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  • Thumbnail for Fukuryu
    Fukuryu (Japanese: 伏龍, Hepburn: Fukuryū) (also known as suicide divers and kamikaze frogmen) were a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units prepared...
    6 KB (750 words) - 12:19, 11 March 2024
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    A clearance diver was originally a specialist naval diver who used explosives underwater to remove obstructions to make harbours and shipping channels...
    13 KB (1,383 words) - 00:30, 13 April 2024
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    XII Bomber Command is an inactive United States Army Air Forces formation. Its last assignment was with the Twelfth Air Force, based in Corsica, France...
    13 KB (1,161 words) - 21:08, 29 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Artur Silveira da Mota, Baron of Jaceguai
    Artur Silveira da Mota, Baron of Jaceguai (26 May 1843 — 6 June 1914) was a Brazilian admiral, noble and writer. Mota fought in the Paraguayan War. He...
    10 KB (1,261 words) - 19:45, 4 January 2023
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    The 14th Cavalry Regiment is a cavalry regiment of the United States Army. It has two squadrons that provide reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition...
    16 KB (1,904 words) - 03:30, 7 June 2023
  • The London Controlling Section (LCS) was a British secret department established in September 1941, under Oliver Stanley, with a mandate to coordinate...
    17 KB (2,167 words) - 09:46, 5 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for VII Bomber Command
    The VII Bomber Command is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with Seventh Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was inactivated...
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  • Royal Air Force Skellingthorpe or more simply RAF Skellingthorpe is a former Royal Air Force station which was operational during the Second World War...
    8 KB (638 words) - 16:47, 2 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Spanish cruiser Rapido
    Rapido was an auxiliary cruiser that served in the Spanish Navy during the Spanish–American War in 1898. Before her Spanish Navy service, she served as...
    22 KB (1,983 words) - 07:37, 16 March 2023
  • Gold Star Families for Peace (GSFP) is a United States-based organization founded in January 2005 by individuals who lost family members in the Iraq War...
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    The T-13 was a tank destroyer in use with the Belgian armed forces before World War II and during the Battle of Belgium. It was designed by Vickers-Armstrong...
    26 KB (3,548 words) - 18:39, 27 June 2023
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    The third USS Princeton was a composite gunboat in the United States Navy. Princeton was laid down in May 1896 by J. H. Dialogue and Son, Camden, New Jersey;...
    10 KB (1,008 words) - 10:57, 21 March 2023
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    Vladimir Mikhailovich Vinogradov (2 August 1921 – 21 June 1997) was a prominent Soviet diplomat in the second half of the 20th century. Vinogradov was...
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  • Abteilung III b was the domestic counterintelligence branch of the Imperial German Army from 1889 until the end of the First World War. Initially created...
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  • Thumbnail for Jörgen Ericsson
    Rear Admiral Jörgen Fredrik Ericsson (born 25 November 1953) is a retired Swedish Navy officer. His senior commands include commanding officer of the 3rd...
    15 KB (1,216 words) - 06:19, 20 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for 2-inch RP
    The 2-inch RP, short for Rocket Projectile, 2-inch, Number 1 Mark 1, was an unguided rocket weapon developed by the Royal Navy in the 1950s. It is generally...
    15 KB (2,166 words) - 22:47, 26 December 2022
  • Émile Allegret (24 April 1907 – 22 November 1990) was a French soldier and member of the French Resistance during World War II. After secondary school...
    6 KB (552 words) - 10:18, 23 April 2023
  • The Greater Manchester Army Cadet Force (GMACF) is the county cadet force for Greater Manchester, which forms part of the wider Army Cadet Force, a youth...
    10 KB (437 words) - 16:09, 27 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Liberation of the Holýšov concentration camp
    On 5 May 1945, the concentration camp in German-occupied Holýšov was liberated by the Polish Holy Cross Mountains Brigade. Around 700 women were freed...
    3 KB (265 words) - 11:46, 21 August 2022
  • The 1st Leningrad Tank Red Banner and Order of Suvorov Brigade was a tank brigade of the Red Army during World War II. The brigade was in the lines during...
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