Maj. Gen. Polk ignored the problems of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson when he took command and, after Johnston took command, at first refused to comply with Johnston's order to send an engineer, Lt. Joseph K. Dixon, to inspect the forts.

Johnston wanted Major, later Lt. Gen., Alexander P. Stewart to command the forts but President Davis appointed Brig.

His only return to combat was directing a portion of the defenses against the attack by Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal A.

Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U. S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

* 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

In April 2008, Vice President Lt. Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama ( Ian Khama ), son of Seretse Khama the first president, succeeded to the presidency when Festus Mogae retired.

A photograph from October 1918, reproduced in many biographies, shows the then unknown Lt .- Col. Montgomery standing in front of Winston Churchill ( Minister of Munitions ) at the parade following the liberation of Lille.

After Lt Gen Barshadli became Chief of General Staff, subsequent defense ministers from 1992 have included:

Eisenhower sent Lt. General John W. " Iron Mike " O ' Daniel to Vietnam to study and " assess " the French forces there.

* Major / Lt General EK Kotoka 1966 -

They were commanded by Lt. General John R. Hodge, who then took charge of the government.

Possible contenders included his son-in-law General Ahmed Suleiman Abdille, who was at the time the Minister of the Interior, in addition to Barre's Vice President Lt. Gen. Samatar.

* Interview with SAC Lt. General James Edmundson ( transcripts from the PBS program Race for the Superbomb ):

* Crealock, Lt .- General Henry Hope.

In 1984, the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization ( SDIO ) was established to oversee the program, which was headed by Lt. General James Alan Abrahamson USAF, a past Director of the NASA Space Shuttle program.

* February 5 – Lt. General Frank M. Andrews is selected to command the U. S. armies in Europe, while General Dwight Eisenhower is assigned command in North Africa ; General Andrews will serve only three months before dying in an airplane crash.

* April 3 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila, the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

** A helicopter crash in Cyprus kills the head of the Cyprus National Guard, Lt. General Evangelos Florakis.

Ten days after the attack, Lt. General Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the Navy at Pearl Harbor, were both relieved of their duties.

In 1940, Lt. Col. Eisenhower petitioned Brigadier General Patton, offering to serve under the tank corps commander.

Complaints were lodged against former Israeli Defense Forces chief of General Staff Lt .- Gen.

Menem also effected drastic cuts to the military budget, and appointed Lt. Gen. Martín Balza as the Army's General Chief of Staff ( head of the military hierarchy ); Balza, a man of strong democratic convictions and a vocal critic of the Falklands War, had stood up for the legitimate government in every attempted coup d ' état throughout his senior career, and gave the first institutional self-criticism about the Armed Forces ' involvement in the 1976 coup and the ensuing reign of terror.

It took place on July 30, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade ( under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ).

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

In 1894, the French Army's counter-intelligence section, led by Lt. Col. Sandherr, became aware that new artillery information was being passed to the German embassy in Paris by a highly placed spy likely to be posted in the French General Staff.

LeMay initially started flying supplies into Berlin, but then decided that it was a job for a logistics expert and he found that person in Lt. General William H. Tunner, who took over the operational end of the Berlin Airlift.

On March 2, 1865, Waynesboro was the site of the last battle of the Civil War for the Confederate Lt. General Jubal A.

Lt. Gen. Mordechai " Motta " Gur (, May 6, 1930 – July 16, 1995 ) was an Israeli politician and the 10th Chief of Staff of the IDF.

A number of Europeans served in the Biafran cause ; German born Rolf Steiner was a Lt.

Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., was born in Roswell, New Mexico, to Erma Louise Swope and Lt. Col. Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr., an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel ( who set three speed records in the B-58 Hustler bomber and earned a place in the Air Force Hall of Fame ).

* Lowell Thomas, Jr. ( born 1923 ), film and television producer, Alaskan Senator, and Alaskan Lt.

Kitchener was born in Ballylongford near Listowel, County Kerry, in Ireland, son of Lt. Col. Henry Horatio Kitchener ( 1805 – 1894 ) and Frances Anne Chevallier-Cole ( d. 1864 ; daughter of The Rev.

Anders was born to U. S. Navy Lt. Arthur F. Anders and Muriel Adams Anders in Hong Kong, and was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout.

Wainwright was born at Fort Walla Walla, an army post now in Walla Walla, Washington, and was the son of Robert Powell Page Wainwright, a U. S. Army officer who had served as a 2nd Lt in the US 1st Cavalry in 1875, commanded a squadron at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and in 1902 was killed in action in the Philippines.

Morris was born in London into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family from County Galway, son of Lt. Col.

He was born at Plympton, Massachusetts to Lt. Samuel Bradford and Sarah Gray, and was the great-great-grandson of the William Bradford who had been Governor of the Plymouth Colony.

Lt. General Andrew Anderson, born in Elgin, also of the East India Company, died in 1824 and bequeathed £ 70, 000 to the town to found an institution for the welfare of the elderly poor and for the education of orphans.

In addition Hamilton had an illegitimate son, Lt. Col. Sir James Abercrombie, 1st Baronet, born prior to 1680, who died at Dunkirk in 1724.

John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, DL, JP ( born 13 April 1926 ), is the son of Lt .- Col. John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, Hon.

Dominic Keating ( born 1 July 1962 ) is a British television, film and theatre actor, known for his portrayal as Lt. Malcolm Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise.

There has been some speculation that there is an heir male of the body needing to prove their claim to the title, surviving through the 24th Knight of Glin, Lt. Col. John Fraunceis FitzGerald's second son Edmond Urmston McLeod FitzGerald, who was born in 1817 at Glin Castle and who married Ellen Sullivan, born in Ireland, 1822, died in Ogdensburg, New York, United States, in December 1895.

He married Chantal Tamplin ( daughter of Lt. Col Richard Tamplin ) in 1983 at St Andrew's church in Irnham, Lincolnshire ; she was his Parliamentary Assistant and they have two sons ( Alexander born May 1987 and Nicholas in August 1988 ).

He was born in 1877, the son of Lt.

Only German born Rolf Steiner a Lt. Col. with the 4th Commandos, and Major Taffy Williams, a Welshman would remain for the duration.

* Lt Gen. Andrew Figgures CBE ( born 1950 ), British Army officer.

Fawn Hall ( born 1959 ) was a secretary to Lt.

Joe Flanigan ( born January 5, 1967 ) is an American television actor best known for his portrayal of the character Major / Lt.

When he returned to France, he was sent to support the newly born United States as a Lt.

The race, a sweepstake for three-year-olds, had been born two years earlier in 1776, at the suggestion of Lt. Col. ( later Major-General ) Anthony St. Leger and ran for the first time over a two-mile course on Cantley Common in Doncaster.

Alexander Hamilton Willard Sr. was born in July 1777 in the town Charlestown, New Hampshire, he was the oldest son of Lt Jonathan Willard and the only child of Betty Caswell.

Butler was born in on 20 December 1888 to Lt. Col. Francis John Paul Butler and the Hon.