Event class: battle, japanese, attack, forces, operation, enemy, led, command, german, war

Events with high posterior probability

Yunus Yosfiah	New South Wales Deputy State Coroner Dorelle Pinch in her finding found that :' Brian Raymond Peters, in the company of fellow journalists Gary James Cunningham, Malcolm Harvie Rennie, Gregory John Shackleton and Anthony John Stewart, collectively known as `` the Balibo Five'', died at Balibo in Timor - Leste on 16 October 1975 from wounds sustained when he was shot and/or stabbed deliberately, and not in the heat of battle, by members of the Indonesian Special Forces, including Christoforus da Silva and Captain Yunus Yosfiah on the orders of Captain Yosfiah, to prevent him from revealing that Indonesian Special Forces had participated in the attack on Balibo.'
Morihiro Higashikuni	He withdrew in face of the Soviet counter-offensive without orders during the heat of battle, and was transferred back to Japan on 2 August 1939.
George F. Elliott	On 14 July 1898, he was in command of Companies C and D, composed of 150 Marines and 50 Cubans, which were ordered to destroy the well at Cuzco, about six miles (10 km) from Guantanamo, and the only water supply of the Spaniards within twelve miles (19 km).
Sa Zhenbing	In 1895 he participated in the Battle of Weihaiwei during the First Sino-Japanese War, leading a group of sailors from the training ship Kangji in a ten-day defence of an island coastal fortress off Weihai wei.
Junio Valerio Borghese	In May 1943, Borghese took command of the Decima Flottiglia MAS ('' 10th Assault Vehicle Flotilla''), or Xª MAS with Roman numerals, which continued active service in the Mediterranean and pioneered new techniques of commando assault warfare.
Eugene Peyton Deatrick	Dengler later wrote about the miraculous circumstances of his July 20, 1966 rescue : Pleiku, -LSB- -LSB- South Vietnam, November 1966 -RSB- -RSB- On November 10, 1966, Deatrick came to the aid of West Point classmate, Eleazar Parmly IV, commander of Task Force (TF) Prong when it was ambushed by NVA forces.
Morris Beckman (writer)	Beckman's vessels landed troops at Port Augusta during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 and, three months later, at Taranto during the Allied invasion of Italy.
Jim Sanders (United States Air Force officer)	In February 1945, as the Russians advanced towards the POW camp, Sanders was part of a forced march from the camp, during which he surreptitiously dropped out of line, burrowed into a snow bank and waited for 14 hours as 10,000 prisoners passed by him.
Charles Pelot Summerall	During his tenure he directed the formation of a mechanized force and recommended an integrated mobile force of tank, artillery, engineer, and quartermaster elements... for extraordinary heroism in action before Berzy-le-Sec, near Soissons, France, during the Aisne-Marne offensive, July 19, 1918.
Simon Sabiani	His life was taken by bullets fired from'' Maxim'' machine guns by Soviet partisans under the command of Colonel Gradov, in the Eastern Front, not far from Smolensk, Russia, while on an LVF mission, in the beginning of June 1942.
Akira Yamamoto	Flying from the aircraft carrier'' Kaga'' during the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Yamamoto claimed to have destroyed a civilian sight-seeing aircraft over Oahu which had happened into the path of the Japanese first strike wave.
Artur Phleps	Accompanied only by his adjutant and his driver, and unaware of the presence of Red Army units in the vicinity, he entered Șimand, a village approximately north of Arad, on the afternoon of 21 September 1944.
Jefferson J. DeBlanc	On 29 January 1943, DeBlanc was forced to ditch out of his Wildcat and luckily landed in the wake of an American destroyer that was fleeing across Ironbottom Sound due to a Japanese air raid.
Peter Stanley James	An additional raid to Italy on 8/9 November 1940 was aborted when a Junkers Ju 88 of the Luftwaffe dropped a stick of bombs along the length of the flare path as four Armstrong Whitworth Whitley s, including James's aircraft, were waiting to take off at RAF Honnington, Suffolk.
Lester Brain	By February 1942, Brain was running the Qantas base at Broome in north Western Australia, which had assumed major importance as a way station for evacuees from the Dutch East Indies, possessing a harbour suitable for flying boats, as well as an airfield that could take heavy bombers.
Joshua Matza	During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jerusalem was the scene of intense fighting, and Matza participated in an operation that enabled Lehi fighters to blast their way into the Old City.
Erneido Oliva	After the Brigade had ceased fighting on April 19, 1961, due to lack of air support promised by the Kennedy administration, Oliva organized all the Brigade's men that were withdrawing to Playa Giron and, with men of the 2nd and 6th battalions, tried to reach the Escambray mountains.
Isoroku Yamamoto	As Yamamoto had planned, the First Air Fleet of six carriers commenced hostilities against the Americans on 7 December 1941, launching 353 aircraft against Pearl Harbor in two waves.
Franti?ek Zach	He was heavily wounded and lost his leg in 1876 while leading the Army of the Ibar (river), fighting against the Turks.
Joseph Baillon	As Adjutant during the advance through Abancourt on the afternoon of 9 October 1918, he frequently, under heavy fire, proceeded in advance of the battalion in order to find the route.
Brian Horrocks	He was promoted to lieutenant on 18 December 1914, despite being in enemy hands, and often tried to escape, once coming within of the Dutch border before being recaptured.
Ruslan Gelayev	In February -- March 2000, Gelayev's forces took heavy losses as they withdrew from Grozny to the mountains of southern Chechnya, where they discovered that their mountain bases had been destroyed by Russian aircraft, leaving them starving, freezing, and low on ammunition.
Allan Beckett	June 7, 1944 was D +1 (the day after the start of Operation Overlord) ; Allan Beckett set out for Arromanches, the site of the British Mulberry, as technical adviser in the field to Montgomery's 21st Army Group).
Erwin Rommel	Auchinleck, having 770 tanks and 1,000 aircraft to support him, launched a major offensive to relieve Tobruk (Operation'' Crusader'') on 18 November 1941.
Jocko Thompson	In 1944, as a first lieutenant, Thompson led his men during an air raid as part of Operation Market Garden.
Arthur Pollen	Through a relative, Commander William Goodenough, Pollen saw a naval gunnery practice near Malta in 1900, and the accuracy was so poor that even at ranges of less than a mile the big guns could not reliably hit their targets.
Robert Edward Cruickshank	On 1 May 1918 east of the Jordan River, Palestine, Private Cruickshank volunteered to take a message to company headquarters from his platoon which was in the bottom of a wadi, with its officer and most of the men casualties.
William Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson	He was present at Battle of Paardeberg and at the actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Vet and Zand Rivers, and in operations near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill, and in the operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, during the latter half of 1900.
Tadayoshi Sano	After suffering losses during the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse, Sano and the remainder of his troops on Guadalcanal, about 2,316 men, were evacuated during Operation Ke on February 2, 1943, giving control of the island completely to Allied forces.
Russell W. Volckmann	During the U. S. and Filipino invasion of the Philippines in January 1945, Volckmann's guerrillas cut key communication lines and bridges and isolated barracks.
Jack Churchill	In July 1943, as commanding officer, he led 2 Commando from their landing site at Catania in Sicily with his trademark Scottish broadsword slung around his waist, a longbow and arrows around his neck and his bagpipes under his arm, which he also did in the landings at Salerno.
Douglas Alexander Graham	In January 1944 he was given Command of 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division which would take part in Operation Overlord, during the initial beach assault on Gold Beach, he was again Mentioned in Despatches for his contributions to the campaign, The rank of major general was made substantive on 6 October 1944 (with seniority from 1 February).
Kenneth North	North flew 33 combat missions over North Vietnam before his F-105D was downed by enemy fire in August 1966.
Walter Tull	He returned to northern France in 1918, and was killed in action on 25 March during the Spring Offensive, near the village of Favreuil in the Pas-de-Calais.
Danny Dietz	His remains were recovered during a combat search and rescue operation on July 4, 2005.
James L. Holloway III	During Operation Linebacker II, he directed the massive carrier strikes against Hanoi which were a part of the intensive joint air effort which led to the Vietnam cease-fire in 1973.
Theodore Van Kirk	In October 1942 they flew General Mark Clark to Gibraltar for his secret North African rendezvous with the French prior to Operation Torch.
Gerhard Fauth	In 1945, with the Germans losing the war and in retreat, Fauth was given the order to blow up several dams, but did not carry out his orders, saving important facilities in Athens.
Ren? Cogny	Though stationed in Hanoi during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu itself, having seen the battle turning against France, Cogny attempted to reach the besieged garrison to take command ; however, his aircraft was beaten back by anti-air fire on 17 March 1954.
Evelyn Wood (British Army officer)	On 19 October 1858 during an action at Sindwaho while in command of a troop of light cavalry, twenty-year-old Lieutenant Wood attacked a body of rebels, whom he routed almost single-handedly.
Robert Bales	On February 1, 2012, he was assigned to Camp Belambai in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, where he was responsible for providing base security for U. S. Army Special Forces and U. S. Navy SEALs who were engaged in village stability operations.
Delfin Castro	After several engagements, his unit was redeployed to the M-1 Ridge, Christmas Hill Sector up to the truce in July 1953.
Chesty Puller	First Lieutenant Lewis B. Puller, United States Marine Corps, successfully led his forces into five successful engagements against superior numbers of armed bandit forces ; namely, at LaVirgen on 16 February 1930, at Los Cedros on 6 June 1930, at Moncotal on 22 July 1930, at Guapinol on 25 July 1930, and at Malacate on 19 August 1930, with the result that the bandits were in each engagement completely routed with losses of nine killed and many wounded.
Russell Foskett	Foskett disembarked at Southern Rhodesia in January 1941, Forced down, Foskett landed his aircraft in a minefield, where he was safely extracted by a formation of the British Army in the area.
Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor	Captain Beauchamp-Proctor's work in attacking enemy troops on the ground and in reconnaissance during the withdrawal following on the Battle of St. Quentin from 21 March 1918, and during the victorious advance of our Armies commencing on 8 August, has been almost unsurpassed in its Brilliancy, and.
Don P. Moon	During the June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy he directed the landings on Utah Beach from.
Nicole Malachowski	During her second tour at RAF Lakenheath, Malachowski deployed for four months in early 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, flying 26 combat missions.
Henry Glass (admiral)	During his tour of duty in command of the squadron, the flagship, New York, together with the cruiser and visited Adak and Kiska, in the Aleutians, conducting surveys of the latter place in July 1903 with an eye toward establishing a coaling station there.
Charles Liteky	On December 6, 1967, near Phuoc-Lac in South Vietnam's Biên Hòa Province, he was accompanying Company A, 4th Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, on a search and destroy mission when they came under heavy fire from a numerically superior enemy force.
George M. Jones	Jones and his Regimental Combat Team moved on to Negros Island, where they fought Imperial Marines and other Japanese forces until well after October, 1945, as a core of Japanese commanders refused to surrender.
Edward Heaton-Ellis	At the Battle of Jutland in 1916 the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron flagship, HMS'' Invincible'', was hit and blew up, but Heaton-Ellis led the squadron forwards past the wreck of the flagship so brazenly that the Germans thought the Inflexible must be the leading ship of the British battle fleet and swerved away.
Mark W. Clark	Clark gave orders for the bombing destruction of the Abbey of Monte Cassino based on direct orders from his superior during the Battle of Monte Cassino, February 15, 1944.
Angel Mendez	On March 16, 1967, Mendez was conducting a Search and destroy mission with his company when they came under attack from a Viet Cong battalion.
Eric Harper	On 30 April 1918, while his unit was coming under artillery bombardment in Jerusalem, he attempted to quiet horses and was killed in the attack.
John McCain	In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnam ese.
James Crichton (VC)	During the Hundred Days Offensive, on 30 September 1918, Crichton's platoon was trying to force a crossing of the Scheldt River, near Crèvecœur, when it came under machine-gun fire.
Nicholas Bodington	In 1943 Bodington supported the candidacy of Henri Déricourt, who was engaged by F section and sent to France in February that year, codenamed Gilbert, to organise aerial rendezvous for F Section.
Maximilian I of Mexico	Withdrawing, in February 1867, to Santiago de Querétaro, he sustained a siege for several weeks, but on May 11 resolved to attempt an escape through the enemy lines.
Clive Steele	During actions around Péronne, France in August 1918, he commanded a unit undertaking repairs to bridges while under artillery and machine-gun fire.
Peter Carmichael	On 9 August 1952 Carmichael, flying his regular Sea Fury (WJ232), was leading a four aircraft formation to attack railway facilities between Manchon and Pyongyang when, in the vicinity of Chinnampo, his Number 2, Sub-Lieutenant Carl Haines, gave a radio warning of MiGs diving towards the Sea Furys from behind and the right.
Terence Hildner	His unit also conducted the last U. S. patrol along the East-West German border before the unification of Germany in 1990.
Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson	Anderson managed to hold on to his position and performed well during the closing stages of the operation, in May 1943 when Allied forces won victory and the unconditional surrender of the Axis forces, 125,000 of whom were German.
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck	He gained the men and artillery of the German cruiser (scuttled in 1915 in the Rufiji River delta) which had a capable crew under commander Max Looff, as well as numerous guns which were converted into artillery pieces for the land fighting, the largest standard land artillery pieces used in the East African theater.
Joyce Kilmer	The most notable of his poems during this period was'' Rouge Bouquet'' (1918) which commemorated the deaths of two dozen members of his regiment in an German artillery barrage on American trench positions in the Rouge Bouquet forest north-east of the French village of Baccarat.
Wilgelm Vitgeft	At 18:40 on 10 August 1904, Admiral Vitgeft and his immediate staff were killed instantly when a 305 mm salvo from the Japanese battleship struck the upper bridge of the Russian flagship Tsesarevich.
Peter Stanley James	On the occasion of a daylight attack on the Scharnhorst on the 24th July, 1941, Flying Officer James skilfully and coolly penetrated the defences and attacked the objective with precision in spite of heavy enemy fighter opposition.
Pierpont M. Hamilton	On November 8, 1942, when French forces resisted Allied landing operations, Hamilton undertook a mission for Truscott to deliver a message to the local French commander near Port Lyautey, French Morocco, to broker a cease fire.
Charles Rumney Samson	From November 1917 until the end of the War, Samson was in command of an aircraft group at Great Yarmouth responsible for anti-submarine and anti-Zeppelin operations over the North Sea, during which time his group shot down five Zeppelins.
Harold Brownlow Martin	He took part in Operation Chastise, the RAF's'' Dambusters'' raid in 1943, and was described by journalist Sir Max Hastings as'' one of the three great bomber pilots of the war''.
Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen	In 1920 she witnessed seven airplanes'' take the place of two British regiments of soldiers'' in routing a large number of rebel Arab cavalry in the desert near Aden.
Charley Fox	On July 17, 1944, he flew from the Allied air base at Beny-sur-Mer in Normandy and strafed an unknown black car ; he later learned that one of the passengers was German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who was seriously injured in the attack.
James Whiteside McCay	He did a great deal of detail work himself, drawing his own orders, and sometimes training his own platoon s.'' McCay arrived off Anzac Cove on the transport SS Novian on the morning of Anzac Day, 25 April 1915, with his headquarters and the 5th Infantry Battalion on board.
James Munro Bertram	Bertram witnessed first hand the devastating effect of the bombing of the Tokyo-Yokohama area, and saw the coming of the victorious Allies by air and sea after the Japanese surrender in 1945.
Robert Leith-Macgregor	For the leadership he displayed on 3 January 1951, he was awarded the Military Cross for placing Y Company so well on a hill that, despite an attack by a massive Chinese force, the enemy were unable to dislodge them, and the company withdrew without a single man killed.
Don Carlos Buell	A single corps of Buell's army was attacked by Bragg at the Battle of Perryville on October 8, 1862, while Buell, a couple of miles behind the action, was not aware that a battle was taking place until late in the day and thus did not effectively engage the full strength of his army to defeat the smaller enemy force.
Henry Hugh Clifford	He took part in the Crimean war, where he received the appointment of aide-de-camp to Sir George Brown, commanding the light division, and was present at Alma and Inkerman, and for his gallantry in the latter battle was decorated with the Victoria cross, by leading one of the charges, killing one of the enemy with his sword, disabling another and saving the life of a soldier (5 November 1854).
Archibald Clark Kerr, 1st Baron Inverchapel	After the British consulate in Chungking was almost completely destroyed by Japanese bombing in 1940, other diplomatic missions evacuated, but he kept the Union Jack flying close to Chinese government buildings.
Gunichi Mikawa	On the night of the 8 to 9 August 1942, Mikawa commanded a force of heavy cruiser s, plus one destroyer, that heavily defeated the U. S. Navy warship force, plus one Royal Australian Navy cruiser, in the Battle of Savo Island in Ironbottom Sound off Guadalcanal.
Stephen W. Groves	During that battle, Ensign Groves took off nine times from Hornet ; his was one of six American fighters that fought off a vastly superior Japanese force that was trying to finish off the damaged carrier USS'' Yorktown'' (CV-5) on June 4, 1942.
Teddy Gueritz	From D-Day, 6 June 1944, he served as beachmaster on Sword Beach, organising the flow of men and materiel into the beachhead, including 30,000 troops on the first day.
Harry Patch	He fought at the Battle of Passchendaele (also known as the Third Battle of Ypres) and was injured in the groin when a shell exploded overhead at 22:30 on 22 September 1917, killing three of his comrades.
John Kizirian	In August 1951, Kizirian was then given the task to neutralize enemy forces in the vicinity of Hill 440 just south of Seoul.
Frederick Scherger	The 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment deployed to Vietnam in May 1965, With the formation of Australian Forces Vietnam (AFV) at this time, Scherger recommended that Air Force units effectively serve under Army control'' to convey an image of all Australian forces fighting together, as one unit''.
Vyvyan Pope	On 21 March 1918, the 1st Battalion was in front-line trenches near St. Quentin when the Germans launched Operation Michael, the opening attack in their Spring Offensive : there were extensive casualties, and, in a highly confused and fluid situation, Pope received a bullet wound in the right elbow.
Tetsuz? Iwamoto	In late 1943, Iwamoto's air group was sent to Rabaul, New Britain, resulting in three months of the hardest air combat ever for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force against air raids of U. S. and Allied air units.
Aaron Tuten	Tuten was awarded the Air Medal with Valor Device for a mission taking place on April 6, 2008 involving the extraction of six Special Forces troops during which time the Air Crew took Sniper Fire from Taliban forces and sustained damages to the Aircraft's Main Rotor System when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) exploded near the aft section of the aircraft.
David Vivian Currie	During the Battle of Falaise, Normandy, between 18 -- 20 August 1944, Currie was in command of a small mixed force of tanks, self-propelled anti-tank guns and infantry which had been ordered to cut off one of the Germans' main escape routes.
Katrina Hodge	She rose to fame after it was reported in the British papers in 2005 that she had earned a commendation for her bravery whilst serving with the Royal Anglian Regiment in Iraq for wrestling two rifles from a prisoner following a road traffic accident and then flooring him with her bare hands - thus saving lives of her comrades.
Ronald Niel Stuart	In February 1917, Campbell decided that in order to properly invite an attack, the Farnborough would have to actually be torpedoed before combat and then engage the submarine as she closed to finish the job with shellfire.
Bruce P. Crandall	On January 31, 1966, during the first combined American and South Vietnamese Army operation,'' Operation Masher'', Crandall had just finished a full day supporting the 1/12th Infantry Battalion.
Harold G. Schrier	Company E and Schrier landed on the beach near Mount Suribachi on February 19, 1945.
David Farragut	He was wounded and captured while serving on the Essex during the engagement at Valparaiso Bay, Chile against the British on March 28, 1814.
Mike Osborn	After serving at posts in Greece and Vienna, he would also play a significant role in the Malayan Emergency commanding the 1st Battalion, The Federation Regiment in operations across Malaya in 1958, aiding the British effort to prevent the rise of communism in the area.
Loke Wan Tho	Escaping the Japanese in February 1942 on a ship called Nora Moller, Dato Loke Wan Tho did not escape unscathed as a bomb from a Japanese aircraft sank his ship in the Strait of Banka.
Harry H. Corbett	After VJ-Day in 1945 he was posted to the Far East, where he was involved in quelling unrest in New Guinea and reportedly killed two Japanese soldiers there whilst engaged in hand to hand fighting.
Bryan D. Brown	In 1988, he participated in Operation Mount Hope III, during which U. S. forces recovered a crashed Soviet-made Mi-24 Hind attack helicopter in Chad.
Philip Pembroke Stephens	In 1937, reporting from Shanghai on the Japanese invasion of China, he was shot and killed by a Japanese bullet.
Freddie Stowers	Early on the morning of September 28, 1918, Stowers' company was ordered to assault Côte 188, a tall, heavily defended hill overlooking a farm near Ardeuil-et-Montfauxelles, in the Ardennes region of France.
Denys Rayner	By 1939, partly as a result of a recognition by others of his gift for leadership and partly by insisting on specialising in navigation rather than gunnery, against standard advice to RNVR officers wishing advancement in the Royal Navy, Rayner qualified himself to command 14th Anti-Submarine Group comprising HMTs Loch Tulla, Istria, Regal, Brontes and Davey, a unit of armed trawlers patrolling the notoriously dangerous waters surrounding the main fleet base of Scapa Flow - a 6 by 20 mile stretch of sea between Scotland and the Orkney Islands where a high spring ebb can flow 8 knots against a westerly gale.
Edgar R. Bassett	Assigned to Fighting Squadron 3 aboard Yorktown along with several other Fighting Squadron 42 pilots just before the Battle of Midway, Bassett flew one of the six Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters covering Torpedo Squadron 3 in the attack on the aircraft carriers of the Japanese Mobile Force on the morning of 4 June 1942.