The M24 Chaffee light tank was later named for him.

Two days later on 10 February 1879, the Colorado General Assembly split Carbonate County into the new Chaffee County and the renamed Lake County.

Federal Protective Officers from across the country frequently served in the camps, and also during the riot at Fort Chaffee.

General Chaffee commented, " It is safe to say that where one real Boxer has been killed ... fifty harmless coolies or laborers on the farms, including not a few women and children, have been slain.

Chaffee County is one of the 64 counties of the state of Colorado of the United States.

Chaffee was apparently unaware that his wife owned the most prominent slave in the United States until one month before the Supreme Court decision.

Whitinsville has been designated as a mill village of national historic significance to America's earliest industrialization, and is one of only four villages selected by the John H. Chaffee Blackstone River Valley National Historic Corridor Commission to receive this designation.

When the war began in June 1950, the four American infantry divisions on occupation duty in Japan had no medium tanks at all, having only one active tank company ( equipped with M24 Chaffee light tanks ) each.

Loomis Homestead ( 1640 ), one of the oldest houses in the state, still remains on the campus of the Loomis Chaffee School ( 1910 postcard )

His son, Adna Chaffee, Jr., also became a general and was one of the fathers of U. S. Army ’ s armored forces.

Chaffee was named captain of the US Women's team and was one of the favorites in the downhill at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France.

This is one of the four " Astronaut Islands " built in Long Beach Harbor during the late 1960s as unsinkable platforms for oil drilling ; the others were named Grissom, White and Chaffee, in honor of the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 fire.

Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ( then known as Cape Kennedy ), Florida.

Grissom was backup command pilot for Gemini 6A when he shifted to the Apollo program and was assigned as Command Pilot of the first manned mission AS-204, with Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee.

( Fullerton also has parks named for White and Chaffee ).

( Huntsville also has schools named for Roger Chaffee, Ed White, and the lost space shuttles: Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School, Ed White Middle School, Challenger Middle School, and Columbia High School )

White died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Kennedy.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.

Chaffee died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the then-Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, in 1967.

While at Purdue, Chaffee took flight training as part of the Naval ROTC program in order to prepare him for a career as a Naval Aviator, soloing on 29 March 1957 and obtained his private pilot's license on 24 May 1957.

In mid-1962, Chaffee was accepted in the initial pool of 1, 800 applicants for the third group of NASA astronauts.

On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee were participating in a " plugs-out " countdown demonstration test at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the planned February 21 launch, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.

And women's freestyle was now a full fledged sport with pioneers like Suzie Chaffee, Genia Fuller, Karen Huntoon, Marion and Ellen Post and Penelope Street redefining the sport for women.

Shortly after Germany's blitzkrieg attacks in Europe, Major General Adna Chaffee, the first Chief of the U. S. Army's newly created Armored Force was finally able to convince Congress of the need for armored divisions.

On February 8, 1879, the Colorado legislature renamed Lake County as Carbonate County, although this designation name only lasted for two days, until Chaffee County was split off from Carbonate's southern section on February 10 and the remaining northern portion was redesignated Lake County with its current county seat of Leadville.

It was named for Jerome B. Chaffee, Colorado's first United States Senator.

By then it was too late for him to intervene, and Chaffee was harshly criticized for having been married to a slaveholder.

On June 20, 1905, The Chaffee Real Estate Company of St. Louis, Missouri purchased of land from a local farmer, John Witt of Sikeston, Missouri, for $ 140, 000.

The Chaffee Real Estate Company soon transferred ownership of to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway for the purposes of building a large switching yard and began surveying the area for a town for the railroad employees.

The Chaffee Real Estate Company gave public notice for the sale of lots within the soon to be established town to local individuals and companies, and began clearing the land for construction on August 15, 1905.

* 1935 – Roger Chaffee, American astronaut ( d. 1967 )

*** Roger Chaffee, American astronaut ( b. 1935 )

Roger Bruce Chaffee ( February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967 ), Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, was a Naval Aviator, aeronautical engineer and a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program.

He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two ( Bassett and Freeman ) having been killed in separate T-38 flights and ( Chaffee ) in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year.

* February 15-Roger B. Chaffee ( died 1967 ), astronaut.

* Roger Chaffee, American astronaut

The Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, named for astronaut Roger B. Chaffee, was constructed in the early 1960s as part of the Public Museum of Grand Rapids.

In 1967 the theater was dedicated as the Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium, following the death of the astronaut.

These islands, named Oil Islands Freeman, Grissom, White, and Chaffee, are named for Theodore Freeman, the first United States NASA astronaut to die during flight, and for Virgil I. Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee, who were killed by a fire during the Apollo One mission.

* Gamma Velorum, informally named Regor for astronaut Roger B. Chaffee