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    Operation Hydra was an attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German scientific research centre at Peenemünde on the night of 17/18 August 1943. Group Captain...
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  • Operation Hydra may refer to: Operation Hydra (1943), a bombing of Peenemünde in World War II Operation Hydra (Yugoslavia), a 1942 SOE operation in Yugoslavia...
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  • (Yugoslavia) Operation Hydra (1943) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hydra. Greek ship Hydra, a list of Hellenic Navy vessels HMS Hydra, a list of...
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  • diverted forces from the strategic bombing offensive for Operation Crossbow into the Operation Hydra (1943) that bombed Peenemünde. This bombing was highly successful...
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    on the V-4 programme. Aggregat series Peenemünde Operation Hydra (1943) Operation Most III Operation Crossbow Basil Collier (1976) The Battle of the V-Weapons...
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    Hydra, or Ydra or Idra (Greek: Ύδρα, romanized: Ýdra, pronounced [ˈiðra] in Modern Greek, Arvanitika: Nύδρα/Nidhra), and in antiquity Hydrea, is one of...
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  • Luxembourg in 1968 and awarded the highest decoration of the resistance. Operation Hydra (1943) Luxembourg portal "Fédération des enrôlés de force - Henri Roth"...
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    Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission (category Aerial operations and battles of World War II)
    victory, the scale and range of the American operation, along with the British-led Operation Hydra (1943) in the same day, shocked the German air command;...
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    Hans Jeschonnek (category 1943 deaths)
    night, Bomber Command carried out Operation Hydra (1943), against facilities at Peenemünde on the night of 17–18 August 1943. The defences failed, and in the...
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    Operation Chastise, commonly known as the Dambusters Raid, was an attack on German dams carried out on the night of 16/17 May 1943 by 617 Squadron RAF...
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    Defence Committee (Operations) directed the campaign's first planned raid (the Operation Hydra attack on Peenemünde in August 1943). The works in France...
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    where he secretly reformed Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D. Moonglow – a 2016 novel which features a subplot which is based on Operation Paperclip. A History of...
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  • Hydra (often capitalized as HYDRA) is a fictional terrorist organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Its name alludes...
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  • Project Big Ben (category Operation Crossbow)
    Intelligence Home Army and V1 and V2 — Polish resistance efforts. Operation Crossbow Operation Hydra (1943) McGovern, James (1964). Crossbow and Overcast. New York:...
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    information was important for Operation Crossbow and Operation Hydra, both pre-missions for Operation Overlord. During Operation Hydra, the research facility...
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  • Pointblank. Hydra (1943) — bombing of Peenemünde rocket research center. Double Strike (1943) — bombing of Regensburg and Schweinfurt. Huckaback (1943) — commando...
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  • is a list of Special Operations Executive operations in World War II. Bernard (1943) – Albania, partisan support Cameron (1943) – Albania, partisan support...
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  • August: The Operation Hydra bombing of V-2 facilities at Peenemünde began Operation Crossbow. 18 August: The counterattack against Operation Hydra included...
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  • Montgomery in Messina, Sicily, completing the Allied invasion of Sicily. Operation Hydra: The British Royal Air Force sets out to bomb the Peenemünde Army Research...
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  • War II. Both Hoathley 1 and the second mission, Operation Fungus, flew out on the night of 20 April 1943 from an airfield Derna, Libya. The missions' objective...
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  • graph-theoretic hydra game with behavior similar to that of Goodstein sequences: the "Hydra" (named for the mythological multi-headed Hydra of Lerna) is...
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    out in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began...
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  • Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II (category Operation Crossbow)
    overall Operation Crossbow to disrupt German secret weapon development. The first raid on Peenemünde, on the Baltic coast of Germany, was Operation Hydra of...
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    Camp X (category Special Operations Executive)
    that could send and transmit radio and telegraph communications, called Hydra. Established December 6, 1941, the training facility closed before the end...
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    Steel, Key Highway, Baltimore, with completion on 27 May 1943. Hydra commissioned 25 September 1943, and arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, 1 October to prepare...
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  • Greece Operation Husar 1943 - German cancelled planned anti-shipping operation in Kara Sea by Lützow Operation Insel 1943 - German action at Hydra Island...
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    Production Plant No. 1") was just about to go into operation, Operation Hydra bombed Peenemünde. On August 26, 1943, Albert Speer called a meeting with Hans Kammler...
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    German battleship Tirpitz (category Naval aviation operations and battles)
    under the target. Ten vessels were assigned to the operation, scheduled for 20–25 September 1943. Only eight of them reached Kåfjord in Norway for the...
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    Allied bombers in the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. : Operation Crossbow begins with Operation Hydra when the RAF bombs the Peenemünde V-2 rocket facility...
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    Released in 1939, the 1940–1949 GM Hydra-Matic Drive was used by the Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and Pontiac divisions. The Hydra-Matic Drive used a specialized...
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