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- American services and supply in the Siegfried Line campaign nominated by Hawkeye7
- Continuing Hawkeye's series on the vital part played by logistics in military campaigns, this article describes the American services and supply during the World War II line of communications as called for in the original Operation Overlordplan. The subsequent advance to the German border stretched the American logistical system to breaking point, and the advance came to a halt in mid-September.
- 4th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment nominated by Kges1901
- The 4th Pennsylvania Infantry was a unit of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Formed mostly from militia in Norristown, Pennsylvania, the regiment enlisted in April 1861 for a three-month period of service under the command of Colonel John F. Hartranft.The unit served as part of the garrison of Washington, D.C. until late June, when it was sent into northern Virginia. The regiment suffered its only combat casualties in a picket action on 30 June and was sent back to be mustered out on the eve of the First Battle of Bull Run owing to disagreement among the men over remaining with the army after the expiration of their term of service. Its men were denounced as cowards for being members of the only regiment to refuse to fight at the 21 July battle, though Hartranft and a company commander stayed with the army and later received the Medal of Honor for their actions at Bull Run. After it was disbanded, many of its men rejoined new Pennsylvania regiments, forming the bulk of the 51st Pennsylvania Infantry, which fought for the rest of the war.
- Fort Southerland nominated by Hog Farm
- A Camden Expedition Sites National Historic Landmark. Along with Fort Lookout, it is one of only two of the redoubts around Camden still in existence.
- Al-Muti nominated by Constantine(Cplakidas)
- Abū ʾl-Qāsim al-Faḍl ibn al-Muqtadir better known by his Sunni and Abbasid predominance, with the expanding Fatimid Caliphate posing a direct ideological and political challenge to the Abbasids. During al-Muti's reign, the Fatimids conquered Egypt and started to expand into the Levant, threatening Baghdad itself.
- Duckport Canal nominated by Hog Farm
- An unsuccessful military venture by Union forces during the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War, the Duckport Canal was ordered built in late March 1863 by Major General Ulysses S. Grant. It stretched from the Mississippi River near Duckport, Louisiana, to New Carthage, Louisiana, and utilized a series of swampy bayous for much of its path. It was intended to provide a water-based supply route for a southward movement against the Confederate-held city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, as high water levels made overland travel difficult. The day after it was completed on April 12, the levee separating the canal and the Mississippi was breached, and water flowed into the canal but trees in the bayous and falling water levels hampered its use and the project was abandoned on May 4. Grant instead moved men and supplies through the overland route, which had been made more accessible by the same falling water levels that doomed the canal. After a lengthy siege, Vicksburg surrendered on July 4, marking a turning point in the war.
- HMS Aigle (1801) nominated by Ykraps
- HMS Aigle was a 36-gun, receiving ship before being used as a target for torpedoes and sold for breakingin 1870.
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- Robert Nimmo nominated by Peacemaker67
- UN Secretariatdescribed him as "by far the most successful United Nations observer ever".
- SMS Yorck nominated by Parsecboy
- SMS Yorck ("Schillig Roads to await better visibility. Believing the fog to have cleared sufficiently, the ship's commander ordered Yorck to get underway in the early hours of 4 November. She entered a German minefield, struck two mines, and sank with heavy loss of life. The wreck was dismantled between the 1920s and 1980s to reduce the navigational hazard it posed.
- Jack Rae nominated by Zawed
- Johng Donald Rae was a No. 603 Squadron, which was tasked with flying Spitfires from the American aircraft carrier USS Wasp to Malta, where he remained until being repatriated to England due to wounds. Once recovered, he served as a flying instructor before rejoining No. 485 Squadron, still serving on the Channel Front, in May 1943. He was forced down over France a few months later and became a prisoner of war. After the war, he established a business manufacturing clothing.
- Thomas Hardy (Royal Navy officer, died 1732) nominated by Pickersgill-Cunliffe
- court martialled for not fully engaging Duguay-Trouin. He was acquitted and returned to Mediterranean in 1708, seeing further combat. In 1711 he was promoted to rear-admiral and given command of a squadron to blockade Dunkirk. After briefly serving as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore, Thames and Medway Hardy commanded a squadron off Ushant where he failed to intercept the squadrons of Duguay-Trouin and Jean-Baptiste du Casse in 1712. In 1715 he was second-in-command of the Baltic Fleet sent to serve in the Great Northern War. He was dismissed in 1716, possibly because of Jacobitesympathies.
- William D. Leahy nominated by Hawkeye7
- In the nomination statement Hawkeye7 noted that Leahy "was America's most senior military officer during World War II, but probably the least well known of the five-star officers".Leahy saw service in the Spanish–American War, the Philippine–American War, Boxer Rebellion in China, the Banana Wars and World War I. As Chief of Naval Operations from 1937 to 1939 he oversaw preparations for war. After retiring from the Navy, he was appointed in 1939 by his close friend President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the governor of Puerto Rico and later served as the U.S. Ambassador to Vichy France from 1940 to 1942. Leahy was recalled to active duty as the personal Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt in 1942 and served in that position through the rest of World War II. He led the American military until 1949.
- Harry Crerar nominated by Hawkeye7
- Crerar was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who became the country's senior field commander in the Second World War as commander of the First Canadian Army in the campaign in North West Europe. He served in the First World War as an artillery officer and held a range of staff positions between the wars. During the Second World War he became General Officer Commanding the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division in 1941. He was promoted to lieutenant-general and assumed command of I Canadian Corps, fighting briefly in the Italian Campaign. In March 1944 he returned to the United Kingdom where he assumed command of the First Canadian Army. He held this position until the end of the war and, after being passed over for a promotion, retired shortly afterwards. His performance as an army commander has received a mixed reception from historians, with some regarding him as mediocre and overly focused on administration.
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