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    Crossbow was the code name in World War II for Anglo-American operations against the German long range reprisal weapons (V-weapons) programme. The primary...
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  • Operation Crossbow (later re-released as The Great Spy Mission) is a 1965 British espionage thriller set during the Second World War. This movie concerns...
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    V-2 rocket (category Operation Crossbow)
    information was particularly important for Operation Crossbow and Operation Hydra, both preliminary missions for Operation Overlord. The group was gradually captured...
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    including the V-2 rocket. The works were attacked by the British in Operation Crossbow from August 1943, before falling to the Soviets in May 1945. On April...
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    A crossbow is a ranged weapon using an elastic launching device consisting of a bow-like assembly called a prod, mounted horizontally on a main frame called...
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    established. Accomplishments of the Tallboy included 24 June 1944 Operation Crossbow attack on La Coupole which undermined the foundations of the V-2 assembly...
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    England. Following repeated heavy bombing by Allied forces during Operation Crossbow, the Germans were unable to complete the construction works and the...
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  • The Operation Crossbow Site is a historic location at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. During World War II, a reconstruction of a German V-1 flying bomb...
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  • Tell Crossbow (video game) Crossbow (film), a 2007 Australian coming-of-age drama Crossbow (journal), a UK conservative publication Operation Crossbow, a...
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    Anthony Quayle (category British Special Operations Executive personnel)
    Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), QB VII (1974) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Quayle was...
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  • Wymark's film appearances included: Children of the Damned (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), Repulsion (1965), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Witchfinder General...
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    the bombings by the British and United States air forces as part of Operation Crossbow against the German V-weapons program and the Normandy landings in...
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    factories. In particular, Dulles then had crucial information for Operation Crossbow and Operation Hydra. The group reported to him about the mass murder in Auschwitz...
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    directed by David Lean and made by MGM. Also for MGM Ponti produced Operation Crossbow (1965), a war film with Loren, The Girl and the General (1967) with...
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  • supporting roles. His films include Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Operation Crossbow, The Blue Max, Darling Lili, A Bridge Too Far, The Seven-Per-Cent...
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  • Times of David Lloyd George. Films in which Madoc appeared included Operation Crossbow (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), Berserk! (1967), Doppelgänger...
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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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  • minor roles in such films as Foreign Intrigue, The Spy Who Loved Me, Operation Crossbow, In Search of the Castaways and Billion Dollar Brain. He taught for...
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    Feldpolizei Operation Crossbow was one preliminary missions for Operation Overlord. See: Operation Crossbow – Preliminary missions for the Operation Overlord...
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    Middle (1964) and Cary Grant in Father Goose (1964). After a cameo in Operation Crossbow (1965), Howard supported Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express (1965)...
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  • against the V-1 flying bomb during Operation Crossbow. RAF fighters also flew long-range night intruder operations against German airfields and aircraft...
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    make The Great Adventure for Anthony Mann. For MGM he appeared in Operation Crossbow (1965), a war film with Sophia Loren. It was the first film he made...
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    Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962). Additional film appearances include Operation Crossbow (1965), The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), and The Failing of Raymond...
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    commanded the operation, the first time that Bomber Command used a master bomber to direct the attack of the main force. Hydra began the Crossbow campaign...
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  • campaign of 1944–45 and the Allied military and intelligence effort (Operation Crossbow) to counter it. The book covers both sides of the story – the Allied...
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  • Chalk Garden (1964) starring Hayley. After a cameo on the war film Operation Crossbow (1965), Mills made a third film with his daughter, The Truth About...
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    Mittelwerk (category Operation Crossbow)
    Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 29. McGovern, James (1964). Crossbow and Overcast. New York: W. Morrow. pp. 117, 120, 185. Cooksley, Peter G...
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    Roman Empire Lucilla Marriage Italian Style Filumena Marturano 1965 Operation Crossbow Nora Lady L Lady Louise Lendale/Lady L 1966 Judith Judith Arabesque...
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    Coast of Skeletons (1965). He also had a small role in Anderson's Operation Crossbow (1965). In 1964. he was a member of the jury at the 14th Berlin International...
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    when the crossbow originated, but it is believed to have appeared in China and Europe around the 7th to 5th centuries BC. In China the crossbow was one...
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