She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

It is `` Defeat Into Victory '', by Field Marshal Viscount Slim.

Field Marshal Slim has abridged it for the benefit of `` those who, finding not so great an attraction in accounts of military moves and counter-moves, are more interested in men and their reactions to stress, hardship and danger ''.

The man whose reactions and conclusions get the most space is, of course, the Field Marshal himself.

Field Marshal Slim is striking in description, amusing in many anecdotes.

Before he could return to Burma, Field Marshal Slim had to rally the defeated remnants of a discouraged army and unite them with fresh recruits.

Commenting on these and other matters, Field Marshal Slim makes many frank and provocative remarks:

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

Brooding about future wars, the Field Marshal has this to say: `` The Asian fighting man is at least equally brave ( as the white ), usually more careless of death, less encumbered by mental doubts, less troubled by humanitarian sentiment, and not so moved by slaughter and mutilation around him.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

* 1943 – World War II: The U. S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.

At the end of 1874, when Field Marshal Serrano left Madrid to take command of the northern army in the Carlist War, Brigadier Martínez Campos, who had long been working more or less openly for the king, led some battalions of the central army to Sagunto, rallied to his own flag the troops sent against him, and entered Valencia in the king's name.

# Field Marshal ( Abbreviated: FM ) – O11.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

The only forces immediately available for Vienna's defence were Prince Louis of Baden's force of 36, 000 stationed in the Lines of Stollhofen to watch Marshal Tallard at Strasbourg ; there was also a weak force of 10, 000 men under Field Marshal Count Limburg Styrum observing Ulm.

Two hours later the Duke, accompanied by the Dutch field commander Field Marshal Overkirk, General Daniel Dopff, and the Allied staff, rode up to Cadogan where on the horizon to the westward he could discern the massed ranks of the French army deploying for battle along the four mile ( 6. 4 km ) front.

Field Marshal George Hamilton 1666-1737 Earl of Orkney, by Martin Maingaud.

* Hughes, Matthew ( edited and selected ) ( 2004 ) Allenby in Palestine The Middle East Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby June 1917 – October 1919 Publications of the Army Records Society Vol.

The Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Duke of Wellington's and Field Marshal von Blücher's triumph over Napoleon I of France | Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo

A Coalition of Anglo-Dutch and Prussian Armies under the Duke of Wellington and Field Marshal von Blücher defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodia's western provinces.

* Polní Podmaršálek-Lieutenant Field Marshal ( used 1918-1920 )

In recognition of his senior position in the Allied command, on December 20, 1944 he was promoted to General of the Army, equivalent to the rank of Field Marshal in most European armies.

John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, both Amherst graduates, introduced Coolidge to the law practice in the county seat of Hampshire County.

When Roger C. Field, a friend, suggested to him in 1991 that he record and perform with a female singer he did so with Suzy Bogguss.

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

* Jarrige, C, J. F. Jarrige, R. H. Meadow, G. Quivron, eds ( 1995 / 6 ), Mehrgarh Field Reports 1974-85: From Neolithic times to the Indus Civilization.

was issued to Roger C. Field for an economical device for minimizing the flash gap of a revolver between the barrel and the cylinder.

* Field, P. J. C., The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.

Notable museums include the Natural History Museum in London, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Oxford, the Muséum national d ' histoire naturelle in Paris, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D. C., the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

* Denham, T., Haberle, S. G., Lentfer, C., Fullagar, R., Field, J., Porch, N., Therin, M., Winsborough B., and Golson, J.

Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.

* Roger C. Field ( inventor, designer )

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

( 1987 ) The Battle of Stoke Field 1487, Newark and Sherwood D. C.

* Pugh J C ( 1975 ), Surveying for Field Scientists, Methuen, 230pp, ISBN 0-416-07530-4

The main athletic facilities were constructed during the Taylor Era including Joe Aillet Stadium, the Thomas Assembly Center, J. C. Love Field, and the Lady Techster Softball Complex.

The portion of the Main Campus located west of Tech Drive and north of the railroad include all of the university's major athletic facilities except for J. C. Love Field.

The land east of Tech Drive and north of the railroad include the Lambright Intramural Center, J. C. Love Field, and the University Park Apartments.

Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport was a single strip airport that operated from December 1948 until March 2003.

On June 30, 1950, the airport was officially renamed " Merrill C. Meigs Field ".

Emerging as " Rapier 2000 ", or " Field Standard C " ( FSC ) in British service, the system reached its ultimate form.

* Roger C. Field, inventor and designer whose first home was flat D, 15 Cleveland Square

Hanwell is represented by Non-League football club Hanwell Town F. C., which plays at the Reynolds Field, in Perivale.

Lavender features on Merton Council's coat of arms and the badge of the local football team, Tooting & Mitcham United F. C., as well as in the name of a local council ward, Lavender Field.

Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V, where Corinthian-Casuals F. C.

This airport was established at the former Army airbase at Napier Field in 1965, after a push to move the airport was started in the early 1950s by then-Mayor Richmond C. McClintock.

The airfield was renamed March Field the following month for 2nd Lt Peyton C. March, Jr., the recently deceased son of then-Army Chief of Staff Peyton C. March, who was killed in an air crash in Texas just fifteen days after being commissioned.