Imperial Japanese Navy | ... was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the | and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The ... |
Navy | ... d Forces (Fuerzas Armadas del Ecuador), consists of the Army, Air Force and | , and have the stated responsibility for the preservation of the integrity ... |
Royal Air Force | For some time this deterrent force had been based on the | 's V bomber force. This looked increasingly vulnerable in the face of ever ... |
U.S. Camel Corps | ... co and the United States. Under Lt. William Echols in 1859, caravans of the | crossed the county searching for a shorter route to Fort Davis |
Afghan National Army | The armed forces of Afghanistan is presently composed of the | and the Afghan National Air Force (formerly the Afghan Air Force), which i ... |
Army Ground Forces | ... ining or the field as home defense and combat commands under the control of | . In March 1942, home defense and training activities were assigned to the ... |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | ... g a current Member of the Legislative Assembly, commissioned officer of the | or make act as if explicitly being a Commissioner of Oaths |
Far East Air Force | ... the PAAC was inducted into the United States Army and incorporated into the | |
Imperial Japanese Navy | The | (IJN), like the Russians, often combined their TBs (which possessed only h ... |
VIII Corps | ... a senior British officer in the field, General Aylmer Hunter-Weston of the | , added to the myth that the wire could be cut by bombardment when he wrot ... |
Air Force | ... nal Posse Comitatus Act referred essentially to the United States Army. The | was added in 1956 and the Navy and the Marine Corps have been included by ... |
Wehrmacht | ... ce), managed to exert as much political influence in the Third Reich as the | (Germany's regular armed forces) |
United States Africa Command | ... s including General William "Kip" Ward, the first Commanding Officer of the | , The New York Times columnist William Rhoden, David E. Talbert, who is a ... |
Soviet Air Defence Forces | ... r force. This looked increasingly vulnerable in the face of ever-increasing | , and by the late 1950s the RAF was pursuing the Blue Steel II stand-off m ... |
Italian Air Force | ... nister Bettino Craxi claimed Italian territorial rights over the NATO base. | personnel and Carabinieri lined up facing the United States Navy SEALs who ... |
Royal Navy | ... round-based air defence, although there was divided responsibility with the | for homeland air defence in World War I. However, in World War II the RAF ... |
Baltic Fleet | ... e Ottoman Turks and hoped to strike Saint Petersburg directly. But Russia's | checked the Royal Swedish navy in a tied battle off Hogland (July 1788), a ... |
legion | ... f the Roman people, whether within or without the limits of Italy proper. A | on the march brought its own baggage train (impedimenta) and constructed i ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's " | ", the Nazi Party's "Protection Squadron" and a force that, fielding almos ... |
Confederate States Army | ... ebruary 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was a U.S. Army officer from Virginia and a | general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb ... |
United States Coast Guard | ... Order of the Pterodactyl (AOP) is a fraternal association which focuses on | aviation |
Indian Army | ... and made his residence in the Golden Temple in Amritsar. By convention, the | and the Punjab Police would not enter this religious building |
British navy | ... previous contact with the British, had certainly heard of the might of the | and was in no position to argue against the terms. However, Raffles was ab ... |
Spanish Navy | ... export version of the Hawker Siddeley Harrier, acquired secondhand from the | in 1997. The nine Spanish aircraft (seven standard version plus two TAV-8S ... |
United States Army | ... s elected student body president at Loyola. After a three year stint in the | , Landrieu opened a law practice and taught accounting at Loyola. In 1954, ... |
252nd Tunnelling Company | ... arge pieces harming the advancing British infantry. A Royal Engineer in the | confirmed this, saying after the war that after he complained about the ea ... |
United States Army | ... efence of Germany while the army protected itself. At the other extreme the | has an Air Defense Artillery branch that provided ground-based air defence ... |
United States Air Force | ... thentic aircraft of the period. Lt. Col. Duncan Wilmore (ret.) acted as the | liaison to the production, beginning his role as a technical consultant in ... |
Luftwaffe | ... umoured that this was to eliminate a landmark for WWII German aircraft, but | bombers actually navigated their way to Central London by tracking the Riv ... |
55th | In September 2002, the 48th, | , and the 79th Rescue Squadron's (RQS) transferred under control of the 35 ... |
Royal Marines | ... try, and also to stop the flow of illegal smuggling operations. The British | staged an amphibious assault to capture the key oil installations and ship ... |
First United States Army | ... ed three new army headquarters in the Regular Army (the headquarters of the | was already constituted) and outlined the organization of what became know ... |
United States Army | ... r, was born on August 3, 1922 while they were in Panama; John served in the | , retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U.S. Amba ... |
Royal Naval Air Service | ... 25,000 men from the Royal Naval Division, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and | were trained for war at Victory VI. At the cessation of hostilities it was ... |
Royal Flying Corps | ... British term probably coined by Amyas Borton and believed to derive via the | from the music-hall comedian George Robey's line "Archibald, certainly not ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... e following day by Abraham Adan's 162nd Armored Division. The same day, the | carried out Operation Tagar, aiming to neutralize Egyptian Air Force bases ... |
Wehrmacht | ... eat of German forces from Finland and Finnmark. This was as far west as the | used their scorched earth tactics |
Parachute Regiment | ... mbushed and killed eighteen British Army soldiers, sixteen of them from the | at Warrenpoint, County Down, in what became known as the Warrenpoint ambus ... |
26th Antisubmarine Wing | ... antisubmarine patrols, with the airport becoming the Headquarters, for the | of the Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command (AAFAC) from 20 November 1942 ... |
Thessaly | The town of Alope, in | , was believed to have derived its name from her, where, however, Philonid ... |
Royal Warwickshire Regiment | ... ilne joined the British Army in World War I and served as an officer in the | and later, after a debilitating illness, the Royal Corps of Signals. He wa ... |
Israeli Navy | ... vy technical research ship, , by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and | torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air a ... |
Military Sealift Command | ... surface ships and submarines); and an ammunition, oiler, and supply ship of | to provide logistical support. The precise structure and numbers of each t ... |
Dano-Norwegian fleet | ... s. But the British attacked and captured or destroyed large portions of the | in the First Battle of Copenhagen (2 April 1801), and again in the Second ... |
Multi-National Force – Iraq | El Salvador was part of the | from 2003—2009. The last Salvadoran troops left Iraq on January 2009 with ... |
United States Navy | Four ships of the | have borne the name USS Maine, named fo |
Confederate States Navy | ... ates Naval Academy, after whom Maury Hall is named, similarly served in the | |
355th Fighter Wing | The host unit at Davis–Monthan is the | (355 FW) assigned to Twelfth Air Force, which is headquartered at DM and i ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... ncident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, , by | jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, duri ... |
Army Group Vistula | The | was formed in 1945 to protect Berlin from the advancing Red Army. It fough ... |
Royal Navy | ... end a compromise was reached later that year; the Nassau agreement had the | taking over the deterrent role with newly-acquired Polaris missiles, an ar ... |
Luftwaffe | ... risk, Yeo-Thomas assisted Lamason in getting word out of camp to the German | of the airmen's captivity, knowing that the Luftwaffe would be sympathetic ... |
Auxiliaries | ... ncluding suspected agents and those with no connection to politics, and two | . Four of the British casualties were military intelligence officers and a ... |
United States Navy | The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a | technical research ship, , by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and I ... |
Northern Ireland | ... Free State became a republic and severed all ties with the monarchy, while | remained within the Union, thus creating the United Kingdom of Great Brita ... |
Third Division | Reading were elected to the | of the Football League in 1920, and have spent the majority of the time si ... |
Fertile Crescent | The Neolithic 3 (PN) began around 6400 cal. BCE in the | . By then distinctive cultures emerged, with pottery like the Halafian (Tu ... |
Rhodesian Light Infantry | The | Regimental Association has placed its 'Troopie' memorial statue on the gro ... |
United States Navy | ... ly of missiles, the AAM-N-6 Sparrow III. The first of these weapons entered | service in 1958 |
Thessaly | The name magnesium originates from the Greek word for a district in | called Magnesia. It is related to magnetite and manganese, which also orig ... |
Egyptian Air Force | ... ay, the Israeli Air Force carried out Operation Tagar, aiming to neutralize | bases and its missile defense shield. Seven Egyptian airbases were damaged ... |
24th Waffen Gebirgs Division der SS | ... renadier Brigade Nederland, but it was never more than a large brigade. The | was another division that was never more than brigade size, consisting mai ... |
Royal Air Force | ... t used by Britain when Air Defence of Great Britain (ADGB) was created as a | command in 1925. However, arrangements in UK were also called 'anti-aircra ... |
Knight Templar | ... e Almogavars, under the leadership of Roger de Flor ("Roger Blum", a former | ), formed the Catalan Company in the service of the emperor of the East, A ... |
Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command | ... e airport becoming the Headquarters, for the 26th Antisubmarine Wing of the | (AAFAC) from 20 November 1942 – 15 October 1943. The AAFAC flew antisubmar ... |
United States Air Force | Davis–Monthan Air Force Base (DM AFB) is a | base located within the city limits, and approximately south-southeast of ... |
Wehrmacht | ... ways, 19 postal facilities, 4 tram facilities, and 19 ships and barges. The | 's main command post in the Taschenbergpalais, 19 military hospitals and a ... |
United States Army | ... e white settlers, Tonkawa were employed as scouts for the Texas Rangers and | . As they were pushed out by the Comanche, they moved to the Brazos Indian ... |
United States Army | ... ersonnel, and six squadrons. In August 1941, the PAAC was inducted into the | and incorporated into the Far East Air Force |
Air Force | ... cuadorian Armed Forces (Fuerzas Armadas del Ecuador), consists of the Army, | and Navy, and have the stated responsibility for the preservation of the i ... |
Royal Navy | ... pares. In 2003, the navy attempted to acquire several second-generation,ex- | Sea Harrier FA2 aircraft from British Aerospace, but the deal did not go a ... |
VF-74 | ... onald Reagan ordered that the plane be intercepted by F-14 Tomcats from the | "BeDevilers" and the VF-103 "Sluggers" of Carrier Air Wing 17, based on th ... |
Spanish Legion | ... me day, the Spanish commandos were replaced on the island by members of the | , who remained on the island until Morocco, after mediation by the United ... |
Portuguese naval forces | ... inue the siege and blockade of the French forces in Malta, aided by certain | |
Philippine Department | ... ber 19, 1952) was a Major General who commanded of the United States Army's | from 1936 to 1938 |
VI Corps | ... amalgamated from the VIII Corps) and the division of James B. Ricketts from | was defeated by Confederate General Jubal A. Early, who had some 15,000 tr ... |
RAF Bomber Command | ... to fall into buildings and ignite them. As Sir Arthur Harris, commander of | , wrote after the war |
Begleit-Bataillon Reichsführer-SS | ... attalion from Spreenhagan (under Standartenfuhrer Anhalt), 600 men from the | , the Führer-Begleit-Company and the core group being the 800 men of the L ... |
Air National Guard | ... ont National Guard, composed of the Vermont Army National Guard and Vermont | are collectively known as the Green Mountain Boys, even though women have ... |
RAF | ... rving the Maltese Islands. It is built on the land formerly occupied by the | Luqa air base. A heliport is also located there, but the scheduled service ... |
United States Air Force | ... mi Airport became the home of numerous cargo and troop carrier units of the | Reserve, the major one being the 435th Troop Carrier Group (later Wing), o ... |
Coast Guard | A unit of the | , homeported at Port Canaveral, plays a role in preventing illegal immigra ... |
Order of St. John | ... sidered independence. The fear of the return of the increasingly oppressive | may have pushed Malta indirectly toward becoming a British protectorate. I ... |
Air Combat Command | ... assigned to Twelfth Air Force, which is headquartered at DM and is part of | (ACC). The 355 FW and various tenant units located on base provide A-10 Th ... |
VIII Corps | ... -man force under his command (mostly hundred-days' men amalgamated from the | ) and the division of James B. Ricketts from VI Corps was defeated by Conf ... |
Kaiserliche Marine | ... of non-commissioned officers aboard a warship. In the Prussian Navy and the | Maate were Unteroffiziere ohne Portepee. According to their specialization ... |
British Expeditionary Force | ... glas Haig had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the | (BEF). Haig favoured a British offensive in Flanders— it was close to BEF ... |
United States Marine Corps | ... de" (The Eagle from Sabana Grande), the first Hispanic fighter pilot in the | and first Puerto Rican pilot, became the first native Puerto Rican to fly ... |
Royal Air Force | On 26 June 1944, it was bombed by the British | which mistakenly believed it had been overrun by German forces and was bei ... |
XIIth | ... ble contingent of Polish miners from Northern France and Belgium. The XIth, | and XIIIth were the first brigades formed. Later, the XIVth and XVth Briga ... |
U.S. Marines | On 7 August 1942, 11,000 | landed on Guadalcanal and 3,000 U.S. Marines landed on Tulagi and nearby i ... |
Twelfth Air Force | ... e host unit at Davis–Monthan is the 355th Fighter Wing (355 FW) assigned to | , which is headquartered at DM and is part of Air Combat Command (ACC). Th ... |
United States Army | ... (April 30, 1875–October 19, 1952) was a Major General who commanded of the | 's Philippine Department from 1936 to 1938 |
Marine Corps | ... ard forms part of the Army or Air Force of the United States). The Navy and | are prohibited by a Department of Defense directive (self-regulation), but ... |
Landwehr | ... 3–1814 were in the process of being absorbed into the line, along with many | (militia) regiments. The Landwehr were mostly untrained and unequipped whe ... |
Microsoft Research | Duncan J. Watts (born 1971) is an Australian-born researcher working at | in the United States. He received a B.Sc. in physics from the University o ... |
Royal Navy | ... it of George IV to Edinburgh and the first contract to supply whisky to the | . The marker identified Scroggie as a "meal man" (corn merchant), but Dick ... |
Wehrmacht | ... uslim backgrounds were drafted in large numbers into the Ostlegionen of the | , but aside from several air attacks on some industrial and military targe ... |
Army National Guard | Today, the Vermont National Guard, composed of the Vermont | and Vermont Air National Guard are collectively known as the Green Mountai ... |
Jagdgeschwader 1 | ... Pour le Mérite, also known as "the Blue Max". He was the last commander of | , the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen, "the Red Baron" |
XIth | ... sizeable contingent of Polish miners from Northern France and Belgium. The | , XIIth and XIIIth were the first brigades formed. Later, the XIVth and XV ... |
Royal Marines | ... r -defence missiles to protect key areas in the UK. During World War II the | also provided air defence units; formally part of the mobile naval base de ... |
Waffen-SS | ... to the Nazi ideology. Creating elite police and military units such as the | , Adolf Hitler used the SS to form an order of men claimed to be superior ... |
Palmach | Ze'evi was born in 1926 in Jerusalem. He joined the | in 1942, and served in the Israeli Defence Forces after the creation of th ... |
National Armed Forces | ... ed with the far-right endecja spectrum of the Polish political scene, whose | organization was only partially incorporated into AK. To the extent that w ... |
RAF | ... n August 1934, Lywood began work on a machine regardless, authorised by the | . Lywood worked with J. C. Coulson, A. P. Lemmon, and W. E. Smith at Kidbr ... |
Spanish Air Force | ... es III. The operation was launched in conjunction with the Spanish Navy and | . The captured Moroccans were transferred by helicopter to the headquarter ... |
XIVth | ... gium. The XIth, XIIth and XIIIth were the first brigades formed. Later, the | and XVth Brigades were raised, mixing experienced soldiers with new volunt ... |
Quanzhou | ... o, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He was raised there until seven and moved to | , in the Fujian province of China. In a family made wealthy from shipping ... |
916th Air Refueling Wing | Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is home to the 4th Fighter Wing and | . The annual civilian and military payroll is over $282 millionUSD. In fis ... |
United States Navy SEALs | ... NATO base. Italian Air Force personnel and Carabinieri lined up facing the | who had arrived with two C-141s. Other Carabinieri were sent from Catania ... |
Internet Engineering Task Force | ... d HTML to be an application of SGML. It was formally defined as such by the | (IETF) with the mid-1993 publication of the first proposal for an HTML spe ... |
British Army | ... were British, with another 6,000 from the King's German Legion. All of the | troops were regular soldiers but only 7,000 of them were Peninsular War ve ... |
Royal Navy | ... asions, Iranian forces operating on the Shatt al-Arab have captured British | sailors who they claim have trespassed into their territory |
Royal Air Force | ... base. By the Second World War, both the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm and the | were operating Seaplane bases on Bermuda |
United States Air Force | ... light air defences. In the later decades of the Cold War this included the | 's operating bases in UK. However, all ground-based air defence was remove ... |
United States Coast Guard | Whenever the | operates as a service within the Department of the Navy, the Secretary of ... |
6th Division | ... tween the German 3rd Mountain Division under Eduard Dietl and the Norwegian | under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after the German invasion of Norway on ... |
Spanish Navy | Early in 1972, Bang was designated for transfer to the | on a five-year loan. Following upkeep to lengthen her safe submerged opera ... |
Stormtrooper | Initially a small branch of the Sturmabteilung (the "Brownshirts" or | s, abbreviated in German as SA), the SS grew in size and power due to its ... |
52nd Light Infantry | ... etreated with these Chasseurs in pursuit, but the latter were halted as the | wheeled in line onto their flank and poured a devastating fire into them a ... |
XIIIth | ... gent of Polish miners from Northern France and Belgium. The XIth, XIIth and | were the first brigades formed. Later, the XIVth and XVth Brigades were ra ... |
55th Wing | ... on Davis-Monthan AFB, operational control of the 55 ECG was assumed by the | at Offutt AFB, Nebraska. Another major wing realignment occurred on 1 Octo ... |
Fleet Air Arm | ... as well as a naval air base. By the Second World War, both the Royal Navy's | and the Royal Air Force were operating Seaplane bases on Bermuda |
Australian Army | ... of Music, but this was interrupted by World War II. He was enlisted to the | and was injured, almost losing a leg |
Roman legion | A complete | with auxiliaries was annihilated. The new state knew only one year of peac ... |
Thessaly | ... ated as Perithoos, Peirithoos or Peirithous) was the King of the Lapiths in | and husband of Hippodamia, at whose wedding the famous Battle of Lapiths a ... |
Israel Defense Forces | ... etnamese people living in Israel are Israeli citizens who also serve in the | . Today, the majority of the community lives in the Gush Dan area in the c ... |
Praetorian Guard | Notable examples of bodyguards include the Roman | or the Ottoman Janissaries—though, in both cases, the protectors sometimes ... |
Military Sealift Command | ... Baker (AE-34). It was decommissioned in 1996 and placed in service with the | as USNS Mount Baker (T-AE-34) |
King's German Legion | ... y with 150 guns. Of these, 25,000 were British, with another 6,000 from the | . All of the British Army troops were regular soldiers but only 7,000 of t ... |
Wehrmacht | ... rain, not by truck. Heidelberg had the untouched "Grossdeutschland Kaserne" | installation. The US Army used it as the Campbell Barracks soon after |
3rd Mountain Division | ... ite of the Battle of Gratangen, one of the first battles between the German | under Eduard Dietl and the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gusta ... |
United States Marine Corps | ... the Navy consists of two Uniformed Services: the United States Navy and the | . In effect, all authority within the Navy and Marine Corps is derivative ... |
55th Electronic Combat Group | ... and 43d Electronic Combat Squadrons were realigned under the control of the | (55 ECG). While personnel and aircraft remained on Davis-Monthan AFB, oper ... |
Navy | ... tional Guard forms part of the Army or Air Force of the United States). The | and Marine Corps are prohibited by a Department of Defense directive (self ... |
Peloponnese | ... of liberating Greece. The Filiki Eteria planned to launch revolution in the | , the Danubian Principalities and Constantinople. The first of these revol ... |
4th Fighter Wing | Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is home to the | and 916th Air Refueling Wing. The annual civilian and military payroll is ... |
XVth | ... XIth, XIIth and XIIIth were the first brigades formed. Later, the XIVth and | Brigades were raised, mixing experienced soldiers with new volunteers. Sma ... |
RAF Regiment | ... Navy for homeland air defence in World War I. However, in World War II the | was formed to protect airfields everywhere, and this included light air de ... |
Wehrmacht | ... oards responsible for assigning conscripts to the different branches of the | , to meet quotas set by the German High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmach ... |
United States Navy | ... ed the United Kingdom and Allied troops with cargo. She was acquired by the | , converted to an Auxiliary Technical Research Ship (AGTR), and began her ... |
Wehrmacht | ... d participating in many partisan clashes and battles with German police and | units. The AK also conducted retaliatory operations to assassinate promine ... |
Philippine Department | ... verseas commands: the Hawaiian Department, Panama Canal Department, and the | continued to be identified as departments |
Manhattan Project | ... now reported to Leslie Groves, the retired army general who had managed the | . Remington Rand had its own calculating machine lab in Norwalk, Connectic ... |
Kampfgruppe | ... orld War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of | Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), a German combat unit, during ... |
Putian | ... ju around Zhangzhou; Fujian Nanqu throughout the south, and Puxianxi around | and Xianyou County |
Northern Ireland | ... F). The gang conducted paramilitary activities during the 1970s in Belfast, | . It was most notorious for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder ... |
Royal Navy | ... was engaged to build the machinery for making ships' pulley blocks for the | in the Portsmouth Block Mills. These were all metal and were the first mac ... |
The Duke of Wellington's | ... he former commanding officer and colonel of the regiment, the title "33rd ( | ) Regiment" was granted to the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 18 June 1853 (the ... |
United States Marine Corps | ... air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy and | , as well as various allied air forces and navies. Sparrow and its derivat ... |
X SS Corps | ... gemark, 28 SS Wallonien, all in the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps, and the | , which did not command any SS units |
No. 13 Squadron RAAF | Whitlam trained as a navigator and bomb aimer, before serving with | , based mainly on the Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory, flying Lockheed ... |
Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering | ... cent of the worldwide global economy involved laundered money. However, the | (FATF), an intergovernmental body set up to combat money laundering, admit ... |
Armia Krajowa | ... e dead or missing. The Soviets also deported from Poland 7,448 Poles of the | , Soviet records indicated 506 of the Poles died in captivity. Tomasz Kamu ... |
Israel Defense Forces | ... irst attack against Israel in 1989, abducting and killing two soldiers. The | immediately arrested Yassin and sentenced him to life in prison, and depor ... |
Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force | ... ianka AK dealt a significant blow to the Lithuanian Nazi auxiliaries of the | . What resulted was a low-level civil war between anti-Nazi Poles and pro- ... |
French Air Force | ... man of courage". The next day, Arafat's body was flown from Paris aboard a | transport plane to Cairo, Egypt for a brief military funeral there, attend ... |
Royal Navy | ... 24 Tigerfish torpedo was a heavyweight acoustic homing torpedo used by the | (RN) for several years. The early Mod0 and Mod1 variants were unreliable a ... |
5th Cavalry Regiment | ... (later Fort Francis E. Warren) until September 16, 1906. He then joined the | at Fort Wingate, New Mexico until October 24, 1907 |
III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps | ... SS Estonian, 23 SS Nederland, 27 SS Langemark, 28 SS Wallonien, all in the | , and the X SS Corps, which did not command any SS units |
U.S. Navy | ... he Coast Guard enforces U.S. laws, even when operating as a service for the | |
Jagdgeschwader 5 | ... s was one of the many bases for the German Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe's | , and apart from that, the area served as a main base for supplies to the ... |
U.S. Army | ... s written permission, Holmes dropped out of high school and enlisted in the | at age 16. After Advanced Individual Training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, he ... |
United States Navy | Two ammunition ships of the | (traditionally named for volcanoes) have been named after the mountain. Th ... |
Royal Navy | Such vessels remained useful through World War II. The | 's Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs), Kriegsmarine 'S-Boote' (Schnellboot or "fas ... |
Virginia State Navy | ... illiam Harwar Parker,CSN, class of 1848, and instructor at USNA, joined the | , and then went on to become the Superintendent of the Confederate States ... |
United States Navy | Several | ships have borne the name Florida, in honor of the state of Florida |
United States Navy | ... ve radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, | and United States Marine Corps, as well as various allied air forces and n ... |
Ministry of National Defence | The civilian authority for the Greek military is the | . Furthermore, Greece maintains the Hellenic Coast Guard for law enforceme ... |
Royal Australian Air Force | ... onsibility of Australia, with periodic visits by the Royal Australian Navy, | and Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. The islands are visi ... |
Welsh Guards | ... rhaps the most visible use of the leek, however, is as the cap badge of the | , a regiment within the Household Division of the British Army |
Thessaly | ... 46 billion to the economy) followed by Central Macedonia (€32.285 billion), | (€11.608 billion), Crete (€11.243 billion) and West Greece (€10.659 billio ... |
Quanzhou | ... Minju (Fujian Opera) is popular around Fuzhou; Gaojiaxi around Jinjiang and | ; Xiangju around Zhangzhou; Fujian Nanqu throughout the south, and Puxianx ... |
Royal Australian Navy | ... 66. Defence is the responsibility of Australia, with periodic visits by the | , Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Customs and Border Protection ... |
Wild Geese | Many of the | , expatriate Irish soldiers who had gone to Spain, or their descendants, c ... |
Egyptian Air Force | ... king forces, consisting of 800-1,000 tanks would not have SAM cover, so the | (EAF) was tasked with the defense of these forces from Israeli air attacks ... |
Red Army | Armia Krajowa relations with the | became increasingly poor over the course of the war. Not only did the Sovi ... |
Central Macedonia | ... were Attica (which contributed €110.546 billion to the economy) followed by | (€32.285 billion), Thessaly (€11.608 billion), Crete (€11.243 billion) and ... |
United States Navy | In 1971, Berríos led the Navy-Culebra protests that criticized the | 's use of the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico for military exercises. He sq ... |
United States Navy | ... U.S. learned of the Japanese plan through signals intelligence and sent two | carrier task forces and a joint Australian-American cruiser force, under t ... |
Red Army | ... lashes with White forces in 1919. Trotsky, who was in overall charge of the | during the Russian Civil War, thought little of Zinoviev's leadership, whi ... |
King's German Legion | ... hard of La Haye Sainte, which was garrisoned with 400 light infantry of the | . On the opposite side of the road was a disused sand quarry, where the 95 ... |
Spanish Navy | ... nments on 27 March 1992. The proposed vessel was based on the design of the | aircraft carrier Principe de Asturias, which in turn was based on the Unit ... |
Armenian Air Force | ... independence, "Erebuni" is mainly used for military or private flights. The | has equally installed its base there and there are several MiG-29s station ... |
the Sacred Band | ... e of Tegyra (near Orchomenus). This victory he owed mainly to the valour of | , an elite corps of 300 seasoned soldiers. At the battle of Leuctra (371 B ... |
Royal Bhutan Army | ... Gyalpo's brother-in-law. In 1962, however, Dorji incurred disfavor with the | over the use of military vehicles and the forced retirement of some fifty ... |
Honourable Artillery Company | ... an infantry regiment and with the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers of the | |
Knights of St John of Jerusalem | ... g Cross. Once part of the Great Middlesex Forest, it was later owned by the | |
Dartmouth Royal Naval College | ... was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to | on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and ... |
Luftwaffe | ... any, Kirkenes was one of the many bases for the German Kriegsmarine and the | 's Jagdgeschwader 5, and apart from that, the area served as a main base f ... |
Kriegsmarine | ... d useful through World War II. The Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs), | 'S-Boote' (Schnellboot or "fast-boat": British termed them E-boats), (Ital ... |
King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) | ... lso worked as a coal miner, waiter and page boy. He first enlisted into the | , but his mother got him "unenlisted" as he was under age. He later re-enl ... |
Palmach | ... idi'), Chief of Operations of the Irgun, and Itzhak Sadeh, commander of the | |
South Aegean | In terms of GDP per capita, Attica ranks first (€29,100), followed by the | (€26,800) and Central Greece (€20,500). Epirus (€15,300) and West Greece ( ... |
Air National Guard | In the United States, many larger civilian airports also host an | base |
1st Infantry Division's | ... th Aviation Support Battalion, Katterbach Kaserne, formally the home of the | 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Av ... |
Confederate States Navy | ... nt of USNA. The first Superintendent, Admiral Franklin Buchanan, joined the | as its first and primary admiral. Captain Sidney Smith Lee, the second Com ... |
Household Division | ... ek, however, is as the cap badge of the Welsh Guards, a regiment within the | of the British Army |
Special Service Group | ... In 1979, at the request of the Saudi government, commandos of the Pakistani | were rushed to assist Saudi forces in Mecca to lead the operation of the G ... |
Batallón de San Patricio | ... n they sided with Catholic Mexico against Protestant pro-U.S. elements. The | , a battalion of U.S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican ... |
Spanish Navy infantry | ... o cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a | regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured ... |
Naval Reserve | ... mber 1941, Johnson, still in Congress, became a commissioned officer in the | , then asked Undersecretary of the Navy James Forrestal for a combat assig ... |
55th Electronic Combat Group | ... air control to ground forces worldwide. One of the wing's tenant units, the | , is tasked to provide command, control, and communications countermeasure ... |
Northern Ireland | ... this area was still part of Lancaster County. Named for Strabane, a town in | , this spelling was in use as late as the 1870s. For the most part the ori ... |
Commando | The | units of the British military requested a silenced rifle for eliminating s ... |
Luftwaffe | ... others, Raziel and Yaakov Meridor participated. On April 20, 1941, during a | air raid on Habbaniya Airport near Baghdad, David Raziel, commander of the ... |
North Aegean | ... 43 billion) and West Greece (€10.659 billion). The least important were the | (€3.330 billion) and the Ionian Islands (€4.130 billion) |
Royal Navy | ... losophy, Politics and Economics, he carried out his military service in the | – during which time he commanded a small torpedo boat. Lawson began his ca ... |
Kriegsmarine | ... f Norway by Nazi Germany, Kirkenes was one of the many bases for the German | and the Luftwaffe's Jagdgeschwader 5, and apart from that, the area served ... |
United States Navy | ... ited States (one of John's sons, Commodore Daniel Patterson, became a noted | hero, and John's grandsons, Rear Admiral Thomas H. Patterson and Lt. Carli ... |
Xianyou County | ... hangzhou; Fujian Nanqu throughout the south, and Puxianxi around Putian and | |
French Army | On 11 November, a | Honor Guard held a brief ceremony for Arafat, with his coffin draped in a ... |
legions | ... both in maintaining the stability of the empire and for its expansion. The | made good time on them, and some are still used millennia later. In later ... |
33rd Regiment of Foot | ... yde Park and St. James's Park on 31 August 1850. He was also colonel of the | from 1 February 1806 and colonel of the Grenadier Guards from 22 January 1 ... |
3rd Armoured Division | ... er front. Iraq also sent an expeditionary force to Syria, consisting of the | , 6th Armoured Division, some 30,000 men, 250–500 tanks, and 700 APCs. Isr ... |
354th Fighter Group | ... airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF | which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome (designated ) from late Ap ... |
Combined Fleet | ... complish this, called Operation MO, involved several major units of Japan's | , including two fleet carriers and a light carrier to provide air cover fo ... |
USAF | Nixon had commanded that, "They | have got to go in there and I mean really go in . . . I want everything th ... |
United States Navy | ... Navy aircraft carrier Principe de Asturias, which in turn was based on the | 's Sea Control Ship concept. Some defence industry websites refer to the s ... |
Signal Corps | ... aining at Fort Gordon, Georgia, he spent three years in West Germany in the | . Upon his honorable discharge, Holmes moved to Los Angeles, where he work ... |
Royal Navy | ... ere used at the Portsmouth Block Mills to make ships' pulley blocks for the | in the Napoleonic Wars. These were also used to make clocks and watches, a ... |
Navy | Naval versions of the AH-64A for the United States Marine Corps and | were examined from 1984 to 1987. Multiple concepts were studied with alter ... |
FEAF | ... base and industry center, the city was heavily bombed by Task Force 38 and | during 1944–1945 |
French Army | ... significant effect on his work. Mobilized in August 1914 for service in the | , he spent two years at the front in Argonne. He produced many sketches of ... |
United States Army | At the end of World War II, the | began to consider new directions for future military aircraft guns. The hi ... |
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht | ... on its tactical control was given to the High Command of the Armed Forces ( | ) |
Coldstream Guards | ... roops managed to enter its courtyard before the gate was resecured. The 2nd | and 2/3rd Foot Guards then arrived and repulsed the attack |
Wehrmacht | ... rld War II broke out in September, and Zapf's unit was to be taken into the | . However, due to his heart trouble, Zapf was not transferred to the Wehrm ... |
Praetorian Guard | The Nazis regarded the SS as an elite unit, the party's " | ", with all SS personnel (originally) selected on the principles of racial ... |
6th Armoured Division | ... t an expeditionary force to Syria, consisting of the 3rd Armoured Division, | , some 30,000 men, 250–500 tanks, and 700 APCs. Israeli jets attacked Iraq ... |
Ever Victorious Army | The | was the name given to a Chinese imperial army in late-19th–century. The ne ... |
United States Navy | ... ons (acronym: CNO) is a statutory office held by a four-star admiral in the | , and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Depart ... |
Israeli Air Force | During the morning of the attack, early June 8, the ship was overflown by | (IAF) aircraft including a Nord Noratlas "flying boxcar" and Mirage III je ... |
British Army | Milne joined the | in World War I and served as an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment ... |
10th Royal Hussars | ... enlisted" as he was under age. He later re-enlisted as a drummer boy in the | of the British Army and in 1930 was posted to Lucknow, in the United Provi ... |
Jagdstaffel 26 | ... as seriously wounded in the hip, taking nearly a year to recover. He joined | , commanded by Loerzer, in February 1917. He steadily scored air victories ... |
Air Defence of Great Britain | The term air defence was probably first used by Britain when | (ADGB) was created as a Royal Air Force command in 1925. However, arrangem ... |
French Army | ... of anticolonialism into the national consciousness. Abusive tactics of the | remains a controversial subject in France to this day |
United States Navy | from a late-1940s | program to develop a guided rocket weapon for air-to-air use. In 1947 the ... |
Confederate States Navy | ... as stressed by the situation as 24% of its officers resigned and joined the | , including 95 graduates and 59 midshipmen from USNA, as well as many key ... |
Ten Thousand | ... ed their crops and food supplies as they withdrew before the advance of the | |
German Navy | ... to lure the out of her northern Norwegian seaport and into battle, but the | (Kriegsmarine) did not rise to this challenge. The Tirpitz remained in her ... |
Luftwaffe | ... en built following the World War II bombing of the ancient cathedral by the | . Coventry motor companies have contributed significantly to the British m ... |
4th Cavalry Brigade | Holbrook served with the | at Fort Walla Walla, Washington, until December 22, 1896, and at Boise Bar ... |
23d Wing | ... wide. Two other major tenants, the 563rd Rescue Group (structured under the | , Moody Air Force Base) and 943rd Rescue Group, (structured under the 920t ... |
New Army | ... was now made up of volunteers of the Territorial Force and Lord Kitchener's | , which had begun forming in August 1914. The expansion demanded generals ... |
Luftwaffe | ... 942, he was summoned again for the war effort. Zapf had been chosen for the | , but instead was sent to the artillery in Weimar. He did not perform well ... |
Wehrmacht | ... r before studying German at the University of Cologne. Conscripted into the | , he served in France, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union, and was woun ... |
6th Fleet Forces Service | ... Pearl Harbor, Kwajalein Atoll was the administrative center of the Japanese | , whose task was the defense of the Marshall Islands |
fast carrier | Following a month and a half of exercises and training with | task groups, Alabama steamed to the Fiji Islands, arriving on 7 November. ... |
British Army | ... age. He later re-enlisted as a drummer boy in the 10th Royal Hussars of the | and in 1930 was posted to Lucknow, in the United Provinces of British Indi ... |
Marine Corps | ... he United States Army. The Air Force was added in 1956 and the Navy and the | have been included by a regulation of the Department of Defense. The Unite ... |
Luftwaffe | The BSA factory at Small Heath was bombed by the | on 26 August 1940 resulting in one H.E.bomb and a shower of incendiaries h ... |
British I Corps | ... t always reflect ability. Haig started the war as the commanding officer of | , then was promoted to command the British First Army and then the BEF, an ... |
Royal Thai Marine Corps | ... 6 aircrew. Up to 675 personnel can be transported; commonly soldiers of the | |
Austro-Hungarian Army | ... hool in Mariahilf and Josefstadt before graduating in 1877, and joining the | as a Second Lieutenant |
Eighth United States Army | The postwar Seventh United States Army in Germany and | in Korea were outside the continental United States as they remain today, ... |
12th Combat Aviation Brigade | ... ntry Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the | as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to Fort Riley, K ... |
4th Cavalry Brigade | ... es in March 1901 and served with Troop B, 15th Cavalry Brigade and Troop I, | , based at Manila, until July 1, 1901 and at Fort Riley, Kansas until Augu ... |
Northern Ireland | ... and other varieties of English, such as those of Malaysia and Singapore. In | it is a shibboleth as Protestant schools teach aitch and Catholics haitch. ... |
Ulster Defence Regiment | On 29 August 1982, Murphy killed Jim Galway (33), a part-time | (UDR) soldier from the Lower Shankill area who had been passing informatio ... |
US Army's | ... e Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) was the agency formed to develop the | first intermediate range ballistic missile. It was established at Redstone ... |
Royal Navy | ... World War II, the Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) was developed, used in the | from November 1943. The CCM was implemented by making modifications to Typ ... |
Royal Australian Air Force | ... bor, and with a year remaining in his legal studies, he volunteered for the | . In 1942, while awaiting entry into the service, Whitlam met and married ... |
Mexican Army | ... Patricio, a battalion of U.S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the | against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is ... |
Army Service Forces | ... d as numbered service commands under Services of Supply, renamed in 1943 as | to serve the Army's supply system, and perform administration, and "housek ... |
Kriegsmarine | ... e replacements were a mixed group of raw recruits and drafted Luftwaffe and | personnel no longer needed by their own branch of service, as they had no ... |
Royal Air Force | ... nt and deployed USN and USAF aircraft, as well as transitioning or deployed | and Canadian Forces aircraft |
Sacred Band | ... oeotarchs in an advisory capacity. Pelopidas, meanwhile, was captain of the | , the elite Theban troops. Before the battle, there was evidently much deb ... |
920th Rescue Wing | ... d Wing, Moody Air Force Base) and 943rd Rescue Group, (structured under the | , Patrick Air Force Base), are tasked to provide combat search and rescue ... |
Navy | ... entially to the United States Army. The Air Force was added in 1956 and the | and the Marine Corps have been included by a regulation of the Department ... |
Patrouille des Glaciers | ... e command of Henri Guisan (see also Switzerland during the World Wars). The | race, created to test the abilities of soldiers, was created during the wa ... |
Luftwaffe | ... equipment. The replacements were a mixed group of raw recruits and drafted | and Kriegsmarine personnel no longer needed by their own branch of service ... |
US Marines | ... ge for Arafat and the PLO—guarded by a multinational force of eight hundred | supported by the US Navy—to exile in Tunis |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Canada briefly issued a $1000 Canadian dollar bill in 1992, but the | was able to successfully argue against the continued printing of this bill ... |
Jagdgeschwader 1 | ... red von Richthofen, Göring was made commander of the famed "Flying Circus", | . Because of his arrogance, Göring was not popular with the men of Jagdges ... |
Combined Fleet | ... was responsible for appointing Tōgō Heihachirō as commander-in-chief of the | . He gave voice to Tōgō's reports when he read his aloud his reports from ... |
British Expeditionary Force | The original | , six divisions strong at the start of the war, had been wiped out by the ... |
United States Navy | ... ft included the early jet fighters and trainers as well as current USAF and | examples. These flying aircraft and helicopters included |
Kriegsmarine | ... ded to veterans who had served in the Heer (army), Luftwaffe (air force) or | (navy). An exception was made for Waffen-SS conscripts sworn in after 1943 ... |
Fourth Army | ... er of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, the commander of | , have been criticised for incurring very severe casualties while failing ... |
United States Navy | ... ch 13, 1914 – November 26, 1943) was an Irish-American naval aviator of the | who on February 20, 1942 became the U.S. Navy's first flying ace and Medal ... |
Joint Task Force 2 | ... (SERT), were transferred to the Canadian Forces, creating a new unit called | (JTF2). JTF2 inherited some equipment and SERT's former training base near ... |
Haganah | The leaders of | opposed the idea initially. On July 1, 1946, Moshe Sneh, chief of the Haga ... |
Army of Africa | ... e recruited for service in the Spahi and Tirailleur regiments of the French | . During World War II more than 300,000 Moroccan troops (including goumier ... |
Services of Supply | ... geographical corps areas were redesigned as numbered service commands under | , renamed in 1943 as Army Service Forces to serve the Army's supply system ... |
United States Navy | The | was stressed by the situation as 24% of its officers resigned and joined t ... |
Army of Africa | Like the rest of the " | ", the foreign legion took part in the campaign of Italy. Two foreign regi ... |
11 SS Nordland | On 16 April, the remnants of the | , 33 SS Charlemagne and the Spanish Volunteer Company of SS 101, were all ... |
Civil Air Patrol | ... ber of local volunteers as well as attendees who can volunteer on the spot. | cadets and senior officers who attend National Blue Beret are found on bas ... |
United States Coast Guard | ... na, and is adjacent to the North Carolina Baptist Assembly and the island's | station. It was incorporated as a town in 1975. The population was 370 at ... |
SS-Totenkopfverbände | The linking of the SS-VT with the | (SS-TV) in 1938 posed important questions about Waffen-SS criminality, sin ... |
Air National Guard | A branch of the | is stationed in Puerto Rico, known as the Puerto Rico Air National Guard ( ... |
Swiss Air Force | The | has been traditionally a militia-based service, including its pilots, with ... |
DARPA | ... ewriter as a keyboard. In addition, DEKA has recently received funding from | to work on a brain-controlled prosthetic limb called the Luke Arm |
Viet Cong | ... soners in South Vietnam, such as the one on Con Son Island. Mistreatment of | and North Vietnamese prisoners and South Vietnamese dissidents in South Vi ... |
Haganah | ... otel itself. The intention was to fire them on the King's birthday, but the | learned about the plan and warned the British through Teddy Kollek of the ... |
Fighter Interception Unit | ... radar-equipped Vickers Wellington bomber was modified for use by the RAF's | as an Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft. Flying at an altitude o ... |
Yuncheng, Shanxi | Sima Guang was born in 1019 in present-day | to a wealthy family, and obtained early success as a scholar and officer. ... |
British Army | ... nst the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), its auxiliary organisations and the | , who were tasked with suppressing the Irish liberation movement. Some mem ... |
US Navy | The | began acquiring UH-1B helicopters from the Army and these aircraft were mo ... |
Somatophylakes | ... ards may also be part of an elite military unit. Such was the case with the | in Macedon, Schutzstaffel in Nazi Germany, the former Iraqi Special Republ ... |
VIII Fighter Command | ... Magdeburg. The bomber groups would be protected by the 784 P-51 Mustangs of | which meant that there would be almost 2,100 aircraft of the United States ... |
Red Army | ... ordinary people in Coventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet | during the Battle of Stalingrad. The city is now also twinned with Dresden ... |
United States Navy | ... gh Times. During World War II, Helms served stateside as a recruiter in the | . In 1945, his first child, Jane, was born. After the war, he pursued his ... |
Regulares | ... both the Rif War of 1921-26 and the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Moroccan | , together with the Spanish Legion, made up Spain's elite Spanish Army of ... |
Red Army | ... territory had been mostly cleared of German forces by the advancing Soviet | |
Auxiliary Division | ... Tans" (a nickname possibly arising from their mixture of uniforms), and the | (generally known as the Auxiliaries or Auxies). The behaviour of both grou ... |
19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | ... ered out of the volunteer service but returned to the field as major in the | . He was captured at the Battle of Thompson's Station and spent 3 months i ... |
British Army | Wellesley was commissioned as an ensign in the | in 1787. Serving in Ireland as aide-de-camp to two successive Lords Lieute ... |
3rd Shock Army | In March 1945, the X SS Corps was encircled by the 1st Guards Tank Army, | , and the Polish 1st Army in the area of Dramburg. This pocket was destroy ... |
Foederati | ... man losses could only be made good by co-opting barbarians into the army as | under their own commanders; and, as so often, military power has ways of t ... |
No. 616 Squadron RAF | ... ly operational, the jet-powered Gloster Meteor was rushed into service with | to fight the V-1s. It had ample speed but its cannons were prone to jammin ... |
special administrative regions | ... (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing | (SARs), Hong Kong and Macau. Its capital city is Beijing. The PRC also cla ... |
United States Army | The original Posse Comitatus Act referred essentially to the | . The Air Force was added in 1956 and the Navy and the Marine Corps have b ... |
Royal Netherlands Air Force | The KDC-10 is an aerial refueling tanker for the | . These were converted from civil airliners (DC-10-30CF) to a similar stan ... |
Spanish Legion | ... and the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. Moroccan Regulares, together with the | , made up Spain's elite Spanish Army of Africa. A para-military gendarmeri ... |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | The | Academy, "Depot" Division, is on the western perimeter of the city. As cap ... |
Eighth Air Force | ... which meant that there would be almost 2,100 aircraft of the United States | over Saxony during 14 February |
United States Marine Corps | ... dits short of earning a degree, Bixby dropped out of college and joined the | after being drafted into the United States Army during the Korean War. Bix ... |
Manhattan Project | ... e river passes through the Hanford Site, established in 1943 as part of the | . The site served as a plutonium production complex, with nine nuclear rea ... |
Polish resistance movement in World War II | The Armia Krajowa (, abbreviated AK), or Home Army, was the dominant | German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Wa ... |
Waffen-SS | ... st to the black-uniformed Allgemeine SS (the political wing of the SS), the | (the military wing) evolved into a second German army aside the Wehrmacht ... |
355th Fighter Wing | The host wing at Davis-Monthan is the | , which includes |
Accrington Pals | One well-known association the town has is with the ' | ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers fo ... |
162d Fighter Wing | The base provides additional active duty support to the | (162 FW) of the Arizona Air National Guard, located at nearby Tucson Inter ... |
Royal Navy | ... in the mid-1950s to the introduction of the unsuccessful Mod 0 variant into | service in 1980, were responsible for the decision to purchase cruise miss ... |
Royal Moroccan Navy | Four years later, the | was established in 1960 |
22nd Battalion | ... Canadian 2nd Division particularly with the efforts of the French Canadian | (the 'Van Doos') and the 25th Battalion (the Nova Scotia Rifles) captured ... |
3rd Cavalry Group | Following deep reconnaissance missions in the region by the | and units of the 1139 Engineer Combat Group, and after heavy fighting in a ... |
Royal Navy | ... former HMS Vernon, formerly a shore establishment or 'stone frigate' of the | , now an area of retail outlets, restaurants, clubs and bars now known as ... |
United States Army | ... an crew. The Apache was developed as Model 77 by Hughes Helicopters for the | 's Advanced Attack Helicopter program to replace the AH-1 Cobra, and was f ... |
Royal Navy | ... fter being educated in Germany, England and Scotland, he joined the British | at the age of 18 in 1939. From July 1939, he began corresponding with Prin ... |
Arizona Air National Guard | ... des additional active duty support to the 162d Fighter Wing (162 FW) of the | , located at nearby Tucson International Airport, which flies the F-16C an ... |
National Guard | ... ans participate as members and work for the U.S. Armed Services, largely as | members and civilian employees. The size of the overall military-related c ... |
United States Air Force | ... ip, North Hanover Township and Springfield Township, along with children of | personnel based at McGuire Air Force Base. The schools in the district (wi ... |
7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment | Shafter served as a 1st lieutenant the Union Army's | at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Fair Oaks. He was wounded at the Battle ... |
Philippine Air Force | ... Lakas ng Pilipinas) is composed of the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy and | . The AFP is a volunteer force and has a total active strength of 125,000 ... |
Royal Australian Navy | ... ined for several days in the lagoon at Ashmore after failed attempts by the | to turn them back to Indonesia in October 2001 |
AFC South | ... ed in 1982 by a player strike) 1970-2001; with the move of the Colts to the | the two teams' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the ... |
United States Air Force | ... ppers and sent to Rare Bird Farm in Miami, Florida. He was purchased by the | and brought to Holloman Air Force Base in 1959 |
Royal Artillery | Milligan and Harry Secombe became friends while serving in the | during World War II. Famously, Milligan first encountered Secombe after Gu ... |
Pals battalion | ... me town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war. The | s were a peculiarity of the 1914-18 war: Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of ... |
Confederate veteran | John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a | and an American pharmacist, and is best known for being the inventor of Co ... |
Royal Air Force | ... rst flew in 1969, and entered service the next year. It is also used by the | in a search and rescue capacity, and has been sold to many countries aroun ... |
Waffen-SS | ... ign Legion reflect the events in history at the time they join. Many former | and Wehrmacht personnel joined in the wake of WWII as many soldiers return ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... M sites punched a hole in the Egyptian anti-aircraft screen and enabled the | to more aggressively strike Egyptian ground targets. On the night of Octob ... |
Landsknecht | ... ould go on the defensive when attacked by cavalry. German soldiers known as | s later adopted Swiss methods of pike handling |
Royal Air Force | The Avro Rota autogyro was used by the | to calibrate the coastal radar stations during and after the Battle of Bri ... |
1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division and Signal Regiment | Herford is the location of the headquarters of the | part of British Forces Germany. Currently there are 870 soldiers serving a ... |
Luftwaffe | ... in the U.S. at the dawn of the Battle of Britain, just three days after the | began bombing British coastal airfields in the early Adlerangriff phase of ... |
British Army | ... was rejected. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined the | , initially as a Private in the Field Security Police. He was soon afterwa ... |
County Monaghan | ... elfast. The headmaster of this school was the writer Michael McLaverty from | , who introduced Heaney to the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh. With McLaverty' ... |
Egyptian Air Force | ... eli aircraft bombed Egyptian Scud batteries at Port Said several times. The | attempted to interdict IAF sorties and attack Israeli ground forces, but s ... |
Einsatzgruppen | ... , the leader of the SS, was a chief architect of the Final Solution. The SS | death squads, formed by his deputy, Heydrich, murdered many civilian non-c ... |
Northern Ireland | ... law, Highways Act 1980, which covers England and Wales but not Scotland or | , the term road is defined to be "any length of highway or of any other ro ... |
Spanish Navy | ... ai Navy (RTN), and Thailand's first and only aircraft carrier. Based on the | 's Principe de Asturias design and constructed by Spanish shipbuilder Bazá ... |
RAF | ... o modified to alleviate the fatigue problems (most of these served with the | as the Comet C2), while a program to produce a Comet 2 with more powerful ... |
German Navy | In the early months of the Second World War, the | sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. The Royal Navy respo ... |
East Lancashire Regiment | ... ly speaking, the 'Accrington Pals' battalion is properly known as the '11th | ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong compa ... |
British Army | ... saw a large intake of trained soldiers from the UK. These men had left the | following its restructuring and the foreign legion's parachute unit was a ... |
Totenkopf Division | ... bsequently became members of the Waffen-SS, forming the initial core of the | . Many Waffen-SS members and units were responsible for war crimes against ... |
Byzantine army | ... prisoners were recovered, while the survivors were quickly recruited in the | |
Wehrmacht | ... regime in his native country, and also his following service in the German | |
United States Naval | The town is also the namesake of the former | ship USS Waxahachie (YTB-814) |
United States Navy | USS Aquarius (AKA-16), was a | ship named after the constellation |
No. 5 Squadron | No. 35 Squadron and | also operated the Iroquois in various roles through the 1970s and 1980s |
25th Operational Weather Squadron | ... nd the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Also located on base is the | 25 OWS. The squadron produces forecasts for the Western United States and ... |
British Army | ... mic difficulties he was having, like his eldest brother John, he joined the | |
Women's Battalion | ... he Winter Palace was guarded by Cossacks, cadets (military students), and a | . It was taken at about 2 a.m. The earlier date was made the official date ... |
RAF Bomber Command | ... tate that strafing did occur. According to an RAF webpage on the history of | , "[p]art of the American Mustang-fighter escort was ordered to strafe tra ... |
Hellenic Air Force | ... de an outstanding contribution to the development of Greek aviation and the | in the 1930s |
British paratroopers | ... Bloody Sunday (30 January 1972), saw the killing of 14 unarmed civilians by | and a backlash of anti-British feeling in all parts of Ireland, including ... |
Army of the Potomac | ... the Peninsula Campaign and the Maryland Campaign) circumnavigated the Union | , bringing fame to himself and embarrassment to the North. At the Battle o ... |
7th Armored Brigade | During over four days of fighting, the Israeli | in the north (commanded by Avigdor Ben-Gal) managed to hold the rocky hill ... |
US Army | ... thirteen years on the Medford Urban Renewal Agency Board and served in the | where he also practiced optometry |
Army National Guard | ... has Camp Beauregard located adjacent to the city operated by the Louisiana | . It is the headquarters location for the 225th Engineer Brigade one of th ... |
United States Army | As a Lieutenant Colonel in the | , Stevens headed the U.S. Army Signal Corps unit that filmed the Normandy ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... in the Pacific. Acting virtually independently of the civil government, the | seized Germany's Micronesian colonies |
No. 35 Squadron | ... cluding troop transport, medevac and Bushranger gunships for armed support. | and No. 5 Squadron also operated the Iroquois in various roles through the ... |
Nanping | In 2003, a sister city relationship with | in north western Fujian province, People's Republic of China, was formalis ... |
Armée d'Afrique | The foreign legion was primarily used, as part of the | , to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the 19th century ... |
1st Weather Group | ... quadron produces forecasts for the Western United States and is part of the | (1 WXG) headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The squadron also ser ... |
United States Army | ... schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. (July 4, 1920November 21, 2007), a former | soldier, was born at Hutzel Women's Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Ross sa ... |
Kaminski Brigade | ... responsible for serious war crimes. Formations such as the Dirlewanger and | s were singled out, and many others were involved in large-scale massacres ... |
United States Coast Guard | The | has a major presence in Kodiak, Alaska |
United States Army | ... lege and joined the United States Marine Corps after being drafted into the | during the Korean War. Bixby served stateside duty in the Marines and was ... |
Virginia Regiment | ... Years' War (1756–1763). A militia from several British colonies, called the | , was led by then-Lieutenant colonel George Washington |
Central Division | ... three out of four against the Minnesota Twins who had already clinched the | (into which the Tigers had moved in 1998), and were resting their stars |
Praetorian Guard | ... zstaffel in Nazi Germany, the former Iraqi Special Republican Guard, or the | in the Roman Empire, Varangians of the Byzantine Empire, or the Housecarls ... |
Army Cadet movement | ... social reformer and a founder of the National Trust, Kyrle Society and the | . She lived at Brownswell Cottages on the High Road in East Finchley just ... |
United States Navy SEALs | ... ty called Naval Special Warfare Cold Weather Detachment Kodiak which trains | in cold weather survival and advanced tactics |
Spahi | ... co (1912–1956) large numbers of Moroccans were recruited for service in the | and Tirailleur regiments of the French Army of Africa. During World War II ... |
Civil Air Patrol | ... help with presenting the event. Among these volunteers are cadets from the | , referred to as "Blue Berets," working the flightlines and looking for EL ... |
Knights Hospitaller | ... ances of recorded first aid were provided by religious knights, such as the | , formed in the 11th century, providing care to pilgrims and knights, and ... |
Balkan Air Force | The | supporting the partisans in Yugoslavia was based at Bari |
Kaiserliche Marine | ... hsmarine (1918–1935) insisted on using the pre-1918 colours of the previous | (1871–1918), which were Black-White-Red, as did the German merchant marine |
Air Mobility Command | ... tinue to operate the DC-10 on charter passenger services as well as for the | . Biman Bangladesh Airlines operates five DC-10-30s as one of their primar ... |
Moscow Military District | ... he Operational Group of Russian Forces in Moldova, under the command of the | had withered away to a strength of some 1500 which included the 8th Motor ... |
Ministry of Defence | ... by the A3 to the north and the rail line to the south, was occupied by the | and the Directorate of Overseas Surveys but after remaining empty for some ... |
White side | ... he hid in Red-dominated Helsinki, because he was at least nominally on the | and therefore a "class enemy"; he formed a new senate (government) in Hels ... |
United States Army | On December 1, 1917, Bell was inducted into a Mobile Hospital Unit of the | for World War I and after training, he was deployed to France in May 1918. ... |
English navy | ... eighboring Tvedestrand municipality) that several British men-of-war of the | pursued and sunk the last major vessel and the pride of Norway: the line-o ... |
County Galway | ... isits he purchased and restored a Georgian home, St Clerans, of Craughwell, | . He became an Irish citizen in 1964 and his daughter Anjelica attended sc ... |
5th Fleet | ... that same day but spent an uneventful week while Admiral Raymond Spruance's | was trouncing the Japanese task force in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, ... |
Board of Navy Commissioners | Between 1824 and 1827, he served on the | . He died in Philadelphia and was buried at the Christ Church Burial Groun ... |
Mohe County | ... d Russia to the north. Heilongjiang contains China's northernmost point (in | along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the junction of the Amur and Uss ... |
Army of Northern Virginia | ... enandoah Valley, but then in increasingly important cavalry commands of the | , playing a role in all of that army's campaigns until his death. He estab ... |
Tercio | ... power of the pike and the shooting power of the firearm. They developed the | formation, in which arquebusier or musketeer formations (or even longbowme ... |
United States Marine Corps | Lafayette is also home to the | Reserve Unit, F. Co. Anti-Terrorism Battalion commanded by Captain Cole Cl ... |
28th Pursuit Squadron | ... . The 37th Pursuit Group at Albrook Field replaced the P-40 Warhawks of the | at the Paitilla Point airbase from 9 December 1941 though 26 March 1942 in ... |
Royal Air Force | ... ed Kingdom has sent 45,000 personnel from the British Army, Royal Navy, and | , including the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal to the Gulf region. The gro ... |
Fourteenth Air Force | Stevens served in the China-Burma-India theater with the | Transport Section, which supported the "Flying Tigers", from 1944 to 1946. ... |
US Navy | ... ariveles Naval Base, in Mariveles, Bataan, the Philippines, was used by the | 's Asiatic Fleet. This base was located on the southern tip of the Bataan ... |
XVII Corps | ... e same extent . . . in the world." Union officers in charge of the XIII and | kept close watch on the troops to prevent looting as the men marched south ... |
Royal Air Force | ... ine (later by the Rocketdyne Mk38 mod 4). Skyflash entered service with the | (RAF) on their Phantom FG.1/FGR.2 in 1976, and later on the Tornado F3. Th ... |
Legion of the United States | ... e's son-in-law, William Wells, switched sides and served as a scout for the | . The confederacy, numbering around 1,000 men, was defeated at the Battle ... |
United States Navy | The | operates a small training base near the city called Naval Special Warfare ... |
United States Navy | ... Officer. The Department of the Navy consists of two Uniformed Services: the | and the United States Marine Corps. In effect, all authority within the Na ... |
37th Pursuit Group | ... irports were built to protect the Panama Canal from foreign aggression. The | at Albrook Field replaced the P-40 Warhawks of the 28th Pursuit Squadron a ... |
United States Marine Corps | Several Sea Kings, operated by the | 's HMX-1 unit, are used as the official helicopters of the President of th ... |
Knights Templar | Some orders of knighthood, such as the | , have themselves become the subject of legend; others have disappeared in ... |
Royal Navy | The United Kingdom has sent 45,000 personnel from the British Army, | , and Royal Air Force, including the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal to the ... |
Red Army | ... nditions, fuel shortages, and overstretched supply lines; on 5 December the | launched a counter-offensive. Hitler did not give permission for even a pa ... |
U.S. Army | ... BC newsman, Jack Smith (April 25, 1945—April 7, 2004), was serving with the | 7th Cavalry Regiment in South Vietnam and fought at the Battle of Ia Drang ... |
U.S. Cavalry | ... prominently featured in We Were Soldiers as the main helicopter used by the | in the Battle of Ia Drang. Author Robert Mason recounts his career as a UH ... |
Sixth SS Panzer Army | ... sted Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium. The Waffen-SS units included the | , under Sepp Dietrich. Created on 26 October 1944, it incorporated the I S ... |
Social class | Weber also formulated a three-component theory of stratification, with | , Social status and Political party as conceptually distinct elements |
Norwegian Army | ... replaced, as a main source of radio communication for regular forces of the | by ingeniously developed radio sets called MRR (Multi Role Radio) and LFR ... |
French Army | Most officers are seconded from the | , though roughly 10% are former noncommissioned officers promoted from the ... |
United States Navy | USS S-1 (SS-105) was the lead boat of the S-class of submarines of the | . The Navy had awarded contracts for the first three S-boats under the sam ... |
Flying Tigers | ... ater with the Fourteenth Air Force Transport Section, which supported the " | ", from 1944 to 1946. He and other pilots in the transport section flew C- ... |
U.S. Navy | ... adically limited tax base. A large portion of the city is controlled by the | ; when Navy facilities are combined with schools, churches, and other tax- ... |
4th Guards Army | ... ary 1945, near Tata, the advance columns of Wiking slamming into the Soviet | . A heavy battle ensued, with the 5 SS Wiking and 3 SSTotenkopf destroying ... |
Sky Sports | ... ck, as well as in the video game on the fictional radio station "Wave 103". | used the song as the intro for Super League in the late 2000s and the X Fa ... |
Team Andromeda | ... e Artists division, which contained several former members of the disbanded | , the Sega development team behind the Panzer Dragoon series. It was conce ... |
Luftwaffe | ... course of the war". Göring received the Grand Cross for his command of the | during the successful 1940 campaigns against France, Belgium, and the Neth ... |
RAF Bomber Command | ... bad weather over Europe prevented any USAAF operations, and it was left to | to carry out the first raid. It had been decided that the raid would be a ... |
Abraham Lincoln Brigade | ... nti-fascist demonstrations. His brother, James Lardner, was a member of the | , and was killed in action in Spain in 1938. Although his political involv ... |
Northern Ireland | ... Mike Piggott as backing musicians. Despite the civil unrest and violence in | , the tour included concerts in the province - in fact, McTell continued t ... |
Northern Ireland | ... 2008 study in the Republic of Ireland found that for teenagers aged 15–19: | has the highest rate of recreational drug use among teenagers in the Europ ... |
French Army | In the | , since the 18th century, every infantry regiment included a small detachm ... |
SAS | ... , although they had received very little instruction in their use. The sole | trooper who had received training on the system, and was due to train othe ... |
Northern Group of Forces | ... Left Alliance (SLD) received the largest share of votes. In 1993 the Soviet | finally left Poland |
US Army | In the immediate post-World War II era the | introduced the M41 Walker Bulldog into service to fill the role of a light ... |
Royal Navy | ... aturalised British citizen and, after long and distinguished service in the | , had renounced his German titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten. Aft ... |
Civil Air Patrol | On January 23, 2007, the | (CAP), the United States Air Force Auxiliary, honored Kittinger by renamin ... |
United States Army | ... west of the Mississippi River. This outlaw settlement was destroyed by the | dragoons in 1803. A subsequent settler was a man named Walker who is the n ... |
Japan Self-Defense Forces | The code name for the under-development | advanced personal combat equipment is "Gundam". On the display exhibition ... |
2nd South Carolina Regiment | ... l in the Continental Army. His brother Thomas was a captain in the American | who was killed in the Battle of Charleston, while his half-brother Alexand ... |
Swedish Navy | The | produced 6 Spica-class torpedo boats between 1966 and 1967 powered by 3 Br ... |
Rhodesian Air Force | ... e based logging company but were, instead, delivered in October 1978 to the | to skirt the UN endorsed embargo imposed during the Rhodesian Bush War |
AFC South | ... prominent in league circles until after Indianapolis was relocated into the | |
Spanish Navy | In 1790, Manuel Quimper of the | set sail from Nootka, a temporary settlement on Vancouver Island, with ord ... |
U.S. Navy | Since 1984 the Stinger has been issued to many | warships for point defense, particularly in Middle Eastern waters, with a ... |
Confederate States Army | ... m with conscripts fleeing into the wooded areas to avoid military duty. The | defeated a Union detachment sent to destroy a salt works in the parish. Wi ... |
1st Venezuelan Rifles | c. See articles | , Bernardo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Co ... |
Kriegsmarine | Submarine captains of the German Navy ( | ) |
Italian Co-Belligerent Army | ... g German forces. The Allies organized some royalist Italian troops into the | , whitle troops loyal to Mussolini continued to fight alongside Nazi Germa ... |
1st Armored Division (United States) | Ansbach was also home to the headquarters of the | from 1972 to the early1990s |
Fertile Crescent | In the 8th millennium BC, agriculture became widely practised in the | and Anatolia |
legion | ... t Roman shrine still in situ in Britain. The fortress was garrisoned by the | until at least the late 4th century. Although the army had abandoned the f ... |
U.S. Air Force | ... idents employed at the expansive Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, the joint | -U.S. Army installation at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, and other military i ... |
Royal Australian Navy | ... in June 1966, with a total of 766 aircraft produced, including five for the | (given serial prefix of ) and five for Norway |
Old Guard | ... apoleon Bonaparte, shortly before his first abdication, bid farewell to the | , the renowned grognards (gripers) who had served with him since his very ... |
companies | ... tured Federal soldiers. The city and surrounding areas also contributed two | of infantry, one troop of cavalry, and a battery of artillery to the Confe ... |
United States 8th Army Air Force | ... ther with various collections of exhibits, including one concerned with the | |
Special Operations Executive | ... of the Légion d'honneur, (17 June 1902 – 26 February 1964) was the British | (SOE) agent codenamed "The White Rabbit" during World War II. His particul ... |
1 SS Cossack Division | The XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps, which contained the | , was transferred to the Waffen-SS on 1 February 1945. Despite the refusal ... |
Wehrmacht | ... lect the events in history at the time they join. Many former Waffen-SS and | personnel joined in the wake of WWII as many soldiers returning to civilia ... |
Royal Air Force | ... ler began preparations for an invasion of Britain. As part of the plan, the | had to be neutralised. Bombing raids commenced on air installations and on ... |
Esercito Nazionale Repubblicano | ... troops loyal to Mussolini continued to fight alongside Nazi Germany in the | . In addition, a large Italian resistance movement started a long guerrill ... |
26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian) | ... he 25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi (1st Hungarian) and the | . These were formed under the authority of the Hungarian defense minister, ... |
No. 605 Squadron RAF | ... re permitted. The first interception of a V-1 was by F/L JG Musgrave with a | Mosquito night fighter on the night of 14/15 June 1944. Between June and 5 ... |
Royal Air Force | ... then a massive expansion during the Second World War with the growth of the | and the influx of the American USAAF 8th Air Force which operated from man ... |
United States Navy | The D2G reactor was a naval reactor used by the | to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The D2G desi ... |
United States Colored Troops | ... s, he received his nickname "Pecos Bill". He led the 24th Infantry, another | regiment, in campaigns against the Cheyenne, Comanche, Kickapoo and Kiowa ... |
Haganah | ... estine and Transjordan. The attack, which initially had the approval of the | (the principal Jewish paramilitary group in Palestine) and was conceived o ... |
United States Navy | As part of a series of studies conducted by the | after World War I into the possibility of submarine-borne observation and ... |
Royal Air Force | ... ouses is named after him) and from 1956 to 1958 did National Service in the | . He then went up to St John's College, Cambridge where he read Archaeolog ... |
Royal Air Force | ... star Richard Murdoch, arose out of his wartime service as an officer in the | . Ill health forced him to choose between commerce and show business after ... |
Combined Fleet | ... er of the Kure Naval District, and in 1913 became Commander in Chief of the | |
Templars | ... n until the Hospitallers rushed in to take Saladin's right flank, while the | took the left. Richard then won the battle |
Waffen-SS | ... e Italian Blackshirts. According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the | , Karl Wolff, it was also based on the model from the Society of Jesus of ... |
Royal Navy | ... hey could be completed. In early 1864, the Admiralty purchased both for the | |
Louisiana Army National Guard | ... w Orleans International Airport and serves as a major training site for the | . Approximately south of Hammond, on both the railroad and Interstate 10, ... |
Royal Navy | ... d in the United Kingdom, who developed a specially modified version for the | . It is powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce Gnome turbines (license-built T58 ... |
Royal Navy | ... . Although the existing slaves were forced to continue their servitude, the | patrolled the Atlantic, capturing slave ships and freeing slave cargoes. S ... |
Navy | The | maintains a Trident turning basin at Port Canaveral for ballistic missile ... |
U.S. Army | ... at the expansive Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, the joint U.S. Air Force- | installation at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, and other military installation ... |
Royal Navy | ... han in its heyday, the naval base remains a major dockyard and base for the | and Royal Marine Commandos whose Headquarters resides there. There is also ... |
United States Air Force | Following the cancellation of the AH-56 Cheyenne in 1972, in favor of | and Marine Corps projects like the A-10 Thunderbolt II and Harrier, the Un ... |
US Marines | ... kins. The capital of Nassau on the island of New Providence was occupied by | for a fortnight |
Field Security Police | ... Second World War, he joined the British Army, initially as a Private in the | . He was soon afterwards commissioned as an officer in the Oxfordshire and ... |
VIII Bomber Command | ... 4 February 431 bombers of the 1st Bombardment Division of the United States | were scheduled to bomb Dresden at around midday, and the 3rd Bombardment D ... |
Royal Navy | ... sponsible for the decision to purchase cruise missiles to attack ships from | submarines |
British Army | The United Kingdom has sent 45,000 personnel from the | , Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, including the aircraft carrier HMS Ark ... |
25th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Hunyadi (1st Hungarian) | ... alized mountain troops and equipment. Two Hungarian divisions followed: the | and the 26th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Hungarian). These we ... |
U.S. Air Force | ... . In the UFO research community the Men in Black often claim to be from the | , CIA or the FBI. Those who have encountered them say they produce identif ... |
Royal Navy | The first gas-turbine-powered naval vessel was the | 's Motor Gun Boat MGB 2009 (formerly MGB 509) converted in 1947. Metropoli ... |
HMX-1 | Several Sea Kings, operated by the United States Marine Corps's | unit, are used as the official helicopters of the President of the United ... |
Mysore | ... t the Battle of Seringapatam. He was appointed governor of Seringapatam and | in 1799, and as a newly appointed major-general won a decisive victory ove ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... rder to prevent any particular nation from making the foreign legion into a | , any particular national component is kept at about 25 percent of the tot ... |
Imperial Russian Navy | ... troyers (DDs) and submarines, and the torpedo boat (TB). During the war the | in addition to their other warships, deployed 86 torpedo boats and launche ... |
United States Air Force | ... . Bensen submitted an improved version, the Bensen B-8M, for testing to the | , which designated it the X-25. The B-8M was designed to use surplus McCul ... |
U.S. Army | ... s family, where his father had a bandmaster position at Fort Whipple in the | . LaGuardia attended public schools and high school in Prescott, Arizona. ... |
Argentine Navy | Ten Higgins boats were delivered in 1948 for use by the | ("Armada Argentina") during the late 1940s up until the late 1970s. All of ... |
Northern Ireland | ... It is named after the city of Londonderry, Ireland which is in present-day | . The first settlers were immigrants |
United States Coast Guard | ... Corps have been included by a regulation of the Department of Defense. The | is not included in the Act. (The U.S. Coast Guard was originally part of t ... |
No. 3 Squadron RAF | ... ember 1944, a handful of 150 Wing Tempests shot down 638 flying bombs, with | alone claiming 305. One Tempest pilot, Squadron Leader Joseph Berry of , s ... |
United States Navy | The S1G reactor is a naval reactor used by the | to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The S1G desi ... |
Special Air Service | ... dom fighters" who want Transylvania to become a homeland for the undead. As | troops mass for an assault, vampire/journalist Kate Reed is invited into t ... |
US Army | During the Vietnam War, the | used the amphibious articulated Gama Goat and the larger truck-series to m ... |
United States Army Corps of Engineers | ... eration of the canal four days later under a presidential proclamation. The | re-dredged the channel to 25 feet deep while it remained under government ... |
United States Navy | USS Bang (SS-385) was a | , named after the bang, a dark blue or black fish of the Atlantic herring ... |
Coast Guard | by adopting ships and units of the Navy and | . It also provides a means for civilians to socialize with the officers an ... |
Division Two | Reading lost their place in | in May 1931, and remained in Division Three (South) until the outbreak of ... |
United States Army | ... and tail rotor. The helicopter was developed by Bell Helicopter to meet the | 's requirement for a medical evacuation and utility helicopter in 1952, an ... |
divisional | ... he new vehicle, Patton recommended that the Sheridans be combat tested by a | cavalry squadron and a squadron from his own regiment; both of which had c ... |
Northern Ireland | ... through urban areas in conflict or war as in Afghanistan, Iraq, West Bank, | , Beirut, Basque country, Soweto and other areas under non conventional en ... |
8th Guards Rifle Division | ... on. Three rifle divisions were raised in Alma-Ata, including the well-known | 'Panfilov' (originally the 316th rifle division), along with 2 rifle batta ... |
Special Operations Executive | ... h forces. However, he was quickly prised away from de Gaulle by the British | (SOE), a newly-formed intelligence and subversion organization |
Knights Templar | ... er's expansion of the SS was based on models from other groups, such as the | and the Italian Blackshirts. According to SS-Obergruppenführer and General ... |
United States Army | After Tom Moore and Don Summers were drafted into the | , Gibbons and Mitchell added Lanier Greig and formed the original ZZ Top. ... |
South African Navy | ... of the second world war as an unarmed air-sea rescue launch for use by the | |
Northern Ireland | ... e family farmhouse called Mossbawn, between Castledawson and Toomebridge in | ; he was the first of nine children. In 1953, his family moved to Bellaghy ... |
Regia Marina | ... the 1930s, Italy strongly pursued a policy of naval rearmament; by 1940 the | was the fourth largest navy in the world |
British Indian Army | ... n 1904–1905, Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton was the military attaché of the | serving with the Japanese army in Manchuria. Amongst the several military ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | Viscount was a career officer in the | , cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 12 June 1922 to 24 Au ... |
Pakistan Army | ... so been using their F-16 fleet to attack militant positions and support the | 's operations in North-West Pakistan against the Taliban insurgency. As of ... |
3rd Foot Guards | ... was mauled. In the second case, French cavalry caught some companies of the | in skirmish order and inflicted 100 casualties |
Grand Fleet | ... h Cruiser Squadron. The 6th Cruiser Squadron was initially allocated to the | at Scapa Flow to replace the 4th Cruiser Squadron (composed of Monmouth cl ... |
Quanzhou | Minnan Golden Triangle which includes Xiamen, | and Zhangzhou accounts for 40 percent of the GDP of Fujian province |
14th Light Dragoon | ... fine accomplishment for the British-Portuguese. One occurred when a British | squadron pressed home a frontal attack on a French artillery battery and w ... |
Royal Navy | HMS Good Hope was a 14,100-ton Drake-class armoured cruiser of the British | ; she was originally planned to be named Africa, but was renamed before sh ... |
United States Air Force | The | 's (USAF) competition for a helicopter to be used for support on missile b ... |
Das Reich Division | ... roadblock that had been set up to find Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe of the | , who had been captured by the local resistance |
Zośka Battalion | ... ielewski, Alicja Gołod-Gołębiowska and Leon Kopelman (members of the famous | ), Stanisław "Shlomo" Aronson in rank of Lieutenant was also a member of t ... |
French Tenth Army | ... attle was a five day engagement between the 25th and 29 September, with the | attacking at Albert and pushing toward Bapaume, and the German Sixth Army ... |
Royal Welch Fusiliers | ... on's Military Cross was put up for sale by his family. It was bought by the | for display at their museum in Caernarfon |
SASR | ... alian waters, insisting on their disembarkment elsewhere, and deploying the | to board the ship. At the time of the incident, Tampa carried cargo worth ... |
Republic of Korea Marine Corps | ... Logistics Command, Naval Education and Training Command, Naval Academy, and | , which is a quasi-autonomous organization. The Chief of Naval Operations ... |
1st Foreign Parachute Regiment | ... o the brink of extinction after some officers, men and the highly-decorated | took part in the Generals' putsch. Notable operations included the Suez Cr ... |
AFC South | ... ifteen minutes, defeated the Dolphins 27-23. Yet until the formation of the | the two had had a lively history, based usually on Indianapolis owning sli ... |
British Army | ... of these attacks were carried out with the assistance or complicity of the | , the Royal Ulster Constabulary, or both, according to the Stevens Enquiry ... |
Egyptian Air Force | ... of Egyptian military camps and installations. Adan was also harassed by the | . The Israelis slowly advanced, bypassing Egyptian positions whenever poss ... |
First Division | ... isappointing, the side did manage a famous cup victory over Football League | Sunderland and held Manchester City to a draw before losing in the replay. ... |
Austro-Hungarian Army | ... tioned in Galicia were turned into the Polish Legions, and as a part of the | fought on the Russian front |
Landsknecht | ... by foot soldiers deployed in close order. The pike found extensive use with | armies and Swiss mercenaries, who employed it as their main weapon and use ... |
volunteer units | ... owing the War of 1812. At the end of the 19th century, the colony did raise | to form a reserve for the military garrison |
United States Navy | ... amphibious helicopter in the world. Introduced in 1961, it served with the | , and remains in service in many countries around the world. The Sea King ... |
United States Army | ... to turn it into a military base. Fort Pond Bay became a seaplane base. The | established Camp Hero with guns to protect New York shipping lanes. Severa ... |
United States Navy Reserve | In 1918-1919, she served in the | . In 1919 she married William F. Combs. In 1920, they had a daughter, Mary ... |
Australian Army | ... Australian corporate headquarters for Mars Corp. Wodonga is the site of an | logistics base and a training centre for army technical apprentices, Latch ... |
11th Armored Cavalry Regiment | ... s into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other cavalry squadrons, the | (Blackhorse) was thrown into the fight. The second heaviest losses were du ... |
Pakistan Air Force | During the Soviet-Afghan war, between May 1986 and January 1989, | (PAF) F-16s shot down at least 10 intruders from the Soviet Union |
United States Air Force | ... ardment Group in October. On 11 January 1948, with the establishment of the | , the facility was renamed Davis–Monthan Air Force Base. On 30 June 1948, ... |
Missouri State Guard | ... y Wood Creek. The battle was a pro-South victory for Sterling Price and his | . Price did not hold the fort and instead continued a northern push into M ... |
British Army | ... vember 1916 on either side of the river Somme in France. The battle saw the | , supported by contingents from British imperial territories including Aus ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | , also called Gonnohyōe, was an admiral in the | and the 16th (20 February 1913–16 April 1914) and 22nd (2 September 1923–7 ... |
Polish resistance | ... joined the AK (particularly its Socialist Fighting Organization subsidiary. | in German-occupied Poland founded also in September 1942 "The Council to A ... |
Fallschirmjäger | ... mbered fifteen to one, was destroyed by the Luftwaffe within two weeks. The | seized key airfields in Norway and captured Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium. Gö ... |
United States Navy | During World War II the | bought most of the east end, including Montauk Manor, to turn it into a mi ... |
County Carlow | ... its way from Rathfarnham in the north to its southerly point of Clonegal in | |
29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS RONA (1st Russian) | ... more than a large brigade. Plans to convert the Kaminnski Brigade into the | were dropped after the execution of their commander Bronislav Kaminski; in ... |
Third Division (South) | ... wer reaches of the bottom division. In 1938 the team finished bottom of the | and were required to apply for re-election for the fifth time since joinin ... |
legion | ... its own commanders: Aurelian was proclaimed emperor in September 270 by the | s in Sirmium. Aurelian defeated Quintillus' troops, and was recognized as ... |
Imperial Guard | ... d their volleys drove off the French. Montbrun then requested help from the | cavalry, which were present but had not yet been committed to battle |
Republican Guard | In addition to the other land forces, President Joseph Kabila also has a | presidential force, formerly known as the Special Presidential Security Gr ... |
Kaiserliche Marine | SM U-19 was a German Type U 19 U-boat built for the | . Her construction was ordered on 25 November 1910, and her keel was laid ... |
Luftwaffe | ... p as a signpost to guide them back to base. It also appears that the German | used the tower as a marker. Boston itself suffered very few bombings |
First Canadian Army | ... cheldt was freed from German occupation in October and November 1944 by the | during The Battle of the Scheldt |
6th Bavarian Reserve Division | Adolf Hitler, then a Gefreiter of the | , fought in the Battle of the Somme and was wounded, taking a bullet to th ... |
Russian Navy | ... e of the most prominent men in the history of the Soviet and, today, of the | |
Army Air Corps | ... cata-Eureka Airport located in McKinleyville. This airport was built by the | in World War II in a particularly foggy location, as a site to test fog di ... |
Royal Navy | S-1 served the | as HMS P-552 as a training vessel for anti-submarine warfare. In poor cond ... |
Royal Norfolk Regiment | ... was involved in the Le Paradis massacre, where 99 men of the 2nd Battalion, | were machinegunned, and any survivors finished off with bayonets |
6th Foreign Infantry Regiment | ... e fighting legionnaire as the 13th Demi-Brigade (D.B.L.E.) clashed with the | at Damas in Syria. Later, a thousand of the rank and file of the Vichy Leg ... |
Imperial Russian Navy | ... eaching with a career in the Russian military—at first as an officer in the | , then as the civilian Inspector of Naval Bands. He wrote that he develope ... |
Royal Navy | ... British Empire in 1807 and many Africans liberated from slave ships by the | were settled in the Bahamas during the 19th century. Slavery itself was ab ... |
Royal Navy | ... 3 July 1815. Allegedly, Napoleon tried to escape to North America, but the | was blockading French ports to forestall such a move. He finally surrender ... |
Luftwaffe | ... he Battle of Britain, Dowding's Fighter Command resisted the attacks of the | . Beyond the critical importance of the overall system of integrated air d ... |
RAF | On Friday, 24 October 1958, an | Avro Vulcan four-engine bomber crashed into the 170 block of Ashland on th ... |
South Division | ... ional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are members of the | of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League ... |
AFC South | ... blown out by Oakland 27–0. In 2002 Indianapolis moved to the newly created | division and the rivalry was effectively retired; the two clubs did meet i ... |
Household Cavalry | To the north of the area, is the Hyde Park Barracks of the | , with a distinctive 33 storey tower by Sir Basil Spence. The Royalty and ... |
Republika Srpska | The constitution of | , the Serbian entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina, did not recognize any ... |
French Army | ... foundland, Canada, India and South Africa, mount a joint offensive with the | against the German Army, which had occupied large areas of France since it ... |
United States Air Force | ... July 27, 1928) is a former Command Pilot and career military officer in the | . He is most famous for his participation in Project Manhigh and Project E ... |
71st Highland Light Infantry | ... rtuguese back under immense pressure, but a charge that included men of the | reclaimed the streets and buildings lost earlier in the day. As the sun sa ... |
U.S. Army Signal Corps | As a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, Stevens headed the | unit that filmed the Normandy landings and the liberation of the Dachau co ... |
161st Air Refueling Wing | ... X is also home to Sky Harbor Air National Guard Base and its host wing, the | (161 ARW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained unit of the Arizona Air Na ... |
national guardsmen | ... ce's strength peaked at over 2,500,000, as well as several hundred thousand | that Napoleon could draft into the military if necessary; however, British ... |
Thessaly | ... should receive hospitality from wild beasts. This he found at Phthiotis in | , where he surprised some wolves eating sheep; on his approach they fled, ... |
Knights Templar | On Friday 13 October 1307 the | were ordered to be arrested by Philip IV of France. It was suggested, in t ... |
Grenadier Guards | ... ere thought to have defeated the Grenadiers; they were awarded the title of | in recognition of their feat, and adopted bearskins in the style of the Gr ... |
Signal Corps | ... War II it was chosen as the site for training the first blacks in the U. S. | . Among its faculty members was Zora Neale Hurston; a historic marker is p ... |
Special Air Service | ... siege took place in Knightsbridge, lasting several days. It ended when the | stormed the building on live television. In 1983, three Christmas shoppers ... |
United States Navy | USS Arkansas may refer to one of these ships of the | named in honor o |
Knights Templar | ... r than return it to the Empire, Richard I of England sold the island to the | Barbarossa's army had quickly disintegrated and took ship back to Europe a ... |
United States Navy | William Bainbridge (May 7, 1774 – July 27, 1833) was a Commodore in the | , notable for his victory over HMS Java during the War of 1812 |
United States Air Force | In 1957 the Army closed Camp Hero and it was taken over by | which in 1958 built a wide AN/FPS-35 radar to detect incoming Soviet bombe ... |
Air Groups | ... orce has an estimated strength of 1,800 personnel and is organised into two | . These Groups command five wings and nine squadrons, of which not all are ... |
Philippine Air Force | ... op-ed piece, the Commission on Audit said in its 2010 audit report for the | (PAF) that with only 31 aging airplanes and 54 helicopters, the PAF "virtu ... |
Ramat David Airbase | ... sraelis overran their bunker. The Israelis reportedly took the prisoners to | for interrogation, and treated the incident with great secrecy |
6th Division | ... rres) 6-gun batteries. William Erskine (5th Division), Alexander Campbell ( | ) and 300 Portuguese cavalry under Count Barbacena were detached, facing t ... |
Wehrmacht | ... l status with respect to veterans' pensions. Unlike soldiers of the regular | , pensions had been denied to members of the Waffen-SS as a result of it h ... |
Higgins | ... in the Senate, and in February 1968 won the by-election for Holt's seat of | in Victoria. For the remainder of the year, Gorton appeared to have the be ... |
United States Air Force | In 1975, Leonard Matlovich, while serving in the | , came out to challenge the U.S. military's policies banning service by ho ... |
Juye County | ... unqiao (pinyin: Zhāng Chūnqiáo; Wade-Giles: Chang Ch'un-ch'iao; IPA: ; 1917 | , Heze, Shandong –April 21, 2005) was a prominent Chinese political theori ... |
101st Airborne Division | The HU-1A (later redesignated UH-1A) first entered service with the | at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the 82nd Airborne Division, and the 57th Medic ... |
Special Air Service | ... Britain and Argentina. At the onset of the conflict soldiers of the British | had been clandestinely equipped with six missiles, although they had recei ... |
United States Marine Corps | ... er parents and has low self-esteem. The Burnhams' new neighbors are retired | Colonel Frank Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his introverted wife, Barbara (Alli ... |
United States Army Air Corps | He interrupted his education after a semester to serve in the | during World War II. Tom was inspired to join the armed forces in honor of ... |
Knight Templar | ... on Rosa's "A Letter from Home", it's revealed that Fergus tried to find the | treasure hidden in the castle McDuck by one of his ancestors, a Knight him ... |
Air Mobility Command | ... al Guard Base and its host wing, the 161st Air Refueling Wing (161 ARW), an | (AMC)-gained unit of the Arizona Air National Guard. One of two flying uni ... |
Task Force ODIN | ... of the 4th Infantry Division as they deploy to Iraq in the spring of 2004. | was created at Ft. Hood |
Australian Army | ... ommander of all the Japanese troops on Nauru, surrendered the island to the | and the Royal Australian Navy. This surrender was accepted by Brigadier J. ... |
Philippine Air Force | ... groups. Philippine Army headquarters is in Fort Andres Bonifacio in Taguig. | headquarters is in Jesus Villamor Air Base in Pasay. Philippine Navy headq ... |
Special Operations Executive | ... olding motorcycles for the Airborne Division. In late 1942 BSA examined the | designed Welgun with a view to manufacture. BSA were willing to manufactur ... |
Northern Ireland | ... Fianna Fáil policy document calling for a withdrawal of British forces from | . The document was an echo of Fianna Fáil's republican origins, and althou ... |
Canadian Shield | ... ern and Eastern parts lie on the beginnings of the foothills of the massive | , or Laurentian mountains. These are the "Gatineau Hills", and are visible ... |
1st Cavalry Regiment (1855) | ... he San Antonio to El Paso Road. He was soon transferred to the newly formed | at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quarterm ... |
Air National Guard | Over 1000 | personnel are assigned to the 161 ARW, consisting of a combination of full ... |
Office of Naval Intelligence | ... government reportedly struck a secret deal with the imprisoned Luciano. The | knew that Luciano maintained good connections in the Sicilian and Italian ... |
United States Air Force | ... n "Gordo" Cooper (Dennis Quaid) and Virgil "Gus" Grissom (Fred Ward) of the | are among the newer "pudknockers" that hope to also prove that they have " ... |
RAF Wittering | ... gh. The City of Peterborough includes the outlying military installation of | , and as a unitary authority it borders Northamptonshire and Rutland to th ... |
King's German Legion | ... ain crossroads mark the mass graves of British, Dutch, Hanoverian and KGL ( | ) troops. A monument to the French dead entitled L'aigle Blessé ("The Woun ... |
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | ... north-east of the White Tower. The building is now the headquarters of the | . The popularity of the Chartist movement between 1828 and 1858 led to a d ... |
Eighth Air Force | The Dresden attack was to have begun with a USAAF | bombing raid on 13 February 1945. The Eighth Air Force had already bombed ... |
Capricornia | ... wo by-elections in 1967: first in Corio in Victoria, and later that year in | (Queensland). The November half-Senate election saw a moderate swing to La ... |
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Wehrmacht | ... d for the creation of numerous military units fighting against the invading | . In the course of the Soviet invasion of Poland initiated on September 17 ... |
legion | ... also a large 1st century Roman fort at Longthorpe, designed to house half a | , or about 3,000 soldiers; it may have been established as early as around ... |
Arizona Air National Guard | ... Refueling Wing (161 ARW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC)-gained unit of the | . One of two flying units in the Arizona ANG, the 161 ARW currently flies ... |
Manhattan Project | ... , in the U.S., the first experimental atomic reactor (1942), as well as the | Hanford production reactors which produced the plutonium for the Trinity t ... |
United States Army Air Forces | ... d to surrender. Napalm bombs were dropped by aviators of the U.S. Navy, the | , and the U.S. Marine Corps in support of their ground troops |
Israeli Air Force | ... il 1993. In 1985 he narrowly survived an Israeli assassination attempt when | F-15s bombed his headquarters there as part of Operation Wooden Leg, leavi ... |
Israeli Air Force | The F-16's first air-to-air combat success was achieved by the | (IAF) over the Bekaa Valley on 28 April 1981, against a Syrian Mi-8 helico ... |
Regia Marina Italiana | From 1940 to 1943, the Italian Royal Navy ( | ) established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux. Italian submarines pa ... |
Royal Marines | ... uth on 30 July, for provisioning and to board her crew of 85, including 12 | . Cook also ordered that twelve tons of pig iron be brought on board as sa ... |
Oberkommando der Luftwaffe | ... were used for long-range reconnaissance missions, primarily at the Ob.d.L ( | ). Later aircraft operated as night fighters. The last of the Do 215s were ... |
Fianna | ... Morgan Llywelyn's book Finn Mac Cool tells of Fionn's rise to leader of the | and the love stories that ensue in his life. That character is celebrated ... |
Royal Air Force | ... to Miller's plane, including the suggestion that he might have been hit by | bombs after an abortive raid on Siegen, Germany. One hundred and thirty-ei ... |
County Donegal | ... eck, stabbed himself after being ejected from her parents' pub in Gweedore, | |
Imperial Guard | ... ker. At the age of twenty he became a private soldier in the Vélites of the | , with which he took part in the Austerlitz campaign of the following year ... |
British Army | ... ious cargo carrier. This highly mobile 5-ton truck entered service with the | in 1966. In the water it was driven by vectored thrust water-jet propulsio ... |
United States Navy | ... U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and as an adversary-aggressor aircraft by the | at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center |
Confederate | ... attle along the Potomac River. During the Gettysburg Campaign in June 1863, | Major General J.E.B. Stuart and Union cavalry clashed in the battles of Al ... |
Italian Royal Navy | From 1940 to 1943, the | (Regia Marina Italiana) established BETASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux. ... |
US Navy | The | had also put some thought into the problem, and came up with the 1.1"/75 ( ... |
Philippine Department | On January 22, 1936, became commanding general of the | until 1938 |
Wehrmacht | ... red all Soviet fleets to battle readiness. At 4:45am that same morning, the | began Operation Barbarossa. The Soviet Navy was the only branch of the mil ... |
Jewish Military Union | ... Ghetto with some firearms, ammunition and explosives. Jewish fighters from | received only from PKB: 2 heavy machine guns, 4 light machine guns, 21 sub ... |
Fertile Crescent | ... m storage of food. Wheat contributed to the emergence of city-states in the | , including the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. Wheat grain is a staple f ... |
Corio | ... party by campaigning intensively to win two by-elections in 1967: first in | in Victoria, and later that year in Capricornia (Queensland). The November ... |
Microsoft Research | ... Lampson left Xerox PARC for Digital Equipment Corporation; he now works for | . Lampson is also an adjunct professor at MIT |
Royal Australian Navy | ... nese troops on Nauru, surrendered the island to the Australian Army and the | . This surrender was accepted by Brigadier J. R. Stevenson, who represente ... |
Thessaly | ... f Apollo at Delphi (Matsen, Rollinson and Sousa, 33). He died at Larissa in | |
5th Division | ... (Arentschildt (2), Da Cunha, Rozierres) 6-gun batteries. William Erskine ( | ), Alexander Campbell (6th Division) and 300 Portuguese cavalry under Coun ... |
29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian) | ... nski; instead the Waffen Grenadier Brigade of SS (Italian no. 1) became the | . The 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian) was formed fr ... |
Strategic Air Command | In 1962, the | 's 390th Strategic Missile Wing (390 SMW) and its 18 Titan II ICBM sites a ... |
Northern Ireland | ... he band had to travel in a bulletproof bus for the remainder of the tour of | and the Republic of Ireland. Mustaine later alleged that he had been misle ... |
Red Army | ... Polish administration was established in the city. The city was lost to the | on July 20, 1920 in what became known as the First Battle of Grodno. The c ... |
Lianjiang County | ... administered in its entirety by the Republic of China. The PRC-administered | , under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou prefecture-level city, nominally includ ... |
609 | ... eavy losses. The Typhoon was rushed into squadron service (with Nos. 56 and | Squadrons) in Summer 1941 in an attempt to counter the Fw 190. This decisi ... |
United States Army | ... and other landowners in the area were forced to sell their property to the | so the 6th Cavalry could be established. The Chickamauga Post established ... |
Auxiliary Territorial Service | ... ghter. It was Etienne's death that made Violette, having already joined the | in 1941, decide to offer her services to the British Special Operations Ex ... |
Royal Air Force | ... hool in Oxford and then at the Oratory School. He was commissioned into the | in March 1945 and briefly served as a pilot, reaching the rank of Flying O ... |
Swedish Air Force | ... ies production of the Do 215 A-1 began in 1939. The order, intended for the | , was stopped in August 1939 due to the political situation. The 18 extant ... |
Oppland Regiment | A Norwegian infantry regiment, the | , was formed in 1657 and Elverum became a garrison town. The area of popul ... |
United States Army | ... Miller then wrote to Army Brigadier General Charles Young. He persuaded the | to accept him so he could, in his own words, "be placed in charge of a mod ... |
Thessaly | ... re, were excavated at Arkina and Eleusis in Attica, at Dimini near Volos in | , at Kampos on the west of Mount Taygetus, and at Maskarata in Cephalonia. ... |
Combined Fleet | The Japanese | , which had originally consisted of six battleships, was now down to four ... |
Quanzhou | Quemoy (Jinmen) County is nominally controlled by | prefecture-level city, but it is administered in its entirety by the Repub ... |
Royal Australian Air Force | ... e Arrangements (FPDA). The airbase stations four RMAF squadrons and hosts a | squadron as part of Australia's commitment to the FPDA |
United States Marine Corps | ... elect the Mercury Seven astronauts, including John Glenn (Ed Harris) of the | , Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) of the United States Navy, Cooper, Grissom, a ... |
Kriegsmarine | ... 9 was a Type XIV supply and replenishment U-boat ("Milchkuh") of the German | during World War II |
United States Navy | ... without identifying them. The Retaliation was the first ship in the nascent | to be surrendered. Bainbridge was not disciplined for this action |
British Army | ... ent UDA member convicted of sectarian killings, revealed that he was also a | agent. This led to allegations that the British Army and RUC were helping ... |
United States Navy | ... labama, United States. It was named is for Commodore Stephen Decatur of the | . Its county seat was Woodville |
Air National Guard | ... n leaving the base, which officially closed on March 31, 1991. Although the | retained some property, the old base has been extensively redeveloped as t ... |
US Navy | ... Mark IV also had magnetic core memory. The Mark II and Mark III went to the | base at Dahlgren, Virginia. The Mark IV was built for the US Air Force, bu ... |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Near the end of December, the Liberals were rocked by a | criminal investigation into the leaking of news of a federal tax change fo ... |
Royal Navy | ... n in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society. He then joined the | during which time he got two tattoos, of which his official website says " ... |
Royal Air Force | ... AF Brize Norton in the UK has a terminal which caters to passengers for the | 's scheduled TriStar flights to the Falkland Islands. Some airbases are co ... |
Delta Force | ... d the task of rescuing the kidnapped daughter of the President. He received | -like training in preparation for the role. Subsequently, he had a role in ... |
Indian National Army | ... overnment, a Provisional Free Indian Government in exile, and organized the | with Indian POWs and Indian expatriates in South-East Asia, with the help ... |
Army National Guard | ... imarily in support of Army Aviation training at Fort Rucker and in selected | units. Army support for the craft was intended to end in 2004. In 2009, Ar ... |
United States Navy | ... BM) built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the | |
United States Army | ... nching in its realism and was held up from being shown to the public by the | . Huston quickly became unpopular with the Army, not only for the film but ... |
Royal Navy | ... cers had the advantage of having elements of the Mediterranean Fleet of the | available for their use and USS Salem to play the part of Admiral Graf Spe ... |
International Brigades | ... ish Civil War in 1938. The Battle of the Iron Bridge was fought between the | and the Fascists as part of the Battle of the Ebro. The operation was init ... |
Taigu County | ... a well preserved example of mid-Qing Dynasty architecture, can be toured in | , Shanxi |
Sonic Team | ... s NAOMI arcade hardware, including Sega's final first-party Dreamcast game, | 's Puyo Puyo Fever, released on February 24, 2004 |
Strategic Air Command | ... izing long-range strategic reconnaissance and intelligence collection. As a | (SAC) unit, the 4080th was later redesignated the 100th Strategic Reconnai ... |
Republic of Korea Marine Corps | ... nal Armed Forces Organisation Act stipulates that the ROK Navy includes the | , the ROKMC is a semi-autonomous organization that carries out much of its ... |
Wehrmacht | ... g in the foreign legion. So did many German soldiers, former members of the | , after the end of the conflict. Following the break-up of Yugoslavia, the ... |
US Air Force | ... nt to the US Navy base at Dahlgren, Virginia. The Mark IV was built for the | , but it stayed at Harvard |
Rough Riders | ... inent of the returning quarantined soldiers were Theodore Roosevelt and his | . Several soldiers died during the quarantine, prompting a visit from Pres ... |
United States Air Force | ... combat airplanes arrived during the war, and many were taken directly from | units |
United States Central Command | ... particular theatre, or as an aggregate of such forces. In the Gulf War the | controlled military forces (units) of each of the four military services o ... |
Royal Navy | After leaving Gordonstoun in 1939, Prince Philip joined the | , graduating the next year from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as the ... |
French Army | The foreign legion is the only unit of the | open to people of any nationality. All members of the foreign legion are m ... |
SAS | ... ed to turn to federal prisoner John Mason (Connery), a former MI6 Agent and | Captain who has been illegally detained for decades by Womack and his pred ... |
V Corps | ... s he received a promotion to Major General of Volunteers and command of the | being assembled in Tampa, Florida. One possible reason for his being given ... |
Royal Navy | ... aris Sales Agreement in 1963, Polaris missiles were also carried on British | submarines between 1968 and the mid-1990s |
390th Strategic Missile Wing | In 1962, the Strategic Air Command's | (390 SMW) and its 18 Titan II ICBM sites around Tucson were activated. The ... |
3rd US Army | ... 5th Infantry and the 7th Armored Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the | commanded by General George S. Patton |
Luftwaffe | ... ornier originally for export, but in the event all except two served in the | . Like its predecessor, the Dornier Do 17, it inherited the title "The Fly ... |
Western Conference | ... n also uses the Mavericks nickname. They joined the Midwest Division of the | , causing a divisional realignment with the Midwest and Central Divisions, ... |
50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division | ... France, when on 21 May units of the 1st Army Tank Brigade, supported by the | , took part in the Battle of Arras. The SS Totenkopf was overrun, finding ... |
Pakistan Air Force | ... orce, Turkish Air Force, Royal Danish Air Force, Royal Norwegian Air Force, | , and Venezuela have flown the F-16 on combat missions. A Serbian MiG-29 w ... |
United States Army | ... valry could be established. The Chickamauga Post established in 1902 by the | was later named Fort Oglethorpe after James Oglethorpe, the founder of the ... |
United States Army | Camp Stoneman, located in the area, was a major staging area for the | during World War II and the Korean War |
Israeli Military Intelligence | In August 2002, the | Chief alleged that Arafat's personal wealth was in the range of USD $1.3 b ... |
20th Special Operations Squadron | ... e 21st Helicopter Squadron. On 1 August 1968, the unit was redesignated the | . The 20th SOS's UH-1s were known as the Green Hornets, stemming from thei ... |
Royal Norwegian Air Force | ... ds Air Force, Belgian Air Force, Turkish Air Force, Royal Danish Air Force, | , Pakistan Air Force, and Venezuela have flown the F-16 on combat missions ... |
Division Two | ... Football League Two). In 1999 the Gills made the play-offs but lost in the | play-off final to Manchester City. The Gills were 2–0 up with less than tw ... |
Task Force 17 | ... sent his four carriers and their supporting warships towards the Coral Sea. | (TF 17), commanded by Rear Admiral Fletcher and consisting of the carrier ... |
Roman legion | ... were established, but they ultimately fell to the sustained might of Rome. | s under Vespasian and Titus besieged and destroyed Jerusalem, looted and b ... |
30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Russian) | ... . 1) became the 29th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Italian). The | was formed from the Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling. The final new divis ... |
Army of Northern Virginia | ... ain loyal to the Union. Virginian general Robert E. Lee took command of the | in 1862, and led invasions into Union territory, ultimately becoming comma ... |
British Army | ... fire. In his autobiography, Margin Released he is fiercely critical of the | and in particular of the officer class |
I Corps | ... made. In series three's "Death of a Batman" it was said that Steed was with | in World War II, and in Munich in 1945. In series four episode "The Hour T ... |
Royal Canadian Army Cadets | Born in Neufchâtel, Quebec, Bédard learned marksmanship as a member of the | ' 2772 cadet corps, which she joined at the age of 15, and participated in ... |
Royal Danish Air Force | The Royal Netherlands Air Force, Belgian Air Force, Turkish Air Force, | , Royal Norwegian Air Force, Pakistan Air Force, and Venezuela have flown ... |
Atlantic Division | ... ce hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the | of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Part of the ... |
U.S. Navy | ... aval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a historic and active | facility that is actually located in Portsmouth rather than Norfolk; the n ... |
RAF | ... eries four episode "The Hour That Never Was" Steed goes to a reunion of his | regiment |
Divisions | ... liberated, on 18 August 1944, by the U.S. 5th Infantry and the 7th Armored | belonging to the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army commanded by General George S ... |
Royal Navy | ... toward the Mediterranean theater to prepare for the invasion of Sicily, the | lacked the heavy ships necessary to cover the northern convoy routes. The ... |
Eastern Conference | ... hiladelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the | of the National Hockey League (NHL). Part of the 1967 NHL Expansion, the F ... |
Red Army | ... of its buildings were destroyed. In 1945 between the days of 8–10 February | soldiers mass-murdered 150 German pensioners in an old-people's home and 5 ... |
Taigu | Hsiang-hsi Kung was born in | , Jinzhong, Shanxi. He was educated in the United States. He received his ... |
Turkish Air Force | The Royal Netherlands Air Force, Belgian Air Force, | , Royal Danish Air Force, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Pakistan Air Force, a ... |
home guard | ... t port. During World War Two, the tower was used as a look out tower by the | |
Navy SEAL | Six medals have been awarded for action in Afghanistan. The recipients were | Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, Army Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti, Ar ... |
Royal Netherlands Air Force | The | , Belgian Air Force, Turkish Air Force, Royal Danish Air Force, Royal Norw ... |
Home Fleet | ... p on those lines soon led to the temporary assignment of Alabama and to the | |
Marine Corps Combat Development Command | ... arine Corps bases in the world, (MCB Quantico). The base is the site of the | and HMX-1 (the presidential helicopter squadron). The United States Drug E ... |
Royal Australian Air Force | The | also employed the UH-1H until 1989. Iroquois helicopters of RAAF No. 9 Squ ... |
Putian | ... islands are nominally administered in the PRC by the Xiuyu District of the | prefecture, but is in reality controlled by the Republic of China, which a ... |
Haganah | ... ael are biased against them and in favor of more established groups such as | |
U.S. Marine Corps | ... squadrons of 10–12 F/A-18C Hornets, with one of these often provided by the | (VMFA), also as strike fighters; 4–6 EA-6B Prowlers for electronic warfare ... |
United States Navy | USS Ara (AK-136) was a | Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation |
XX Corps | ... 44, by the U.S. 5th Infantry and the 7th Armored Divisions belonging to the | of the 3rd US Army commanded by General George S. Patton |
Combined Fleet | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japan's | , was concurrently planning an operation for June that he hoped would lure ... |
31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division | ... Schutzmannschaft-Brigade Siegling. The final new division of 1944, was the | which was formed from conscripted Volksdeutsche, mainly from the Batschka ... |
HMX-1 | ... o). The base is the site of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and | (the presidential helicopter squadron). The United States Drug Enforcement ... |
United States Army | Before the establishment of the Chickamauga Post in 1902 by | , an unincorporated city existed, where Fort Oglethorpe was later establis ... |
The Calgary Highlanders | ... ut the true intentions of the bombardment. The city itself was liberated by | in 1945 after a brief battle there |
United States Army | ... S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of Andrew Jackson, general in the | and President of the United States of America. As of 2010, the population ... |
79th Highland Regiment | ... ets. At first, the French had some success, wiping out two companies of the | and killing the regiment's commander, Lieut-Colonel Philips Cameron. But a ... |
5th Infantry | ... and around the city, Chartres was liberated, on 18 August 1944, by the U.S. | and the 7th Armored Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army ... |
Indian Army | ... the Armistice was signed in 1918. To chase von Lettow the British deployed | troops from India and then needed large numbers of porters to overcome the ... |
Mormon Battalion | ... lt Lake Cutoff was established by Sam Hensley, and returning members of the | providing a path north of the Great Salt Lake from Salt Lake City back to ... |
M.O.D. | ... ervices. Mardas employed Arthur Johnson (known as Johnny Johnson), a former | official |
New York Army National Guard | In June 2005, Phillip Esposito, a | officer from Suffern, was killed in a fragging incident during the Iraq Wa ... |
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada | ... oldiers were quickly deployed from nearby Toronto, many of them coming from | |
fronts | ... de commander of the short-lived Northwestern Direction, controlling several | . In September 1941 he commanded Leningrad Front. Working alongside milita ... |
Batalion Zośka | ... Jewish fighters from ŻZW and ŻOB. During the Warsaw Uprising a year later, | , one of the most notable units of the Uprising, liberated hundreds of Jew ... |
Royal New Zealand Air Force | The | currently has an active fleet of 13 Iroquois through the No. 3 Squadron RN ... |
Duke of Wellington's Regiment | Priestley served during the First World War in the 10th Battalion, the | . He was wounded in 1916 by mortar fire. In his autobiography, Margin Rele ... |
Turkish Air Force | The | acquired its first F-16s in 1987. Turkish Air Force F-16 units participate ... |
Royal Air Force | ... ld War II, the loss of the Goldschmitt Tego film factory in Wuppertal, in a | nighttime bombing raid, meant the acidic replacement adhesives available w ... |
Special Operations Executive | ... ry Territorial Service in 1941, decide to offer her services to the British | (SOE) |
Imperial Russian Navy | ... This love, and prompting from Voin, encouraged the 12-year-old to join the | . He studied at the School for Mathematical and Navigational Sciences in S ... |
SAS | ... iscovered that they were not as safe as he had been led to believe. His ex- | bodyguards tested one of the cars in the desert in July 1977, by firing at ... |
RAF Boulmer | The Dowding Centre at the School of Fighter Control at | is named after Dowding |
No. 3 Squadron RNZAF | ... Zealand Air Force currently has an active fleet of 13 Iroquois through the | . The first delivery was five UH-1D in 1966 followed in 1970 by nine UH-1H ... |
Royal Navy | ... . His daughter, Elizabeth, married James Cook in 1762 at Barking, after the | captain had stayed at the Inn. The couple initially settled in Shadwell, a ... |
Luftwaffe | ... im on the site of a horse-racing track. In 1936, Fighter Squadron 53 of the | was stationed here |
Tactical Air Command | ... an until 1976, when the 100 SRW was inactivated, its DC-130s transferred to | 's 432d Tactical Drone Group, and its U-2s transferred to SAC's 9th Strate ... |
7th Armored | ... Chartres was liberated, on 18 August 1944, by the U.S. 5th Infantry and the | Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the 3rd US Army commanded by Genera ... |
United States Coast Guard | ... n's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the | and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans ... |
United States Army | ... American comic strip created by cartoonist Mort Walker. Set in a fictional | military post, it is among the oldest comic strips still being produced by ... |
198 Squadron | ... 83 Group RAF, 2nd Tactical Air Force: the first by 184 Squadron, second by | led by Wing Commander John Robert Baldwin, the third by 263 Squadron led b ... |
Northern Ireland | In October 1971, Kennedy made his first speech about The Troubles in | : he said that "Ulster is becoming Britain's Vietnam", demanded that Briti ... |
101st Airborne Division | ... nt placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the | . They escorted and protected nine black students' entry to Little Rock Ce ... |
BALTRON | ... ia and Lithuania in the joint infantry battalion BALTBAT and naval squadron | which are available for peacekeeping operations |
United States Navy | USS R-19 (SS-96) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the | |
Royal Garrison Artillery | ... attended the Army Staff College in January 1912 before being posted to the | on the Isle of Wight in 1913. After becoming interested in aviation, Dowdi ... |
Civil Air Patrol | ... SEOC were agencies such as the National Weather Service, the Air Force, the | , and the American Red Cross. Immediate assistance also came from 465 memb ... |
British Army | The Second Boer War was a watershed for the | in particular and for the British Empire as a whole. It was here that the ... |
SS-Totenkopfverbände | ... isions: the SS Totenkopf Division formed from militarized Standarten of the | , and the Polizei Division formed from members of the national police forc ... |
County Donegal | ... ome in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, a small seaside village between Bundoran, | , and Sligo town on the northwest coast of Ireland. The village was only 1 ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... second account is also confirmed by the fact that Diocletian kept Carinus' | commander in service |
South Seas Detachment | ... e, included 11 transport ships carrying about 5,000 soldiers from the IJA's | plus approximately 500 troops from the 3rd Kure Special Naval Landing Forc ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... a middle-level Japanese police aide and his brother served and died in the | . Lee—one of only four Taiwanese students in his high school class—graduat ... |
Northern Ireland | ... lon, a banker and judge who was a Scots-Irish immigrant from County Tyrone, | ; his mother was Sarah Jane Negley Mellon. He was also brother of Richard ... |
Northern Ireland | ... into a mermaid when her country was flooded (today the Lough Neagh lake in | ). She lived under the sea with her dog (who in the flood became an otter) ... |
divisions | ... Napoleon created a cavalry reserve of 22,000 organized into two cuirassier | , four mounted dragoon divisions, one division of dismounted dragoons and ... |
Royal Guernsey Light Infantry | ... ved in the British Expeditionary Force. Of these, about 1,000 served in the | regiment which was formed from the Royal Guernsey Militia in 1916 |
Frontier Corps | ... olice, and several paramilitary forces such as the Pakistan Rangers and the | |
Peloponnese | ... use of fire ships. Following up the attack, the Vandals tried to invade the | , but were driven back by the Maniots at Kenipolis with heavy losses. In r ... |
Hoplite | File:Hoplite greeting.jpg| | greeting an older man with slave carrying the aspi |
Royal Navy | In August 1799, a small | squadron under Captain Adam Mackenzie of HMS Pylades, attacked and capture ... |
United States Air Force | ... eplacement of older mechanical systems. Its development led directly to the | 's Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, and indirectly to almo ... |
Israel Defense Forces | ... d. The declaration of independence was followed by the establishment of the | (IDF), and the process of absorbing all military organizations into the ID ... |
special forces | ... cs, military police, unexploded ordenance neutralizers, military divers and | ) have been established in order to facilitate and enhance NAF participati ... |
3rd Fleet | ... eyte Gulf later in June to prepare to strike at the heart of Japan with the | |
DARPA | ... was involved in a number of LISP-based artificial intelligence projects for | , many of which had very large (for the era) memory requirements. One solu ... |
Territorials | ... h to drive the car as he felt unable to, he received the reply, "I'm in the | ; I've only ever driven a tank!" |
United States Coast Guard | In 1967 the | announced plans to tear down the Montauk Lighthouse and replace it with a ... |
Red Army | ... pean revolution-minded comrades (Lenin's hope of generating support for the | in Poland had already failed to materialize). Piłsudski's seizure of Vilni ... |
Luftwaffe | ... Drvar, codenamed Operation Rösselsprung, was an attack by the Waffen-SS and | on the command structure of the Yugoslav partisans. Their objective was th ... |
Kinmen | ... on is now limited to Taiwan and several outlying islands, including Penghu, | and Matsu. Since 1949, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of ... |
Army of the Potomac | In 1862, the Union | began its Peninsula Campaign against Richmond, Virginia, and Stuart's cava ... |
Argentine Air Force | Nine Argentine Army Aviation UH-1Hs and two | Bell 212 were included with the aircraft deployed during the Falklands War ... |
Royal Navy | ... II, the Royal Naval dockyard and the military garrison were closed. A small | supply base, HMS Malabar, continued to operate within the dockyard area, s ... |
Manhattan Project | As part of its contribution to the | , Canada built and operated a 6 tonnes per year electrolytic heavy water p ... |
U.S. Army | ... camp for German P.O.W.s. The Atlanta area had been the final choice of the | to establish a $2 million P.O.W. camp after the outbreak of World War II. ... |
British soldiers | ... nd Indian War, which was itself part of the Seven Years' War. On that date, | under the command of General Wolfe, climbed the steep cliff under the city ... |
Royal Navy | ... amily to be solidly middle-class with many Cambridge, Church of England and | associations, the most famous of which were Midshipman William Rivers and ... |
Fourth Division | ... which was their first season in the Football League, in which they won the | title. The club's highest finish position to date was tenth place in Divis ... |
263 Squadron | ... ond by 198 Squadron led by Wing Commander John Robert Baldwin, the third by | led by Squadron Leader Martin T.S. Rumbold and the fourth by 197 Squadron ... |
Royal Navy | ... to ensure that there was missile commonality between the U.S. Navy and the | , which was considerably important when the Royal Navy Trident submarines ... |
Division One | ... vision title. The club's highest finish position to date was tenth place in | , then the second tier of English football, in the 1992-93 season. Irish p ... |
Force Recon Marines | A group of rogue | led by disenchanted Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Harris) seize a s ... |
Blue Angels | ... " of the storm, according to a researcher at Tulane University. The US Navy | have named a looping flight demonstration manoeuvre after the flower as we ... |
Haganah | ... nited front that had existed between Irgun and other Zionist groups such as | . From then on, the groups maintained a more adversarial relationship. Irg ... |
Royal Navy | ... requented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars while the | anchored in Torbay and later, as the town's fame spread, by Victorian soci ... |
Royal Navy | ... an implicit issue. The Americans were outgunned by more than 10 to 1 by the | , and so a land invasion of Canada was proposed as the only feasible means ... |
Grenadier Guards | ... olonel of the 33rd Regiment of Foot from 1 February 1806 and colonel of the | from 22 January 1827 |
Confederate States Army | ... l ages to join Governor Zebulon Baird Vance's 26th Infantry Regiment in the | . On a single day at the Battle of Gettysburg, during the assault known as ... |
United States Marine Corps | ... nce-pull was documented during the Tinian landings during World War II. The | 's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, from V Amphibious Corps, used an e ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... of a personal guard for Romulus helps justify the Augustan development of a | , responsible for internal security and the personal safety of the Emperor ... |
Tactical Air Command | On 1 October 1976, the base was transferred to | (TAC) after 30 years under SAC. It was also that year the 355th Tactical F ... |
RAF | ... There he met his contemporary Richard Burton, and together they joined the | in 1944. He completed his navigator training in Canada just as the war end ... |
United States Coast Guard | ... n rotor, MEDEVAC-capable Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopter operated by the | (USCG). It is a variant of the French-built Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin |
United States Navy | In 1918, contractors for the | 's Bureau of Yards and Docks constructed the "Main Navy" and "Munitions" B ... |
U.S. Coast Guard | ... nt agencies which perform police functions in addition to other duties. The | carries out many police functions for boaters |
Royal Air Force | ... or the airfield to be constructed in Bermuda was that it be shared with the | ). The US Army and the US Navy both began construction of air stations (an ... |
United States Navy | ... B-60), a South Dakota-class battleship, was the sixth completed ship of the | named for the U.S. state of Alabama, however she was only the third commis ... |
Paracommando Regiment | ... French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian | . Kamanyola Division units collapsed almost immediately. French units foug ... |
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United States Army | ... be picked up by others going in the right direction. General Custer of the | slept here with his troops during the American Civil War, under a large tr ... |
Army of Northern Virginia | ... brigade for the army then known as the Army of the Potomac (later named the | ). He was promoted to brigadier general on September 24, 1861 |
Northern Ireland | ... eople from some parts of northern Britain (and especially Scotland) or from | , whereas in Southern England and Wales, little is used predominantly. Nev ... |
Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet | ... e Admiralty from 1950–52 and then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as | for three years. Mountbatten served his final posting in the Admiralty as ... |
Israeli Navy | ... ceasefire was to come into effect. Adabiya was taken with support from the | . Some 1,500 Egyptian prisoners were taken, and about hundred Egyptian sol ... |
United States Navy | ... arris) of the United States Marine Corps, Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) of the | , Cooper, Grissom, and three others; they immediately become national hero ... |
English soldier | ... ra Mellon's desertion and her adultery with Capt. George Alfred Curphey, an | , and other men. Mellon did not remarry, though in 1923, his former wife m ... |
500th SS Parachute Battalion | ... ve took place in April and May, 1944. The Waffen-SS units involved were the | and the 7 SS Prinz Eugen |
Royal Marines | ... ior ranks, including Bahamian-born Admiral Lord Gambier, and Bermudian-born | Brigadier Harvey, who, when promoted to that rank at age 39, following his ... |
U.S. Marines | ... William Eaton established a group of about 20 Christian (eight of whom were | ) and perhaps 100 Muslim mercenaries to begin the takeover of Tripoli star ... |
V Amphibious Corps | ... The United States Marine Corps's Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion, from | , used an example of reconnaissance-pull. Aerial photography, and the conf ... |
Malaysian Army | ... p at Bukit Gedong on the island is home to the 2nd Infantry Division of the | while the Peel Avenue Camp in George Town houses the 509th Regiment of the ... |
90th Infantry Division | ... ge massacre against Germans is the Chenogne massacre. At the Saar river the | "murdered Waffen-SS prisoners in such a systematic manner late in December ... |
Royal Horse Guards | ... d Somerset, consisted of guards regiments: the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, the | (the Blues), and the 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards. The 2nd Brigade, also kn ... |
King's Own Royal Regiment | ... joined the British Army in 1895 and fought in the Second Boer War with the | , and served in major campaigns including the Battle of Spion Kop. He move ... |
Strategic Air Command | ... ol Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska as an EC 135 pilot, flying the | 's airborne command post code-named “Looking Glass” |
Manhattan Project | ... Had the German nuclear program followed similar lines of research as the US | , the heavy water would have been crucial to obtaining plutonium from a nu ... |
American navy | ... ' prison. One of its most famous prisoners was John Paul Jones, hero of the | , who was born in nearby Kirkbean |
nickel-metal hydride batteries | As most hybrid cars use | , massive quantities of lanthanum are required for the production of hybri ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... . Maxentius' strongest supporters in the military were neutralized when the | and Imperial Horse Guard (equites singulares) were disbanded. Their tombst ... |
RAF | ... flight business. The airport was originally the airfield part of the former | Horsham St Faith. One of the former RAF hangars was once the home of Air U ... |
Muslim army | In 637 CE, the | under Abu Ubaida ibn al-Jarrah captured Baalbek after defeating the Byzant ... |
United States Army | Schofield Barracks is a | post and census-designated place (CDP) located in the City and County of H ... |
Royal Malaysian Air Force | RMAF Butterworth in Butterworth is a | base. The installation is also the Integrated Air Defence System (IADS) co ... |
United States Navy Reserve | ... f his silent film days and gradually left entertainment. He enlisted in the | during World War II, served as a lieutenant commander, and never returned ... |
Highland Light Infantry | ... ught in Northern France with the 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion of the | |
Soviet army | ... ing student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the | out of Afghanistan, earning him the name "Lion of Panjshir" . His follower ... |
US Navy | ... memorial" of the storm, according to a researcher at Tulane University. The | Blue Angels have named a looping flight demonstration manoeuvre after the ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... ake their target before it reached Egypt. Commodore Oren requested that the | dispatch aircraft to intercept. At 1:48 p.m., the Chief of Naval Operation ... |
055 Brigade | ... ent Arab recruits to join the fight against the United Front. His so-called | was responsible for mass killings of Afghan civilians. The report by the U ... |
Kempeitai | ... local Chinese populace. Especially feared was the Japanese military police | and its network of informants. Penang was administered by four successive ... |
Baltic Fleet | ... he Russians were preparing to reinforce their Far East Fleet by sending the | , under the command of Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky. The squadron sailed h ... |
U.S. Airmen | ... the outskirts of the city, Zweibrücken Air Base was for many years home to | and their families. Prior to being a home for the USAFE, the base was oper ... |
Vigiles | ... ation of a trained fire guard, paid and equipped by the state. Known as the | , they were organised into cohorts and also served as a night watch and a ... |
Thessaly | ... ou, excommunicated Michael VIII. In 1275, Michael VIII sent an army against | and fleet of 73 ships to harass the Latin states in Greece. The army was c ... |
Glasgow Highlanders | ... in Ayr. In the First World War he fought in Northern France with the 9th ( | ) Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry |
New Model Army | ... until cornet George Joyce took him by force to Newmarket in the name of the | . At this time mutual suspicion had developed between the New Model Army a ... |
Navy SEAL | The Pentagon and FBI develop a plan to retake the island with a | Team, enlisting chemical weapons specialist Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Cage), ... |
British Army | Some of the first Europeans to visit the area are thought to have been | deserters from Fort Pitt, who reportedly fled their post in 1761 during th ... |
Bermuda Regiment | Today, the only military unit remaining in Bermuda is the | , an amalgam of the voluntary units originally formed toward the end of th ... |
British Pacific Fleet | ... he moved on to the new destroyer, HMS Whelp, where he saw service with the | in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla. He was present in Tokyo Bay when the instr ... |
Internet Engineering Task Force | ... 5. Address assignments from within this range are specified in RFC 5771, an | (IETF) Best Current Practice document (BCP 51) |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | ... ve damage and injured 27 people. Other targets included Montreal City Hall, | recruitment offices, railway tracks, and army installations. FLQ members, ... |
Orthodox Bahá'í Faith | The largest of the remaining followers of Remey, members of the | , believe that legitimate authority passed from Shoghi Effendi to Mason Re ... |
Royal Navy | ... Colonies, but they were thoroughly controlled by the British Empire and the | , so protests were hopeless |
United States Army | ... state. General Edmund P. Gaines, commander of the Western Department of the | , assembled troops with the hope of intimidating Black Hawk into leaving. ... |
SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz | ... unications unit made up the SS-VT. At the same time Himmler established the | and SS-Junkerschule Braunschweig for training the officers required to lea ... |
Territorial Force | ... the beginning of World War I he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery ( | ), at first remaining in London as an instructor in the University of Lond ... |
Luftwaffe | In March 2008, a former | pilot, 85-year-old Horst Rippert (the brother of the singer Ivan Rebroff), ... |
U.S. Air Force | The camera pans, and on the side of the ship, we see | Space Probe No. 1 |
National Guard | ... sands of Parisians were armed members of a citizens' militia known as the " | ," which had been greatly expanded to help defend the city. Guard units el ... |
National League West | ... f the two teams. While the Giants have more wins in franchise history, both | teams are tied for the most National League pennants with 21, and both tea ... |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | ... aris for international flights and a Challenger 601 for domestic trips. The | also furnish constant personal security for the prime minister and his or ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... he Urban Cohorts who acted as a heavy duty anti-riot force and the even the | if necessary |
AFDU | ... teel "Mark I" rocket rails, four under each wing; trials at the A & AEE and | showed that the combination of the RP-3 rocket and the stable, high-speed ... |
Royal Artillery | At the beginning of World War I he was commissioned into the | (Territorial Force), at first remaining in London as an instructor in the ... |
RAF Fighter Command | ... years prior to the Second World War, Dowding was the commanding officer of | , and was perhaps the one important person in Britain, and perhaps the wor ... |
electorate of Denison | ... ce's Victoria seats. Labor did badly in a 1964 by-election in the Tasmanian | , and lost seats in the 1964 half-Senate election. The party was also defe ... |
Indian National Army | ... ovement, whether keeping with Gandhian Values, or, as in the case of Bose's | , diverging from it |
Lord Strathcona's Horse | ... ith introducing the Stetson-type hat, and when he left the force to command | and took the regiment to South Africa he also adopted the Stetson for this ... |
division | ... nt the Northern Army. In these circumstances, a General (Jiangjun 將軍) led a | , which was divided into regiments led by Colonels and sometimes Majors (S ... |
Royal Navy | ... , the German Navy sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping. The | responds with hunting groups whose mission is to stop them. The group that ... |
390th Strategic Missile Wing | ... II at Davis-Monthan came off alert status. SAC subsequently deactivated the | on 30 June 1984 |
United States Navy | ... rs are a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the | . The lead ship of the class is named for World War II Pacific fleet comma ... |
6th SS Panzer Army | ... ttle of the Bulge gave the main goal (breaking through Allied lines) to the | , commanded by General Sepp Dietrich. He was to break the Allied front bet ... |
355th Tactical Fighter Wing | ... histicated fighter, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. In July 1971, the | , flying the A-7 Corsair II aircraft, was activated at the base and the pr ... |
Royal Navy | ... m portrays the Battle of the River Plate, a naval battle of 1939, between a | force of three cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee ... |
Air National Guard | The F-16 is being used by the active duty USAF, Air Force Reserve, and | units, the USAF aerial demonstration team, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds ... |
370th Fighter Group | ... time by 14 American P-38 Lightning aircraft of the 402d Fighter Squadron / | on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France. Further use of napalm b ... |
British Army | By the age of 15, McTell was very anxious to leave grammar school and the | looked like a way out, so in 1959 he enlisted in the Junior Leaders Battal ... |
Fleet Air Arm | ... ere flown on an ad-hoc basis by the Walrus flying boats of the Royal Navy's | , operating from its own base on Boaz Island |
1st SS Panzer Division | ... mmitted on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the | ), a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge |
Northern Ireland | ... 1884. The game is still regulated by the GAA in the Republic of Ireland and | . In Great Britain it is regulated by the National Rounders Association (N ... |
British Army | ... grandfather, William Beddows, was originally from Lancashire. He joined the | in 1895 and fought in the Second Boer War with the King's Own Royal Regime ... |
Confederate States Army | ... April 22, 1861, but resigned from the U.S. Army on May 3, 1861, to join the | , following the secession of Virginia. (His letter of resignation, sent fr ... |
Tacloban City | ... Visayas consists of the islands of Leyte and Samar. The regional center is | . Its provinces are |
French army | In 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession, the | laid siege to it again. At that time, Bergen op Zoom had fortifications bu ... |
Luftwaffe | ... umulate aircraft in violation of the Treaty, and in 1935 the existence of a | (air force) was formally acknowledged, with Göring as Reich Aviation Minis ... |
Wehrmacht | On March 29, 1945, the | left the city after destroying three arches of the old bridge, Heidelberg' ... |
Knights Templar | ... e Knights Hospitaller founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the | (1119). At the time of their foundation, these were intended as monastic o ... |
1st Division | ... Portuguese brigade and three cavalry brigades. Brent Spencer commanded the | , Thomas Picton the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and Robert Craufurd the L ... |
Royal Canadian Air Force | ... families. Prior to being a home for the USAFE, the base was operated by the | . It was known as #3 Fighter Wing which was part of #1 Canadian Air Divisi ... |
Royal Artillery | ... as born at Waltham Abbey, Essex in 1900 where his father was a major in the | and at the time the assistant superintendent of the gunpowder factory ther ... |
Voyska PVO | ... on a par with the navy or ground force. In the Soviet Union this was called | , and had both fighter aircraft and ground-based systems. This was divided ... |
Finnish Air Force | ... , which were used for high-speed transport and SAR duties on sea ice by the | and Navy |
86th Fighter-Bomber Wing | ... nd a commission as a second lieutenant. He was subsequently assigned to the | based at Ramstein Air Base in West Germany, flying the F-84 Thunderjet and ... |
Kriegsmarine | German submarine U-553 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the German | for service during World War II |
British Army | ... casualties, including 19,240 dead — the bloodiest day in the history of the | to this day. As terrible as the battle was for the British Empire troops w ... |
Navy | ... ort. At 38, Miller was too old to be drafted, and first volunteered for the | but was told that they did not need his services. Miller then wrote to Arm ... |
Red Army | ... . Nazi Germany's forces were compelled to retreat from Poland as the Soviet | advanced, which led to the creation of the People's Republic of Poland |
Kriegsmarine | German submarine U-691 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of the German | during World War II. Her construction by Howaldtswerke of Hamburg was orde ... |
Eastern Association | ... he Long Parliament (known as Roundheads). The city lay on the border of the | of counties which sided with Parliament, and the war reached Peterborough ... |
Wehrmacht | ... lso a garrison town for the Prussian Army, Royal Bavarian Army, Reichswehr, | , US Army, German Army (Bundeswehr) and the German Border Police (Bundesgr ... |
Bermuda Regiment | The only military units remaining in Bermuda, today, are the | , an amalgam of the voluntary units formed in the 19th Century, and army a ... |
Knights Hospitaller | ... ain, the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the | based in Malta, and others, under the command of King Philip II's illegiti ... |
Luftwaffe | The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the | . Second World War bombs were often abandoned if they fell in areas of lit ... |
Imperial Guard | A 800-men cavalry force, comprising squadrons of the élite | Grenadiers à Cheval and Empress Dragoons was also present at the battle un ... |
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Knights Hospitaller | The first military orders of knighthood were the | founded at the First Crusade of 1099, followed by the Knights Templar (111 ... |
British Army | ... n the day Mountbatten was assassinated the IRA ambushed and killed eighteen | soldiers, sixteen of them from the Parachute Regiment at Warrenpoint, Coun ... |
Territorial Force | ... of 1914 and 1915. The bulk of the army was now made up of volunteers of the | and Lord Kitchener's New Army, which had begun forming in August 1914. The ... |
Royal Flying Corps | ... , where he was awarded his wings. Although added to the Reserve List of the | (RFC), Dowding returned to the Isle of Wight to resume his Royal Garrison ... |
25th Infantry Division | ... defense of Pearl Harbor and the entire island. It has been the home of the | , known as the Tropic Lightning Division, since 1941 as well as the Comman ... |
SS Cavalry Brigade | ... rious cavalry officers transferred to combat units in the Waffen-SS and the | . Between 1942 and 1945, the Reiter-SS effectively ceased to exist except ... |
256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team | ... i Intelligence Corps, the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force, the | and the Corps of Cadets at Louisiana State University. They may be chosen ... |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | ... f the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (space science) and the | (defense-related research) |
Mormon Battalion | ... lorado River at the Yuma Crossing include Juan Bautista de Anza (1774), the | (1848) and the California Column (1862) |
Frontier Corps | ... e forces of Massoud. 20,000 were regular Pakistani soldiers either from the | or army and an estimated 8,000 were militants recruited in madrassas filli ... |
Royal Navy | ... Bahamian islands of thousands of Africans liberated from slave ships by the | . Slavery itself was finally abolished in the British Empire on August 1, ... |
Third Division South | ... for most championships won in the third tier, having finished first in the | twice, the Third Division once and the Second Division once |
Republican Guard | ... nd 159,000 personnel. In addition, there is a presidential force called the | , but it and the National Congolese Police (PNC) are not part of the Armed ... |
Korean People's Army | ... employed 4.2% of the labour force. However, the latter figure excludes the | , which visibly does much of the country’s construction work |
Foreign Legion | ... Comoros at government request. France maintains a small maritime base and a | Detachment (DLEM) on Mayotte |
20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) | ... e Wallonien, the 6th SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade Langemarck and the conscript | , under the command of Obergruppenführer Felix Steiner. Also in Army Group ... |
Royal Air Force | Dowding then joined the recently created | and gained experience in departments of training, supply, development, and ... |
48th | In September 2002, the | , 55th, and the 79th Rescue Squadron's (RQS) transferred under control of ... |
Thessaly | ... (, Protesilaos), was a hero in the Iliad who was venerated at cult sites in | and Thrace. Protesilaus was the son of Iphicles, a "lord of many sheep"; a ... |
squadron | ... Canada. However, RNWMP officers also served overseas. On August 6, 1914, a | of volunteers from the RNWMP was formed to serve with the Canadian Light H ... |
Fertile Crescent | ... data are sparse. Akkadian had become the dominant literary language of the | , using the cuneiform script which was adapted from the Sumerians, while t ... |
Afghan National Army | ... ation of the national military, with two official branches established. The | and Afghan Air Force are under control of the Afghan Ministry of Defense i ... |
Peloponnese | ... ed through, so great were their numbers. After a military movement even the | and Asia Minor were reported to have Slavic settlements. This southern mov ... |
British Army | ... civilian population. Sir Ambrose, who was Guernsey-born, had served in the | during the First World War and later became Bailiff of Guernsey |
432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing | ... F-4D Phantom II. Kittinger would also later serve as vice commander of the | . During this period he was also credited with shooting down a North Vietn ... |
Balloon Corps | ... nd saboteurs. They were unsuccessful, but internal politics led the Union's | to be disbanded mid-war. The Confederates experimented with balloons as we ... |
1 Squadron | A third unidentified Typhoon (possibly an aircraft of | ) was also thought to have been flown by the Luftwaffe |
IDF | Hamas has used IEDs and anti-tank rockets against the | in Gaza. The latter include standard RPG-7 warheads and home-made rockets ... |
Luftwaffe | ... 10 Hornisse ("Hornet") was a German heavy fighter and Schnellbomber used by | during World War II. Though essentially a straightforward modification of ... |
East Lancashire Regiment | ... is father, whom he barely knew. His father had served in the 1st Battalion, | during the war and was often away from home. Bremner traveled to 's-Hertog ... |
navy | ... ower, which depended on a liberal political system and the supremacy of the | , lent these attributes to the image of Britannia. By the time of Queen Vi ... |
United States Navy | ... rth Carolinians Opposed to the Outlying Landing Field. This group opposes a | proposal to construct an outlying landing field near the Pocosin Lakes Nat ... |
15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) | ... einer. Also in Army Group North was the VI SS Corps, which consisted of the | and the 19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) |
Royal Canadian Navy | ... 1942, P.514 was bound for St. Johns, Newfoundland when she encountered , a | minesweeper. Unaware of any friendly submarines in the area and receiving ... |
IETF | ... tocol or DAP. A more lightweight interface called LDAP has emerged from the | which is considerably simpler to implement, so many SCPs have implemented ... |
84th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Emigrants) | ... ne 30, 1777 under the command of Captain Hawker, four British ship with the | arrived on the scene under the command of Major Gilfred Studholme. When th ... |
SS-Totenkopfverbände | ... S-VT would qualify to fulfill military obligations, although service in the | or SS-TV would not. Some units of the SS-TV would, in the case of war, be ... |
Royal Horse Artillery | ... jacent squares during the charges. Captain Mercer, who commanded 'G' Troop, | , thought the Brunswick troops on either side of him so shaky that he kept ... |
552d Airborne Warning and Control Wing | ... EC-130H Compass Call aircraft, arrived on 1 July 1980, and reported to the | . In 1981 D-M welcomed the 868th Tactical Missile Training Group. The 868t ... |
6th SS Panzer Army | ... moured and motorized elements and was the spearhead of the left wing of the | . Once the infantry had breached the American lines, Peiper's role was to ... |
Army Reserve Unit | Great Falls is also home to the 889th | |
Northern Ireland | Its ceasefire was welcomed by the | Secretary of State, Paul Murphy and the Chief Constable of the Police Serv ... |
British Army | He served with the | in North Africa during World War II and was wounded on three occasions, on ... |
British Army | ... rs qualified as "Scouts" (reconnaissance specialists) when he served in the | . The classical description of this shape in Scouting literature connects ... |
Royal Navy | ... ingdom under the terms of Lend-Lease on 9 March 1942. Commissioned into the | , she was renamed |
555th Tactical Fighter Squadron | ... ring a voluntary third tour of duty to Vietnam in 1971-72, he commanded the | (555 TFS), the noted "Triple Nickel" squadron, flying the F-4D Phantom II. ... |
Red Army | ... d by Leon Trotsky), having become closely associated with Stalin during the | 's 1918 defense of Tsaritsyn. Voroshilov was instrumental as a commander o ... |
United States Navy | ... taubach joined the Cowboys in 1969 after spending 4 years of service in the | , however, both quarterbacks competed for the starting job. During the 197 ... |
RAF Iraq Command | ... . On 19 August 1924, Air Commodore Dowding was made Chief Staff Officer for | . In 1929, he was promoted to Air Vice Marshal and the following year join ... |
Israeli Air Force | The | initially lost 40 planes from Syrian anti-aircraft batteries, but Israeli ... |
Peloponnese | ... g the classical period, Sparta governed, dominated or influenced the entire | . Additionally, the defeat of the Athenians and the Delian League in the P ... |
SPARS | ... cilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military service as WAVES and | . The last of its graduates, Sgt. Miriam Cohen, died in 2009, bringing an ... |
Nintendo Research & Development 1 | | created the game. They also developed the Light Gun used in Duck Hunt. The ... |
U.S. Air Force | ... ion of the DC-10 ended in 1989 with 386 delivered to airlines and 60 to the | as air-to-air refueling tankers, designated the KC-10 Extender. The larges ... |
French Air Force | ... ean, head of the French Ministry of Culture, Captain Frederic Solano of the | , plus investigators from the French Underwater Archaeological Department ... |
65th Infantry Regiment | ... ere assigned to the "Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry" which was renamed the | of the United States Army by the Reorganization Act of June 4, 1920. The 6 ... |
Third Division | ... he third tier, having finished first in the Third Division South twice, the | once and the Second Division once |
Second Division | ... ed first in the Third Division South twice, the Third Division once and the | once |
55th Wing | ... mbat capability. The 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron "Bats" are part of the | (55 WG) at Offut AFB, Nebraska, but operate out of Davis-Monthan. In addit ... |
Cichociemni | ... des equipment, the planes also parachuted highly qualified instructors (the | ), of whom 316 were inserted into Poland during the war. Due to the large ... |
110th Aviation Brigade | The | consists of five battalions using three different sites. 1st Battalion, 11 ... |
Spanish Foreign Legion | The | was created in 1920, in emulation of the French one, and had a significant ... |
Sky Sports | Disgraced former | broadcaster Richard Keys is also a Coventrian, a product of Whitley Abbey ... |
U.S. Navy's | ... USCGC Hamilton) was commissioned in 1967. Since then, they have powered the | Perry-class frigates, Spruance-class and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, a ... |
Thälmann Battalion | ... March 11, the Nationalist army broke the front of the Republican army. The | suffered heavy losses, but succeeded in holding the Trijueque-Torija road. ... |
Army of the North | ... s to the south. The Jujuy Exodus was conducted by the patriot forces of the | that were battling a Royalist army |
International Brigades | ... ed the Connolly column who fought on the opposite side, with the Republican | . William Joyce became an English-language propagandist for the Third Reic ... |
Kaiserliche Marine | Following the German defeat in the First World War, 74 ships of the | 's High Seas Fleet were interned in Gutter Sound at Scapa Flow pending a d ... |
Sentai | ... bombers of the USAAF. Japanese Army detached the 1st Chutai (unit) of 104th | (squadron) of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force, to Anshan, with other ... |
Barak Armored Brigade | To the south, the Israeli | was bereft of any natural defenses. The Syrians were initially slowed down ... |
Spetsnaz | ... ies to the Russian-Chinese war being fought in Siberia. In a joint Rainbow- | operation, he is involved in the destruction of China's only ICBM base. Th ... |
estates | ... w Duke swore an oath in German and where he also received the homage of the | . The Duke's Chair is located at Zollfeld valley, north of Klagenfurt in m ... |
Royal Navy | The | is no longer present in Harwich but Harwich International Port at nearby P ... |
Luftwaffe | ... time when she was due to arrive at Southampton, the city was bombed by the | . After a crossing taking six days, Queen Elizabeth had zigzagged her way ... |
United States Army | The | activated Cudjoe Key Air Force Station in 1959 to track missiles traveling ... |
United States Navy | The | prescribes manning the rail as a possible honor to render to the President ... |
United States Army | ... Iowa and his law degree from Drake University Law School. He served in the | from 1969 to 1971 and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for meritori ... |
Air National Guard | In addition to active duty U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, and | units, the aircraft is also used by the USAF aerial demonstration team, th ... |
Thessaly | ... mountainous areas of Northwestern Greece (parts of Epirus, Central Greece, | , Western Macedonia) as well as in the mountainous central parts of Pelopo ... |
Yukon | The | and the Mahlemuit tribes of Alaska exposed the female newborns by first st ... |
United States Navy | ... U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, and as an adversary/aggressor aircraft by the | . The F-16 has also been procured to serve in the air forces of 25 other n ... |
Northern Ireland | ... census. The township is named after the town of Strabane in County Tyrone, | . The township borders the borough of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania to the nort ... |
County Cork | ... ally settled in Ireland. There he had established Newcestown near Bandon in | . Newce sailed to Virginia with Sir Francis Wyatt in October 1621 and was ... |
Army | ... een able to "cross-commission," or request a commission in the Air Force or | , provided they meet that service's eligibility standards. In 2004, the fi ... |
United States Army | In 1917, at the start of World War I, the | established a training camp at Fort McClellan. On the other side of town, ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | The | operated heavily out of Taiwan. The "South Strike Group" was based out of ... |
Royal Navy | ... en British and American exploration of, and ownership claim to, the region. | commander George Vancouver sailed past the mouth in April 1792 and observe ... |
Air Force's | ... ith the Atlas (SM-65/HGM-16) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The | goal in launching the Titan program was twofold: one, to serve as a backup ... |
Marine Corps | ... hipmen are commissioned as Ensigns in the Navy or Second Lieutenants in the | and serve a minimum of five years after their commissioning. If they are s ... |
13th Sustainment Command | ... allations in the world, and is the home of III Corps, 1st Cavalry Division, | , First Army Division West, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 41st Fires Briga ... |
East Indies Fleet | ... g on 1 September, and after a meeting between the Commander-in-Chief of the | and Rear-Admiral Uzumi on 2 September, a detachment of the landed and occu ... |
Yong | ... g's step father. In 238 BC the king was traveling to the ancient capital of | (雍). Lao Ai seized the queen mother's seal and mobilized an army in an att ... |
Royal Navy | ... y in such cases. The monarch is commander in chief of the Armed Forces (the | , the British Army, and the Royal Air Force), accredits British High Commi ... |
Air Force Reserve Command | In addition to active duty U.S. Air Force, | , and Air National Guard units, the aircraft is also used by the USAF aeri ... |
Cayo District | San Ignacio is a town in western Belize that serves as the capital of | . It got its start from Mahogany and chicle production during British rule ... |
Royal Navy | ... requented by members of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars while the | anchored in the bay and later by the crème de la crème of Victorian societ ... |
Royal Navy | ... ed Kingdom emerged as by far the most powerful country in the world and the | gained unquestioned naval superiority across the globe. This, coupled with ... |
Belize District | ... rgris Caye is geographically close to Corozal District, but it is a part of | |
Royal Marines | ... s, the NLF, managed to seize power, with Aden itself under NLF control. The | , who had been the first British troops to occupy Aden in 1839, were the l ... |
First Army Division West | ... d is the home of III Corps, 1st Cavalry Division, 13th Sustainment Command, | , 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 41st Fires Brigade and many other corps an ... |
Grande Armée | ... it was applied was equally, if not more, devastating than they were on the | |
Royal Australian Armoured Corps | ... n was never used in Australian Army service, however it was trialled by the | beginning 1967 and appeared in several Manual of Land Warfare pamphlets (t ... |
Special Operations Executive | ... nd World War, Munthe's son Malcolm Pennington Mellor Munthe served with the | , working behind Nazi lines in occupied Scandinavia, and later participati ... |
Indian National Army | ... the campaigns by the Quit India movement (led by "Mahatma" Gandhi) and the | (INA) movement (led by "Netaji" Subhas Chandra Bose) and others, eventuall ... |
government army | ... n continued to deal with attacks from the Mujaheddin. For several years the | had actually increased their effectiveness past levels ever achieved durin ... |
IETF | The | XMPP working group has produced a number of RFC protocol documents |
British Army | ... The monarch is commander in chief of the Armed Forces (the Royal Navy, the | , and the Royal Air Force), accredits British High Commissioners and ambas ... |
SS Panzer Corps | ... rts of Himmler and Obergruppenführer Paul Hausser, the new commander of the | , the three SS Panzergrenadier divisions Leibstandarte, Das Reich and Tote ... |
Luftwaffe | The V-1 was developed at Peenemünde Airfield by the German | during the Second World War. During initial development it was known by th ... |
USAF | ... ade and the 110th Aviation Brigade handling Army Aviation training, and the | for the training of Air Force helicopter pilots |
Northern Ireland | ... Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconciliation in | |
Corps of Engineers | ... emic performance in his final year to avoid service in the elite, but dull, | |
U.S. Army Air Corps | ... antisubmarine patrols off the Atlantic Coast. The 2nd Bombardment Squadron, | was reconstituted at Detrick Field between March and September 1942, when ... |
13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) | ... essful in their appeal to Hitler to form a Bosnian Muslim division, and the | , the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight Josip Broz Tito's ... |
Provincial Reconstruction Team | ... e multi-national Brigade in Kandahar, with 2,300 troops, and supervises the | in Kandahar, where al-Qaida forces are most active. Canada has also deploy ... |
1st Squadron (Belgium) | 1st Brigade (Belgium) - 1st Field Artillery Regiment (Belgium) - | - 1st Wing (Belgium) - 1st/3rd Lancers Regiment - 2nd Field Artillery Regi ... |
SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 101 | ... n on 11 June, which came into contact with the 101st Airborne Division. The | arrived next to protect the left wing of the I SS Panzer Corps. The 1 SS L ... |
Air Force | ... hipmen have been able to "cross-commission," or request a commission in the | or Army, provided they meet that service's eligibility standards. In 2004, ... |
2 SS Infantry | ... nd Kampfgruppe (later Division) Nord, and the Leibstandarte, 1 SS Infantry, | and SS Cavalry Brigades |
Wehrmacht | ... d phase was the disorganized expulsion of Germans immediately following the | 's defeat. The third phase was a more organized expulsion following the Al ... |
United States Air Force | A 1953 | report defended the operation as the justified bombing of a military and i ... |
United States Navy | ... uilt destroyer escorts, guided missile destroyers, and patrol craft for the | . To maintain this strong Naval heritage, the Saginaw Valley Naval Ship Mu ... |
Northern Ireland | ... art of the Belfast Agreement, Ireland dropped its claim to the territory of | and the United Kingdom now accepts its official name, Ireland, and its let ... |
Royal Air Force | ... der in chief of the Armed Forces (the Royal Navy, the British Army, and the | ), accredits British High Commissioners and ambassadors, and receives dipl ... |
1st Cavalry Regiment | ... anger Battalion under the command of Henry Dodge, which was expanded to the | in 1833 |
Royal Navy | Members of the | claim to have used the chant, or a version of it, since the Second World W ... |
First Division | ... ended in a 4–3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the | and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to ke ... |
Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories | ... oud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority. According to the Israeli | Major Gen. Eitan Dangot, Israel seeks to work with Salam Fayyad, to help r ... |
120th Fighter Wing | ... alls International Airport is also home to the Montana Air National Guard's | . The 120th is composed of F-15 Eagles (F-15C/D) fighter aircraft and asso ... |
Luftwaffe | Werner Mölders the legendary | Fighter pilot Oberst was born here |
Polesie Group | ... r) were the Defense of Warsaw, the Defense of Hel and the resistance of the | |
County Donegal | ... st 2006, but cancelled all public engagements for several months. He was in | at the time on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Anne Friel, playwright ... |
XIV International Brigade | ... mbardment as well as shortages of food, winter clothing and ammunition. The | fought in the Battle of Ebro in July 1938, the last Republican offensive o ... |
Wehrmacht | ... on) was an 8.8 cm calibre tank gun designed by Krupp and used by the German | , during the Second World War. It was the primary armament of the Panzerka ... |
SS Cavalry | ... ter Division) Nord, and the Leibstandarte, 1 SS Infantry, 2 SS Infantry and | Brigades |
US Navy | ... uard station on the island during the latter stages of the World War I, and | vessels had also used the island, which was a hub for trans-Atlantic convo ... |
104th Observation Squadron | ... t, on 10 August 1931 (two months after the Major's death), of his unit: the | of the 29th Division, Maryland National Guard. The Squadron flew de Havill ... |
89th Military Police Brigade | ... ry Division; 13th Sustainment Command (formerly 13th Corps Support Command) | ;; 504th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade; 21st Cavalry Brigade (Air Comba ... |
Kwantung Army | ... During this battle, a combined Soviet-Mongolian force defeated the Japanese | (Kantōgun) supported by limited Manchukuoan forces |
Roman legion | ... Golden Eagle was the model for the aquila, the most prominent symbol of the | s and more generally the Roman civilization that had such a powerful impac ... |
Red Army | ... e spontaneous flight and evacuation of Germans in the face of the advancing | , from mid-1944 to early 1945. The second phase was the disorganized expul ... |
International Security Assistance Force | ... tical decision. Canadian forces assumed a six-month command rotation of the | in 2003; in 2005, Canadians assumed operational command of the multi-natio ... |
US Navy | If, for example, the captain of a | ship believes there is a serious threat of chemical, biological, or radiol ... |
Air National Guard | Great Falls International Airport is also home to the Montana | 's 120th Fighter Wing. The 120th is composed of F-15 Eagles (F-15C/D) figh ... |
British Army | ... residents also include Bernard Cornwell's Richard Sharpe, an officer in the | during the Napoleonic Wars; an |
United States Coast Guard | ... United States National Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the | , U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce ... |
Canadian Rangers | ... alawi, and particularly Canada, where they are the main rifle issued to the | , and India, where the Lee-Enfield is widely issued to reserve military un ... |
Argentine Navy | ... William Brown is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina. Creator of the | (Armada de la República Argentina, ARA) and leader of the Argentine Armed ... |
County Cork | ... any locals who had been to Buenos Aires. Several families from Bere island, | were encouraged to send emigrants to Argentina by an islander who had been ... |
Northern Ireland | ... e 32-county republic claimed by the Dáil, and that a separate government in | was now functioning |
1 SS Infantry | ... ing Divisions and Kampfgruppe (later Division) Nord, and the Leibstandarte, | , 2 SS Infantry and SS Cavalry Brigades |
French Army | The French Foreign Legion (, L.E.) is a military service wing of the | established in 1831, unique because it was exclusively created for foreign ... |
Tyneside Irish Brigade | ... n of two mines at La Boisselle. Here another tragic advance was made by the | of the 34th Division, which started nearly one mile from the German front ... |
Northern Ireland | ... est although not the deadliest loyalist paramilitary and vigilante group in | . It was formed in September 1971 and undertook a campaign of almost twent ... |
Australian Army | The Sheridan was never used in | service, however it was trialled by the Royal Australian Armoured Corps be ... |
Royal Australian Navy | ... workers compensation, issuing Australia's first paper currency, forming the | , the commencement of construction for the Trans-Australian Railway, expan ... |
2nd Field Artillery Regiment/Field Artillery Battery ParaCommando | ... - 1st Squadron (Belgium) - 1st Wing (Belgium) - 1st/3rd Lancers Regiment - | - 2nd Group CIS - 2nd Tactical Wing - 2nd/4th Lancers Regiment - 4th Engin ... |
Division of Melbourne | ... ected strategic preferences to the Greens over Labor in the past, as in the | , where Adam Bandt was elected at the 2010 Australian Federal Election wit ... |
United States Fifth Fleet | ... lation later grew into Naval Support Activity Bahrain, headquarters for the | |
19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) | ... isted of the 15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) and the | |
Syrian Air Force | ... entional bombs and napalm, devastating Syrian armored columns. However, the | repeatedly struck Israeli positions during this period. On the second day ... |
Royal Navy | ... . They were never used by the U.S. Navy, and only about 50 were used by the | , and most were passed to other countries |
First Division | ... s were Tottenham Hotspur, who were a cut above everyone else having won the | title with ease and style. Banks played well, but with the right back Len ... |
Army of the Potomac | ... ich was named, in 1911, for Jonathan Letterman, the medical director of the | (Civil War). LAMC featured in every US foreign conflict during the 20th ce ... |
Israeli Air Force | The | (IAF) first received AH-64As in 1990, for a total fleet of 42. There was s ... |
2nd Virginia Cavalry | ... rp fight against Brig. Gen. John Buford's brigade, Col. Thomas T. Munford's | was overwhelmed until Stuart sent in two more regiments as reinforcements. ... |
Royal Air Force | ... etween 13 February and 15 February 1945, 1,300 heavy bombers of the British | (RAF) and the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 ... |
1st/3rd Lancers Regiment | ... rtillery Regiment (Belgium) - 1st Squadron (Belgium) - 1st Wing (Belgium) - | - 2nd Field Artillery Regiment/Field Artillery Battery ParaCommando - 2nd ... |
Haganah | Leaders within the mainstream Jewish organizations, the Jewish Agency, | and Histadrut, as well as the British authorities, routinely condemned Irg ... |
Royal Navy | ... tory in Pimlico, London in 1913, manufacturing gyroscopic compasses for the | , and becoming the Sperry Gyroscope Co Ltd in 1915. In 1923 Lawrence Sperr ... |
United States Navy | At independence, the permanent Royal Navy presence in Bahrain ended and the | moved onto the 10 acres (40,000 m 2 ) previously occupied by British opera ... |
Second Division | ... he top flight of the Football League until 1967, when they were promoted as | champions. Their highest league position so far is sixth place in the Firs ... |
Division Three | ... –71 season, but his successor Andy Nelson led the club to promotion back to | three years later before controversially resigning |
US Coast Guard | The US had operated a | station on the island during the latter stages of the World War I, and US ... |
Imperial Japanese Army Air Force | ... anese Army detached the 1st Chutai (unit) of 104th Sentai (squadron) of the | , to Anshan, with other air squadrons for industrial defense purposes. Alt ... |
Northern Ireland | ... similar relationship with the devolved governments of Scotland, Wales, and | . The Sovereign appoints the First Minister of Scotland on the nomination ... |
Green Mountain Boys | ... town in the state, Chittenden was named after Thomas Chittenden, one of the | and governor of both the independent Vermont Republic, and later, the stat ... |
U.S. Northern Command | ... rt; "homeland defense" refers to its military component, led chiefly by the | headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
British Ministry of Defence | ... nder on 27 April 1999, and went on to finish his active naval career at the | until 2001, as an officer of the Diplomatic Directorate of the Naval Staff ... |
Royal Navy | ... efence responsibility and placed the Australian Navy at the disposal of the | in wartime |
Air Force | ... Assisting the SEOC were agencies such as the National Weather Service, the | , the Civil Air Patrol, and the American Red Cross. Immediate assistance a ... |
Grenadier Guards | Waite joined the | at Caterham Barracks, but an allergy to a dye in the uniform obliged him t ... |
Royal Netherlands Air Force | ... eld in 1994 against the Eurocopter Tiger and the AH-1 SuperCobra led to the | ordering 30 AH-64D Apaches in 1995. Construction for the order started in ... |
North Korean Army | ... which fields some 600+ combat aircraft of American design. In contrast, the | has roughly 1,600–1,700 aircraft, but mostly obsolete types of Soviet and ... |
U.S. Army | ... to conflict with Rachel Moyal, who served in Iraq as a combat medic for the | . 's Dunbar Flinn angered Parisa Montazaran and Trisha Cummings with his c ... |
Armia Krajowa | ... st of the Warsaw population participated, was instigated by the underground | (Home Army) and approved by the Polish government in exile, in an attempt ... |
British Army | The UK had 747,670 men under arms between 1792 and 1815. The | expanded from 40,000 men in 1793 to a peak of 250,000 men in 1813. Over 25 ... |
Northern Ireland | The general election to the | House of Commons occurred on 24 May. Of 52 seats, forty were won by Unioni ... |
Anti-Aircraft Command | ... opposed to point defense), have historically been operated by both armies ( | in the British Army, for instance) and Air Forces (the USAF's Nike Hercule ... |
Army of Northern Virginia | ... h Lee's lines at Petersburg, Richmond fell immediately. Lee surrendered the | at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865. “The Surrender” mar ... |
United States Air Force | ... irole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the | (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a succ ... |
Connolly Column | An independent 80-men-strong (mainly) Irish unit, known as the | , made up of people from both sides of the Irish border also fought. Sever ... |
Luftwaffe | Three days after this submarine attack, four | Junkers Ju 88 bombers raided Scapa Flow in one of the first bombing attack ... |
U.S. Army | James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was a | officer from Virginia and a Confederate States Army general during the Ame ... |
Israel Defense Forces | The | (IDF) Directorate of Military Intelligence's (abbreviated as "Aman") Resea ... |
Abraham Lincoln Brigade | ... on (Belgians and French), the Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion and the | (Americans, including African-American) |
Zerstörergeschwader 26 | ... ing converted 21 cm (8 in) Werfergranate 21 mortar rockets. Two Geschwader, | and 76, were thus equipped with the Me 410 by late 1943 |
SS Panzergrenadier Brigade 51 | ... ons entered the battle in France, the SS Panzergrenadier Brigade 49 and the | . Both had been formed in June 1944, from staff and students at the SS-Jun ... |
Volkssturm | ... members from other branches of the German military, the Nazi Party, and the | . Such personnel wore a distinctive twin swastika collar patch and served ... |
Armia Ludowa | The largest group that refused to join AK was the pro-Soviet and communist | (AL), which at its height in 1944 numbered 30,000 people |
USAAF | ... also used as a bomber destroyer against the daylight bomber streams of the | . The Me 410 A-1/U2 was fitted with two additional 20 mm MG 151/20 cannons ... |
Royal Air Force | ... end jobs, before his call up for National Service in 1956, serving with the | in Singapore in 1957. The appropriation of his trumpet forced him to consi ... |
Canadian Expeditionary Force | ... d out with a hand injury. He subsequently worked at the Audit Office of the | until December 1915. The family then moved to Birmingham until May 1919 an ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... er air defense units from the Golan Heights to the home front, allowing the | greater freedom of action |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | ... llowing services also hold jurisdiction in the city and are in partnership: | , Canadian National Railway Police Service and the Canadian Pacific Railwa ... |
Marine Corps | ... ucates officers for commissioning primarily into the United States Navy and | . The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the conflu ... |
Parachute Regiment | ... nit was really called '2eme PARA', a reference to the Second Battalion, the | of the British Army |
Royal Navy | ... 1793 to a peak of 250,000 men in 1813. Over 250,000 personnel served in the | . In September 1812, Russia had about 904,000 enlisted men in its land for ... |
United States Navy | ... uncil, and not by the General Assembly as with other trust territories. The | controlled the TTPI from a headquarters in Guam until 1951, when the Unite ... |
8th Army | ... lude the British 8th Army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery. The | had advanced across the Western Desert from the east and was ready for the ... |
Honourable Artillery Company | ... e most basic poverty. On the outbreak of World War I he volunteered for the | but saw no service before he was invalided out with a hand injury. He subs ... |
Soviet 1st Tank Army | ... t defenses. The attack penetrated to a depth of and was then stopped by the | |
DARPA | ... WordNet has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, | , the Disruptive Technology Office (formerly the Advanced Research and Dev ... |
SS Panzergrenadier Brigade 49 | ... retreat, two further Waffen-SS formations entered the battle in France, the | and the SS Panzergrenadier Brigade 51. Both had been formed in June 1944, ... |
341st Missile Wing | Great Falls is home to Malmstrom Air Force Base and the | . The 341st Operations Group provides the forces to launch, monitor and se ... |
Royal Navy | Portsmouth will help build and be the home port of the two new | aircraft carriers ordered in 2008, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of W ... |
Waffen-SS | ... e Totenkopf division, which in 1940 would become a full division within the | |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... fore Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian Government, the | attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur. Tsar Nicholas II was s ... |
XIV International Brigade | ... tionalist brigade launched a surprise attack on the André Marty Battalion ( | ), stabbing its and crossing the Jarama. The Garibaldi Battalion stopped t ... |
Royal Navy | ... ding blade assembly for naval use; allowing British Apaches to operate from | warships and auxiliaries |
Armia Ludowa | ... cial parties and classes (the communists sent by Soviets and Soviet created | (People's Army) being the only notable exception). Growth of the AK was si ... |
Delta Force | ... arded twelve times, nine of them posthumously. The first two were earned by | snipers Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart and Master Sergeant Gary Gordo ... |
New Model Army | ... the war and for a time afterwards Roundhead was a term of derision — in the | it was a punishable offence to call a fellow soldier a Roundhead. This con ... |
French | ... mber 1918. The occupying armies consisted of American, Belgian, British and | forces |
Royal Navy | ... aining Militia for the defence of the Colony. As Bermuda became the primary | headquarters and dockyard in the Western Atlantic, following American inde ... |
British Battalion | On 12 February, the | , XV International Brigade took the brunt of the attack, remaining under h ... |
Northern Ireland | ... the feature of hexagonal basalt columns with the nearby Giant's Causeway in | |
Wehrmacht | ... s. As a result many civilians fleeing westward were overtaken by retreating | units and the rapidly advancing Red Army |
United States Army | In 1942, Dole joined the | 's Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in World War II. Dole became a second l ... |
British | ... y of 11 November 1918. The occupying armies consisted of American, Belgian, | and French forces |
SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 102 | ... sisting of the 9th SS Hohenstaufen and 10th SS Frundsberg divisions and the | was transferred from the Eastern Front to spearhead an offensive to destro ... |
Royal Navy | ... eir experience in small-boat building, having built 550 sub chasers for the | during World War I. Additionally, in 1921, they introduced the famous "Cru ... |
40th Army | ... of Afghanistan (PDPA). This led to a full-scale Soviet invasion, led by the | and the Airborne Forces in December 1979 |
Canadian Navy | ... or building 9 of the 12 Halifax class multi-purpose patrol frigates for the | . However, the shipyard was destroyed without contracts for almost a decad ... |
4th Infantry Division | The | recently completed its move from Fort Hood to Fort Carson, Colorado, excha ... |
Army Air Forces | ... Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the | , to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in Englan ... |
British Army | ... numbers of regular infantry, artillery, and support units that composed the | garrison were steadily increased. The investment into military infrastruct ... |
Einsatzgruppen | ... to other units and actively took part in the Holocaust. While assisting the | , they participated in the liquidation of the Jewish population of the Sov ... |
7th Dragoon Guards | ... created the most famous cavalry action of the Battle of the Somme, when the | and the 2nd Deccan Horse attempted to capture High Wood. It is likely the ... |
Australian | ... ntelligence and sent two United States Navy carrier task forces and a joint | -American cruiser force, under the overall command of American Admiral Fra ... |
1st Field Artillery Regiment (Belgium) | 1st Brigade (Belgium) - | - 1st Squadron (Belgium) - 1st Wing (Belgium) - 1st/3rd Lancers Regiment - ... |
U.S. Coast Guard's | The first U.S. gas-turbine powered ships were the | Hamilton-class High Endurance Cutters, the first of which (USCGC Hamilton) ... |
Internet Engineering Task Force | The | (IETF) formed an XMPP Working Group in 2002 to formalize the core protocol ... |
British Expeditionary Force | During World War I approximately 3,000 island men served in the | . Of these, about 1,000 served in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry regime ... |
41st Fires Brigade | ... ustainment Command, First Army Division West, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, | and many other corps and echelons above corps units |
Northern Ireland | ... llero is firstly because of its background as a Protestant marching song in | |
Red Army | ... ward were overtaken by retreating Wehrmacht units and the rapidly advancing | |
XV International Brigade | On 12 February, the British Battalion, | took the brunt of the attack, remaining under heavy fire for seven hours. ... |
Loyal American Regiment | ... s attacking from west of the fort consisted of the New York Volunteers, the | , Emmerich's Chasseurs, the 57th and the 52nd Regiments of Foot. By the en ... |
Indian National Army | ... Netaji (the Leader) Subhash Chandra Bose. See also the Tiger Legion and the | |
County Donegal | ... directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in | adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be n ... |
Royal Air Force | ... otypes to meet a British requirement for a maritime patrol aircraft for the | , designated Type HS 801. This variant became the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod a ... |
6th BPC | ... Angel of Dien Bien Phu") and Marcel Bigeard, the Officer in Command of the | . Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. is also an honorary member |
Royal Navy | The USS Holland design was also adopted by others, including the | in developing the . The Imperial Japanese Navy employed a modified version ... |
Northern Ireland | After the Troubles broke out in | in 1969, the IRA and Sinn Féin both split over abstentionism and the "left ... |
High Seas Fleet | ... German defeat in the First World War, 74 ships of the Kaiserliche Marine's | were interned in Gutter Sound at Scapa Flow pending a decision on their fu ... |
Kwantung Army | The commanding officer of the | in Manchukuo was additionally Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo. He functio ... |
Red Army | ... dments to the 1936 Soviet Constitution established separate branches of the | for each Soviet Republic. They also established Republic-level commissaria ... |
Royal Navy | ... s War. After the conquest, in the New England colonies and Nova Scotia, the | was responsible for front-line defence while the frontiers inland of New E ... |
Army of the Potomac | ... on August 6, and was assigned to train provisional brigades in the nascent | |
Red Army | ... a 'founding myth' going beyond the conquest of eastern Nazi Germany by the | . The Spanish Civil War, and especially the role of the International Brig ... |
Air Force | ... in 1959 to track missiles traveling through the Eglin Gulf Test Range. The | took over operations the following year, and it subsequently became a deta ... |
Soviet 6th Army | ... arkov. The SS Panzer Corps was in full retreat, having been attacked by the | , when on 19 February they received the order to attack. In an example of ... |
Irish Army | ... ish to be treated in Six County hospitals. We have, therefore, directed the | authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent ... |
Luftwaffe | ... notoriety. The failure of the Me 210's development programme meant that the | was forced to continue fielding the outdated Bf 110, to mounting losses |
44th Infantry Division | ... ded by German forces. However, these suddenly abandoned the city and the US | entered unopposed on 29 March 1945 |
XII International Brigade | ... from the best available units of the Republican army, including the XI and | s, was quickly assembled |
Red Army | ... ordinary people in Coventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet | during the Battle of Stalingrad. The city was also subsequently twinned wi ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... . The Israeli leadership already believed that if an attack took place, the | (IAF) could repel it |
1st Brigade (Belgium) | | - 1st Field Artillery Regiment (Belgium) - 1st Squadron (Belgium) - 1st Wi ... |
Luftwaffe | ... is an echo of World War II, with Goldfinger employing members of the German | , some Japanese and Koreans. For Operation Grand Slam, Goldfinger used the ... |
Central Macedonia | ... tonomous area, Mount Athos (, "Holy Mountain"), which borders the region of | |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... as also adopted by others, including the Royal Navy in developing the . The | employed a modified version of the basic design for their first five subma ... |
R.A.F. | ... for Nazi Germany, Mannheim was heavily damaged during aerial bombing by the | and the U.S. Air Force. In addition to bombing the important factories, th ... |
United States Navy | ... uring the Second World War, Hunter leased the Bronx Campus buildings to the | who used the facilities to train 95,000 women volunteers for military serv ... |
I Canadian Corps | ... nd battle of Arnhem took place in April 1945 when the city was liberated by | of the First Canadian Army |
Baoding, Hebei | Chongzhi's ancestry was from modern | . To flee from the ravage of war, Zu's grandfather Zu Chang moved to the Y ... |
Royal Danish Naval Academy | Frederick was educated at the | (breaking Danish royal tradition by choosing a naval instead of an army ca ... |
Northern Ireland | In April 1988, at a concert in Antrim, | , Mustaine unknowingly dedicated the final song to the IRA. Before the fin ... |
Luftwaffe | ... th; however, after she was aboard, Zeeland came under heavy attack from the | and it was considered too dangerous to return. Wilhelmina was then left wi ... |
United States Air Force | ... ip, North Hanover Township and Springfield Township, along with children of | personnel based at McGuire Air Force Base. The schools in the district (wi ... |
Division of Indi | ... onga is in the federal Division of Indi. The current representative for the | is Liberal Party of Australia member Sophie Mirabella |
Thälmann Battalion | ... h failure, but not without extremely violent combat. On 6 January 1937, the | arrived at Las Rozas, and held its positions until it was destroyed as a f ... |
Manhattan Project | ... scribed as "cloaked in the deepest wartime secrecy, matched only by ... the | for developing the Atomic Bomb". Three months after the start of construct ... |
Red Arrows | ... ajor air shows and other special occasions, sometimes in formation with the | . On the final day of commercial service, public interest was so great tha ... |
Red Army | ... cing armies. At first they fought Soviet partisans and cut off units of the | in the rear of Army Group South, capturing 7,000 prisoners of war, but fro ... |
Special Administrative Regions | ... egions, each with a designated minority group; four municipalities; and two | (SARs), which enjoy a degree of political autonomy. These 22 provinces, fi ... |
United States Navy | Don Kelly enlisted in the | on June 17, 1941 just prior to World War II and saw active duty aboard the ... |
Ministry of Defence | ... ales Agreement to cover the Polaris successor Poseidon due to its cost. The | upgraded its nuclear missiles to the longer-ranged Trident missile after m ... |
Praetorian cohorts | ... tiani, but the raiders soon returned. In 296, Maximian raised an army, from | , Aquileian, Egyptian, and Danubian legionaries, Gallic and German auxilia ... |
United States Army | The U.S. Army Transportation Museum is a | museum of vehicles and other U. S. Army transportation-related equipment a ... |
Viet Cong | ... e III, alleged that Westmoreland and others had deliberately underestimated | troop strength during 1967 in order to maintain US troop morale and domest ... |
Norwegian Army | In World War II the bulk of the | during their years in exile in Britain consisted of a brigade in Dumfries. ... |
Northern Ireland | ... ere are 426 local authorities in the UK. 346 of these are in England, 26 in | , 32 in Scotland and 22 are in Wales |
Royal Norwegian Air Force | ... ds Air Force in June 1979. In 1980 the first aircraft were delivered to the | by SABCA and to the Royal Danish Air Force by Fokker |
11th Regiment of Light Dragoons | ... e had his wealthy father buy him an officer's commission in the fashionable | . The 11th, commanded by Lord Cardigan, later involved in the Charge of th ... |
860th Bombardment Squadron | ... up at RAF Debach, England, as a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber co-pilot in the | . From November 1944 to April 1945, he completed a combat tour of 30 missi ... |
Royal Navy | In tragic compensation (in a sadly ironic way), the | employed Dido-class cruisers against Italian objectives during the Second ... |
Royal Navy | ... d border with Scotland safe, the main burden of defence would fall upon the | , Cecil proposed to strengthen and revitalise the Navy, making it the cent ... |
Military Police Corps | ... a few weeks without explanation. He went to Camp Gordon for training in the | . In June 1952, Kennedy was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquart ... |
German High Command | ... ripts to the different branches of the Wehrmacht, to meet quotas set by the | (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht or OKW in German). The SS was given the lowest ... |
Canadian Corps | ... eptember, inching closer with each attempt. The Anzacs were relieved by the | , who would briefly capture Mouquet Farm on 16 September, the day after th ... |
United States Army | ... n was the birthplace of Orville J. Nave in 1841. Nave was a chaplain in the | and the editor of Nave's Topical Bible, a widely-used reference work first ... |
Honourable Artillery Company | ... eral occasions through the year gun salutes are fired from the Tower by the | , these consist of 62 rounds for royal occasions, and 41 on other occasion ... |
Thessaly | ... alliance with the Spartans and instead allying with her enemies, Argos and | . Megara deserted the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League and allied herself ... |
Thessaly | ... that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at Tempe, a city in | , to pick laurel (also known as bay tree) which he considered to be a sacr ... |
Division of Indi | Wodonga is in the federal | . The current representative for the Division of Indi is Liberal Party of ... |
U.S. Pacific fleet | On 7 December 1941, using aircraft carriers, the Japanese attacked the | at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack destroyed or crippled most of the U.S. ... |
County Donegal | ... es. Forty-six birds were released into the wild in Glenveagh National Park, | , from 2001 to 2006, with at least three known female fatalities since the ... |
8th Infantry | 6th Infantry, the 7th Infantry and the | |
Army | ... ed officers. Military service varies according to branch: 21 months for the | and Marine Corps, 23 months for the Navy, 24 months for the Air Force and ... |
XIV International Brigade | ... had been lost to the Nationalists, when the XIII International Brigade and | and the 1st British Company, arrived in Madrid. Violent Republican assault ... |
Norwegian Brigade | ... s an economist (cand. oecon.) from the University of Oslo. He served in the | that formed part of the Allied occupation in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... turning point and had significant Roman defeats; it caused the death of two | commanders. The war began in 166, when the Marcomanni overwhelmed the defe ... |
Division 1 | ... onal average attendance at Hillsborough was 42,520 in the 1952–53 season in | . The highest average attendance in the second tier of English football wa ... |
Sayeret Matkal | On October 22, the Golani Brigade and | commandos recaptured the outpost on Mount Hermon, after a hard fought batt ... |
United States Coast Guard | ... icial use of lightships in the United States ended March 29, 1985, when the | decommissioned its last such ship, the Nantucket I. Many lightships were r ... |
Armed Forces Inaugural Committee | ... because Johnson died only two days after the inauguration. The MDW and the | canceled the remainder of the ceremonies surrounding the inauguration to a ... |
Royal Netherlands Air Force | ... Dutch line started up in April 1978 and delivered its first aircraft to the | in June 1979. In 1980 the first aircraft were delivered to the Royal Norwe ... |
United States Army | In 1853, Burnside resigned his commission in the | , although maintaining a position in the state militia, and devoted his ti ... |
Gideon Force | ... y of Ethiopian-backed African and South African colonial troops under the " | " of Colonel Orde Wingate, coordinated the military effort to liberate Eth ... |
Royal Navy | ... t Baron Collingwood (1748–1810) born in Newcastle upon Tyne; admiral of the | , a partner with Horatio Nelson in many sea victories, and as Nelson's suc ... |
French Army | ... an Tilly's troops, and once again during the Nine Years' War in 1689 by the | |
Viet Cong | ... replaced by the National Liberation Front (NLF), more commonly known as the | , established by South Vietnamese communists to lead the guerrilla war aga ... |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | ... oject includes measures to mitigate environmental damage; for instance, the | must restore 12 times the area of wetland damaged by the project. In early ... |
Air Force | ... hs for the Army and Marine Corps, 23 months for the Navy, 24 months for the | and civil service. The other professional civil service is from 26 months ... |
British Expeditionary Force | ... icipated in Government planning and the encirclement of a large part of the | into the Dunkirk pocket resulted in a hasty evacuation of that part of the ... |
Western Conference | ... m based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Southwest Division of the | of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the reigning NBA champio ... |
United States Navy | ... is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Rhode Island and the | . As of 2010 the population was 10,591. Its county seat is Marion |
Royal Navy | Horatio Hornblower is a fictional | officer who is the protagonist of a series of novels by C. S. Forester. He ... |
Division 2 | ... ll was 41,682 in the 1951–52 season, which saw the club gain promotion from | and Derek Dooley score a record 46 league goals. The highest average attan ... |
XIII International Brigade | ... force. On January 9, only 10 km had been lost to the Nationalists, when the | and XIV International Brigade and the 1st British Company, arrived in Madr ... |
British Indian Army | ... was created in August 1942, chiefly from disaffected Indian soldiers of the | , captured by the Axis in North Africa. Many, if not most, of the Indian v ... |
British Army in India | ... ation certificate, rode horses, became the flyweight boxing champion of the | and learned to play the trumpet and clarinet. While performing a comedy bo ... |
Northern Ireland | | is divided into 26 districts. Local government in Northern Ireland does no ... |
Manhattan Project | ... ed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist and the scientific director of the | . He favored Los Alamos |
Royal Navy | ... orically extinct while others remain in use in most present day navies. The | used colours (red, white, and blue, in descending order) to indicate the s ... |
7th Infantry | 6th Infantry, the | and the 8th Infantry |
227th Infantry Division | ... ay they moved to the front, and the Leibstandarte became part of the Army's | . The Der Führer Regiment was detached from the SS-VT Division and moved n ... |
Golani Brigade | On October 22, the | and Sayeret Matkal commandos recaptured the outpost on Mount Hermon, after ... |
Britannia Royal Naval College | ... . Prince Andrew eschewed university, however, choosing instead to enter the | at Dartmouth |
4th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) | ... d/4th Lancers Regiment - 4th Engineer Battalion (Belgium) - 4th Group CIS - | - 5th Group CIS - 6th Group CIS - 7th Brigade (Belgium) - 8th Logistics Ba ... |
United States Coast Guard | ... 168 were constructed by the United States Lighthouse Service and six by the | , which absorbed it in 1939. From 1820 until 1983, there were 179 lightshi ... |
Northern Ireland | Shortly after Lynch's election victory, tensions in | finally spilled over and "the troubles" began. The sight of refugees from ... |
Red Army | In July 1944, the Soviet | and the People's Army of Poland controlled by the Soviets entered Poland, ... |
company | ... untries, commanded by Col. Francisco R. Moreno, with Riley in charge of 1st | and Santiago O'Leary heading up the second |
companies | ... re focused on the specific, close proximity tasks and objectives of squads, | , battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions and their naval and air eq ... |
Wehrmacht | ... He decided to perform "the aristocratic form of emigration" and joined the | in 1935, where he found many officers sympathetic to his disapproval of th ... |
United States Navy | PT boats were a variety of torpedo-armed fast attack craft used by the | in World War II to attack larger surface ships. "PT" is the US hull classi ... |
Central Macedonia | ... rmany (2.3 million). In 2010, the most visited region of Greece was that of | , with 18% of the country's total tourist flow (amounting to 3.6 million t ... |
8th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) | ... ttalion (Belgium) - 5th Group CIS - 6th Group CIS - 7th Brigade (Belgium) - | - 10th Group CIS - 10th Tactical Wing - 11th Engineer Battalion (Belgium) ... |
Mormon Battalion | ... d by Stephen Kearny's troops and later by Captain Philip St. George Cooke's | in 1846 who were the first to take a wagon the whole way. This route was u ... |
United States Air Force | Jack O'Neill is a | colonel with experience in special operations before joining the Stargate ... |
Turkish Air Force | ... 2 Block 30/40/50 F-16s on a production line in Ankara under license for the | . TAI also produced 30 Block 50 from 2010, and built 46 Block 40s for Egyp ... |
Spanish contingent | ... n came to naught because of the want of transports and the defection of the | . In the war against Austria, Bernadotte led the Saxon contingent at the B ... |
493d Bombardment Group | ... n as a Second Lieutenant at Lubbock Army Air Field, and was assigned to the | at RAF Debach, England, as a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber co-pilot in the 8 ... |
Syrian Air Force | ... ce on October 20, though Arab forces lost 120 tanks in that engagement. The | attacked Israeli columns, but its operations were highly limited due to Is ... |
Yeomen Warders | ... Guard at Buckingham Palace still mounts a guard at the Tower, and with the | , takes part in the Ceremony of the Keys each day. On several occasions th ... |
British Army | ... hough 43 and officially over-age, Munro refused a commission and joined the | Royal Fusiliers as an ordinary soldier. More than once he returned to the ... |
New Model Army | ... nterregnum in 1660. It sat from 1640 until 1648, when it was purged, by the | , of those who were not sympathetic to the Army's concerns. In the chaos f ... |
6th Cavalry | ... of the Colony of Georgia. The base served largely as a cavalry post for the | . During World War I and World War II, it served a war-time induction and ... |
U.S. Navy | The | hired the Blue Marlin from Offshore Heavy Transport to move the destroyer ... |
Waffen-SS | ... ks, or Waffenamts, such as WaA613. In German service, it was used mainly by | and Fallschirmjäger personnel |
divisions | ... ks and objectives of squads, companies, battalions, regiments, brigades and | and their naval and air equivalents |
Royal Danish Air Force | ... ircraft were delivered to the Royal Norwegian Air Force by SABCA and to the | by Fokker |
U.S. Navy | ... er at I. Magnin & Company. When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the | during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific. He attended Lowell ... |
National Revolutionary Army | The Chinese | destroyed dams and levees in an attempt to flood the land to slow down the ... |
British Battalion | ... empozuelos, held by the XV International Brigade, which was composed of the | (British Commonwealth and Irish), the Dimitrov Battalion (miscellaneous Ba ... |
Northern Ireland | In | they are designated under separate legislation and are referred to as a sc ... |
71st Foot | ... hey had to do without senior officers. Eventually they were relieved by the | , a British infantry regiment. Adam's brigade was further reinforced by Hu ... |
Gideon Force | ... s raised again. Two days later, he and a force of Ethiopian patriots joined | which was already in Ethiopia and preparing the way. Italy was defeated by ... |
Texas Brigade | ... ood, who gained recognition during the Civil War as the commander of Hood's | |
Royal Navy | ... d the controversial Convention of Sintra, which stipulated that the British | transport the French army out of Lisbon with all their loot, and insisted ... |
Special Operations Executive | ... irborne forces as well as covert operations and commando groups such as the | (SOE), the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the nascent British ... |
United States Navy | ... er and his paternal grandfather, John S. McCain, Sr., both became four-star | admirals. His family, including his older sister Sandy and younger brother ... |
Knights Templar | ... in Europe, precious goods would be entrusted to the Roman Catholic Church's | , who effectively created a system of modern credit accounts |
North Atlantic Fleet | ... he following year for tactics and maneuvers off the Atlantic coast with the | . The battleship joined the welcome of the British Squadron at Annapolis, ... |
7th Brigade (Belgium) | ... p CIS - 4th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 5th Group CIS - 6th Group CIS - | - 8th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 10th Group CIS - 10th Tactical Wing ... |
Navy Reserve | ... atory School in Newport; the following year, these candidates enlist in the | (or, in the case of prior enlisted members, remain in the Navy) and are el ... |
Dimitrov Battalion | ... was composed of the British Battalion (British Commonwealth and Irish), the | (miscellaneous Balkan nationalities), the 6 Février Battalion (Belgians an ... |
Nigerian Army | ... afra in half, primarily by the efforts of 3 Marine Commando Division of the | , led by then Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, popularly called 'The Black Scorp ... |
Royal Fusiliers | ... officially over-age, Munro refused a commission and joined the British Army | as an ordinary soldier. More than once he returned to the battlefield when ... |
Central Macedonia | Extensive plains are primarily located in the regions of Thessaly, | and Thrace. They constitute key economic regions as they are among the few ... |
Royal Army Medical Corps | He was recommissioned in the | as a lieutenant on 1 April 1940, and worked in a number of military hospit ... |
Werriwa | ... . In 1951, Hubert Lazzarini, the Labor member for the Federal electorate of | , announced that he would stand down at the next election. Whitlam won the ... |
United States Army | The Confederate military leadership included many veterans from the | and United States Navy who had resigned their Federal commissions and had ... |
Navy | ... Jackson grew up there working on his uncle's farm. Jackson enlisted in the | in 1950 and was discharged in 1954. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 19 ... |
Second Division | Tottenham's record league win is 9–0 against Bristol Rovers in the | on 22 October 1977. The club's record cup victory came on 3 February 1960 ... |
Eighth Air Force | ... eptember 1942, when it deployed to England to become the nucleus of the new | headquarters. Thereafter, the base ceased to be an aviation center |
Northern Ireland | | , and Lynch's attitude to the situation which was about to develop there w ... |
Soviet Northern Fleet | ... o option for Ramius and his fellow conspirators but to press on or die. The | sails out to sink the Red October. The Soviets conduct this operation on t ... |
Light Division | ... ion, Thomas Picton the 3rd, William Houston the 7th and Robert Craufurd the | . Stapleton Cotton commanded John Slade's and Frederick von Arentschildt's ... |
North Korean Army | ... orce in order to defend itself from various modes of threats, including the | , which fields about twice as many aircraft. As of 2007, it operated more ... |
U.S. Navy | The USS New Jersey (BB-62) was a | battleship that was intermittently active between the years 1943 and 1991. ... |
6th Cavalry | ... he area were forced to sell their property to the United States Army so the | could be established. The Chickamauga Post established in 1902 by the Unit ... |
Luftwaffe | ... d and part of the west terracing had been badly damaged in the Blitz by the | during the Second World War |
U.S. Navy | By 1945 the | had decided to build a large scale computer, on the advice of John von Neu ... |
King's German Legion | ... was only achieved by the efforts of the Light Division and the British and | cavalry |
United States Navy | ... military leadership included many veterans from the United States Army and | who had resigned their Federal commissions and had won appointment to seni ... |
Thessaly | Extensive plains are primarily located in the regions of | , Central Macedonia and Thrace. They constitute key economic regions as th ... |
XV International Brigade | ... Nationalists quickly advanced on the little town Ciempozuelos, held by the | , which was composed of the British Battalion (British Commonwealth and Ir ... |
Peloponnese | ... nting to 3.6 million tourists), followed by Attica with 2.6 million and the | with 1.8 million. Northern Greece is the country's most-visited geographic ... |
Wehrmacht | ... ter Hitler came to power, the Reichswehr was disbanded and re-formed as the | |
United States Coast Guard | ... y the RCIP and Grand Cayman is a port of call for the British Royal Navy, & | . The Cayman Islands Fire Service provides fire prevention, fire fighting, ... |
Red Brigades | ... operation of pentiti in the fight against terrorism (especially against the | ), by Carabinieri general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa (who was later killed ... |
52nd Regiments of Foot | ... nteers, the Loyal American Regiment, Emmerich's Chasseurs, the 57th and the | . By the end of the day, both forts had fallen to the British, who burned ... |
Red Army | By 1920, the | , under its commander Trotsky, had largely defeated the royalist White Arm ... |
U.S. Navy | ... U.S. government collections. The United States Exploring Expedition by the | circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842. The voyage amassed thousa ... |
British Army | Henry Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a | officer and inventor, most famously, of the "shrapnel shell" |
French Army | French by birth, Bernadotte served a long career in the | . He was appointed as a Marshal of France by Napoleon I, though the two ha ... |
Byzantine army | ... kert (modern Malazgirt in Muş Province, Turkey). The decisive defeat of the | and the capture of the Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes played an important rol ... |
British Army | ... suitability for use. The US expressed interest in these trials. In 2011 the | used their Apache to attack targets in Libya flying off HMS Ocean and Roya ... |
Kagnew Battalion | ... proponent, he sent a contingent under General Mulugueta Bulli, known as the | , to take part in the Korean War by supporting the United Nations Command. ... |
New Zealand Division | It was also the first major Western Front battle for the | , at the time part of the British XV Corps, which captured part of the Swi ... |
Northern Ireland | ... administratively separate civil services in the United Kingdom. One is for | (the Northern Ireland Civil Service); the other is the foreign service (He ... |
Einsatzgruppen | They were often killed on sight, especially by the | (mobile killing units) on the Eastern Front. The total number of victims h ... |
4th Engineer Battalion (Belgium) | ... raCommando - 2nd Group CIS - 2nd Tactical Wing - 2nd/4th Lancers Regiment - | - 4th Group CIS - 4th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 5th Group CIS - 6th ... |
101st Airborne Division | ... oops around Bastogne. A few days later, Brigadier General McAuliffe and the | along with elements of the 10th Armored Division (United States) and the 8 ... |
High Seas Fleet | ... ds. In 1904, in response to the build-up of the German Kaiserliche Marine's | , it was decided that a northern base was needed, to control the entrances ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... lations, and the enemy shipping that had remained there. Very little of the | fleet, which had used Truk as a major forward base for years, remained the ... |
Navy | ... or a semester. With World War II in progress, Stevens attempted to join the | and serve in Naval Aviation, but failed the vision exam. He corrected his ... |
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | ... r, the Tower is still home to the ceremonial regimental headquarters of the | , and the museum dedicated to it and its predecessor, the Royal Fusiliers. ... |
Air Transport Command | ... ring World War II, the airport was used by the United States Army Air Force | as a hub for cargo, transiting aircraft and personnel. It functioned as a ... |
Pakistan Air Force | ... range from 1 million to 3 million. Attacks on Indian military bases by the | in December 1971 sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, which ended with ... |
Israeli Navy | ... boats equipped with advanced ECM packages. The battle also established the | , long derided as the "black sheep" of the Israeli military, as a formidab ... |
Kaiserliche Marine | ... in, and the Netherlands. In 1904, in response to the build-up of the German | 's High Seas Fleet, it was decided that a northern base was needed, to con ... |
Special Air Service | ... (SOE), the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the nascent British | (SAS) Regiment. Inglis Hi-Powers made for Commonwealth forces have the Bri ... |
advanced battery research | ... in the field of coal gasification, shale oil extraction, geothermal energy, | , solar energy, and fusion energy. Main oil shale processing technologies ... |
British Army | ... also examined the prospect of using a modified Apache in naval service. The | 's AgustaWestland Apache went through trials in 2004 onboard to test its s ... |
British Army | ... encing many 19th century wars and adventures and rising to high rank in the | , acclaimed as a great soldier, while remaining by his unapologetic self-d ... |
County Donegal | ... the many in Britain of part-Irish ancestry, with Blair's mother coming from | . Current Chancellor George Osborne is a member of the Anglo-Irish aristoc ... |
U.S. Army | Fort Rucker is a | post located mostly in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It was named f ... |
Western Division | ... seball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the | of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athle ... |
2nd/4th Lancers Regiment | ... /Field Artillery Battery ParaCommando - 2nd Group CIS - 2nd Tactical Wing - | - 4th Engineer Battalion (Belgium) - 4th Group CIS - 4th Logistics Battali ... |
Army Air Force Air Cadet | ... h a course of prescribed eye exercises, and in 1943 he was accepted into an | program at Montana State College. After scoring near the top of an aptitud ... |
10th Armored Division (United States) | ... eneral McAuliffe and the 101st Airborne Division along with elements of the | and the 82nd airborne arrived to counter-attack but, after heavy fighting, ... |
Canadian Forces Maritime Command | ... rovided, and the Marine Corps has continued to use the AH-1 SuperCobra. The | also examined the prospect of using a modified Apache in naval service. Th ... |
Northern Ireland | ... nationality law a person born anywhere on the island of Ireland (including | ) is considered "Irish." A person born outside of Ireland with entitlement ... |
United States Army | ... his family. In this role he worked for Pfizer, Eastman Kodak, IBM, and the | , among others. He also received a National Institute of Arts and Letters ... |
Peloponnese | ... jutting out into the sea at the southern end of the Balkans, ending at the | peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Cori ... |
Byzantine army | ... im army under Abu Ubaida ibn al-Jarrah captured Baalbek after defeating the | at Battle of Yarmouk. It was still an opulent city and yielded rich plunde ... |
Northern Ireland | ... ot currently recognised. 17 March (St Patrick's Day) is a public holiday in | and, since 2008, 30 November (St Andrew's Day) is a bank holiday in Scotla ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... d reporting name "Val") was a World War II carrier-borne dive bomber of the | (IJN). It was the primary dive bomber in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and p ... |
Fighter Interception Unit | ... early production features. This Typhoon was delivered to, and served on the | in 1942. In February 1945 R7771 was listed as being in front line service ... |
Pakistan Army | ... tan refused to hand over power. There was civil unrest in the East, and the | launched a military operation on 25 March 1971, aiming to regain control o ... |
United States Marine Corps | Hamm was first married to her college sweetheart Christian Corry, a | CH-53E helicopter pilot; they divorced in 2001 |
Royal Fusiliers | ... iment of Fusiliers, and the museum dedicated to it and its predecessor, the | . Also, a detachment of the unit providing the Queen's Guard at Buckingham ... |
Fianna | ... o known as Diarmuid of the love spot) is a son of Donn and a warrior of the | in the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology. He is most famous as the lover of ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). It was the primary dive bomber in the | , and participated in almost all actions, including Pearl Harbor |
United States Marine Corps | Naval versions of the AH-64A for the | and Navy were examined from 1984 to 1987. Multiple concepts were studied w ... |
United States Navy | ... athaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the | |
Feldgendarmerie | ... zi Party in 1938. He served with the German Army as a Hauptfeldwebel of the | and was discharged in 1943 after contracting malaria. They were married on ... |
United States Navy | ... t games. The modern Rameses is depicted in a sailor's hat, a reference to a | flight training program that was attached to the university during World W ... |
United States Army | ... til the middle of 2008, it was included on the list of required reading for | officers, and (with Sun Tzu and Clausewitz) the third non-American entry o ... |
Royal Artillery | In 1784, while a lieutenant in the | , he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called "sp ... |
Kwantung Army | ... ished himself in Inner Manchuria with Japanese backing. Later, the Japanese | found him too independent, so he was assassinated in 1928 |
Gardes Françaises | ... Turenne too weak to attack, when a dispute for precedence arose between the | and the Picardie regiment. The royal infantry had to be rearranged in orde ... |
4th Fleet | ... on. At the same time, Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue, commander of the IJN's | (also called the South Seas Force) which consisted of most of the naval un ... |
United States Army Air Forces | ... War II, the Santa Ana Army Air Base was built as a training center for the | . The base was responsible for continued population growth in Santa Ana an ... |
Royal Navy | ... tion belonging to this ethnic group. Portsmouth's long association with the | has meant that it represents one of the most diverse cities in terms of th ... |
5th SS Panzer Division Wiking | ... itler (LSSAH), 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, | and the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend |
5th Infantry | ... the 2nd Dragoons, the 2nd Infantry, the 3rd Infantry, the 4th Infantry, the | , th |
Wehrmacht | ... mity of the border proved once again disastrous. Kalisz was captured by the | almost instantly and without much fighting, and the city was annexed by Na ... |
naval officer | ... of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and | , and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (the husband of Elizabe ... |
Boer commando | ... s and therefore had no right to part with this territory. During the year a | under Paul Kruger and an army under Cetshwayo were posted to defend the ne ... |
U.S. Army | ... branches of the U.S. armed forces. ROTC graduates constitute 56 percent of | officers, 11 percent of U.S. Marine Corps officers, 20 percent of U.S. Nav ... |
Fianna | ... e sleeps in a cave somewhere beneath Ireland, surrounded by the rest of the | . One day they will awake and defend Ireland in the hour of her greatest n ... |
British Indian Army | ... ils. However, many wanted to support the British war effort, and indeed the | was the largest volunteer forces, numbering 2,500,000 men during the war |
4th Infantry | ... he 4th Artillery, the 2nd Dragoons, the 2nd Infantry, the 3rd Infantry, the | , the 5th Infantry, th |
Grayndler | ... r-city seats, including Melbourne (22.7% of primary votes), Sydney (20.7%), | (18.7%), Denison (18.6%) and Batman (17.2%). Strong votes were also record ... |
Afrika Korps | ... uated in Dade City. The prisoners were German soldiers who were in Rommel's | and were captured in North Africa. They made limestone bricks, built wareh ... |
Football League Second Division | ... and played in the Southern League until 1908, when it was elected into the | . Before this promotion Tottenham had won the FA Cup in 1901, making it th ... |
Northern Ireland | ... y, Cabletel acquired local cable franchises covering Guildford and parts of | , Scotland and Wales. In 1996 CableTel acquired National Transcommunicatio ... |
United States Coast Guard | As the | is subsumed into the U.S. Navy in time of declared war, the only member of ... |
12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend | ... Das Reich, 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking and the | |
Royal Navy | ... ng the trade, and with some British ships disregarding the legislation. The | patrolled the Atlantic intercepting slave ships from other countries. Wilb ... |
Tercio | ... and regiments) are stationed in Madrid and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The | (fleet - regiment equivalent) is available for immediate embarkation and b ... |
County Cork | Mallow is a town in | , Ireland, about thirty-five kilometres north of Cork. It is the administr ... |
British Expeditionary Force | ... d at Saint Venant. That night the OKW ordered the advance to halt, with the | trapped. The Leibstandarte paused for the night, but the following day, in ... |
U.S. Navy | ... U.S. Army officers, 11 percent of U.S. Marine Corps officers, 20 percent of | officers, and 41 percent of U.S. Air Force officers, for a combined 39 per ... |
U.S. Marines | ... be aide-de-camp to Col. Robert E. Lee and accompanied Lee with a company of | from the Washington Navy Yard and four companies of Maryland militia. Whil ... |
Fast Carrier Task Force | ... unafuti, the Ellice Islands, on 21 January 1944, and there she rejoined the | s. She was assigned to Task Group 58.2, which was centered around the carr ... |
United States Army Corps of Engineers | In 1958 the | completed Coralville Dam along the Iowa River four miles (6 km) north of t ... |
1st Army Tank Brigade | ... nly Allied tank attack in the Battle of France, when on 21 May units of the | , supported by the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division, took part in the ... |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | ... nal and environmental radicals, the party's provincial office was raided by | (RCMP) officers as part of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of char ... |
Zirkus Rosarius | ... n (a German equivalent to RAE Farnborough) and later served as T9+GK with " | ". EJ956 overturned and was written off during a forced landing near Mecke ... |
U.S. Marine Corps | ... . ROTC graduates constitute 56 percent of U.S. Army officers, 11 percent of | officers, 20 percent of U.S. Navy officers, and 41 percent of U.S. Air For ... |
2nd Infantry | ... 2nd Artillery, the 3rd Artillery, the 4th Artillery, the 2nd Dragoons, the | , the 3rd Infantry, the 4th Infantry, the 5th Infantry, th |
Royal Canadian Navy | ... h of the Canadian Forces: honorary Admiral of the Maritime Command (now the | ) and General of the Land Force Command (now the Canadian Army) and Air Co ... |
Knights Templar | ... usader Military orders, such as The Poor Knights of the Temple of Solomon ( | ) and the Knights of St John (Hospitallers), were in some way inexplicably ... |
Army Corps of Engineers | ... ger U.S. dams are owned and operated by the federal government (some by the | and some by the Bureau of Reclamation), while the smaller dams are operate ... |
Egyptian Expeditionary Force | ... stine. In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Majdal was the forward position of the | based in Gaza. The village was occupied by Israeli forces on November 5, 1 ... |
1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment | ... d all the cavalry companies of the Army of the Shenandoah, organized as the | . He was promoted to colonel on July 16 |
British Army | ... Sig Sauer P225. The weapon is the standard sidearm of the Belgian Army, the | (although the SIG-Sauer P226 is being gradually introduced ), Indian Army, ... |
Batalion Zośka | ... executed or "disappeared." For example between 1944 and 1956 all members of | unit who took part in Warsaw Uprising was closed in communist jail. In 195 ... |
navy | ... ard on the west side of Sydney Harbour is the location of Sydport, a former | base now converted to commercial use. The Canadian Coast Guard College is ... |
British Royal Navy | ... a League of Armed Neutrality, designed to defend neutral shipping from the | during the American Revolution |
43rd Wessex Division | ... a medieval chapel of St Michael and is now designated as a memorial to the | of the British Army. In 1844 on Bodmin Moor the body of 18 year old Charlo ... |
Red Army | ... nd his Northeastern China Army were sent to Anhui and Hubei to suppress the | of the Chinese Communist Party. The CPC was forced on the Long March after ... |
army | Leaving the | in 1946, Wisdom made his debut as a professional entertainer at the age of ... |
Royal Navy | ... near Tom Clancy's Calvert County waterfront home, and the prominence of the | , including HMS Invincible. The order of many events also has been changed ... |
Royal Navy | ... e Bounty against William Bligh led to several of the mutineers escaping the | and settling on Pitcairn Islands, which later became a British colony |
USCG | In November 2009, the | announced that LORAN-C is not needed by the U.S. for maritime navigation. ... |
Royal Navy | ... s the actual rank of Commander and the honorary rank of Rear Admiral in the | , in which he served as an active duty helicopter pilot and later instruct ... |
Imperial Guard | ... serve including Lobau's VI Corps with 6,000 men, the 13,000 infantry of the | , and a cavalry reserve of 2,000. In the right rear of the French position ... |
RAF | It first flew on 19 February 1934, but was eventually rejected by the | because of its unsatisfactory performance. While the 224 was being built, ... |
Northern Ireland | The judicial system of | is very similar to that of England and Wales, and superior court judges ar ... |
Australian Defence Force Academy | ... lly separate campus of a university. For example, the executive head of the | in Canberra, which is a campus of the University of New South Wales in Syd ... |
Indian Air Force | The Apache Longbow was one of several types that competed for the | order for 22 attack helicopters. Boeing had backed out of the competition ... |
Royal Navy | ... t 10 months of the war. They achieved their first major success against the | during their Indian Ocean raid in April 1942. Val dive bombers scored over ... |
Templars | ... d of Cornwall, brought from England to settle the dangerous feuding between | and Hospitallers, whose rivalry imperiled the treaty guaranteeing regional ... |
2nd Vermont Brigade | ... al George J. Stannard, a Union Army hero of the Civil War. Stannard and his | broke Pickett's charge and beat back troops from Florida and Alabama. He w ... |
Red Army | ... forces until October 2 (63 days in total). With no aid from the approaching | , the Germans eventually defeated the rebels and burned the city, finally ... |
Army Cadet Force | ... s appointed Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps, Colonel-in-Chief of the British | , and Air Commodore-in-Chief of the Air Training Corps. The following year ... |
Army | The military armed forces of the Confederacy comprised three branches: | , Navy and Marine Corps |
County Cork | ... nties from which these people arrived were County Kerry (Dingle Peninsula), | , and County Roscommon, along with others |
Game Freak | Blastoise, known in Japan as , is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and | 's Pokémon franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Blastoise first appeared in ... |
Underground Home Army | ... ng the Ochota district in Warsaw that was defended by members of the Polish | . Their attack was planned for the morning of August 5, but when the time ... |
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth | ... 939, Prince Philip joined the Royal Navy, graduating the next year from the | , as the top cadet in his course. He was commissioned as a midshipman in J ... |
South African Navy | ... arbour on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula is the main base of the | |
Navy | ... he military armed forces of the Confederacy comprised three branches: Army, | and Marine Corps |
Egypt's air force | The Six-Day war began when Israel launched air strikes against | on 5 June 1967. The war ended in an Arab defeat and Israel's occupation of ... |
United States Army Air Corps | Test Pilot utilized authentic | (USAAC) airfield settings and was able to obtain rights to film using Boei ... |
Royal Anglian Regiment | ... of the Regiment from its 17th century origins to its incorporation into the | in 1964. There was an extensive and representative display of medals award ... |
3rd SS Division Totenkopf | ... on Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, | , 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking and the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjuge ... |
XII International Brigade | On 13 November, the 1,550-man strong | , made up of the Thälmann Battalion, the Garibaldi Battalion and the André ... |
83rd Infantry Division | ... Army in World War II seeing action with the 331st Infantry Regiment of the | (Thunderbolt Division) in the Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central European ca ... |
United States Marine Band | ... r music just before the turn of the century. Formerly the bandmaster of the | , Sousa wrote military marches like "Stars and Stripes Forever" that refle ... |
County Cork | ... He died at the age of 50, ten days before Michael Collins' assassination in | . He was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery four days later |
Thälmann Battalion | ... 13 November, the 1,550-man strong XII International Brigade, made up of the | , the Garibaldi Battalion and the André Marty Battalion, deployed. Command ... |
Shayetet 13 | Israeli commandos from | , the Israeli Navy's elite special unit, infiltrated the Egyptian port of ... |
Special Administrative Regions | ... 's Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) authorizes by law its | (Hong Kong and Macau) to issue passports to their permanent residents with ... |
Wisconsin Air National Guard | ... nated to music) that begins with a fly-over by several F-16s from the local | . This celebration is the largest fireworks display in the Midwest in leng ... |
Standing NRF Maritime Group 2 | ... pilot until 1986, including deployment to the Mediterranean Sea as part of | , and undertook the Lieutenants' Greenwich Staff course. On 23 October 198 ... |
U.S. Air Force | ... Marine Corps officers, 20 percent of U.S. Navy officers, and 41 percent of | officers, for a combined 39 percent of all active duty officers in the Dep ... |
Kwantung Army | ... ould be much more subject to Japanese influence. An officer of the Japanese | therefore killed his father Zhang Zuolin by exploding a bomb above his tra ... |
2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich | ... most famous are the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH), | , 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking and the 12th SS ... |
U.S. Air Force | Beginning in 1968, the | operated a fleet of 20 C-9A "Nightingale" aeromedical evacuation aircraft, ... |
27th SS Volunteer Division Langemarck | ... stics Battalion - 20th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 24 Hours of Zolder - | – 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien – 29th Logistics Battalio ... |
Navy | In October 2009, | Secretary Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, announced that , a , w ... |
1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler | ... During the war, the Waffen-SS grew to 38 divisions. The most famous are the | (LSSAH), 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 3rd SS Division Totenkopf, 5th ... |
No. 83 Group RAF | ... Deutschland were sunk in four separate attacks by RAF Hawker Typhoon 1Bs of | , 2nd Tactical Air Force: the first by 184 Squadron, second by 198 Squadro ... |
RAF | ... h much of it was made of aluminum to reduce weight. With the demands of the | for almost all light metals and machinists, the Predictor was far too diff ... |
Panzer-Division Hermann Göring | ... German officer, and Captain Maximilian Becker (a Protestant), both from the | , these were all transferred to the Vatican at the beginning of the battle |
National Guard of the United States | ... ch corps area included divisions of the Regular Army, Organized Reserve and | . Developed as a result of serious mobilization problems during World War ... |
Royal Navy | ... lebrate his 90th birthday, the Queen appointed him Lord High Admiral of the | (the highest rank in the organisation anyone other than the sovereign can ... |
XI International Brigade | On 9 November 1936, the | - comprising 1,900 men from the Edgar André Battalion, the Commune de Pari ... |
USAF | ... ion of LORAN-A while LORAN-D was a short-range tactical system designed for | bombers. The unofficial "LORAN-F" was a drone control system. None of thes ... |
Football League Second Division | ... lly won promotion to the top flight of English football as champions of the | . They would stay among the elite for the next 34 years, reaching their pi ... |
Office of Naval Communications | ... e Japanese, the U.S. Navy, led by the Communication Security Section of the | , had for several years enjoyed some success with penetrating Japanese com ... |
U.S. Marine | Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, a former | and naval historian turned high-level CIA analyst, flies from London to La ... |
United States Army | The hand-cranked Gatling gun was declared obsolete by the | in 1911 |
Kinmen | ... dministered by the People's Republic of China. However, the archipelagos of | and Matsu are under the control of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Thus, t ... |
Free Belgium | ... by a force of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, Free France, | , and Ethiopian patriots. On 5 May 1941, Haile Selassie entered Addis Abab ... |
Wehrmacht | While the Waffen-SS remained officially outside the Armed Forces ( | ) and under Himmler's authority, they were placed under the operational co ... |
Air Training Corps | ... in-Chief of the British Army Cadet Force, and Air Commodore-in-Chief of the | . The following year, he was appointed to the equivalent positions in Cana ... |
United States Army | ... a was a geographically-based organizational structure (area command) of the | used to accomplish administrative, training and tactical tasks from 1920 t ... |
Force Publique | See also U.S. State Department, , 19 Apr 2007. Like the | in the , FARDC brigades have been deploying to their areas of operation wi ... |
Dabrowski Battalion | ... men from the Edgar André Battalion, the Commune de Paris Battalion and the | , together with a British machine-gun company — took up position at the Ca ... |
28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien | ... on (Belgium) - 24 Hours of Zolder - 27th SS Volunteer Division Langemarck – | – 29th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 31st Squadron (Belgium) - 40th Squa ... |
carabinier | ... ermann, recognising the futility of the attacks, tried to reserve the elite | brigade from joining in, but eventually Ney spotted them and insisted on t ... |
Northern Ireland | Examples of Scheduled Monuments in | , as designated by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency |
Marine Corps | ... ry armed forces of the Confederacy comprised three branches: Army, Navy and | |
Knights Templar | ... nasteries, and churches. The best organization, however, was created by the | . The newly instituted universities also had their private services, start ... |
United States Army | ... tes from 1953 until 1961. He had previously been a five-star general in the | during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces ... |
New Model Army | ... to the Battle of St Fagans. The battle, between a Royalist rebellion and a | detachment, was a decisive victory for the Parliamentarians and allowed Ol ... |
Indian Army | ... British Army (although the SIG-Sauer P226 is being gradually introduced ), | , Indonesian Armed Forces, Australian Defence Force, Argentine Army, Luxem ... |
Northern Ireland | ... and part of the Scottish Region. British Railways transferred the lines in | to the Ulster Transport Authority in 1949. The London Midland & Scottish R ... |
Shouyang | ... itions, but did not aggressively take advantage of his victory in 516 AD at | because of heavy casualties. Given the excessive kin-slaughter in the Liu ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... g Israeli counterattacks that came later on. For the next several days, the | (IAF) played a minimal role in the fighting largely because it was needed ... |
29th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) | ... teer Division Langemarck – 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien – | - 31st Squadron (Belgium) - 40th Squadron Heli (Belgium) - 51st Logistics ... |
Minnesota's First Regiment of Volunteers | ... . With no previous military experience, Miller enlisted as a private in the | , and was promoted to lieutenant colonel and eventually "Brigadier General ... |
Leib Guard | ... to Oranienbaum, leaving his wife in Saint Petersburg. On 8 and 9 July, the | revolted, deposed Peter from power, and proclaimed Catherine the Empress o ... |
Fianna | ... of Scotland and the Isle of Man. The stories of Fionn and his followers the | , form the Fenian Cycle (or Fiannaidheacht), much of it purported to be na ... |
Royal Air Force | ... ain to refuel. Navigation and weather forecasting improved in 1933 when the | established a station at Bermuda and operated float planes from the harbou ... |
Viet Cong | ... ring the Vietnam War. The Phoenix Program had the dual aim of assassinating | personnel and terrorizing any potential sympathizers or passive supporters ... |
Luftwaffe | ... e gunner. Making matters worse was that these ranges were exactly where the | s dive bombers were attacking from, which were quickly proving to be a dec ... |
Irish Army | ... srael Police, Singapore Armed Forces and Venezuelan Army, among others. The | replaced its Browning Pistols (known popularly as BAPs, or Browning Automa ... |
Musical Ride | ... tlets for riders). Review Order is worn by the mounted troop performing the | , an equestrian drill in which mounted members demonstrate their riding sk ... |
Special Air Service | ... lth to the plotters. British aristocrat Simon Mann, a former officer in the | , led the plot, which also included former members of the South African Ar ... |
United States Coast Guard | Marblehead is also home to a | station, and to the Marblehead Lighthouse, the oldest continuously operati ... |
IETF | The W3C meeting decided to form an | working group, because the new effort would lead to extensions to HTTP, wh ... |
21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) | ... February 1944, around a cadre from the 3 Estonian SS Volunteer Brigade. The | was formed in March 1944 from Albanian and Kosovan volunteers, for anti-pa ... |
Microsoft Research | ... at Microsoft since 1991 in various top-level positions revolving around the | division. Another of the original Mach developers, Avie Tevanian, was form ... |
Ministry of Defence | ... (known as MINIS) first in the Department of the Environment and then in the | |
Northern Ireland | As he was born and educated in | , Heaney has felt the need to emphasise that he is Irish and not British. ... |
TF 16 | ... with two cruisers and five destroyers, was between Fiji and New Caledonia. | , commanded by Vice Admiral William F. Halsey and including the carriers a ... |
United States Navy | ... best known internationally as the site of a series of protests against the | 's use of the island as a bombing range and testing ground, which led to t ... |
92nd Gordon Highland Regiment | ... wept through the infantry lines (giving rise to the legend that some of the | clung onto their stirrups and accompanied them into the charge). From the ... |
British Army | The | 's new Bofors 40 mm guns were intended as their standard low-altitude anti ... |
Army | ... York. There he entered into the military service in 1942 and served in the | during World War II. In 1946, Granville was discharged and settled in New ... |
31st Squadron (Belgium) | ... lunteer Grenadier Division Wallonien – 29th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - | - 40th Squadron Heli (Belgium) - 51st Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 62TV ... |
United States Navy | ... Cain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the | , graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviato ... |
Northern Ireland | Most of the above operated in what became | The total route mileage of the LMS in 1923 was 7790 miles (12,537 km) |
Haganah | ... was an offshoot of the earlier and larger Jewish paramilitary organization | (Hebrew: "Defense", הגנה). When the group broke from the Haganah it became ... |
Vietnamese National Army | ... as an independent country ruled by the Vietnamese Emperor Bảo Đại, and the | (VNA) was soon created. The VNA fought in joint operations with the French ... |
Royal Air Force | ... t variant, the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod. Nimrods remained in service with the | (RAF) until they were retired in June 2011, over 60 years after the Comet' ... |
Garibaldi Battalion | ... an strong XII International Brigade, made up of the Thälmann Battalion, the | and the André Marty Battalion, deployed. Commanded by General "Lukacs", th ... |
Condor Legion | ... st troops — Moroccans and Spanish Foreign Legionnaires, covered by the Nazi | — captured a foothold in the University City. The 11th Brigade was sent t ... |
British Army | ... s day. Originally, the concept of a detachable magazine was opposed in some | circles, as some feared that the private soldier might be likely to lose t ... |
Fianna | ... ative The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn. He was the son of Cumhall – leader of the | – and Muirne, daughter of the druid Tadg mac Nuadat who lived on the hill ... |
20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian) | ... med from the two SS Infantry Brigades as cadre with Latvian conscripts. The | was formed via general conscription in February 1944, around a cadre from ... |
Waffen-SS | ... to two completely separate organizations, mainly the Allgemeine-SS and the | . The Allgemeine-SS also had control over a third SS branch, known as the ... |
Tank Corps | ... ege in England. After the outbreak of the First World War, he served in the | as a tank commander in France, and was awarded both the Distinguished Serv ... |
Indian Army | ... the war, British and Japanese intelligence had co-operated against Russia. | stations in Malaya and China often intercepted and read wireless and teleg ... |
Knights Hospitaller | ... he City of the Sun is presented as a dialogue between "a Grandmaster of the | and a Genoese Sea-Captain". Inspired by Plato's Republic and the descripti ... |
TF 11 | ... h Pacific, having departed Tongatabu on 27 April en route to the Coral Sea. | , commanded by Rear Admiral Aubrey Fitch and consisting of the carrier wit ... |
United States Air Force | ... and the American relationship with East Anglia, especially the role of the | on UK air bases throughout the Second World War and Cold War. Much of the ... |
40th Squadron Heli (Belgium) | ... Wallonien – 29th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 31st Squadron (Belgium) - | - 51st Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 62TV Records - 70-point plan (Belgi ... |
Flight of the Wild Geese | ... ups of young men who had left Ireland during what would become known as the | in the 17th century. In addition, many Irish fought as soldiers in South A ... |
British Army | ... s, which destroyed or damaged some 81 vehicles. In the Vire area, where the | was under attack, Typhoons flew 294 sorties on one day, firing 2,088 rocke ... |
U.S. Army | He trained at Fort Carson, and served nine months and nineteen days in the | in World War II seeing action with the 331st Infantry Regiment of the 83rd ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... 2001, killing of Abu Ali Mustafa, the Secretary General of the PFLP, by the | under its policy of targeted killings |
NL West | Today, Scully call roughly 100 games (all home games and road games in | and AL West ballparks) for both flagship radio station KLAC and television ... |
162nd Armored Division | ... is planned a cautious counterattack for the following day by Abraham Adan's | . The same day, the Israeli Air Force carried out Operation Tagar, aiming ... |
Wehrmacht | ... of just one Typhoon was equivalent to a destroyer's broadside." Against the | 's tanks, the rockets needed to hit the thin-walled engine compartment or ... |
Royal Navy | ... ge of Sevastopol. The proposal was backed by Admiral Thomas Cochrane of the | . It was considered by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, but the Britis ... |
Roman legion | ... (Kenchester) in modern Herefordshire to Caerleon, Isca Augusta and the main | ary base in the south of Roman Wales |
Thessalian | ... um and Nauplia in the Argolid, near Thebes and Delphi, and not far from the | Larissa. During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1 ... |
league's basement division | ... ence National; this downfall came just three years after promotion from the | and ultimately led to a change in ownership of the club to a consortium of ... |
Navy | ... ty in support of every type of military platform from Air Force fighters to | submarines. The full development of JTIDS commenced in 1981 when a contrac ... |
Rough Riders | ... ated in 1940, was first established by the decision of Theodore Roosevelt's | regiment (the first Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the Spanish-American War ... |
Kampfgruppe | ... Leibstandarte was operating in the north, the 16 SS Reichsführer-SS sent a | to contain the Anzio landings in January 1944.In March, the bulk of the 1s ... |
Royal Navy | ... rol of the lake themselves. Under the command of Geoffrey Spicer-Simson the | achieved the monumental task of bringing two armed motor boats Mimi and To ... |
Special Activities Division | ... e service, but is later re-hired by the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) | (Special Operations Group) for another mission in Vietnam. At the same tim ... |
National Guard | ... e lower numbered corps (I through IX) consisted of one Regular Army and two | divisions among the various states of the corps area. The higher numbered ... |
Northern Ireland | ... was also the only one of the Big Four companies to operate rail services in | , serving most major settlements in the region |
Yukon | The Klondike is a region of the | in northwest Canada, east of the Alaska border. It lies around the Klondik ... |
United States Army | ... r, Michigan from 1964 through 1965. From 1965 through 1966 he served in the | . He was married (twice) and had two children. He was active in science fi ... |
6th (Inniskilling) | ... glish, the 1st (The Royals); a Scottish, 2nd ('Scots Greys'); and an Irish, | ; regiment of heavy dragoons. More than 20 years of warfare had eroded the ... |
No. 5 Group | ... journey. This was a group of Lancasters from Bomber Command's 83 Squadron, | , acting as the Pathfinders or flare force, whose job it was to find Dresd ... |
signalmen | ... ng 250 prisoners, horses, mules, and supplies. Tapping telegraph lines, his | intercepted messages between Union commanders and Stuart sent a personal t ... |
19th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (2nd Latvian) | The Waffen-SS expanded again during 1944. January saw the formation of the | , formed from the two SS Infantry Brigades as cadre with Latvian conscript ... |
U.S. Army | He resigned from the | in August 1854 to serve in the army of his first cousin-once-removed, Napo ... |
Wehrkreis XII | In World War II, Wiesbaden was the Headquarters for Germany’s | . This military district included the Eifel, part of Hesse, the Palatinate ... |
83 Squadron | ... s CET for the journey. This was a group of Lancasters from Bomber Command's | , No. 5 Group, acting as the Pathfinders or flare force, whose job it was ... |
People's Liberation Army Ground Force | ... commanded by the Central Military Commission (CMC). The PLA consists of the | (PLAGF), the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), the People's Liberation ... |
Indian Army | ... this test, and preparations were made in a long-constructed army base, the | Pokhran Test Range. In 1974, India successfully conducted an underground n ... |
United States Marines | ... Ali Mahdi Muhammad president, another Mohamed Farrah Aidid. A contingent of | landed near Mogadishu on December 9, 1992 to spearhead the United Nations ... |
Army Group Vistula | ... n the Vistula River line near Warsaw, where it was to join the newly formed | . Fighting alongside the Luftwaffe's Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann ... |
United States Army | Kennedy enlisted in the | in June 1951 (signing up for an optional four-year term, which was shorten ... |
11th Engineer Battalion (Belgium) | ... - 8th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 10th Group CIS - 10th Tactical Wing - | - 14th Air Defence Artillery Regiment (Belgium) - 18th Logistics Battalion ... |
36th Division (National Revolutionary Army) | ... ghan, Uighur and Kirghiz forces were defeated in 1934 by the Chinese Muslim | led by General Ma Zhancang at the Battle of Kashgar and Battle of Yarkand. ... |
Luftstreitkräfte | ... e was recovering, his friend Bruno Loerzer convinced him to transfer to the | ("air combat force") of the German army, but the transfer request was turn ... |
class | ... facet of distributist economic order, as labour unions are organized along | lines to promote class interests and frequently class struggle, whereas gu ... |
Special Operations Executive | When Leo Marks was appointed codes officer of the | (SOE) in London during World War II, he very quickly recognized the weakne ... |
IV SS Panzer Corps | ... odlin area for the rest of the year, grouped with the 3 SS Totenkopf in the | . Heavy defensive battles around Modlin followed for the rest of the year. ... |
Royal Air Force | The | station, RAF Northolt, is situated in South Ruislip near the A40 and the t ... |
United States Coast Guard | ... rrent LORAN system has been phased out in the United States and Canada. The | (USCG) and Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ceased transmitting LORAN-C (and joi ... |
United States Navy | The | continued filling armor piercing shells with explosive D after some other ... |
2nd Infantry Division | ... Desert with two armies (both corps-sized by western standards, included the | in the northern Second Army). By the following morning, some 850 tanks had ... |
People's Liberation Army Air Force | ... on Army Ground Force (PLAGF), the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), the | (PLAAF), and a strategic nuclear force, the Second Artillery Corps. The of ... |
United States Air Force Band | Components of the United States Navy Band, the | , the United States Marine Band and the United States Army Band perform on ... |
460th Space Wing | ... tional Guard Base and finally Buckley Air Force Base. The base, home of the | and the 140th Wing Colorado Air National Guard, is Aurora's largest employ ... |
Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring | ... oin the newly formed Army Group Vistula. Fighting alongside the Luftwaffe's | , they proceeded to annihilate the Soviet 3rd Tank Corps. The advent of th ... |
Royal Navy | After the American Revolution, the | began improving the harbours and in 1811 started building the large dockya ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... rtifications. Meanwhile engineers crossed over to breach the sand wall. The | conducted air interdiction operations to try to prevent the bridges from b ... |
Coast Guard | ... erved as Reagan's Transportation Secretary (which at that time included the | ), H.W. Bush's Labor Secretary, and a former Presidential candidate, who a ... |
14th Air Defence Artillery Regiment (Belgium) | ... - 10th Group CIS - 10th Tactical Wing - 11th Engineer Battalion (Belgium) - | - 18th Logistics Battalion - 20th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 24 Hours ... |
2nd ('Scots Greys') | ... so called as it consisted of an English, the 1st (The Royals); a Scottish, | ; and an Irish, 6th (Inniskilling); regiment of heavy dragoons. More than ... |
80th U.S.Infantry Division | ... in. The attack started at 0100 and by early afternoon the two forces of the | had linked up with the loss of only three dead and three missing. The Amer ... |
United States Marine Band | ... nents of the United States Navy Band, the United States Air Force Band, the | and the United States Army Band perform on the west steps of the United St ... |
3d Armored Cavalry Squadron | ... notable ARVN unit equipped with M113 armored personnel carriers (APCs), the | , used the new tactic so proficiently and with such extraordinary heroism ... |
United States Army Band | ... nd, the United States Air Force Band, the United States Marine Band and the | perform on the west steps of the United States Capitol on Monday, Tuesday, ... |
Luftwaffe's | ... it was to join the newly formed Army Group Vistula. Fighting alongside the | Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring, they proceeded to annihilate ... |
Royal Navy | ... and maneuverability. The Bermuda sloop , one of the fastest vessels in the | , brought the news of the victory at Trafalgar and the death of Admiral Ne ... |
Alpenkorps | ... ounterparts (Kaiserjäger, Standschützen and Landesschützen), and the German | occupied every hill and mountain top. They began carving extensive fortifi ... |
Pathfinders | ... of Lancasters from Bomber Command's 83 Squadron, No. 5 Group, acting as the | or flare force, whose job it was to find Dresden and drop magnesium parach ... |
9th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment | ... correspondence with General Sturgis, Colonel Alex Wilkin, commander of the | gave several reasons for the loss of the battle. He stated that General St ... |
Navy | ... ub for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. After Harvard, Lemmon joined the | , receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign. On being discharged, h ... |
division | The act established the | as a basic Army unit, replacing the pre-World War I notion of the regiment ... |
Northern Ireland | In 1938, the LMS operated of railway (excluding its lines in | ), but its profitability was generally disappointing, with a rate of retur ... |
Royal Marines | ... ered Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During 1980 he also took the | Green Beret commando course |
Northern Ireland | In | in 2008, 160 homophobic incidents and 7 transphobic incidents were reporte ... |
Royal Navy | ... , going into decline straight after the end of First World War. In 1909 the | established Scotland's only Royal Naval Dockyard at nearby Rosyth |
Marine Corps | ... tion of the AH-56 Cheyenne in 1972, in favor of United States Air Force and | projects like the A-10 Thunderbolt II and Harrier, the United States Army ... |
United States Navy | During World War II James joined the | , was promoted to coxswain and took part in the invasion of Guam against t ... |
Royal Navy | ... ates, owing to various transgressions (such as impressment), by the British | , declared war on the United Kingdom and attempted to invade British North ... |
140th Wing | ... ally Buckley Air Force Base. The base, home of the 460th Space Wing and the | Colorado Air National Guard, is Aurora's largest employer |
Second Corps | ... Gen. Robert E. Rodes, sent a message ordering Stuart to take command of the | . Although the delays associated with this change of command effectively e ... |
United States Army | ... fle-mounted bayonet, which has its origin in the spear, has seen use by the | , the United States Marine Corps, and the British Army as recently as the ... |
1st (The Royals) | ... eral Sir William Ponsonby, was so called as it consisted of an English, the | ; a Scottish, 2nd ('Scots Greys'); and an Irish, 6th (Inniskilling); regim ... |
Air National Guard | ... re Joint National Guard Station and the headquarters for the South Carolina | . South Carolina Electric & Gas Company's Wateree Station 700 megawatt coa ... |
United States Army | William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was a | General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its pe ... |
18th Logistics Battalion | ... ineer Battalion (Belgium) - 14th Air Defence Artillery Regiment (Belgium) - | - 20th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 24 Hours of Zolder - 27th SS Volunt ... |
British Army | ... seen use by the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, and the | as recently as the Iraq War |
U.S. Army | ... , named after Benjamin Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the | , fur trapper, and explorer in the American West. Bonneville is noted for ... |
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth | In 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the | . During the visit, the Queen and Earl Mountbatten asked Philip to escort ... |
Canadian Shield | ... The Interior Plains spread over much of the continent with low relief. The | covers almost 5 million km² of North America and is generally quite flat. ... |
South Division | ... team based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. They are members of the | of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League ... |
Royal Air Force | ... t from Dartmouth, the Prince went on to elementary flying training with the | at RAF Leeming, and later, basic flying training with the Navy at HMS Seah ... |
United States Marine Corps | ... ch has its origin in the spear, has seen use by the United States Army, the | , and the British Army as recently as the Iraq War |
Army of Africa | As part of the | , the Foreign Legion contributed to the growth of the French colonial empi ... |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | ... techniques, and defensive clothing. For example, in 2008 the United States | used live pigs to study the effects of improvised explosive device explosi ... |
Royal Australian Navy | ... nto Australia or Australian waters are stopped by Australian Customs or the | |
20th Logistics Battalion (Belgium) | ... 14th Air Defence Artillery Regiment (Belgium) - 18th Logistics Battalion - | - 24 Hours of Zolder - 27th SS Volunteer Division Langemarck – 28th SS Vol ... |
Home Guard | The creation of the | (initially as the Local Defence Volunteers) following Anthony Eden's broad ... |
Royal Navy | Lord Mountbatten served in the | as a midshipman during World War I. After his service, he attended Christ' ... |
47th Infantry Regiment | ... , his brother-in-law, LTC Frederick Van Deusen (Commander of 2nd Battalion, | ), was killed when his helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta region ... |
Kaiserjäger | ... ll being uncovered today. The Italian Alpini, their Austrian counterparts ( | , Standschützen and Landesschützen), and the German Alpenkorps occupied ev ... |
County Cork | ... ich means Irishville), Salmon River, Ogden, Bantry (named after Bantry Bay, | , Ireland but now abandoned and grown up in trees) among others, where Iri ... |
Northern Ireland | Lyons was born in Derry, | , in 1923, but soon moved to Boyle in County Roscommon where his father wa ... |
Red Army | ... blished an uneasy truce with the Soviets. Even then, the main forces of the | and the NKVD conducted operations against the AK partisans, including duri ... |
Wehrmacht | ... . The town was taken over by the Red Army on October 25, 1944 as the German | was pushed out and fled the area after having destroyed most of the remain ... |
Highland Light Infantry | ... t Trenches and a push towards Grandcourt. Ninety men of the 16th Battalion, | (the "Glasgow Boys Brigade" Pals battalion) were cut off in Frankfurt Tren ... |
33rd Regiment | ... which was common in the British Army at the time), he became a major in the | in 1793. A few months later, in September, his brother lent him more money ... |
Pals battalion | ... of the 16th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (the "Glasgow Boys Brigade" | ) were cut off in Frankfurt Trench, where they held out until 21 November ... |
Yukon | ... ka border. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the | from the east at Dawson |
Britannia Royal Naval College | ... of the same year, Prince Andrew was appointed as a Midshipman, and entered | , Dartmouth. During 1980 he also took the Royal Marines Green Beret comman ... |
1st (King's) Dragoon Guards | ... s: the 1st and 2nd Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues), and the | . The 2nd Brigade, also known as the Union Brigade, commanded by Major-Gen ... |
Northern Ireland | ... d approximately 6.4 million in 2011 (comprising the Republic of Ireland and | ) |
Royal Navy | ... ogy (MIT) Radiation Laboratory and were used extensively by the US Navy and | . The RAF also used LORAN on raids beyond the range of GEE |
Virginia Air National Guard | ... 7,500 soldiers in the Virginia Army National Guard and 1,200 airmen in the | . Since the resumption of capital punishment in Virginia in 1982, 107 peop ... |
Manhattan Project | ... the nuclear weapon design laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, home of the | that developed the first atomic weapons. Edward Teller and Ernest O. Lawre ... |
Royal Navy | It was in November 1978 that Prince Andrew would join the | the following year, and in December he underwent various sporting tests an ... |
United States Army Air Service | ... es. LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the | rising to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca.44 bombers on the I ... |
Iraqi Army | ... e shock and awe campaign to psychologically maim, and break the will of the | to fight |
Praetorian Guard | ... rmy. After a brief and tumultuous year in power, a revolt by members of the | compelled him to adopt the more popular Trajan as his heir and successor. ... |
Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum | The | was, until 2011, housed in a part of what was the Shirehall, close to the ... |
Organized Reserve | ... assigned by state boundaries, of the newly established (but rarely funded) | . By 1925, in the face of steady Coolidge Administration and congressional ... |
SS-Totenkopfverbände | ... control of all concentration camps from the SA, and a new organization, the | (SS-TV) had been established as the SS Concentration Camp Service. The ori ... |
Royal Canadian Navy | ... n the outskirts of Glace Bay, became the chief communication center for the | in World War I through to the early years of World War II |
U.S. Army | During the Vietnam War, Nightingale inspired many | nurses, sparking a renewal of interest in her life and work. Her admirers ... |
1st | ... d by Major-General Lord Edward Somerset, consisted of guards regiments: the | and 2nd Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues), and the 1st (King ... |
Praetorian Guard | ... collaborators. The notarius Mucapor and other high-ranking officers of the | , fearing punishment from the Emperor, murdered him in September 275, in C ... |
United States Coast Guard | In 2006, the | 's Ninth District and the RCMP began a program called "Shiprider," in whic ... |
Macedonian phalanx | ... military system out of the semi-feudal systems of previous generations. The | of Aelian had many points of resemblance to the solid masses of pikemen an ... |
lower classes | ... gnant. She followed the precedent established when Catherine I (born in the | in the Swedish East Baltic territories) succeeded her husband Peter the Gr ... |
Argentine Air Force | In 1982, during the Falklands War the | extensively used civilian 707s for long-range maritime patrol, with some o ... |
Red Army | ... more than 1,000 alarms and 320 air attacks. The town was taken over by the | on October 25, 1944 as the German Wehrmacht was pushed out and fled the ar ... |
Virginia Army National Guard | ... nited States. The Virginia National Guard consists of 7,500 soldiers in the | and 1,200 airmen in the Virginia Air National Guard. Since the resumption ... |
County Leitrim | ... in North Leitrim, where the sitting MP, one Charles Dolan of Manorhamilton, | , had defected to Sinn Féin. At this time Sinn Féin was being infiltrated ... |
Royal Canadian Air Force | ... nd associated facilities were completed in June 1952. In 1953, units of the | were accommodated at the base later known as CFB Baden-Soellingen. In the ... |
II Corps | ... ssary. As Meade withdrew towards Manassas Junction, brigades from the Union | fought a rearguard action against Stuart's cavalry and the infantry of Bri ... |
Luftwaffe's | ... litary establishments. Its status as a major port was the key factor in the | decision to bomb it so heavily. While most of the city has since been rebu ... |
18th Light Dragoons | On 31 October he transferred to the | and it was during this period that he grew increasingly attracted to Kitty ... |
Canadian Expeditionary Force | ... ry badges like those of the Israeli Intelligence Corps, the First World War | , the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and the Corps of Cadets at Louisi ... |
Royal Artillery | More controversial are the claims originating with | colonel Henry William Lovett Hime (at the beginning of the 20th century) t ... |
National Air Force of Angola | ... propeller aircraft fitted with sophisticated equipment. Jane's states that | fighter aircraft would be made available to defend Kinshasa if it came und ... |
Royal Navy | ... a purchased four Upholder class submarines and a suite of trainers from the | to replace their decommissioned Oberon class submarines. The Upholder clas ... |
74 Squadron | ... s" as his "chicks". Indeed his son Derek was one of them: He was a pilot in | . Because of his brilliant detailed preparation of Britain's air defences ... |
2nd Tennessee Cavalry | At 3:30, the Confederates in the | assaulted the bridge across the Tishomingo. Although the attack failed, it ... |
British Expeditionary Force | ... ommander of 11 Fighter Group, in organising cover for the evacuation of the | at |
Panzergrenadier | ... ination camp. The only units involved from the Waffen-SS were 821 Waffen-SS | s from five reserve and training battalions and one cavalry reserve and tr ... |
III Corps | In mid-1954, | moved from California to Fort Hood. The Corps supervised the training of c ... |
Confederate States Army | ... t's army was surprised and virtually routed by the sudden appearance of the | under Albert Sidney Johnston, Grant sent orders for Wallace to move his di ... |
legion | ... army was composed of veterans and men accustomed to war. It comprised seven | s — among which were the Legio I Maximiana and imperial auxiliaries — of 7 ... |
Red Army | When the | invaded Manchukuo, they captured 850,000 Japanese settlers. With the excep ... |
Special Air Service | ... the Metropolitan Police handing control of the Iranian Embassy Siege to the | |
Arkansas National Guard | ... l Faubus obey the court order. When Faubus balked, the president placed the | under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division. They escort ... |
Polish II Corps | In 1943 the | , commanded by Władysław Anders, arrived in Palestine from Iraq. The Briti ... |
1st Infantry Division | ... a German woman the private had met and flirted with. Stivers served in the | 's 26th Infantry Regiment, who formed the honor guard for the Nuremberg Tr ... |
National League West | ... eball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of the | division of Major League Baseball (MLB). Established in 1883, the team ori ... |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police | ... American citizen was an incident while on tour with Alice Cooper where the | searched the band's lockers during a performance. Nothing was found, yet t ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... was a low-level Japanese police aide; his older brother died serving in the | in World War II and is listed in Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. During his yout ... |
IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) | In late December 1944, the Axis forces, including | , defending Budapest, were encircled in the Siege of Budapest. The IV SS P ... |
Luftwaffe | ... red severe bomb damage during World War II, most notoriously from a massive | air raid known as the "Coventry Blitz" on 14 November 1940. Firebombing on ... |
Deccan Plateau | ... ardens and parks and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the | in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most po ... |
Northern Ireland | Although not sovereign states, England, Scotland, Wales and | (in the United Kingdom) are examples of entities that are regarded and ref ... |
Swedish Navy | The 40 mm Bofors had become available in 1931. In the late 1920s the | had ordered the development of a 40 mm naval anti-aircraft gun from the Bo ... |
British Army | ... Canadian Army of the time, which is almost identical to that of the current | . Higher ranks have been increased over the years since the formation of t ... |
IX Waffen Mountain Corps of the SS (Croatian) | The Hungarian Third Army had been besieged in Budapest along with the | (8 SS Florian Geyer and 22 SS Maria Theresia). The siege lasted from 29 De ... |
French Air Force | Under the supervision of the | , a military airfield was constructed at Baden-Söllingen between the Black ... |
Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering | ... it offered passports to foreign nationals for a fee. The inter-governmental | (FATF) then identified Nauru as one of 15 "non-cooperative" countries in i ... |
Jewish Brigade | ... from detention. The Irgun did not rule out joining the British army and the | . Irgun members did enlist in various British units. Irgun members also as ... |
British Army | ... pire and Commonwealth during the first half of the 20th century. It was the | 's standard rifle from its official adoption in 1895 until 1957 |
tagmata | ... battle was borne by the professional soldiers from the eastern and western | , as large numbers of the mercenaries and Anatolian levies fled early and ... |
USAAF | The Dresden attack was to have begun with a | Eighth Air Force bombing raid on 13 February 1945. The Eighth Air Force ha ... |
33rd Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Charlemagne (1st French) | ... Waffen Grenadier Brigade or SS Charlemagne (1st French) was reformed as the | , and the SS Volunteer Grenadier-Brigade Landstorm Nederland was upgraded ... |
Royal Air Force | ... , GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was a British officer in the | . He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain ... |
Afghan National Army | The military of Afghanistan is composed of the | and the Afghan Air Force (formerly the Afghan National Army Air Corps). Be ... |
U.S. Army | ... or the short-lived Butterfield Overland Despatch. To protect travelers, the | established several forts along the trail, including Fort Downer, Fort Har ... |
Catalan Company | ... ership of Roger de Flor ("Roger Blum", a former Knight Templar), formed the | in the service of the emperor of the East, Andronicus II Palaeologus. This ... |
Internet Engineering Task Force | ... Wide Web servers. WebDAV was defined in RFC 4918 by a working group of the | (IETF) |
27th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment | ... etary of War Edwin M. Stanton promised a Medal of Honor to every man in the | who extended his enlistment beyond the agreed upon date. The Battle of Get ... |
Northern Ireland | In | the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland is being established in 2009 t ... |
RAF Fighter Command | ... 1970) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of | during the Battle of Britain, and is generally credited with playing a cru ... |
First Canadian Army | ... place in April 1945 when the city was liberated by I Canadian Corps of the | |
AFC South | ... 's worst run defense. However, they still captured their fourth consecutive | title by defeating the Cincinnati Bengals on Monday Night Football in Week ... |
Panama Canal Department | ... tion since the Civil War. Three overseas commands: the Hawaiian Department, | , and the Philippine Department continued to be identified as departments |
SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 101 | ... d the I SS Panzer Corps (1 SS Leibstandarte, the 12 SS Hitlerjugend and the | ). It also had the II SS Panzer Corps (2 SS Das Reich and the 9 SS Hohenst ... |
Corps of Colonial Marines | ... ped to the British on Tangier and were given their freedom. Some joined the | |
Army of the Potomac | ... l Joseph Hooker after the latter's disaster at Chancellorsville in May. The | , which camped at Prospect Hall for weeks prior to Gettysburg, went on to ... |
Heimwehr | ... and right-wing paramilitary forces were created during the 20s, namely the | in 1921–1923 and the Republican Schutzbund in 1923. A clash between those ... |
Royal Navy | ... useful size (European merchant fleets were destroyed during the war by the | ). Britain's extensive exporting cottage industries also ensured markets w ... |
Northern Ireland | The Somme has iconic status in | due to the participation of the 36th (Ulster) Division. Since 1916 the fir ... |
Canadian Provost Corps | In 1939, No. 1 Provost Company (RCMP), | , was raised for service in Europe and served throughout the Second World ... |
National Guard | ... nto a bloody event when the Insular Police, a force somewhat resembling the | of the typical U.S. state and which answered to U.S.-appointed governor Bl ... |
Royal Navy | ... f from the gig and cutter which have steeper bows following the rise of the | , and the building of landing stages |
Thessaly | ... elitius of Sebastopolis; Achilleus of Larissa (considered the Athanasius of | ) and Spyridion of Trimythous, who even while a bishop made his living as ... |
County Donegal | Enya was born and brought up in Gweedore (known in Irish as Gaoth Dobhair), | , in the northwest corner of Ireland. She is part of an Irish-speaking and ... |
American Expeditionary Forces | ... stage name for Elsie Beerbower, musical theatre star and "Sweetheart of the | " (AEF) during World War I was a native of Marion County. The Isaly family ... |
Royal Navy | Ball entered the | , and on 7 August 1778, was promoted lieutenant. Three years later he bega ... |
United States Army | ... ark, is maintained by the city of San Angelo. It was founded in 1867 by the | to protect settlers and maintain vital trade routes. It frequently experie ... |
First Foreign Cavalry Regiment | In September 1990, the | , the Second Foreign Infantry Regiment, and the Second Foreign Engineer Re ... |
Royal Navy | ... School—the Royal Society of London obtained the use of Challenger from the | and in 1872 modified the ship for scientific work, equipping her with sepa ... |
Imperial Russian Navy | ... 1821, a Yupik village called Naugeik was noted by Capt. Lt. Vasiliev of the | . It was later spelled Naknek by the Russians. The Russians built a fort, ... |
36th (Ulster) Division | ... Somme has iconic status in Northern Ireland due to the participation of the | . Since 1916 the first of July has been marked in commemoration by veteran ... |
1st Foot Guards | Maitland's | , who had defeated the Chasseurs of the Guard, were thought to have defeat ... |
Second Foreign Infantry Regiment | In September 1990, the First Foreign Cavalry Regiment, the | , and the Second Foreign Engineer Regiment were sent to the Persian Gulf a ... |
Football League Fourth Division | ... n the job until 1957. Freddie Cox took over in 1962 and led the club to the | championship in the 1963–64 season, making him the only manager to win a F ... |
I SS Panzer Corps | ... Army, under Sepp Dietrich. Created on 26 October 1944, it incorporated the | (1 SS Leibstandarte, the 12 SS Hitlerjugend and the SS Heavy Panzer Battal ... |
Israeli Air Force | ... . The Israeli Navy's attacks were carried out with minimal support from the | (only one Arab naval target was destroyed from the air during the entire w ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... rcraft carriers, practically finished off all Japanese naval air power. The | was never again able to accumulate enough trained pilots and naval warplan ... |
United States Army | ... to the 1917 Rose Bowl. His college days were interrupted by a stint in the | during World War I. After resuming, and then concluding, his college playi ... |
I Corps | ... nside was given command of the "Right Wing" of the Army of the Potomac (the | and IX Corps) at the start of the Maryland Campaign for the Battle of Sout ... |
Red Brigades | The | in Italy carried out assassinations of political figures, as to a lesser e ... |
Royal Navy | ... submarines), starting a fire. The Chicoutimi lost power and was rescued by | frigates HMS Montrose and Marlborough on October 6. Lt(N) Chris Saunders d ... |
U.S. Army | ... f Order for Deliberative Assemblies, was published in February 1876 by then | Colonel Henry Martyn Robert (1837–1923) with the short title Robert's Rule ... |
United States Army | ... lus approximately 10,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the | ). Wiesbaden, together with the cities of Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt and ... |
Special Operations Executive | ... rld War II era William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes were recruited by the | (SOE) to teach their martial art of defendu (itself drawing on jujutsu and ... |
Kampfgruppe | ... unarmed American prisoners of war were murdered on 17 December 1944 by the | Peiper, part of the 1 SS Leibstandarte |
Royal Navy | ... first submarine to be formally commissioned by the U.S. Navy, and the first | submarine, the |
Organized Reserve | ... from 1920 to 1942. Each corps area included divisions of the Regular Army, | and National Guard of the United States. Developed as a result of serious ... |
British Expeditionary Force | ... rsy: senior officers such as General Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the | and Henry Rawlinson, the commander of Fourth Army, have been criticised fo ... |
Northern Ireland | The manufacturing plant to build the new car was built in Dunmurry, | , with substantial financial incentives from the Northern Ireland Developm ... |
58th Regiment of Foot | ... wo years. On 30 January 1791 he became a captain and was transferred to the | |
United States Army Europe | ... benheim, is home of the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade. In addition the | headquarters will move from Heidelberg to Wiesbaden-Erbenheim at the end o ... |
Thälmann Battalion | ... ational volunteers who had already been fighting in Spain: Germans from the | , Italians from Centuria Gastone Sozzi and French from Commune de Paris Ba ... |
11 Fighter Group | ... apsed, he worked closely with Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, the commander of | , in organising cover for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Forc ... |
Thessaly | ... f British intervention, to officially enter the war. Nevertheless, in 1881, | and small parts of Epirus were ceded to Greece as part of the Treaty of Be ... |
Department | ... support to the army’s mobile units as was provided by the six territorial " | s" they replaced. In addition, the corps areas took on the responsibilitie ... |
Luftwaffe | ... Manstein's counteroffensive, the SS Panzer Corps, without support from the | or neighbouring German formations, broke through the Soviet line and advan ... |
Qionghai | ... ourist destination on the south coast. The other major cities are Wenchang, | , Wanning, Wuzhishan, Dongfang and Danzhou |
Royal Welch Fusiliers | ... gfried very hard. He was commissioned into 3rd Battalion (Special Reserve), | as a second lieutenant on 29 May 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st ... |
Scholae | ... 1000 men each. The cavalry was composed of mounted archers (sagittarii) and | (the imperial guard). However, these did not represent the strong point of ... |
United States Army | ... d in Hannover 1938, less than 100 were still in the city when troops of the | arrived on April 10, 1945 to occupy Hanover at the end of the war . Today, ... |
Illinois Army National Guard | ... ployed as a soda jerk, waiter, and shoe salesman in Kewanee. He entered the | on October 23, 1939 as a private in Company F, 129th Infantry Regiment. En ... |
Israeli troops | ... other Arabs, sought to enter Palestine to join Arab forces fighting against | . However, instead of joining the ranks of the Palestinian fedayeen, Arafa ... |
United States Navy | ... nted by the United States Air Force (USAF), the United States Army, and the | . The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) under Dr. Wernher von Braun had ... |
New Zealand Division | ... 19 November was 8,026—6,329 for the four Canadian divisions, 7,408 for the | , 8,133 for the 43 British divisions and 8,960 for the three Australian di ... |
Spanish Foreign Legion | ... renches of the First World War. In 1919, the government of Spain raised the | and modeled it after the French Foreign Legion. General Jean Mordacq inten ... |
Polish Legions | ... r, Piłsudski's paramilitary units stationed in Galicia were turned into the | , and as a part of the Austro-Hungarian Army fought on the Russian front |
United States Air Force | ... n, medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the | , United States Navy and United States Marine Corps, as well as various al ... |
Navy | ... her Aubrey died when Scott was six. He studied accounting and served in the | during World War II. With Bill Maynard he appeared at Butlin's Holiday Cam ... |
Red Army | ... any's defeat in World War II, at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by | soldiers and subsequently “thrown out of a window like a sack of potatoes ... |
Special Activities Division | ... induce or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to US objectives. The | (SAD) is a division of the Central Intelligence Agency's National Clandest ... |
80th UAV Squadron (Belgium) | ... st Logistics Battalion (Belgium) - 62TV Records - 70-point plan (Belgium) – | - 1920 Summer Olympics – 1931 Belgian Grand Prix - 1935 Belgian Grand Prix ... |
Kriegsmarine | ... ed by the Wehrmacht's branches (Heer ("army"), Luftwaffe ("air force"), and | ("navy")), but instead used the ranks established by the post-World War I ... |
Srbijanci | ... (Herzegovina), Krajišnici in western Bosnia, Semberci in northeast Bosnia, | in Serbia proper, Šumadinci in central Serbia, Vojvođani in northern Serbi ... |
foederatus | ... stablished with his capital at Tournai, on lands which he had received as a | of the Romans, and for some time he kept the peace with his allies |
Northern Ireland | ... rry" in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania was named after the city Derry in | , because the area’s first non-Indian inhabitants were Scotch-Irish |
United States Navy | ... rvice academies, and educates officers for commissioning primarily into the | and Marine Corps. The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Seve ... |
French Far East Expeditionary Corps | ... as soon created. The VNA fought in joint operations with the French Union's | against the communist Viet Minh forces led by Ho Chi Minh. The VNA fought ... |
Royal Navy | ... increased in 1915 and the AA efforts were deemed somewhat ineffective, so a | gunnery expert, Admiral Sir Percy Scott, was appointed to make improvement ... |
Royal Army Medical Corps | ... and apply for training in the Army Medical Department, later to become the | |
United States Navy | USS Allioth (AK-109) was a | Crater class cargo ship named after the star |
United States Army | ... oyers. At 10:12, however, Fletcher received a report from a flight of three | B-17s of an aircraft carrier, ten transports, and 16 warships south of Nie ... |
51st Logistics Battalion (Belgium) | ... talion (Belgium) - 31st Squadron (Belgium) - 40th Squadron Heli (Belgium) - | - 62TV Records - 70-point plan (Belgium) – 80th UAV Squadron (Belgium) - 1 ... |
British Army | ... David Railton had seen a grave marked by a rough cross while serving in the | as a chaplain on the Western Front, which bore the pencil-written legend " ... |
Wehrmacht | ... moted him to the rank of Reichsmarschall, making Göring senior to all other | commanders, and in 1941 Hitler designated him as his successor and deputy ... |
73rd Regiment of Foot | ... sion in the army. Soon after, on 7 March 1787 he was gazetted ensign in the | . In October, with the assistance of his brother, he was assigned as aide- ... |
66th Military Intelligence Brigade | ... Airfield, which is located adjacent to Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, is home of the | . In addition the United States Army Europe headquarters will move from He ... |
West Africa Squadron | ... of "Palmerston's Follies") encircling the city. From 1808 the Royal Navy's | , who were tasked to stop the slave trade, operated out of Portsmouth. On ... |
Bomber Command | ... f these troop movements should be given a high priority. Arthur Harris, AOC | (nicknamed "Bomber" Harris in the British press, and known as an ardent su ... |
U.S. Navy | ... gineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the | , and the first Royal Navy submarine, the |
1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry | ... a brigadier general in the Rhode Island Militia. He raised a regiment, the | , and was appointed its colonel on May 2, 1861. Within a month, he ascende ... |
Sayeret Matkal | ... assault on fortified Green Island, Egypt, in the Gulf of Suez (jointly with | ) |
13th Demi-Brigade | ... ugh having a part in the Norwegian, Syrian and North African campaigns. The | was deployed in the Battle of Bir Hakeim. Reflecting the divided loyalties ... |
815 Naval Air Squadron | From 1995 to 1996, the Duke was posted as Senior Pilot of | then the largest flying unit in the Fleet Air Arm his main role in that po ... |
United States Navy | ... dicated psychological operations units exist in the United States Army. The | also plans and executes limited PSYOP missions. United States PSYOP units ... |
Royal Flying Corps | The | lost 782 aircraft and 576 pilots during the battle |
Luftwaffe | In 1935 Göring was appointed commander-in-chief of the | (air force), a position he held until the final days of World War II. By 1 ... |
Sturmbrigade Reichsführer SS | ... th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS, which was created using the | as a cadre. By the end of the year, the Waffen-SS had increased in size fr ... |
Wehrmacht | ... k system was unique in that it did not copy the terms and ranks used by the | 's branches (Heer ("army"), Luftwaffe ("air force"), and Kriegsmarine ("na ... |
No. 16 Squadron | Dowding was sent to France and in 1915 was promoted to commander of | . After the Battle of the Somme, Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trencha ... |
Navy | ... Air Station Melbourne was established as a site to train newly commissioned | and Marine pilots for World War II. The program ran until 1946, and the la ... |
International Brigades | ... Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the | |
Royal Navy | ... uline Lila Violet (Greening) and Denis Guttridge Rattle, a Commander in the | . He was educated at Liverpool College. Although Rattle studied piano and ... |
divisions | ... 8 residents were granted the title of Hero of The Soviet Union. Three rifle | were raised in Alma-Ata, including the well-known 8th Guards Rifle Divisio ... |
Household Cavalry | Before becoming an actor, Milland served in the | . An expert shot, he became a member of his company's rifle team, winning ... |
United States Army | Dedicated psychological operations units exist in the | . The United States Navy also plans and executes limited PSYOP missions. U ... |
76th Regiment | ... d Lieutenant of Ireland Lord Buckingham. He was also transferred to the new | forming in Ireland and on Christmas Day, 1787, was promoted to lieutenant. ... |
United States Air Force | ... ived as a proof of concept aircraft for both military and civilian use: The | was the first customer for the design, using it as the KC-135 Stratotanker ... |
Luftwaffe | ... t copy the terms and ranks used by the Wehrmacht's branches (Heer ("army"), | ("air force"), and Kriegsmarine ("navy")), but instead used the ranks esta ... |
15th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Latvian) | ... Ukrainian) formed from volunteers from Galicia in the western Ukraine. The | was created in 1943, using compulsory military service in the Ostland. The ... |
Division of Melbourne | ... election for the Greens in which a lower house seat went "maverick". In the | , the Greens polled 22.80 percent of the primary vote, overtaking the Libe ... |
Research Department | ... Forces (IDF) Directorate of Military Intelligence's (abbreviated as "Aman") | was responsible for formulating Israel's intelligence estimate. Their asse ... |
Royal Navy | ... an (Harri Morgan in Welsh; ca. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was an Admiral of the | , a privateer, and a pirate who made a name for himself during activities ... |
XIII SS Army Corps | ... ivisions (including units in the Colmar Pocket) were engaged, including the | (17 SS Götz von Berlichingen and 38 SS Nibelungen) and the 6 SS Nord and 1 ... |
Knights of St. John | ... Empire. When the Treaty of Amiens placed Malta again under the rule of the | , this assurance was dashed |
Marine | ... on Melbourne was established as a site to train newly commissioned Navy and | pilots for World War II. The program ran until 1946, and the land that was ... |
Northern Ireland | This tactic was used again by the Provisional IRA during the Troubles in | (1969–present). Killing of RUC officers and assassination of RUC politicia ... |
King's German Legion | ... over eventually emigrated to Great Britain, leading to the formation of the | , which was the only German army to fight throughout the entire Napoleonic ... |
Home Army | ... anese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane. The Polish | conducted a regular campaign of assassinations against top Nazi German off ... |
Fleet Air Arm | ... Senior Pilot of 815 Naval Air Squadron then the largest flying unit in the | his main role in that position being to supervise flying standards and to ... |
7th Transportation Group | ... ed the 593d Support Group (Fort Lewis), 36th Engineer Group (Fort Benning), | (Fort Eustis), and 62d Medical Group (Fort Lewis). Soldiers of the Lucky 1 ... |
RAF | ... st entirely replaced pastoral. The city includes the outlying settlement at | Wittering, the Home of the Harrier, and as a unitary authority borders Nor ... |
Royal Bhutan Army | On 15 December 2003 the | began military operations against guerrilla camps in southern Bhutan, in c ... |
Royal Australian Air Force | ... Tulagi was undefended, for the small garrison of Australian commandos and a | reconnaissance unit evacuated just before Shima's arrival. The Japanese fo ... |
52nd Light Infantry | ... retired with these Chasseurs in pursuit, but the latter were halted as the | wheeled in line onto their flank and poured a devastating fire into them a ... |
Royal Navy | HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British | research vessel commanded by Lieutenant James Cook on his first voyage of ... |
36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS | ... n transferred to the Waffen-SS. The Dirlewanger Brigade was reformed as the | , however there was now a real shortage of Waffen-SS volunteers and conscr ... |
III Corps | ... advantage. On October 13, Stuart blundered into the rear guard of the Union | near Warrenton. Ewell's corps was sent to rescue him, but Stuart hid his t ... |
Israeli Navy | Major General Yedidya Ya'ari (, born 30 June 1947) was the commander of the | from 2000-2004. He was succeeded by David Ben Ba'ashat |
British Army | ... British Army, who possibly arrived in Canada in 1843 whilst serving in the | (the assertion that he served as a Sergeant in the 66th (Berkshire) Regime ... |
Waffen-SS | ... f its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German | company. A new village was built after the war on a nearby site and the or ... |
Royal Air Force | ... aped Belgium during the war and made his way to England where he joined the | . He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was buried in Opprebai ... |
Byzantine army | ... in the sacking of Rome in 455 CE, and taken to their capital, Carthage. The | under General Belisarius might have removed it in 533 and brought it to Co ... |
air force | Chatham was also home to an | base, CFB Chatham, until 1996. Renous, located along the Southwest Miramic ... |
Luftwaffe | ... suffered some of the worst attacks on any English city at the hands of the | during the Coventry Blitzes of 1940 and 1941, which killed over 1,200 civi ... |
Directorate of Military Intelligence | The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) | 's (abbreviated as "Aman") Research Department was responsible for formula ... |
United States Navy | ... m industry, lodging to support it, and related marketing had been born. The | operated a Naval Auxiliary Air Facility for blimps at Eureka during World ... |
Army | ... land. Contrary to popular belief, the Act does not prohibit members of the | from exercising state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers tha ... |
United States Navy | USS Illinois (BB-65) was to be the fifth constructed for the | and was the fourth ship to be named in honor of the 21st US state.Hull BB- ... |
1st Washington Territory Infantry Volunteers | ... being 50 people in 1861. During the American Civil War, detachments of the | and 1st Oregon Cavalry were stationed here. In 1866, most of the fort burn ... |
Royal Australian Navy | ... h the first being the flagship of the First Fleet to Australia in 1788. The | subsequently named a vessel in honor of the flagship. American vessels inc ... |
Shayetet 13 | In July 1969, as a commando in | , he was badly wounded and mistakenly declared dead during Operation Bulmu ... |
US Army | ... the battlefield commander an "eye in the sky" without risking a pilot. The | is significantly increasing the size of its current UAV force as part of t ... |
Yugoslav Partisans | ... s much lower than the Gottschee area. As German forces retreated before the | , most ethnic Germans fled with them in fear of reprisals. By May 1945, on ... |
1st Cavalry Division | In 1971 the colors of the | came to Fort Hood from Vietnam, resulting in the reflagging of the 1st Arm ... |
divisions | ... idea, as it tied in with the ULTRA-based intelligence that dozens of German | which had been deployed in the west were being moved to reinforce the East ... |
British Army | ... he war. In 1884 the town of Taylorsville, Virginia, was renamed Stuart. The | named two models of American-made World War II tanks, the M3 and M5, the S ... |
Second Division | ... a return to football management with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led from the | to the Premier League title in 1995. Soon afterwards he stepped down as Bl ... |
Manhattan Project | ... d Nagasaki. Eventually Fermi and Szilárd's reactor work was folded into the | |
Royal Navy | Seven ships of Great Britain's | have been called since the 18th century, with the first being the flagship ... |
Royal Garrison Artillery | ... uns and searchlights assembled from various sources at some nine ports. The | (RGA) was given responsibility for AA defence in the field, using motorise ... |
702 Naval Air Squadron | ... served from February 1987 to April 1988 as a helicopter warfare officer in | , RNAS Portland, as well as on HMS Edinburgh as an Officer of the Watch an ... |
Beiyang Army | ... Shikai, a former Qing general, who had ensured the defection of the entire | from the Qing Empire to the revolution. In 1915, Yuan proclaimed himself E ... |
Yugoslav Partisans | ... n), the first non-Germanic division, was formed, to fight Josip Broz Tito's | . This was followed by the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS Galici ... |
7th Infantry Division | ... r by supporting the United Nations Command. It was attached to the American | , and fought in a number of engagements including the Battle of Pork Chop ... |
Royal Navy | During the investigation, the | conducted recovery operations. The first pieces of wreckage were discovere ... |
USAAF | ... s subject to constant attack by B-29 Superfortress strategic bombers of the | . Japanese Army detached the 1st Chutai (unit) of 104th Sentai (squadron) ... |
Italian Air Force | Gina learns that the | are closing on the fight intending to arrest Porco, and she flies to warn ... |
Yukon | ... al, Quebec City, Southwestern Ontario ‡ , Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and | ‡ |
Free Belgian Forces | ... ian comics - France–Habsburg rivalry - Franco-Dutch War - Francqui, Emile - | - French Community Commission - French Community of Belgium - French fried ... |
United States Air Force | Proposals to do this were presented by the | (USAF), the United States Army, and the United States Navy. The Army Balli ... |
IX Corps | ... s assembled in Annapolis, Maryland, which formed the nucleus for his future | —and the Department of North Carolina, from September 1861 until July 1862 ... |
Standing NRF Maritime Group 1 | ... from 1989 to 1991, during which he also acted as Force Aviation Officer to | while the Campbeltown was flagship of the NATO force in the North Atlantic ... |
Royal Malaysian Air Force | ... i-billion dollar purchase of 18 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKM fighter jets by the | |
Royal Navy | Eight ships of the | have borne the name HMS Bellona after a Bellona, the goddess of war in Rom ... |
XV SS Cossack Cavalry Corps | The | , which contained the 1 SS Cossack Division, was transferred to the Waffen ... |
Spanish Navy | ... raciones Especiales III. The operation was launched in conjunction with the | and Spanish Air Force. The captured Moroccans were transferred by helicopt ... |
Strategic Air Command | ... a renowned enthusiast of sports car racing. LeMay loaned out facilities of | bases for the SCCA's use; the SCCA relied heavily on these venues during t ... |
British Army | ... ropped up on some sort of embankment to get the muzzle pointed skyward. The | adopted the 13-pounder quickly producing new mountings suitable for AA use ... |
No. 609 Squadron RAF | On December 14, 2007, Georges Jaspis, a former Second World War pilot in | and the SABENA pilot with the most flying hours (27,000) died. Captain Jas ... |
Milice | ... t regimental headquarters that he had been approached by two members of the | , the French secret police that collaborated with the German Gestapo, who ... |
United States Army | ... posals to do this were presented by the United States Air Force (USAF), the | , and the United States Navy. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) und ... |
Luftwaffe | ... y meeting with Göring on his estate, Speer wrote how the by-then overweight | marshal spent his days hunting, eating, and quite literally playing with s ... |
268 Squadron | ... eras were carried in its place. Few FR IBs were built, and most served with | , starting in July 1944. The aircraft was never popular with the pilots, w ... |