On March 17, 1959, the nuclear submarine USS Skate ( SSN-578 ), under the command of Commander ( later Vice Admiral ) James F. Calvert, became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole.

( The Allied Commander in Chief, General Archibald Wavell apparently hoped that Calvert would use his initiative and demolish it, in spite of orders from the civil government to keep it intact.

One of the earliest pieces of software he wrote for Linux was the Midnight Commander file manager, a text-mode file manager.

The Canadian naval historian, Commander Kenneth Hansen wrote that Raeder in devising the idea of a task force of different types of ships was a more forward-looking and innovative officer than he was usually credited with being.

The German historian Jost Dülffer wrote that Raeder would have been better off in preparing the Z Plan with following the advice of Commander Hellmuth Heye who had advocated in a 1938 paper a guerre-de-course strategy of Kreuzerkrieg ( cruiser war ) in which groups of Panzerschiffe and submarines would attack British convoys or Karl Dönitz who also advocated a guerre-de-course strategy of using " wolf-packs " of submarines to attack British commerence.

George Frayne ( Commander Cody ) wrote a song about Stinson Beach entitled " Midnight On The Strand.

General A. A. Vandegrift, Commander of the 1st Marine Division, and later Commandant of the Marine Corps, wrote a letter of commendation that states in part:

The Allied Commander in the Balkans, the French Marshal Louis Franchet d ' Esperey wrote to Marshal Ferdinand Foch on 21 July 1919: " We are convinced that the Hungarian offensive will collapse of its own accord ...

On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that " additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as ' War Crimes ' evidence.

He wrote many of the tools used at id Software to create their games, including DoomEd ( level editor ), QuakeEd ( level editor ), DM ( for deathmatch launching ), DWANGO client ( to connect the game to DWANGO's servers ), TED5 ( level editor for the Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny ), IGRAB ( for grabbing assets and putting them in WAD files ), the installers for all the games up to and including Quake, the SETUP program used to configure the games, and several others.

Writing to Major General Mansfield Lovell, Commander of the lower Mississippi in March 1862, Beauregard recommended, “… the fortification of Port Hudson as a measure of precaution against the fall of our defenses north of Memphis .” In June 1862, Major General Earl Van Dorn wrote Jefferson Davis: “ I want Baton Rouge and Port Hudson ” A few days after the fall of Baton Rouge to the Union, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge with 4, 000 men, carried out the wishes of General Van Dorn by occupying Port Hudson, situated between Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, with troops under the command of General Daniel Ruggles.

The United States Chief of Staff also formally restricted the Allied support to French Indochina, 14th USAAF Commander Claire Lee Chennault ( a French-American ) wrote in his memoirs the now famous statement: « I carried out my orders to the letter but I did not relish the idea of leaving Frenchmen to be slaughtered in the jungle while I was forced officially to ignore their plight ».

After the captured Royal Marines were executed by a naval firing squad in Bordeaux, the the Commander of the Navy Admiral Erich Raeder wrote in the Seekriegsleitung war diary that the executions of the Royal Marines were something " new in international law since the soldiers were wearing uniforms ".

After the Royal Marines were executed by a naval firing squad, the Commander of the Navy Admiral Erich Raeder wrote in the Seekriegsleitung war diary that the executions of the captured Royal Marines were something " new in international law since the soldiers were wearing uniforms ".

Lieutenant General Sir William Fenwick Williams, Commander in Chief, North America, did what he could with his small forces, but he wrote repeatedly to the authorities back in Britain that he needed considerable reinforcements to prepare his defenses adequately.

Former U. S. Central Command Commander Anthony Zinni wrote an op-ed, published in The New York Times March 7, 2011, in support of USIP.

In the battle report Marine Commander Robacio wrote: I was convinced that we could still resist, and that is why I ordered the O Company-which was ready-to begin a counter-attack together with the M Company.

In 1980, at the start of the Iran – Iraq War, Pahlavi, a highly-trained fighter pilot, wrote to General Valiollah Fallahi, Chief Commander of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic, offering to fight in the air force for Iran in the war.

Whereas the previous four novels had featured self-contained plots ( O ' Brian wrote Master and Commander as a stand-alone novel, and the following three titles merely acted as sequels whose story arcs integrated only loosely with any of the other novels in the saga ), in Desolation Island, O ' Brian now begins an arc that will continue through the entirety of Fortune of War before concluding in The Surgeon's Mate.

These included Division Commander Grant Hibbard, who wrote positive evaluations of Kerry, and Commander George Elliott, who submitted Kerry for a Silver Star.

German Commander Von Estorff wrote in a report that approximately 1, 700 prisoners had died by April 1907, 1, 203 of them Nama.

Field Marshal Lord Slim wrote in his memoirs of the Burma War, Defeat into Victory, that after Wingate's death, at least three officers went to him, and told him, separately and confidentially, that Wingate had designated each of them as the Divisional Commander, in the event of his death.

Meanwhile, on learning of the events at Multan, Currie wrote to Sir Hugh Gough, the Commander in Chief of the Bengal Army, recommending that a major British force should at once move upon Multan.

Staff writer John Conroy wrote extensively, over a period of more than 17 years, on police torture in Chicago ; his reporting was instrumental in the ouster and prosecution of Commander Jon Burge, the alleged leader of a police torture ring, and in the release of several wrongly convicted prisoners from death row.

In his book Friends, Not Masters, General Ayub Khan wrote that he ( Ayub ) decided to post Akbar in the GHQ so that, firstly Akbar should not have direct command over troops like a Division Commander, and secondly because he could be kept under close watch by General Ayub Khan himself.

According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure ( 1953 ), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self contained underwater breathing apparatus invented in 1926 by Commander Yves le Prieur.

In Commander Nigel Ward's book, Sea Harrier Over the Falklands, Prince Andrew was described as " an excellent pilot and a very promising officer ".

* retired Commander Peter G. Chance in his book recalls Demara as Dr. Joseph Cyr

His wife Evelyn details her Christian life with Rick and his struggles to fulfill his lifelong dream to become an astronaut in the 2004 book High Calling: The Courageous Life and Faith of Space Shuttle Columbia Commander Rick Husband by Evelyn Husband and co-written by Donna VanLiere.

New Zealanders in the RAF itself included pilots, such as the first RAF ace of the war, Flying Officer Cobber Kain, Alan Deere ( whose book Nine Lives was one of the first post war accounts of combat ) and leaders such as the World War I ace, Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, who commanded No. 11 Group RAF in the Battle of Britain and went on to the air defence of Malta and, in the closing stages of the war, Commonwealth air units under South East Asia Command, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham Air Tactical Commander of D-Day.

* In the Star Trek: Infinity's Prism book Seeds of Dissent by James Swallow, " Princeps " is the title for ' Commander ' Julian Bashir of the warship Defiance which exists in an alternate universe from the more familiar 24th Century envisioned from the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

In the fourth book, Opal kills Commander Root using a bomb and frames Holly for the murder.

He was arrested by his own Commander of the Watch ( Samuel Vimes ) for attempted murder, and spent part of the book incarcerated.

Max Perutz gives an account of a similar incident in his book, I Wish I Made You Angry Earlier: a demonstration of Pykrete was given at Combined Operations Headquarters ( COHQ ) by a naval officer, Lieutenant Commander Douglas Grant, who was provided by Perutz with rods of ice and Pykrete packed with dry ice in thermos flasks and large blocks of ice and Pykrete.

On April 26, 2004 he made a first time presidential campaign visit to Edina, Minnesota during which Congressmen Jim Ramstad presented The President with the book “ Lest We Forget ” by John C. Martin, a U. S. Civil War veteran and Department Commander of the G. A. R.

The appendix of the book contains documents such as the 1994 phone directory of the General Command of Gendarmerie, which contained the numbers of the JİTEM Group Commander and JİTEM units in each city.

In July 2009, Russell Crowe told the Associated Press that this book would make up the bulk of a second Master and Commander film, but there was no word on a director, cast, or if the film would even happen.

In the Star Trek: Early Voyages comic book series she is called Lieutenant Commander Robbins.

In 2003 Klebnikov published his second book Conversation with a Barbarian: Interviews with a Chechen Field Commander on Banditry and Islam, in which Klebnikov provides the transcript of his 15-hour conversation with a Chechen crime lord, politician and separatist commander Khozh-Ahmed Noukhayev.

* Persephone, the daughter of Admiral Lockwood, and object of Commander Kydds affections, in the book The Admirals Daughter

* " Commander Lloyd M. ' Pete ' Bucher's heartrending story and his choice to ' lie to save lives ' is the single focus of this book ," p. 17

In his 1989 book Other Losses, James Bacque claimed that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower deliberately caused the death of 790, 000 German captives in internment camps through disease, starvation and cold from 1944 to 1949.

" This is demonstrated in the second Artemis Fowl book, when Commander Root orders him to disassemble and scan various pieces of a shuttle.

In the first Artemis Fowl book, Foaly's main role is to set up electronics, research, to supply comic relief and to annoy Commander Root.

In the fourth book, he figures out that Commander Julius Root was killed by Opal Koboi rather than Holly Short as the footage seemed to suggest.

The sleeve notes to Patterson's 1985 LP, 12 Inches of Les, identify him a KBE ( Knight Commander of the British Empire ), while his own signature, as seen in the preface to his book The Traveller's Tool, identifies him as a KCB ( Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ).

The book chronicles the fateful months of Dallaire's tour as Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda ( UNAMIR ) in 1993-1994, during which he witnessed the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

In the fourth book, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, he is en route to his hearings when he hears of Commander Root's death and escapes from and steals a LEPrecon shuttle, knowing that Holly couldn't have committed the murder and regarding Root as a ' sort of ' friend ( He is spared from Koboi's revenge as the LEP didn't advertise his involvement in her defeat to save face ).