Portal:Puerto Rico/Did you know entries/17
Military-related topics
- ... that in April 1944, Captain Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, was the first Hispanic submarine commander in the United States Navy?[1]
- ... that Colonel Raúl G. Villaronga (Ret.) was the first Puerto Rican to be elected as Mayor of a Texas city (Killeen)?[2]
- ... that the ship which captured Roberto Cofresí and his crew in 1825, the U.S. Grampus, was lost at sea with all its crew in 1843?[3]
- ... that on October 1918, Dr. Dolores Piñero, a native of San Juan, became the first Puerto Rican woman doctor to serve in the United States Army under contract during World War I?[4]
- ... that Sergeant First Class Jorge Otero Barreto (Ret.) a.k.a. "The Puerto Rican Rambo", was the most decorated Hispanic American soldier in the Vietnam War with a total of thirty-eight military decorations?[5]
- ... that Private First Class Domingo Arroyo, Jr., a United States Marine, was the first Puerto Rican and American serviceman to be killed in Operation Restore Hope during the Somalian Civil War?[6]
- ... that LTJG (Lieutenant Junior Grade) María Rodríguez Denton was the first Puerto Rican female who became an officer in the United States Navy as member of the WAVES and that it was LTJG Rodríguez Denton who forwarded the news (through channels) to President Harry S. Truman that World War II had ended?[7]
- ... that Captain Juan de Amezquita defended Puerto Rico from an invasion by the Dutch in 1625 and wounded Captain Balduino Enrico (Boudewijn Hendricksz) in a sword fight during the process?[8]
- ^ "The Submarine Forces Diversity Trailblazer - Capt. Marion Frederick Ramirez de Arellano"; Summer 2007 Undersea Warfare magazine; pg.31
- ^ Don jibaro
- ^ Luis R. Negrón Hernández, Jr. "Roberto Cofresí: El pirata caborojeño" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2007-05-25.
- ^ Puerto Rican Servicewomen Answer the Call to Serve
- ^ Puerto Rican veteran shares tales of Vietnam[dead link]
- ^ Hackworth, "Defending America", 1995.
- ^ Women's Military Memorial, Retrieved May 21, 2008
- ^ "DON JUAN DE HARO Y LOS HOLANDESES" (24 September 1625)