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Alex McAvoy

His many television roles included parts in The Bill, Dad's Army and Z-Cars as well as more serious parts in Sunday night dramas on British television, while in the cinema he played the sadistic schoolteacher in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) and the Beadle in Venus Peter (1989).

America's Army: True Soldiers

Multiplayer features scenarios, including reaching extraction points, defending objectives, and eliminating the enemy's VIP and simultaneously protecting their own.

Battle of Sari Bair

Lala Baba was captured by the 6th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment in what was the first combat action by any unit of Lord Kitchener's New Army.

Battle of Svay Rieng

The Battle of Svay Rieng was the last major operation of the Vietnam War to be mounted by the South Vietnamese army against the Communist VPA forces.

Branko Mamula

Before he became the Defence Minister he held the rank of Admiral as Chief of the General Staff of Yugoslav People's Army from 1979–1982.

Dad's Army missing episodes

It has since been established that the two episodes were film recorded to show to executives at Columbia Pictures during discussions on the structure of the Dad's Army feature film.

Distinguished Service Medal of the National People's Army

On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER- UND-BAUERN- MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS-AND-FARMERS-POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.

Eugene M. Landrum

He is known primarily for defeating the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands Campaign at the start of World War II, being relieved as commander of the 90th Infantry Division shortly after the D-Day landings, and organizing the Pusan Perimeter to blunt the North Korean offensive during the Korean War.

Flag of North Korea

There is also a flag of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea, modeled after similar communist party flags, and a flag for the Supreme Commander of the KPA used by Kim Jong-un, which has the Supreme Commander's Arms on a red field.

Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea

During the Korean War, the Battle of Inchon turned the tide against the Korean People's Army (NKPA) for the Americans who were fighting under the United Nations Command.

Franjo Gregurić

When he took his post, Croatia was in very difficult situation - its independence was not recognised by international community and Croatia, unlike Slovenia, lacked proper military infrastructure to resist Krajina rebels backed by Yugoslav People's Army.

Frankenstein's Army

Frankenstein's Army, also known as Army of Frankenstein in the Netherlands, is a 2013 found-footage film directed by Richard Raaphorst and stars Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, and Robert Gwilym.

Franz Mehring

Mehringdamm, Mehringplatz, and the NVA Air Force Officer's Academy that was located in Kamenz were all named after him.

Gage's Regiment of Militia

With the surrender of Burgoyne's Army on October 17, the regiment acted as part of the guard for the prisoners to Prospect Hill and disbanded on November 7, 1777.

Honington, Suffolk

This sleepy part of Suffolk proved to be an ideal filming location for the 1970s British TV show Dad's Army.

Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto

Twelve anti-aircraft Ansaldo 90/53 guns taken from the Vittorio Veneto were reused by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) as armament of its Žirje Island coastal artillery battery.

James Beck

Stanley James Carroll Beck (21 February 1929 – 6 August 1973) was an English actor best remembered for his role as Private Joe Walker, the cockney spiv in the popular BBC sitcom Dad's Army.

Jimmy Bone

Bone was one of several veterans in the Hearts team and as a result the side was caustically dubbed Dad's Army.

Jose de Venecia, Jr.

In April 1997, De Venecia journeyed to the Netherlands to meet with self-exiled leaders of the National Democratic Front and New People's Army led by Jose Maria Sison and Luis Jalandoni.

Kim Kyok-sik

He received command of the 2nd Army Corps in October 1994 and held it until April 2007, when he was appointed Chief of the General Staff replacing Kim Yong-chun, who had been appointed defence minister.

Lado Guitars

After serving in the Yugoslav People's Army, he began training as a luthier at the Zagreb School of Guitar Making in Zagreb, Croatia, followed by two years additional training at Crossman Guitar Works in Vienna, Austria.

Lavochkin La-9

Volkspolizei (5 operated from 1952 to 1956 prior to the formation of the Air Forces of the National People's Army)

Lujo Györy

After military service in the Yugoslav People's Army Györy returned to Zagreb where he attended and graduated from the Higher Pedagogical Academy at the University of Zagreb.

National Volunteers

Following the outbreak of World War I in August, and the successful placement of the Home Rule Act on the statute books (albeit with its implementation formally postponed), Redmond made a speech in Woodenbridge, County Wicklow on 20 September, in which he called for members of the Volunteers to enlist in an intended Irish Army Corps of Kitchener's New British Army.

Operation Chameleon '92

Over 20 people got killed in the attack, all of them were members of the JNA.

Paraguayan People's Army

The EPP criticized the government of Fernando Lugo, saying that he represents the oligarchy, ignores the country's social problems and offers no real land reform.

Pen and Sword Books

Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks told the story of crash sites in the Dark Peak National Park and a further weekly feature on the history of two Kitchener battalions, known as the Barnsley Pals, aroused a public thirst for more.

Ravno, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ravno was first attacked in early October 1991 by JNA forces, which levelled the village on the way to attack Dubrovnik in the War in Croatia.

Rolf Herricht

Herricht starred in several other popular DEFA comedies during the 1960s and the 1970s: among others, he played the erratic National People's Army reserve soldier Ralf Horricht in the 1965 Der Reserveheld and the last-minute-travel-guide Hurtig in the 1967 Meine Freundin Sybille.

Russell Bartholomee

He also plays in Dallas-Fort Worth area bands such as Oliver's Army and Duck and Cover.

SAO Krajina

After Slovenia and Croatia declared independence, violence escalated as the Serbs expanded the territory they held with the help of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), eventually to include SAO of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srijem and SAO Western Slavonia.

Sedfrey Candelaria

Candelaria was part of the Negotiating Panel for the Peace Talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP/NPA/NDF).

Sergej Barbarez

However, briefly after, Barbarez served in the Yugoslav People's Army in Zagreb in 1991 before returning to Mostar to continue his career.

Snake Indians

These people were the opponents of the California and Oregon Volunteers and U.S Army, in the Snake War.

Strausberg–Strausberg Nord railway

The headquarters of the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (the militarised unit of the East German police, which was transformed in 1956 into the National People's Army) was moved in June 1954 from Berlin-Adlershof to Strausberg, because Berlin had been declared a demilitarised zone by the four occupying powers.

This Sporting Life

It also featured the future Dad's Army star, Arthur Lowe, who also appeared in four later films directed by Anderson.

Uganda People's Army

Reaching a height after the widespread cattle raid by Karamojong in 1987, the UPA rebellion was eventually ended through the mediation of the Teso Commission.

Umiray River

During the late 20th century (and continuing up to the present), it has been the site of several clashes between the army and the communist group, the New People's Army.

Veldin Karić

According to Karić, he had been arrested by the JNA in 1992 and was taken to Pale, the Serbian stronghold during the Siege of Sarajevo, where he was delivered as a prisoner to Serbian paramilitary forces.

Vladimir Kovačević

Kovačević faced six counts of violations of the laws of war all related to the bombing of the UNESCO Heritage Site of Dubrovnik by the Third Battalion of the JNA 472 (Trebinje) Motorised Brigade, of which he was in command.

West Horsley

Bill Pertwee, actor in Dad's Army lived in the town during the time of his role.

Weybourne railway station

Most notably for appearing as Walmington On Sea railway station in the Dad's Army episode, The Royal Train, as well as that of Crimpton On Sea railway station in the BBC TV sitcom Hi-De-Hi!.

Wispa

John Le Mesurier and Arthur Lowe also made a final appearance as their characters from Dad's Army.

Wolfgang Thonke

Wolfgang Thonke (born December 28, 1938), is a journalist, promoted military scientist, major general (ret.), and was the last Deputy Commanding General (A3) of the National People's Army Air Force in the former German Democratic Republic.

Zastava M 98/48

The Zastava M98/48 (often called Mod.98/48, Model. 98/48, Yugo K98) was a refurbished bolt action rifle, chambered for the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge that was temporary adopted in the years after WWII by the Yugoslav People's Army.

Zvornik massacre

Serb forces, including members of the police, the Territorial Defence, the Yugoslav People’s Army, and paramilitary groups, then launched an armed attack against Zvornik town.


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.280 British

However, the U.S. Army continued to reject these variants, ultimately adopting the 7.62×51mm NATO.

Albert Lea

Albert Miller Lea, U.S. Army engineer for whom the places are named

Alfred Lilienthal

During the Second World War, he worked for the State Department (1942–1943, Division of Defense Materials, and again 1945–1948) and served in the U.S. Army in the Middle East (1943–1945).

Alonzo Cushing

Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin nominated him for the medal in 2002 and, following a lengthy investigation, the U.S. Army approved the nomination in February 2010.

Arthur D. Nicholson

At a subsequent meeting between General Otis and General Mikhail Zaitsev, the commander of Group of Soviet Forces Germany, General Otis made it clear that the U.S. Army believed that Nicholson's murder "was officially condoned, if not directly ordered." Following this, a Soviet diplomat was ordered out of the U.S. and the U.S. canceled plans to jointly celebrate the 40th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe with the Soviets.

Auto-Ordnance Company

Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1916.

Battle of Kamdesh

Staff Sergeant Ty Carter, formerly a Marine prior to joining the U.S. Army, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions during the Battle of Kamdesh.

Bolte

Charles L. Bolte (1895–1989), U.S. Army general and World War I and World War II veteran

Camp Robinson

Fort Robinson (named for Levi H. Robinson), formerly Camp Robinson, a former U.S. Army fort and a present-day state park, in Crawford, Nebraska, United States

Carlton B. Ardery, Jr.

Ardery, a native of Lexington, Kentucky, went directly from high school into U.S. Army Air Force flight training, graduating in 1943 as a second lieutenant at Aloe Field, Victoria, Texas.

Charles Reynolds

"Lonesome" Charley Reynolds (Charles Alexander Reynolds, 1842–1876), U.S. Army scout killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn

Chicken curry

In 1940, Mrs. W.L. Bullard from Warm Springs, Georgia served this dish under the name "Country Captain" to Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president of the United States of America) and to General George S. Patton (a distinguished U.S. Army General).

Continental Motors, Inc.

Although Continental is most well known for its engines for light aircraft, it was also contracted to produce the air-cooled V-12 AV-1790-5B gasoline engine for the U.S. Army's M47 Patton tank and the diesel AVDS-1790-2A and its derivatives for the M48, M60 Patton and Merkava main battle tanks.

David Glantz

Upon his return to the United States in 1979, he became chief of research at the Army’s newly formed Combat Studies Institute (CSI) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1979 to 1983 and then Director of Soviet Army Operations at the Center for Land Warfare, U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1986.

Detachment R

Detachment R (also known as the U.S. Army Russian Area School) was a special U.S. Army School initially located in a former Wehrmacht garrison in Oberammergau and later moved to Regensburg, Germany, where it remained from 1950 to 1954, when it was moved back to Oberammergau.

Fort Logan National Cemetery

First Sergeant Maximo Yabes (January 29, 1932 – February 26, 1967) - (Vietnam) U.S. Army, Company A, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division.

Gravity boots

Today, gravity boots are used by the U.S. Army and have experienced a surge in popularity in 2006 with Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown praising them as well.

Henry Freeman

Henry Blanchard Freeman, U.S. Army general, Medal of Honor recipient during the American Civil War

Henry Martyn Lazelle

After serving as an inspector for the Division of the Pacific and the Department of the Columbia, Lazelle represented the U. S. Army as an observer during the maneuvers of the British Army in India from November 1885 to March 1886.

Hugh Mott

In tribute to Major General Mott, the U.S. Army Engineer School, located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, named the Bachelor Officer's Quarters building "Mott Hall" in his honor.

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008

The inserted provision would limit the CIA to the 19 interrogation tactics in the U.S. Army Field manual, effectively banning waterboarding, exposure to extreme temperatures and other techniques used on War on Terror detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S.

James N. Rowe

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is now a requirement for graduation from the U.S. Army Special Forces Qualification Course.

Johannes Andersen

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

Judd Gregg Meteorology Institute

The institute conducts projects and partnerships with the National Weather Center, the University of New Hampshire, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Air Force, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Mount Washington Observatory, the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory and many other agencies.

Lester R. Stone, Jr.

His mother Doris lent the medal to U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock to take on his June 2010 launch to the International Space Station.

Lorenzo Thomas

From 1853 to 1861, he served as chief of staff to the commanding general of the U.S. Army, Winfield Scott.

Louis Gedeon

One of the main sources of information about the action was provided by then Corporal Benjamin Foulois, who later became an aviation pioneer and U.S. Army Major General who wrote a letter to Gedeon's Mother.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering

Started in 2002 with a $50 million grant from the U.S. Army, the Institute works with a corsotium of firms, including Raytheon, DuPont and Brigham and Women's Hospital, to develop new technologies in support of the Future Force Warrior system.

Michael Montelongo

Mr. Montelongo entered public service in 1977 as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and completed the U.S. Army Ranger School at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1978.

Michael Weisskopf

While embedded with a U.S. Army unit in Iraq on December 10, 2003, his right hand was blown off as he tried to throw an enemy grenade back out of the Humvee in which he was riding.

Military Professional Resources Inc.

General William F. Kernan of the U.S. Army also joined the firm after his military service.

Military slang

The 1944 U.S. Army animated shorts Three Brothers and Private Snafu Presents Seaman Tarfu In The Navy (both directed by Friz Freleng), feature the characters Private Snafu, Private Fubar, and Seaman Tarfu.

Mont Pilat

On 1 November 1944 a U.S. Army Douglas C-47 Skytrain crashed due to bad weather carrying five crew members, army nurse lieutenant Aleda E. Lutz and fifteen wounded of whom some were German prisoners.

Murray Grand

During World War II, he served as an infantryman in U.S. Army and played piano accompaniment for USO Tour stars including Gypsy Rose Lee and Betty Grable.

Ninth Army

Ninth United States Army, one of the main U.S. Army combat commands used during the campaign in Northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945.

Paktika Province

The first full contingent of eight Civil Affairs Soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve's 450th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), based in Riverdale Park, Maryland, arrived in September 2004.

Paul Policastro

He is a graduate of Lafayette College and Rutgers Law School and served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Peter Bridges

After enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1955, Bridges served in the 97th Engineer Battalion in Verdun, France.

PGK

XM1156 Precision Guidance Kit, a U.S. Army program to develop a precision guidance system for existing 155 mm artillery shells

Pontiac Bonneville

The name was taken from the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the site of much early auto racing and most of the world's land speed record runs, which was named in turn after U.S. Army officer Benjamin Bonneville.

Provost Sergeant

U.S. Army Provost Sergeants cannot be recognized by any specific insignia and few Provost Sergeants even wear the distinctive military police identification patch on their Army Combat Uniform.

Ralph Puckett

As the first Ranger Advisor in the U.S. Army Mission to Colombia, he planned and established the Colombian Army Escuela de Lanceros (Ranger School).

Robert Conroy Goldston

He served in the U.S. Army, did some sailing on the Great Lakes and at one time was a science-fiction cover artist under the pseudonym James Stark for Nebula Science Fiction.

Short backfire antenna

The SBF antenna was invented by Dr. Hermann W. Ehrenspeck of Air Force Cambridge Research Labs based at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, MA and was used for among other purposes, to provide Tactical Satellite Communications for U.S. Army ground forces due to the SBF's portability and gain.

Taylor County, Texas

1849 Capt. Randolph Marcy, U. S. Army engineer passes through scouting out West Texas to California routes.

The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

The former members of Timbuk 3 have refused to license the song for commercials, including a $900,000 offer from AT&T and offers from Ford, the U.S. Army, and Bausch & Lomb for their Ray-Ban sunglasses.

Thomas Baldwin

Thomas Scott Baldwin (1860–1923), U.S. Army Major and pioneer balloonist

Verville VCP

In 1918, Virginius E. Clark, in charge of the Plane Design section of the U.S. Army Air Service's Engineering Division and Alfred V. Verville, who had recently joined the Engineering Division from private industry, started design of a single-seat fighter (known as "pursuit" aircraft to the U.S. Army), the VCP-1 (Verville-Clark Pursuit).

William Ketchum

William Scott Ketchum (1813–1873), U. S. Army officer before and during the American Civil War