Ljubljana was the third and lastBeograd-class destroyer built for theRoyal Yugoslav Navy in the late 1930s. In 1940, sheran aground on a reef off theYugoslav port ofŠibenik, where she was taken for repairs. Yugoslavia enteredWorld War II when theGerman-ledAxis powersinvaded in April 1941, andLjubljana was captured by theRoyal Italian Navy. After repairs were completed, she saw active service in the Italian Navy under the nameLubiana, mainly as a convoy escort on routes between Italy andNorth Africa. She was lost on 1 April 1943, either sunk by British aircraft, or grounded off theTunisian coast.
American logistics played a key role in the success ofOperation Overlord, theAllied invasion of northwest Europe duringWorld War II. When the invasion commenced onD-Day, 6 June 1944, some 1,526,965 US troops were in the UK, of whom 459,511 were in theServices of Supply. During the first seven weeks after D-Day, the advance was much slower than the Overlord plan had anticipated, and the nature of the fighting in the Normandybocage country created shortages of certain items, particularlyartillery andmortar ammunition, and there were unexpectedly high rates of loss ofbazookas,Browning automatic rifles (BARs), andM7 grenade launchers.
The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of theUnited States Air Force (USAF)human spaceflight program. The project was developed as a crewedspace station to be used forsatellite reconnaissance purposes. MOL evolved into a proposed single-use laboratory, for which crews would be launched on 30-day missions, and return to Earth using aGemini B spacecraft derived fromNASA'sGemini spacecraft. During the 1960s, budget cuts repeatedly caused postponement of the first operational flight. MOL was canceled in June 1969 without any crewed missions being flown.
Slayback's Missouri Cavalry Regiment was a unit of theConfederate States Army during theAmerican Civil War. Originally raised asbattalion, it consisted of men recruited inMissouri byLieutenant ColonelAlonzo Slayback duringPrice's Raid in 1864. The battalion saw frequent action during the campaign. Around February 1865, the battalion reached regimental strength after additional recruits were added to it. On June 2, the ConfederateTrans-Mississippi Department surrendered. The men of the regiment wereparoled twelve days later, suggesting that the regiment had disbanded before the surrender.
The Royal Artillery Memorial is aFirst World War memorial in London, England commemorating the 49,076 soldiers from theRoyal Artillery killed during theconflict. Designed byCharles Jagger, with architectural work byLionel Pearson, the memorial consists of aPortland stonecruciform base supporting a one-third over-lifesize sculpture of ahowitzer. At the end of each arm of the cross is a sculpture of a soldier, one shown in death. The design was controversial when unveiled, but later came to be recognised as one of Britain's finest war memorials. Dedications were later added in memory of the 29,924 Royal Artillerymen killed in theSecond World War.
On October 25, 1864,Sterling Price's Confederate Army of Missouri was reeling in defeat after being defeated at theBattle of Westport two days earlier. Price fought three battles on October 25, and managed to lose all of them. Marais des Cygnes was the first of these defeats. By the end of the day, Price's army had been reduced to essentially an armed mob after further defeats at Mine Creek and Marmiton River. Today the site of Marais des Cygnes is a wildlife refuge, only interpreted by a few signs at a rest stop and forgotten by most.
The subject of this article is an "ill-fated German cruiser". SMSUndine was built for the Imperial German Navy, and entered service in 1904. She was initially used for training purposes, and in November 1905 accidentally rammed and sank a torpedo boat.Undine was assigned to the German forces in the Baltic during World War I, and attacked Russian forces. On 7 November 1915 she was torpedoed and sunk by one of the British submarines which had been deployed to the Baltic; in one of the few bits of good luck to affect the ship, the great majority of her crew survived.
This article covers a war memorial established in the British city of Portsmouth after World War I. As a major naval base, the city had suffered heavy losses during the war. The memorial was dedicated in 1921. In the nomination statement, Harry Mitchell noted that the best photos available on Commons are those "I took on my phone on a rainy day before I had to run for a train", which is a good reminder about the payoffs from even modest forays into photography!
The 8th Missouri Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in theConfederate States Army during the American Civil War. Formed on 2 September 1862, it saw combat in various engagements in Arkansas and Louisiana, but 85 percent of its casualties were from disease. The regiment was disbanded following the war on 7 June 1865.
This article provides a comprehensive account of the USAFStrategic Air Command's operations in the UK between 1948 and 1992. From 1948 to 1965 American nuclear-armed strategic bombers were stationed in the UK. After this time, American bombers frequently visited the UK, and Strategic Air Command maintained air refuelling and reconnaissance units there.
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