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    Adlertag ("Eagle Day") was the first day of Unternehmen Adlerangriff ("Operation Eagle Attack"), an air operation by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe (German air...
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  • Adlertag (Eagle Day) was the Goring designated code name for the first day of German offensive air operations aimed at destroying the RAF. Adlertag ("Eagle...
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    issued on 1 August attempted to keep all the options open. The Luftwaffe's Adlertag campaign was to start around 5 August, subject to weather, with the aim...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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  • years, being promoted, and that he had killed during combat. Eagle Day, or Adlertag in German, refers to 13 August 1940, the first day of Unternehmen Adlerangriff...
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  • invasion of France: June 1940 Battle of Britain: July–October 1940 Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Battle of Graveney Marsh Operation...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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    German attacks on airfields took place; it was known to the Luftwaffe as Adlertag ("Eagle Day"). Bf 109s of Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26) were sent out in advance...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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  • operations Adler, the symbol of the Germanic eagle Adler-32, checksum algorithm Adlertag, or the Day of the Eagle, German name for the first day of operations of...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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  • British Aluminium, and British Aircraft Corporation. Chief of Air Staff Adlertag Strategic bombing during World War II Strong advocate of area bombing....
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    Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945, p. 265 http://www.adlertag.de/waffen/rockets.htm (in German) http://www.deutscheluftwaffe...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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  • off Malin Head, Ireland, by German submarine U-56. August 13 – WWII: The Adlertag ("Eagle Day") strike on southern England occurs, starting the rapid escalation...
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    the British mainland. The campaign opened on 13 August 1940, christened Adlertag (Eagle Day) by Hermann Göring. The entire day met with repeated German...
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    operations to the British mainland and RAF-related targets. On 13 August (Adlertag, Eagle Day) the main air offensive against the RAF began. The Kanalkampf...
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    Dynamo Abbeville Lille Paula 1st Alps Haddock Force Britain Kanalkampf Adlertag The Hardest Day Battle of Britain Day Sea Lion 1941–1943 Cerberus Donnerkeil...
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