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unusual facts about sentry



1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident

With its crew unaware that the Hercules had disturbed a flock of Canada geese, the Sentry lined up and started its departure roll, as it rotated No. 1 and No. 2 engine ingested the birds.

Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse

On 15 December, in yet another night infiltration raid onto Henderson Field, a Lieutenant Ono led four men equipped with picric acid blocks past American sentry positions destroying several P-39 Airacobra fighters.

Boston Massacre

Over fifty Bostonians pressed around White, led by a mixed-race runaway slave named Crispus Attucks, throwing objects at the sentry and challenging him to fire his weapon.

Floréal-class frigate

The concept of "sentry frigate" emerged from the will of the French government to protect its Exclusive Economic Zone (12 million km²), as defined in the Montego Bay treaties.

Ganghwa Island shooting

The Ganghwa Island shooting occurred on July 4, 2011 11:50AM at a coastal sentry in Ganghwa County when a corporal assigned to the ROK 2nd Marine Division went on a shooting spree towards his team with a K-2 rifle and later attempted a suicide with a grenade.

Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe

When Galahad first met him, Parsloe was walking around a supper-table at Romano's, wearing a soup-tureen on his head and holding a stick of celery, claiming he was a sentry outside Buckingham Palace.

Rise to Rebellion

The events of the American Revolution are portrayed through the perspectives of multiple characters, including Sentry Hugh White of the British army, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, George Washington, Governor Thomas Hutchinson, Captain James Hall, Abigail Adams, Paul Revere, Dr. Joseph Warren, and Major John Pitcairn.

Service robot

The Woods Hole Sentry can descend to 4,500 metres and allows a higher payload as it does not need a support ship or the oxygen and other facilities demanded by human piloted vessels.

Shouson Hill

In the early 20th century, the British military used the hill to bunker troops and as a sentry post overlooking Deep Water Bay, Aberdeen, and area now occupied by Ocean Park.

Tohu Kakahi

Along with other members of Te Ati Awa, Tohu fought in the Taranaki Wars in the mid-1860s and was one of the leaders at the 1864 attack at Sentry Hill.

Triangle and Robert

The Grain Sentry (an equilateral triangle, partly shaded) – The grain sentry, formerly the Food Pyramid, was on the run from the law when he was introduced, having been framed by the International Culinary Institute in an attempt to preserve the doctrine of the food groups.

Watts Warehouse

The bronze statue depicts the sentry wearing a Tommy helmet, World War I battle gear and a cape, standing on guard with his rifle with fixed bayonet upright, and was commissioned from the British sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger who also designed the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, London.

Wolfgang Lüth

On the night of 13/14 May 1945 Lüth was shot in the head by 18 year-old Matrose (seaman) Mathias Gottlob, a German guard, when the officer failed to respond to the sentry's challenge.


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