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    The Flag Officer Commanding, Iceland (C) was an appointment of the British Royal Navy during the Second World War. His headquarters were at the stone...
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    jutting into the fjord. The base was the headquarters of the Flag Officer Commanding, Iceland (C). One of the piers built by the United States Navy is today...
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    Sea Lord via a flag officer. Force H was based at Gibraltar but there was already a flag officer at the base, Flag Officer Commanding, North Atlantic...
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  • Red Storm Rising (category Novels set in Iceland)
    before the conflict and later as the commanding officer of a Marine regiment in the invasion force that recaptured Iceland. Lowe served three Tours of duty...
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    Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton (category Royal Navy officers of World War I)
    Flag Officer, Central Mediterranean in April 1945. While serving as Admiral Commanding Iceland, Dalrymple-Hamilton's personal cook was Petty Officer Francis...
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  • This is a list of United States Armed Forces general officers and flag officers who were killed in World War II. The dates of death listed are from the...
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    Mihir K. Roy (category Flag Officers Commanding Eastern Fleet)
    PVSM, AVSM was a flag officer in the Indian Navy. He last served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command (FOC-in-C ENC). Born in a...
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  • commanding officer of level I units Sub-Intendent (subintendente): commanding officer of level II units Commissioner (comissário): commanding officer...
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    James L. Kauffman (category Officers of the Order of Leopold II)
    a highly decorated officer in the United States Navy with the rank of vice admiral. He distinguished himself as commanding officer of destroyer USS Jenkins (DD-42)...
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    July 1944. The Bronze Star Medal for Valor was won by Fahrion as the commanding officer of the battleship USS North Carolina during fleet raids ranging from...
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  • following promotion to Flag rank, he became the first NFO and first carrier aviator to command the Iceland Defense Force in Keflavik, Iceland in 1994. He was...
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  • Adrian Liddell Hart (category Royal Navy officers)
    HMS Guardsman later in 1944. In 1945, he was appointed flag lieutenant to the admiral commanding Iceland. From 1945 to 1946 Liddell Hart was assistant editor...
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    personal staff of ten officers aboard the USS Seattle in 1925–1926. Now a Lieutenant Commander, Deyo was the most junior officer as Flag Lieutenant. The next...
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    and one training command. Each command is headed by a Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) of the rank of Vice Admiral. The Eastern, Western and...
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    America and West Indies Station. Her commanding officer, Captain K. G. Harkness, D.S.C., was also the Chief Staff Officer to the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral...
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  • Bonesteel Jr., Commanding General Iceland Base Command (16 Sep 1941–18 Jun 1943) Major General (USA) William S. Key, Commanding General Iceland Base Command...
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    following titles: Commanding General of the Philippine Army (CGPA) - Lieutenant General Flag Officer in-Command (FOIC) - Vice Admiral Commanding General of the...
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    underwent maintenance. During this time, the ship received a new commanding officer, Commander Mark Newland RN. The ship stayed in British waters, participated...
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    Intelligence Center, and the Chief of the Counter Intelligence Corps became its Commanding General. The following year, the Intelligence Center expanded further...
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    is a United States Navy air station at Keflavík International Airport, Iceland, located on the Reykjanes peninsula on the south-west portion of the island...
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    months as part of the group deployment named 'Task Group 317.1', led by Flag Officer Second Flotilla (Commander Task Group 317.1). The other ships in the...
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    headquarters at that time, its commanding officer and his staff were also accommodated in Williamsburg. Rear Admiral Kauffman flew his flag in Williamsburg in the...
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    engineering spaces. No officers or crew were consulted for input on the rewrite of the report. Initial reports by the commanding officer state that Corry was...
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    commanding, in September 1943. A large explosion at sea on October 7, 1943, took the lives of 24 Concord crewmen, including the executive officer, Commander...
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    Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (category Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, Baron Mountevans of Chelsea". Royal Navy Flag Officers 1904–1945. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 1...
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    pocket of the dress and service uniforms only when mandated by the commanding officer. This is usually seen by instructors at schools or conferences, by...
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    Operations, Admiral William S. Benson, he distinguished himself as commanding officer of the destroyer USS Roe during World War I and received the Navy...
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    University Air Squadrons and the Volunteer Gliding Squadrons together. The commanding officer of No. 2 FTS holds the only full-time flying appointment for a Group...
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  • jibe. Principal Naval Transport Officer In British usage, a Principal Naval Transport Officer is a shore-based flag officer or captain responsible for sea...
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    fleets and major commands of the Royal Navy, Flag Officer Third Flotilla, and Proceedings, August 2001, 'Commanding NATO operations from the sea' Rowland White...
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