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6 unusual facts about Camp


Charles Craig Cannon

Charles Craig Cannon (October 24, 1914 – September 20, 1992) was a United States Army officer who served as Aide-de-camp to General Dwight D. Eisenhower following the conclusion of World War II.

Mailly-le-Camp

During preparations for the Normandy invasion (Operation Overlord), 346 British Avro Lancasters and 14 de Havilland Mosquitoes of RAF Bomber Command attacked the German military camp situated near the village of Mailly-le-Camp.

RAF Wickenby

Wickenby played a large part in the bomber offensive, taking part in many of the major raids including: Berlin, Munich, Nuremberg, Essen, Mailly-le-Camp, and Caen.

Wadgaon Sheri

City centers like Shivajinagar, Deccan Gymkhana, Mahatma Gandhi Road (MG Road), Camp, Hadpsar are all within a radius of nine to ten kilometers.

Wallace McIntosh

He shot down a Me 110 in a raid over Mailly-le-Camp in Champagne on 3 May 1944 (The only kill he had without Sutherland, who's logbook records no flight that day).

Washington's Aides-de-Camp

James McHenry, a Philadelphia Irishman, a medical student under Benjamin Rush, served as a surgeon early in the war.


10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 10th West Virginia was organized at Camp Pickens, Canaan, Glenville, Clarkesville, Sutton, Philippi, and Piedmont in western Virginia between March 12 and May 18, 1862.

19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

2009 Camp Capsat mutiny

The 2009 Camp Capsat mutiny refers to the mutiny of a part of the malagasy army which led to the ousting of Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana on March 17, 2009, and to the nomination of Andry Rajoelina as president of the High transitional authority on March 21, 2009.

2011 in Norway

22 July – The 2011 Norway attacks: At least 76 people are killed in twin terrorist attacks in Norway after a bombing in the Regjeringskvartalet, the government center in Oslo and a massacre in the political youth camp in the island of Utøya.

Adelaide Film Festival

2005 saw over 250 screenings, including the world premiere of six AFFIF funded titles, including Look Both Ways a feature film directed by Sarah Watt, the interactive web series UsMob.com.au filmed in the Hidden Valley town camp outside Alice Springs in Arrernte country and the new rescore to Fritz Lang's Metropolis by The New Pollutants (Benjamin Speed and Tyson Hopprich)

Alen Marcina

Marcina has never been capped by the Canadian national team although he missed New Zealand's round 21 match against Perth Glory at North Harbour Stadium due to a call up to a Canadian national team training camp.

Alfred M. Gray, Jr.

After his Vietnam War tour, Gray served as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines, Battalion Landing Team 1/2; the 2nd Marine Regiment; the 4th Marine Regiment; and Camp Commander of Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan.

Amanda Aday

She attended the Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center, a summer theatre/dance camp in the Catskill Mountains in New York, from 1990 through 1996, and then graduated from the prestigious Idyllwild Arts Academy in California.

Arrowrock Dam

In addition to the outdoor recreational activities, the camp also operated a YMCA.

Battle of Palo Alto

Taylor established camps for those heeding his call for volunteers at Point Isabel, the north end of Brazos Island, and along the Rio Grande between Barita and Fort Brown, at a place known as Camp Belknap.

Boniface de Castellane

In October 1812 he was made aide-de-camp of general Narbonne and was present at Krasnoi and the crossing of the Beresina.

Breathing Room

Kathy Justice of Indy Week called it "low on camp and high on suspense", with a plot that resembles the 2006 French cult film 13 Tzameti.

Brown-backed Solitaire

One singing bird was found in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona, and documented by the youth birding Victor Emanuel Nature Tours' Camp Chiricahua in July 2009.

Camp Dearborn

During the Great Recession of 2008, Dearborn investigated selling off the camp but found that the camp was profitable and that there was no prospect of a reasonably profitable sale due to zoning issues.

Camp follower

A notable example was the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20 where female soladeras filling traditional camp roles, carrying equipment and often acting as combatants were a marked feature of Zapatista, Villistas and Federale forces at all times.

Camp Lo

Initially signed with Profile Records, Camp Lo made their first appearance in 1996 on The Great White Hype soundtrack, with their single, "Coolie High".

Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park

When Union Major General Ambrose Burnside attacked the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tennessee, Camp Nelson's distance from the Gap and Knoxville, combined with lack of railroads and the weather, hampered the Union advance.

Charles Treat

Treat served in Artillery assignments in the United States, including postings to the western states during the American Indian Wars and duty as aide-de-camp to Oliver O. Howard.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

Defence College of Communications and Information Systems

The College consists of a headquarters based at Blandford Camp in Dorset, the Royal Navy CIS Training Unit at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, Hampshire, The Royal School of Signals at Blandford Camp and the Royal Air Force Number 1 Radio School, collocated with the headquarters of the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at Cosford, of which the Aerial Erector School at RAF Digby is a part.

Edward Israel

Israel and the rest of the crew spent two years at a camp they called Fort Conger.

Fort McDowell

Fort McDowell, Arizona, (also known as Camp McDowell), a community that started as a US Army fort established in 1865 on the upper Salt River in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Fred Pontin

He formed a company to buy an old disused camp at Brean Sands near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset in 1946.

Gmina Jaworzyna Śląska

In the year 1761, during the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great went into an entrenched mount guard (entrenched camp) close to Bolesławice (de:Bunzelwitz).

Gyrotonic

After spending 6 months in a refugee camp in Italy, Horvath was granted asylum in the United States, subsequently dancing professionally with the New York City Opera and the Houston Ballet.

Hadar, Ethiopia

The name 'Lucy' was inspired by the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", by The Beatles, which happened to be playing on the radio at base camp.

Holzminden internment camp

Holzminden internment camp was a large World War I detention camp (Internierungslager) located on the outskirts of Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1914 to 1918.

House of Castries

Christian de Castries (1902–1990), general, who commanded the reduced camp at Diên Biên Phu.

Ibrahim al Qosi

Qosi had declined to leave his cell to meet with Commander Suzanne Lachelier, his assigned legal counsel, and the Camp's security rules do not permit her going to his cell to talk to him—so they have never discussed his case.

Imnaha River

Below the historic forest ranger station, Adams, Schleur, Spring, Snell, Loyd, Keeler, Jody, Thorn, Dunlap, Rippleton, Dead Horse, High Camp, and Deer creeks enter from the right before Sheep Creek enters from the left near Imnaha at RM 19.5 (RK 31.4).

Krøkebærsletta

It was primarily a transit camp for prisoners on their way to Falstad, Grini or camps in Germany.

Kurt Gerron

Once filming was finished, Gerron and members of the Jazz pianist Martin Roman's Ghetto Swingers were deported on the camp's final train transport to Auschwitz.

Matthew Davidson

Matthew was selected out of several hundred applicants to be the guitarist for the 2011 Kidd Kraddick Rock Camp Band.

Melaghar Camp

Melaghar Camp was a training camp for freedom fighters during Liberation war of Bangladesh.

Montse Armengou Martín

The films examine different aspects of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship; - the forced relocation of Republican children, disappearances and mass graves, and the 1940 deportation of Spanish Republicans from the French town of Angouleme to the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen, Austria.

Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation

When the Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation was closed, Nassau County Council's Camp Wauwepex in Wading River, New York was renamed as the John M. Schiff Scout Reservation, in honor of Moritmer's son, John.

MS Aramis

Three-hundred of these POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 6 in Orio, 350 POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 21 in Nakama, 100 Dutch POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 9 Miyata, and 250 including 150 Australian POWs were allocated to Mitsui to work in their coal mines at PW Fukuoka Camp 17 in Ōmuta.

New Zealand national under-20 rugby union team

Head Coach Chris Boyd, and his Assistant Coaches Chris Gibbes and Liam Barry have selected their New Zealand Under 20 squad to travel to France in June for the IRB Junior World Championship, following a selection camp and trial in Palmerston North.

Otto Miskolczy

After the capitulation of Italy and the liberation of the camp, Miskolczy joined the Partisans.

Per Bergsland

After arriving at the POW camp, he gave his name as "Peter Rockland" (Per = Petrus, meaning rock in Greek, and Berg meaning mountain or rock in Norwegian) to the Germans.

Portrayal of Native Americans in film

A major scene in Peter Pan involves the Lost Boys and Peter Pan celebrating at the Native Americans' camp after Peter rescues Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief, from Captain Hook.

Quentin Bryce

While living in Belmont she attended the Camp Hill State School, and there first met her future husband, Michael Bryce.

Ramón Rodríguez Chacín

The source for these documents was allegedly a 2008 cross-border raid by Colombian military into Ecuador which destroyed a FARC camp.

Shafal Mosed

Taher, Moseb and Galeb all decided to leave together after Sahim Alwan made it clear he wanted to return home and was unhappy with the tone of the camp.

Stonewall Jackson Area Council

Camp Shenandoah was first established in 1930 near McGaheysville, Virginia and moved to its present site near Swoope, Virginia in 1950.

Taree High School

In addition to the mandated, more traditional areas of study, the school offers unique study units such as Bush and Camp Crafts, Surf Survival, Ceramics and Robotics.

Thanks to My Mother

Each pass allowed the holder to add a spouse and two children, who were then exempt from periodic actions, which as the Indurski’s correctly surmised, were deportations for execution at Ponary or to the death camp of Majdanek.

The Night Porter

In an iconic scene, Lucia sings a Marlene Dietrich song "Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte" to the concentration camp guards while wearing pieces of an SS uniform, and Max "rewards" her with the severed head of a male inmate who had been bullying the other inmates, a reference to Salome.

Uğur Pamuk

Pamuk received his first call to the Azerbaijan national team in May 2012, when he was selected for a training camp by national coach Berti Vogts.

William R. Blair

In 1917, the Army established the Signal Corps Radio Laboratories at Camp Vail, in eastern New Jersey.


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