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    Operation Tigerfish was the military code name in World War II for the air raid on Freiburg in the evening of 27 November 1944 by the Royal Air Force...
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  • of Dunkirk. William Collins, London, 2014, ISBN 978-0-00754-951-1 Operation Tigerfish: Air raid on Freiburg on 27 November 1944. Big Deal, Der Spiegel...
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  • during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Conqueror was also equipped with Tigerfish torpedoes, but her captain chose to use the more reliable, 55-year-old...
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    November 1944, a raid by more than 300 bombers of RAF Bomber Command (Operation Tigerfish) destroyed a large portion of the city centre, with the notable exception...
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  • Tigerfish Aviation is an aerospace research and development company based in Norwood, South Australia. The company has been developing a retractable pontoon...
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    The historical building in the city centre was destroyed during Operation Tigerfish on 27 November 1944, followed by further bombings of brewery facilities...
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  • largest non-nuclear explosions in history, and the largest on UK soil. Operation Tigerfish: Royal Air Force bombing of Freiburg im Breisgau kills 2,800. November...
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    helped to extinguish fires during the British raid on 27 November (Operation Tigerfish), in which parts of the town centre were totally destroyed. Witnesses...
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    windows are framed in black and gold with colorful portals. During Operation Tigerfish in 1944, the old town hall burned out completely and the entire interior...
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    1944, the British Royal Air Force bombed the city centre as part of Operation Tigerfish, killing almost 3,000 people and injuring some 9,600 people. 14,525...
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    British air raid on the city on the evening of 27 November 1944, Operation Tigerfish, destroyed all the overhead line, the majority of the tracks and...
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    redesigned from 1920 to 1924. Due to the air attack on the city (Operation Tigerfish), the concert hall and park were destroyed, and the park remained...
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    Mark 24 Tigerfish homing torpedo, there were doubts about its reliability. Initial reports from Argentina claimed that Conqueror fired two Tigerfish torpedoes...
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    British service, the submarines were supplied with up to 18 Marconi Mk 24 Tigerfish Mod 2 torpedoes; they were also capable of using UGM-84 Sub-Harpoon missiles...
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  • were carried, although these were replaced in the 1970s by the Mark 24 Tigerfish torpedo. The class were also the first since the World War I-era R class...
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    Nile crocodiles. The dam is also home to the southernmost population of tigerfish. Other fish species include catfish and kurper. No information regarding...
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    the unreliable Tigerfish. This proposal did not gain approved project status, although its raison d'être was similar to that for Tigerfish, and intended...
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  • as tiger butterflies Arctiinae (moth), commonly known as tiger moths Tigerfish, refers to various fish families Great Tiger, fictional boxer from Nintendo's...
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  • this operation, too, was cancelled. Postwar, Onyx sank the hulk of the landing ship Sir Galahad with a Mk 8 Torpedo after firing two Mk 24 Tigerfish, the...
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    remeasured in kilometres using Ongar as its zero point. The Royal Navy's Tigerfish torpedo was known as Project ONGAR during development. List of former...
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    List of flying boats and floatplanes Floatplane Flying boat Seaplane Tigerfish Aviation (retractable float) Unmanned aerial vehicle "Grumman Mallard"...
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    interrupted in August 1967, when Ronquil played the part of the fictional USS Tigerfish (SSN-509) in the motion picture Ice Station Zebra. On 26 December 1967...
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    carried a payload of 20 torpedoes for the forward tubes; a mix of Mark 24 Tigerfish and Mark 8 torpedoes, while only the two preloaded Mark 20S torpedoes...
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    fillets are ready to eat. It is an important bait fish for the African tigerfish (family Alestidae) and, although introduced in Kariba and Cahora Bassa...
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    209/1200s, Venezuela) torpedoes. The boats can also carry the Mark 24 Tigerfish (Brazil, Turkey's Preveze class 209/1400), DM2A3 (Colombia), Blackshark...
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    torpedo tubes. In British service, the submarines were equipped with 14 Tigerfish Mk 24 Mod 2 torpedoes and four UGM-84 Sub-Harpoon missiles. They could...
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  • Grampus operated with USS Tigrone in a joint American-British oceanographic operation in the eastern Atlantic in 1972. Grampus sank on 18 September 1980 in...
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  • ISBN 0684801965. Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States Naval Operations in World War Two. 1984 edition, Volume 3. Little, Brown, and Company....
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  • terrain and necessity to camp on the shore. An experimental population of tigerfish (indigenous to the Limpopo basin) was introduced in 2009 which has proven...
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  • names of the novel's characters: The nuclear submarine Dolphin became USS Tigerfish. The British spy Dr. Carpenter was renamed David Jones, portrayed by Patrick...
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