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  Admiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers.
The word Admiral has today come to be almost exclusively associated with the highest naval rank in most of the world's navies, equivalent to the Army rank of (Full) General.
Admiral of the Navy was only ever held by one U.S. officer; in 1945, the U.S. Navy considered creating the equivalent rank of Flag Admiral, but nothing came of the proposal.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Admiral   (562 words)

  
 Admiral (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Admiral is a rank of the German Navy that first appeared in the 19th century and was expanded in the early 20th century as part of a build-up and mobilization in preparation for the First World War.
There were many famous German Admirals during these formative years of German naval power, among them Alfred von Tirpitz and Karl Dönitz.
A junior admiral rank, known as Flottillenadmiral rates below Konteradmiral and is generally considered the equivalent of a Rear Admiral (Lower Half).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Admiral_(Germany)   (213 words)

  
 Rank Flags of the Imperial Navy 1870-1919 (Germany)
The admiral's flag with a red border occupying 1/5th of the length of the flag, outside of the cross.
The admiral's flag with, at the center, a disk of white in which is contained a rope circle and a downward pointing rope sword.
The admiral's flag with an imperial crown on 2 crossed batons at the center of the flag.
www.fotw.net /flags/de~871rk.html   (1424 words)

  
 Grand Admiral Karl Donitz: Last President of a United Germany
Grand Admiral Dönitz then, on 23 May 1945, became another prisoner of war, and the staggering burden of responsibilities for the German nation was taken from his shoulders by jailkeepers.
As a submarine Admiral whom I knew to be held in the deepest admiration and respect by Officers and Men of the U-Boat Fleet, I held Admiral Dönitz in respect myself, and there is no doubt that he handled his U-Boat arm with masterly skill and efficiency.
A right-wing radical in Germany, one Manfred Roeder, sought to proclaim himself "Regent of the Reich" and issued, through a collaborator in Buffalo, N.Y., a formal protocol bearing the forged signature of Admiral Dönitz, implying his agreement to this ludicrous proposition.
www.ihr.org /jhr/v04/v04p305_Thompson.html   (10313 words)

  
 Admiral von Scheer
Admiral Scheer entered the German navy as a cadet on 22 April 1879, and was promoted to Sea Cadet on 15 June 1880.
It was reported that the Committee deposed all the commanders and admirals of the Fleet and told them that as long as they kept to their quarters they would not come to harm, but if they moved they would be dealt with.
Admiral Scheer was able to inflict heavy losses on the Allied Powers shipping even though he had a limited number of German warships at his disposal.
www.100megsfree2.com /jjscherr/scherr/vonscheer.htm   (1992 words)

  
 Solport - Red Alert
Germany, France, and Russia, states we called "friendly" when I was in Baghdad, are also engaged in a strategy of delay and obstruction.
Russia, Germany and France favour the continuation of the inspections and a substantial reinforcement of their human and technical capacities through all possible means and in liaison with the inspectors, in the framework of the U.N. resolution 1441.
This means Germany and France are scared that the US and their current allies will go ahead despite them.
www.solport.com /blog/2003_02_09_archive   (9421 words)

  
 Equipo Nizkor - The Spanish Government and the Axis Powers.
Admiral presents Chief of State Fuehrer's greeting and conveys Germany's wish to undertake attack upon Gibraltar within a short time in connection with which German troops are to march into Spain on January 10.
Admiral reports that as soon as march of troops began, economic cooperation of Germany would at once begin.
Generalissimo also shows Admiral photographs of the mortar 240, which is to make up for the lack of heavy artillery and air arms, and with which tests are at the moment being made.
www.derechos.org /nizkor/espana/doc/axis12.html   (815 words)

  
 radar
Four units were built and installed on the "Koenigsberg," "torpedo boat G10," battleship "Admiral Graf Spee," and the "Strahl." The Admiral Graf Spee used this unit successfully against shipping in the Atlantic.
In Dec. 1939, after heavy fighting, the Admiral Graf Spee was severely damaged and the captain scuttled the ship in the neutral harbor off of Rio de Janeiro.
The heavy cruiser "Admiral Scheer" with the Seetakt radar on the mast.
www.radarworld.org /germany2.html   (257 words)

  
 HyperWar: The Amphibians Came to Conquer [Chapter 5]
Admiral Nomura, late on this particular afternoon, and with what to him was a hot piece of Japanese Army news had tried to visit Admiral Stark, but had not found him at home, so he called at Rear Admiral Turner's residence.
Rear Admiral Turner thought the chances of a raid in Hawaii were about 50-50, but no specific mention of this belief appear in the final version of any despatch which he drafted for the CNO to send to CINCPAC, although it has been asserted such a warning was in one of the preliminary drafts.
Admiral Turner also regretted the phrase "in any direction" included in the draft of the 24 November 1941 despatch was left off the sentence "an aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days" of the War Warning Despatch three days later.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ACTC/actc-5.html   (14547 words)

  
 Vice Admiral's Flag (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The admiral's flag with a fl ball in the upper hoist.
According to the navy regulation [Marine Dienstvorschrift] MDv 161/1 (Bundesministerium der Verteidigung 1977), the admirals' flags are used by the admirals of the different ranks aboard a ship and partially also ashore.
The flags follow a pattern already established in the navy of the German Empire [and inherited from the Prussian Navy] and readopted in 1956.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de~vad.html   (205 words)

  
 WORLD WAR II 1941   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Admiral H.E. Kimmel named Commander in Chief of Pacific Fleet, Admiral E.J. King named Commander in Chief of Atlantic Fleet and Admiral T.C. Hart continues as Commander in Chief of Asiatic Fleet.
The U.S. State Department announces that Rear Admiral F.J. Horne and Admiral Robert, the French High Commissioner at Martinique in the French West Indies, have reached an agreement neutralizing French Caribbean possessions.
USS Canopus (AS-9), a submarine tender, is sunk by a Japanese horizontal bomber in the Philippines.
www.blountweb.com /blountcountymilitary/wars/ww2/timelines/1941_ww2.htm   (2976 words)

  
 Total Rhetoric, Limited War:  Germany's U-Boat Campaign 1917-1918
The admiral's opinion was seconded by the Army Supreme Command (Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, General Ludendorff), the Navy Office (Admiral Eduard von Capelle), and the High Sea Fleet (Captain von Levetzow).
The American war effort, again as the admiral correctly predicted, was slow to develop: a mere 225,000 "doughboys" had landed in France by the end of 1917.
Admiral von Holtzendorff, Department B1, and their civilian experts sought "total" victory over Britain by attacking not British armies in the field, but rather British women and children and workers at home.
www.jmss.org /1998/article2.html   (6079 words)

  
 Germany's High Sea Fleet in the World War
This on-line edition of Admiral Reinhard Scheer's World War One memoirs is based directly on the original, published in 1920.
Admiral Scheer, who assumed command of the entire German High Seas Fleet in 1916, was in favor of both an aggressive surface fleet policy and unrestricted submarine warfare.
In the battle, the German fleet performed admirably against the Royal Navy, but it was unable to change the strategic realities of the naval blockade which continued to strangle Germany.
www.richthofen.com /scheer   (243 words)

  
 German , Nurnberg, Lutzow, Admiral Hipper, Graf Spee, Scheer, Tirpitz, Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Graf, ...
Germany - Aircraft of RAF Bomber Command make their first attack on German warships in Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttel on the 4th.
She operates in the Pacific and Indian Oceans until returning to Germany in November 1941, the last of the first wave of surface raiders to leave Germany.
German Heavy Warships and Raiders - Pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" is hunting in the South Atlantic, while battlecruisers "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" in Germany and heavy cruiser "Hipper" in Brest, France prepare to sail.
www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsGermanWarships.htm   (7180 words)

  
 Imperial Battleships
Thereafter, the IJN occupies the former German colonies (purchased from Spain by Germany) in the Carolines, Palau, Marianas and the Marshall Islands.
Vice Admiral Kurita Takeo (former CO of KONGO) assumes command of the resized BatDiv 3's KONGO (F) and HARUNA from Vice Admiral Mikawa who is reassigned as Commander of the Eighth Fleet at Rabaul.
Vice Admiral Kurita is reassigned as the President of the Etajima Naval Academy.
www.combinedfleet.com /haruna.htm   (6193 words)

  
 Trenches on the Web - Bio: Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
Admiral Tirpitz was placed in charge of this effort that has become known as the Tirpitz Plan.
Germany reacted and, under the Tirpitz Plan in 1908, appropriated funds for the construction of 12 dreadnought class battleships over the next four years.
At the same time, the Kiel canal would be widened to allow the great battleships passage between their training bases in the Baltic to possible battle areas in the North Sea.
www.worldwar1.com /biogtirp.htm   (221 words)

  
 The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II--1939
Chief of Naval Operations (Admiral Harold R. Stark) directs Commander Atlantic Squadron (Rear Admiral Alfred W. Johnson) to maintain an offshore patrol to report "in confidential system" the movements of all foreign men-of-war approaching or leaving the east coast of the United States and approaching and entering or leaving the Caribbean.
Admiral Graf Spee and her consort alter course and are thus not sighted.
Rear Admiral Julius C. Townsend, Commandant Fourth Naval District and Philadelphia Navy Yard, dies of bronchial cancer at U.S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. freighter Exilona is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1939.html   (9009 words)

  
 Admiral Karl Doenitz
Succeeded Admiral Erich Raeder as Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and later Adolf Hitler as Reich head of state in the final days of Nazi Germany.
But protected by British and U.S. naval armed escort, Britain's lifelines in foodstuffs, ammunition, and raw materials enable her to continue waging war against Germany while drawing the United States ever closer into the conflict, as U-boat commanders repeatedly damage or sink U.S. ships.
May 2, 1945 - According to Hitler's last will and testament, Admiral Karl Doenitz succeeds Hitler as Reich head of state after the fuehrer commits suicide in his bunker deep underneath Berlin's Chancellery on April 30.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Doenitz.html   (300 words)

  
 United States Mission to Germany
Admiral Feldt officially retired April 25, 2006, but returned to Berlin to receive this award.
Also attending the ceremony were Admiral Feldt's wife, Angelika, and Vice Admiral Wolfgang Nolting, the current Chief of the German Navy.
He expressed his excitement of being Ambassador in Germany at the time of the World Cup and praised the host nation's hospitality for soccer fans throughout the country.
www.usembassy.de /germany   (1066 words)

  
 Naval Rank Flags (Germany)
The Dienstaltersttander (seniority pennant) is the same as the Divisionsstander (division pennant) and is used in harbour by the most senior officer of the ships present there, if none of the ships use a command sign of higher rank than the masthead pennant.
The admirals' flags are not rank flags, but command signs, i.e.
they are not used because the person using them is of admiral rank, but because he is the commanding officer of a ship or a naval unit, being of admiral rank.
flagspot.net /flags/de~rank.html   (692 words)

  
 Flags of the Navy 1933-1945 (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Flag of the Inspector Admiral of the Navy of the Greater German Reich with the Rank of Grand Admiral 1943-1945
The Admiral's flag with gold crossed swords behind the Iron Cross.
The Admiral's flag with gold crossed swords in the lower hoist.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de~933rk.html   (716 words)

  
 Select Hotel Admiral. Munich, Germany - Discounted rates at www.bookings.fr
The 4-star hotel Admiral provides 33 individually decorated comfortable rooms with 55 beds.
The friendly staff, an elegant interior, the lovely garden as well as numerous thoughtful details make the Admiral Hotel to one of the most charming privately owned hotels in Munich.
At the end please turn right after 15 meters the Hotel Admiral is on the right hand side.
www.bookings.fr /hotel/de/selectadmiral.en.html   (824 words)

  
 Hotel Admiral. Wiesbaden, Germany - ASENET
Our Hotel is located in the heart of Wiesbaden, with a large amount of restaurants within walking distance of the hotel.
Wiesbaden is one of the oldest cities along the Rhein and has, due to its location as the gate to the middle part of Germany, been a crossing point of trade-roads.
Because so few buildings were destroyed, the ornate architecture found in Wiesbaden is seldom seen in other German cities, making Wiesbaden one of the most beautiful cities in Germany.
www.bookings.net /hotel/de/admiral.html?aid=300001   (469 words)

  
 Wiesbaden - Hotel Admiral in Wiesbaden, Germany - Hotels in Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden Hotels, Wiesbaden Apartments, ...
After the announcement of the match schedule, the number of reservations for hotels in Germany has increased spectacularly.Bookings offers an overview of all matches and available hotels.
Distinguished charm and superb hospitality at the Admiral Hotel provide the perfect combination in making your visit to Germany a truly memorable experience.
Find your Arkadenhotel Kelkheim centrally located in the heart of Germany’s economic...
www.hotels-world.pl /hotel/wiesbaden?h=Hotel-Admiral.html   (734 words)

  
 Admiral's Flag (Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On a white field a narrow Iron Cross whose arms reach the edge of the flag.
The flag of the Admiral (highest rank) is square, white with a fl Iron Cross, fimbriated fl and white.
The image I made is according to the construction details in Flaggenbuch 1939 (1992 reprint).
flagspot.net /flags/de~adm.html   (169 words)

  
 The Hollow Earth Insider :: Dennis Crenshaw's Official Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In “Quest for the Inner Passage” we learned that a veil of secrecy has covered his expeditions from the start.  As one biographer put it, “there were secrets that would not be talked about (1).
“I am convinced that it is wiser to permit Germany eastward expansion than to throw England and France, unprepared into a war at this time.  Britain cannot win a war in Europe even with U.S. aid.” (4).
Once finished the snow cruiser was driven from the factory in Chicago to the dock in Boston supported by a police escort that halted traffic along the highways in 20-mile stretches so the huge machine could pass.  Thousands of people followed its progress in newspaper articles and radio reports.
www.thehollowearthinsider.com /news/wmview.php?ArtID=8   (1186 words)

  
 Hotel Admiral - Frankfurt, Germany
Hotel Admiral is a friendly, family-run hotel in the centre of Frankfurt.
The hotel is located in a quiet residential area, only a short walk from the famous shopping street ‘Zeil’ and just 30 metres from Zoo underground station.
A hostel is an accommodation where you can get a bed in a shared dorm room.
www.hostelz.com /hotel/28094-Hotel-Admiral   (456 words)

  
 Admiral - Main Page - Forex market, forex, forex analytics, the currency market, currency quotes, mini forex, ...
Admiral - Main Page - Forex market, forex, forex analytics, the currency market, currency quotes, mini forex, professional forex, forex literature, forecasts, analytics, dealing centre, forex charts, work on forex, euro quote, news, euro to dollar, currency trades
The information on this website is intended to describe the activities of Admiral Investments & Securities and its associated entities.
Specifically the contents of the website are not directed at persons in any jurisdictions where it is proscribed to do so, including the United Kingdom.
www.fxservice.com   (543 words)

  
 PSYCHOPATH: ’Admiral’ II - Jan Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I was asked by a couple of them about the real names & their e-mail addressed & whether they will be announced at the end of their games.
Out of the four, two players did write to their GM who themselves paste/copy to me. The reasons were good enough for them to be allowed to play in 'Admiral' III of they wish.
Regarding the other two, no reason given & if none are said, they will not be able to play any future 'Admiral' games & also any others on Psychopath.
psychoboard.brinkster.net /forumtest/forum_posts.asp?TID=851&PN=1   (579 words)

  
 Naval Rank Flags 1960-1990 (East Germany)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Uncertain what the relation between this flag and the Admiral's flag may be.
Same as Admiral's flag, but with 2 yellow stars in the base of the fly.
Same as admiral's flag, but with one yellow star in fly.
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/de~ddrrk.html   (401 words)

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