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 ... |
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 ... |
Legio II Parthica | ... ial Horse Guard was chosen for redevelopment into the Lateran Basilica. The | was removed from Alba (Albano Laziale), and the remainder of Maxentius' ar ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Inner Mongolian Army | ... ssion campaign. In the interim between these two visits the Japanese backed | had tried to invade Suiyuan. This invasion was defeated by the Chinese in ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | Viscount was a career officer in the | , cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 12 June 1922 to 24 Au ... |
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 ... |
Free France | ... was defeated by a force of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, | , Free Belgium, and Ethiopian patriots. On 5 May 1941, Haile Selassie ente ... |
Finnish Army | ... ith, he only wore the ribbon, and not the cross. Two Jewish officers of the | and one female Lotta Svärd member were awarded Iron Crosses, but they woul ... |
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 ... |
Starfleet | ... ade element in Voyager, and that the show would involve a ship housing both | people and those idealistic freedom fighters that the Federation felt were ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | The | (IJN), like the Russians, often combined their TBs (which possessed only h ... |
British Expeditionary Force | ... ommander of 11 Fighter Group, in organising cover for the evacuation of the | at |
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 | ... 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 ... |
Legio I Maximiana | ... nd men accustomed to war. It comprised seven legions — among which were the | and imperial auxiliaries — of 700 to 1000 men each. The cavalry was compos ... |
Red Army | When the | invaded Manchukuo, they captured 850,000 Japanese settlers. With the excep ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Red Army | ... territory had been mostly cleared of German forces by the advancing Soviet | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | The | used mustard gas and the recently-developed blister agent Lewisite against ... |
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 ... |
Bundeswehr | ... ilt by Dornier between 1967 and 1981 saw service with the Federal Defence ( | ) by the German Army and German Air Force as light utility as well as sear ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | During the Second Sino-Japanese War the | had a scorched-earth policy, known as "Three Alls Policy". Due to the Japa ... |
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 ... |
Bundeswehr | In the German | , the Zentrum Operative Information and its subordinate Bataillon für Oper ... |
Eighth Air Force | ... which meant that there would be almost 2,100 aircraft of the United States | over Saxony during 14 February |
Russian Army | ... ia became a theatre of war when the Russian Empire invaded the country. The | encountered at first little resistance because the bulk of the German Army ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | The | operated heavily out of Taiwan. The "South Strike Group" was based out of ... |
Army of the Potomac | ... r until given command of the cavalry brigade for the army then known as the | (later named the Army of Northern Virginia). He was promoted to brigadier ... |
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 ... |
Irish National Liberation Army | At a private meeting later the same day, the | was formed with Costello as the Chief of Staff, although its existence was ... |
Front de Libération Nationale | ... he early morning hours of November 1, 1954, the National Liberation Front ( | —FLN) launched attacks throughout Algeria in the opening salvo of a war of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
French Air Force | Under the supervision of the | , a military airfield was constructed at Baden-Söllingen between the Black ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | The | developed the Kayaba Ka-1 Autogyro for reconnaissance, artillery-spotting, ... |
Army of Virginia | ... xperience—he detached part of his corps in support of Maj. Gen. John Pope's | in the Northern Virginia Campaign. Telegrams extremely critical of Pope's ... |
legion | ... its own commanders: Aurelian was proclaimed emperor in September 270 by the | s in Sirmium. Aurelian defeated Quintillus' troops, and was recognized as ... |
Confederate States Navy | ... ates Naval Academy, after whom Maury Hall is named, similarly served in the | |
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 ... |
USAAF | The Dresden attack was to have begun with a | Eighth Air Force bombing raid on 13 February 1945. The Eighth Air Force ha ... |
First Canadian Army | ... cheldt was freed from German occupation in October and November 1944 by the | during The Battle of the Scheldt |
Royal Moroccan Navy | Four years later, the | was established in 1960 |
Vietnam People's Army | ... troyed by fighting a war of attrition that, theoretically, would render the | unable to fight. His war strategy was marked by heavy use of artillery and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Grande Armée | ... it was applied was equally, if not more, devastating than they were on the | |
Afghan National Army | The military of Afghanistan is composed of the | and the Afghan Air Force (formerly the Afghan National Army Air Corps). Be ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Army of the Potomac | In 1862, the Union | began its Peninsula Campaign against Richmond, Virginia, and Stuart's cava ... |
Free French | ... y regime in Algeria (November 11, 1942) as a result of Operation Torch, the | commander in chief in North Africa slowly rescinded repressive Vichy laws, ... |
Air and Air Defense Forces | The Moldovan Armed Forces consist of the Ground Forces and | |
RAF | On Friday, 24 October 1958, an | Avro Vulcan four-engine bomber crashed into the 170 block of Ashland on th ... |
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 ... |
Irish National Liberation Army | ... an Army and latterly of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the | (INLA) |
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 ... |
Viet Minh | ... nese communist movement and on developments within Cambodia was negligible. | units occasionally made forays into Cambodian bases during their war again ... |
Continental Army | ... ign, a series of major battles in the early American Revolutionary War. The | was forced to abandon Manhattan after the disastrous Battle of Fort Washin ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... n to interrupt the flow of supplies from Connecticut that were reaching the | . Tryon and Henry Duncan led a fleet of 26 ships carrying 2,000 men to Wes ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | ... were used only sporadically in 1937 but in the spring of 1938, however the | began full-scale use of sneeze and nausea gas (red), and from summer 1939, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... for a September 16, 1777, encounter with British General William Howe. The | also camped near White Horse Inn on Swedesford Road. Because of bad weathe ... |
26th of July Movement | ... s divisions. Other examples of left-wing nationalism include Fidel Castro's | that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the American-backed Fulgencio B ... |
First Canadian Army | ... place in April 1945 when the city was liberated by I Canadian Corps of the | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Merchant Navy | ... n they began their National Service during World War II. Wise served in the | . Morecambe was a Bevin Boy: conscripted to work in a coal mine in Accring ... |
Royal Air Force | The Avro Rota autogyro was used by the | to calibrate the coastal radar stations during and after the Battle of Bri ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | During World War II, as the | threatened the Aleutians, the 881 Aleuts on the Pribilof islands were forc ... |
Red Army | In July 1944, the Soviet | and the People's Army of Poland controlled by the Soviets entered Poland, ... |
Moldovan Air Force | In 1994 the | consisted of 1,300 men organized into one fighter regiment, one helicopter ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... eral creeks and streams. These industrial activities were attractive to the | in establishing its headquarters here in 1776 |
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 ... |
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 |
Byzantine army | ... prisoners were recovered, while the survivors were quickly recruited in the | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... or farmhand from Massachusetts when the Revolution broke out. He joined the | , saw action at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, and Sar ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Irish Army | ... srael Police, Singapore Armed Forces and Venezuelan Army, among others. The | replaced its Browning Pistols (known popularly as BAPs, or Browning Automa ... |
Royal Thai Navy | ... รีนฤเบศร, meaning "In honour of the Chakri Dynasty") is the flagship of the | (RTN), and Thailand's first and only aircraft carrier. Based on the Spanis ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Royal Danish Air Force | ... ircraft were delivered to the Royal Norwegian Air Force by SABCA and to the | by Fokker |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Syrian Air Force | ... entional bombs and napalm, devastating Syrian armored columns. However, the | repeatedly struck Israeli positions during this period. On the second day ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Navy | ... in the Pacific. Acting virtually independently of the civil government, the | seized Germany's Micronesian colonies |
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 ... |
Legio XX Valeria Victrix | ... r the river. The 'victrix' part of the name was taken from the title of the | which was based at Deva. A civilian settlement grew around the military ba ... |
Venezuelan Army | ... Argentine Army, Luxembourg Army, Israel Police, Singapore Armed Forces and | , among others. The Irish Army replaced its Browning Pistols (known popula ... |
Muslim army | In 637 CE, the | under Abu Ubaida ibn al-Jarrah captured Baalbek after defeating the Byzant ... |
Royal Malaysian Air Force | RMAF Butterworth in Butterworth is a | base. The installation is also the Integrated Air Defence System (IADS) co ... |
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 ... |
Royal Thai Navy | When Typhoon Gay hit Thailand in 1989, the | , as the main unit responsible for search and rescue missions, found that ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | The county was the site of the winter camp of the | after the Battles of Trenton and Princeton during the winter of 1777, as w ... |
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 |
coastal and estuarial | ... Chinese Navy with its Type 025 class torpedo boat for the protection of its | waters |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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' ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Royal Saudi Air Force | In November 2009, the | , as part of a military effort against insurgent intrusions of the kingdom ... |
Roman legion | A complete | with auxiliaries was annihilated. The new state knew only one year of peac ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Bundeswehr | The Iron Cross is the emblem of the | , the German armed forces, marked on armored vehicles and aircraft |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... n Revolutionary War. They both fought in the Massachusetts Militia, and the | . The mother of President Millard Fillmore, Phoebe Millard (Fillmore), was ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... lutionary War, occurred on April 13, 1777, and resulted in a defeat for the | , who were routed by about 4,000 troops under British command |
Moldovan Air Force | all the MiG-29 fighters have been either sold or scrapped, and the | has only 2 An-2 Colts, 1 An-26 Curl, 2 An-72 Coalers, 8 Mi-8 Hips, and 12 ... |
XXX Ulpia Victrix | ... ix) defected to him, as did some or all of a legion near Boulogne (probably | ). Carausius quickly eliminated the few remaining loyalists in his army an ... |
Red Army | By 1920, the | , under its commander Trotsky, had largely defeated the royalist White Arm ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Bundeswehr | ... an Army, Royal Bavarian Army, Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, US Army, German Army ( | ) and the German Border Police (Bundesgrenzschutz). In the early 1990s, fo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Viet Minh | ... he French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps against the communist | forces led by Ho Chi Minh. The VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns inc ... |
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 ... |
Free French Forces | ... was held in low regard. Early in the war de Gaulle became the leader of the | in exile, with his headquarters in London. Even though both men were worki ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | ... eaucrats and members of the House of Peers, which proved unpopular with the | . During his tenure as prime minister, Katō implemented the provisions of ... |
Roman legion | ... (Kenchester) in modern Herefordshire to Caerleon, Isca Augusta and the main | ary base in the south of Roman Wales |
Indian National Army | ... ovement, whether keeping with Gandhian Values, or, as in the case of Bose's | , diverging from it |
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 ... |
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 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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
volunteer armies | ... tal"), became the capital of the new entity. Chinese in Manchuria organized | to oppose the Japanese and the new state required a lasting several years ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Heer | ... a master race. During World War II, SS units operated alongside the regular | (German Army). However, by the final stages of the war, the SS came to dom ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
II Augusta | ... s' support among the British was strong, and at least two British legions ( | and XX Valeria Victrix) defected to him, as did some or all of a legion ne ... |
Mukti Bahini | ... ion of independence and to the waging of a war of liberation by the Bengali | forces in East Pakistan, with support from India. Independent estimates of ... |
Prussian Army | ... against the French army, where he meets General Carl von Clausewitz of the | |
Continental Army | ... he area, mostly to trade with the Onondaga Nation. Ephraim Webster left the | to settle in 1784, along with Asa Danforth, another participant in the war ... |
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 ... |
Red Army | Armia Krajowa relations with the | became increasingly poor over the course of the war. Not only did the Sovi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | ... red on a fictitious reform school for contemporary boys, modelled under the | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... ard on the side of the American Revolution, many serving as officers in the | . One such was Thomas Blount (1759–1812), whose handsome plantation house ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Freeman Field Mutiny | The | occurred in 1945, in which African-American members of the 477th Bombardme ... |
Finnish Air Force | ... , which were used for high-speed transport and SAR duties on sea ice by the | and Navy |
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 ... |
Belgian Army | ... ts along with the Sig Sauer P225. The weapon is the standard sidearm of the | , the British Army (although the SIG-Sauer P226 is being gradually introdu ... |
Royal Air Force | The | station, RAF Northolt, is situated in South Ruislip near the A40 and the t ... |
Continental Army | ... ater supplies left the city vulnerable to fires. In 1776, shortly after the | evacuated Manhattan and left it to the British, a massive fire broke out d ... |
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 ... |
Army of Italy | This situation was shaken in 1796, when the French | under Napoleon invaded Italy, with the aims of forcing the First Coalition ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Legio II Adiutrix | ... strum" or Roman fort with the name Deva Victrix in the year 79 by the Roman | during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian. Chester's four main roads, East ... |
Soviet 1st Tank Army | ... t defenses. The attack penetrated to a depth of and was then stopped by the | |
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 |
3rd US Army | ... 5th Infantry and the 7th Armored Divisions belonging to the XX Corps of the | commanded by General George S. Patton |
Army of the Mississippi | ... rryville took place here on October 8, 1862, fought between the Confederate | and the Union Army of the Ohio. 7407 men fell in the battle |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Prussian Army | For centuries Bayreuth was also a garrison town for the | , Royal Bavarian Army, Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, US Army, German Army (Bundes ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... lphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War, George Washington and the | were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 defeat at the Battle of Ger ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... was named after George Washington, who, in his capacity as Commander of the | during the American Revolution, passed through the area several times. In ... |
United States 8th Army Air Force | ... ther with various collections of exhibits, including one concerned with the | |
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 ... |
Army of the Ohio | ... 1862, fought between the Confederate Army of the Mississippi and the Union | . 7407 men fell in the battle |
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 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 ... |
German army | At the end of 1944, the | was retreating on both fronts, but not yet defeated. In the east, the Sovi ... |
Continental Army | ... County, New York, United States. Named after Nathan Hale, a captain in the | during the American Revolutionary War who was captured at a tavern in Hale ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
RAF | ... eries four episode "The Hour That Never Was" Steed goes to a reunion of his | regiment |
Bundeswehr | ... ay they are still there, used as officer education buildings for the German | and hosting Germany's military-historic museum (from stone-age to modern t ... |
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 ... |
Free French | ... ng the divided loyalties of the time, part of the Foreign Legion joined the | movement while another part served the Vichy government. A battle in the S ... |
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 ... |
Turkish Air Force | The Royal Netherlands Air Force, Belgian Air Force, | , Royal Danish Air Force, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Pakistan Air Force, a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Royal Netherlands Air Force | The | , Belgian Air Force, Turkish Air Force, Royal Danish Air Force, Royal Norw ... |
Free French Forces | ... ceived any of its royalties (he never would), the author-aviator joined the | . He would remain immensely proud of The Little Prince, and almost always ... |
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 ... |
40th Army | ... of Afghanistan (PDPA). This led to a full-scale Soviet invasion, led by the | and the Airborne Forces in December 1979 |
air force | Chatham was also home to an | base, CFB Chatham, until 1996. Renous, located along the Southwest Miramic ... |
Royal Australian Air Force | The | also employed the UH-1H until 1989. Iroquois helicopters of RAAF No. 9 Squ ... |
Royal Air Force | Dowding then joined the recently created | and gained experience in departments of training, supply, development, and ... |
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 ... |
Czechoslovak Legion | ... tion of 1917, the railway served as the vital line of communication for the | and the Allied armies that landed troops at Vladivostok during the Siberia ... |
Continental Army | ... utionary War. In July and August, 1781, during the seventh year of the war, | troops, commanded by General George Washington, were encamped in Dobbs Fer ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Continental Army | ... ltrie of whom Fort Moultrie in South Carolina is named was a general in the | . His brother Thomas was a captain in the American 2nd South Carolina Regi ... |
Continental Army | ... limited use until enough bayonets could be procured for general use by both | and attached militia units |
Imperial Japanese Army | ... solution adopted against Japan by the League of Nations on 14 May 1938, the | frequently used chemical weapons. Because of fear of retaliation however, ... |
Red Army | ... ward were overtaken by retreating Wehrmacht units and the rapidly advancing | |
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, ... |
Indian National Army | ... Netaji (the Leader) Subhash Chandra Bose. See also the Tiger Legion and the | |
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 ... |
Legio III Augusta | Lambaesis was the seat of the | , and the most important strategic centre, as commanding the passes of the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | ... as a base to threaten Japan's perimeter defenses in the South Pacific. The | (IJA), however, rejected the recommendation, stating that it did not have ... |
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 ... |
Imperial Japanese Army | ... and Nishida Kitaro in Kyoto. In 1944 he too volunteered for service in the | and became a second lieutenant officer of an anti-aircraft gun in Taiwan. ... |
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 ... |
Royal Netherlands Navy | After high school he performed military service in the | from August 1985 to January 1987. He received his training at the Royal Ne ... |
Red Army | ... dments to the 1936 Soviet Constitution established separate branches of the | for each Soviet Republic. They also established Republic-level commissaria ... |
Army of the Potomac | ... on August 6, and was assigned to train provisional brigades in the nascent | |
Royal Air Force | ... nt and deployed USN and USAF aircraft, as well as transitioning or deployed | and Canadian Forces aircraft |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Royal New Zealand Air Force | The | currently has an active fleet of 13 Iroquois through the No. 3 Squadron RN ... |
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) ... |
Viet Minh | ... eir ideological development. Meeting with Khmers who were fighting with the | (and whom they subsequently judged to be too subservient to the Vietnamese ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Army of the Shenandoah | ... tion and assigned him on July 4 to command all the cavalry companies of the | , organized as the 1st Virginia Cavalry Regiment. He was promoted to colon ... |
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 ... |
National Liberation Front | ... tly on call throughout the country, heavily engaged in fighting against the | and the Armée de Libération Nationale (ALN), the foreign legion was brough ... |
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 ... |
Czechoslovak Legion | ... n also played a very direct role during parts of Russia's history, with the | using heavily armed and armoured trains to control large amounts of the ra ... |
Continental Army | ... ewport was threatened by a fleet carrying French soldiers in support of the | . The British commander, Captain John Brisbane, determined to blockade New ... |
Army of the Rhine | ... y titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" (English: "War Song for the | ") was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792. The ... |
Royal Malaysian Air Force | ... i-billion dollar purchase of 18 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKM fighter jets by the | |
Viet Minh | ... o the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the | , occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952; and, on the eve of the ... |
British Expeditionary Force | The original | , six divisions strong at the start of the war, had been wiped out by the ... |
French Air Force | ... ean, head of the French Ministry of Culture, Captain Frederic Solano of the | , plus investigators from the French Underwater Archaeological Department ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Fourth Army | ... er of the British Expeditionary Force and Henry Rawlinson, the commander of | , have been criticised for incurring very severe casualties while failing ... |
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 ... |