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Đuro Jakčin
Đuro Jakčin (22 February 1889 – 16 February 1944) was a Croatian naval officer and first commander of Navy of the Independent State of Croatia. Career Jakčin was born in Vienna in 1889. Having graduated from naval academy in 1909, he joined Austro-Hungarian Navy and in November 1914 rose to the rank of ship-of-the-line lieutenant. In 1917 he was given the command of torpedo boat 9. He was retired in February 1919. Jakčin joined fledgling Royal Yugoslav Navy, but was retired in December 1921 in his old rank. After the invasion and breakup of Yugoslavia, on 10 April 1941 authorities of Independent State of Croatia gave him the rank of a rear admiral and appointed him commander of naval forces. He remained in that capacity until 17 September 1943. However, during that time he mainly served as military attaché A military attaché is a military expert who is attached to a diplomatic mission, often an embassy. This type of attaché post is normally filled by a high-ranki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mile Budak I Đuro Jakčin
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly . With qualifiers, ''mile'' is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now exactly), the Italian mile (roughly ), and the Chinese mile (now exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to or in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
