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Bavarian Army. The Bavarian Army was the army of the Electorate (1682–1806) and then Kingdom (1806–1918) of Bavaria. It existed from 1682 as the standing army of Bavaria until the merger of the military sovereignty ( Wehrhoheit) of Bavaria into that of the German State in 1919. The Bavarian Army was never comparable to the armies of the ...
Foreign Military Sales ( FMS) is a security assistance program of the United States government to facilitate the purchase of U.S. arms, defense equipment, design and construction services, and military training to foreign governments. [ 1] FMS is a government-to-government program where the United States Department of Defense through the ...
History of BMW. The official founding date of the German motor vehicle manufacturer BMW is 7 March 1916, when an aircraft producer called Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (formerly Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik) was established. [ 1][ 2] This company was renamed to Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1922. However, the BMW name dates back to 1917, when Rapp ...
bmwgroup.com (BMW AG corporate website) Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly abbreviated to BMW ( German pronunciation: [ˌbeːʔɛmˈveː] ⓘ ), is a German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The company was founded in 1916 as a manufacturer of aircraft engines, which it ...
Farmer. Private Dale Merlin Hansen (December 13, 1922 – May 11, 1945) was a United States Marine who earned the United States' highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his outstanding heroism on May 7, 1945, in the fight for Hill 60 on Okinawa. He was killed by enemy sniper fire three days later.
I Royal Bavarian Corps. I Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps. II Royal Bavarian Corps. II Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps. III Royal Bavarian Corps. XV Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps. Bavarian Auxiliary Corps.
Okinawa ground order of battle. The American invasion of the island of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, took place 1 April 1945. The Japanese military was determined to inflict a casualty rate so high that the U.S. government would choose not to invade the Japanese home islands. To this end, the southern portion of the island had been ...
I saw a trend where passengers with babies gave gifts to their seat neighbors, but flight attendants were often overlooked.So about 10 years ago, my husband and I started giving small gifts to the ...