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    Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of...
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    specialising in spearheading amphibious landings. The objective of Operation Postmaster was to board three Italian and German ships in the harbour on the...
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    Daily Telegraph, Max Hastings noted: "In January 1942 he launched Operation Postmaster, a picaresque 'cutting-out expedition', which seized two Italian...
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  • Marjorie Stewart (actress) (category Special Operations Executive personnel)
    played a key role in planning operations and possibly training female spies. Her connection with Operation Postmaster was mainly behind-the-scenes, involved...
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    carrying out clandestine raids. The highlight of the assignment was Operation Postmaster, in which the Italian liner Duchessa d'Aosta and the German tug Likomba...
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  • prepares to initiate Operation Postmaster, an off-the-books black-ops sabotage mission intended to disrupt the Nazis' U-boat resupply operation on the Spanish-controlled...
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  • The United States postmaster general (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The PMG is responsible for managing...
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  • operation since WWII, due to their mission to save the world from occult threats. Portraying a heavily fictionalized version of Operation Postmaster,...
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  • List and awarded an immediate Military Cross for his part in Operation Postmaster, the capture of three Italian and German ships from the neutral Spanish...
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    service (see picture above). In 1942, Nigeria played a role in "Operation Postmaster". In an adventurous manner, British special agents from Lagos captured...
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  • Exhibitioner) Operation Postmaster, a British WW2 clandestine military action Der Postmeister, or The Postmaster, 1940 German film Postmaster (film), a 2016...
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    No. 62 Commando (category Special Operations Executive)
    commanded by Major Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps. Its first operation, Operation Postmaster, was in January 1942, when March-Phillipps led the seizure...
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  • The Postmaster General for the Province of Canada was a member of the Executive Council for the Province of Canada responsible for the operation of the...
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    ships. Operation Postmaster (14 January 1942) – oversaw a Special Operations Executive capture of Axis shipping in neutral Spanish Guinea Operation Biting...
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    Italian and German supply ships which had been captured as part of "Operation Postmaster". The incident almost led to Franco's Spain entering the war alongside...
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  • and technology, a postmaster is the administrator of a mail server. Nearly every domain should have the e-mail address postmaster@example.com where errors...
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  • no.4 (winter): 704–709. Lett, Brian (2012). Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation Postmaster: The Top Secret Story Behind 007. ISBN 978-1-5267-8751-4 Lycett,...
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    was the scene of a secretive small scale British raid code named Operation Postmaster which was an action that sought to disrupt German U-boat resupply...
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    operational control of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). They carried out raids planned by SOE such as Operation Postmaster on the Spanish island of Fernando...
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    over the department's operations: Telecom Australia (colloquially "Telecom"; later became Telstra) and Australia Post. The Postmaster-General's Department...
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    June 20, 1957) is an American businessman who served as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the...
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    sunk earlier by U-651. In January 1942, the ship was involved in Operation Postmaster. In 1942, the ship was retrofitted, repainted in dazzle camouflage...
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    and send a number of capital ships to the area.[citation needed] Operation Postmaster was launched in January 1942. During this, No. 62 Commando carried...
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    spent several months serving aboard a Brixham trawler, suggesting Operation Postmaster. On 1 January 1915, the crew of Provident BM291 rescued 71 sailors...
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  • Operation Maple was a series of World War II operations in Italy in support of the Anzio landings. It comprised operations by the British Special Air Service...
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    intercepted and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Yamakaze. 14 January Operation Postmaster – British commando unit aboard an armed trawler board and capture...
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    The Channel Dash (German: Unternehmen Zerberus, Operation Cerberus) was a German naval operation during the Second World War. A Kriegsmarine (German Navy)...
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    Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II. It was the first British airborne...
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  • as Duchessa D'Aosta for Lloyd Triestino, Trieste. Captured during Operation Postmaster on 14 January 1942 by the SOE and Royal Navy off Fernando Po, Spanish...
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  • and British attack on Dakar, French West Africa (Senegal) Postmaster (1942) – SOE operation to capture three Axis vessels in the neutral Spanish island...
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