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13th Guards Rifle Division

Incidentally, the Belov that commanded the Corps that bought hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers their lives is unknown, but the possibilities are as follows: Alexander Belov, Alexei Belov, Grigori Belov, Ivan Belov, Nikolai Belov, Pavel Belov, Vladimir Belov, and Yetvtikhihy Belov, as all of these men were Red Army officers who participated in the Battle of Kiev.

1969 in organized crime

December 10 - Michele Cavataio and three of his men are killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo by a Mafia hit squad including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law of Totò Riina), Emanuele D’Agostino of Stefano Bontade’s Santa Maria di Gesù Family and Damiano Caruso a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina, the Mafia boss of Riesi.

Ari Ben-Menashe

Legendary Israeli spy Rafi Eitan told author Gordon Thomas, for Thomas' book Gideon's Spies, that he had worked with Ben-Menashe on setting up the US-Israeli network for covertly supplying arms to Iran, and had collaborated with Ben-Menashe on using PROMIS for espionage.

Asclepias lanceolata

It serves as a host plant for larvae of monarch, queen, and soldier butterflies (Danaus plexippus, Danaus gilippus, and Danaus eresimus, respectively).

Benjamin Alvord

Benjamin Alvord, Jr. (1860–1927), son of the above, American soldier, U.S. general during World War I

Brendan I. Koerner

It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war.

Charles Carey

Charles F. Carey, Jr. (died 1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Chiclana

Feliciano Chiclana (1761 – 1826), an Argentine lawyer, soldier, and judge

Costoboci

A bronze hand dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus by a soldier from a cohort stationed in Dacia was found at Myszków in Western Ukraine.

Dark Void Zero

Until finally, the military sent in experts: A soldier named Rusty, who was actually born in the Void, and Nikola Tesla.

Enderlin

Richard Enderlin (1843–1930), musician and United States Army soldier

Frank Selee

With the Cubs, he created the famous Tinker to Evers to Chance infield combination, by converting Frank Chance from catcher to first base, Joe Tinker from third base to shortstop, and Johnny Evers from shortstop to second base.

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

Glenn Andreotta

Andreotta was posthumously granted the Soldier's Medal in 1998 for his bravery in stopping the My Lai Massacre, along with Lawrence Colburn and Hugh Thompson, Jr..

Guide book

Arthur Frommer, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Korean War, used his experience traveling around the Continent as the basis for Europe on $5 a Day (1957), which introduced readers to options for budget travel in Europe.

Harry Cole

Harold Cole (1906–1946), known as Harry, British soldier and traitor

Hilary Hook

Lieutenant-Colonel Hilary Hook was a soldier in armies of the British Empire in India and later in Africa.

I Wish I Was James Bond

The song is about the spy James Bond from Ian Fleming's books and the James Bond movies and his world in general (girls, gadgets, 00 status, licence to kill and vodka martinis).

Jack Blumenau

As the Bell Rings (2007 episodes O Romeo and A Touch of Class, Disney Channel UK) - Tinker

James A. Smith

James Alexander Smith (1881–1968), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross

Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch

While attempting to lift the siege of Soubise his force was surprised by a French force led by Owain Lawgoch, a Welsh soldier of fortune in the French service.

Joanna Żubr

For her bravery, Prince Józef Poniatowski awarded her the medal of Virtuti Militari; Joanna was the first female soldier to be awarded the decoration and one of the first women in the world to receive a military award for bravery in battle.

Johannes Andersen

Johannes S. Anderson (1887–1950), Finland born U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

John Lambert

John Lambert of Creg Clare (fl. c. 1645 – c. 1669), Irish soldier and Royalist

Jose Valdez

Jose F. Valdez (1925–1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Juan de Castellanos

Juan de Castellanos (born in Spain in the first half of the sixteenth century; date of death unknown) was a Criollo poet, soldier and Catholic priest.

Kennelly–Heaviside layer

In Tim Powers supernatural spy novel "Declare" the Heaviside layer is the realm of the "spirits of the upper air".

Khan Muhammad Khan

Colonel Khan Muhammad Khan (Urdu: کرنل خان محمد خان)was a prominent soldier and politician in Poonch, serving in the Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly and later as Chairman of the War Council during the 1947 War of Independence.

Lauren Kessler

She is also author of Washington Post best-seller Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era, a biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and the Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club, a biography of aviator Florence Pancho Barnes.

Lord Gascoyne-Cecil

Lord Edward Gascoyne-Cecil (1867–1918), British soldier and colonial administrator in Egypt

Lord Gowrie

Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie (1872–1955), British soldier and colonial governor

Lord Kitchener

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), prominent British soldier in the Sudan, the Second Boer War, and World War I. Also featured in a famous British recruitment poster in World War I.

Mandyk Khasman

Mandyk Khasman (born in 1929 as Mandel Khasman, also 'Volodymyr Dmytrenko') is a former soldier in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and an ethnic Jew.

Medieval Welsh literature

Guto was also a soldier who fought on the Yorkist side during the War of the Roses, but spent his last years as a lay guest at the Cistercian abbey of Valle Crucis, near Llangollen.

Melvin Brown

Melvin L. Brown (1931–1950), United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor

Michael Mulligan

As a military prosecutor, Mulligan led the 2005 court-martial of Hasan Akbar, a soldier ultimately convicted of murdering two of his fellow soldiers at the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Nicholas Sheran

After his service in the American Civil War, Sheran followed a fellow soldier (Joseph Healy, a member of the Kainai Nation who was adopted by the Healy family) to Montana where he worked as a prospecter and trader.

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

They are taken to the museum and the chief spy retrieves the microfilm from the other large dinosaur, a Diplodocus skeleton.

Popular Resistance Committees

The unexpected attack ended with one soldier- Corporal Gilad Shalit- captured, two dead and four wounded.

Poul Reichhardt

Perhaps his best movie roles were as a resistance man (De røde Enge - “The Red Meadows", 1945), and as the soldier in Soldaten og Jenny, ("The Soldier and Jenny", 1947. His ability as a singer even made him opera roles (Papageno in The Magic Flute) and though normally considered a typical “man of the people” he also mastered the role as a man of the world.

Riddlewood, Pennsylvania

The names of the streets in Riddlewood are named after Sam Riddle's horses as follows: Man o' War, War Admiral, War Trophy, Rampart East, Rampart West, Anamosa, and Soldier Song.

Rohingya conflict in Western Burma

On 7 November 2012, one soldier from the Burmese Army was reportedly beheaded and three others were captured by the Muslim rebels, by an armed group of the Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO), in their guerrilla offensive against the Burmese army in northern Maungdaw township on the Burma-Bangladesh border.

Sergei Solnechnikov

During training exercises on March, 28 at a Far Eastern military base near the town of Belogorsk, major Solnechnikov pushed a soldier away from an unsuccessfully thrown grenade and threw himself over it after it bounced back into the trench they were in with dozens of soldiers standing nearby.

Shi Pei Pu

The incident became the basis of David Henry Hwang's 1988 play M. Butterfly, in which B. D. Wong played Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer and spy based on Shi Pei Pu in the original Broadway production of the play.

Soldier in the Rain

Soldier in the Rain is a 1963 American comedy-drama film starring Jackie Gleason and Steve McQueen.

The Africa House

The Africa House is an account of the life of soldier, pioneer white settler, politician and supporter of African independence Stewart Gore-Browne in relation to the building of his estate Shiwa Ngandu in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.

The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An Option

Tim Abell as Devlin, an ex-soldier who works as a martial arts teacher at the academy.

Thomas R. St. George

His best known work is C/O Postmaster, a semi-autobiographical description of his experiences in Australia as a U.S. soldier in 1942.

William G. Sebold

William G. Sebold (Wilhelm Georg Debrowski; 10 March 1899 in Mülheim, Germany – February 1970 in Walnut Creek, California) was a German spy in the United States during World War II, who became a double agent for the FBI.

Duquesne had been a spy for Germany since World War I; before that, he had been a Boer spy in the Second Boer War.


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