38 Wing was a new formation and was unable to provide any aircraft or trained aircrews for the raid, meaning that No. 51 Squadron RAF under Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard was selected to provide the aircraft and aircrew needed for the operation, although Group Captain Nigel Norman would remain in overall command.

In 2000 Nigel was awarded the position of Commander of the British Empire, for his services in the British film industry in the United States.

* Commander Nigel " Sharkey " Ward: Fleet Air Arm squadron commander during the Falklands War.

The harbour is under the control of the Queen's Harbour Master, currently Commander Nigel Hare, who is the regulatory authority of the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth, an area of approximately that encompasses Portsmouth Harbour and the Eastern Solent.

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.

* 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.

Commander Calvert wrote the book Surface at the Pole about this and the other Arctic missions of USS Skate.

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 ).

Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of hostilities, and then in the 1920s he served a lengthy term as First Sea Lord ( head of the Royal Navy ).

High densities have also been reported but not quantified in the western North Pacific around the Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril Islands, Kamchatka and the Commander Islands and in the Southern Hemisphere off the coasts of South Australia, Patagonia, off the coast of southern Brazil and the tip of southern Africa.

In sharp contrast, the Red-legged Kittiwake has a very limited range in the Bering Sea, breeding only on the Pribilof, Bogoslof and Buldir islands in the United States, and the Commander Islands in Russia.

On January 20, 1942, Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet ( Cominch ), sent a coded dispatch to Commander, Eastern Sea Frontier ( CESF ), requesting immediate consideration of the manning and fitting-out of " Queen " ships to be operated as an antisubmarine measure.

Bering himself became too ill to command his ship, which was at last driven to seek refuge on an uninhabited island in the Commander Islands group ( Komandorskiye Ostrova ) in the southwest Bering Sea.

Storms however meant that the crew of Saint Peter was soon driven to refuge on an uninhabited island in the Commander Islands group ( Komandorskiye Ostrova ) in the south-west Bering Sea.

Recent evidence suggests the sea lions in Russia in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kuril Islands comprise a third Asian stock, while the sea lions on the eastern seaboard of Kamchatka and the Commander Islands belong to the western stock.

During World War II Hordern served on HMS Illustrious ( R87 ), in Operation Ironclad in 1942 and later as a Lt .- Commander in the office of the first Sea Lord.

Other contingency operation after 1991 included Operation Sea Angel ( Bangladesh relief ) ( led by Commander III Marine Expeditionary Force ), Operation Eastern Exit, and involvement in the Somali Civil War-' Restore Hope '.

Fisher had a long-standing disagreement with Sturdee, who had been one of those calling for his earlier dismissal as First Sea Lord in 1911, so he took the opportunity to appoint Sturdee Commander in Chief, South Atlantic and Pacific, to command the new squadron from Invincible.

* Sea Launch Commander ( 1996 )

The main portion of the base is called Ault Field in memory of Commander William B. Ault, who was listed ' missing in action ' during the Battle of the Coral Sea ( 1942 ).

Reassigned in March 1950, Sprague was moved to Alaska where he served as Commandant, Seventeenth Naval District and Commander, Alaskan Sea Frontier on Kodiak Island.

He was promoted to full admiral on 25 May 1995, on appointment as Second Sea Lord and Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and went on to be Commander-in-Chief Fleet as well as NATO Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic and NATO Commander Allied Naval Forces North West Europe in September 1997.

Barbary corsairs are protagonists in Le pantere di Algeri ( the panthers of Algiers ) by Emilio Salgari and appear in a number of other famous novels, including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, The Sea Hawk and the Sword of Islam by Rafael Sabatini, The Algerine Captive by Royall Tyler, Master and Commander by Patrick O ' Brian, the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, The Walking Drum by Louis Lamour, Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting and Corsair by Clive Cussler.

Their attempt ultimately will fail on August 4 in the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea.

( There was also a Barrett Class Military Sea Transport Service ship named, but according to official USN records, this later vessel was named for Major General William Peterkin Upshur, USMC, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, who died in a plane crash in Sitka, AK, 1943, while he was Commander, Headquarters of the Department of the Pacific.

Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat RNVR ( 22 March 19108 August 1979 ) was a British novelist known today for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea ( 1951 ) and Three Corvettes ( 1942 – 45 ), but perhaps best known internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.

The launcher and its payload are assembled on a purpose-built ship Sea Launch Commander in Long Beach, California, USA.

It is then positioned on top of the self-propelled platform Ocean Odyssey and moved to the equatorial Pacific Ocean for launch, with the Sea Launch Commander serving as command center.

This is loosely supported by Jerry Oltion's Captain's Table Book 6: Where Sea Meets Sky, where the author refers to Number One as Commander Lefler in the first chapter, although this wouldn't make any sense chronologically based on the history of Morgan Primus.

In November 1942, he became Commander, Thirteenth Naval District and Commander, Northwestern Sea Frontier to calm the public fear of invasion from the north.