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    Woensdrecht (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋunzdrɛxt] ) is a municipality (named after the village) in the southern Netherlands. Woensdrecht is the home of the...
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    Woensdrecht Air Base (Dutch: Vliegbasis Woensdrecht) (IATA: WOE, ICAO: EHWO) is a military airport between the villages of Woensdrecht and Huijbergen,...
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    attacked Woensdrecht at night, taking much of the village. However, they were unable to pass beyond the ridge to the west of Woensdrecht. By 16 October...
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  • Gilze-Rijen Air Base, 9th Flight at Woensdrecht Air Base The Royal Netherlands Air Force Military School at Woensdrecht Air Base is the training institute...
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    Woensdrecht is a village in the municipality of Woensdrecht, North Brabant, Netherlands. Woensdrecht is known for Woensdrecht Air Base, a military air...
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    two Gruppen. Heading south and still north of Antwerp, JG 77 passed Woensdrecht airfield. It was home to No. 132 Wing RAF and its five Spitfire squadrons;...
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    United Kingdom (at RAF Greenham Common and RAF Molesworth), Belgium, Woensdrecht AB Netherlands, Germany, and Comiso Air Station in Italy. Each location...
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  • Starfighter. A second production and maintenance facility was established at Woensdrecht. In 1958, the F-27 Friendship was introduced, Fokker's most successful...
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    transition to the F-16, the NF-5s and Bs were stored at Gilze-Rijen and Woensdrecht air bases. 60 aircraft were sold to Turkey, 11 to Greece and 7 to Venezuela...
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    performed its maiden flight from the company's manufacturing base at Woensdrecht in southern Netherlands, which had a duration of three hours. during...
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    Hoogerheide (category Woensdrecht)
    Hoogerheide is a village in the municipality of Woensdrecht, North Brabant, Netherlands. The name "Hoogerheide" means "High Heath" in English. The Grand...
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  • Missile base, 1984–1989 Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands (Closed 1994) Woensdrecht Air Base, Netherlands Planned BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile...
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    Maastricht/Aachen Rotterdam/The Hague Military Deelen Eindhoven Gilze-Rijen De Kooy Leeuwarden Volkel Woensdrecht Unscheduled Enschede Lelystad Valkenburg Statistics...
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    the Fokker 60s were phased out. All four Fokker 60 that were stored at Woensdrecht Air Base were sold to the Peruvian Naval Aviation, the first two planes...
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  • disastrous attack by the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada near Woensdrecht during the Battle of the Scheldt Black Friday (1945), Allied military...
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    conducted such activity at Woensdrecht Air Base, however, they are limited in the size of the aircraft they can dismantle at Woensdrecht. The first aircraft...
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    the waterways. Large battles were fought to clear the Breskens Pocket, Woensdrecht and the Zuid-Beveland Peninsula of German forces, primarily "stomach"...
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    of attacks on Luftwaffe fighter fields at Poix, Lille-Vendeville, and Woensdrecht by Hawker Typhoons of the RAF simultaneous with the diversionary attack...
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    Eindhoven Netherlands (B.78) now Eindhoven Airport RAF Woensdrecht Netherlands (B.79) now Woensdrecht Airbase RAF Schijndel Netherlands (B.85) RAF Twente...
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    Nieuw-Milligen Royal Netherlands Air Force Military School-Woensdrecht Air Base Woensdrecht Logistic Centre People and Aviation Centre The RNLAF is in...
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    Brigade's Black Watch Battalion on 13 October. However, on 16 October Woensdrecht was taken, following an immense artillery barrage which forced the Germans...
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    Metropolitan Region [nl] Eindhoven 784,369 Brabant Outer Cities and Woensdrecht [nl] Roosendaal 164,838 Amersfoort Amersfoort 286,053 Apeldoorn Apeldoorn...
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    Pauline Musters (category People from Woensdrecht)
    Pauline Musters (February 26, 1878 – March 1, 1895) was a Dutch woman. She is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the shortest woman ever recorded...
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  • Falaise Road Clair Tizon Dunkirk, 1944 Antwerp–Turnhout Canal The Scheldt Woensdrecht South Beveland The Rhineland The Reichswald Goch–Calcar Road The Hochwald...
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    Maastricht/Aachen Rotterdam/The Hague Military Deelen Eindhoven Gilze-Rijen De Kooy Leeuwarden Volkel Woensdrecht Unscheduled Enschede Lelystad Valkenburg Statistics...
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