In the north west of the island at (), a missile testing range was built in 1957-58 to launch the Corporal missile, Britain and America's first guided nuclear weapon.

* Corporal missile inaccuracy revealed, The Guardian Sept 6 2003

Van Allen decided a small sounding rocket was needed for upper atmosphere research and the Aerojet WAC Corporal and the Bumblebee missile were developed under a US Navy program.

The result of the Army Ordnance effort was JPL's answer to the German V-2 missile, named Corporal, first launched in May 1947.

In 1951, Firestone was given the defense contract for the MGM-5 Corporal missile.

In 1956 the Corporal missile had been adopted by the Royal Artillery as a battlefield tactical nuclear missile.

These included a number of special-purpose military designs like launchers for the Corporal missile, engineering vehicles that could quickly haul crashed bombers off of runways, and even an enormous vehicle intended to pick up beached landing craft.

Corporal field artillery missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Air Force Space & Missile Museum

The MGM-5 Corporal missile was the first guided weapon authorized by the United States to carry a nuclear warhead.

A surface-to-surface guided missile, the Corporal could deliver either a nuclear fission or high-explosive warhead up to a range of.

Developed by the United States Army in partnership with Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Gilfillan Brothers Inc., Douglas Aircraft Company and Caltech ’ s pioneering Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Corporal was designed as a tactical nuclear missile for use in the event of Cold War hostilities in Eastern Europe.

For what was the front line of nuclear defense, the Corporal missile was notoriously unreliable and inaccurate.

Corporal Missile Battalions in Europe were highly mobile, considering the large number of support vehicles and personnel required to support the transportation, checkout, and launch of this liquid-fueled nuclear-tipped ( or conventional HE ) missile.

Eventually the Corporal IIB was overtaken by advances in technology and in 1963 they began to be deactivated — replaced by the Sergeant missile system.

A 1 / 40 scale plastic model kit of the Corporal missile with its mobile transporter was produced in the late 1950s and was reissued by Revell-Monogram in 2009.

* Army Ballistic Missile Agency ( 1961 ) Development of the Corporal: the embryo of the army missile program Vol 1.

Corporal Himmelstoß ( spelled Himmelstoss in some editions ) was a post-man before enlisting in the war.

The Barrett M82 is credited with a maximum effective range of ; and it was with a. 50BMG caliber McMillan TAC-50 rifle that Canadian Master Corporal Rob Furlong made the longest recorded ( until 2010 ) confirmed sniper kill in history, when he shot a Taliban fighter at a range of in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in 2002.

An instructor with the 14th Infantry Training Battalion at Dubbo, he was appointed Acting Corporal, then reverted to Private.

Several soldiers were arrested for their involvement in the mutiny, including Corporal Foday Sankoh who was jail for seven years at the Pademba Road Prison, after he was convicted of treason.

The Bumper ( rocket ) | Bumper was a two-stage rocket consisting of a Post-War V-2 topped by a WAC Corporal rocket.

In September 2012, Lance Corporal Sean Jones of The Princess of Wales's Regiment was awarded the Military Cross for his role in a bayonet charge which took place in October 2011 .< Ref >

The first Allied soldier killed in the liberation of France was Free French SAS Corporal Emile Bouétard of the 4th Bataillon d ’ Infanterie de l ’ Air, also in Britanny in Plumelec: June 6, 0 h 40.

Anna Edwards's father died before she was born, and her mother married an Irish soldier, Corporal Patrick Donohoe of the Engineers, who was later awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Bombay during the Indian Mutiny.

He elected to " go Active " ( the euphemism for volunteering for overseas service ) and his aptitude was such that he was appointed Lance Corporal and attended NCO school, and became a basic training instructor in the rank of corporal.

He indicated that it was used to assassinate the state archives custodian Renato León Zenteno and the Army Corporal Manuel Leyton.

Among the hospital patients who escaped were a Corporal Mayer of the NNC ; Bombardier Lewis of the Royal Artillery and Trooper Green of the Natal Mounted Police who was wounded in the thigh by a spent bullet.

In addition, one member of Stevenson's 2nd / 3rd NNC, Corporal William Anderson, was killed by British fire while fleeing the station just prior to the arrival of the Zulus.

Its currency is named corporals, at a rate of two corporals for every United States dollar ; both the flag and the monetary unit are named after U. S. Marine Corporal Earl McCabe, who deserted his company while stationed at Port-au-Prince during the American occupation in 1922, and in transit to Miami, was shipwrecked on San Lorenzo.

He was enlisted in the Regular Army as Corporal Neville L. Brand, infantryman on March 5, 1941, he was listed as being six feet tall and weighing 169 pounds.

He was hired for one day ’ s work as “ Corporal Klinger ” on the M * A * S * H episode, “ Chief Surgeon Who ?”.

* 2011 Chris Ortiz was promoted to the rank of Corporal in the detention center.

Ness County was named for Corporal Noah V. Ness of the 7th Kansas Cavalry.

Surface-to-Surface projects were the Honest John, Little John, Hawk, Lacrosse, and Corporal Type III ; the liquid-fueled Corporal Type III was soon canceled and the solid Thiokol fueled Sergeant project started.

It was JPL that designed the Corporal system and later was the R & D designer of the Sergeant.

On 22 February 1975, in an ambush in the Lomas de Zamora suburb of Buenos Aires, three policemen ( First Sergeant Nicolás Cardozo, Corporal Roberto Roque Fredes and Constables Eugenio Rodriguez and Abel Pascuzzi ) were killed after their patrol car came under fire from Montoneros guerrillas.

MSC chartered the first two ship classes in the MPS role ( the Corporal Louis J. Hauge, Jr. and Sergeant Matej Kocak classes ) from civilian shipping lines and converted them.

The soldiers immediately released Koroma from prison and installed him as their chairman and Head of State of the country, with Corporal Tamba Gborie as deputy in command of the AFRC.

On October 12, 1998 twenty-five soldiers in the Sierra Leone army, including Corporal Tamba Gborie, Brigadier Hassan Karim Conteh, Colonel Samuel Francis Koroma, Major Kula Samba and Colonel Abdul Karim Sesay, were executed by firing squad after they were convicted at a court martial in Freetown for orchestrating the 1997 coup that ousted president Kabbah from power.

Toledo is the hometown of Corporal Maxwell Klinger in the long-running 1970s television series M * A * S * H, an association that sprang from actor Jamie Farr being from there.

( Corporal York's actions as seen from the German perspective.

They persuade an attractive young cipher clerk, Corporal Tatiana Romanova, to falsely defect from her post in Istanbul, claiming to have fallen in love with Bond after seeing his file photograph.

Outraged that Stevenson and some of his colonial NCOs also fled from the barricades, a few British soldiers fired after them, killing Corporal William Anderson.

Corporal Duarte finally won a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court for his land grant case in 1878, but by then he had sold the entire Rancho.

There is also a marker honoring Lance Corporal Chad Robert Hildebrandt ( October 12, 1983 — October 17, 2005 ), the first casualty in the Iraq War from Springer.

This concern for the welfare of the common soldier together with his ability to inspire trust and confidence, and his willingness to share the dangers of battle, often earned him adulation from his men – " The known world could not produce a man of more humanity ," observed Corporal Matthew Bishop.

In 2004, Lance Corporal Jacob Lugo became the first military serviceman from Flower Mound to die in the line of duty.

In the Finnish Defence Force, NCO's ( Aliupseeristo ) includes all ranks from Corporal ( Alikersantti, lit.

Lauritz Weideman, Corporal Peder Balke, and Nels Dyhren from Toten attended the 1814 constitutional convention at Eidsvold.

Lauritz Weideman, Corporal Peder Balke, and Nels Dyhren from Toten attended the 1814 constitutional convention at Eidsvold.

In the South Pacific in 1944, U. S. Marine Corporal Allison ( Robert Mitchum ) and his reconnaissance party had been in the process of disembarking from a U. S. Navy submarine when they were discovered and fired upon by the Japanese.

A Cromwell under the command of Corporal Horne then advanced onto the main street from another side street and fired into the Tiger's rear, knocking it out, before reversing back into cover.

Lance Corporal Ian Malone ( 8 December 1974 – 6 April 2003 ) from Dublin, Ireland, was a member of the British Army's Irish Guards.

While the Argentine Navy has three Corporal ranks, from junior to senior: Cabo Segundo ( Corporal Second Class ), Cabo Primero ( Corporal First Class ) and Cabo Principal ( Principal Corporal ), which is equal to the Army rank of Sargento ( Sergeant ).

Corporal is the lowest NCO rank in the Royal Air Force ( aside from the RAF Regiment who have Lance-Corporals ), coming between Junior Technician or Senior Aircraftman ( Technician ) and Sergeant in the technical trades, or Senior Aircraftman and Sergeant in the non technical trades.