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    Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers...
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  • Look up Pluto or pluto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Solar System. Pluto or Plouto may also refer to: Pluto (mythology)...
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    New Horizons (redirect from Pluto probe)
    a planned launch in January 2006 and arrival at Pluto in 2015. Alice Bowman became Mission Operations Manager (MOM). New Horizons is the first mission...
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  • returning from bombing raids over Germany in poor visibility, and Operation Pluto, which installed prefabricated fuel pipelines between England and France...
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    Huddell, a ship converted in 1944 into a pipe transport to support Operation Pluto, was transferred to Greece and converted to a floating museum dedicated...
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    involvement in the Second World War, when it was used to carry one of the Operation Pluto pipelines and as training area for the 40 Royal Marine Commando battalion...
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    225 Hastings, p. 256 Wilmot, p. 389 Clymer, Samuel (August 2011). "Operation Pluto: The Red Ball Express" (PDF). The Intercom. 34 (8): 8. Archived from...
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    re-supply. Many innovative elements were included in the operation to ensure its success. Operation Pluto was a scheme developed by Arthur Hartley, chief engineer...
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  • V took part in pipelaying activities during July 1944, as part of Operation Pluto, which brought together British scientists, oil companies and the armed...
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  • States and Cuba. Peter Pan (1960s) — transfer of Cubans to the US Operation Pluto (1961) — plan to invade Cuba and overthrow its government using a CIA-trained...
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  • pipeline used in Operation Pluto of World War II P-3 radar, NATO reporting name "Dumbo" Search for "dumbo" on Wikipedia. Dumbo's Circus Operation Dumbo Drop...
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    submarine oil pipeline was conducted with one laid across the Medway in Operation Pluto. The Medway's 'marriage' to the Thames is given extensive treatment...
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    together with all the major departments, on the latest plan (code-named Operation Pluto), which involved 1,000 men landed in a ship-borne invasion at Trinidad...
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    its significance as an existing Liberty ship example, its role in Operation PLUTO (pipeline-under-the-sea), its later work as a cable transport for the...
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    were mainly supplied by rail. Fuels were brought by tankers and the Operation Pluto pipeline from the UK, and delivered by barge and pipeline to the army...
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    submarines. The island was the starting point for one of the earlier Operation Pluto pipelines to feed fuel to Europe after the Normandy landings. The Needles...
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  • involved in the development of the bombsight which sank the Tirpitz, the Operation Pluto pipeline project and the FIDO fog dispersion system. Following the...
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    tragic results. Operation Biting – captured a Würzburg radar. Operation Starkey – a staged invasion of Europe in 1943. Operation Pluto – construction of...
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    Natural gas pipeline system in the United States Gas networks simulation Operation Pluto Petroleum transport Pigging Pipeline bridge Pneumatic tube, a method...
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    Air Resupply And Communications Service (category Special operations units of the United States Air Force)
    equipping and organizing a Cuban exile force. The Cubans executed "Operation Pluto", an amphibious paratroop invasion of Cuba at Bahia de Conchinos, in...
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    underwater oil pipelines were laid between Dungeness and France in Operation Pluto. The lines from Dungeness were part of a network called "Dumbo" and...
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    (23 km) long. During the Second World War the service transported the Operation Pluto pipeline. Folkestone and Hythe are represented in Parliament by the...
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    during Operation Overlord – 'D-Day'. Other significant military engineering projects of World War II include Mulberry harbour and Operation Pluto. Modern...
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    cable technology to create the world's first submarine oil pipeline in Operation Pluto during World War II. Active fiber-optic cables may be useful in detecting...
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  • was a Royal Navy shore establishment responsible for the planning of Operation Pluto, the construction of the undersea pipeline that supplied the Allied...
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  • War oil pipeline systems built under the English Channel as part of Operation Pluto to supply Allied forces in Europe Project BAMBI (Ballistic Missile...
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    construction of artificial ports (Operation Mulberry) and an underwater pipeline across the English Channel (Operation Pluto), intensive bombardment of railways...
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    many of whom were children in the same area as US military personnel. Operation Pluto Lily: a floating airstrip using components developed for the Mulberry...
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    pipeline that had been laid across the Firth of Clyde was the site of Operation Pluto, the world's first deep-water test of its kind. This was one of many...
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    On 23 December 2023, the tanker Chem Pluto was struck by a anti-ship missile or drone while it was carrying oil from Jubail, Saudi Arabia, to New Mangalore...
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