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HMS Viperous is the name of a fictional V and W-class destroyer in the novel The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat, the leader of an escort group including Compass Rose, the focus of the first part of the story. HMS Warlock is the name of the leader of a flotilla of eight fictional destroyers in the 1974 novel The Destroyers by Douglas Reeman.
F. Max von Fabeck; Paul Ernst Fackenheim; Wilhelm Fahlbusch; Ludwig von Falkenhausen; Erich von Falkenhayn; Kurt von Falkowski; Ferdinand I of Bulgaria; Sebastian Festner
This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time.
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Tanks came about as means to break the stalemate of trench warfare.They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy.
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This is a list of English-language names given by World War I troops to places affected by World War I. Indeed, because there were many tensions during World War 1, some places had to be renamed . Since there was a very anti-German sentiment during World War 1, the military and government would rename towns, like Kitchener, Ontario in Canada ...
Ajax, named after the mythological hero, Ajax, [9] was the fifth ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. [10] Ordered under the 1910–1911 Naval Estimates, [ 11 ] the ship was laid down by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering at their shipyard in Greenock on 27 February 1911 and launched on 21 March 1912. [ 12 ]