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    Operation Turkey Buzzard, also known as Operation Beggar, was a British supply mission to North Africa that took place between March and August 1943,...
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    personnel were to be killed immediately when captured. Operation Turkey Buzzard, also known as Operation Beggar, was a supply mission to North Africa that...
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    and undertook a trip of approximately 1,500 miles (2,400 km) in Operation Turkey Buzzard. After attacks from Luftwaffe fighter patrols and experiencing...
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  • and saw action in the European theatre in support of Allied airborne operations. Established during the war in 1942, the regiment was disbanded in 1957...
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    Operation Varsity (24 March 1945) was a successful airborne forces operation launched by Allied troops toward the end of World War II. Involving more than...
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    Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II. It was the first British airborne...
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    In Operation Doomsday, the British 1st Airborne Division acted as a police and military force during the Allied occupation of Norway in May 1945, immediately...
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    Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern...
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    Operation Fustian was an airborne forces operation undertaken during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 in the Second World War. The operation...
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    Operation Slapstick was the code name for a British landing from the sea at the Italian port of Taranto during the Second World War. The operation, one...
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    Operation Tonga was the codename given to the airborne operation undertaken by the British 6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part...
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    Operation Hasty was a mission behind German lines in Italy, during the Second World War. The operation was carried out in June 1944, by a small force of...
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    known as Operation Deadstick (which in fact was a specialized glider exercise), and in official documents as Operation Coup de Main) was an operation by airborne...
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  • a witch during the Salem witch trials. Katie even wears a necklace of buzzard bones which she says Lettie gave her to keep away the pox. After visiting...
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    and the A4012 and B5704 roads. It is about four miles east of Leighton Buzzard. Nearby places are Heath and Reach, Eggington, Stanbridge, Battlesden,...
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    Operation Manna was the codeword for a Second World War operation by the British and Greek forces in Greece in mid-October 1944, following the gradual...
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    Operation Mallard was the codename for an airborne forces operation, which was conducted by the British Army on 6 June 1944, as part of the Normandy landings...
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  • Day. Featured cartoons : Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942), The Bashful Buzzard (1944), Droopy Leprechaun (1958), Come On In! The Water's Pink (1968),...
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    combat search and rescue. From September to December 2002, the Buzzards returned to Operation Southern Watch and dropped 136,508 pounds of ordnance over Iraq...
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    2nd Parachute Brigade in Southern France (category Operation Dragoon)
    British 2nd Parachute Brigade was part of the Operation Rugby airborne landings in August 1944. The operation was carried out by an ad hoc airborne formation...
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    words "Triple Nickel" in white for the 555th FS and Purple with the words "Buzzards" in white for the 510th FS. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a compact, multi-role...
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    fastest Swiss train is the SBB RABe 501, nicknamed Giruno (Romansh for Buzzard). It is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways since May 2016. It only...
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  • Smedley the Dog, and Inspector Willoughby along with Woody's nemeses Buzz Buzzard, Gabby Gator, and Wally Walrus as they caused chaos in a small town. Episodes...
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    property rights that Earp had a part in. On March 28 a miner named Bill Buzzard was constructing a building when Earp's partner Jack Enright tried to stop...
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  • operational codename Operation Jacana in April 2002. They conducted missions (including Operation Snipe, Operation Condor, and Operation Buzzard) over several...
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  • Turkey THS Turkish Aerospace Industries TUSAS Turkey HVK Turkish Air Force TURKISH AIRFORCE Turkey TK THY Turkish Airlines TURKISH Turkey TRK Turkish...
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  • human characters. Wallace and Junior: Two buzzards that Hank sometimes encounters. Wallace, an old buzzard and father to Junior, is very harsh and abrasive...
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    and bird species such as peregrine falcon, Eurasian skylark and common buzzard. Some of the buildings are used as an automotive storage compound for new...
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  • 1989–2002 Let's Go Bowling Fresno, California, US 1986–present Leyton Buzzards Leyton, East London, UK 1976-80 The Libertines London, UK 1997-2004, 2010...
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  • Yonder in the Corn United States Traditional animation What's Buzzin' Buzzard? United States Traditional animation Who Killed Who? United States Traditional...
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