Colonel Donovan was employed to evaluate the global military position in order to offer suggestions concerning American intelligence requirements because the U. S. did not have a central intelligence agency.

After submitting his work, " Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic Information ," Colonel Donovan was appointed as the " Co-ordinator of Information " in July 1941.

On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt through a proposal from OSS Director Colonel William J. Donovan and the former Commander of the United States Marine Detachment Major Evans F Carlson, directed the formation of what became the Marine Raiders.

Series nine ( 2003 – 2004 ) featured James Fox as Colonel Race in Death on the Nile, alongside an " all-star cast " which included Emily Blunt, Daisy Donovan, and David Soul, while The Hollow featured his older brother Edward Fox as Gudgeon the butler.

The Raiders were created by an order from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, acting on proposals from Colonel William J. Donovan and Major Evans F. Carlson.

Donovan was appointed Kentucky Colonel and New Mexico Colonel, Aide-de-Camp for IT and charity work.

Colonel William Joseph Donovan | Donovan & Father Francis P. Duffy | Duffy upon return from France in 1919

Colonel William Donovan is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Marzani worked under Colonel William J. Donovan from 1942-1945 in the Analysis Branch.

Colonel Gaddafi ( left ) with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1969.

The marriage was an unhappy one, and it is revealed that her daughter was left as Colonel Brandon's ward when he found his lost love dying in a poorhouse.

Colonel of the US Army Michael Aquino and certain members of the priesthood of the Church of Satan, who left because of administrative and philosophical disagreements with its founder.

Assisted by such loyal supporters as the pilot Donald Macleod, a MacGillechaluim of Raasay, Colonel Con O ' Neill, a Clanaboy O ' Neill Prince of the O ' Neill_dynasty and Flora MacDonald, who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish maid, " Betty Burke ," he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L ' Heureux, arriving back in France in September.

Lone Starr and his friends escape the ship, while Skroob, Dark Helmet, and Colonel Sandurz fail to reach any escape pods in time, and are left stranded aboard the robot's head as the robot explodes.

Major General del Valle ( 2nd from left ) is greeted by Colonel ( United States ) | Colonel Chesty Puller | Puller on Pavuvu in late October 1944, while Major General William H. Rupertus | Rupertus ( far left ) looks on

Jackson left Colonel William King as military governor of West Florida and went home.

Colonel Brodhead's forces left the Lenape at the other Moravian mission villages unmolested, but the actions set the stage for raised tensions in the area.

Polish units were engaged in battle from 0500 against elements of German 76th Infantry Regiment ( Colonel Hans Gollnick ) of 20th Motorised Division under Lt. Gen. Mauritz von Wiktorin, which operated on the left ( northern ) flank of XIX Panzer Corps under Gen. Heinz Guderian.

The seal was brought from England by Colonel George Fenwick, and depicted 15 grapevines and a hand in the upper left corner with a scroll reading " Qui Sustinet Transtulit ".

Colonel Harmar left 100 regulars under Major Jean François Hamtramck and directed them to build a fort, Fort Knox.

William, who spent 3 months in Libby Prison during the Civil War, left the army after attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

He had left Davidson County, Tennessee and arrived in the area on a keelboat with enough provisions to last one year, two men, Colonel John Holland and Parkerson Mitchell, to assist him, and four black men.

Forrest's troops overtook the Union soldiers, taking over 140 men, including Colonel Ingersoll, and collected artillery and supplies left behind by Union soldiers who escaped.

Meanwhile Colonel Charton's group, led by the 3rd Battalion of 3rd REI, left Cao Bang on 1 October ; contrary to orders he took with him his heavy equipment.

This left Roosevelt as Colonel of The Rough Riders.

Most of the senior officers were killed or wounded, including General Gibbs, killed leading the main attack column on the right comprising the 4th, 21st, 44th and 5th West India Regiments, and Colonel Rennie leading a detachment of light companies of the 7th, 43rd, and 93rd on the left by the river.

O ' Donnell was descended from the O ' Donnells who left Ireland after the Battle of the Boyne, through Joseph O ' Donnell y O ´ Donnell, ( 1722 – 1787 ) Colonel of the Spanish Regiment Irlanda, Lieu-Tenant General of the Spanish Army.

Colonel Eisenhower left in December 1939 and was replaced by Lieutenant Colonel Marshall.

" General Houston personally led the infantry, posting the 2nd Volunteer Regiment of Colonel Sidney Sherman together with Juan Seguin's men on his far left, with Colonel Edward Burleson's 1st Volunteer Regiment next in line.

Somehow I think that Watson paid more attention to me than he otherwise might have because his foe, Colonel Van Hamm, wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot blue pencil.

Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest escaped with his cavalry force of about 700 men before the surrender.

* 1873 – American Indian Wars: while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Sioux near the Tongue River ; only one man on each side is killed.

President Clinton speaks with Colonel ( United States ) | Col. Paul J. Fletcher | Paul Fletcher, United States Air Force | USAF, before boarding Air Force One, November 4, 1999.

Lamizana's government faced problems with the country's traditionally powerful trade unions and on November 25, 1980, Colonel Saye Zerbo overthrew President Lamizana in a bloodless coup.

To the south the Dutch Guards, under the command of Colonel Wertmüller, came forward with their two field guns to seize the hamlet of Franquenée.

When Colonel de Gaulle did organize a counter-attack with superior French tanks, he did not have the air support to gain the upper hand and had to retreat.

Under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor, a military column, commanded by Colonel Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, and including two battalions of Sara troops, moved north from N ' Djamena ( then Fort Lamy ) to engage Axis forces in Libya, where, in partnership with the British Army's Long Range Desert Group, they captured Kufra.

On 14 September 1960, with U. S. and CIA support, Colonel Joseph Mobutu overthrew the government and arrested Lumumba.

Mike Hoare was employed to created the English-speaking 5 Commando ANC at Kamina, with the assistance of a Belgian officer, Colonel Frederic Vanderwalle, while 6 Commando ANC was French-speaking and originally under the command of a Belgian Army colonel, Lamouline.

At first, Thomas, who was the head cook at the restaurant, and the Clausses declined Sanders ' offer, but the Colonel persisted and the Clauss family franchised their restaurant with KFC and later also owned many other KFC franchises in the Midwest.

The next day, Lesi Korovavala, Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs, told the Fiji Village news service that the Military had undertaken the reductions on its own initiative, in consultation with the department, an explanation corroborated by Lieutenant Colonel Rabukawaqa.

Once Selig had taken up production in California, they used the ( fairly ) wild animals from the zoo that Colonel Selig had set up there in a series of exotic adventures, with the actors being menaced or saved by the animals.

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

In 1878 Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd, together with Colonel Francis Duncan established the concept of teaching first aid skills to civilians.

After the first completed film was viewed by General Marshall along with Army staff, Marshall approached Capra: " Colonel Capra, how did you do it?

Governor Dinwiddie rewarded Washington in 1755 with a commission as " Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and Commander in Chief of all forces now raised in the defense of His Majesty's Colony " and gave him the task of defending Virginia's frontier.

Arbenz together with Arévalo further promoted the progressive social change that characterized the latter's presidency, clearing much of the old restrictions on political parties and labour unions, while also purging the army brass of its remaining pro-Arana officers — one of whom was Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas ; a man who would play a major role in Guatemalan politics in the coming years.

The famous American flier, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, arrived in the Demerara River with his flying boat ( an amphibian craft ) on September 22, 1929.

It was a force manned overwhelmingly by blacks, with a United States-trained black commander, Colonel Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte.

Colonel Inestroza later stated that deporting Zelaya did not comply with the court order: " In the moment that we took him out of the country, in the way that he was taken out, there is a crime.

In Apocalypse Now, Martin Sheen plays Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a US Army officer charged with " terminating " the command of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz.

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

When the news of Ribbentrop's remarks was leaked to the Polish press despite Colonel Beck's order to the censors on 27 March, it caused anti-German riots in Poland with the local N. S. D. A. P headquarters in the ethnically mixed town of Lininco destroyed by a mob.

In the 1960s, the cast of the sitcom Hogan's Heroes did a commercial with Carol Channing featuring Colonel Hogan, his men, Kommandant Klink and Sergeant Shultz having Jell-O and Dream Whip for dessert.