Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor.

In an episode that spoofed the contest between the Champion and Earth's strongest superheroes from the Champion's first appearance in Marvel Two-in-One Annual # 7, the villain Rasslor ( voiced by professional wrestler " Macho Man " Randy Savage ) challenges and easily defeats Earth's superheroes ( consisting of Valhallen, Major Glory, Sam-R-I, Phan Tone, Krunk, White Tiger, Capital G, and Living Bullet ) in single combat until Monkey was the sole remaining challenger, having been dismissed as being unworthy of Rasslor repeatedly throughout the event.

The Second Armored Division under the command of Major General George S. Patton used the Coffee County terrain along the river to demonstrate the value, speed, and maneuverability of armored forces in a large-scale combat operation.

* Major General Keller E. Rocky, Commanding General of the 5th Marine Division in the Battle of Iwo Jima, awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for inspired combat leadership in this epic battle.

Major Gen. Uzal Girard Ent, who had led the August, 1943, raid on the Romanian oil refineries in Ploesti, chose Col. Paul Tibbets to lead the 509th Composite Group, asking him to organize and lead a combat force to deliver a new type of explosive device that is so powerful, its full potential was unknown.

In the right of Eastern Zamboanga was they entered and local sending military combat operations by the local Filipino troops, military officers and tank commanders under the 6th, 10th, 101st, 102nd and 105th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 10th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was liberated and recaptured on January to March 1945 and aided the local Zamboangueño Christian and Muslim guerrilla resistance was attacked and defeating Japanese Imperial ground forces from the couple of three months and one year before the arrival of American liberation military forces under by Major General Jens A. Doe of the U. S. Army ’ s 41st Infantry Division on March 1945 in Zamboanga City.

* Major George E. Preddy, commander of the 328th Fighter Squadron, was the highest-scoring US ace still in combat in the European Theater at the time when he died on Christmas Day in Belgium.

During World War II, he served as a combat officer in United States Marine Corps, achieving the rank of Major.

While the combat was taking place, Winfield Scott led his depleted brigade ( which had been reorganized into a single ad-hoc battalion under Major Henry Leavenworth ) in an unauthorized attack against Drummond's centre.

On April 13, 1972, Chief Warrant Officer Barry McIntyre, Major Larry McKay, First Lieutenant Steve Shields, and Captain Bill Causey became the first helicopter crews to destroy enemy armour in combat during the Vietnam War.

During one such flight, Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr., USAF, was killed when his U-2 was shot down by Soviet-operated SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missiles near Banes, Cuba, becoming the crisis ' only combat death.

In 1918, he drained swamps, ordered fumigation and distributed free medicine to combat a yellow fever epidemic, and won the praise of Major General William C. Gorgas, who had done the same in Panama.

* December 24 – Major combat operations in Operation Just Cause conclude.

CBs must be of the rank of Lieutenant Commander, Major or Squadron Leader, and in addition must have been mentioned in despatches for distinction in a command position in a combat situation.

* Aluf ( Major General ) Yair Naveh, highest ranking religious combat general

Posted to France with just 15 hours solo, he first flew in combat in September 1916 with 169 Squadron, RFC, ( commanded by Major Paynter ).

On 1 April, three weeks before the operation, a USAF combat control team officer, Major John T. Carney Jr., was flown in a Twin Otter to the Desert One site by two CIA officers for a clandestine survey of an airstrip.

In early January 1942, Major General Stanley Savige, an experienced officer who had commanded the 17th Brigade in combat against the Germans in the Middle East earlier in the war, took over command of the division.

The division landed at Utah Beach on 24 July 1944 under the command of Major General Lunsford E. Oliver, and moved into combat on 2 August, driving south through Coutances, Avranches, and Vitré, and across the Mayenne River to seize the city of Le Mans, 8 August.

Major configuration changes included the addition of a third infantry brigade, an additional direct-support artillery battalion and the expansion of the combat aviation battalion to a brigade-sized unit.

In June and July 1942, Chennault got the Tenth Air Force in India to transfer the 16th Fighter Squadron, commanded by Major John Alison, to his main base in Kunming, China, to gain combat experience.

His citation reads in part, " Despite almost continuous bombardment by enemy aircraft, hostile naval gunfire and shore based artillery, the combined total of Army, Navy and Marine Corps units stationed at Guadalcanal under Major General Geiger's efficiently coordinated command succeeded in shooting down 268 Japanese planes in aerial combat and inflicting damage on a number estimated to be as great … Sank six enemy vessels, including one heavy cruiser, possibly sank three destroyers and one heavy cruiser, and damaged 18 other ships, including one heavy cruiser and five light cruisers.

During the raid, the German Heinkel He 219 Uhu (" Eagle Owl ") night fighter makes its combat debut in the early morning hours of June 12 in an experimental flight piloted by Major Werner Streib.

The Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ), which was founded to combat antisemitism and other forms of bigotry, actively investigated and spoke out against the rise in anti-Arab hate crimes following the September 2001 terrorist attacks.

These stories set the stage for " Crisis on Earth-One " ( Justice League of America # 21, August 1963 ) and " Crisis on Earth-Two " ( Justice League of America # 22, September 1963 ), a 2-part tale where the Golden Age Justice Society teamed up with the Silver Age Justice League to combat a team of villains from both worlds who had gained a way of travelling between the worlds quickly using vibratory devices made by the Fiddler, and were planning on committing crimes, then spending the money in the other world where nobody knew them, after capturing both Flashes.

Lodge made it clear that the United States Congress would have the final authority on the decision to send American armed forces on a combat or a peacekeeping mission under League auspices.

Its loosely affiliated youth organisation, the National Youth League of Sweden () was openly pro-Nazi and set up uniformed " fighting groups " to combat political enemies on the streets.

Melchiorre Trevisan promised the League soldiers the spoils of battle if they were victorious, igniting their combat ardor.

The Spartacist League then called for its members to take part in armed combat.

The battalion was not involved in any combat and remained just long enough for the Arab League to take over from them.

Later the League infiltrates his underground fortress on earth and engages Brainiac in combat.

“ One of the main causes for the organization of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina was to combat the influence of the Union League.

Roman legions ( aided by allies from the Aetolian League and Pergamon after 211 BC ) did little more than skirmish with Macedonian forces and seize minor territory along the Adriatic coastline in order to " combat piracy ".

However, the Anti-Defamation League, a U. S .- based group that “... combat anti-Semitism and bigotry of all kinds ”, complained to HBO after Borat performed his country western-style song " In My Country There Is Problem ".

The five alpine cantons perceived the Reformation as a threat early on ; already in 1524 they formed the " League of the Five Cantons " ( Bund der fünf Orte ) to combat the spreading of the new faith.

As a hobby, he builds combat robots, and his children, James Ueki and Alex Ueki, are the 2004 and 2005 Robot Fighting League National Champions in the 30 lb Featherweight class.

As a member of the Justice League, Kyle occasionally would train in the League's combat training systems on the Watchtower and under the tutelage of combat-experienced Leaguers, such as Batman.

In 1921, he founded the Anti-Waste League to combat what he saw as excessive government spending.

; September 21: Doctor Negrín, head of the Republican government, in a speech to the League of Nations, announces that the International Brigades will be pulled from the combat zones.

" Another Washington Post staff writer Rita Kempley, offered a different view commenting, " always fun to see misguided machismo properly channeled into service of God, country or the National Hockey League .– Isn't that the trouble with combat movies these days?

2002-Foundation of the Robot Fighting League, a regulatory body composed of the organizers of robot combat events in the United States, Canada, and Brazil.

The Robot Fighting League ( RFL ) was created in 2002 when several builders decided that robot combat needed standardization of rules and judging criteria The majority of robot combat events in the U. S. have become RFL members and have adopted their ruleset, but some event organizers oppose the direction in which the RFL is taking the sport and remain independent.

In 2006 Rutten was tapped to coach a team for the International Fight League, an MMA organization that focused on team combat.

Meanwhile, in the League of Nobles, Vorian Atreides attempts to combat the slurs on Xavier's name by confronting Ginjo's wife.