What is now Yoyogi Park was the site of the first successful powered aircraft flight in Japan, on December 19, 1910, by Captain Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, after which it became an army parade ground.

Captain William Adams, the English sailor and confidant of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is known to have made at least one trading mission to Hội An ( around 1619 ).

Under the direction of Captain Stephan von Gröning, head of the Abwehr in Paris, he was trained in explosives, radio communications, parachute jumping and other subjects in France at La Bretonnière, near Nantes and dispatched to England to commit acts of sabotage.

In 1935, Captain Geille of the French Air Force created the Avignon-Pujaut Paratroopers Schools after he trained in Moscow at the Soviet Airborne Academy.

A coveted trainee slot with the Canadian Intelligence Corps saw Berton, now a Captain, trained to act as an Intelligence Officer ( IO ), and after a stint as an instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, he finally went overseas in March 1945.

He has been shown as a superb martial artist, though he was never on par with Captain America himself ; he was originally trained by German athletes appointed by Hitler, and is heavily trained as a skilled marksman with various forms of handguns, and well-versed in the use of fire arms and explosives.

In September, 1861 Captain William Piney and 14 members of the " Olentangy Reserves " mustered into Company E of Thomas Worthington Jr .' s 46th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which trained at Camp Lyon on the old Worthington Manufacturing Co. site southwest of the village.

In 2007, under the supervision of Chief Herb Williams and Captain Robert Wronski, the Mount Pleasant Fire Department established a " Paramedic Engine " program, in which firefighters trained as Paramedics will carry the same equipment on the fire engines as in the ambulances.

Garwood, Captain Allen organized the force, trained, equipped and armed the men as best as could be done under the most difficult conditions prevailing at the time.

On May 18, 1676, Captain William Turner of the Massachusetts Militia and a group of about 150 militia volunteers ( mostly minimally trained farmers ) attacked a large fishing camp of Native Americans at Peskeopscut on the Connecticut River ( now called Turners Falls, Massachusetts ).

" The story ends with Captain Holland saying " We've been trained to find new worlds.

In the event of a malfunction pilots are trained to check all meters and review all decisions, and Captain Kevin Hunt proceeded to do so.

Meggan is a fair hand-to-hand combatant, trained by Captain Britain.

38 Wing was a new formation and was unable to provide any aircraft or trained aircrews for the raid, meaning that No. 51 Squadron RAF under Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard was selected to provide the aircraft and aircrew needed for the operation, although Group Captain Nigel Norman would remain in overall command.

The Wasp was trained in unarmed combat by Captain America and in combat utilizing her special powers by Henry Pym.

When he was still a baby, Cecil's mother married Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, who was British flat racing Champion Trainer five times and who trained for, among others, King George VI.

She was even able to make a light armor covering Nightcrawler as he trained with Captain Britain.

Taskmaster unleashed Deathshield ( trained to fight like Captain America ), Jagged Bow ( trained to fight like Hawkeye ), and Blood Spider ( trained to fight like Spider-Man ) to face off against Spider-Man and Solo.

vol. 2 # 3 ( 1989 ), the Taskmaster trained the Super-Patriot and the Buckies to replace Captain America.

The crest shows a Teal bird which refers to Teal a horse, trained at Middleham by Captain Neville Crump, which won the Grand National in 1952.

Overview: Captain Kirk and his companions are abducted and trained to fight as gladiators for the gambling entertainment of three disembodied beings.

In 1936 Commander Rupert Long, OBE, RAN, Director of Naval Intelligence raised with retired Captain Maurice Blackwood, DSO, RN the possibility of raising a group of trained yachtsmen as a Naval Auxiliary Service.

Aided by Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and army Captain Nathaniel Lyon, the St. Louis Wide Awakes smuggled armaments into the city and trained secretly in a warehouse.

He described an incident when a team of trained British naval divers searched for an object lost underwater and did not find it ; they then let Captain Hampton have a look, and at once he found it directly under the naval divers ' boat, at the center ( which had been a blind spot ) of their circular search pattern.

* 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.

Further exploration by Henri Lambert, French Consular Agent at Aden, and Captain Fleuriot de Langle led to a treaty of friendship and assistance between France and the sultans of Raheita, Tadjoura, and Gobaad, from whom the French purchased the anchorage of Obock in 1862.

* 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing " J ' accuse ", a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.

The remaining three wounded men were brought before the Mexican general, who allowed them to return to France as an honor guard for the body of Captain Danjou.

* 1704 5 September – Troops of France and Spain under the marquis of Villadarias, General Captain of Andalusia, started to besiege Gibraltar to try to recover it ( this one would be the Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar ).

Captain Moussa ( Dadis ) Camara told Radio France International on 28 September the shootings by members of his presidential guard were beyond his control.

He was appointed midshipman on 25 April 1797 and served in the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France on the frigate United States with Decatur and Stewart, a ship commanded by Captain John Barry.

Captain Charles de Gaulle, the future Free French leader and President of France, was a company commander in this regiment and was wounded and taken prisoner near Douaumont during the battle.

The first Allied soldier to land in France was Free French SAS Captain Pierre Marienne who jumped into Britanny ( Plumelec, Morbihan ) on June 5 with 17 Free French paratroopers.

Captain J. C. Dunn, a medical officer attached to the regiment's 2nd Battalion during the First World War, compiled a chronicle of that unit's experiences during its more than four years of service in France and Belgium.

In the Middle East, the Muslim Arab press was sympathetic to the falsely accused Captain Dreyfus, and criticized the persecution of Jews in France.

Kitchener quite possibly prevented war between France and Britain when he dealt firmly but non-violently with the French military expedition, under Captain Marchand, intending to claim Fashoda, in what became known as the Fashoda Incident.

Captain Pierre Joseph de Celeron, sieur de Blainville claimed the Ohio Valley and all of western Pennsylvania for Louis XV of France.

The first European to land on what is today Camden County was Captain Jean Ribault of France in 1562.

The more enduring Johann Schmidt version of the Red Skull was created by writer France Herron and artist Kirby ( with Simon on inks ); he first appeared in Captain America Comics # 7 ( Oct. 1941 ).

It was followed by a " NSK Rendez-Vous " in Lyon, France, where Alexei Monroe revealed to The Captain Spaulding's Bizarre Freaky Circus Laibach and NSK's aim: make people " aware that totalitarianism isn ’ t a discrete historical phenomenon which went on from 1933 to 1989 and then it ’ s over so let ’ s have a nice triumph of liberal democracy ".

*" Long Day's Flight " / " Dr Do Good " / " The Great Banana Hoax " / " Captain Glory " ( Reprise RVEP 60110 ) 1968 France

In 1898 he had to deal with the delicate situation caused by Captain Marchand's occupation of the town of Fashoda in the Sudan ( the Fashoda Incident ) for which, as he admitted in a speech in the chamber on 23 January 1899, he accepted full responsibility, since it arose directly out of the Liotard expedition ; and in March 1899 he concluded an agreement with Britain by which the difficulty was finally adjusted, and France consolidated her vast colonial empire in North-West Africa.

After the fall of Warsaw, he took out letters of naturalization in France and entered the French army, seeing some service in Algeria as Captain in the French Foreign Legion and the Chasseurs d ' Afrique.

A British cutter with the name The Witch of Endor is commandeered by Captain Horatio Hornblower during his escape from France in Flying Colours ( 1938 ), a novel by C. S.

They went along the Rhine, embarked in the port of Le Havre ( France ) on January 19, 1843 and arrived at the La Guaira March 4 aboard the French ship Clemence piloted by Captain Malverin.

General Truscott pins Bronze Star on Captain Richard Wolfer 10-25-1944 in France.

After the fall of France in 1940, she became a courier for the French Resistance and later joined the escape network of Captain Ian Garrow.

Upon discovering her tangled in a tree, Captain Tardivat greeted her remarking, " I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year ," to which she replied, " Don't give me that French shit .”" Her duties included allocating arms and equipment that were parachuted in and minding the group's finances.