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Battles/wars. Second Sino-Japanese War. Bombing of Chongqing. World War II. Pacific War. Battle of Leyte Gulf. Takijirō Ōnishi (大西 瀧治郎, Ōnishi Takijirō, 2 June 1891 – 16 August 1945) was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II who came to be known as the father of the kamikaze. [2]
Bonham-Carter was educated at Elstree School and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He entered the Royal Navy, becoming a captain in 1948, and rear-admiral in 1957. He was mentioned in despatches in 1943. From 1949 to 1951 he was in command 2nd Frigate Squadron, and then was Naval Attache in Rome 1951 to 1953.
Admiral. (2008 film) Admiral ( Russian: Адмиралъ; stylized to resemble pre-revolutionary Russian, modern spelling: Russian: Адмирал) is a 2008 biopic about Alexander Kolchak, a vice admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love ...
The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 American submarine spy thriller film directed by John McTiernan, produced by Mace Neufeld, and starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, and Sam Neill. The film is an adaptation of Tom Clancy's 1984 bestselling novel of the same name.
Samuel P. Carter. Samuel Perry "Powhatan" Carter (August 6, 1819 – May 26, 1891) was a United States naval officer who served in the Union Army as a brigadier general of volunteers during the American Civil War and became a rear admiral in the postwar United States Navy. He received a nomination for appointment to the grade of brevet major ...
Rear-Admirals of Great Britain. Sir Cloudesley Shovell 1 May 1707 – 23 October 1707. vacant. Sir John Leake 24 May 1709 – 1 August 1714. vacant. Matthew Aylmer, 1st Baron Aylmer 18 March 1719 N.S. – 18 August 1720. George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington October 1720 – 17 January 1733.
Surface combatants range from aircraft carriers to mine countermeasures vessels to offshore patrol vessels, but most are escorts; destroyers ( Type 45) and frigates ( Type 23 ). Surface combatants deploy to conduct several standing Royal Navy deployments. Closer to home, the surface fleet also conducts Fishery Protection Patrols around UK ...
