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unusual facts about VMF-155


VMF-155

In April 1943, with their training complete, a detachment from the squadron was ordered aboard the USS Nassau (CVE-16) to participate in the invasion of Attu in the Aleutian Islands.


155 mm Creusot Long Tom

The 155 mm Creusot Long Tom was a French field gun (artillery piece) manufactured by Schneider et Cie in Le Creusot, France and used by the Boers in the Second Boer War.

1909 Grand Isle hurricane

On September 16, it attained the equivalent of a modern-day Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale and further strengthened to attain winds of 100 mph (155 km/h) before making landfall in Pinar del Río Province, Cuba on September 18.

2004 Chūetsu earthquake

Eight out of ten cars of the Toki 325 service (a 200 Series Shinkansen train) derailed on the Joetsu Shinkansen line between Nagaoka Station in Nagaoka and Urasa Station in Yamato; no injuries were reported among the 155 passengers.

2010–11 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season

On March 25, 2010, Tom Pecora was hired from Hofstra, where he coached seven years to a 155–126 record.

Air China Flight 129

During the accident flight the airline made the pre-flight safety demonstration and announcements in Chinese and English, but not in Korean, while 135 of 155 of the passengers were Korean.

Alfa Corse

In 1993, Alfa Corse entered the DTM with the AWD V6-powered 155 TI, and created a Supertouring model, that would on got win the Italian Superturismo, the BTCC and the Spanish Touring Car Championship.

Arvand Free Zone

The Arvand Freezone is a 155 square kilometer industrial and security zone that surrounds Khorramshahr, Abadan, and Minoo Island along the Arvand waterway (known as Shatt al-Arab in Iraq) in Khuzestan Province, Iran.

California State Route 155

Route 155 (near the intersection with 6th Ave/Dairy Ave) was the location of the famous "crop duster" scene from the Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest.

Canada–Netherlands relations

The Canadian Army have increased its presence with main battle tanks, some ten Leopard C2 and twenty Leopard 2A6M CAN, approximately one hundred LAV III armoured vehicles and currently use six 155 mm M777 howitzers in Afghanistan.

Castlevania Chronicles

Before each game, the player is given a choice between three different sound modules: the X68000's FM Synthesizer, MIDI Roland LA (MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64) and MIDI Roland GS (SC-55, SC-33, SC-155, CM-300, CM-500).

Christian Frederik von Schalburg

; Smith, P. S., Under hagekors og Dannebrog : danskere i Waffen SS 1940–45, Aschehoug, 2006 (Hardcover, ISBN 978-87-11-11843-6, p.155-158).

Cornelius Scipio

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, consul in 162 and 155 BC, and censor in 159; Princeps Senatus.

Dan Campilan

Campilan was driving along Quirino Highway in Lagro, Novaliches, when his Toyota Corolla (TBW-155) crashed into an oncoming Mayamy bus (CVK-827) around 5:30 a.m.

Detroit street circuit

It was the last ever of 155 grand prix wins for the 3.0L Cosworth DFV V8 engine which had made its debut back in 1967 when legendary Team Lotus boss Colin Chapman matched his Lotus 49 with the engine.

Diego Junqueira

reaching the semifinal in Chile (losing to #140 Eduardo Schwank), the final in Ecuador (beating #155 Fernando Vicente along the way), and the semifinal in France (beating #105 Boris Pašanski and #192 Marc López), to get himself back into the top-200 for the first time in almost 2 years.

English tort law

Similarly, in Page v Smith 1995 AC 155, it was held that Mr Smith was liable for causing Mr Page psychiatric injury (chronic fatigue syndrome) after a car crash, because Mr Smith could have reasonably foreseen that Mr Page would suffer physical injury for the crash.

Greco-Buddhist monasticism

The role of Greek Buddhist monks in the development of the Buddhist faith under the patronage of emperor Ashoka around 260 BCE, and then during the reign of Indo-Greek king Menander (r. 165/155–130 BCE) is described in the Mahavamsa, an important non-canonical Theravada Buddhist historical text compiled in Sri Lanka in the 6th century, in the Pali language.

Jacksonville metropolitan area

The Duval County School Board is the largest in the area and the 15th largest in the United States with over 155,000 students.

JANET

SuperJanet3 created new 155 Mbit/s ATM nodes to fully connect all of the major sites at London, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds, with 34 Mbit/s links to smaller sites around the country.

Kirrweiler, Kusel

In 1938, when the Baumholder troop drilling ground was being built, the municipality was stripped of 155.5 ha of woodland by the Nazis.

Lee Shone

In 2007 Shone was managed by ex cruiserweight boxing champion Glenn McCrory and was coached by the Cuban olympic boxing coaches training with Team USA from The Contender Challenge UK vs. USA series for preparation for K-1 oceania 155 lbs tournament.

Martyrdom of Polycarp

# Circa 155-156: no later than 160 due to the known proconsuls of Asia, such as Quadratus and the chronological statements in MartPol 21.

Mike Theiss

In 2004, Theiss captured one of the highest wind gusts ever recorded on video inside Hurricane Charley with an estimated wind gust over 155 mph in Charlotte Harbor, Florida.

Millennium Star

The diamond was discovered in the Mbuji-Mayi district of Zaire (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1990 in alluvial deposits; uncut, it was 777 carats (155.4 g).

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

The Super Sunday phone-a-thon is an annual fundraising event held by many of the 155 Jewish federations located in North America.

Minnie Pit Disaster

The Minnie Pit disaster was a coal mining accident in Halmer End, Staffordshire, UK in which 155 men died.

Minuscule 181

The manuscript was given by Christina of Sweden to Cardinal Dezio Azzolino, and bought from him by Alexander VIII (1689-1691) — like codices 154, 155, 156.

Munda Airport

The first American aircraft landed at Munda on August 14, 1943 with landings by F4U Corsairs piloted by Robert Owen of VMF-215, a 44th Fighter Squadron (44th FS) P-40 Warhawk and a J2F Duck with Marine Brigadier General Francis P. Mulcahy aboard.

Myron Cottrell

In 2006 the car received an appreciative mention from Car Craft Magazine after appearing at the Car Craft Summer Nationals auto show, and in 2006 it was run at Bonneville Speedway on the Bonneville Salt Flats and achieved a best official speed of 198.155 miles per hour.

Nottingham Corporation Tramways

The second batch, numbered 146 to 155, had similar bodies built by the Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited of Loughborough, mounted on Brush-built P.22 trucks and with identical equipment to the U.E.C. cars, except for 146, which had a B.T.H electromagnetic brake instead of the air slipper type.

Opel Performance Center

since 2011 Opel Corsa D OPC Nürburgring Edition - a version of the Opel Corsa D three-door hatchback which has a 1.6-liter turbo engine with 155 kW (210 hp).

Operation Karbala-5

26:263 Despite their losses, the Iranian high command issued a statement, claiming capture of 155 km2 (60 sq mi) of enemy-occupied territory and the Iranian town of Shalamcheh;12 the destruction of 81 Iraqi brigades and battalions; the destruction of 700 tanks and 1,500 other vehicles; the downing of 80 Iraqi warplanes; the destruction of 250 anti-aircraft guns and 400 pieces of military hardware; the capture of 220 tanks and armoured personnel carriers; and 40,000 enemy dead.

Operation Steel Box

The 1986 agreement, between Ronald Reagan and Helmut Kohl, provided for the removal of 155 mm and 8 inch unitary chemical projectiles.

Operational Requirement F.155

The AW.169 and Fairey's Delta III design were considered to be the best two contenders taking into account the design of the aircraft, the development risks, the capabilities of the design teams and the manufacturers' workloads - Bristol had not been invited to tender because of the importance of the Bristol 188 high speed research plane they were working on.

Saunders-Roe came up with the P.187: a logical progression from the SR.53 and SR.177 mixed power (rocket and jet engines) interceptors.

PGK

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

Primacy of the Bishop of Rome

In 155, Anicetus, Bishop of Rome presided over a church council at Rome that was attended by a number of bishops including Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna.

Ray Ellington

Ellington was born Henry Pitts Brown, at 155 Kennington Road, Kennington, London, the youngest of four children.

Salisbury, Missouri

Floyd B. Parks -- U.S. Marine aviator who earned the Navy Cross posthumously for his actions leading Marine fighter squadron VMF-221 during the Battle of Midway.

Tekserve

In Sex and the City episode 408, My Motherboard. Myself, Aasif Mandvi was featured as a Tekserve employee attempting to recover data from Carrie Bradshaw's portable computer at the smaller 155 West 23rd Street location.

Toyota WISH

Equipped with the 1AZ-FSE direct-injection engine, it has (JIS) 155 PS (114 kW) and 192 N·m (142 lb·ft).

Ushu

Abimilku's ten letters, EA 145-EA 155, mostly have the conflict of Tyre with Zimredda (Sidon mayor), the Habiru, or Aziru of Amurru-(especially EA 148, with Usu).

Victorio Spinetto

Spinetto also coached Argentinos Juniors in three periods (1962–1963, 1972–1973 and 1978), totaling 155 games.

VMA-223

VMF-223 left the island on October 16, 1942 having accounted for 110½ enemy aircraft shot down including that of Japanese ace Junichi Sasai.

VMF-413

In July 1944, VMB-413 began operating from Munda from where they began to raid both Kahili and Choiseul on a regular basis until October 18, 1944 when they moved to Emirau.

VMF-441

By March 1944 the squadron was again on the offensive conducting raids against Mili and Jaluit.


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