Military History Trivia - Post & Respond

You answered your own question?

Nope, wasn't mine. It was capt Kletzing's. Computer wouldn't allow me to respond on his question normally, so I posted question and response.

April 1, 1893

Brother Victor - you had to know that one!

It was Orville Wright, and the passenger who was killed in the last flight of that Wright Model A was Lt. Selfridge in 1908.

... or, since we hadn't actually signed the hand receipt yet on that Model A, it might have been a pilot on the Wright Military Flyer, Lieutenant Folois.

And I believe that happened at the College Park, MD., airport that was being used for military flight training.

If I remember my Air Force history correctly, the Air Force became a separate service on 18 Sept 1947 as a result of the National Security Act. Much of the credit goes to Billy Mitchell and Henry "Hap" Arnold.

If you can trust the source:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautical_Division,_U.S._Signal_Corps

Aeronautical Division, U. S. Signal Corps is the correct answer.  The first 2 pilots who were trained are Frank P. Lahm and
Frederic E. Humphreys.

You could easily consider Benjamine Foulois as the granddaddy of military aviation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Foulois

No.  At least PVT Thomas Callan, MoH (also misspelled Callen) survived.  No relation.

Well i guess the question did have some vaqueness to it, of the men who were with custer ON the hill, not the supporting element who had pre iously broke off,... But i had read somewhere i think it was while looking at the actual guide on, that it was recovered at the location of the battle. Why was it not taken as a war trophy and lost to history? Because the indians were chasing a lone rider away from the battle and it is presumed that the rider believed he would be caught and killed and scalped etc so he shot himself, the indians were superstitious and would not touch the belongings of someone who killed themselves,,,,, so. He did survive per se lol, but committed suicide while escaping

It was recovered a day or so after the battle when the other forces arrived and found on the rider some distance away from the others, but as i said it was from the indians account

All except the current version...  Gues maybe I am confused by the question

On the right track,  any version of the flag is authorized to fly, no version has ever been retired therefore fling the first  flag on your porch is just  as accurate as flying todays

There is no unauthorized flag - as long as it has red, white, and blue with stars and stripes, it's an official US flag. My personal favorite is the Searapis flag.

There have been five "five star general of the army". But only two "five star general of the armies" (one step higher) Pershing is correct. Washington is the only other and his was posthumous. I knew it was Pershing but had to research it a little to get the correct term of the ranks.

Pershing was raised about 4 hours from where I grew up. 

Although never fully adopted, the insignia of rank for general of the armies (not to be confused with general of the army, non-plural) was a 6 star. Its true Pershing chose 4 gold stars, but at the time their were no 5 star generals. Additionally 3 and 4 star generals were temporary ranks and those that held it in WWI reverted back to their previous ranks afterward. In 1929 the 3 and 4 star general ranks were brought back and during WWII 5 star generals of the army were appointed. The 6 star insignia for general of the armies came from the proposed promotion for MacArthur in anticipation to the invasion of japan. Since the Japanese surrendered it got dropped. The insignia is still around in case its ever needed but the closest statement ever made as to whether Pershing was a 6 star was by secretary of war Henry Stimson,

"It appears the intent of the Army was to make the General of the
Armies senior in grade to the General of the Army. I have advised
Congress that the War Department concurs in such proposed action."

There have been 5, 5 Star Generals in the US Army.

General of the Army George C. Marshall
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur
General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower
General of the Army Henry H. Arnold
General of the Army Omar N. Bradley

There have been 4, 5 Star Fleet Admirls:

William Daniel Leahy
Ernest Joseph King
Chester William Nimitz
William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

There has been 1, 5 Star Air Force General:

General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold


There have also been 2
General of the Armies of the United States .

George Washington and John Pershing

All ready been posted, but I knew the answer anyway. The "truck" is that ball at the top of the flagpole outside of the HQ. Inside are a razor, match and bullet

Not sure if it is still a 45 cal or 9mm now though or if they even still do it. Good Job.

Based on the question, yes, they did. After Pearl, some were emplaced on the island of Oahu for defense. However, turret 2 was fitted on the Nevada, where they were used against the Japanese islands of Okinawa and Iwo Jima.