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  • A triangular division is a designation given to the way military divisions are organized. In a triangular organization, the division's main body is composed...
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  • HMS Marigold was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 4 September 1940 and was sunk by an Italian air-dropped torpedo on 9 December...
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    The 2nd (African) Division was a British Empire colonial unit that fought during the Second World War. On 19 July 1940, the 2nd (African) Division was...
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  • The 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army first raised from the Cinque Ports of Kent and Sussex in 1859. It later...
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    USS PC-815 was a PC-461-class submarine chaser built for the United States Navy during World War II. Its first commander, for about eighty days in 1943...
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  • The US Army Field Manual on Interrogation, sometimes known by the military nomenclature FM 34-52, is a 177-page manual describing to military interrogators...
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  • Eduard Kazimirovich Tisse (Russian: Эдуа́рд Казими́рович Тиссэ́, Latvian: Eduards Tisē; 13 April 1897 – 18 November 1961) was a Soviet cinematographer...
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  • Castle-guard was an arrangement under the feudal system, by which the duty of finding knights to guard royal castles was imposed on certain manors, knight's...
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    Franklin C. "Chuck" Spinney (born May 2, 1945) is an American former military analyst for the Pentagon who became famous in the early 1980s for what became...
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    Captain Thomas Henry William Bang-fee Sarll (23 September 1882 – 8 July 1977), known as Tiger Sarll, was a British Army captain, war correspondent, cameraman...
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  • Thumbnail for Sark during the German occupation of the Channel Islands
    The island of Sark forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey which with the Bailiwick of Jersey form the Channel Islands. Offered the opportunity to evacuate...
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  • Thumbnail for 330th Troop Carrier Squadron
    The 330th Troop Carrier Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last active briefly as the 330th Airlift Flight, a personnel airlift unit...
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    The Government Service Ensign is a defaced Blue Ensign flown by vessels owned by the British Ministry of Defence for which no other ensign is appropriate...
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  • Thumbnail for Oliver S. Picher
    Oliver S. Picher (January 1, 1905 – July 20, 1984) was a United States Air Force lieutenant general. He served as commander of the 307th Bombardment Group...
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    Reginald Thomas John Levinge (1813–1848) was a British aristocrat and second in line to the Levinge baronetcy but never became baronet. He served as a...
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    The Slingsby SAH 2200 hovercraft is a small military hovercraft designed and originally produced by the Slingsby Amphibious Hovercraft Company at their...
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