* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

Major public proof of the Soviet program, called Biopreparat, came when Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, its first deputy director, defected to the U. S. in 1992.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

U. S. Attorneys who prosecuted Whitacre ; two prosecutors from the Canadian Department of Justice ; several Senators and Congressmen ; Cornell University and Ohio State University professors ; Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew ; Chuck Colson ; and numerous top executives of corporations.

Prosecution of serious crime, historically endemic on reservations, was required by the 1885 Major Crimes Act, 18 U. S. C.

* Nemo Gaines, U. S. Naval officer and Major League Baseball player

* 1884 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

Major League Baseball player Moe Berg, a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School, was recruited by Nelson Rockefeller ( the coordinator of the U. S. Office of Inter-American Affairs ) and then by the OSS in 1943 because of his language skills.

Major crimes of a Federal nature is covered by the U. S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

* Clark, Rita F. Major, Strategic Air Command, U. S. Government Printing Office.

The word SCUBA was coined in 1952 by Major Christian Lambertsen who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician.

In the USA Major Christian J. Lambertsen, who served in the U. S. Army Medical Corps from 1944 to 1946 as a physician, invented an underwater free-swimming oxygen rebreather in 1939.

The superheterodyne principle was revisited in 1918 by U. S. Army Major Edwin Armstrong in France during World War I.

* April 15 – Isaiah Stillman, U. S. Army Major in the Black Hawk War ( b. 1793 )

* February 4 – Major Charles Bendire, U. S. Army captain and ornithologist ( b. 1836 )

* October 7 – Major Harold Geiger, U. S. Army aviation pioneer ( d. 1927 )

* May 17 – The U. S. Army aviation pioneer Major Harold Geiger dies in the crash of his Airco DH. 4 de Havilland plane, at Olmsted Field, Pennsylvania.

* April 27 – Major Charles Bendire, U. S. Army captain and ornithologist ( d. 1897 )

Sousa served in the U. S. Marine Corps, first from 1868 to 1875 as an apprentice musician, and then as the head of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892 ; he was a Sergeant Major for most of his second period of Marine service and was a Warrant Officer at the time he resigned.

Shortly after Germany's blitzkrieg attacks in Europe, Major General Adna Chaffee, the first Chief of the U. S. Army's newly created Armored Force was finally able to convince Congress of the need for armored divisions.

In November 1942, Major General Patton commanded the Western Task Force of the U. S. Army, which landed on the coast of Vichy French-held Morocco in Operation Torch for the North African Campaign.

In 1943, following the defeat of the U. S. II Corps ( then part of British 1st Army ) by the German Afrika Korps, first at the Battle of Sidi Bou Zid and again at the Battle of the Kasserine Pass, General Dwight D. Eisenhower sent Major General Ernest Harmon to assess the II Corps.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

Just as I straightened up with my duffel bag, I heard: `` Sahjunt Yoorick, meet Mrs. Major J. A. Roebuck ''.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.

The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.

In his absence, the rifle regiment was under the command of Major Thomas Posey, another able Virginian.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

Major activity at Providence in 1961 will involve the scheduled completion of tooling for production of the Uniconer automatic coning machine.

The terms are fairly safe to use on this side of the ocean, but before you start spouting them to your date, it might be best to find out if he was a member of Major Pockmanster's Delhi Regiment, since resentment toward the natives was reportedly very high in that outfit.

Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

Take the case of Major Marcus A. Reno, who survived the Battle of The Little Big Horn in 1876.

Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

The Major decided that, rather than be led, the slugger could lead.

Mr. and Mrs. Major Morris and their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Glennon, and their children will spend several days in Brigantine, N. J..

Major to this effort is to get all world powers to withdraw to their own territories, say by 1970.

Simply call Mr. Whipsnade Oscar, and Dr. Dunne P.GA, and C'un Major Frank.

Fosterite bishops, after secret conclave, announced the Church's second Major Miracle: Supreme Bishop Digby had been translated bodily to Heaven and spot-promoted to Archangel, ranking with-but-after Archangel Foster.

Robert Anderson ( Civil War ) | Major Anderson, Ft. Sumter commander

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

After the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and the retirement of the aged Winfield Scott in late 1861, Lincoln appointed Major General George B. McClellan general-in-chief of all the Union armies.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.