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    Marine Training Centre (category Tarawa)
    The Marine Training Centre Tarawa (MTC) is a training school for seafarers founded in 1967 in Betio, Tarawa, division of the Ministry of Employment and...
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    comprise the bulk of the marine divisions. An example of a MEB is Task Force Tarawa (2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade) during the Operation Iraqi Freedom campaign...
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    planning for an invasion of Norway. The preliminary plan was named Studie Nord and called for only one division of German troops carry out the invasion...
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  • remade as 1968 film Hell Raiders 1958 United States Tarawa Beachhead Paul Wendkos Drama. Battle of Tarawa during Guadacanal conflict in the Pacific. 1958...
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    Yunnan Changde Second Battle of Kiev Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Tarawa Makin Bengal famine of 1943 1944 Tempest Monte Cassino / Anzio Korsun–Cherkassy...
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    side of Lille and retreat towards the Lys. The 2e Division d'infanterie nord-africaine (2e DINA, Major-General Pierre Dame) tried to cross the Deûle river...
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    Press. ISBN 9781501739439. LCCN 2018053804. "Débarquement en Afrique du Nord de 1942 : la mémoire trouble de l'opération « Torch »". Le Monde.fr (in French)...
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    Résistance, Ceux de la Libération, Comité de Coordination de Zone Nord, and Libération Nord to ask[clarification needed] to join. Reflecting the growth of...
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  • regime to Soviet occupation (September 1944 – March 1945) "Transilvania de Nord între eliberarea de sub horthyişti şi ocupaţia sovietică (Septembrie 1944...
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    the Allied forces right of passage. The German invasion plan, named Studie Nord, was later implemented as Operation Weserübung. Leon Trotsky opined after...
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    south-east of defensive positions in Norway, the German 6th SS Mountain Division Nord reinforced by Kampfgruppe Esch again had numerical and material superiority...
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    the Germans would liberate the Baltics from Soviet rule. The Army Group Nord, led by Marshal General Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, invaded Estonia. In Northern...
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    Narvik, according to some sources from the secret German naval base Basis Nord at Zapadnaya Litsa in the Soviet Union, where she had been based since 4...
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    Yunnan Changde Second Battle of Kiev Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Tarawa Makin Bengal famine of 1943 1944 Tempest Monte Cassino / Anzio Korsun–Cherkassy...
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    comporte sur un effectif total de 14 490, une proportion de 25% de soldats nord-africains : 3 600", Christine Levisse-Touzé, Du capitaine de Hautecloque...
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  • Japanese submarine I-35 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) west of Betio in Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands at 01°22′N 172°47′E / 1.367°N 172.783°E...
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    p. 170 Le Cacheux, G. and Quellien J. Dictionnaire de la libération du nord-ouest de la France, C. Corlet, 1994, ISBN 978-2-85480-475-1, p. 289 Zaloga...
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    The attack was a prelude to the invasion of Norway (German: Weserübung Nord, 9 April – 10 June 1940). Denmark's strategic importance for Germany was...
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  • Yunnan Changde Second Battle of Kiev Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign Tarawa Makin Bengal famine of 1943 1944 Tempest Monte Cassino / Anzio Korsun–Cherkassy...
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    Infantry Division Opération Torch – Les débarquements alliés en Afrique du Nord "Polish Ocean Liner MS Batory (Launched 1936) 2" Bronze Medallion w. Case...
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    three divisions, the regular 169th Division, the SS-Infantry Kampfgruppe Nord and the Finnish 6th Division. They were faced by three divisions of 14th...
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    That Changed the World, 1940–1941. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-101418-0. Nord, Philip (2015). France 1940: Defending the Republic. New Haven, CT: Yale...
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    western France, movements like Organisation civile et militaire, Libération-Nord, Ceux de la Libération, Ceux de la Résistance survived through clandestine...
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  • Name Area (ha) Area (acre) Nooto-North Tarawa 1,033 2,550...
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    Army Group (fr:Groupe d'armées n° 1) of the North-Eastern Front (Front du Nord-est). Most of the BEF spent the Phoney War (3 September 1939 to 9 May 1940)...
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  • ("Weser Exercise") (1940) – German invasion of Denmark and Norway. Weserübung Nord ("Weser Exercise") (1940) – German invasion of Trondheim and Narvik. Weserübung...
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    October 1944, and a major part of the German Army Group North (Heersgruppe Nord) was cut off in Kurzeme, the peninsula that forms the northwestern part of...
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    of Peleliu. The invading marines suffered twice as many casualties as on Tarawa, where the old Japanese tactic of defending the beach had been employed...
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