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STS 1 - Brock Hall, Flore, Northamptonshire; STS 2 - Bellasis, Box Hill Road, Dorking, Surrey - training of SOE staff and Danes, Italians. Became training and holding centre used by Czech Section and for F Section coup de main parties. Later used for initial assessment of German Army PoWs as BONZO agents.
[1] [2] [3] Puttenham was one of the third series of Ham-class ships, with an all-wooden hull, slightly larger than the first two series. [4] The ship was 107 feet 5 inches (32.74 m) long overall and 100 feet 0 inches (30.48 m) between perpendiculars, with a beam of 21 feet 11 inches (6.68 m) and a draught of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m).
On 14 January 1942, while the ships' officers were attending a party ashore thrown by an SOE agent, commandos and SOE personnel led by Gus March-Phillipps boarded the two vessels, cut the anchor cables and towed them out to sea, where they later rendezvoused with Royal Navy ships. Several neutral authorities and observers were impressed by the ...
STS-5 was the fifth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia. It launched on November 11, 1982, and landed five days later on November 16, 1982. STS-5 was the first Space Shuttle mission to deploy communications satellites into orbit, and the first officially "operational" Space Shuttle mission.
The French brand offers its cocottes in a wide range of sizes, from tiny 0.4-quart pots to oversized 13.25-quart models, and unlike the other options we tested, the Dutch oven’s enameled ...
Since 2018, few hitters — let alone third basemen — have provided the power-speed combination that José Ramírez has done. He's been a veritable 20-20, 30-20, 20-30 machine during that span ...
SOE (Special Operations Executive) operations in Belgium WAAF: Women's Auxiliary Air Force: WM: War Medal 1939-1945: Instituted on August 16, 1945, and issued to subjects of the British Commonwealth who served full-time in the Armed Forces or the Merchant Navy for at least 28 days between September 3, 1939, and September 2, 1945.
The Daytona 500 has NASCAR’s most unusual — and complicated — qualifying format. There are nine drivers — the most since 2015 — vying for those spots: Anthony Alfredo, Justin Allgaier ...