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As Cobra Commander emerges from an underground bunker his personal guards - led by Tomax and Xamot - and the Barroness spread out to make sure the permiter is safe for thier leader.
This ad promoted the virtues of Studebaker's entry level car model in magazines of that era, The Commander competed against the AMC Rambler, Plymouth Valiant, Ford Falcon and Chevrolet Corvair among others.
In December of 1963 Studebaker executives closed the main South Bend plant and consolidated production at the smaller plant in Hamilton, ON. Several models were dropped and budgets were cut.
By the time of the final '66 model year just enough money was allocated to the automotive subsidiary for a facelift including a new grill and a return to single headlamps. Ad agency W.B. Doner, working with a shoestring budget, came up with the "Studebaker: The Common Sense Car" theme the previous model year. Gone were the full color print ads and sponsorship of the Mr. Ed TV show of the past, replaced by simpler, black and white ads.
In March of 1966 Studebaker Corporation pulled the plug on its automotive division and the last car rolled off the line. By then Studebaker had evolved into a diversified holding company and the automotive division was a drag on earnings.
Studebaker continued on as the Studebaker-Worthington Corporation with a headquarters in NYC and revenue of $1 billion annually before it was acquired in 1979 by McGraw Edison and the Studebaker name disappeared.
Original print ad in my collection of Studebaker memorabilia and books.
ARRIVA Buses Wales VDL Commander 2505 - CX54 EPK hurries through Bodelwyddan on route 13 from Prestatyn - Llandudno.
Lieutenant Hansen Tan fires from behind a Medium Support Vehicle System (MSVS) at targets on a live fire drill during the Convoy Commander’s Course held at Garrison Petawawa on November 26, 2015.
Photo Cpl Mark Schombs 4 CDSB Garrison Petawawa Imaging
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Le lieutenant Hansen Tan, qui se trouve derrière un système de véhicule de soutien moyen (SVSM), tire sur des cibles dans un champ de tir réel dans le cadre du cours de commandants de convoi à la garnison Petawawa, le 26 novembre 2015.
Photo : Cpl Mark Schombs, BS 4 Div C, Services d’imagerie de la garnison Petawawa PA03-2015-0262-054
Statue of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, commander of the the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1915 to the end of the War, in Whitehall, London.
Short British Pathe film of the unveiling of the statue by Alfred Hardiman, on 10th November 1937.
“no statue erected within living memory has aroused such great public controversy as has that of Field Marshal Earl Haig” A Kick in the Teeth (Nicholas Watkins)
(The Daily Express article from 1998 (Aftermath))
Portrait of Field Marshall Sir Douglas Hague, painted in 1917 by Sir William Orpen (Imperial War Museum)
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"Haig has commonly been portrayed as an inept commander who exhibited callous disregard for the lives of his soldiers, repeatedly ordering tens of thousands of them to supposedly useless deaths during battles such as Passchendaele. Sometimes the criticism is not so much of Haig personally, as of the generation of British generals which he is deemed to represent." wikipedia
"Even the Somme (1916) and Passchendaele (1917), battles that have become by-words for murderous futility, not only had sensible strategic rationales but qualified as British strategic successes, not least in the amount of attritional damage they inflicted on the Germans. No one denies that the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) had a bloody learning curve, or that generals made mistakes that had catastrophic consequences. However, before dismissing the generals as mere incompetent buffoons, we must establish the context." The Western Front: Lions Led by Donkeys?
(Prof Gary Sheffield)
And Prof Sheffield speaking about Haig on the Radio 4 Today programme
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N.B. All the following needs to be checked
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ARMY
Secretary of State for War (commonly known as the War Secretary)
A member of the cabinet, and "assisted by a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, a Parliamentary Private Secretary who was also a Member of Parliament, and a Military Secretary, who was a general".
5 August 1914: Field Marshal Rt Hon. Horatio Herbert Kitchener Guardian report on his appointment
6 July 1916: Rt Hon. David Lloyd George
10 December 1916: Rt Hon. Edward Villiers, Earl of Derby
18 April 1918: Rt Hon. Sir Alfred Milner
The organisation and functions of the War Office (The Long, Long Trail)
Chief of the Imperial General Staff
6 April 1914 - 25th October 1914: General Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas
30 October 1914 - 25 October 1915: General Sir James Wolfe-Murray
26 October to December 1915: General Sir Archibald James Murray.
23 December 1915 to February 1918: Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson
19 February 1918 to February 1922: Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
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British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.)
Commander-in-chief
30th July 1914 to 18th December 1915: Field Marshal Sir John French
18th December 1915 to 1918: General Sir Douglas Haig (Field Marshal from 1917)
1 Corps, becoming 1st Army in December 1914 (and then comprising 1 Corps, IV Corps and Indian Corps, and from 1917, the Portugese Expeditionary Force)
General Sir Douglas Haig
II Corp, becoming 2nd Army in December 1914 (and then comprising II and III Corps)
Commander
20 August 1914 to 6 May 1915: General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
May 1915 to 1917 General (later Field Marshall) Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer.
"Plumer was meticulous in his planning, cautious but decisive when the occasion arose, highly resistant to panic or fluster and was much liked by all ranks that served under him."
'Drip' or 'Daddy' Plumer In The Great War (Western Front Association)
(Dates??) General Henry Seymour Rawlinson
3rd Army
formed in July 1915
4th Army formed in 1916
5th Army initially called the Reserve Army, formed in 1916
Egyptian Expeditionary Force (E.E.F.)
Commander-in-chief
January 1916 to June 1917: General Sir Archibald James Murray
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Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
Commander-in-chief
to 16th October 1915: General Sir Ian Hamilton
General Sir Charles Monro
General Archibald Murray
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Egyptian Expeditionary Force
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ROYAL AIR FORCE (still trying to work out the command structure at present, so these notes on the air force are still a bit of a mess.)
Royal Flying Corps (RFC) came into being in May 1912 with a Military Wing (Commanded by Major F. Sykes) and a Navy Wing (under the command of Commander C. R. Samson).
"The Military Wing of the RFC was commanded by Major Frederick Sykes and initially consisted of three squadrons. No. 1 Squadron was formed from No. 1 (Airship) Company of the Air Battalion and remained an airship company. No. 3 Squadron was formed from No. 2 (Aeroplane) Company of the Air Battalion and No. 2 Squadron was formed from a nucleus of aeroplane pilots at Farnborough. Further squadrons were formed over the course of the next year with No. 4 Squadron being created in August 1912 and No. 5 Squadron established in July 1913."
"The Military Wing was focused on building a reconnaissance force which could work well with the troops on the ground. Meanwhile the Naval Wing was developing its defensive role so that by early 1913 the Admiralty was able to set up a chain of six airship sites along the UK's coastline. An offensive role was also being considered with the use of aircraft as long range bombers against enemy targets." RAF Museum
In 1914, the Navy Wing was separated from the RFC and became the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS)
"The RNAS did not establish squadrons until it separated from the RFC in 1914" RAF Museum
"By the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the RNAS had ninety-three aircraft, six airships, two balloons and seven hundred and twenty-seven personnel. The Navy maintained twelve airship stations around the coast of Britain from Longside, Aberdeenshire in the northeast to Anglesey in the west. On 1 August 1915 the Royal Naval Air Service officially came under the control of the Royal Navy" wikipedia
In February 1915, the RNAS was placed under the command of Captain Murray Sueter, as Director of the Air Department.
In July 1915, the post of Director of the Air Department was abolished and replaced by the Director of the Air Service, Rear-Admiral Charles Vaughan-Lee.
"In addition to seaplanes, carrier borne aircraft, and other aircraft with a legitimate 'naval' application the RNAS also maintained several crack fighter squadrons on the Western Front, as well as allocating scarce resources to an independent strategic bombing force at a time when such operations were highly speculative".
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Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson (RFC) the first commanding officer of the Royal Flying Corps
Royal Air Force formed on 1st April 1918 by the amalgamation of the RFC and the RNAS.
Sir Hugh Trenchard: General Officer Commanding, the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and Chief of the Air Staff in 1918 and again from 1919 to 1929
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ROYAL NAVY
First Lord of the Admiralty the Cabinet minister ultimately responsible for Admiralty and Royal Navy affairs
October 1911 - May 1915: Winston Churchill
- December 1916: Arthur Balfour
- July 1917: Sir Edward Carson
- January 1919: Sir Eric Geddes
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First Sea Lord (the professional head of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines & Royal Fleet Auxiliary)
November 1914: Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone
May 1915: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson
November 1916: Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
December 1917: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss
May 1919: Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
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Catafalque Guard Commanders cutlass.
The Catafalque party consisted of Naval Cadets from TS Kanimbla.
Commemoration Service for the 77th Anniversary of the sinking of the Australian Naval ship HMAS SYDNEY II by the German auxiliary cruiser, Kormoran.
HMAS SYDNEY MEMORIAL PARK, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
The Commander is the head of the two Gryphone groups. A robot that uses the whips placed in its limbs to connect to the most various mechanisms.
Candidates of the Infantry Officer Development Period 1.1 course (Dismounted Infantry Platoon Commander) conduct hasty attacks, ambushes, raids and patrols while being assessed as dismounted platoon commanders in offensive operations, as part of an intense 12 day exercise at the Infantry School Combat Training Center, Canadian Forces Base Gagetown NB, July 12, 2019.
Photo: LS Zach Barr, Canadian Army Trials and Evaluations (CATEU) Gagetown
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Des candidats à la période de perfectionnement 1.1 du cours d’officier d’infanterie (commandant de peloton d’infanterie débarquée) mènent des attaques improvisées, des embuscades, des raids et des patrouilles pendant leur évaluation à titre de commandants de peloton débarqué lors d’opérations offensives, dans le cadre d’un exercice intense de douze jours au Centre d’instruction au combat de l’École d’infanterie, à la Base des Forces canadiennes Gagetown au N. B., le 12 juillet 2019.
Photo : Mat 1 Zach Barr, Unité de l’Armée canadienne d’essais et d’évaluation (UACEE)
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36 Commander FS by BERDAVmarine
The new BERDAV boat.
I won it at BERDAVmarine 2012 Show & Shine. Thanks a lot Anu for this wondeful prize. I love it :)))
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Photographed on July 26, 2013 during the RM Auctions preview, held on the grounds of the St. John's Inn and Conference Center
in Plymouth, Michigan in conjuction with the Concours d'Elegance of America at St. John's.
I love the model name "DeLux-Tone", first I have ever seen reference to it.
All of my classic car photos can be found here: Car Collections
Commander Edward Smith went down on the bridge of the Titanic. It turns out he was a Lichfield man, so there his statue stands, in the park, staring over at the cathedral. Yes, I may have jazzed hm up a little.
during Sunday's win over the Jacksonville Jaguars at Fedex Field on September 11th, 2022. (Xavi Dussaq/Washington Commanders)
A veteran of the Hynak Wars, Yayap carries the medals of past conflicts on his breast and wields a powerful chronodermic rifle, capable of ripping apart its targets in four dimensions.
Combination of the last six of my Self-MOC Chibi Series; Raptor Talon!, Raxonax!, Buskyte!, Eruei!, Onuku!, and Kalikiki!
This guy has been far, FAR too long coming, largely due to me changing jobs multiple times, university work, and not having access to my lego parts for most of the last year or so.
Yayap was an existing character in the Cyclic Plane Storyline, and was actually a player character of my friend Gideon's back in the day.
Very prettily adorned with fur, greenery and gold. Would be quite an easy pick for a sniper.
I was quite sure these were Italian uniforms, since the only Austrian-Hungarian uniforms tied together with cords that I managed to find (and I searched a lot), belonged to husars (a sort of cavalry) - and those were blue. They also sported very different caps than these here. But Bruno (see comments below) replied that these are Hungarian uniforms (which AFAIK were the same as Austrian). If anyone knows more about this, do tell please.
Anyway, that's why the text below refers to Italian commanders (I don't want to change it now, as the comments already refer to it):
Of course the highest commanders (like general Cadorna - commanding the whole Soča (Isonzo) front), never went even close to the general vicinity of the actual fighting - let alone within rifle range...
After the war Cadorna was accused of being foremost responsible for the huge fiasco that was the last offensive at Soška fronta (the 12th - led by the Central Powers, after 11 unsuccessful Italian ones). However, he shrugged off all responsibility and blamed his subordinates. (During the war, he dismissed 217 officers and ordered execution of those whom retreated from their positions - along with execution of 750 soldiers - though it was he himself that actually fled the battle.)
For this "exceptional" performance, he was he was later promoted to the rank of field marshal by Mussolini...
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We humans simply never learn, do we?
Or as the Cowboy Junkies state in the Simon Keeper song:
Irony oh irony, you are a treacherous son of a bitch
Pretending not to care about the heights you'll never reach
Irony oh irony, you are a bitter fruit to eat
Stripped of all your beauty your flesh is none too sweet
Italian Army officers attend the retirement ceremony of Col. Edoardo Maggian, Italian base commander, receives awards during his retirement ceremony held on Hoekstra Field, Caserma Ederle, Nov. 24. Maggian, a native of Vicenza, served as the IBC since February 2008. (U.S. Army Africa photo by Staff Sgt. Lance Pounds)
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I snapped this car at Arby's on North Broadway in Salina, Kansas. I believe this is a 1950 Sudebaker Commander Starlight Coupe, but I am not sure.
Description: During the Second World War Ian Fleming served as a Commander in the Royal Navy as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear Admiral John Godfrey. This document outlines Fleming's plan to capture German Engima codebooks which he dubbed 'Operation Ruthless'.
Fleming's name for the operation and his description of the man needed as a "tough batchelor" can't help but recall his later creation of James Bond. The document, prepared after the war as a summary of the activities of Naval Intelligence, suggests Fleming volunteered himself for the mission.
Date: c.1946
Our Catalogue Reference: ADM 223/463 p38
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WWII Reenactment
Midway Village Museum
Rockford, Illinois
September 24, 2016
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Commander Yves Tremblay, part of the Canadian Fleet Altantic staff embarked on Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Montreal, watches from inside the bridge as the ship partakes in a Replenishment at Sea (RAS) with USNS Medgar Evers during Neptune Trident 17-02 on September 26, 2017.
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Photo by: Leading Seaman Dan Bard, Formation Imaging Services
A few days ago the CloneArmyCustoms order I placed back in May finally got here! Below is my review of Tyler's figures.
What I got in this order was exactly what I wanted and more. I bought Tyler's Clone Wars Commander Gree. Plus, because of the long wait he appears to have sent me a bonus which happened to be the Clone Wars Green Leader/41st Elite trooper in addition to several weapons. The customs themselves look amazing! Tyler did a great job as always, not missing a single detail. I'm also pleased to see that the torsos and legs were printed instead of decaled. I personally prefer this over decals. Overall, these customs extremely well made and I think they are going to look great in my new film!
Ray Hoobler was appointed to the SDPD in 1951 and within weeks of earning his badge he was handed his first test of integrity . Responding to an alarm call at a clothing store, he saw a fellow officer steal several silk shirts. Hoobler went straight to the captain. Word quickly got out that Hoobler wasn’t one to keep his mouth shut in the presence of wrongdoing.
Another defining moment in his career came as a homicide detective. Dispatched to a murder, he was dismayed to arrive and discover a curious sergeant had tampered with the crime scene and destroyed evidence.
Hoobler said when he confronted the sergeant he was told to mind his own business.
It was then and there he vowed to make rank so that he could control what happened with his career and his police work
Hoobler’s in your face management style made him loved by some and hated by others. Hoobler developed a reputation as a bulldog that wouldn’t back down, but at the same time, would never order an officer to do something he wasn’t willing to do himself.
That style was demonstrated at the scene of a riot in 1968 when Hoobler was leading a group of officers against a hostile crowd. Hoobler ordered his officers to remain in rank and not to individually battle the protestors. The order stood as long as it took for Hoobler to get hit with a rock and then all bets were off. Hoobler personally led the charge into the crowd as cops fought with the demonstrators.
In 1971 Hoobler was promoted to second in command after a scandal involving Assistant Chief Bob Jauregui and the Yellow Cab Company began to blossom. He was the heir apparent to take the top job when O.J. Roed retired.
At first Hoobler was excited about the job and eager to get started but it didn’t take long for him to discover what he had gotten himself into. As he was driving to work in the predawn hours Hoobler said all of a sudden it hit him he was personally responsible for the safety and well being of an entire city of more than 700,000 people. The thought caused him to pull to the side of the road as he was starting to experience chest pains.
As chief, Hoobler soon discovered what Roed already knew - life at the top can be very difficult when City Hall tries to control how the police department functions. Hoobler was clearly not the type to take orders from anyone, much less a civilian outsider on how he should run his department. That friction would cause Hoobler to become involved in a number of confrontations.
Surprisingly though it wasn’t his battles with City Hall that led to his ouster . The end came when it was revealed Hoobler had lied about looking into the confidential files of officers who had sought mental counseling. Faced with a choice of resign or be fired, the 48-year-old Hoobler stepped down. Sadly for Hoobler, he was still two years away from being old enough to collect a city pension. He quickly found work as a consultant where he testified in court on many police related issues.
Ray Hoobler died in April 2001 after a lengthy battle with cancer.