117th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Service
The regiment was attached to Reserve Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to January 1863. District of Memphis, XVI Corps, to March 1863. 1st Brigade, 5th Division, District of Memphis, XVI Corps, to January 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XVI Corps, to December 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to February 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, to August 1865.


117th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Service
The 117th Illinois Infantry mustered out of service August 5, 1865.


117th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Moved to Memphis, Tennessee, November 11-17, 1862. Duty at Memphis, until July 5, 1863. Affairs near Memphis June 17-18, 1863 (detachment). Moved to Helena, Arkansas, July 5, and returned to Memphis. Duty there until December 29, 1863. Expedition after Forrest December 24-31. 1863 (detachment). Grierson's Bridge and near Moscow and Lafayette December 27. Ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2, 1864. Clinton February 5. Meridian February 9-13. Red River Campaign March 10-May 22. Fort DeRussy March 14. Occupation of Alexandria March 16. Battle of Pleasant Hill April 9. About Cloutiersville April 22-24. At Alexandria April 26-May 13.


117th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Governor Moore's Plantation and Bayou Roberts May 3-7 and 11. Retreat to Morganza May 13-20. Mensurn May 16. Yellow Bayou May 18. Moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi; then to Memphis, Tennessee, May 21-June 10. Action at Lake Chicot, Arkansas, June 6. March to relief of Gen. Sturgis June 14-16. Near Lafayette June 23. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Mississippi, July 5-21. Camargo's Cross Roads, near Harrisburg, July 13. Harrisburg, near Tupelo, July 14-15. Old Town (or Tishamingo) Creek July 15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Mississippi, August 1-30. Hurricane Creek August 13-14. Abbeville August 23.


117th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Moved to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and in pursuit of Price through Missouri September to November. Action at Franklin, Missouri, October 1. Moved from St. Louis to Nashville, Tennessee, November 21-December 1. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Moved to Clifton, Tennessee, and Eastport, Mississippi, and duty there until February 1865. Moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, February 6-17. Campaign against Mobile and its defenses March 17-April 12. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9. Occupation of Mobile April 12. March to Montgomery April 13-25, and duty there until August.


117th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 130 men during service; 11 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 115 enlisted men died of disease.


117th Infantry Brigade Royal Marines
The 117th Infantry Brigade Royal Marines was an infantry brigade formation of the Royal Marines created in the final stages of the Second World War.


117th Infantry Brigade Royal Marines, Unit history
The unit was one of two created to address the manpower shortage of 21st Army Group in early 1945. The brigade was created on 15 January 1945 from former members of the Royal Marines Division, which had been broken up in 1943 and the troops distributed to Marine Commandos, or retrained as landing craft crew. They were quickly re-mustered as regular infantry, organised as a standard Army brigade.


117th Infantry Brigade Royal Marines, Unit history
The Brigade was stationed in England until after the German surrender when it was moved forward to occupy the naval port of Kiel as part of VIII Corps, releasing 46th Highland Brigade for occupation duties elsewhere. The Brigade was tasked with guarding naval installations and overseeing the capitulation of German naval ships and personnel. It also had to deal with the arrival of ships carrying troops returning from the Eastern front, and also civilian refugees from Soviet-occupied Germany. On one particularly busy night this involved taking command of 21 destroyers and removing 14,000 soldiers from shipping. The Brigade returned to the UK in July 1945 to be disbanded.


117th Infantry Division (German Empire)
The 117th Infantry Division (117. Infanterie-Division) was a formation of the Imperial German Army in World War I. The division was formed on April 2, 1915, and organized over the next several weeks. It was part of a wave of new infantry divisions formed in the spring of 1915. The division was disbanded in 1919, during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.


117th Infantry Division (German Empire)
The division was formed primarily from the excess infantry regiments of regular infantry divisions that were being triangularized. The division's 233rd Infantry Brigade staff had been the staff of the 23rd Reserve Infantry Brigade of the 12th Reserve Division, which came to the new division along with the 22nd Reserve Infantry Regiment. The 11th Reserve Infantry Regiment had been part of the 11th Reserve Division. The 157th Infantry Regiment came from the 12th Infantry Division. The division was recruited in Silesia.


117th Infantry Division (German Empire), Combat chronicle
The 117th Infantry Division began fighting on the Western Front in World War I, entering the line in the Champagne region. It then fought in the Second Battle of Artois and the Autumn Battle by La Bassée and Arras, which included the Battle of Loos. It remained in the trenches in Flanders and the Artois until February 1916, and then was in the line on the Yser until July. It then fought in the Battle of the Somme. In August 1916, the division was transferred to the Eastern Front, arriving in Carpathia later in the month.


117th Infantry Division (German Empire), Combat chronicle
It faced the Russians in Carpathia until late 1917, when it went into combat against the Romanians. In October 1917, the division was transferred to Italy, and went into the line on the Isonzo Front. It fought in the Battle of Caporetto and the follow-on offensive to the Piave River. The division remained in Italy until March 1918, when it returned to the Western Front. It fought in the Battle of the Lys, also known at the Fourth Battle of Ypres. It remained in the line, and fought against several Allied offensives, including the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It was facing the Allies between the Meuse and Beaumont when the Armistice came into effect. Allied intelligence rated the division as second class.


117th Infantry Division (German Empire), Order of battle on formation
The order of battle of the 117th Infantry Division on April 5, 1915, was as follows:


117th Infantry Division (German Empire), Late-war order of battle
The division underwent relatively few organizational changes over the course of the war. Cavalry was reduced, artillery and signals commands were formed, and combat engineer support was expanded to a full pioneer battalion. The order of battle on May 16, 1918, was as follows:


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)
117th Jäger Division  was a German infantry division of World War II. The division was formed in April 1943 by the reorganization and redesignation of the 717th Infantry Division. The 717th Division had been formed in April 1941. It was transferred to Yugoslavia in May 1941, to conduct anti partisan and Internal security operations.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht)
It was then posted to Greece to guard the Peloponnesus until summer 1944, when it took part in the general withdrawal through the Balkans and suffered heavy losses during fighting with the partisans in September. The division ended the war fighting on the Eastern front and surrendered to the US Army in Austria in May 1945.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Background
The main purpose of the German jäger divisions was to fight in adverse terrain where smaller, coordinated formations were more facilely combat capable than the brute force offered by the standard infantry divisions. The jäger divisions were more heavily equipped than mountain division, but not as well armed as a larger infantry formation. In the early stages of the war, they were the interface divisions fighting in rough terrain and foothills as well as urban areas, between the mountains and the plains.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Background
The jägers (it means hunters in German), relied on a high degree of training and slightly superior communications, as well as their not inconsiderable artillery support. In the middle stages of the war, as the standard infantry divisions were downsized, the Jäger structure of divisions with two infantry regiments, became the standard table of organization.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Known war crimes
Men from the division took part in a war crime known as Massacre of Kalavryta in a revenge operation in the Kalavryta area in Greece following the capture and murder of 81 soldiers from the division by Greek ELAS partisans in October 1943. During following operations several villages were burned down and 677 civilians killed according to the most recent estimates.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Known war crimes
The division was responsible for the Kraljevo massacre, the mass murder of approximately 2,000 residents of the central Serbian city of Kraljevo by the Wehrmacht between 15 and 20 October 1941, during World War II. The massacre came in reprisal for a joint Partisan–Chetnik attack on a German garrison during the Siege of Kraljevo in which 10 German soldiers were killed and 14 wounded. The number of hostages to be shot was calculated based on a ratio of 100 hostages executed for every German soldier killed and 50 hostages executed for every German soldier wounded, a formula devised by Adolf Hitler with the intent of suppressing anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Known war crimes
The Wehrmacht initially responded by rounding up and executing 300 Serbian civilians, described in contemporary documents as "communists, nationalists, democrats and Jews." Over the following several days, all men between the ages of 14 and 60 were arrested and herded into a makeshift detention centre at the local rolling-stock factory. Once there, their papers were checked and their names entered into a ledger. When the camp was full, the Wehrmacht ordered groups of 100 prisoners to march to pre-dug mass graves, where they were executed with heavy machine guns.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Known war crimes
The bodies were then examined for any signs of life; victims that had survived the initial volley were dealt a single bullet to the head. Once the first group had been liquidated, the soldiers returned to the factory and collected the next 100 victims. This process continued until all the men that were rounded up had been killed. The reprisals lasted several days. Following the shooting of hostages from the rolling-stock factory, the Wehrmacht deployed through the surrounding villages, burning homes and killing indiscriminately. According to the 717th Infantry Division's own records, 1,736 men and 19 "communist" women from the city and its outskirts were executed, despite attempts by local collaborationists to mitigate the punishment. Twenty members of the 717th Infantry Division were later conferred Iron Crosses for their role in the killings.


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Organisational history
The division was formed as the 717th Infantry Division on 11 April 1941 as an occupation division. The principal units of the division were as follows:


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Organisational history
On 1 April 1943, the 117th Jäger Division was formed by re-organising the 717th Infantry Division. The older men were replaced by younger men, and the principal units of the division were formed from those of its predecessor division, as follows:


117th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht), Organisational history
In March 1945, II/737 was rebuilt using the 1010th Fortress Battalion, and the artillery regimental staff was restored using the 944th Army Coast Defence Artillery Regiment.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
The 117th Light Anti- Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, (117th LAA Rgt) was an air defence unit of the British Army during World War II. Initially raised as an infantry battalion of the Royal Ulster Rifles (RUR) in 1940, it transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1942. It served in Tunisia, Malta, Sicily and Italy (including the notorious Air raid on Bari) before being broken up in 1944 and the gunners converted back into infantrymen.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 8th Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles
The unit was originally formed on 28 May 1940 as 50th Holding Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles, as part of the rapid expansion of the Army with wartime conscripts. In its first three weeks it inducted and equipped 767 men direct from civilian life. It was converted into a normal infantry battalion on 9 October that year as 8th Battalion, RUR. It joined 11th Armoured Division as the infantry component of 11th Support Group when that formation was formed in Northern Command in England on 9 March 1941.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 8th Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles
The Support Group with artillery and a lorried infantry battalion was intended to act as the 'pivot' of an armoured division. 11th Armoured Division's commander, Major-General Percy ('Pat' or 'Hobo') Hobart, was a noted armour pioneer and he trained the division hard and imaginatively. But 8th RUR did not stay with 11th Sp Gp for long, transferring on 8 May to a static home defence role with 215th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) in the Durham and North Riding County Division. By the end of the year the battalion was with 224th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) in the D&NR County Division, but in December the division was disbanded and most of its infantry battalions converted to other roles.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
On 1 January 1942 8th RUR was transferred to the Royal Artillery (RA) to begin retraining as a light anti-aircraft (LAA) regiment equipped with Bofors 40 mm guns. The unit was designated 117th Light Anti- Aircraft Regiment with Regimental Headquarters (RHQ), 383, 384 and 385 LAA Batteries. The unit was allowed to retain its rifle regiment customs and traditions including the RUR cap badge. While under training, still in North East England (it was visited by an official photographer at Billingham, County Durham, on 22 January) it was part of Anti- Aircraft Command, but left in February before it had been assigned to an AA brigade.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
The regiment joined the field force and was assigned to IX Corps' district from 1 April. In October it was joined by workshop units of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) for its mobile role. By November IX Corps had ceased to be a district headquarters and was now a field formation in First Army about to land in North Africa as part of Operation Torch. As its mobile corps LAA unit, 117th LAA Rgt had the following organisation:


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Tunisia
The Torch landings began on 8 November 1942, and First Army's units and formations were progressively fed into the fighting. IX Corps had still not embarked by 18 February, but 117th LAA Rgt finally landed at Algiers on 5 March 1943, the date that the Corps Troops were considered to be complete. After the remainder of its equipment arrived three weeks later it moved 500 miles (800 km) eastwards to Le Kef in Tunisia, where the batteries deployed to guard bridges, Corps HQ and the corps troops.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Tunisia
IX Corps launched an attack against the mountain passes at Fondouk on 8 April, and its AA guns were heavily engaged against both air and ground targets. Moving and deploying AA guns in the rough country with underpowered gun tractors was difficult but necessary as units in the forward areas were subjected to regular dive-bombing and ground attacks. Ammunition expenditure by the LAA batteries was high, and supply was sometimes  erratic. With greater experience of 'snap' actions against fast low-flying aircraft, Bofors gun units increasingly abandoned using the Kerrison Predictor in favour of the simple 'Stiffkey Stick' deflection sight.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Tunisia
By the time First Army prepared for the final attack on Tunis (Operations Vulcan and Strike) the Allied air forces had achieved virtual air superiority over the battlefield. IX Corps played a leading role in the operations, which ended in the surrender of all remaining Axis troops in Tunisia on 13 May.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Malta
After the fall of Tunis IX Corps HQ was disbanded and 117th LAA Rgt was 'forgotten', deployed at a coastal location near Sousse. The commanding officer (CO) was then told to embark the regiment at Sfax for Malta. On arrival it emerged that Malta Command was expecting 107th LAA Rgt, not 117th. When 107th also landed a few days later it became clear that a mistake had been made.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Malta
Only after several weeks did it emerge that 117th LAA Rgt should have been assigned to XXX Corps: unable to find 117th LAA Rgt in North Africa, XXX Corps had taken another regiment (from Malta) as its corps LAA unit. The confusion meant that the men's mail was delayed for 11 weeks.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Malta
However, with its large establishment of 54 Bofors guns for a mobile LAA unit, the regiment was a useful addition to Malta's air defences just when the Luftwaffe was paying attention to the ships gathering in the island's harbours for the forthcoming Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky). It joined 7th Light Anti- Aircraft Brigade covering the airfields and low-level approaches to the harbours, with RHQ, 383 and 384 LAA Btys deployed at the fleet anchorage at St Paul's Bay in the north of the island and 385 LAA Bty detached to Birżebbuġa in the south. Two Luftwaffe raids were made in July, too high for LAA guns, but these were driven off by the heavy AA (HAA) guns and little damage was done.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Sicily
Operation Husky was launched on 9/10 July and 117th LAA Regiment embarked for Sicily on 8 August. There were serious problems with the loading of the ships, and some units including 117th LAA Rgt landed without their transport. 73rd AA Brigade had six LAA regiments ashore but only enough transport for a quarter of that number, and it was only by ruthlessly stripping vehicles from batteries in the rear areas that the brigade was able to move others forward. 117th LAA Regiment was sent to defend the airfields at Lentini, being attacked by Messerschmitt Bf 109s on the way. By mid-September, after the capture of Sicily and Eighth Army's landing in mainland Italy (Operation Baytown), 117th LAA Rgt was deployed under 73rd AA Bde to protect the embarkation port and ferries at Milazzo.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Italy
On 29 September 117th LAA Rgt crossed to Taranto in Italy and went by road to Bari where it briefly joined 2nd AA Brigade. 62nd AA Bde arrived on 2 October to take over defence of the ports of Bari, Barletta and Manfredonia, and a complex of inland airfields. The Luftwaffe mounted a series of low-intensity raids on Bari during November, then on the night of 2/3 December it carried out a large air raid aimed at knocking out the vital port.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Italy
The raiders approached from the north dropping large amounts of 'Window' that confused the Ground-controlled interception radar, while communications were also out of order. No night fighters were ordered up until too late, no smokescreen was ignited, and there was no blackout. The result was a disaster: 20 aircraft attacked the port, which was working under floodlights, and the AA fire only began as the bombs started falling. With the guns blind, the LAA guns fired 6283 rounds in concentrations without apparent effect, although the HAA guns claimed some success with predicted fire.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, 117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Italy
An ammunition ship blew up and many other vessels were sunk or damaged; the port was devastated. A Board of Enquiry was held after the raid on Bari and the AA defences and procedures were strengthened in line with its recommendations. A follow-up raid on 13/14 December caused no serious damage and the AA fire shot down some of the attackers.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Disbandment
By the beginning of 1944, the Allied air forces had achieved air supremacy over Italy, but British ground forces were suffering an acute manpower shortage. In June the Chiefs of Staff decided that the number of AA regiments in Italy must be reduced and their fit personnel converted to other roles, particularly infantry. 117th LAA Regiment was one of those selected, and it was disbanded on  15 June 1944.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Disbandment
The Official History notes that some care was taken to post AA gunners to infantry battalions from their home areas. In the case of 117th, originally Royal Ulster Rifles, they were not drafted to Irish units, but in deference to their Rifles heritage to 61st Infantry Brigade. This had recently been formed from three experienced battalions (2nd, 7th and 10th) of the Rifle Brigade to act as the lorried infantry component of 6th Armoured Division. The brigade fought through the battles of 1944–45 in Italy, culminating in the Battle of the Argenta Gap and the advance into Austria at the end of the war.


117th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, Disbandment
On 1 April 1947 the remaining wartime personnel of 13th LAA Rgt were redesignated as 117th LAA/Searchlight Rgt when the rest of the regiment reformed in the Territorial Army. However the new 117th was disbanded a month later.


117th Mahrattas
The 117th Mahrattas were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces their origins to 1800, when they were raised as the Bombay Fencible Regiment.


117th Mahrattas
During World War I the regiment was attached to the 6th (Poona) Division and served in the Mesopotamian campaign, delivered a setback at the Battle of Ctesiphon in November 1915. They were forced to withdrew back to Kut, and forced to surrender after the Siege of Kut.


117th Mahrattas
After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments. In 1922, the 117th Mahrattas became the 5th Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry. After independence they were one of the regiments allocated to the Indian Army.


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117th Maine Senate
Below is the list of the 117th Maine Senate, which was sworn into office in December 1994 and left office in December 1996.


117th Military Police Battalion
The 117th Military Police Battalion Combat Support (CS), is a military police battalion of the Tennessee Army National Guard (TNARNG) and the United States Army Military Police Corps with its headquarters located in Athens, Tennessee. When not mobilized or deployed, the 117th MP BN is task organized as a subordinate battalion of the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 194th Engineer Brigade located in Jackson, Tennessee.


117th Military Police Battalion, History
The motto of the 117th MP BN is "Our History, Our Strength". The painting of "Old Bill" (pictured above), wearing an MP brassard, symbolizes the history of the unit and resides on the drill hall wall of the Tennessee Army National Guard armory in Athens, TN. The painting is derived from the original drawing by noted artist Frederic Remington portraying a cavalryman mounted on his horse in the Great American West during the late 1800s.


117th Military Police Battalion, History
Old Bill is the adopted mascot of the United States Cavalry and is known throughout the U.S. Army's Armor and Cavalry communities as the symbol of mobile warfare. This depiction of Old Bill wearing an MP brassard represents the long shared history and lineage between the 117th MP BN (and its subordinate units in East Tennessee) with the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment.


117th Military Police Battalion, History
The MP brassard was added to the painting (on Old Bill’s left shoulder) during a ceremony in September 2006 when the unit in Athens (formerly Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment) was reorganized and redesignated to its current designation as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 117th Military Police Battalion.


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Organized and Federally recognized on 30 April 1923 in the Tennessee Army National Guard at Athens as Company E, 117th Infantry, an element of the 30th Division (later redesignated as the 30th Infantry Division)


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Redesignated on 30 April 1938 as Company B, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Inducted into Federal service on 16 September 1940 at Athens, TN.


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Inactivated on 18 November 1945 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, and relieved from assignment to the 30th Infantry Division


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and Federally recognized on 1 September 1947 in the Tennessee National Guard at Athens, TN as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 278th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Ordered into active Federal service on 1 September 1950 at Athens, TN.


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
(Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 278th Infantry National Guard of the United States, organized and Federally recognized on 4 September 1952 at Athens, TN)


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Released from active Federal service on 8 October 1954 and reverted to state control as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 278th Infantry; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 278th Infantry (NGUS)


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and redesignated on 11 October 1954 as Headquarters and Service Company, 278th Armored Infantry Battalion


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Assigned on 27 October 1954 to the 30th Armored Division


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Consolidated on 1 March 1959 with the Medical Detachment, 278th Armored Infantry Battalion (organized and Federally recognized on 2 August 1955 at Athens, TN) and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Armored Rifle Battalion, 117th Infantry, an element of the 30th Armored Division


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and redesignated on 1 April 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Relieved on 1 November 1973 from assignment to the 30th Armored Division


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Consolidated on 1 May 1977 with Detachment 1, Support Company, 2d Battalion, 117th Infantry (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit converted, reorganized, and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Ordered into active Federal service on 22 June 2004 at Athens, TN; released from active Federal Service on 4 January 2006 and reverted to state control


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Converted, reorganized, and redesignated on 1 September 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 117th Military Police Battalion


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Organized and Federally recognized on 1 April 1947 in the Tennessee National Guard at Etowah, TN as Company A, 278th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Ordered into active Federal service 1 September 1950 at Etowah, TN


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
(Company A, 278th Infantry [NGUS], organized and Federally recognized on 5 September 1952 at Etowah, TN)


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Released from active Federal service on 8 October 1954 and reverted to state control; concurrently, Federal recognition withdrawn from Company A, 278th Infantry (NGUS)


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and redesignated on 11 October 1954 as Company A, 278th Armored Infantry Battalion, an element of the 44th Armored Division


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized on 1 March 1959 as Company A, 2d Armored Rifle Battalion, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Redesignated on 1 April 1963 as Company A, 2d Battalion, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and redesignated on 1 February 1968 as the Ground Surveillance Section, Battalion Scout Platoon, Battalion Heavy Mortar Platoon, and Battalion Anti-Tank Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and redesignated on 1 March 1970 as Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and redesignated on 1 February 1972 as Support Company, 2d Battalion, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Reorganized and redesignated on 1 October 1975 as Detachment 1, Support Company, 2d Battalion, 117th Infantry


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered FRANCE


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered MORTAIN


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered SCHERPENSEEL


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in Belgium


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the Ardennes


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
(Subordinate Units of the 117th MP BN have participated in the following:)


117th Military Police Battalion, Lineage and honors
Iraq (Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom)Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom)


117th Military Police Battalion, Heraldry
Description:  A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 3/16 inches (3.02 cm) in width overall consisting of a shield blazoned as follows: Or, on a bend sinister Vert between two fleurs-de-lis Azure, a pistol, muzzle upward of the first. Attached below the shield a Green scroll inscribed “OUR HISTORY, OUR STRENGTH” in Gold.


117th Military Police Battalion, Heraldry
BlazonShield:  Or, on a bend sinister Vert between two fleurs-de-lis Azure, a pistol, muzzle upward, of the first. Crest:  That for the regiments and separate battalions of the Tennessee Army National Guard: From a wreath Or and Vert, upon a mount of the second a hickory tree Proper charged with three mullets one and two Argent. SymbolismShield:  Yellow and green are the colors traditionally associated with Military Police units. The bend sinister signifies security. The fleurs-de-lis represent the Battalion’s campaign credit during World War I and World War II. Blue indicates the unit’s past affiliation in the Infantry branch. The pistol illustrates the mission of Military Police. Crest:  The crest is that of the Tennessee Army National Guard. Background:  The coat of arms was approved on 7 May 2009.


117th Mixed Brigade
The 117th Mixed Brigade was a unit of the Spanish Republican Army created during the Spanish Civil War.


117th Mixed Brigade, History
The 117th Mixed Brigade was created on April 28, 1937 from the 2nd Regiment of the old South Ebro Column. It was incorporated into the newly created 25th Division.


117th Mixed Brigade, History
In June 1937 it participated in the Huesca Offensive. A few months later it took part in the Battle of Belchite. On August 25, together with the 32nd and 131st mixed brigades, it took the railway station. The brigades then made a pincer movement around Belchite, surrounding it from both ends. The 117th MB also took the bullring and some houses. In the following days the unit captured the "Romanico" position, the electricity transformer and the Belchite water tank. After the fighting ended, on September 6 it received an order to withdraw and move to Lécera.


117th Mixed Brigade, History
In December 1937 it participated in the Battle of Teruel, attacking in the area of the cemetery. Although the brigade came to take the first nationalist trenches, the general attempt ended in failure. The 117th MB would also see action during the Battle of Alfambra, although its participation was a disaster: on February 21, 1938 it withdrew from the front, completely demoralized after an aerial bombardment. saw action during the Aragon Offensive and, later, during the Levante Offensive.


117th Mixed Brigade, History
In January 1939 it was sent by ship to Catalunya, as a reinforcement of the republican forces deployed there. It was by then under the command of Bartolomé Palazón Blaya. However, its intervention would be null and void and it joined the republican retreat towards France.


117th New York Infantry Regiment
The 117th New York Infantry Regiment (a.k.a. "4th Oneida Regiment") was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Service
The 117th New York Infantry was organized in Rome, New York beginning July 19, 1862 and mustered in August 8, 1862 for three-years service under the command of Colonel William Russell Pease.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Service
The regiment was attached to Defenses of Washington north of the Potomac River, to October 1862. 2nd and 3rd Brigade, Haskins' Division, north of the Potomac River, to March 1863. 2nd and 3rd Brigades, Haskins' Division, north of the Potomac River, XXII Corps, to April 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, VII Corps, Department of Virginia, to July 1863. Alvord's Brigade, Vodge's Division, Folly Island, South Carolina, X Corps, Department of the South, to February 1864. 2nd Brigade, Folly Island, Northern District, Department of the South, to April 1864.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Service
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps, Army of the James, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to May 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XVIII Corps, to June 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps, to December 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIV Corps, to January 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Terry's Provisional Corps, Department of North Carolina, to March 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, X Corps, Army of the Ohio, Department of North Carolina, to June 1865.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Service
The 117th New York Infantry mustered out June 8, 1865 at Raleigh, North Carolina and was discharged June 26, 1865 at Buffalo, New York. Recruits and veterans were transferred to the 48th New York Infantry.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Left New York for Washington, D.C., August 22, 1862. Duty in the defenses of Washington, D.C., and at Tennallytown until April 1863. Ordered to Suffolk, Va., April 16. Siege of Suffolk, April 20 – May 4. Providence Church Road, Nansemond River, May 3. Dix's Peninsula Campaign, June 24 – July 7. Expedition from White House to South Anna River, July 1–7. Ordered to Folly Island, South Carolina, July 12. Siege operations against Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, South Carolina, and against Charleston and Fort Sumter August 17 – September 7. Bombardment of Fort Sumter and Charleston August 17–23.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Operations against Charleston, South Carolina, and duty on Folly Island, South Carolina, until April 1864. Moved to Gloucester Point, Virginia, April. Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond, May 4–28. Occupation of City Point and Bermuda Hundred May 5. Swift Creek or Arrowfield Church May 9–10. Operations against Fort Darling, May 12–16. Battle of Drury's Bluff, May 14–16. Bermuda Hundred, May 16–28. Moved to White House, then to Cold Harbor, May 28–31. Battles about Cold Harbor, June 1–12. Before Petersburg, June 15–18.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, June 16 to December 7, 1864. Duty in the trenches before Petersburg and on the Bermuda Hundred front until September 27. Battle of Chaffin's Farm, New Market Heights, September 28–30. Battle of Fair Oaks, October 27–28. Duty in the trenches before Richmond until December 7. Expedition to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, December 7–27. 2nd Expedition to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 3–15. Assault and capture of Fort Fisher, January 15. Cape Fear Entrenchment's, February 11–13. Sugar Loaf Battery, February 11. Fort Anderson, February 18–19. Capture of Wilmington, February 22. Carolinas Campaign, March 1 – April 26. Advance on Goldsboro, March 6–21. Occupation of Raleigh, April 14. Bennett's House, April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty in North Carolina until June.


117th New York Infantry Regiment, Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 266 men during service; 7 officers and 123 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, one officer and 135 enlisted men died of disease.


117th New York State Legislature
The 117th New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 2 to April 27, 1894, during the third year of Roswell P. Flower's governorship, in Albany.


117th New York State Legislature, Background
Under the provisions of the New York Constitution of 1846, 32 Senators and 128 assemblymen were elected in single-seat districts; senators for a two-year term, assemblymen for a one-year term. On April 26, 1892, the Legislature re-apportioned the Senate Districts and the number of assemblymen per county. The senatorial districts were made up of entire counties, except New York County (nine districts), Kings County (five districts) and Erie County (two districts). The Assembly districts were made up of entire towns, or city wards, forming a contiguous area, all within the same county.


117th New York State Legislature, Background
On January 27, 1893, the Legislature passed "An Act to amend chapter 398, of the Laws of 1892, entitled 'An Act to provide for a convention to revise and amend the Constitution'", calling a Constitutional Convention to meet in 1894.


117th New York State Legislature, Background
At this time there were two major political parties: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. The Prohibition Party, the Socialist Labor Party and a "People's Party" also nominated tickets.


117th New York State Legislature, Elections
The New York state election, 1893 was held on November 7. All six statewide elective offices up for election were carried by the Republicans. The approximate party strength at this election, as expressed by the vote for Secretary of State, was: Republican 545,000; Democratic 521,000; Prohibition 34,000; Socialist Labor 20,000; and People's Party 17,000.


117th New York State Legislature, Elections
Also elected were 175 delegates to the Constitutional Convention; five delegates in each senatorial district, and 15 delegates-at-large elected statewide.


117th New York State Legislature, Elections
This was the only election of State Senators under the apportionment of 1892.


117th New York State Legislature, Sessions
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Albany on January 2, 1894; and adjourned on April 27.


117th New York State Legislature, Sessions
Charles T. Saxton (R) was elected president pro tempore of the State Senate.


117th New York State Legislature, Sessions
The Constitutional Convention met at the State Capitol in Albany on May 8; and adjourned on September 29. Joseph H. Choate (R) was elected president; and Thomas G. Alvord (R) First Vice President.


117th New York State Legislature, Sessions
The new Constitution increased the number of state senators from 32 to 50, and the number of assemblymen from 128 to 150; and re-apportioned the Senate districts, and the number of assemblymen per county. Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence and Suffolk counties gained one seat each; Erie County gained two; Kings County three; and New York County five. The new Constitution also shortened the governor's and lieutenant governor's term to two years; and moved the election of state officers and state senators from odd-numbered to even-numbered years.


117th New York State Legislature, Sessions
The new Constitution was submitted to the voters at the New York state election, 1894, and was adopted.


117th New York State Legislature, State Senate, Districts
Note: There are now 62 counties in the State of New York. The counties which are not mentioned in this list had not yet been established, or sufficiently organized, the area being included in one or more of the abovementioned counties.


117th New York State Legislature, State Senate, Members
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. Timothy D. Sullivan, Frank A. O'Donnel, Joseph C. Wolff, Thomas C. O'Sullivan and Jacob Rice changed from the Assembly to the Senate.


117th New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Assemblymen
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued as members of this Legislature.


117th New York State Legislature, State Assembly, Assemblymen
Note: For brevity, the chairmanships omit the words "...the Committee on (the)..."


117th Ohio General Assembly
The One Hundred Seventeenth Ohio General Assembly was the legislative body of the state of Ohio in 1987 and 1988. In this General Assembly, the Ohio Senate was controlled by the Republican Party and the Ohio House of Representatives was controlled by the Democratic Party. In the Senate, there were 18 Republicans and 15 Democrats. In the House, there were 61 Democrats and 38 Republicans.


117th Ohio Infantry Regiment
The 117th Ohio Infantry Regiment, sometimes 117th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 117th OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.


117th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service
The 117th Ohio Infantry was organized at Portsmouth, Ohio, and eight companies mustered in September 15, 1862, for three years service under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Chauncey G. Hawley.


117th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service
The regiment was attached to District of Eastern Kentucky, Department of the Ohio.


117th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Service
The 117th Ohio Infantry ceased to exist when it was changed to 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery on May 2, 1863.


117th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Ordered to Kentucky October 2. Camp at Ashland, Kentucky, until January 1863. Moved to Paintsville, Kentucky, January 1863; then to Covington, Kentucky, via Peach Orchard, Louisa, and Catlettsburg, February 1863. Duty at Covington until May.


117th Operations Group
The 117th Operations Group is a unit of the Alabama Air National Guard, stationed at Sumpter Smith Air National Guard Base, Alabama. If activated into federal service, it is gained by Air Mobility Command.


117th Operations Group, Overview
The group flies the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker. Its mission is to train and equip combat ready aircrews and support personnel to perform worldwide air refueling and airlift. Combat ready intelligence technical support is also available for worldwide assignment. The group supports state and local contingencies when directed by the Governor of Alabama.


117th Operations Group, History, Background
In May 1946, the Army Air Forces redesignated 27 of its combat groups and allotted them to the National Guard. One of these groups was the 354th Fighter Group, which became the 117th Fighter Group. However, in 1956, the Air Force decided to return the 354th Group to the active force. To accomplish this, the 1946 redesignation and allotment was rescinded on 26 September 1956, effective 24 March 1946. The same order constituted the 117th Fighter Group effective on 24 March 1946, severing any relation between the two units.


117th Operations Group, History, Initial activation
The 117th Fighter Group was extended federal recognition by the National Guard Bureau on 1 October 1947 at Birmingham Municipal Airport, Alabama. As they were organized and received federal recognition, the 153d Fighter Squadron of the Mississippi National Guard, the 157th Fighter Squadron of the South Carolina National Guard and the 160th Fighter Squadron of the Alabama National Guard were assigned. Training was initially supervised by Air Defense Command, but on 1 July 1948, Continental Air Command assumed responsibility for training Guard and Reserve units.


117th Operations Group, History, Korean War activation
The 117th was one of the first Guard units to be ordered to active service for the Korean War, entering active service on 22 October 1950. Of the group's squadrons, only the 157th and 160th remained assigned to the group when activated. The group moved to Lawson Air Force Base, Georgia, where it was converted to a reconnaissance unit, becoming the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, adding another federalized squadron, the 112th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron. At Lawson, the group trained for overseas deployment.


117th Operations Group, History, Korean War activation
The group's organization differed from that of regular Air Force units, which had operated under the Wing Base Organization system since 1948. On 30 November 1950, the Air Force activated the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing and support units and the group was assigned to the new wing.


117th Operations Group, History, Korean War activation
At Lawson, the 157th and 160th squadrons converted to Lockheed RF-80 Shooting Star daylight photo-reconnaissance jet aircraft, while the 112th, which had been a light bomber unit, retained its Douglas RB-26C Invaders, becoming a night reconnaissance unit. The original plan was to deploy the 117th to France and reinforce the United States Air Forces in Europe at a new base, Toul-Rosières Air Base.


117th Operations Group, History, Korean War activation
However Toul Air Base was still under construction, and delays forced the 117th to temporarily move to Neubiberg Air Base, Germany, along with its 160th Squadron, while the 112th was transferred to Wiesbaden Air Base and the 157th was located at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base. Headquarters and support organizations were located at Toul. The group and 112th Squadron finally moved to Toul, but the two F-80 squadrons remained in Germany while federalized.


117th Operations Group, History, Korean War activation
On 10 July 1952 the 117th was released from active duty and inactivated. The 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Group was activated in its place and the mission, personnel and equipment of the 117th were transferred to the 10th.


117th Operations Group, History, Return to Alabama Air National Guard and inactivation
The group was again activated at Birmingham Airport, remaining the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Group in state service. Two of its squadrons, the 106th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, located with the group at Birmingham and the 160th at Dannelly Field, were Alabama Air National Guard units, while the 183d Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron was located at Hawkins Field, Mississippi. The group continued to fly the RB-26C until May 1957 when new Republic RF-84F Thunderflash jet reconnaissance aircraft replaced them. The group continued to train in tactical reconnaissance missions throughout the 1950s with the Thunderflashes until inactivated in 1959.


117th Operations Group, History, Return to Alabama Air National Guard and inactivation
The 117th Wing had been mobilized during the during the Berlin Crisis of 1961. This mobilization demonstrated that although mobilizing a wing with dispersed flying units was not a problem when the entire wing was called to active service, mobilizing individual flying squadron and elements to support it proved difficult. To resolve this, the Air Force determined to reorganize its National Guard wings by establishing groups with support elements for each of its squadrons to facilitate mobilization of elements of wings in various combinations when needed.


117th Operations Group, History, Return to Alabama Air National Guard and inactivation
Shortly after the 117th Wing returned to Alabama in July, the group was again activated as this plan was implemented. The 184th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, of the Arkansas Air National Guard was briefly assigned to the group while this reorganization was being implemented. The group remained active until December 1974, when the Air Force inactivated groups located on the same station as the wing to which they were assigned.


117th Operations Group, History, Reactivation
In 1993, the Air National Guard reorganized under the Air Force's Objective wing concept, which reintroduced groups under operational wings. The group, redesignated the 117th Operations Group, was again activated as an element of the 117th Reconnaissance Wing. After the end of Desert Storm, the phaseout of the McDonnell RF-4C Phantom II, flown by the 117th was accelerated. During 1994, the group's RF-4Cs were sent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona for retirement. On 1 October, the wing was redesignated the 117th Air Refueling Wing and began to fly Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers, the first tanker arriving later that month.


117th Operations Group, History, Reactivation
After the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the group deployed to MacDill Air Force Base, Florida and began refueling McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft flying combat air patrol missions over major cities in the Southeastern United States as part of Operation Noble Eagle. In 2009, the 99th Air Refueling Squadron, a regular unit assigned to the 6th Operations Group was activated. Its members operate and maintain the group's aircraft alongside the Guardsmen assigned to the 106th Air Refueling Squadron.


117th Operations Group, References, Bibliography
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .


117th Regiment of Foot (1794)
The 117th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1794 by the regimentation of independent companies and disbanded in 1796. Its personnel were formed into the Argyllshire Militia.


117th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
The Soviet 117th Rifle Division was a rifle division that served during the Second World War. Originally formed in 1939 destroyed and reformed during the war.


117th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), History, First Formation
Formed on 23 August 1939 in the Volga Military District, under the command of Colonel Spiridon Chernyugov. On 22 June 1941 the division was still located in the district. The division was assigned to the 21st Army moving from the Volga Military District to Gomel in the Western Special Military District  when the war started. The army was to attack north from Gomel area into the flank and rear of the German advance. On 5–6 July 1941 the division attacked across the Dnepr River at Zhlobin as part of the 63rd Rifle Corps and 21st Army.


117th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), History, First Formation
Of the 12,000 men assigned to the division and despite the support of the 546th Corps Artillery Regiment the division lost almost 20% of its strength in the space of two days. By 12 July the division was retreating back behind the Dnepr River. By early September when the German 2nd Panzer Group struck south the division, along with most of the Central and Southwestern Fronts in the Kiev Pocket and annihilated. The division headquarters was disbanded on 20 September 1941.


117th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), History, Second Formation
The second formation was formed on 7 January by redesignating the 308th Rifle Division at Ivanovo in the Moscow Military District. In late February the division left the Moscow Military District and moved to the Kalinin Front reserves. In March the Front assigned the division to the 3rd Shock Army and it remained in that army until February 1943. In February the division went back into Kalinin Front reserves as part of the 2nd Guards Rifle Corps and as part of this corps was assigned to the 22nd Army.


117th Rifle Division (Soviet Union), History, Second Formation
In April 1943 the 22nd Army was transferred from the Kalinin to the Northwestern Front. In September 1943 the division was moved to the 4th Shock Army, which became part of the 1st Baltic Front after 20 October 1943. In February 1944 the division briefly served in the 1st Baltic Front's 43rd Army and then went into STAVKA reserves and moved south. In late April 1944 the division was assigned to the 91st Rifle Corps in the 69th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. The division spent the rest of war under this command structure.


117th Space Battalion
The 117th Space Battalion is a battalion of the Colorado National Guard constituted in 2006. Nicknamed the "Space Cowboys", by 2018 the unit was one of the most deployed in the National Guard of the United States.


117th Space Battalion
On 20 October 2007 the provisional 193rd Space Battalion became a permanent-status unit, the 117th Space Battalion. The 117th Space Battalion is not part of 1st Space Brigade and is controlled by the National Guard. However, it has a Training, Readiness, Oversight (TRO) relationship with 1st Space Brigade.


117th Street station
117th Street was a local station on the demolished IRT Second Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had three tracks and two side platforms. The next stop to the north was 121st Street. The next stop to the south was 111th Street. The station closed on June 11, 1940.


117th United States Congress
The 117th United States Congress is the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. It convened in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2021, during the final weeks of Donald Trump's presidency, and will end on January 3, 2023. It will meet during the first two years of Joe Biden's presidency.


117th United States Congress
The 2020 elections decided control of both chambers. In the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party retained their majority (albeit reduced from the 116th Congress).


117th United States Congress
In the Senate, the Republican Party briefly held the majority at the beginning of the term. On January 20, 2021, three new Democratic senators (Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Alex Padilla of California) were sworn in, resulting in 50 seats held by Republicans, 48 seats held by Democrats, and two held by independents who caucus with the Democrats. Effectively, this created a 50–50 split, which had not occurred since the 107th Congress in 2001. This was only the third time in U.S. history that the Senate has been evenly split, the first being in the 47th Congress (1881–1883).


117th United States Congress
With Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tie breaker in her constitutional role as Senate President, the Democrats gained control of the Senate, and thereby full control of Congress for the first time since the 111th Congress ended in 2011. When Joe Biden was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2021, Democrats assumed control of an overall federal government trifecta, their party's first time since the 111th Congress.


117th United States Congress, Leadership
Note: Democrats refer to themselves as a "Caucus"; Republicans refer to themselves as a "Conference".


117th United States Congress, Members, Senate
The numbers refer to their Senate classes. All class 1 senators are in the middle of their term (2019–2025), having been elected in 2018 and facing re-election in 2024. Class 2 senators are at the beginning of their term (2021–2027), having been elected in 2020 and facing re-election in 2026. Class 3 senators are at the end of their term (2017–2023), having been elected in 2016 and facing re-election in 2022.


117th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives
All 435 seats were filled by election in November 2020.


117th United States Congress, Committees, Senate
Prior to the passing of an organizing resolution on February 3, 2021, chairs of Senate committees remained the same as in the 116th Congress. Where the chair had retired (as in the Agriculture, Budget, and HELP committees), the chair was vacant.


117th meridian east
The meridian 117° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.


117th meridian east
The 117th meridian east forms a great circle with the 63rd meridian west.


117th meridian east, From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 117th meridian east passes through:


117th meridian west
The meridian 117° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.


117th meridian west
The 117th meridian west forms a great circle with the 63rd meridian east.


117th meridian west, From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 117th meridian west passes through:


117°
117° is the second studio album by former Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin, and his first not released under a band name, following the breakup of his post-Guns N' Roses group the Ju Ju Hounds. The album contains a cover of Chuck Berry's "Memphis, Tennessee."


117°
The album features appearances from Stradlin's former Guns N' Roses bandmate Duff McKagan and former Ju Ju Hounds' bandmate Rick Richards. The tracks "Memphis, Tennessee" and "Good Enough" feature the Ju Ju Hounds lineup, as the songs were recorded by the band before breaking up.


117°, Critical reception
AllMusic wrote that the album "rocks harder than most roots-rock albums of the late '90s." The Deseret News wrote that "lots of slide guitars, rip-roaring arrangements and drawling, wit-driven vocals give the 14 songs their charm." The Washington City Paper wrote that "there’s nothing groundbreaking on 117°, and Stradlin’s guitar work certainly falls short of being virtuosic, but there are worse things to listen to when you’re killing brain cells from dusk ’til dawn."


117°, Track listing
All lyrics and music by Izzy Stradlin, except where noted.


117–119 Houston Street
117–119 Houston Street (also known as The Henry Cunningham House or The Henry Cunningham Estate) is a historic building in Savannah, Georgia, United States. A duplex, it is located in the northwestern tything of Greene Square and was built in 1810. It is part of the Savannah Historic District. Originally built for the founder and first minister of the Second African Baptist Church, Reverend Henry Cunningham and his wife Elizabeth, a business owner. Their home is considered the oldest building constructed for a Person of Color in Savannah.


117–119 Houston Street
The duplex is currently configured with the 119 unit as a two bedrooms and one bath, and the 117 unit as two bedrooms and one-and-a-half baths. The building is currently operated as a vacation rental.


118 (TV series)
118 also known as (要要发) ran for 255 episodes and was produced by MediaCorp Channel 8. It stars Chew Chor Meng, Pan Lingling, Dennis Chew, Ya Hui, Xu Bin and Somaline Ang as the casts of this series.


118 (TV series)
The show replaced the second half of the 7.00 pm drama timeslot, airing weekdays from October 20, 2014, 7.30 pm to 8.00 pm on weekdays making the 1st long form half an hour drama airing together with news-current affairs programme Hello Singapore at 6.30pm. It is the longest running Chinese drama produced by Mediacorp.


118 (TV series), Plot
Hong Daming (Chew Chor Meng) is a positive and generous man. As his coffee shop and house number are both "118", the people around him gave him the nickname of "118" (or 要要发), much to his delight. Together with his wife, Liu Meimei (Pan Lingling), he makes a living by running the coffee-shop, and are well known in Tiong Bahru. Whenever someone is in need, they would always seek Daming for help.


118 (TV series), Plot
His family lives in a 3-room flat, which was built in pre-war years, above the coffee shop. He has 4 children. The children are named Hong Shunfeng (Dennis Chew), Hong Shunshui (Xu Bin), Hong Jinzhi (Ya Hui) and Hong Yuye (Somaline Ang).


118 (TV series), Plot
Having 6 people living in a 3-room flat is cramped-up enough, yet he also rents out a room to "Ah Niang", a middle-aged man whose original name is Li Weiliang (Chen Hanwei). Weiliang studied fashion design in France, but circumstances led him to simply run a stall in 118's coffee-shop, selling dumplings with the recipe that his mother left for him.


118 (TV series), Plot
Weiliang was not the only addition to the cramped flat. Later, Meimei's elder sister – Liu Jiejie (Liu Lingling) and her family also came to live with 118 when her husband, Zhang Tiancheng's (Chen Tianwen) business failed. Daming's own younger sister, Hong Shanshan (Sheila Sim), and her daughter also came to live with him "temporarily" when her husband disappeared mysteriously. Kind-hearted by nature, Daming felt that they must have come to him because they were at their wit's end. He would rather make room for them by having his own sons sleep in the living room, than to chase them away heartlessly.


118 (TV series), Plot
As such, the story unfolds with this myriad of personalities living under the same roof and hanging around the 118 coffee-shop, where many dramatic yet comedic events took place…


118 (TV series), Plot
"118" presents the positive side of a Singaporean – passionate, practical, caring, resilient, faithful, tolerant and forward-looking – while also touching on the lesser side of our personalities. Through the dramatic play of events, we are able to see ourselves in the many characters, who are in fact a mirror of the good and bad sides of all of us.


118 (TV series), Cast, Hong (Daming) family
Julie, Just-younger-sister (恰妹妹),  NG18Wang Fudi's daughterWang Fuhai's nieceHong Daming and Liu Meimei's adopted daughterWang Shunfeng's younger sisterHong Jinzhi and Hong Shunshui's adopted younger sisterLiu Jiejie and Hong Shanshan's adoptive niecePolytechnic studentZhang Ke Ai and Hong Jinzhi's rival in love


118 (TV series), Cast, Zhang (Tiancheng) family
Tommy, Mr IrritatingZhang Tiancheng and Liu Jiejie's sonZhang Ke Ai's half older brotherHong Jinzhi and Hong Shunshui's cousinLiu Meimei's nephewZhang Keke's half younger brotherEve's ex-boyfriend, In love with VivianPrivate university studentPreviously involved in a money laundering case, but turned into prosecution witness


118 (TV series), Cast, Chen (Meizhen) family
Ah Zhen (阿珍)Wang Shunfeng's ex-classmate, girlfriend and love interestUncle Chen's granddaughterYounger version portrayed by Chloe Ng


118 (TV series), Production
The storyboard for the series, Ang Eng Tee, said in an interview with My Paper that the show may need to be re-scripted even after the script for all 255 episodes has finished writing. This is because speculations that the general elections may be held in 2015 is trending, and that the political parties are already introducing its candidates progressively. If the elections are held in September, the show will need to re-insert the GE buzz, and the director and cast will need to do re-takes.


118 (TV series), Production
The election dates were announced on 25 August, and the GE buzz was inserted on episode 225 (7 September 2015), where Dennis Chew and Sheila Sim mentioned the election campaigns. However, as the show was pre-empted six times during that period, episode 225 could have been aired on 28 August if there were no interruptions, causing the campaigning period, which were held on 2 to 9 September, to have happened earlier than usual.


118 (TV series), Reception
In 2016, the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore criticised the drama having advertorial segments shown before the programme's end credits. The segments showed actors from the drama advocating sponsors' products on the same set for the drama. However MDA also praised the drama for its "down-to-earth depictions of social issues" and "celebration of the Singaporean identity".


118 (TV series), Awards & Nominations, Star Awards 2016
118 has the third-most number of nominations for Star Awards 2016, with 11 nominations in 10 award categories. The series has at least one nomination in every performance award for drama programmes. Along with Crescendo, The Dream Makers II, The Journey: Our Homeland and Tiger Mum, it is one of the five dramas to be nominated for both the Best Drama Serial and Best Theme Song. It won 2 out of 10 award categories.


118 (film)
118 is a 2019 Indian Telugu-language action thriller film written and directed by cinematographer turned film director K. V. Guhan in his Tollywood directorial debut. The film features Kalyan Ram, Shalini Pandey and Nivetha Thomas in the lead roles. The music for the film is composed by Shekar Chandra, and the film is produced by Mahesh S. Koneru under the production company East Coast Production. The film follows an investigative journalist who finds himself threatened after he tries to decode a recurring nightmare involving a woman's death.


118 (film)
The film released on 1 March 2019. It received generally positive reviews from critics and became a commercial success.


118 (film), Plot
While sleeping in room number 118 of the Paradise resort, Gowtham dreams about a girl getting beaten and a car being thrown into lake. The next day, he is revealed to be an investigative journalist who stops a money laundering operation by fighting off the home minister's brother and his goons while filming everything. The minister is exposed, and Gowtham is invited to a night party at the same resort where he sleeps in room 118 again. When the dream recurs, he visits a psychiatrist named Dr. Athmaram Divakar, who advises him not to take the dream seriously.


118 (film), Plot
Soon, a car chase with the home minister's henchmen takes Gowtham to a road he saw in his dreams. Jumping into the nearby lake, he discovers an empty car belonging to a church. The Church Father, Francis, tells Gowtham it was driven by a woman named Esther. A strange gate symbol leads Gowtham to a shut-down printing press where he discovers missing posters of the girl in his dreams, Aadhya. He later realizes that Aadhya went missing and his dream appeared on full moon days.


118 (film), Plot
Believing the visitors during the other six full moon days to have had the same dream, he sets out to contact them but is contacted by Aadhya, who tells him not to look for her. He uses police help to trace the phone number and chases a van containing the phone but finds it belonging to none. Some hints from the visitors lead him to a photo of Aadhya and a girl from Venkataramana Public School whose employee named Murthy is murdered while on his way to help Gowtham.


118 (film), Plot
Gowtham visits the office of Sai Videos office, who filmed an event at the resort, and in the footage sees Aadhya with a man who is soon kidnapped by some goons and a chase ensues, resulting in his death. Gowtham then goes to meet Francis and identifies a nun as the woman who contacted him as Aadhya. She then reveals that Francis told her to make the call and even lied about Esther to Gowtham. He then heads for Vizag to meet Francis, following which the nun is killed.


118 (film), Plot
Esther is revealed to be the daughter of  Francis, who is then shot by the goons. A fight ensues, resulting in Gowtham escaping with Esther, who then tells him that Aadhya was a friendly computer science teacher who showed affection on Prabhavathi, a young student who died after a vaccination in the school. Aadhya tried to investigate and came to know about illegal vaccinations run by Alanta company. Aadhya and Esther went to the Paradise resort to meet a friend for help, but had to part ways because of a phone call that told Esther that her friend met with an accident. Upon finding Aadhya missing and goons looking for her, Esther had to run away.


118 (film), Plot
Gowtham visits Athmaram ,who claims to make humans enter the world of dreams and decides to use his technology after a successful trial. Gowtham, his fiancée Megha, and assistant Ramesh are on their way to the resort but get attacked by the same goons and a car chase ensues, resulting in a fight that leaves Gowtham injured. Asking both Megha and Ramesh to not enter until he voluntarily comes out, he injects himself with the drug given by Athmaram and sleeps.


118 (film), Plot
He enters the dream within his mind and realizes that he was the one supposed to help Aadhya but could not as he too had to leave upon learning about the accident of his and Esther's common friend Siddharth. He then watches Aadhya being taken to room 118 where she meets the CEO and owner of Alanta Company V. N. Shah. His henchmen have all the evidence snatched from her and destroyed. She is brutally killed and buried near a fountain in the same resort.


118 (film), Plot
Gowtham upon waking up gets the spot where she is buried excavated with the help of police team and obtains a bracelet from her skeletal remains, which has a USB drive containing Aadhya's final video message along with the evidence that she had collected thus far against the company (thus, the evidence destroyed by Shah's henchmen was only a copy that she had brought to show Gowtham whom she was to meet that evening during the event at resort). The culprits are captured, Gowtham is praised by the media, and Shah shoots himself. Later at his house that night Gowtham has a bright dream in which Aadhya appears with a smile, indicating that her soul is now at peace. He wakes up to find her presence of vision disappeared.


118 (film), Production
The film marks the directorial debut for cinematographer K. V. Guhan in the Telugu film industry who also marks his return to directorial after previously directing a 2010 Tamil-language film titled Inidhu Inidhu, which was the remake of the 2007 blockbuster Telugu film Happy Days. The filming began around May 2018, and the first look poster of the film was unveiled on 5 July 2018 on the occasion of lead actor Kalyan Ram's birthday.


118 (film), Release
The film was released to theatres on 1 March 2019, following the wrap up of post production work which concluded in around February 2019.


118 (film), Soundtrack
Music composed by Shekar Chandra. Music released on Aditya Music The soundtrack consists of three songs which was released on 26 February 2019.


118 (film), Reception
Neeshita Nyayapati of Times of India gave 3.5/5 stating "Just don't try to dig too deep or you might miss out on a fine thriller".


118 (film), Reception
Manoj Kumar R of Indianexpress gave 2/5 stating "KV Guhan's film is rife with unoriginal ideas that it becomes very difficult for the audience to forgive and just focus on the story".


118 (film), Reception
Hemanth Kumar of Firstpost gave 2.5/5 stating "Kalyan Ram goes on a wild goose chase to find the plot of KV Guhan's thriller".


118 (number)
118 (one hundred [and] eighteen) is the natural number following 117 and preceding 119.


118 (number), In mathematics
There is no answer to the equation φ(x) = 118, making 118 a nontotient.


118 (number), In mathematics
118 is the smallest n such that the range n, n + 1, ... 4n/3 contains at least one prime from each of these forms: 4x + 1, 4x - 1, 6x + 1 and 6x - 1.


118 (number), In mathematics
Four expressions for 118 as the sum of three positive integers have the same product:


118 (number), In mathematics
118 is the smallest number that can be expressed as four sums with the same product in this way.


118 118 (Sweden)
118 118 is a directory assistance services provider in Sweden both in operator based services as well as in interactive SMS based services. Eniro118118 is owned by the Eniro Group, who is a provider of Yellow Pages in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Poland. Eniro118118 received several industry awards, such as 118Award in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.


118 118 (Sweden)
The firm is not related to the similarly numbered service in the UK.


118 118 (UK)
118 118 is the UK telephone number for a US owned directory enquiries provider. Once wildly popular for its advertising featuring two runners, the service has experienced a dramatic decline in calls due to easily accessible information via mobile devices. Calls are answered from call centres in the Philippines, with some administration in Cardiff, Wales and other management offices in London that provides telephone numbers, given subscriber name and address, and answers general questions on any subject. 118 118 started operation in December 2002. In September 2013 the company started 118118Money, a provider of unsecured personal loans.


118 118 (UK)
118 118 is the brand name of The Number UK Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of US directory enquiries provider Knowledge Generation Bureau (formerly InfoNXX).


118 118 (UK)
In 2006, kgb, the parent company of 118 118 in the UK, purchased rival Directory Assistance provider Conduit to produce the largest company of its type in the UK.


118 118 (UK), Allocation of number
Numbers starting with "118" were designated for commercial directory enquiries when the fixed priced 40p British Telecom directory enquiries service on 192 and 142 was discontinued. The different 118 numbers were allocated by lottery. Originally Surrey-based Leaf Telecom was allocated the 118118 number; The Number UK Ltd paid a reported £2 million to acquire it.


118 118 (UK), Products, Information services
118 118 is primarily seen as a directory enquiries service, but provides a wider range of options, not only providing numbers to users but also train times, cinema listings and directions.


118 118 (UK), Products, Information services
118 118 has also launched a subscription service app which costs £2.48 a month for unlimited calls to the number, or £4.98 a month for unlimited calls and connections.


118 118 (UK), Products, Information services
Calls to 118 118 cost £2.43 per minute (a minimum 60 second charge applies) inc VAT, plus your telephone company‘s network access charge. plus the access charge set by the caller's landline or mobile phone provider.


118 118 (UK), Products, Information services
In May 2008, 118 118 introduced a service whereby customers can ask any question they want.


118 118 (UK), Ofcom regulations and Pricing
New Ofcom regulations came into force on 1 July 2015, making all call charges to 118 numbers more transparent, consisting of an access charge and a service charge. 118 118 increased their prices on 1 March 2016 and on 1 May 2017.


118 118 (UK), Ofcom regulations and Pricing
The access charge is set by the caller's landline or mobile provider. It is set at the same rate as for calls to 084, 087 and 09 numbers. Including VAT, it varies between 2p and 13p per minute from landlines or between 5p and 55p per minute from mobiles.


118 118 (UK), Ofcom regulations and Pricing
The service charge is £2.50 per call plus 75p per minute including VAT.


118 118 (UK), Ofcom regulations and Pricing, Any question SMS services
In December 2008, The Number UK Ltd, purchased Texperts, which had operated in the UK since 2003. The service offered answers to questions on any topic sent via SMS text message by text message, for a charge of £3.50.


118 118 (UK), Ofcom regulations and Pricing, Financial services
The company's lending business 118118Money, a subsidiary of kgb, launched as an online service in September 2013. The company states they are able to extend the availability of unsecured personal loans to people who may otherwise find it difficult to borrow.


118 118 (UK), Advertising
118 118's advertising features two men with droopy moustaches, wearing items of clothing with 118 and two parallel red stripes on it. They have appeared in various forms, including 'mad professors' with crazy grey hair, and an army of 118 118 runners helping people across the nation to find businesses and services.


118 118 (UK), Advertising
The 118 118 advertising was originally launched using the two men dressed as athletic runners. Used with the catchphrase "Got Your Number! ", the runners' characters featured in a high-profile advertising and PR campaign leading up to deregulation in August 2003, when the original 192 directory number was switched off. This slogan has fallen into disuse by the marketing department of 118 118 because of the expansion of service beyond directory enquiries alone, but has lived on in the minds of the public.


118 118 (UK), Advertising
The use of the runners' characters is particularly noted for the legal action threatened, but never acted on, by 1970s record-breaking runner David Bedford. 118 118 responded to this by stating that their inspiration was partly the late American runner Steve Prefontaine. Bedford subsequently briefly worked for 118 500, a rival directory enquiries service provided by BT.


118 118 (UK), Advertising
Since then they appeared in a range of guises, including spoof detectives, as the company expanded on its range of services. During this period the slogan used was "We're here to help! ".


118 118 (UK), Advertising
In February 2006 a new advertising campaign was launched in which the runners appeared in advertisements in the style of the television show The A-Team, using the A-Team theme tune with the number 118 sung over the music. Various routes followed, and then in early 2009 Ray Parker Junior appeared alongside the droopy moustache men singing a 118 specific version of the Ghostbusters theme tune, at one point featuring the 118 men in place of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the film.


118 118 (UK), Advertising
In late 2009, the runners were animated, specifically promoting food and drink establishments available for booking via 118 118. This service has since been discontinued, and in 2010 this campaign was dropped in favour of comedic scenarios. In 2013 the advertising shows an army of 118 118 runners, to illustrate that the service provides the numbers of many businesses.


118 118 (UK), Advertising
From March 2007, 118 118 began to sponsor ITV1 Movies. As of 2013 this continued, with the two 118 characters conversing over the phone with stars from old 'B' movies. A daily cartoon strip advertising the service also ran, from 2008 to 2010, in free newspaper Metro.


118 118 (UK), Advertising
The advertising strategy for 118 118 has also been used for 118 218 in France, 118 50 in Ireland, and 18 18 in Switzerland.


118 118 (UK), Criticism
In 2003, shortly after  the company started operation, it was alleged that some call centre operators cut calls short to reduce the average call time, increasing bonuses payable under an incentive scheme. Oftel and ICSTIS warned the company that it could be fined or lose its licence to operate if found to have encouraged the practice, but were satisfied that the company had moved quickly to stamp out any abuses, including dismissing some employees after investigating.


118 118 (UK), Criticism
In 2008, 118 118 sent racist jokes about Asians and Pakistanis to users of its texted joke service, and complaints were made to the press. The company responded that the jokes were in breach of their standards, and apologised.


118 118 (UK), Criticism
In December 2013 it emerged that when asked for a number of a named business, 118 118 operators often give a sales pitch suggesting that a different company offering similar services be called instead. Companies whose customers were thus referred to competitors complained about this practice. 118 118 defended this cross-selling of services, suggesting it was partly because firms had not paid to be included on its database. They said that offers were compliant with the code of practice of regulator PhonepayPlus (now Phone-paid Services Authority). However, the regulator added that a caller should receive the information requested without undue delay (chargeable as part of the call), and that unreasonably delayed callers should contact PhonepayPlus.


118 118 (UK), Controversies
In 2014, failure to clearly state call costs resulted in a fine for the 118118 service.


118 118 (UK), Controversies
In 2017, soaring call costs for directory enquiries services including 118118 and 118500 prompted an Ofcom review of 118 services.


118 Avenue, Edmonton
118 Avenue is the designated name of two major arterial roads in central Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, separated by the Edmonton City Centre Airport. The west side services both an industrial area, and a residential area, while the east 118 Avenue, originally Alberta Avenue, is one of the oldest streets in Edmonton outside the downtown core. The name was changed to 118 Avenue in 1914 with the adoption of the grid system. Historically, it was a route between the City of Edmonton in the west and the Town of Beverly in the east.


118 Avenue, Edmonton
It is also sometimes called the Avenue of Champions. When Beverly was still a separate community from Edmonton, the portion of Alberta Avenue in Beverly was the central business district. Beverly amalgamated with Edmonton on December 31, 1961. Following the amalgamation, Beverly's central business district went into a period of decline. The avenue boasts several major landmarks, including Northlands and the Coliseum.


118 Avenue, Edmonton
Prior to the opening of Yellowhead Trail in the early 1980s, Highway 16 followed 118 Avenue between Edmonton's eastern city limit and Princess Elizabeth Avenue before continuing west on 111 Avenue.


118 Avenue, Edmonton
The Alberta Avenue name only applies for the portion from 109 Street to Wayne Gretzky Drive. Alberta Avenue is targeted for revitalization as part of the Alberta Avenue-Eastwood Business Revitalization Zone.


118 Avenue, Edmonton, Neighbourhoods
List of neighbourhoods 118 Avenue runs through, in order from west to east:


118 Avenue, Edmonton, Major intersections
This is a list of major intersections, starting at the west end of 118 Avenue. The entire route is in Edmonton.


118 BC
Year 118 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cato and Rex (or, less frequently, year 636 Ab urbe condita) and the Fifth Year of Yuanshou. The denomination 118 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.


118 Battalion
118 South African Infantry Battalion was a motorised infantry unit of the South African Army.


118 Battalion, History, Origin of the black battalions
By the late 1970s the South African government had abandoned its opposition to arming black soldiers within the SADF.


118 Battalion, History, Origin of the black battalions
By early 1979, the government approved a plan to form a number of regional African battalions, each with a particular ethnic identity, which would serve in their homeland or under regional SADF commands.


118 Battalion, History, Development of the Lebowa Defence Force
Two additional Northern Sotho Battalions were established, the 117 and the 118. Troops for 118 SA Battalion were recruited from the self-governing territory of Lebowa.


118 Battalion, History, Higher Command
118 Battalion initially resorted under the command of Group 45 then Group 14 from Potgietersrus. This command was eventually changed to Group 29 with amalgamation.


118 Battalion, History, Deployments
118 Battalion was utilised to patrol the Lebowa and parts of the Botswana border. At some stage the unit was also stationed at Mtubatuba in Kwa Zulu Natal for border patrols in that region.


118 II
118 II also known as (要要发 II) ran for 218 episode drama series produced by MediaCorp Channel 8. It stars Chew Chor Meng, Pan Lingling, Dennis Chew, Ya Hui, Xu Bin, Somaline Ang, Carrie Wong, Jeanette Aw, Elvin Ng, Bryan Wong and Ha Yu as the cast of the second series.


118 II
The show replaced the second half of the 7.00 pm drama timeslot, airing weekdays from November 29, 2016, 7.30 pm to 8.00 pm on weekdays making it the 4th long form half an hour drama and it is 1st drama having 2 seasons also airing together with news-current affairs programme Hello Singapore at 6.30pm.


118 II, Plot
Hong Daming (Chew Chor Meng) is a positive and generous man. As his coffee shop and house number are both "118", the people around him gave him the nickname of "118" (or 要要发), much to his delight. Together with his wife, Liu Meimei (Pan Lingling), he makes a living by running the coffee-shop, and are well known in Tiong Bahru. Whenever someone is in need, they would always seek Daming for help.


118 II, Plot
His family lives in a 3-room flat, which was built in pre-war years, above the coffee shop. He has 4 children. The children are named Hong Shunfeng (Dennis Chew), Hong Shunshui (Xu Bin), Hong Jinzhi (Ya Hui) and Hong Yuye (Somaline Ang).


118 II, Plot
Having 6 people living in a 3-room flat is cramped-up enough, yet he also rents out a room to "Ah Niang", a middle-aged man whose original name is Li Weiliang (Chen Hanwei). Weiliang studied fashion design in France, but circumstances led him to simply run a stall in 118's coffee-shop, selling dumplings with the recipe that his mother left for him.


118 II, Plot
Weiliang was not the only addition to the cramped flat. Later, Meimei's elder sister – Liu Jiejie (Liu Lingling) and her family also came to live with 118 when her husband, Zhang Tiancheng's (Chen Tianwen) business failed. Daming's own younger sister, Hong Shanshan (Sheila Sim), and her daughter also came to live with him "temporarily" when her husband disappeared mysteriously. Kind-hearted by nature, Daming felt that they must have come to him because they were at their wit's end. He would rather make room for them by having his own sons sleep in the living room, than to chase them away heartlessly.


118 II, Plot
As such, the story unfolds with this myriad of personalities living under the same roof and hanging around the 118 coffee-shop, where many dramatic yet comedic events took place…


118 II, Plot
"118" presents the positive side of a Singaporean – passionate, practical, caring, resilient, faithful, tolerant and forward-looking – while also touching on the lesser side of our personalities. Through the dramatic play of events, we are able to see ourselves in the many characters, who are in fact a mirror of the good and bad sides of all of us.


118 II, Cast, Zhang (Tiancheng) Family
Main Villain but repented  Dang Dang (当当),  Arrogant Chen (丫丫陈), Lucas


118 II, Cast, Liu (Dagong) Family
Duck Porridge (鸭粥), Jerk (小混蛋), Greedy Monster (化骨龙), Asia Lau, Con Artist (骗子)


118 II, Cast, Other characters
Villain but later repented Lethal Weapon (轰天炮), Pao Pao (炮炮)


118 II, Cast, Other characters
Princess Xiangxiang (香香公主), Cheap (烂人), Toxic Lanxiang (恶毒兰香), Wretch (臭女人)


118 II, Marketing
Various roadshows to promote the series were done country wide.


118 II, Marketing
The first roadshow was held at Compass One on 19 November 2016 with artistes Chew Chor Meng, Pan Lingling, Elvin Ng, Ya Hui, Dennis Chew, Xu Bin, Sora Ma, Chen Tianwen, Zhu Houren, Brandon Wong and Jeanette Aw. A second roadshow was held at Bedok Point on 17 December 2016 with artistes Bryan Wong, Pan Lingling, Carrie Wong, Zhang Yaodong, Dennis Chew, Somaline Ang, Sheila Sim, Nick Teo, Li Feihui, Cavin Soh and Liu Lingling.


118 II, Marketing
The third roadshow was held at Bishan North Shopping Mall on 19 February 2017 with artist Ya Hui, Carrie Wong, Hayley Woo, Somaline Ang, Pan Lingling, Sheila Sim, Chew Chor Meng, Elvin Ng, Brandon Wong, Zhu Houren & Bryan Wong with Bishan North Minister Mrs Josephine Teo. The fourth roadshow was held at OneKM Mall on 29 April 2017 with artist Bryan Wong, Carrie Wong, Desmond Ng &Brandon Wong. The fifth roadshow was held at OneKM Mall on 30 April 2017 with artists Pan Lingling, Chen Tianwen, Elvin Ng, Ya Hui, Somaline Ang, Nick Teo, Sora Ma and Jeremy Chan.


118 II, Awards & Nominations, Star Awards 2018
118 II  is up for 2 nominations as Life Less Ordinary.


118 Mall
118 Mall, previously known as MERDEKA @ 118, is a seven-storey glass domed shopping mall currently under construction located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Owned and being developed by PNB Merdeka Ventures Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), it is a 1.4-million-square-foot (0.13-million-square-metre) mall situated next to the base of the Merdeka 118 megatall skyscraper.


118 Mall, Development
The master developer had awarded the contract to build the shopping complex at the former site of Merdeka Park, which was the second oldest public park in Kuala Lumpur, to a joint-venture between WCT Holdings Berhad and TSR Capital Berhad. The mall is planned to be surrounded by four acres of greenery and park namely the "Merdeka Boulevard at 118". Construction works on the building as well as the shopping mall began in 2014 and is slated for full completion by 2022.


118 Mall, Design
A glass dome will be constructed as the roof of the mall to bring in filtered natural light into the centre of the mall. The mall's organic theme will have sculptural design-story elements and water-features based on Malaysian culture.


118 Mall, Transportation
The mall will be connected to the Kajang Line  SBK17  Merdeka MRT station located along Jalan Hang Jebat, which is connected to an interchange with the Ampang/Sri Petaling Line's  AG8  SP8  Plaza Rakyat LRT station. The  AG9  MR4  Hang Tuah station, serving both the Ampang Line and KL Monorail, is a 600-metre walk southeast.


118 Modules
118 Modules is an outdoor 1979 sculpture by American artist John Rogers, located at the parking garage at Southwest Yamhill Street between Southwest 9th and 10th Avenues in downtown Portland, Oregon.


118 Modules
The slip-cast white stoneware sculpture measures 4 feet (1.2 m) x 23 feet (7.0 m) x 5 inches (0.13 m). It was funded by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and marks the artist's first public art commission. Rogers is a Portland native and graduate of Portland State University. 118 Modules is part of the City of Portland and Multnomah County Public Art Collection courtesy of the Regional Arts & Culture Council.


118 Peitho
Peitho (minor planet designation: 118 Peitho) is a main-belt asteroid. It is probably an S-type asteroid, suggesting a siliceous mineralogy. It was discovered by R. Luther on March 15, 1872, and named after one of the two Peithos in Greek mythology. There have been two observed Peithoan occultations of a dim star: one was in 2000 and the other in 2003.


118 Peitho
This body is orbiting the Sun with a period of 3.81 years and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.16. The orbital plane is inclined by 7.7° to the plane of the ecliptic. The cross-section diameter is ~42 km. In 2009, Photometric observations of this asteroid were made at the Palmer Divide Observatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The resulting asymmetrical light curve shows a synodic rotation period of 7.823 ± 0.002 hours with a brightness variation of 0.15 ± 0.02 in magnitude. This was reasonably consistent with independent studies performed in 1980 (7.78 hours) and 2009 (7.8033 hours). The lightcurve inversion process has been used to construct a model of this object, suggesting a blocky shape with flattened poles.


118 Reunion
118 大团圆 (118 Reunion) also known as (要要发 大团圆) is a television drama series produced by Mediacorp that ran for 23 episodes on Mediacorp Channel 8. The show aired at 9pm on weekdays and had a repeat telecast at 8am the following day. It stars Chew Chor Meng, Pan Lingling, Dennis Chew, Ya Hui, Somaline Ang, Sora Ma, Chen Hanwei, Sheila Sim, He Yingying, Charles Lee, Kate Pang, Zong Zijie, Richie Koh, Kayly Loh & Chen Yixi as the casts of the series.


118 Reunion, Plot
This drama revolves around the original cast of “118”, telling the story of love and kinship. Da Ming (Chew Chor Meng) dedicates most of his time helping the elderly in the neighborhood, thus neglecting his wife, Mei Mei (Pan Lingling). To spite Da Ming, Mei Mei joins a beauty pageant and eventually attracts the attention of a wealthy man! A fortune teller tells Shun Feng (Dennis Chew) to have a child by the end of this year, or he shall remain childless.


118 Reunion, Plot
To add on to his stress, he finds out that his wife, Mei Zhen (Sora Ma), has been seeing Jian Guo (Zen Chong) behind his back! Ah Niang (Chen Hanwei) is a first - time father and his overly cautious personality drives his wife, Shan Shan (Sheila Sim), up the wall. She later becomes interested in rock climbing and forges a close friendship with her instructor, Arthur (Chen Yi Xi). In spite of all their personal problems, will Da Ming and his family embrace the upcoming New Year on a happy note?


118 Reunion, Original Sound Tracks (OST)
This is the only series which do not have the same theme song with 118 and 118 II.


118 Squadron (Israel)
The 118 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force, also known as the Night Riders Squadron, is a helicopter squadron of CH-53-2025 Sea Stallions based at Tel Nof Airbase. On 26 July 2010 a 118 Squadron Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion Yas'ur helicopter crashed during a training flight at high altitude in the Carpathian mountains, near the city of Brasov in Romania. All on board died: four Israeli pilots, two Israeli mechanics and one Romanian officer.


118 WallyPower
118 WallyPower, christened Galeocerdo, is a 118-foot (36 m)  luxury motor yacht with a maximum speed of 60 knots (70 mph, 110 km/h) produced by Wally Yachts. The yacht is narrow and angular in design with black glass housing, driven by three Vericor TF50 gas turbines generating 5,600 horsepower (4,200 kW), each driving a Rolls-Royce Kamewa water jet, two steerable outboard and a non-steering booster on the centerline. The steerable water jets also have a diesel engine input for a 370 hp (280 kW) Cummins diesel, thus making the ship a Combined Diesel or Gas Turbine (CODOG) configured vessel. The total power output is 16,800 horsepower (12,500 kW). One 118 WallyPower has been constructed and it is owned by the Kondakji family, with a cost of £14M.


118 WallyPower, Construction
The hull of the 118 WallyPower is the result of an extensive R&D program including tank testing at the SSPA facility in Gothenburg, Sweden, and smoke testing in the Ferrari Wind Tunnel Facility in Maranello, Italy. It is stable at speed as a result of the deep V (22 degrees) hull shape and a straight stem bow designed to pierce waves.


118 WallyPower, Construction
The air inlets of the gas turbines were optimised to minimise any turbulence and back flow of the exhaust gas on deck and living areas. The bottom of the hull is solid fibreglass. Topsides, from the waterline up, are hybrid fibreglass/carbon composite with balsa core. The deck is a Nomex/full carbon composite. The deck superstructure is made of a carbon frame to which glass panels are glued. The glass is composed of Lexan and a triple laminate of glass. The interior bulkheads and cabin soles carry no structural loads, so they are made of thin wood and laminate veneer skins with cores. The bath fixtures and dining tables are made from carbon composites to reduce weight.


118 WallyPower, Construction
The paint finish is metallic dark green, and changes reflections and colour depending on the light and landscape. The 118's deck, cockpit, navigation, dining and saloon areas have been designed as one continuous element. The open space incorporates three areas, from stern to bow: the saloon, the dining/seating area, and the navigation cockpit. There is a 360-degree view from the dining area. Underneath the 8-place dining table is a skylight which illuminates the lower corridor. The dining and lounge cockpit is forward of the superstructure for privacy, and away from the heat of engines. Two fore dining tables can be mechanically lowered into place in the bow. The deck of the Wally 118 has a hidden crane and compartment for a tender. The boat also features 6 plasma screen TVs.


118 WallyPower, Construction
Inside, the owner's stateroom is forward, lighted by a top skylight, and has a king-size bed and side cabinets and his and hers en-suite bathrooms. Two identical guest cabins have queen-size beds and en-suite bathrooms. The stainless steel galley (kitchen), which includes the crew mess, has an oven, stove, television, and refrigerators.


118 WallyPower, Technical specifications
The price of the 118 Wallypower is US$33 million for the triple gas turbine version, or $22 million for twin diesels. It has a range of 1,500 nautical miles (2,800 km) at 9 knots (17 km/h), or 300 nautical miles (560 km) at 60 knots (110 km/h). Fuel capacity is 22,000 liters (5800 US gallons). At the maximum speed of 60 knots (110 km/h) the gas turbine uses 15 US gallons / 58 liters of fuel per nautical mile, 900 gallons / 3500 liters per hour. The boat displaces only 95 tons because of the sophisticated building technology that uses a hybrid structure to save weight, and can accommodate six guests and six crew.


118 WallyPower, Awards
The 118 WallyPower won the MYDA, Millennium Yacht Design Award, organised by Seatec (the yachting and shipping technology show of Carrarafiere) for the "Layout of the Third Millennium." It was the sole boat in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art architecture and design exhibition (2004/5), 'Glamour: Fabricating Affluence'.