In 1920, French WWI hero Paul Teste, was the first pilot to demonstrate actually landing an aircraft on the deck of a ship, The Béarn, and in effect invented the concept of the modern Aircraft carrier. In the 1960s French Pilots were issued with watches manufactured to the "Type 20” pattern, including approximately 500 Breguet watches for those operating from Aircraft carriers in the Navy. ...
Attachment 24553 “When the empire is at war, so also is Australia” Prime minister Joseph Cook spoke for many fellow Australians and thousands joined the volunteer Australian Imperial Force and fought in Europe and the Middle East. They were joined by troops from New Zealand and were formed into the Australia and New Zealand Army Corp, the ANZAC. On 25th April 1915 16,000 ANZAC troops were landed on the shore of the Gallipoli peninsular in Turkey in support of an allied ...
Updated Jul 18, 2015 at 11:09 AM by Churchy
Note: Pertains to the United States only. Know what a POD is? First I heard of it, I thought of the cheesy horror flick. But on closer examination, it is the acronym for points of dispensing. Dispensing what? The CDC has put in place a Public Health Emergency Preparedness cooperative agreement with state and local governments so that in the event of a public emergency, a mechanism is in place so that medication from the Strategic National ...
As hostilities drew to a conclusion in Europe, the United States pushed hard towards victory in the pacific, After the heavy losses of Pearl Harbor the industrial manufacturing power of the United States was able to make significant technological and tactical advances that, by 1945, made it practically imposible for Japan to win. Only the desperate measures of Suicide raids on ships had any impact, ...
The new sovereign state of Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918 at the end of the 1st World War, and came under almost immediate threat of invasion necessitating the creation of a new army. By 1938 that army had grown to number 1.5 million men, and was well equipped with modern weapons, including locally made tanks. In the early 1930s watches produced by the swiss company Lemania were supplied ...
Updated Jul 13, 2015 at 10:08 PM by Churchy
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