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    The Cherbourg Project (or Boats of Cherbourg) was an Israeli military operation that took place on 24 December 1969 and involved the escape of five remaining...
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    commune of Cherbourg-Octeville on 28 February 2000, which was merged into the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on 1 January 2016. Cherbourg is protected...
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  • Cherbourg-Octeville (French: [ʃɛʁbuʁ ɔkt(ə)vil] ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. It was formed when...
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    with missiles and cannons . Anti- submarine warfare The Cherbourg Project (or Boats of Cherbourg) was an Israeli military operation that took place on 24...
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    611729°W / 49.659072; -1.611729 Cherbourg Harbour (French: rade de Cherbourg; literally, the "roadstead of Cherbourg") is a harbour situated at the northern...
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  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (French: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music...
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    called "Operation Noa" but came to be known as the Cherbourg Project, was assisted by sympathetic Cherbourg shipyard and boat building company employees, but...
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    Sa'ar 3-class missile boat (category Cherbourg-Octeville)
    The Sa'ar 3 class ("Cherbourg") is a series of missile boats built in Cherbourg, France at the Amiot Shipyard based on an Israeli Navy modification of...
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    Cherbourg Naval Base is a naval base in Cherbourg Harbour, Cherbourg, Manche department, Normandy. The town has been a base of the French Navy since the...
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    Eli Reismann, then members of Hashomer Hatzair. Limon oversaw the Cherbourg Project that involved smuggling five missile boats that had originally been...
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    Mehdi Ben Barka in 1965. Cherbourg Project – Operation Noa, the 1969 smuggling of five Sa'ar 3-class missile boats out of Cherbourg.[citation needed] The...
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    hierarchy and chain of command he remains a commodore. Israel portal Cherbourg Project INS Dakar Military equipment of Israel Betar Naval Academy Israel...
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    scandal (Operation Fast and Furious) Argentine arms trafficking scandal Cherbourg Project Cement Incident Coventry Four Cuban packages Chong Chon Gang Conflict...
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    Cherbourg's Gare Maritime or Gare Maritime Transatlantique was a railway station at the end of the railway line from Paris' Gare Saint-Lazare and of the...
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    The Battle of Cherbourg was part of the Battle of Normandy during World War II. It was fought immediately after the successful Allied landings on 6 June...
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    The Raid on Cherbourg took place in August 1758 during the Seven Years' War when a British force was landed on the coast of France by the Royal Navy with...
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  • Palestine (PFLP). Cherbourg Project (1969) – Israeli military action involving the escape of five missile boats from the French port of Cherbourg. Shelling on...
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    activity was shipbuilding for fishing boats, sailing, and warship in Cherbourg. He became famous for designing and producing Missile Boat (fast attack...
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    Missile boat the Israeli Navy received. He also participated in the Cherbourg Project. During the Yom Kippur War, he participated in Battle of Latakia as...
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    The Rose de Cherbourg area is a suspended urban promenade inaugurated in September 2023 in the La Défense district in Greater Paris. Located above the...
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    The bombardment of Cherbourg took place on June 25, 1944, during World War II, when ships from the United States Navy and the British Royal Navy attacked...
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    allowed for the Israeli raid against Egypt's Red Sea coast. Cherbourg Project – the Boats of Cherbourg (Hebrew: ספינות שרבורג) was an Israeli military operation...
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    known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). After working with the...
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    were initiated in 1967 after the arrival of new ships from Cherbourg after the Cherbourg Project. These vessels were initially used for training purpose...
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    Ferries on the route between Poole on the south coast of England and Cherbourg, France. She was built at Masa Yards Turku New Shipyard in Finland for...
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    held for two years. Telem also took part in the Six-Day War, the Cherbourg Project, and the War of Attrition as a Navy officer. In 1972 he was promoted...
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  • Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Renavand were the defending champions, but lost in the first round. Laurynas Grigelis and Uladzimir Ignatik won the title...
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  • INS Sufa (1969), a Sa'ar 3-class missile boat, command vessel of the Cherbourg Project. INS Sufa (2003), a Sa'ar 4.5-class missile boat, second ship of the...
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    to continue his service for the vital naval operation known as the Cherbourg Project. In 1969, while he was a technical superintendent in ZIM Europe lines...
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    foothold that they gradually expanded when they captured the port at Cherbourg on 26 June and the city of Caen on 21 July. A failed counterattack by...
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