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Let's see;

 >> Not sure what a "cptn 2nd rank" is/was. Do you mean a captain in the reserves?
 >Soviet Navy
 >If he was assigned to a shore battery in the continental
 >U.S., then the fact that he died while commanding it means
 >he probably didn't die from enemy action.
 >Defence of Sevastopol 1941
 >So it would not have been an adventure, even for someone
 >reading about it who didn't know him. However, if the
 >death had been in combat, then for someone NOT your uncle,
 >his death might have counted as an adventure.

Hey, I can see an adventure seed here;

Officer in the Solomani Navy defending Terra during the SolRimWar & assigned to a Planetary Defense Battery at, you guessed it, Sevastopol in the Crimean Peninsula!

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