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    Hel Peninsula (Polish pronunciation: [xɛl] ; Polish: Mierzeja Helska, Półwysep Helski; Kashubian: Hélskô Sztremlëzna; German: Halbinsel Hela or Putziger...
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  • up Hel or hel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hel or HEL may refer to: Hel Peninsula, on the Polish Baltic coast Hel, Poland, a town on the Hel Peninsula...
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    historiography as the September Campaign). The defense of the Hel Peninsula took place around the Hel Fortified Area, a system of Polish fortifications that...
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    Hel (Kashubian: Hél; German: Hela) is a seaside resort city in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland, located on the tip of the Hel...
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    the Hel Peninsula. The bay has an average depth of 2 m (7 ft) to 6 m (20 ft). There is a shallow sand-bank from Rewa to Kuźnica in the middle of Hel Peninsula...
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  • Hel Peninsula, Poland Heracles Peninsula, disputed between Ukraine and Russia Kerch Peninsula, disputed between Ukraine and Russia Karpass Peninsula,...
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    resort in northern Poland, located on the Hel Peninsula in a forested area between the towns of Jastarnia and Hel in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship...
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    of 70 km (43 mi) twice as long as the better known and more populous Hel Peninsula in the western part of the Gdańsk Bay. The Vistula Spit stretches in...
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    The Hel Fortified Area (Polish: Rejon Umocniony Hel) was a set of Polish fortifications, constructed on the Hel Peninsula in northern Poland, in close...
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    Gdynia to Hel Peninsula, from where they were to start the so-called Operation Rurka. The plan was to lay a naval mine barrier between Hel Peninsula and Danzig...
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    Pelplin) and the Malbork Castle. The voivodeship also includes the narrow Hel Peninsula and the Polish half of the Vistula Spit. Other tourist destinations...
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    Fryderyk Getkant designed a fort called Władysławowo located on the Hel Peninsula, several kilometers east of today's town of Władysławowo. It was officially...
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    retreating to the headland at Oxhöft, from where they were evacuated to the Hel Peninsula. Danzig finally fell on 30 March 1945, after which the remnants of the...
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    connecting the Hel to the mainland until 9 September 1939. Unrug had about 2,000 men under his control in the Hel. The narrow Hel peninsula was a natural...
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    Hel Peninsula) and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia (Sambian Peninsula). The coast of the bay features two very long sandspits, the Hel peninsula and...
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  • fortress, MSK was used in the occupation of Gdynia and in the battle of Hel peninsula. MSK remained active for the rest of World War II, mainly on the Eastern...
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    16 April 1945, Goya was sailing from Gotenhafen (Gdynia), around the Hel Peninsula and across the Baltic Sea to Kiel in western Germany. The convoy included...
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    taking aboard naval mines from a floating depot, the flotilla headed for Hel Peninsula, assisted by ORP Wicher and two gunboats. En route she was attacked...
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    Presidential Residence "Jurata-Hel" in Hel, the president's Baltic coastal retreat Summer residence at the Hel Peninsula Presidential Villa in Promnik...
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    operator, decided to renumber line 666, which runs to Hel, Poland, a town on the Hel Peninsula, to 669. Bible portal 666 (number) 2300 day prophecy Biblical...
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  • off by sea, evacuating from the Hel Peninsula. Only a small remnant of the division came back from the Hel Peninsula. This remnant assembled at the Baltic...
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    south, the Bay of Gdańsk lies east of the Hel Peninsula on the Polish coast and west of the Sambia Peninsula in Kaliningrad Oblast. The Bay of Pomerania...
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    Władysławowo. It is situated between Władysławowo and Kuźnica on the Hel Peninsula on the southern Baltic Sea in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, northern...
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    County, Pomeranian Voivodship, northern Poland. It is located on the Hel Peninsula on the Baltic Sea. It is a popular Polish seaside resort and small fishing...
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    projectile on Puck, fishing village and airbase in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. "Den anden Verdenskrig udbrød i Gaar Middags Kl. 11", Kristeligt Dagblad...
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    General von Saucken, on the Heiligenbeil and Danzig beachheads, on the Hel Peninsula in the Vistula delta surrendered; as did the forces on the Greek islands;...
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    was alluded to by the 1945 Wedding to the Sea. The largest spits are Hel Peninsula and the Vistula Spit. The largest Polish Baltic island is Wolin. The...
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    German units advancing from the other direction. Polish defenders on the Hel Peninsula on the shore of the Baltic Sea held out until 2 October. The last operational...
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    northern Italy; Austria; Bohemia and Moravia; the Courland peninsula in Latvia; the Hel Peninsula in Poland and in Germany towards Hamburg, facing British...
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    destroyer unsuccessfully attacked Polish ships in the naval base on the Hel Peninsula. She was lightly damaged during the action. In mid-February 1940, while...
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