918 to the Armistice ( 11 November 1918 ) . The area of the frontline covered is described as " " in Picardy and Artois , between the Somme and Loos " " . Canadian , Australian and New Zealand forces that fell during this period and were not found , are commemorated elsewhere on other memorials to the missing . The memorial has a screen wall in three parts on which are carved the names of the missing listed by regiment . The central screen is flanked by 70 - foot high columns , with a Stone of Remembrance at centre . The carvings include one representing St George and the Dragon . The memorial was designed by the architect J . R . Truelove , with sculpture by Ernest Gillick . The memorial was unveiled on 4 August 1930 by the Rt . Hon . Thomas Shaw . Shaw , a Labour Party MP and cabinet minister , was present in his role as British Secretary of State for War . Also present was General Walter Braithwaite , who had served in the Mediterranean and on the Western Front during the war .
Pavel Mikhnovych Pavlo Mikhnovych ( ; ; also known as " Pavel Pavluk " ; died 1638 ) was a colonel in Registered Cossacks ( реєстрові козаки ) аnd self - appointed hetman , as well as a leader of a peasant rebellion ( the Pawluk Uprising ) in Left - bank Ukraine and Zaporizhia . The rebellion against the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth was sparked by several Cossacks expelled from the Cossack Registry . Mikhnovych ordered the captured commanders of the Registered Cossacks to be executed and issued a declaration , in which he proclaimed a fight against the " masters " . Defeated by the forces of Mikołaj Potocki in the Battle of Kumejki in 1637 , he was brought to Warsaw , tried and executed . The remnants of his forces capitulated near Borowica soon afterwards . He was succeeded in his command of Registered Cossacks by colonel Ilyash Karaimovich .
Hansa - Brandenburg CC The Hansa - Brandenburg CC was a single - seat German fighter flying boat of World War I . It was used by both the " Kaiserliche Marine " ( Imperial German Navy ) and the Austro - Hungarian Navy . Development and design . The Hansa - Brandenburg CC ( where the designation CC came from the initials of the financier of the Hansa Brandenburg works , Camillo Castiglioni ) was designed by Ernst Heinkel during 1916 for use by the Austro - Hungarian Navy . It was a single engined , single seater flying boat , with a pusher engine mounted between the wings . It had single - bay wings , with the unusual " Star - Strutter " arrangement of bracing struts ( where four Vee struts joined in the centre of the wing bay to result in a " star " arrangement ) shared with the Hansa - Brandenburg D . I and the KDW . The CC was purchased both by Austro - Hungary and the Imperial German Navy . The Austro - Hungarian aircraft were powered by 119 kW ( 160 hp ) Austro - Daimler or 130 kW ( 180 hp ) Hiero engines and armed by a single 8 mm ( . 315 in ) Schwarzlose machine gun . The German aircraft were powered by 110 kW ( 150 hp ) Benz Bz . III engines and armed with one or two lMG 08 / 15 machine guns . One example was modified as a triplane , while a second aircraft was modified with sponsons replacing the outrigger floats in support of the development process for the Staaken Rs IV . Triplane variant . The triplane configuration was created from the standard model by inserting a third , short - span wing between the upper and lower planes of , at the point where the star struts crossed . Delivered to Austro - Hungary in the Spring of 1917 , the sole example was written off that Autumn following a landing accident . Operational history . Austro - Hungary received 37 Hansa Brandenburg CCs , using them to provide air defence for ports and naval bases along the Adriatic sea coast . Germany received 36 aircraft from February 1917 . They were temporarily grounded in July of that year because of severe vibration , being modified with additional interplane bracing struts .