180th Street may refer to 180th Street IRT Third Avenue Line 180th Street Bronx Park IRT White Plains Road Line East 180th Street IRT White Plains Road Line disambig ... more details
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The 180th Sportsmen Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Toronto, Ontario , the unit began recruiting during the winter of 1915 16 in that city. After sailing to England in November 1916, the battalion was absorbed into the 3rd Reserve Battalion on January 6, 1917. The 180th Sportsmen Battalion, CEF had one Officer Commanding Lieut Col. R. H. Greer. References Meek, John F. Over the Top The Canadian Infantry in the First World War. Orangeville, Ont. The Author, 1971. DEFAULTSORT 180th Battalion Sportsmen , Cef Category Battalions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force ... more details
The 180th 2 5th London Brigade was a formation of the British Army during the First World War . It was assigned to the 60th 2 2nd London Division and served in the Middle East . Formation 2 17th Battalion, London Regiment 2 18th Battalion, London Regiment 2 19th Battalion, London Regiment 2 20th Battalion, London Regiment 180th Machine Gun Company 180th Trench Mortar Battery 2nd Guides 2 30th Punjabis 1 50th Kumaon Rifles ref cite web accessdate 16 January 2012 publisher The Long Long Trail title 60th 2 2nd London Division url http www.1914 1918.net 60div.htm ref References reflist Category Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I UK mil unit stub ... more details
Infobox military unit unit name 180th Airlift Squadron image File 180th Airlift Squadron emblem.jpg 200px caption 180th Airlift Squadron patch dates August 22, 1946 country United States allegiance branch ... nickname patron moto colors march mascot battles anniversaries The 180th Airlift Squadron 180th AS is located ... federal recognition. History The 180th Bombardment Squadron Light flying the A 26 Invader Douglas B ... the 180th BS L was formed, there was also a Utility Flight of the 180th and Detachment D of the 226th ... Guard Bureau to form the unit. Lt Col Logan was named as the first Squadron Commander of the 180th ... and Normandy theaters of operation. The 180th has served the nation during times of peace, crisis ... supporting Operation Creek Party. From the 1970s through the 1990s, the 180th supported Operation Volant Oak and Operation Coronet Oak at Howard Air Force Base , Panama . During a 180th deployment to Howard ... of the events unfolding in Jonestown , Guyana . The 180th, flying the C 130 , was the first US ... 900 Peoples Temple members were lying dead in Jonestown. In December, 1989, the 180th was once again deployed at Howard AFB when Operation Just Cause began. The 180th flew combat mission in support of the operation. In late 1980 and through 1983, members of the 180th embarked on a special project to enhance ... Tactics Training Center was approved and instituted on February 4, 1984. In March 1987, the 180th began ... ten years. In October 1987, the 180th deployed two C 130H2 aircraft supporting an United States ... for the training missions. Each flight was like going to the altitude chamber . In 1989, the 180th with four ... Team Spirit 1989 http globalsecurity.org military ops team spirit.htm . During the exercise, the 180th ... to deploy to the Persian Gulf. Members of the 180th volunteered for duty as did other members from ... 8, 1990 when the 180th departed for home. The time at home would be short lived as the unit was activated .... During the 1990s, the 180th provided airlift support to the United States Air Forces Europe USAFE ... more details
Infobox military unit unit name 180th Fighter Wing image File 180th Fighter Wing.png 200px caption 180th Fighter Wing emblem dates 1962 Present country United States allegiance branch United States Air Force Air National Guard type Wing role F 16C multi role operations size command structure Air National Guard Air Combat Command current commander Col. Steven S. Nordhaus garrison Toledo Express Airport , Ohio nickname patron motto We Citizens Serve Voluntarily colors march mascot battles anniversaries The United States Air Force s 180th Fighter Wing is an F 16 Fighting Falcon fighter organization assigned to the Ohio Air National Guard and located at the Toledo Express Airport , Ohio . Mission The 180th Fighter Wing s primary mission is to train, organize, and equip expeditionary war fighters to deploy, fight, and win worldwide, with minimum response time, in cases of national emergency or war. History The 180th Fighter Wing has as its progenitor the 112th Aero Squadron , created on August 18, 1917 at Kelly Air Force Base Kelly Field , Texas , as a supply unit. The squadron was re designated the 633rd Aero Squadron in 1918 and demobilized on August 19, 1919. On June 20, 1927, the unit was activated as part of the Ohio National Guard as the 112th Observation Squadron , consolidated with the 633rd Aero Squadron, and equipped with PT 1 , BT 1 , Douglas O 2 O 2 , and Curtiss Falcon O ... of the newly formed 180th Tactical Fighter Group in 1962. The 180th TFG converted to the F 100 Super Sabre in 1971, and to the A 7 Corsair II in 1979. The 180th TFG received the Air Force ... the 180th Fighter Wing in 1993, and its subordinate unit, the 112th Fighter Squadron, was equipped with F 16 Fighting Falcon . In 1996, 1998, and 1999 the 180th FW enforced the no fly zones over Iraq ... 197 0 ref 180th Fighter Wing 1995 Present 180th Fighter Group 1992 1995 180th Tactical Fighter Group ... Reflist External links Portal United States Air Force http www.180fw.ang.af.mil 180th Fighter ... more details
Infobox Military Unit unit name 180th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry image dates September 1864 to July 12, 1865 country United States allegiance Union American Civil War Union branch Infantry equipment Culture and history battles Carolinas Campaign br Battle of Wyse Fork The 180th Ohio Volunteer Infantry or 180th OVI was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service The 180th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio September through October 1864 and mustered in for one year service under the command of Colonel United States Colonel Willard Warner . The regiment was attached to 3rd Brigade, Defenses of Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Department of the Cumberland , to January 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, XXIII Corps Union Army XXIII Army Corps , Army of the Ohio , and Department of North Carolina , to July 1865. The 180th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service July 12, 1865 at Charlotte, North Carolina . Detailed service Left Ohio for Nashville, Tenn., October 15. Moved from Nashville to Decherd, Tenn., October 1864, and performed guard duty on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Right Wing at Decherd, Left Wing at Elk River Bridge, until January 1863. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., January 6 then moved as supply train guard to Columbia, Tenn., January 10. Returned to Nashville and moved to Washington, D.C. then to North Carolina January 16 February 25. Campaign of the Carolinas March 1 April 26. Advance on Kinston and Goldsboro March 6 21. Battle of Wyse Fork March 8 10. Occupation of Kinston March 14. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Advance on Raleigh April 10 14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett ... http www.ohiocivilwar.com cw180.html Ohio in the Civil War 180th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry ...&warname Civil 20War National flag of the 180th Ohio Infantry http ohsweb.ohiohistory.org exhibits fftc relicroom details.aspx?war 2&flagid 15&unitid 263&warname Civil 20War Regimental flag of the 180th ... more details
km 12,429.9 miles . Geographic The meridian through Royal Greenwich Observatory Greenwich , England, also called the Prime Meridian was set at zero degrees of longitude, with other meridians being defined by the angle at the center of the earth between where it and the prime meridian cross the equator. As there are 360 degrees in a circle, the meridian on the opposite side of the earth from Greenwich, forming the other half of a circle with the one through Greenwich, is 180thmeridian 180 ...About the geographical concept meridian disambiguation ref improve date April 2012 Image Prime meridian.jpg thumb right The prime meridian at Greenwich, England. Since the adoption of WGS84, the meridian is now a couple of hundred metres or so east of this point A meridian or line of longitude is an imaginary ... along it with a given longitude . The position of a point along the meridian is given by its latitude . Each meridian is perpendicular to all circle of latitude circles of latitude . Each is also ... maps show the lines of longitude. The position of the meridian has changed a few times throughout ... as the positioning system, has moved the meridian approximately 200 metres east of its last position measured at Greenwich . The position of the current meridian is not identified at all in Greenwich but may easily be located using a GPS receiver. The term meridian comes from the Latin meridies , meaning midday the sun crosses a given meridian midway between the times of sunrise and sunset on that meridian ... meridian is an equivalent imaginary line connecting the magnetic South magnetic pole south and North ... Earth s magnetic field has many anomalies which deviate from the meridian date March 2012 That is, a compass needle will be parallel to the magnetic meridian. The angle between the magnetic and the true meridian is the magnetic declination , which is relevant for navigating with a compass. ref http brunelleschi.imss.fi.it museum esim.asp?c 100234 ref See also Meridian astronomy Sundial Meridian ... more details
Merge from IERS Reference Meridian date April 2012 Zero meridian and longitude 0 redirect here. For the prime meridian commonly used for locations on the Earth since the 20th century see IERS Reference Meridian . Location map line lon 0 A prime meridian is a meridian geography meridian , i.e. a line of longitude , at which longitude is defined to be 0 . A prime meridian and its opposite in a 360 system, the 180thmeridian at 180 longitude , form a great circle . This great circle divides the sphere ... meridian, then they can be called Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere . Earth File Atlas ... meridian in the Atlantic , intended to separate the Old World Eurasia and Africa and the New World the Americas into two hemispheres. Mercator s 180thmeridian runs along the Strait of Ani n Bering strait , while his prime meridian corresponds to somewhere close to 25 W , passing just to the west of Santa Maria Island . Historically, various meridians have been used by humans as a prime meridian ... used prime meridian for the Earth is the IERS Reference Meridian IRM . A current convention on the earth ... has been agreed upon to be used by several parties at the International Meridian Conference ... Meridian should be the Greenwich meridian which date March 2012 which passes through the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in southeast London , United Kingdom , ref International Prime Meridian was chosen by the International Meridian Conference, Washington DC, October 1884. cite book title TIME from Earth ... known as the International Meridian or Greenwich meridian . A prime meridian is ultimately arbitrary ... wikitable Locality GPS longitude width 200px Meridian name Comment Bering Strait 168 30 W Behring Strait offered 1884 as possibility for a neutral prime meridian by Pierre Janssen at the International Meridian Conference ref http www.gutenberg.org files 17759 17759 h 17759 h.htm ref Range 168 15 and 168 ... to the Florence Meridian of 11 15 E that is used in the Peters World Map . Washington, D.C. ... more details
17th meridian can refer to 17th meridian east , a Meridian geography line of longitude east of the Prime Meridian Greenwich Meridian 17th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
10th meridian may refer to 10th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 10th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian DEFAULTSORT 10 th meridian Disambig ... more details
Expert subject Military history date November 2008 command structure name 180th Division date parent 60th Army People s Republic of China 60th Army subordinate History The 180th Division was a military formation of the People s Volunteer Army Chinese People s Volunteers CPV or Chinese Communist Forces CCF during the Korean War with a standard strength of approximately 10,000 men. It was a component of the 60th Army People s Republic of China 60th Army . Before the Korean War they stationed in Chengdu , Szechuan . During what the Chinese call the 5th campaign 22 April 1951 10 June 1951 , the CPV suffered its largest loss during the war the 180th Division of the 60th Army was totally destroyed. Roughly 3,000 men escaped earlier including the division commander and other high ranking officers , but the majority of the division were killed or captured. During the final days of the 5th campaign, the main body of the 180th Division was encircled during a UN counterattack, and after a few days of hard fighting, the division was fragmented, and regiments fled in all directions. Soldiers either deserted or were abandoned by their officers during failed attempts to wage guerilla warfare without support from locals. Finally, out of ammunition and food, some 5,000 soldiers were captured. The division commander and other officers who escaped were subsequently investigated and demoted back in China. ref http www.centurychina.com history faq4.shtml 17 Korean War FAQ, from CenturyChina.com ref ref http www.aiipowmia.com inter1 in102900china.html Chinese Question Role in Korean War, from POW MIA InterNetwork ref Most of those captured from the 180th Division were sent to Koje Island, 25 miles southwest of Pusan, including the Division Commissar Pei Shan. Current The current status of the unit is unknown. References reflist DEFAULTSORT Infdiv0180china Category Infantry divisions of the People s Volunteer Army Category Infantry divisions of the People s Liberation Army China mil stub ... more details
25th meridian may refer to 25th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 25th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian 25th meridian west from Washington , a line of longitude west of the Washington Meridian Disambig ... more details
Infobox NYCS name 180th Street bg color black line IRT Third Avenue Line service custom None platforms 2 side platform s tracks 3 borough The Bronx open date 1901 close date 1973 north custom station 183rd Street IRT Third Avenue Line 183rd Street south custom station Tremont Avenue 177th Street IRT Third Avenue Line Tremont Avenue 177th Street 180th Street was a local station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line . It had three tracks and two side platform s. The next stop to the north was 183rd Street IRT Third Avenue Line 183rd Street . The next stop to the south was Tremont Avenue 177th Street IRT Third Avenue Line Tremont Avenue 177th Street . The station closed on April 29, 1973. References Reflist cite web url http www.nycsubway.org perl stations?1 311184 title 180th Street 3rd Avenue El work nycsubway.org accessdate 2009 01 25 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20090305191437 http www.nycsubway.org perl stations?1 311184 archivedate 05 March 2009 Added by DASHBot cite web url http www.nycsubway.org lines 3rdave el.html title 3rd Avenue El work nycsubway.org accessdate 2009 01 25 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20090127041419 http nycsubway.org lines 3rdave el.html archivedate 27 January 2009 Added by DASHBot cite web url http www.stationreporter.net 3avl.htm title Third Avenue Local work Station Reporter accessdate 2009 01 25 DEFAULTSORT 180th Street Irt Third Avenue Line Category IRT Third Avenue Line stations Category Railway stations opened in 1901 Category Railway stations closed in 1973 Category Defunct New York City Subway stations coord 40 51 02.6 N 73 53 38.5 W display title NewYork railstation stub NYC transport stub ... more details
Meridian is the name of two towns in the U.S. state of Oklahoma Meridian, Logan County, Oklahoma Meridian, Stephens County, Oklahoma geodis es Meridian condado de Logan, Oklahoma vo Meridian Oklahoma ... more details
Meridian, California may refer to Meridian, Humboldt County, California Meridian, Kern County, California Meridian, Santa Clara County, California Meridian, Sutter County, California geodis ... more details
178th meridian may refer to 178th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 178th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ru 178 ... more details
8th meridian may refer to 8th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 8th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
9th meridian may refer to 9th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 9th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
11th meridian may refer to 11th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 11th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
12th meridian may refer to 12th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 12th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
13th meridian may refer to 13th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 13th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
14th meridian may refer to 14th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 14th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
15th meridian may refer to 15th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 15th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
16th meridian may refer to 16th meridian east , a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian 16th meridian west , a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian Disambig ... more details
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