14th Academy Awards
The 14th Academy Awards honored film achievements in 1941 and were held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony is now considered notable as the year in which Citizen Kane failed to win Best Picture, losing to John Ford's How Green Was My Valley. Later regarded as the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was nominated for nine Academy Awards but won only one, for Best Original Screenplay.


14th Academy Awards
For How Green Was My Valley, John Ford won his third Best Director award, becoming the second, after Frank Capra, to do so, and the first to win in consecutive years (after The Grapes of Wrath in 1940).


14th Academy Awards
Much public attention was focused on the Best Actress race between sibling rivals Joan Fontaine (for Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion) and Olivia de Havilland (for Hold Back the Dawn). Fontaine’s victory represents the only Oscar-winning performance in a Hitchcock film.


14th Academy Awards
This year marked the debut of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; the winner was  Churchill's Island.


14th Academy Awards
The Little Foxes set a new record of nine nominations without winning a single Oscar; this mark was matched by Peyton Place in 1957, and exceeded by The Turning Point and The Color Purple, both of which received 11 nominations without a win.


14th Academy Awards
A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio.


14th Academy Awards, Awards
Nominations were announced on February 6, 1942. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and marked with a dagger symbol ().


14th Africa Movie Academy Awards
The 14th Africa Movie Academy Awards was held 20 October 2018 in Kigali, Rwanda. The event was hosted by Nse Ikpe Etim and Arthur Nkusi.


14th Air Army
The 14th Air Army was an air army of the Soviet Air Forces during World War II and the Cold War and of the Ukrainian Air Force in the early Post-Soviet period.


14th Air Army, Soviet period
The Army was first formed from the Air Forces of the Volkhov Front in June 1942, and in 1943 participated in the Novgorod-Luga operation. In February 1944 it was dispersed, with the command staff assigned to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (RVGK) and its units to other air armies. Reformed in April 1944, when it served with the 3rd Baltic Front, it was again dispersed in November 1944, with its staff again been allocated to the Stavka Reserve and its units to other formations.


14th Air Army, Soviet period
It was active on 1 May 1945 with the 107th Air Signals Regiment and the 30th Air Regiment of the Civil Air Fleet (Aeroflot), as part of the RVGK. However it became the 57th Air Army on 10 January 1949. 57th Air Army was included in 1964 Warsaw Pact war planning, being planned to be moved forward from the Carpathian Military District to become part of the Czechoslovak Front if war broke out between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.


14th Air Army, Soviet period
Reformed from the 57th Air Army in April 1968, and awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the 14th Air Army (which seems to have had the Military Unit Number 18466 from this point on at least) was serving in the Carpathian Military District when the Soviet Union fell.


14th Air Army, Soviet period
In 1988-91 it consisted of the 4th Fighter Aviation Division (two MiG-29 regiments, 92nd and 145th Fighter Aviation Regiments in 1990) (Ivano-Frankovsk), the 289th Bomber Aviation Division (two Su-24 regiments)(Lutsk), a regiment of Su-25s (Chortkov), a reconnaissance regiment of MiG-25s (48 GvORAP at Kolomyia (air base), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast? ), a mixed regiment of transport aircraft (Lvov), and a helicopter electronic squadron.


14th Air Army, Under the Ukrainian flag
Its units became part of the Ukrainian armed forces after the Dissolution of the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991. The formation was reorganized as the 14th Air Corps in accordance with an order of the Ministry of Defense dated 2 March 1994. In 2001, it included the 6th Fighter Aviation Division at Ivano-Frankivsk with the 9th (Ozerne) and 114th (Ivano-Frankivsk) Fighter Aviation Regiments and the 289th Bomber Aviation Division at Lutsk with the 806th (Lutsk) and 947th (Dubno) Bomber Aviation Regiments. The 452nd Separate Assault Aviation Regiment at Chortkiv, 48th Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment at Kolomyia, and 243rd Separate Mixed Aviation Regiment at Lvov were directly subordinate to corps headquarters.


14th Air Army, Under the Ukrainian flag
On 27 July 2002, 77 people were killed and around 300 wounded when a Su-27 crashed in the Sknyliv airshow disaster, held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 14th Air Army. As a result of the accident, corps commander Lieutenant General Serhiy Onyshchenko was transferred and corps deputy commander Major General Anatoly Tretyakov was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released early in 2007. In accordance with an order of the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force dated 2 December 2004, the corps was disbanded and its units transferred to the new Air Command West.


14th Air Defence Artillery Regiment (Belgium)
The 14th Air Defence Artillery Regiment (Dutch: 14 Regiment Luchtdoelartillerie) is an air defence artillery regiment in the Land Component of the Belgian Armed Forces. It is the successor of the 14th Regiment of Artillery.


14th Air Defence Artillery Regiment (Belgium), Organisation
The 14th Air Defence Regiment comprises two Mistral batteries, the 43rd Battery and the 35th Battery, which each consist of three platoons. In turn, each platoon consists of six Mistral groups, which means that there are 36 Mistral groups in the regiment.


14th Air Division
The 14th Air Division is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Fifteenth Air Force, stationed at Beale Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 14 June 1989.


14th Air Division, History, World War II
The organization was initially activated in Hawaii as the 14th Pursuit Wing to contribute to the defense of the Hawaiian Islands. Its designation was soon changed to Hawaiian Interceptor Command. The Hawaiian Interceptor Command suffered heavy losses during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941), but airmen managed to shoot down several enemy aircraft. A short time later, it was inactivated and its men and equipment became the cadre for VII Fighter Command.


14th Air Division, History, World War II
The wing was reformed as the 14th Bombardment Wing, the unit was one of the primary Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy strategic bombardment groups of the Eighth Air Force's 2d Bombardment Division in World War II. Its subordinate groups flew bombing missions against German airfields, oil installations, and marshalling yards. Wing components supported Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy, in June 1944 by attacking strong points in the beachhead area and transportation targets behind the front lines. Later, in December 1944 – January 1945, the wing helped to check the German offensive during the Battle of the Bulge. In March 1945, subordinate units supported Operation Lumberjack, the campaign to cross the Rhine River.


14th Air Division, History, Cold War
Reactivated in 1951, the 14th Air Division was an intermediate command echelon of Strategic Air Command. The command provided operational reconnaissance, maintained round the clock radar surveillance to detect sea launched ballistic missiles from the Pacific Ocean area, and provided for crisis management during periods of increased operational readiness. For a brief period, between 1962 and 1965, the division maintained a SM-68 Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile complex, in addition to its assigned aircraft. The division also supervised all of Strategic Air Command's initial combat crew training for the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, Boeing B-52G Stratofortress and B-52H, Lockheed U-2, and Lockheed SR-71 aircraft.


14th Air Division, History, Cold War
It was inactivated in 1991 as part of the military drawdown of the USAF after the end of the Cold War.


14th Air Division, References, Bibliography
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
The 14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army (Russian: 14-я армия ВВС и ПВО) is an air army of the Russian Air Force, part of the Central Military District and headquartered at Yekaterinburg.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
It was formed in 1998 from the 14th Separate Air Defence Army when the Russian Air Force was reorganized to combine both Air Force and Air Defence Forces units.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army
It was redesignated as the 2nd Air and Air Defence Forces Command when the Russian Air Force reorganized its armies into commands in 2009, but returned to its original name in 2015 when the commands became armies again.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The lineage of the 14 A VVS i PVO began with the Novosibirsk Air Defense District of the 3rd category, organized by directive of the Commander of the Air Defense Forces on July 1, 1952. Subsequently the district became the Novosibirsk Air Defense Division (March 1954); the Novosibirsk Air Defense Corps (11/15/1956); the 14th Separate Air Defense Army (3/24/1960); and then the 6th Separate Air Defense Corps (6/10/1994).


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The 14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army was formed in 1998, Air Forces Monthly reported in its August 2007 issue, from the 14th Independent Air Defence Army of the Russian Air Defence Forces (the former Soviet PVO) at Novosibirsk, the 23rd Air Army of the Russian Air Forces from Chita and the 50th Independent Air Defence Corps also from Chita. Thus the history of the formation is traced to the 14th Independent Air Defence Army, established in 1960, rather than the 14th Air Army in the Second World War.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The 14th Independent Air Defence Army was formed from the 14th Corps of the PVO at Novosibirsk, and included the 38th (HQ Novosibirsk), 39th Air Defence Corps (HQ Krasnoyarsk), 50th Guards Air Defence Corps(HQ Chita), and 56th Air Defence Corps (HQ Semipalatinsk) of the PVO, as well as the 41st Air Defence Division, in 1988. In 1988 five fighter regiments were part of the army.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
Fighter Regiments of the 14th Army PVO 1988 (Source Feskov et al. 2004)


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The new army was given the title of 14th Army of the Air Force and Air Defence (14 A VVS i PVO). Its zone of responsibility covered the huge area of the Siberian Military District, AFM said, and its headquarters was located in Novosibirsk. AFM also said that the aircraft were concentrated in the southern part of the territory, along the border with Kazakhstan and Mongolia. In 2007 the commanding officer of the 14th Air Army, AFM also reported, was Lieutenant-General Nikolay Danilov.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The most important force, AFM noted, within the army was the 21st Composite Air Division, which operated a Sukhoi Su-24M tactical bomber regiment, a Su-24MR reconnaissance regiment and a Su-25 attack aircraft regiment. The division was stationed in the eastern part of its responsibility zone, near the Chinese border.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The army was disbanded in 2009 by being redesignated as the 2nd Air and Air Defence Forces Command.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The 21st Separate Aviation Division amalgamated with 2 BAP circa 2010 to become the 6980th Guards Aviation Base of the 1st Rank . The new base (Military Unit Number 69806) was equipped with Su-24M bombers and Su-24MR reconnaissance aircraft and stationed at Chelyabinsk Shagol Airport.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, History
The army was reformed in August 2015. Lieutenant General Alexander Tatarenko took command in January 2016.


14th Air and Air Defence Forces Army, Structure 2020/21
Additional long-range bomber elements deployed under the command of Russian Long Range Aviation at Engels and Belaya air bases in the Central Military District.


14th Airlanding Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 14th Airlanding Brigade was a formation of the British Indian Army and then the Pakistan Army. It was formed from the 14th British Infantry Brigade on 1 November 1944, and was initially part of the 44th Airborne Division. Initially the brigade included 4/6th Rajputana Rifles, 2nd Black Watch, 2nd King's Own Royal Regiment, and 6/16th Punjab Regiment. During the Second World War it was commanded by Brigadier Thomas Brodie and later Brigadier F.W. Gibb.


14th Airlanding Brigade (United Kingdom)
Later as part of 2 Indian Airborne Division, the brigade headquarters was transferred to the Pakistan Army.


14th Airlift Squadron
The 14th Airlift Squadron (The Pelicans) is an active unit of the United States Air Force, assigned to the 437th Airlift Wing, Air Mobility Command. It is based at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. The squadron operates Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft supporting the United States Air Force global reach mission worldwide.


14th Airlift Squadron, Mission
The 14th Airlift Squadron "Pelicans" provide combat-ready Boeing C-17A Globemaster III aircrews for worldwide airlift missions supporting Department of Defense and National Command Authority directives. They conduct airdrop and airland operations supporting global contingencies for combatant commanders by projecting and sustaining combat forces directly into theater drop zones and austere airfields.


14th Airlift Squadron, Mission
"Pelicans" perform emergency nuclear airlift, aeromedical evacuation & humanitarian relief missions in the technologically advanced, $262.7M C-17A airlift aircraft in all phases of ground and flight activity.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, World War II
Activated in December 1940 flying converted Douglas DC-2 transport aircraft as a GHQ Air Force transport squadron. Converted to Douglas C-47 Skytrains in early 1942, trained under I Troop Carrier Command for combat operations. Assigned to Twelfth Air Force and deployed North Africa during May 1943. The squadron's aircraft flew supplies to front-line units in Algeria and Tunisia during the North African Campaign as soon as suitable landing strips were available and evacuated casualties back to rear area field hospitals.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, World War II
Squadron engaged in combat operations, dropping airborne units into Sicily during Operation Husky and later into areas around Anzio, Italy as part of Operation Shingle, the invasion of mainland Italy and the initiation of the Italian Campaign, January 1944. Moved north through Italy, in 1943 in support of Allied ground forces, evacuated wounded personnel and flew missions behind enemy lines in Italy and the Balkans to haul guns, ammunition, food, clothing, medical supplies, and other materials to the partisans and to drop propaganda leaflets.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, World War II
Moved to England in February 1944, assigned to IX Troop Carrier Command. Prepared for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. In June 1944, subordinate units dropped paratroops in Normandy, subsequently flying numerous missions to bring in reinforcements and needed supplies. During the airborne attack on The Netherlands (Operation Market Garden, September 1944), the squadron dropped paratroops, towed gliders, and flew resupply missions. Several of its subordinate units also participated in the invasion of southern France in August 1944. The 50th supported the 101st Airborne Division in the Battle of the Bulge by towing gliders full of supplies near Bastogne on 27 December 1944.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, World War II
When the Allies made the air assault across the Rhine River in March 1945, each aircraft towed two gliders with troops of the 17th Airborne Division and released them near Wesel. The squadron also hauled food, clothing, medicine, gasoline, ordnance equipment, and other supplies to the front lines and evacuated patients to rear zone hospitals.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, World War II
In late May 1945, after V-E Day, the squadron was moved to Waller Field, Trinidad and attached to Air Transport Command. From Trinidad, the squadron ferried returning military personnel to Morrison Field, Florida, where they were sent on to other bases or prepared for separation after the war.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, Berlin Airlift
During the Cold War the 14th was involved in the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, Korean War
Conducted aerial transport from the U.S. to Japan, August – December 1950, and between Japan and Korea, 16 November 1951 – 1 December 1952.


14th Airlift Squadron, History, Strategic airlift
Conducted worldwide airlift since 1953, including to Southeast Asia from 1966 to 1973 and supporting military operations in Grenada, October–November 1983, Panama, 18 December 1989 – 8 January 1990, and to Southwest Asia, August 1990 – January 1991.


14th Airlift Squadron, References, Bibliography
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .


14th Airlift Squadron (Poland)
The 14th Airlift Squadron is a newly established airlift squadron of the Polish Air Force. The unit is stationed at the 33rd Air Base in Powidz with the 7th Tactical Squadron. The unit  operates 5 newly purchased Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, the last being accepted in formal ceremony on 22 August 2012.


14th Alabama Infantry Regiment
The 14th Alabama Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.


14th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Service
The 14th Alabama Infantry Regiment was mustered in at Richmond, Virginia, on August 1, 1861.


14th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Total strength and casualties
The 14th mustered 1,317 men during its existence. It suffered approximately 250 killed in action or mortally wounded and 350 men who died of disease, for a total of approximately 600 fatalities. An additional 159 men were discharged or transferred from the regiment.


14th Alberta Legislature
The 14th Alberta Legislative Assembly was in session from February 11, 1960, to May 9, 1963, with the membership of the assembly determined by the results of the 1959 Alberta general election held on June 18, 1959. The Legislature officially resumed on February 11, 1960, and continued until the fifth session was prorogued on March 29, 1963, and dissolved on May 9, 1963, prior to the 1963 Alberta general election.


14th Alberta Legislature
Alberta's fourteenth government was controlled by the majority Social Credit Party for the seventh time, led by Premier Ernest Manning who would go on to be the longest serving Premier in Alberta history. There was no Official Opposition as three parities and one independent made up the four non-government house seats at one seat apiece. The Speaker was Peter Dawson who would serve until his death on March 24, 1963. Dawson would be replaced as Speaker by Arthur J. Dixon, who would remain the speaker until the fall of the Social Credit government after the 1971 Alberta general election. This was the first assembly elected after the Government of Alberta changed from Single Transferable Vote to First Past the Post.


14th Alpini Regiment
The 14th Alpini Regiment (Italian: 14° Reggimento Alpini) is an inactive regiment of the Italian Army's mountain infantry speciality, the Alpini, which distinguished itself in combat during World War I and World War II.


14th Alpini Regiment, History
The regiment was created on 5 February 1993 by elevating the existing Alpini Battalion "Tolmezzo" to regiment. Between 1 October 1909 and 30 September 1975 the battalion was one of the battalions of the 8th Alpini Regiment. After the 8th Alpini Regiment was disbanded during the 1975 Italian Army reform the battalion, based in Paluzza, became one the battalions of the Alpine Brigade "Julia". As the traditions and war flag of the 8th


14th Alpini Regiment, History
Alpini Regiment were assigned to the "Gemona" battalion, the Tolmezzo battalion was granted a new war flag on 12 November 1976 by decree 846 of the President of the Italian Republic Giovanni Leone. The two Gold Medals of Military Valour awarded to the 8th Alpini Regiment, were duplicated for the new flag of the Tolmezzo battalion, while the three Silver Medals of Military Valour awarded to the Tolmezzo battalion were transferred from the flag of the 8th Alpini to the Tolmezzo's flag. These were awarded for its conduct at the battles of Assaba on 20–23 March 1913, and Ettangi on 18 June 1913 in Libya, and for its conduct at the Battle of Pal Piccolo, Pal Grande, and Freikofel on 24 May 1915 on the Italian Front.


14th Alpini Regiment, History
For its conduct and work after the 1976 Friuli earthquake the battalion was awarded a Silver Medal of Army Valour, which was affixed to the battalion's war flag and added to the battalion's coat of arms. The battalion's 12th Company in Moggio Udinese was hit hard by the earthquake and suffered severe casualties, nonetheless the company immediately commenced rescue efforts in the severely affected Moggio Udinese. For its commitment to save lives the 12th Company was one of only three companies, which were awarded a Silver Medal of Army Valour after the Friuli earthquake.


14th Alpini Regiment, History
In 1993 the regiment participated in the United Nations Operation in Mozambique for which it was awarded a 1x Silver Cross of Army Merit. In 2005 the army downsized its forces and the 14th Alpini Regiment was disbanded on 14 October 2005, and the next day the Alpini Battalion "Gemona" of the 8th Alpini Regiment was renamed Alpini Battalion "Tolmezzo".


14th Alpini Regiment, Structure
When the regiment was disbanded it had the following structure:


14th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia
The 14th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia was held on July 6, 2011, at the Ballroom Central Park in Tanjung Duren Selatan, West Jakarta. The show was broadcast live on RCTI and was hosted by Okky Lukman, Raffi Ahmad and Pica Priscilla.


14th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia
The show was a collaboration between Anugerah Musik Indonesia Foundation and RCTI. The theme of the show was Mahakarya Musik Indonesia. Musicians, singers, and composers were nominated for 46 different categories awards. Besides the categories used in previous years, this year will also have the category Pop Trendy, a subdivision of the pre-existing pop category.


14th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia
Irma Darmawangsa became the most-nominated artist in Anugerah Musik Indonesia history for the nominations with eleven times, nevertheless Darmawangsa taking home with empty-handed. Kotak became the biggest winner of the night with four wins of eight nominations, including "Best of the Best Album" for Energi, "Best Pop Song" for "Pelan-Pelan Saja", and "Best Pop Duo/Group". Other winners included Agnes Monica, Sandhy Sondoro, Evie Tamala, and Cici Paramida, who won three awards. Umay Shahab only took home two trophies each.


14th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia
Elfa Secioria received the "AMI Legend Award" for a musician who has a very great service to world of Indonesian music, both of national and international.


14th Annual Anugerah Musik Indonesia, Winner and nominees
The nominees were announced on June 15, 2011. Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.


14th Annual Grammy Awards
The 14th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 14, 1972, and were broadcast live on television in the United States by ABC; the following year, they would move the telecasts to CBS, where they remain to this date. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1971.


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
The 14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards was held on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. This was the sixth time that Latin Grammys has been held at this location. The main telecast was broadcast on Univision at 8:00 PM EST.


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
The nominations were announced on September 25, 2013. Javier Garza, Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas and Carlos Vives led the nominations with five nods each. Miguel Bosé was honored as the Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year on November 20, the day prior to the Latin Grammy Awards.


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards
Carlos Vives was the biggest winner with three awards, including Song of the Year for "Volví a Nacer"; Marc Anthony won Record of the Year for "Vivir Mi Vida"; Draco Rosa won the award for Album of the Year for Vida; and Gaby Moreno was awarded Best New Artist. This marks the first time since the inaugural awards that the three categories were given to three different artists. Producer Sergio George won three awards, including Producer of the Year.


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Awards, Pop
Andrés Cepeda — Lo Mejor Que Hay En Mi Vida


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Awards, Alternative
Natalia Lafourcade — Mujer Divina – Homenaje a Agustín Lara


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Awards, Regional Mexican
Banda Los Recoditos — El Free La Original Banda El Limón de Salvador Lizárraga — La Original y Sus Boleros de Amor


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Awards, Brazilian
Seu Jorge — Músicas Para Churrasco Vol. 1 Ao Vivo


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Awards, Production
Edgar Barrera, Sebastian de Peyrecave, Javier Garza, Julio Reyes Copello and Mike Fuller — Kany García (Kany García)


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Awards, Music Video
Natalia Lafourcade — Mujer Divina – Homenaje a Agustín Lara


14th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Changes to award categories
A new category for Best Urban Performance was added to the Urban music field. The award is intended for commercially released singles or tracks of a newly recorded material within the urban music genre.


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland)
The 14th Suwałki Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment named for Józef Piłsudski is a unit of the Rocket Forces and Artillery (pl:Wojska rakietowe i artyleria) of the Polish Army. The regiment is equipped with the BRDM-2/Malyutka anti-tank missile/armoured car system.


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland)
It is located at Suwałki. It was subordinated to the 16 DZ (2007-2010); the 11th Masurian Artillery Regiment (2011-2019); and the Armed Forces General Command from 2019.


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland), History
In August 1951, the 101st Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment was formed at Kwidzyn. On October 20, 1957, by a resolution of the State Council, the regiment received its banner. From 1967, the regiment became part of the 22nd Anti -Tank Artillery Brigade, which was disbanded by the Order of the Minister of National Defense No. 25 of September this year, while the 101st Regiment was renamed the 14th Anti -Tank Artillery Regiment and subordinated to the Commander of the Pomeranian Military District.


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland), History
In the spring of 1994, the regiment was transferred from Kwidzyn to Suwałki. Here the regiment received a new banner.


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland), History
In July 1999 the regiment was transferred from the 15th Warmian-Masurian Mechanized Division to the 1st Warsaw Mechanised Division.


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland), History
As a result of the reorganization of the Armed Forces in October 2001, the regiment became part of the 1st Mechanized Corps in Bydgoszcz. Another change of subordination took place in November 2003, as a result of which the regiment was subordinated to the Commanders of the Land Forces. From January 11, 2007 to December 31, 2010, the regiment was within the structures of the 16th Pomeranian Mechanized Division "King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk".


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland), History
The 14th Anti -Tank Regiment was stationed in the Suwałki Garrison. The regiment celebrates its holiday on September 10.


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland), History
By order of the commander of the 16th Mechanized Division on August 11, 2010, the regiment was transformed into the 14th anti-tank artillery squadron. The squadron became part of the 11th Masurian Artillery Regiment "General Józef Bem" (pl:11 Mazurski Pułk Artylerii).


14th Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment (Poland), History
On September 30, 2019, the Suwałki squadron was formally transformed into the 14th Anti -Tank Artillery Regiment "Marshal Józef Piłsudski". By order of the Minister of National Defence, the 14th Suwałki anti-tank artillery squadron was removed from the Węgorzewo regiment, transformed into the 14th Suwałki anti-tank artillery regiment and subordinated to the Commander of the Armed Forces.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion
The 14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (14th AAA Bn) was an antiaircraft unit in the United States Marine Corps that served during World War II. The battalion was originally formed in 1943 as the 14th Defense Battalion. Its mission was to provide air and coastal defense for advanced naval bases. During the war the battalion took part in combat operations in the Solomon Islands and on Guam. The battalion was decommissioned on June 30, 1945. Since then no other unit has carried the lineage and honors of the 14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, History, Organization
The 14th Defense Battalion was commissioned on January 15, 1943 in the field on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands. Personnel for the battalion were sourced from two batteries from the 5th Defense Battalion and a 5"/51 caliber gun 5-inch battery from the 9th Defense Battalion that were remaining behind on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Because a majority of the battalion's original personnel were from the 5th Defense Battalion the 14th took on the nickname "Five:Fourteenth."


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, History, Nouméa & the Bismarck Archipelago
The battalion remained in the Solomons until September 1943 when its headquarters was relieved by United States Army units and departed for Noumea, New Caledonia on September 16, 1943. Arriving four days later it disembarked and established its command post near TonTouta. The rest of the battalion was relieved within the next month and the entire battalion was present on Nouméa by October 22 responsible for air and coastal defense of the area.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, History, Nouméa & the Bismarck Archipelago
On March 7, 1944, most of the battalion loaded gear onto seven different ships and departed Nouméa. The convoy arrived on Guadalcanal on March 12. Prior to departing the island, a composite antiaircraft battery from the 14th was assembled as part of a small Marine task force to support the United States Army during its assault on the St Matthias Islands. The battery landed on the southeast corner of Emirau in support of the 4th Marine Regiment. There was no opposition on the island and the Seabees set out building an airfield immediately. Another detachment from the battalion supported the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing's occupation of Green Island. Seizure of both of these islands within the Bismarck Archipelago were critical in the effort to bypass the main Japanese airfield at Rabaul.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, History, Guam
In May 1944 the Marine Corps organized a unit of 51 Marines called the 1st Provisional Smoke Screen Unit. Its mission was to utilize smoke generators during enemy bombing raids with the purpose of obscuring friendly targets. This unit was attached to the 14th to be tested during its next operation. During the first week of June 1944 the battalion was divided into three echelons to be part of the Southern Attack Force for the upcoming assault to recapture Guam. The first two echelons departed Guadalcanal in a different convoy however they eventually linked up at Eniwetok on June 28. The third echelon remained until mid-July when they also embarked upon naval shipping. The first two echelons departed Eniwetok on July 17.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, History, Guam
On the morning of July 21, 1944 an advanced party from the 14th Defense Battalion went ashore on Guam from the USS President Monroe (AP-104). The rest of the battalion came ashore a few hours after the initial assault waves stormed the beach. By night of the first day all of the battalion's anti-aircraft batteries were emplaced ashore with some also providing direct fire support for Marines of the 3rd Marine Regiment. On  July 23, the battalion received orders to occupy Cabras Island in Apra Harbor.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, History, Guam
From Cabras Island the battalion was ale to continue its mission of providing air defense for Orote Field and provide flanking artillery fire for Marines on the Orote Peninsula and in the Northern part of the island. The battalion's command post moved from Cabras to the Orote Peninsula on August 5. The smokescreen unit that had been attached to the battalion prior to the battle was disbanded in July 1944 because the concept did not prove feasible. During the battle the battalion served under the command of the 12th Marine Regiment.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, History, Guam
As the war progressed, the Marine Corps removed coastal artillery from the defense battalions in order to form additional heavy artillery units for the Fleet Marine Force. Because of the divestiture of the coastal defense mission, the battalion was re-designated as the 14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion on September 1, 1944. The battalion spent the remainder of their time as part of the garrison force on Guam and was decommissioned there on June 30, 1945 before the end of the war.


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, Commanding Officers
The following officers served as Commanding Officers of the battalion:


14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, Unit awards
A unit citation or commendation is an award bestowed upon an organization for the action cited. Members of the unit who participated in said actions are allowed to wear on their uniforms the awarded unit citation. The 14th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion has been presented with the following awards:


14th Antisubmarine Squadron
The 14th Antisubmarine Squadron is a disbanded United States Army Air Forces unit. It was activated in 1942 as the 519th Bombardment Squadron and flew antisubmarine missions off the Atlantic coast until the Navy assumed its mission. It then moved to Texas, where it was disbanded in November 1943 and its personnel were used as cadres for heavy bomber groups.


14th Antisubmarine Squadron, History
The squadron was first activated as the 519th Bombardment Squadron at Hyannis Naval Auxiliary Air Facility, Massachusetts on 18 October 1942, when the 377th Bombardment Group replaced the 59th Observation Group at Fort Dix Army Air Field and assumed its mission, personnel and equipment. The 519th was initially equipped with the North American O-47s and Curtiss O-52 Owls of the 119th Observation Squadron, whose mission, personnel and equipment it absorbed on activation. It began to convert to North American B-25 Mitchells later in the year and added Lockheed B-34 Venturas in 1943, phasing out the short range observation aircraft.


14th Antisubmarine Squadron, History
In October 1942, the Army Air Forces organized its antisubmarine forces into the single Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command, which established the 25th Antisubmarine Wing the following month to control its forces operating over the Atlantic. Its bombardment group headquarters, including the 377th, were inactivated and the squadron, now designated the 14th Antisubmarine Squadron, was assigned directly to the 25th Wing. The squadron moved to Otis Field, Mssachusetts in November 1942 (although it deployed to Langley Field, Virginia, from July to August 1943). In July 1943, the AAF and Navy reached an agreement to transfer the coastal antisubmarine mission to the Navy. This mission transfer also included an exchange of AAF long-range bombers equipped for antisubmarine warfare for Navy Consolidated B-24 Liberators without such equipment.


14th Antisubmarine Squadron, History
In October 1943, the squadron moved to Biggs Field, Texas, where it briefly flew Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers under Second Air Force. However its heavy bomber training ended lest than a month later, when it was disbanded its personnel formed cadres for new heavy bomber units.


14th Antisubmarine Squadron, References, Bibliography
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .


14th Arabian Gulf Cup
The 14th Arabian Gulf Cup (Arabic: كأس الخليج العربي) was held in Bahrain, in October/November 1998.


14th Arabian Gulf Cup
The tournament was won by Kuwait for the 9th time


14th Arabian Gulf Cup
Iraq continued to be banned from the tournament because of invasion of Kuwait in 1990.


14th Arabian Gulf Cup, Tournament
The teams played a single round-robin style competition. The team achieving first place in the overall standings was the tournament winner.


14th Arizona State Legislature
The 14th Arizona State Legislature, consisting of the Arizona State Senate and the Arizona House of Representatives, was constituted in Phoenix from January 1, 1939 to December 31, 1940, during Robert Taylor Jones's first and only term as Governor of Arizona. The number of senators remained constant at 19, while the House increased from 51 to 52 members. The Democrats maintained one hundred percent of the senate seats, while the Republicans continued to have a single seat in the House, one of the two from Navajo County.


14th Arizona State Legislature, Sessions
The Legislature met for the regular session at the State Capitol in Phoenix on January 9, 1939; and adjourned on March 13. There was a special session which was held from September 23–27, 1940.


14th Arizona State Legislature, State Senate, Members
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature.


14th Arizona State Legislature, House of Representatives, Members
The asterisk (*) denotes members of the previous Legislature who continued in office as members of this Legislature. The size of the House increased by a single seat to 52 members, when Maricopa was given a 19th seat.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature
The 14th Arizona Territorial Legislative Assembly was a session of the Arizona Territorial Legislature which convened in Prescott, Arizona. The session ran from January 10, 1887, till March 10, 1887.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature
The frugal nature of the session, compared to its predecessor, combined with an outbreak of mumps and measles resulted in the session being dubbed the "Measly Fourteenth".


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Background
Following the excesses of the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the U.S. Congress had passed the "Harrison Act" which placed limits on territorial debt. The act further prevented territorial legislatures from granting divorces or name changes. After the election of President Grover Cleveland, C. Meyer Zulick had replaced Frederick Augustus Tritle as Governor of Arizona Territory. As for events in the Apache Wars,  Geronimo had surrendered on September 9, 1886, ending large scale hostilities within the territory.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session
The session began on January 10, 1887, and ran for 60 days. During the session a number of the legislature's members contracted mumps and measles. Of the 102 bills passed by the session, two were vetoed.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address
Governor Zulick sent his address to the legislature in writing on the first day of the session. He began by discussing the end of the Apache Wars, saying  "The gratitude of the people of Arizona is due the President of the United States and the Secretary of the Interior for the removal of these Indians, who have for more than a quarter century stood a barrier to the progress of the Territory, a constant and ever present menace to it prosperity." He then went on to thank General Nelson A. Miles and his officers for their role in the capture and relocation of Geronimo. With the hostile Apaches dealt with, the governor believed it was finally possible to fully develop Arizona's wealth.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address
Zulick went on to discuss the effects of the "Harrison Act". Dealing with territorial taxation, the governor noted various counties performed property assessments in different ways and he believed most assessments were undervalued. He then requested county courts be consolidated into district courts as a cost-saving method.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Governor's address
Water availability was an important issue to the governor and he desired to see construction of water canals, noting "the Territory should never surrender control of its water supply; it is the people's heritage and should be controlled in their interest." As for education he reported that a site had been secured on which to build the territorial university. A further 12 new school districts had been created since the last session, bringing the territorial total to 130. In other matters, Zulick asked for a revision to be performed to the territorial legal code. He also wanted the repeal of a law passed during previous session that disenfranchised Mormons.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Legislation
Compared to the previous session's outlay of US$294,323.00, the fourteenth legislature only authorized a meager US$44,216.73. The first cut expense came with the elimination of the territorial position of Commissioner of Immigration. The session was not all cost cutting as it authorized US$1,200/year in supplemental pay for justices of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court. This was in addition to their regular pay received from the Federal government.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Legislation
In other actions, the session created a territorial lottery. A proposal to create "Frisco" county, with its seat in Flagstaff was defeated. The proposal would be revived in a later session with the creation of Coconino County.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Legislative session, Legislation
The best remembered action of the session was creation of a Live Stock Sanitary Board. This was accompanied by a set of laws requiring cattle ranchers to register their brands with their county recorder along with others intended to  protect against the spread of infectious diseases.


14th Arizona Territorial Legislature, Aftermath
Based upon the authority granted by the new livestock laws, Governor Zulick imposed a 90-day quarantine upon imported Mexican cattle, similar to the existing quarantine on imported European cattle. This caused a potential diplomatic incident as the Mexican government protested the new requirement and suggested that they might impose a similar quarantine. A diplomatic incident was avoided when it was determined the Arizona quarantine violated the U.S. Congress' constitutional authority to regulate international trade. While the quarantine was overruled, it did establish the principle of protecting against infectious disease and prompt the Congress into action on the subject.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's)
The 14th (McCarver's) Arkansas Infantry (1861–1865) was a Confederate Army infantry regiment during the American Civil War. Almost as soon as the regiment was formed, it was divided into two separate units. The first five companies were organized into the 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, while the remainder of the companies would become the 18th Arkansas Infantry Battalion.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's)
The 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion was later merged with the 8th Arkansas Infantry and served for the reset of the war as part of that regiment, While the 18th Arkansas Infantry Battalion was consolidated with the remnants of the 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Lemoyne's); the combined unit was then designated the 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Craven's). A tenth company was added in December, 1862. The companies were from Izard, Lawrence, and Randolph counties.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's)
The 17th Arkansas Regiment took part in the 1863 Vicksburg campaign, and was surrendered as part of the garrison. The 17th Arkansas was paroled, and after its eventual exchange was reorganized and consolidated with the remnants of several other Arkansas Regiments, known thereafter as the 1st Consolidated Arkansas Infantry (Trans-Mississippi). Another Arkansas regiment also bore the number 14. It was originally commanded by William C. Mitchell, but is best known as Powers' 14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
McCarver's 14th Arkansas Regiment has been described as the regiment that barely was, since it existed only briefly as a full regiment. The first eight companies were mustered into service between August 31 and September 23, and the Field and Staff Officers were appointed on September 23, 1861, at Pocahontas, Arkansas.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
October 22, 1861, is recognized as the date of the organization of the regiment because that's when the ninth company joined the unit, and the company muster rolls were submitted to the Confederate War Department along with official notification of the organization of the regiment, (initially designated by Colonel Solon Borland as the 9th Arkansas). Stationed in the same area were the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Arkansas Regiments, which led Col. Solon Borland, commanding Post of Pocahontas, to muster Col. James H. McCarver's new regiment into service as the 9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
This would have been logical, except for the fact that a 9th Arkansas Infantry Regiment had already been authorized by the State Military Board and mustered into service at Pine Bluff on July 25, 1861, Colonel John M. Bradley commanding. When Colonel Borland sent the muster-in rolls to the Confederate War Department, he was informed that McCarver's regiment would instead be designated as the 14th Arkansas Regiment.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
It is unclear why the Confederate War Department assigned this designation to McCarver's regiment. Correspondence exists between Arkansas Governor Henry Rector and Confederate Secretary of War Walker, in which Mitchell's regiment is clearly identified as the 14th Arkansas. In a letter dated August 22, 1861, Governor Rector wrote, "The Fourteenth Regiment of Arkansas is at Yellville. We understand that General Hardee does not wish to receive it." So the War Department was clearly informed of the existence of a 14th Arkansas Regiment; yet they still assigned that designation to McCarver's regiment four months later. The unit was originally composed  of volunteer companies from the following counties:


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
McCarver's regiment had barely received its designation when it was placed in danger of losing it. In January 1862 Brigadier General William J. Hardee made a decision to detach four of the regiment's best armed and equipped companies (Companies A, B, E & H) and designate them as the 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, and place them under the command of Major John H. Kelly. It was Brigadier General Hardee's intention was to take all of the organized Arkansas troops with him when transferred his command to Kentucky in September 1862 except for Colonel Borland's own regiment.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
However Hardee did not wish to accept poorly armed and untrained troops. It appears that there were sufficient arms to equip four of McCarver's companies, so these companies were detached from the regiment as a separate battalion and departed with General Hardee, with the balance of the regiment to follow when they were properly armed and equipped. Clearly, McCarver considered the detachment of those companies to be temporary, because when the official notice of organization was sent to the Confederate War Department, he assigned the detached companies designations (Cos. A-B-E-H) and noted that they were detached with General Hardee.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
This arrangement caused some confusion at Richmond, which wrote back to Borland, "Does Col. J. S. McCarver's command consist of only five companies, or a full regiment? If less than a regiment, it will be known as the Eighth Battalion; if ten companies, the Fourteenth Regiment Arkansas Volunteers. Please inform the Department at your earliest convenience the exact state and condition of his command. Maj. F. W. Desha's command will be known as the Seventh Battalion Arkansas Volunteers." McCarver certainly considered that he had a full regiment (the tenth company had arrived on December 18), because as late as February 1862 he was signing correspondence as "colonel commanding 14th Arkansas Regiment."


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
The balance of McCarver's regiment never joined Hardee because Borland, commanding post, was in a state of panic over reports that a large Union force was planning to attack Pocahontas. Borland stopped further troops movements to Kentucky, including Robert's Arkansas Battery which was intended for Hardee, and sent out a frantic call for emergency volunteers. Over two dozen of these poorly armed thirty-day companies converged on Pocahontas for an attack that never came. Borland's call resulted in the formation of the 1st and 2nd Arkansas 30 Day Volunteer Regiments.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Organization
The Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas quartermaster receipts from October and November 1861 show the remaining companies of McCarver's command furiously requisitioning large amounts of supplies and camp equipment. There was similar activity with the ordnance department, requisitioning arms and ammunition, which indicates that McCarver intended to equip the balance of his command sufficiently armed and equipped to join Hardee. However, McCarver's command remained in Arkansas. McCarver eventually replaced Col Borland and the commander of troop in northeast Arkansas, and McCarver's detached companies became a separate command, Kelly's 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
General Hardee took the 9th Arkansas Battalion with him when he transferred his command to Kentucky and organized the Confederate Army of Central Kentucky. When Hardee's command was attached to forces under Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, The 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, under the command of Major Kelly was assigned to Brigadier General S.A.M. Wood's brigade of Hardee's Corps, of the Army of Mississippi and participated in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, on April 6, 1862.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
The detachment of Kelly's Battalion left McCarver with half a regiment. The War Department notified Colonel Borland that unless the 14th Arkansas was assigned its requisite ten companies, it would henceforth be known as the 8th Battalion Arkansas Infantry (though that designation was later assigned to Lieutenant Colonel Batt L. Jones' battalion). The remnants of the regiment spent much of the winter of 1861-1862 encamped near Pitman's Ferry, Arkansas, where several soldiers died of measles. The unit responded to several alarms associated with the anticipated invasion of Northeast Arkansas by Union Force following the Battle of Pea Ridge.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
By late March 1862, Colonel McCarver was in command of an organization dubbed the "White River forces" which in addition to the remnants of his own regiment, included, the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, Lemoyne's 17th Arkansas Infantry, a temporary battalion under the command of Captain Turnbull, and artillery battery and at least two companies of Missouri troops totalling 1599 troops.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
In the wake of the defeat at the Battle of Pea Ridge, the Army of the West was undergoing a comprehensive reorganization, and units were assigned and reassigned on virtually a daily basis. The White River forces at Pocahontas including the Arkansas infantry commands of McCarver, Lemoyne and Turnbull were involved in a confusing array of assignments and reassignments, primarily within the brigades of Brigadier General Albert Rust and Brigadier General Thomas Churchill. It appears that McCarver's regiment was intended to be assigned to Churchill's brigade.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
As with most of the other active units in Arkansas, the remainder of McCarver's regiment was ordered to Corinth, Mississippi, in April 1862. The unit marched from Pittman's Ferry on April 1, 1862, and reached Jacksonport on April 5. Special Order Number 47, Army of the West, directed Colonel McCarver's regiment of Arkansas Infantry to transfer at once to the steamer General Price and sail for Memphis, Tennessee. Upon reaching Memphis, McCraven and Colonel Lemoyne were to report to Brigaider General Rust.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
The unit boarded the steamer and moved down White River, out at its mouth, then up the great Mississippi and landed at Memphis, Tennessee, on April 9. At Memphis the regiment was met by some of the wounded from Shiloh, including men from the Kelly's 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalion, who provided news of the battle of Shiloh.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
The regiment marched through Memphis to the Memphis & Charleston depot to board trains for Corinth. Before the train departed, the regiment was ordered to march back, board a steamer, and move further up the Mississippi River and was landed at Fort Pillow, 50 miles (80 km) above Memphis, on the Tennessee side. It was here that the men of McCarver's command saw their first enemy fire. It was described by Private Elihu C. Bechkam many years after the war.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
Just before landing, as I was standing on the hurricane deck, I saw something that looked like a gigantic lightning bug flying with incredible speed through the heavy timber of the river bottom. I could not tell how far away the thing was, neither did I know what it was, but you may bet that before the ten days were out that we remained there I knew what it was. Just as the thing got opposite our boat, it flashed, then was gone, but about that time we heard a report that told us that it was one of Uncle Sam's "baby wakers," which was the first bomb shell I had ever seen.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
The unit remained at Fort Pillow for ten days. The unit continued to experience bombardment during its stay at Fort Pillow, but only one man was killed. Many of the soldiers were sick, and several died due to the very muddy conditions and poor water supply at the fort. The unit left Fort Pillow on the April 19, with a fleet of Confederate gunboats and moved to nearby Fort Randolph the same day.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
On April 21, 1862, General Van Dorn issued Special Order Number 59, from Memphis which announced the organization of the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 2nd Division of the Army of the West. McCarver's regiment is listed as part of Brigadier General Churchill's 2nd Brigade. On the April 22, morning report of Churchill's brigade, McCarver's regiment is listed as being on detached service. Then on April 24, Special Order Number 64, Army of the West, from Memphis, directed that Col McCarver's regiment of Arkansas Volunteers be transferred from Churchill's to Rust's Brigade. General Rust's brigade was to be composed of Colonel Carroll's 18th Arkansas, King's 22nd Arkansas, Smead's 19th Arkansas, McCarver's 14th Arkansas and Lemoyne's 17th Arkansas and a yet to be named artillery battery.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
The 14th Arkansas remained at Fort Randolph until April 24 when it again moved by steamer to Memphis and from there to Corinth, Mississippi, on April 25. The unit camped about 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Corinth, where the unit was reorganized. There are few official records of the unit between January and April 1862. At Corinth, McCarver's command is listed in a return of troops in the Army of the West, dated at Corinth, Mississippi, May 4, 1862, as the 18th Battalion Arkansas Infantry, with 198 of 275 men present for duty. It is unclear how that designation came about. On the same return is listed Lemoyne's 17th Battalion Arkansas Infantry, with 387 of 627 men present for duty.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
In early May 1862, Confederate forces underwent an army-wide reorganization due to the passage of the Conscription Act by the Confederate Congress in April 1862. All twelve-month regiments had to re-muster and enlist for two additional years or the duration of the war; a new election of officers was ordered; and men who were exempted from service by age or other reasons under the Conscription Act were allowed to take a discharge and go home. Officers who did not choose to stand for re-election were also offered a discharge. The reorganization was accomplished among all the Arkansas regiments in and around Corinth, Mississippi, following the Battle of Shiloh.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
On May 15, 1862, McCarver's 14th and 17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (Lemoyne's)s, (or 17th and 18th Arkansas Battalions), were consolidated to form the 21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment. Col McCarver was not re-elected in the reorganization of the regiment and was discharged. Jordan E. Cravens was elected colonel of the new unit. The units new designation as the 21st Arkansas caused some initial confusion because the designation "21st Arkansas" had already been assigned to the regiment of Colonel Dandridge McRae. To avoid confusion between two 21st Arkansas Regiments, McRae's regiment was later redesignated as the 15th (Northwest) Arkansas Infantry Regiment (making a total of three 15th Arkansas Regiments).


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Battles
As the 21st Arkansas Regiment, under Col. Jordan E. Cravens, this regiment fought in the following engagements: Second Battle of Corinth, Battle of Grand Gulf, Battle of Port Gibson, Battle of Champion's Hill, Battle of Big Black River Bridge, and finally was surrendered with at the end of the Siege of Vicksburg. The 21st Arkansas was consolidated with the 15th Northwest Arkansas, 16th Arkansas, and Powers' 14th Arkansas Infantry Regiments to form the 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment (Trans-Mississippi), and was stationed at Marshall, Texas, when the war ended. The consolidated regiment was assigned along with the 2nd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment and to the 2nd (McNair's) Arkansas Brigade, 1st (Churchill's) Arkansas Division, 2nd Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department, from September 1864 to May 1865.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Surrender
The 1st Arkansas Consolidated Infantry Regiment was formerly surrendered with the Department of the Trans-Mississippi by Major General E. Kirby Smith on May 26, 1865. When the Trans-Mississippi Department surrendered, all of the Arkansas infantry regiments were encamped in and around Marshall, Texas (since war-ravaged Arkansas was no longer able to sustain the army). The regiments were ordered to report to Shreveport, Louisiana, to be paroled. None of them did so. Some soldiers went to Shreveport on their own to be paroled, but the regiments simply disbanded without formally surrendering.


14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment (McCarver's), Surrender
A company or two managed to keep together until they got home. For example, Company G, 35th Arkansas Infantry Regiment, traveled back to Van Buren, Arkansas, where they surrendered to the U.S. post commander in a formal ceremony, drawn up in front of the court-house, laying down their weapons, etc. But for the most part, the men simply went home. Many of the Arkansas Cavalry  units, which had largely been furloughed for the winter of 1864-1865 following Price's disastrous Missouri Expedition did formally surrender at Jacksonport, Wittsburg, and a few other locations.


14th Armored Brigade (Turkey)
The 14th Armored Brigade, also known as Tunç Kışlası ( Bronze Barracks), is a brigade of the Turkish Army based in Northern Cyprus at the town of Degirmenlik in Nicosia.


14th Armored Brigade (Turkey)
It is part of the Aegean Army Cyprus Turkish Peace Force ( II.Corps) based at TRNC.


14th Armored Division (United States)
The 14th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army assigned to the Seventh Army of the Sixth Army Group during World War II. It remains on the permanent roll of the Regular Army as an inactive division, and is eligible for reactivation. The division is officially nicknamed the "Liberators".


14th Armored Division (United States), History
The 14th Armored Division was constituted and added to the roll of the US Army on 28 August 1942; it was activated on 15 November in a ceremony at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. It was organized initially as a heavy division with two armored regiments (the 47th and 48th) and one armored infantry regiment, the 62nd Infantry Regiment. It was reorganized from a heavy division to a light division on 20 September 1943. The reorganization saw the loss of two tank battalions from the Armored regiments, one battalion each. The 1st Battalion of the 47th Armor was redesignated as the 786th Tank Battalion and the 3rd Battalion of the 48th Armor was redesignated as the 716th Tank Battalion.


14th Armored Division (United States), History
The division departed Camp Chaffee in November to participate in the 2nd Army maneuvers in Tennessee from 17 November 1943 until 10 January 1944. At the conclusion of the exercise, the division was assigned to Camp Campbell, Kentucky. The division remained at Camp Campbell until late September when it was alerted for movement to the ETO (European Theater of Operations) via Camp Shanks, New York where it went for final processing. Units departed Camp Campbell on 1 October and completed their arrival at Camp Shanks on the 6th of that month. After completing their processing, the division boarded four transport ships for deployment on 13 October 1944.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, France and the Alsatian Plain
The 14th Armored Division landed at Marseille in southern France, on 29 October 1944. Within two weeks some of its elements were in combat, maintaining defensive positions along the Franco-Italian frontier. The division was assigned to US 6th Army Group on 1 November. On 10 November, the division was assigned to US Seventh Army. On 12 November the Combat Command Reserve (CCR) was detached, and ordered to the Maritime Alps by 6th Army Group to relieve units in defensive positions there.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, France and the Alsatian Plain
On 15 November, Combat Command A moved north from the area of Marseille to Epinal to take part in the VI Corps drive through the Vosges Mountains, and was followed by Combat Command B five days later. Hard fighting at Gertwiller, Benfeld, and Barr helped VI Corps to crack the German defenses, the division was on the Alsatian Plain in early December. On 17 December the division attacked across the Lauter River into Germany itself, along with the other units of VI Corps, it fought its way into a heavily defended portion of the German Westwall.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, France and the Alsatian Plain
Due to the growing crisis in the Ardennes, General Eisenhower, the supreme commander, ordered the Seventh Army to stop its attack and withdraw from the Westwall, where its units assumed positions south of the Lauter River. The order was poorly timed as elements of the 14th Armored Division had penetrated deep into the German defenses, and were poised to break out into the enemy's rear.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Task Force Hudelson
On 25 December 1944 VI Corps ordered the division's Combat Command R, commanded by Colonel Daniel Hudelson, to assemble a regimental-sized task force (TF Hudelson), to establish defensive positions along a 10-mile section of the Seventh Army line linking XV and VI Corps. It was located in the rugged Vosges Mountains in the area of Bannstein in France, southeast of Saarbrücken. The balance of the division was placed in Corps Reserve to protect against a Saar Valley penetration by the Germans. Additionally, it was ordered to be prepared to move to the vicinity of Phalsbourg as a counter-attacking force to stop and prevent a break-through in the XV Corps area.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Task Force Hudelson
TF Hudelson consisted of the division's 62nd Armored Infantry Battalion, the 94th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron and Company A of the 125th Armored Engineer Battalion. TF Hudelson was further reinforced by two VI Corps units, the 117th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron and the 1st Battalion, 540th Combat Engineers. Just before midnight on New Year's Eve 1944, the German Army Group G launched Operation Nordwind, the last major German counter-offensive of the war. The advancing German units were from the XC and LXXXIX Corps, attacking through the Low Vosges. TF Hudleson held only a thin line of strong points and screens.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Task Force Hudelson
During the night and day of 1 January 1945, TF Hudelson found itself engaged by elements of five enemy divisions, the 256th, 257th, 361st and 559th Volksgrenadier. Just after midnight on the 1st, the 62nd Armored Infantry reported "enemy attack across the entire front of our battalion zone. The main effort by enemy being made on battalion left flank in the sector of C Co, by estimated 2000 Infantry supported by five (5) Mark IV tanks". The troops of TF Hudelson took the brunt of the German advance which had penetrated to Bannstein by day-break.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Task Force Hudelson
The Task Force was soon overrun or bypassed by the German divisions but it managed to delay and slow the German advance until substantial reinforcements could arrive and stem the German advance. By the fourth day of the German counter-offensive it had advanced 10 miles. With pressure building during the first day of the attack, aerial observation reported a strong regimental size element moving towards Bannstein. Reinforcements were sent to Baerenthal to reinforce the VI Corps left flank and the 14th Armored Division was ordered to establish blocking positions. On 2 January, the 45th Division along with the attached Task Force, occupied positions to block any further penetration by the Germans. This allowed for the relief of Task Force Hudelson and its return to division control.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Task Force Hudelson
The major fighting between 1 and 8 January occurred in the Vosges Mountains and two combat commands of the division were in almost continuous action against the German thrusts. With the failure of his attack in the Vosges, the enemy attempted to break through to Hagenau and threaten Strasbourg and the Saverne Gap by attacks at Hatten and Rittershoffen, two small villages located side by side on the Alsatian Plain. However, this, the strongest attack of Operation Nordwind, was halted by the 14th Armored in the fierce defensive Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen which ranged from 9 to 21 January 1945.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
As the fighting in the VI Corps sector intensified, the Germans committed the 21st Panzer and the 25th Panzer Grenadier Divisions to the attack with a breakthrough to Hagenau. On 9 January, German armor was able to penetrate the center of the VI Corps sector. This caused Brooks, the Corps commander, to commit his final reserve force, the 14th Armored, in an effort to stop the German XXXIX Panzer Corps advance.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
Ordered to take up positions in the vicinity of Hatten and Rittershoffen, the 14th assumed command and control of units from the 242nd Infantry Regiment and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 315th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division . With heavy fighting in and around the towns, success was measured in how many buildings were controlled by each side as the Americans controlled the western half of the villages and the Germans the eastern half.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
On 15 January, the Germans strengthened the forces in both villages with elements of the 20th Parachute Regiment from the 7th Parachute Division, and the 104th Infantry Regiment from the 47th Volksgrenadier Division. As the fighting raged, the 14th Armored found itself increasingly on the defensive with Combat Command A holding Rittershoffen and Combat Command Reserve defending positions in and around Hatten. Combat Command B took up defensive positions behind the Rittershoffen to Leiterswiller road.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
The resupply of the division was becoming very difficult due to the constant reorganizing of forces, the evacuation of the wounded and the shrinking perimeter. Gasoline, of which almost 200,000 gallons was consumed in seven days, had to come from near Saverne 35 miles away along icy roads in blackout conditions. Mortar ammunition had run out by 15 January and the Division's G-4 notified the advanced command post that no more might be available for two weeks.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
Instructions were given for all abandoned German 8 cm mortar ammunition to be picked up and a method was devised by the Division ammunition officer to use this in American 81mm mortars. Artillery ammunition was strictly rationed after 15 January when 6,247 rounds of ammunition were expended out of a total of nearly 40,000 rounds for the entire seven days. In order to alleviate the shortage a convoy of twenty 2 1/2 ton trucks were sent to Marseilles and returned loaded with ammunition dug out of the surf and the landing sites for the invasion of Southern France. Artillery was further handicapped by the shortage of telephone wire. Poor visibility hampered air operations on both sides for most days. On 15 January the first German jet propelled aircraft was seen in the area bombing a battery of the 499th Armored Field Artillery Battalion.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
Approximately 39 American and 51 German tanks were destroyed, damaged or abandoned. Recovery of disabled vehicles was very difficult due to the complete lack of cover. Following the battle, the division's G-4 (staff officer) reported to the commanding officer that the division was still short of 62 medium tanks despite having received over 60 replacements during the month of January. The 136th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion's report for the month listed approximately 150 tanks that had been knocked out in combat, repaired and returned to the division's tank battalions.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
An example of this is seen in the operational reports of the 47th and 48th Tank Battalions. At the height of the fighting the 47th reported that it had a total of 17 operational tanks out of an authorized strength of 50, all were committed to holding its portion of the line. The 48th Tank Battalion report for the same period included the comment that its tank companies were now of approximately squad strength.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
The Division sustained battle casualties amounting to 104 killed, 899 wounded and 112 missing. German losses were estimated at in excess of 3,100 in total. The problem of obtaining infantry and armored replacement personnel, especially combat junior officers, was critical.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
The Division's 11-day stand at Hatten and Rittershoffen allowed the VI Corps and Seventh Army to withdraw to prepared defensive positions. On 21 January, after the rest of Seventh Army had withdrawn to the south bank of the Moder River, the 14th and its supporting units withdrew from Hatten and Rittershoffen and moved south to join the rest of the army.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
Lieutenant-General Jacob L. Devers, commanding general, 6th Army Group later commented that the Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen "was one of the greatest defensive battles of the war." The 14th Armored Division was nominated for four Presidential Unit Citations for its actions at Hatten-Rittershofen. Of these, two were awarded. Col. Hans von Luck, who commanded the 21st Panzer Division at Hatten-Rittershoffen wrote in his memoirs "Panzer Commander" that the battle ".... was one of the hardest and most costly battles that had ever raged on the western front."


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
These are strong, telling words from a professional German panzer officer who had fought with Rommel's famed Afrika Korps in North Africa, served two tours of duty on the Eastern Front, and led the only armored counter-attack to be attempted against the Allied beachhead in Normandy. A veteran officer who served on the staff of Army Group G during the battle wrote after the war that the American defense of the town against overwhelming odds was "heroic."


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Operation Nordwind, Hatten and Rittershoffen
After rest, rehabilitation and defensive missions during February and early March, the division returned to the offensive on 15 March 1945; it drove across the Moder River, cracked through the Siegfried Line and by the end of the month, had captured Germersheim on the Rhine River. On Easter Sunday, 1 April, the 14th moved across the Rhine near Worms, protecting the long left flank of the Seventh Army and advanced against moderate to heavy opposition through Lohr, Gemunden, Neustadt, and Hammelburg where, on 6 April, Combat Command B (CCB) liberated Stalag XIII-C and the more famous Oflag XIII-B.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Capture of Oflag XIIIB and Stalag XIIIC
After erecting a pontoon bridge near Worms across the Rhine on 1 April, the 14th attacked to the northeast with CCB in the lead. The initial task of CCB was to break through the Spessart Forest and into the rear of the German forces. The command advanced 75 miles on the first day with the lead elements reaching the town of Lohr. Approaching the town, the leading elements came under heavy small arms fire. As the infantry dismounted to clear the resistance, they and the tanks of the 47th Tank battalion experienced heavy antitank fire. The 47th lost three tanks due to the Panzerfaust.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Capture of Oflag XIIIB and Stalag XIIIC
Clearing the town, CCB continued its advance along the Main River through Sackenbach, Nantenbach (north east of Lohr) and Gemunden. As the columns continued along this route, they continued to receive heavy machine gun and mortar fire. On 6 April 1945, CCB's objective was the military layer south of Hammelburg and the POW camps to the south. The operational plan called for the 47th Tank battalion to advance from the north and the 19th Armored Infantry battalion to block and secure the roads to the south and east of the camps. As the units approached the camps, they came under sporadic fire from German machine guns. Entering the German lager, the infantrymen of the 19th found the prison gates and forced an opening into Oflag XIII-B where they found a large contingent of Serbian and American officer prisoners.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Capture of Oflag XIIIB and Stalag XIIIC
Elements of the 47th Tank battalion and the 94th Armored Reconnaissance battalion continued to the south and liberated Stalag XIII-C which held a large contingent of Allied enlisted men - American, Australians, British and others.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Capture of Stalag VII-A
Following the Battle of Nuremberg, the division raced to the Danube, crossing the river at Ingolstadt and passed through the 86th Infantry Division. Its mission was to secure crossings sites on the Isar River and to push on to Moosburg and Landshut. Advancing on a south easterly axis, CCA was on the division's right with CCR on the left and CCB in reserve. Facing the division were remnants of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier and the 719th Infantry Divisions.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Capture of Stalag VII-A
After fighting their way across the Isar and into Moosburg, CCA entered the town on 29 April, approached Stalag VII-A and took the surrender of the camp garrison of over 200 men. Initial reports had listed the number of prisoners liberated as 27,000. This was wrong, there were over 130,000 Allied prisoners liberated from Stalag VII-A, the largest prisoner of war camp in Germany. The division rapidly moved eastward to the area of Mühldorf am Inn where it established two strong bridgeheads across the Inn River before being ordered to halt by III Corps. The division fired its last rounds on 2 May 1945. It was processing prisoners of war and patrolling its area when the war in Europe ended on 8 May.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, Liberation of forced labor and concentration camps
During the divisions' advance into southern Germany, on 2 and 3 May, the 14th liberated several sub-camps of the Dachau concentration camp. Upon entering the towns of Mühldorf and Ampfing, units of the division discovered three large forced labor camps containing thousands of Polish and Soviet civilians. Units also liberated two additional camps nearby holding Jewish prisoners.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, CCR Rifle Company
As a result of the shortage of infantry replacements which the European Theater was facing in late 1944, a call for volunteers was distributed throughout the communication zone for those willing to retrain as infantry replacements. This call was accepted by over 4,000 African American soldiers serving in support units. By 1 February 1945, 2,800 of these volunteers received orders to report to a retraining center where they received basic instruction in infantry skills and tactics.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, CCR Rifle Company
In March 1945, the first contingent of soldiers, organized into 12 platoons, were assigned to the 7th Army which organized them into three companies of four platoons each. They were organized as 7th Army Provisional Rifle Companies 1, 2 and 3 and then assigned to the 12th Armored Division. In late March, the last contingent of four additional platoons were assigned to 7th Army which organized them as the 7th Army Provisional Rifle Company 4 and then assigned them to the 14th Armored Division.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, CCR Rifle Company
This 240-man company was assigned to the division without a command and control element, the division was also required to staff, arm and equip it. The division, with the assistance of Corps and Army support, was able to provide the company with its basic needs for future operations. Initially, the company was attached to the 19th Armored Infantry Battalion but it was then reassigned to CCR where it became known as the CCR Rifle Company. This outfit was mainly employed as an attachment to the 25th Tank Battalion.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, CCR Rifle Company
The company's first combat engagement took place near Lichtenfels, but it was near Bayreuth that the company received the accolade of approval from those that fought within the 14th Armored Division. In small platoon-size actions, CCR Rifle fought their way into Gottsfeld and Creussen helping to secure the towns. The company, when employed in less than company size, performed well. When employed as a company, the results were less satisfactory. This was a result of the way in which the companies were formed and trained, as platoons and not as a company. The unit remained with the division when it was reassigned to 3rd Army and ended the war with the 14th Armored. It was disbanded on 4 June 1945.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, CCR Rifle Company
"Liberators" is the official nickname of the US 14th Armored Division. The division became known by its nickname during the last days of World War II when it liberated some 200,000 Allied prisoners of war from German prison camps. Among those liberated were approximately 20,000 American soldiers, sailors and airmen, as well as an estimated 40,000 troops from Great Britain and the Commonwealth.


14th Armored Division (United States), History, CCR Rifle Company
The 14th Armored Division was inactivated on 16 September 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia.


14th Armored Division (United States), Organization
The division was organized and activated as a heavy division in 1942. Early in 1943, the Army Ground Force began a series of studies to reorganize the various divisions within the Army. After reviewing the tables of organization and after allowing the various commands to review and comment on the proposed restructure, the divisional strength of the 14 organized armored divisions was reduced from 14,630 men to 10,937. The restructuring removed the armored regiment and infantry regiment from the table of organization and replaced them with three tank battalions and three armored infantry battalions.


14th Armored Division (United States), Organization
Both Combat Commands, A and B remained but an additional Command - CCR, was added to the organization. This was a small headquarters element of 10 personnel tasked with the command and control of the division rear area. The 125th Engineer Battalion lost its bridge company, and the engineer line companies were reduced to three. The 94th Cavalry Recon Squadron was increased in size to include an HQ troop, four line troops, an assault gun troop (with four platoons) and a light tank company. Within the division trains, the division lost its support battalion and supply company.


14th Armoured Regiment (Australia)
The 14th Armoured Regiment was a unit of the Australian Army, which served during World War II. The regiment was formed in May 1942 as part of the 6th Australian Armoured Brigade. It was originally a Militia unit which originated from the 17th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment. It was disbanded in early 1943 without seeing combat.


14th Armoured Regiment (Australia), History
The 14th Armoured Regiment was originally drawn from personnel of C Squadron, 17th Light Horse (Machine Gun) Regiment, which was a Victorian Militia unit based around Bendigo. On 1 May 1941, this squadron formed the nucleus of the 4th Armoured Regiment, commanded by Major E.P Seymour. The regiment moved to Ballarat and was brought up to strength from Universal Service (conscripted) personnel and formed part of Headquarters Southern Command. Due to the scarcity of tanks and other armoured vehicles, the unit was only provided with Universal or 'Bren Gun' Carriers, which provided enhanced mobility, but little firepower and protection. A separate Australian Imperial Force (AIF) unit with a similar designation, the 2/4th Armoured Regiment, was raised in late 1942.


14th Armoured Regiment (Australia), History
When the Japanese entered the war, the regiment was dispatched, as part of the 6th Infantry Brigade (CMF), to serve on the Dandenong Eastern Defence Line and later at Barwon Heads and Torquay beaches. It would return under the command of the 2nd Cavalry Division in February 1942. On 10 February the unit received orders to transfer personnel to the 13th Light Horse and the 17th Machine Gun Regiment. On 9 March 1942 the remaining 4th Armoured Regiment personnel received the order to convert to a motor regiment. It was renamed the 104th Motor Regiment and initially assigned to the 5th Motor Brigade of the 2nd Australian Motor Division. However, the 104th Motor Regiment's existence would prove to be short lived.


14th Armoured Regiment (Australia), History
The 14th Armoured Regiment was formed from the 104th Motor Regiment on 8 May 1942, and was a part of the Australian Armoured Corps. The regiment, along with the 12th Armoured Regiment, 13th Armoured Regiment, 9th Motor Regiment and 3rd Reconnaissance Squadron, was allocated to the newly raised 6th Armoured Brigade, itself part of the newly converted 2nd Armoured Division. The 14th Armoured Regiment was based at Gherang until the end of June, when it moved to Puckapunyal to join the rest of the brigade.


14th Armoured Regiment (Australia), History
Upon arrival at the Armoured Fighting Vehicles School, located at Puckapunyal, the unit underwent training to perform its role as an armoured regiment. This included instruction in driving and maintenance, gunnery, wireless communications, tactics and leadership. By the end of 1942 the unit had completed its basic training and had conducted a number of field exercises around the Seymour–Puckapunyal area. It was also largely complete in terms of equipment having been finally equipped with relatively modern M3 Medium Grant tanks and M3 Light Stuarts.


14th Armoured Regiment (Australia), History
However, by December 1942 the strategic threat to Australia from Japan had lessened. The outcomes of the battles of the Coral Sea and Guadalcanal, and the Kokoda Track campaign led to a re-focus on New Guinea. This meant that the need for large armoured formations to defend Australia had vanished. As a result, the 2nd Armoured Division, and the 6th Armoured Brigade as part of it, was ordered to disband. The 14th Armoured Regiment disbanded on 19 February 1943, although it provided many personnel to the 13th Armoured Regiment  The 13th Armoured Regiment would subsequently join the 2nd Armoured Brigade which formed part of the 3rd Australian Armoured Division and was then based in Murgon, Queensland.


14th Army (German Empire)
The 14th Army (German: 14. Armee / Armeeoberkommando 14 / A.O.K. 14) was an army level command of the German Army in World War I formed in September 1917 in Krainburg for use against Italy. Its headquarters was located at Vittorio Veneto from 10 November 1917 until the army was disbanded on 22 January 1918. The 14th Army served on the Italian Front throughout its existence.


14th Army (German Empire), History
After the Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo, the Austro-Hungarians were exhausted and could not have withstood another attack. They appealed to the Germans for help and the Germans, fearing a collapse on the Italian Front, sent 7 divisions, 540 guns, 216 mortars and about 100 aircraft from the Western and Eastern Fronts. To control these troops, a new 14th Army under General der Infanterie Otto von Below was concentrated between Tolmin and Bovec. For the Battle of Caporetto a number of Austro-Hungarian divisions were added.


14th Army (German Empire), History
Following the successful offensive, the front soon froze again in trench warfare. The German High Command decided to withdraw its forces again to use on other fronts. On 23 January 1918 the Army Command was recalled (to form a new 17th Army on the Western Front). The German troops remaining on the Italian front came under the command of 51st Corps until it was withdrawn in February 1918.


14th Army (German Empire), Commanders
The 14th Army was commanded throughout its existence by General der Infanterie Otto von Below, former commander of 6th Army. On dissolution of 14th Army, von Below was transferred to command of the newly raised 17th Army on the Western Front.


14th Army (People's Republic of China)
The 14th Army was an army level formation of the People's Liberation Army.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Corps
14th Corps (Chinese: 第14军) was activated on February 14, 1949 basing on 4th Column of Zhongyuan Field Army and defecting Republic of China Army 110th Division. The corps commander was Li Chengfang, political commissar - Lei Rongtian.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Corps
The Corps was composed of the 40th, the 41st, and the 42nd Divisions.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Corps
During the Chinese Civil War, the corps took part in Guangdong Campaign and Xichang Campaign. From March 1950 the corps stationed in Yunnan province until its inactivation.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Corps
In 1959, elements from the corps took part in the crackdown on 1959 Tibetan uprising.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army Corps
In April 1960, the corps was renamed as 14th Army Corps (Chinese: 陆军第14军). By then the corps was composed of:


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army Corps
In late 1969, 116th Artillery Regiment and 39th Anti- Aircraft Artillery Regiment were renamed as Artillery Regiment, 14th Army Corps, and Anti- Aircraft Artillery Regiment, 14th Army Corps, respectively.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army Corps, Shadian Incident
In July 1975, 14th Army Corps, especially its 42nd Army Division, took part in the crackdown on Shadian incident as the main assault force, during which the PLA killed over 1000 Hui Muslim fighters with a loss of over 120 KIA.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army Corps, Shadian Incident
Known units/elements from 14th Army Corps took part in the incident:


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army Corps, Sino-Vietnamese War
From February to March 1979, the 14th Army Corps took part in the Sino-Vietnamese War. During the 25-day-long campaign, the army corps thrust 48-80 km into the Vietnamese territory, seized the city of Lào Cai and secured the bridgehead across the Red River.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army Corps, Sino-Vietnamese War
In April 1984 the army corps launched the Battle of Laoshan and the Battle of Zheyinshan.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army
In September 1985 the army corps was reorganized as 14th Army (Chinese: 第14集团军). The army was then composed of:


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army
In October 1996, 41st Infantry Division was transferred to People's Armed Police's control as 41st Armed Police Mobile Division.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army
In 1998, Tank Brigade, 14th Army was renamed as Armored Brigade, 14th Army.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army
In late 2011, Armored Brigade, 14th Army was redesignated as 18th Armored Brigade.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army
In late 2013, both the 31st Infantry Division and 40th Infantry Division were split into two brigades. The army became an "all-brigade" formation.


14th Army (People's Republic of China), 14th Army
In April 2017 the army was inactivated. Most of its compositions were inherited by 75th Army.


14th Army (RSFSR)
The 14th Army (Russian: 14-я армия) was a field army of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War era.


14th Army (RSFSR), History
The army was formed under the command of Kliment Voroshilov by an order of the Revolutionary Military Council on 4 June 1919 from the 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Army, part of the Southern Front. It initially included the 7th Ukrainian Rifle Division, and the Crimean Soviet Army was subordinated to it until July. From June, the army fought in fierce defense battles with the White Armed Forces of South Russia, and in its rear with the anarchist Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine in the Donbass and Left-Bank Ukraine towards Yekaterinoslav, Poltava, and Sumy.


14th Army (RSFSR), History
On 26 June, the army became part of the Ukrainian Group of Forces of the Southern Front alongside the 12th Army, although this organization was abolished on 26 July after the latter was directly subordinated to the Commander-in-Chief. On 7 July, the 7th Ukrainian Soviet Division was disbanded, and during the month the 41st and 57th Rifle Divisions joined the army, while the 58th Rifle Division was formed from the Crimean Rifle Division, itself formed from the Crimean Soviet Army. The 46th and 60th Rifle Divisions became part of the army in August, though the 60th was transferred within the month. In September, the 7th Rifle Division and the 8th Cavalry Division  joined the army.


14th Army (RSFSR), History
The army fought in the Orel–Kursk operation in October and November, launching the main attack and taking Kromy, Fatezh, Lgov, and Kursk. During the operation, on 14 October, the 13th Army shock group (including the Latvian Rifle Division, the Red Cossack Cavalry Brigade, and P.A. Pavlov's Separate Rifle Brigade), created to launch the main attack, was transferred to the 14th Army after a White attack cut it off from the rest of the 13th Army. The Estonian Rifle Division joined the army in the same month, but was transferred before its end. In November, the 7th and 57th Rifle Divisions and the 8th Cavalry Division were transferred and replaced by the 5th and 45th Rifle Divisions. The shock group was disbanded on 28 November after the Soviet victory.


14th Army (RSFSR), History
In the offensive of the Southern and Southeastern Fronts in late 1919 and early 1920, the army fought in the Kharkov operation, the Donbass operation, and the Pavlograd-Ekaterinoslav Operation, during which it captured Yekaterinoslav. The 14th Army cut off the left flank group of the Volunteer Army from the rest of the Volunteer Army in December and January 1920 in the Berdyansk Operation, reaching the Sea of Azov. The 5th Division was transferred in December, and the 42nd Rifle Division was part of the army during January 1920, with the 46th Division transferring during the month.


14th Army (RSFSR), History
On 10 January 1920, in accordance with an order issued four days earlier, it became part of the Southwestern Front when the Southern Front was reorganized. The 60th Division rejoined the army in February, and the 45th and Latvian Divisions transferred in March. In February and March, the army captured Odessa, Tiraspol, and Right-bank Ukraine in the Odessa operation.


14th Army (RSFSR), History
In April, the 44th and 45th Rifle Divisions joined the army. In May, the 44th and 45th Divisions transferred and the 8th Cavalry Division rejoined the army. The army fought in defensive battles against Polish troops in the Polish–Soviet War during April and May. In June, the 44th and 45th Divisions rejoined the army, with the 47th Rifle Division also joining the army. From June to August the army fought in the Lvov operation, attacking in the area of Gaysin, Vinnytsia and Proskurov. In July, the 47th Rifle and 8th Cavalry Divisions transferred.


14th Army (RSFSR), History
In August, the 45th and 47th Rifle and 8th Cavalry Divisions returned to the army, alongside the 24th Rifle Division. The army failed to capture Lvov due to the Polish victory in the war. In October, the 8th Cavalry was transferred and the 24th Rifle was transferred in November. In November, the army fought against the remnants of the Ukrainian Army in the area of Proskurov and Kamenets-Podolsk. During the month the 12th and 55th Rifle Divisions joined the army. In December, the 12th, 41st, 45th, 47th, 55th, and 60th Divisions transferred out of the army, while the 58th Division was briefly part of it. On 5 January 1921, the army was disbanded.


14th Army (RSFSR), Commanders
The army was led by the following commanders during its existence:


14th Army (Soviet Union)
The 14th Army was a field army of the Soviet Army, formed twice.


14th Army (Soviet Union)
The army was first formed during the Winter War, in which two of its divisions fought in the Battle of Petsamo. After Operation Barbarossa, the army fought against German and Finnish attacks in Operation Silver Fox. In the middle of July 1941 the army was able to hold its positions. In October 1944 it fought in the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive and seized Pechenga. The army defended and guarded the newly captured territory until the end of the war. Its headquarters became the Belomorsky Military District at the end of July 1945. The army reformed in June 1948 from the 126th Light Mountain Rifle Corps as the 14th Army (Assault). Stationed on the Chukchi Peninsula, the army's mission was to invade Alaska in event of a war. It was disbanded in May 1953 after Stalin's death.


14th Army (Soviet Union), History
The first 14th Army was formed in October 1939 in the Leningrad Military District. It participated in the Soviet-Finnish war, during which its 52nd and 104th Rifle Divisions fought in the Battle of Petsamo.


14th Army (Soviet Union), History
From 24 June 1941 the army included the following units.


14th Army (Soviet Union), History
The army was initially subordinated to the Northern Front and conducted defensive operations on the Murmansk, Kandalaksha and Ukhta directions against the German-Finnish Operation Silver Fox (29 June 1941 – 19 September 1941) and in coordination with the 7th Separate Army, in the Defensive Operations on the Petrozavodsk, Ukhtinsk, Rugozersk, and Olonetsk directions (1 July 1941 – 10 October 1941). In November 1941 three deer transportation units were formed in the 14th Army, each of them included 1,000 deer and 140–150 herdsmen and soldiers.


14th Army (Soviet Union), History
From the middle of July the 14th Army was able to stop Finnish enemy forces advance, and subsequently until October 1944 (from 23 August 1941 as part of the Karelian Front) it solidly retained its sector positions, and conducted active offensive combat for the purpose of improvement in the position it occupied.