* The Firebirds ( No. 56 Squadron RAF )

At the start of the battle the English fleet of 56 ships commanded by George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle who also commanded the Red Squadron, was outnumbered by the 84-strong Dutch fleet commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.

* 6 September-Just days after the start of the war, in what was dubbed the Battle of Barking Creek, three RAF Spitfires from 74 Squadron shot down two Hurricanes from the RAF's 56 Squadron, killing one of the pilots.

On 6 September 1939, " A " Flight was scrambled to intercept a suspected enemy radar track and ran into the Hurricanes of No. 56 Squadron RAF.

** 56 Commando Field Squadron

** 56 Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )

** 56 Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )

A third Panavia Tornado F3 Squadron, No. 56 ( Reserve ) Squadron, was disbanded in April 2008 in preparation for the arrival of the Eurofighter Typhoon, in 2010.

Members of No 56 Squadron had temporarily joined No. 43 Squadron until it too was disbanded in July 2009.

April 2003 saw the Tornado F3 Operational Conversion Unit ( OCU ), 56 ( Reserve ) Squadron, move to RAF Leuchars.

In April 2008, 56 ( R ) Squadron amalgamated with 43 Squadron, retaining the identity of the latter until it was disbanded in July 2009.

* September 23 – During an epic 10-minute dogfight against six Royal Flying Corps SE. 5s of No. 56 Squadron, the German ace Werner Voss, flying a Fokker Dr. I triplane, is shot down and killed by the British ace Arthur Rhys-Davids north of Frezenberg, Belgium.

* Royal Aircraft Factory S. E. 5 with No. 56 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps.

* Supermarine Swift with No. 56 Squadron, Royal Air Force.

In 1978 he was assigned to Attack Squadron 56 ( VA-56 ), embarked on the USS Midway, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, where he flew the A-7 Corsair II.

* 56 Squadron moves to Leuchars in January 2002

He turned out to be Leutnant Kurt Wisseman, who had allegedly shot down Guynemer ( although it may have been a different Wissemann, as Kurt Wisseman was serving with Jasta 3, a single-seat fighter unit, and was killed in combat on 28 September, probably against No. 56 Squadron ).

:- Only loss 56 – 6690 ( 349th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron 100th SRW ) which crashed on 8 October 1966 near Bien Hoa, SVN, Maj. Leo J Stewart ejected and was rescued.

The new generation of Allied fighters were not yet ready for service, although No. 56 Squadron RFC with the S. E. 5 was working up to operational status in France.

*** No. 56 Squadron RAF

This was the chief reason for a so-so sales outlook given by two-thirds of 56 builders polled by the National Housing Center.

He graduated in 1842, 24th in a class of 56 cadets, and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the 3rd U. S. Artillery.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

The first, termed Proto-Isaiah ( chapters 1 – 39 ), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7th-century BCE expansions ; the second, Deutero-Isaiah ( chapters 40 – 55 ), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity ; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah ( chapters 56 – 66 ), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.

In a plebiscite on October 5, 1988, General Pinochet was denied a second 8-year term as president ( 56 % against 44 %).

When the Data Encryption Standard cipher was released in 1977, a key length of 56 bits was thought to be sufficient.

The NSA has major computing resources and a large budget ; some thought that 56 bits was NSA-breakable in the late ' 70s.

Liquidation of the CCC was ordered by Congress by the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act ( 56 Stat.

* The longest EVA as of 2007, was 8 hours and 56 minutes, performed by Susan J. Helms and James S. Voss on March 11, 2001.

Mean graduate pay was $ 0. 56 per manhour in 2010.

The majority of scholars writing on Romans propose the letter was written in late 55 / early 56 or late 56 / early 57.

In the 2011 census, the population of the city of Fredericton was 56, 224

The console was capable of showing up to 56 different colors simultaneously on screen from its palette of 32, 768 ( 8x4 color background palettes, 8x3 + transparent sprite palettes ), and could add basic four -, seven-or ten-color shading to games that had been developed for the original 4-shades-of-grey Game Boy.

In 1993, PLH candidate Carlos Roberto Reina was elected with 56 % of the vote against PNH contender Oswaldo Ramos.

Their record of 64 – 97 was far worse than even the expansion Colt. 45's, but not as bad as the 2011 Astros ( 56 – 106 ) and the 2012 Astros ( 52 – 105 as of 9 / 28 / 2012 ).

During the period of 1960 to 1970, the average annual rate of increase of Albania's national income was 29 percent higher than the world average and 56 percent higher than the European average.

The OICW was designed to fire 5. 56 mm bullets and 25 mm grenades.

Before the parliamentary decision to join the EU, a consultative referendum was held on April 16, 1994 in which 56. 9 % of the votes were in favour of joining.

The Jewish state was to receive around 56 % of the land area of Mandate Palestine, encompassing 82 % of the Jewish population, though it would be separated from Jerusalem.

With able support from Dilley ( 56 ) and Chris Old ( 29 ), Botham hit out and by the close of play was 145 not out with Bob Willis hanging on at the other end on 1 not out.

He was the first free diver to descend to 100 meters ( 330 ft ) ( November 23, 1976 ), and he managed to descend to 105 meters when he was 56 years old.

On November 2, 2010, Lynch was elected to a historic fourth term as Governor of New Hampshire, in a victory over former State Health and Human Service ’ s Commissioner John Stevens, 56 % to 48 %.