This list includes all Royal Navy officers ranked rear-admiral and above who are listed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) as having died while serving during the First World War. The list includes ten flag officers who died between Britain's entry into the war, 4 August 1914, and the armistice of 11 November 1918; also listed are six who died between the armistice and 31 August 1921, which was defined by an act of British parliament as the formal end of the war.
The Tailhook scandal was an incident in which United States Navy and Marine Corps aviation officers were alleged to have assaulted up to eighty-three women and seven men, or otherwise engaged in "improper and indecent" conduct at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. The events took place at the 35th Annual Tailhook Association Symposium from September 5 to 8, 1991. About a month after the conference, the public learned of the affair when it received widespread attention in the media. In response, the United States Congress directed the U.S. military to investigate the event. The resulting inquiries were criticized for failing to adequately investigate what had happened. This led to further investigations, with some of the perpetrators being punished. The scandal led to improvements to the conditions for women in the US military.
Operation Matterhorn was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in World War II for strategic bombing of Japan by Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers based in India, Ceylon, and China. Targets included industrial facilities in Japan and in Japanese-controlled China and Southeast Asia. The B-29s were based in India but staged through bases around Chengdu in China's Sichuan province. The raids caused little damage but provided useful experience for the main bombing offensive against Japan, which was conducted from the from the Mariana Islands.
This article covers a small and inconclusive battle of the Anglo-Zulu War. On 5 June 1879 a force of British irregular horse discovered a force of 300 Zulus at the settlement of eZulaneni near Zungeni Mountain. The horsemen charged towards and scattered the Zulus before burning the settlement, then withdrew after coming under fire. British reinforcements, including regular cavalry, arrived and attempted another attack. This was abandoned after the Zulus threatened to outflank the British.
HMS Hyperion started her career in 1808 under the command of a captain so incompetent he attempted to attack a rock and caused passengers to abandon the ship in fear of his abilities. In 1810 the ship participated in a confusing diplomatic incident at Haiti in which several crew members were killed by a gun battery, and two years later she lost a thirty-seven ship convoy she was escorting through Atlantic storms. In 1820 the actions of her captain saw the ship removed from the South America Station to avoid another diplomatic incident, this time with Chile. The ship's varied career ended with a period of anti-piracy duties followed by six years as a base for smuggling patrols.
This article covers an incident in which USAF F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft shot down five J-21 Jastreb single-seat light attack jets–piloted by Republika Srpska or Republic of Serbian Krajina personnel–in Bosnia and Herzegovina airspace after they had bombed an armaments factory at Novi Travnik during the Bosnian War. Three pilots were killed and two ejected safely. The interception was part of Operation Deny Flight, with the shootdown constituting the first combat action in NATO's history.
The Second Battle of Lexington was a minor battle fought during Price's Missouri Expedition in the American Civil War. Hoping to draw Union Army forces away from more important theaters and potentially affect the 1864 United States presidential election, Sterling Price, a major general in the Confederate States Army, led an offensive into the state of Missouri on September 19, 1864. After a botched attack at the Battle of Pilot Knob, the strength of the Union defenses at Jefferson City led Price to abandon the main goals of his campaign. The Union forces pursued Price, and on 19 October 1864 he made a successful attack on them at Lexington, Missouri. The Confederates were defeated in another battle on 22 October and retreated.
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