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    Astronaut Group 23. Signalman First Class Douglas Albert Munro was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously, and is the only Coast Guardsman to ever receive...
    153 KB (14,420 words) - 09:42, 10 November 2024
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    Juliet titled "R+J." In 1968, these works were performed by off-duty U.S. Coast Guard signalers in Central Park. The second episode in the second series...
    20 KB (1,577 words) - 23:55, 23 October 2024
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    the rear part coming to rest inside Redhill Tunnel, Surrey. Due to a signalman's error, another freight train ran into the wagons and was derailed. A...
    107 KB (14,350 words) - 10:57, 5 September 2024
  • also served in the Pacific as a commander. Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro (1919–1942), the only Coast Guardsman to receive the Medal of Honor, earned...
    103 KB (13,325 words) - 06:15, 17 November 2024
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    Douglas Albert Munro (category United States Coast Guard personnel of World War II)
    staff aboard USS McCawley.: 14  Cross-trained as both a coxswain and a signalman, he was ordered to ferry troops to shore during the third attack wave...
    51 KB (4,790 words) - 21:56, 17 November 2024
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    The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a 393-mile long (632 km) electrified railway between its northern terminus at Edinburgh Waverley and southern terminus...
    93 KB (8,399 words) - 10:55, 15 November 2024
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    were operated locally from individual levers or handles, requiring the signalman to walk between the various pieces of equipment to set them in the required...
    15 KB (1,887 words) - 17:33, 19 June 2024
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    USCGC Munro (WMSL-755) (category Ships of the United States Coast Guard)
    the United States Coast Guard. Munro is the second cutter named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), the only Coast Guardsman to be awarded...
    8 KB (410 words) - 00:20, 3 October 2022
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    day of the accident, was Alexander Thorburn. The box was staffed by one signalman, on a shift system. In the mornings, a night-shift signaller would be...
    54 KB (7,196 words) - 00:12, 22 September 2024
  • shown), the strand title did not actually appear on screen until The Signalman in 1976. An earlier black-and-white adaptation of M. R. James's "'Oh,...
    53 KB (4,382 words) - 14:17, 22 November 2024
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    fireman, signalman, laundryman, radioman, boatswain's mate, cooks and bakers, and port security. After the war, Government Island remained a Coast Guard...
    9 KB (975 words) - 13:19, 10 December 2023
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    the duties of its signalman rating into the quartermaster rating. Also, in recent decades, quartermaster was one of the only two Coast Guard enlisted ratings...
    22 KB (2,448 words) - 17:26, 21 October 2024
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    amphibious assault ship. To date, the only U.S. Coast Guardsman recipient of the Medal of Honor is Signalman 1st Class Douglas Albert Munro, awarded posthumously...
    21 KB (2,538 words) - 23:55, 13 November 2024
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    Navy Cross (category Awards and decorations of the United States Coast Guard)
    Wall of Valor. Military Times. Retrieved 7 April 2017. "O/7366 Leading Signalman Campbell Howard Buchanan Navy Cross (US), MiD, RNZNVR". RNZN Communicators...
    27 KB (2,799 words) - 04:22, 8 November 2024
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    Heath B. Jones (category Master Chief Petty Officers of the Coast Guard)
    Orleans. 6 gold service stripes. Jones is also the recipient of the 2012 Signalman First Class Douglas Munro Inspirational Leadership Award and the 2006...
    13 KB (451 words) - 11:05, 19 July 2024
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    13 Postal coaches could be pulled back. 24 passengers were killed. The signalman at Winsford had, in error, reported the passenger train clear of the section...
    4 KB (307 words) - 22:59, 7 July 2022
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    SLNS Vijayabahu (P627) (category Ships of the United States Coast Guard)
    Endurance Cutter of the United States Coast Guard, named for Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro (1919–1942), the only Coast Guardsman to be awarded the Medal...
    16 KB (1,511 words) - 20:45, 22 November 2024
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    States Coast Guard building after Douglas Albert Munro. Signalman First Class Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the United States Coast Guard...
    7 KB (602 words) - 04:35, 16 April 2024
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    Preston railway station (category Railway stations served by Avanti West Coast)
    passenger train due to a signalman's error. On 23 July 1892, an express passenger train ran into the rear of another due to a signalman's error. Thirteen passengers...
    59 KB (6,334 words) - 09:55, 22 November 2024
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    Clayton Tunnel rail crash (category Accidents and incidents involving London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)
    the tunnel. In his cabin close to the southern entrance of the tunnel, signalman Henry Killick was in charge of a signal linked to an alarm bell, and a...
    10 KB (1,230 words) - 06:02, 31 March 2024
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