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Elizabeth II in 1954. He was Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales

Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais départment of northern France, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Saint-Omer. It was built by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944 to serve as a launch base for V-2 rockets directed against London and southern England. Constructed in the side of a disused chalk quarry, the most prominent feature of the complex is an immense concrete dome. It was built above a network of tunnels housing storage areas, launch facilities and crew quarters. The facility was designed to store a large stockpile of V-2s, warheads and fuel and was intended to launch V-2s on an industrial scale. However, after repeated heavy bombing by Allied forces during Operation Crossbow, the Germans were unable to complete the construction works and the complex never entered service. It was captured by the Allies in September 1944, partially demolished on the orders of Winston Churchill

Liberal Party at the national level and was elected to the legislature of Rio Grande do Sul. He also founded the Progressive-Liberal Party. Porto Alegre later entered the lower house of the Brazilian parliament and was briefly Minister of War. When the Paraguayan War

scuttled by an American destroyer

Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost worker morale. The poster is generally thought to be based on a black-and-white wire service photograph taken of a Michigan factory worker named Geraldine Hoff. The poster was seen very little during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also called "Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker. The "We Can Do It!" image was used to promote feminism and other political issues beginning in the 1980s. The poster is one of the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records Administration

Western Allies. Most of the remaining members became prisoners of the British Army. Thirty-eight officers were extradited by the Yugoslavian authorities

Southwest Pacific Area

First World War he joined the Royal Artillery as an officer, but was unable to fight in France due to an age limit. He transferred to the newly formed Royal Flying Corps and spent the rest of the war learning to fly, first in Reading and then Egypt. After the war, Clarke returned to the Royal Artillery and led a varied career in the Middle East. While on leave in 1922 he fed misinformation to Turkish rebels during the Chanak Crisis, the first example of the kind of work that would later define his career. In 1936, Clarke was posted, where he helped organise the British response to the Arab uprising in Palestine. In 1940, Clarke returned to the Middle East and was placed in charge of strategic deception. As cover for this secret role he was also tasked with setting up a regional presence for MI9, a British escape and evasion department. The following year he established 'A' Force. Clarke pursue intelligence contacts outside of Cairo, in Turkey and Lisbon, both for deception and MI9 escape-and-evasion activities. In late 1941 his ideas for military deception came to the attention of Allied high command, who called Clarke to London and suggested he set up a department in the capital. Clarke declined and returned to Lisbon. Shortly afterwards, while in Madrid, he was arrested wearing women's clothing, in circumstances that remain unclear. The Madrid incident marked the end of Clarke's field work and he returned to Cairo and 'A' Force. Clarke implemented Operation Cascade, a grand order of battle deception which added a large number of fictional units to the Allied formations. These units were reused in 'A' Forces tactical deceptions to help establish their existence, a success as the Axis believed in all of the units by the end of the war. Clarke spent the remainder of the war organising deception in North Africa and southern Europe. After the war ended Clarke spent a couple of years writing up the history of 'A' Force before retiring in 1947. He lived the remainder of his life in relative obscurity (records of wartime deception were kept classified until the 1970s). As well as pursuing a literary career that produced two histories and a thriller, he worked for the Conservative Party and was a director of Securicor

Radiation Laboratory and on the Manhattan Project. After the war, he served on the General Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was chairman from 1952 to 1956. He also served on the Science Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Office of Defense Mobilization, and was Science Advisor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was involved with the establishment of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1946, and later, as United States delegate to UNESCO, with the creation of CERN

United States Constitution. Adair moved to Kentucky in 1786 and participated in the Northwest Indian War, including a skirmish with the Miami chief Little Turtle near Fort St. Clair in 1792. Popular for his service in two wars, Adair entered politics in 1792. After Kentucky's separation from Virginia, he was elected to a total of eight terms in the state House of Representatives between 1793 and 1803. He served as Speaker of the Kentucky House in 1802 and 1803, and was a delegate to the state's second constitutional convention in 1799. Adair took part in the War of 1812, and subsequently defended Kentucky's soldiers against Andrew Jackson's charges that they showed cowardice at the Battle of New Orleans. In 1820, he was elected governor on a platform of financial relief for Kentuckians hit hard by the Panic of 1819. Following his term as governor, Adair served one undistinguished term in the United States House of Representatives, but did not run for re-election. He died May 19, 1840, at his farm in Harrodsburg. He is the namesake of Adair County, Kentucky, Adair County, Missouri, Adair County, Iowa, and the cities of Adairville, Kentucky and Adair, Iowa

Foday Kallay—were taken prisoner and later transferred to the custody of the Sierra Leone Police

South West Pacific Theatre of World War II. It was one of four major Allied commands in the Pacific War. SWPA included the Philippines, Borneo, the Dutch East Indies (excluding Sumatra), East Timor, Australia, the Territories of Papua and New Guinea, and the western part of the Solomon Islands. It primarily consisted of United States and Australian forces, although Dutch, Filipino, British and other Allied forces also served in the SWPA. General Douglas MacArthur was appointed as the Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, on its creation on 18 April 1942. He created five subordinate commands: Allied Land Forces, Allied Air Forces, Allied Naval Forces, United States Army Forces in Australia (USAFIA), and the United States Army Forces in the Philippines. The last command disappeared when Corregidor surrendered on 6 May 1942. USAFIA became the United States Army Services of Supply, Southwest Pacific Area (USASOS SWPA). In 1943, United States Army Forces in the Far East

guerrilla campaign. Initially followed by Dutch forces, Sudirman escaped and made his headquarters at Sobo, near Mount Lawu, where he was able to command military activities in Java; this included a show of force in Yogyakarta on 1 March 1949, led by Lieutenant Colonel Suharto. When the Dutch began withdrawing, in July 1949 Sudirman was called back to Yogyakarta. Although he wanted to continue fighting the Dutch troops, he was forbidden by Sukarno. Sudirman had a relapse of tuberculosis; this led to him retiring to Magelang. He died slightly more than a month after the Dutch recognised Indonesia's independence. He is buried at Semaki Heroes' Cemetery