David
Mon January 6, 2003 9:36pm
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Campaigns of Charles VIII
Campaigns of Charles VIII & Gonzalo de Cordoba
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David
Thu January 8, 2004 3:03pm
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8th Army Air Force
Worn from 20 May 1943 to June 1955
This unit was constituted as VIII Bomber Command on 19 January 1942. The command conducted the heavy bombardment operations of Eighth Air Force Bomber Command until redesignated Eight Air Force 22 February 1944. Afterward, it engaged primarily in the bombardment of strategic targets in Europe, becoming the allied air offensive's daylight precision bombing force. After returning to the United States on 7 June 1946, it became part of the Strategic Air Command. Among the commanders of this famous organization was Major Genera Ira C. Eaker and Lieutenant Genera James H. Doolittle. The winged star represents the army air forces. The Arabic numeral eight indicates the unit's designation. Activated 28 January 1942, Savannah, Georgia.
Campaigns:
WWI (Air Offensive, Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe; Asiatic-Pacific theater).
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David
Thu October 7, 2004 12:08pm
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Ordine dei Santi Maurizio
Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro. Born from the union of two ancient and different Orders which, for particular reasons, only in the XVI Century were combined under the Mastery of the House of Savoy. The Order of St. Maurice and Lazarus was awarded with some frequency among generals and colonels.
The Order of St. Maurice was established in 1434 by Amedeo VIII of Savoy (during his stay in the Ripaglia hermitage near Thonon) and so called after Maurice, the brave Captain of the Legio Tebea who was martyred in 286 a.d, altogether with his legionnaires for having refused to worship the Imperator Marco Aurelio.
From its origins, the Order of St. Maurice was an "Ordine combattente" (Combating Order) intended to fight Lutherans and Calvinists. The origins of the Order of St. Lazarus can be, on the contrary, brought back to the foundation, around 1100, of an Hospital for Leprosy in Jerusalem by a group of crusaders who called themselves "Brothers of St. Lazarus" (Lazarus was the poor leprous beggar, described in the Bible by the Evangelist St. Luke (Luke, chapter 16, verses 19-31), who became patron saint of lepers).
Under the Grand Mastery of Duke Emanuele Filiberto "Iron Head", the two orders were declared united by Pope Gregory XIII in 1572, one year after the battle of Lepanto, in order to fight the infidels; nevertheless, already during the XVI century the newborn order missed its military "raison d'etre", shifting instead towards the original hospital rule of St. Lazarus.
Brought back in favour by King Vittorio Emanuele II, the Order was sparingly conferred for distinguished service in civilian or military affairs, as an exclusive award compared with the more common Order of the Crown of Italy. Because of the fall of monarchy, the Italian Government in 1952 changed the Order (which no longer was officially acknowledged as such) in "Ente Morale" (Non-profit Corporation) and kept in function its hospitals, churches, orphanages and schools which are now under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic. As for the House of Savoy, still owner for dynastic reasons of the Grand Mastery, the pretender to Italy's Throne (Prince Vittorio Emanuele IV) is still conferring from his exile knightoods of this important Order which was never discontinued.
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David
Sun February 27, 2005 11:15pm
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The Campaigns of Charles
The Campaigns of Charles VIII and Gonzalo DeCordoba, 1494-95
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