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Hardtack (or hard tack) is a type of dense cracker made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Hardtack is inexpensive and long-lasting. Hardtack is inexpensive and long-lasting. It is used for sustenance in the absence of perishable foods, commonly during long sea voyages, land migrations, and military campaigns. [ 1 ]
Operation Hardtack I was a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the United States from April 28 to August 18 in 1958 at the Pacific Proving Grounds. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : 212 At the time of testing, the Operation Hardtack I test series included more nuclear detonations than the total of prior nuclear explosions in the Pacific Ocean.
HARDTACK-Teak was an exoatmospheric high altitude nuclear weapon test performed during Operation Newsreel. [2] It was launched from Johnston Atoll on a Redstone missile . [ 3 ] On 1 August 1958, the 3.88 Mt (16.2 PJ) shot detonated at an altitude of 76.8 km (252,000 ft; 47.7 mi).
Operation Hardtack can refer to: Operation Hardtack (commando raid), a Second World War British commando raid; Operation Hardtack I, a series of nuclear weapon test carried out in the Pacific during 1958. Operation Hardtack II, a series of nuclear weapon tests carried out at the Nevada Test Site during 1958.
Operation Hardtack II [1] was a series of 37 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1958 at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed the Operation Argus series and preceded the Operation Nougat series.
Operation Hardtack was the name of a series of British Commando raids during the Second World War. The operation was conducted by No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando , No. 12 Commando and the Special Boat Service , and took place on the Channel Islands and the northern coast of France in December 1943.
Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life is a memoir by John D. Billings. Billings was a veteran of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Light Artillery Battery in the American Civil War .
Operation Hardtack 11 No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando: 7 men: Gravelines France Reconnaissance and capture prisoners [18] The Motor Torpedo Boat transporting them diverted to attack a convoy and their dory sank with the death of one man. The other six reached the shore and joined the French Resistance. [57] 46 25/26 December 1943 Operation ...