Operation Dingson ( 5 – 18 June 1944 ) was conducted by about 178 Free French paratroops of the 4th Special Air Service ( SAS ), commanded by Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, who jumped into German occupied France near Vannes, Morbihan, southern Brittany, in Plumelec, at 1130 on the night of 5 June and Saint-Marcel ( 8 – 18 June ).

He controlled the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces commanded by Colonel Lê Quang Tung, not for fighting the Vietcong but in Saigon to maintain the authoritarian rule of his family.

He served in Borneo during the Indonesia – Malaysia confrontation and the Persian Gulf before Special Forces training in 1965, after which he joined the elite Special Boat Service and commanded a Special Boat Section in the Far East.

In 1938 during the ' Troubles ' in Palestine he commanded one of Orde Wingate ’ s three Special Night Squads, the SNS of Israel foklore, for the leadership of which he was awarded the Military Cross.

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Neither Saddam Hussein nor his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid ( who commanded Iraqi forces in northern Iraq in that period, which earned him a nickname of " Chemical Ali ") were charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for crimes against humanity relating to the events at Halabja.

Operation Dingson ( 5 – 18 June 1944 ) was an operation in the Second World War, conducted by about 178 Free French paratroops of the 4th Special Air Service ( SAS ), commanded by Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, who jumped into German occupied France near Vannes, Morbihan, Southern Brittany, in Plumelec, on the night of 5 June 1944 ( 11 h 30 ), ( Captain Pierre Marienne with 17 men ), and Saint-Marcel ( 8 – 18 June ).

It was allegedly commanded by British Military Intelligence and / or RUC Special Branch.

After returning from Italy, No. 3 Commando became part of the 1st Special Service Brigade, commanded by Brigadier The Lord Lovat.

On November 21, 1970, a joint United States Air Force / United States Army force commanded by Air Force Brigadier General LeRoy J. Manor and Army Colonel Arthur D. " Bull " Simons landed 56 U. S. Army Special Forces soldiers by helicopter in the Sơn Tây prison camp located only west of Hanoi, North Vietnam.

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Otter commanded the 2nd ( Special Service ) Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry in South Africa, where they were considered by many British officers to be the best infantry battalion in the country.

But Beckwith recognized that, " Before a Special Forces Green Beret soldier could become a good unconventional solder, he'd first have to be a good conventional one ... Because I had commanded rifle and weapons companies, I was appalled on arriving in Special Forces to find officers who had never commanded conventional units.

In Vietnam, Beckwith commanded a Special Forces unit code-named Project DELTA.

The second earl served in the Coldstream Guards, No. 8 Commando, the Special Air Service and commanded the Special Boat Service during the Second World War.

From 1978 to 1981, he commanded a squadron of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( 1st SFOD-D ), commonly known to the public as " Delta Force ", at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

He commanded the Special Constabulary Force during the 1923 Victorian Police strike.

The Reserve Special Commendation Ribbon was issued to any officer of the Naval Reserve who had commanded a Naval Reserve Battalion for a period exceeding four years.

As a result, the remainder of his military career was spent onshore, where he first was assigned to the cleanup crew at an enlisted men's club situated at the end of Waikiki Beach and then to a unit in Honolulu that worked with Army Special Services that was commanded by classical actor Maurice Evans, who put together and arranged entertainment for all the troops in the Pacific.

On June 1, 1990, he assumed duties as the commanding general, 2nd Force Service Support Group < nowiki > Group / Commanding </ nowiki > general, 6th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic and commanded the 2d FSSG during the Gulf War.

On September 21, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, commanded by Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, began aerial bombardment of Nanking.

He returned to the United States weeks before Pearl Harbor and in rapid succession commanded Sixth Service Command at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, serving as the ranking military officer in the Chicago area.

Instead Arnold commanded the Fairfield Air Service Depot, Ohio.

Hines commanded the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, from May to August 1918 during which Hines time he received the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest U. S. Army decoration for valor, for " extraordinary heroism in action near Berzy-le-Sec, France, July 21, 1918.

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* August 21-22 ( overnight ) – Eight German Navy Zeppelins commanded by German Naval Airship Service commander Peter Strasser aboard L 46 attempt a high-altitude raid on England.

As a naval ensign during World War I, Lovett flew for a time with the British Naval Air Service on patrol and combat missions, then commanded a US naval air squadron, achieving the rank of lieutenant commander.

RAF Bishopscourt formed part of the UK Military Air Traffic Service, as one of four reporting stations it was to control its sector ( North Atlantic ) and was commanded by HQ Military Air Traffic Operations ( MATO ) at RAF Uxbridge and RAF Strike Command at High Wycombe.

Celebrated regulars included Brigadier Sir F ‘ Black Jack ’ Galleghan, who had commanded AIF troops in Changi and later became deputy head of the Commonwealth Investigation Service ( which evolved from the wartime Military Intelligence Bureau ).

From 1911 to 1915, he commanded various posts and stations in the United States, and during this period also, he completed the Field Officers ’ Course at the Army Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the course at the Army War College, Washington, D. C.

On the evening of 26 March 1996, the Deal populace were privy to a special ceremony, the Beating Retreat, coming from the South barracks, as the Royal Marines Band Service were commanded to vacate their ancient Kent depot and move to new quarters at Portsmouth.

This company consists of approximately 4 platoons of ground ambulances commanded by a Medical Service Corps.

Other officials blamed violence on his rival Mohammad Dahlan members of the body he formerly commanded, Preventive Security Service.

The Secretary of War directs as follows-The following is the amended version of paragraph 187 of Army Regulation: " No more than one Medal of Honor or one Distinguished Service Cross or one Distinguished Service Medal shall be issued to any one person, but for each succeeding or act sufficient to justify the award of a Medal of Honor or Distinguished Service Cross or Distinguished Service Medal, respectively, a bronze oak leaf cluster, shall be issued in lieu thereof ; and for each citation of an officer or enlisted man for gallantry in action, published in orders from headquarters of a force commanded by a general officer, not warranting the issue of a Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross or Distinguished Service Medal, he shall wear a silver star, 3 / 16 inch in diameter, as prescribed in Uniform Regulations.

In the short and disastrous war of 1805 Archduke Charles commanded what was intended to be the main army in Italy, but events made Germany the decisive theatre of operations ; Austria sustained defeat on the Danube, and the archduke was defeated by Massena in the Battle of Caldiero.

However, after 1941, the OKW de facto directly commanded operations on the Western front while the OKH commanded the Eastern front.

Stephen's long-standing commander William of Ypres remained with the queen in London ; William Martel, the royal steward, commanded operations from Sherborne in Dorset, and Faramus of Boulogne ran the royal household.

LeMay commanded subsequent B-29 Superfortress combat operations against Japan, including massive incendiary attacks on 64 Japanese cities.

The British XVII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng, relieved the French Tenth Army in the sector in February 1916, permitting the French to expand their operations at Verdun.

William Childs Westmoreland ( March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005 ) was a United States Army General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak ( 1964 – 68 ), during the Tet Offensive.

Stephen's long-standing commander William of Ypres remained with the queen in London ; William Martel, the royal steward, commanded operations from Sherborne in Dorset, and Faramus of Boulogne ran the royal household.

Scobee's son graduated from the US Air Force Academy, has flown F-16s for the USAF, and has commanded the 944th Fighter Wing, the 301st Fighter Wing, and is now the deputy director of operations for NORAD.

One of the four ' Bat Team ' fighter pilots to conduct this experimental night fighter operations to intercept and destroy enemy bombers attacking Allied landing forces was then-LT Roy Marlin Voris, who after the war founded and commanded the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels.

Bristol then commanded Breckinridge ( DD-148 ) and Overton ( DD-239 ) in succession, serving in the latter during that ship's operations in the Black Sea during the capitulation of White Russian forces to the Bolsheviks in November 1920.

After a period of convalescence, Barclay returned to the army and in 1808 commanded operations against the Swedes during the Finnish War.

He commanded PC 1251 in the Palau Islands invasion and the destroyer-escort USS Rinehart in both the Atlantic and Pacific operations.

After his release, Read participated in naval and land operations on the James River, he commanded the and two other torpedo boats at the Battle of Trent's Reach.

From 1925, Abdelkrim fighting the French forces led by Marshal Pétain as head of 200 000 men and a Spanish army commanded personally by General Primo de Rivera, a total of 450 000 soldiers, who begin operations against the Republic Rif.

Hines commanded the 4th ID during the American operations at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne until October 11, 1918.

The brigade established its headquarters in Yambio in South Sudan, close to the border with the DRC, and is commanded by a Ugandan officer ; a Congolese officer has oversight of intelligence operations.

Other notable holders of such victory titles include Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus, who was replaced by Gaius Marius in command-in-chief of the Jugurthine War ; Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, who commanded Roman anti-pirate operations in the eastern Mediterranean ( and was father of Julius Caesar's colleague in his second consulate, Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus in 48 BC ), and Marcus Antonius Creticus, another anti-piratical commander ( and father of Caesar's master of the horse, Mark Antony of Egyptian fame ).

Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. ( September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974 ) was a general in the United States Army who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 – 72 which saw U. S. troop strength in Vietnam fall from a peak of 543, 000 to 49, 000.

Scholtes, who commanded the joint special operations task force in Grenada, explained how conventional force leaders misused SOF during the operation, not allowing them to use their unique capabilities, which resulted in high SOF casualties.

During 1943, Collins commanded HMAS Shropshire and took part in the Bougainville campaign, the Battle of Cape Gloucester, and operations off the Admiralty Islands and Hollandia ( Dutch New Guinea ).

In the campaign of 1813, in command of a division, he took part in the battle of Lützen and the battle of Bautzen, as well as in the operations of Marshal Macdonald, and at the battle of Leipzig ( in which he commanded the XI Corps ) he was gravely wounded.

For the nine months that he commanded the 2 / 327 (“ No Slack ”), they saw many successes in combat operations, including: Huế, Operation Mingo, Operation Jeb Stuart, Operation Nevada Eagle ( clearing the Huế-Phu Bai area ), and Somerset Plain ( sweeping the southern portion of the A Shau Valley ).

Afterward COL Beckwith was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he commanded training operations.

The Geneva Conventions established new protocols, namely, according to Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention of 1949, francs-tireurs are entitled to prisoner of war status provided that they are commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates, have a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance, carry arms openly, and conduct their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.