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    Coastal Command Anti U-Boat Devices School RAF was a training unit of the Royal Air Force and part of RAF Coastal Command. The unit was established during...
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  • Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF). Founded in 1936, it was to act as the RAF maritime arm, after the Fleet Air Arm became...
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  • Regiment Loran Training Unit RAF (April 1945) became Coastal Command Anti U-Boat Devices School RAF (April - August 1945) During the Second World War the...
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  • Development Unit RAF (1938) Loran Training Unit RAF (1944-45) became Coastal Command Anti U-Boat Devices School RAF Majunga Detachment Support Unit RAF (-1971)...
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  • rescue and orders Tyler on the captured U-boat immediately to submerge. As Dahlgren dies, Tyler takes command of U-571 and dives below the surface, where...
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    Also at Limavady, as part of No. 15 Group, was the Coastal Command Anti U-Boat Devices School RAF, which had previously existed under different identities...
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    Royal Air Force St. Eval or RAF St. Eval was a Royal Air Force station for the RAF Coastal Command, southwest of Padstow in Cornwall, England, UK. St Eval's...
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    Karl Dönitz (category U-boat commanders (Imperial German Navy))
    radar for U-boat detection into April and May 1943, and such units would not exist in Newfoundland until June. Convoys relied on RAF Coastal Command aircraft...
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  • Coastal Command Anti U-Boat Devices School RAF (1945) Coastal Command Flying Instructors School RAF (1945) became Coastal Command Instructors School RAF Coastal...
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    from Operational Training Units (OTUs), 250 from RAF Coastal Command and from Flying Training Command, Harris could easily make up the 1,000 aircraft....
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  • The Rocket U-boat was a series of military projects undertaken by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The projects, which were undertaken at Peenemünde...
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    strike, anti-submarine warfare and shipping attack and night fighter duties, both defensive and offensive. Mosquitos were widely used by the RAF Pathfinder...
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  • Ausbildungsgruppe für Front U-Boote – technical training group for front-line U-boats. AK – Alle Kraft (voraus), naval command for flank speed. Also "Äusserste...
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    RAF Coastal Command during this time and claimed a U-boat damaged and an E-boat destroyed. He was then promoted to wing commander and given command of...
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    Fifteenth Air Forces showed improvement in the use of H2X radar devices, and RAF Bomber Command was employing Gee-H to better advantage as its crews became...
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  • Q R S T U V W X Y Z A&TWF - Acquisition and Technology Work Force a – Army AA - Assembly Area AA – anti-aircraft AA – AEGIS Ashore AAA - anti-aircraft...
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    Destroying RAF Fighter Command would allow the Germans to gain control of the skies over the invasion area. It was supposed Bomber Command, Coastal Command, and...
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    Avro Shackleton (category 1940s British anti-submarine aircraft)
    particular its submarine force. Produced as the primary type equipping RAF Coastal Command, the Type 696, as it was initially designated, incorporated major...
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    Mosquitoes with RAF Coastal Command attacked Kriegsmarine U-boats and intercepted transport ship concentrations. After Operation Overlord, the U-boat threat in...
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    Naval mine (category Coastal fortifications)
    It is the only sweep effective against bottom mines. During WWII, RAF Coastal Command used Vickers Wellington bombers Wellington DW.Mk I fitted with degaussing...
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    Robert Watson-Watt (category People educated at Brechin High School)
    threat of German U-boats during World War II. It is estimated that huff-duff was used in about a quarter of all attacks on U-boats.[citation needed]...
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    out on Air-to-Surface-Vessel radar (ASV) for use by Coastal Command aircraft for hunting U-boats at sea, initially using the Lockheed Hudson equipped...
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  • RAF's most secret base. (Tempsford had been rejected for Bomber Command's purposes by Harris in March 1942, as it frequently became waterlogged.) RAF...
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  • called Funkmessgerät (radio measuring device). By the time of the Battle of Britain in mid-1940, the Royal Air Force (RAF) had fully integrated RDF as part...
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  • proved successful for Bomber Command. No. 1 Group RAF laid mines along the sea routes and No. 8 Group RAF bombed coastal targets near Heligoland. The...
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    destroy the RAF to gain the air supremacy which was a prerequisite for the invasion. At night, aircraft of RAF Bomber Command and RAF Coastal Command flew the...
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  • BAE Systems Inc. MK90 grain Chemring cartridge actuated devices/propellant actuated devices, which can be used in ejection seats General Dynamics vehicle...
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    Islands. Guernsey received two command tanks, 12 normal tanks, and five flame-throwing tanks.: 83  U-boat and S-Boat facilities amounted to fuel tanks...
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    led to immediate interest on behalf of RAF Coastal Command which saw this as a way to find enemy ships and U-boats, and by the British Army, which was interested...
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  • sending stations transmitting U-boat messages. In addition, he asked the Marine Command for a special, separate U-boat Enigma key, which according to...
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