Operation Pedestal (Italian: Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija (Santa Maria Convoy), was a...
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HMS Kenya (section Operation Pedestal)
keeping. Kenya played a prominent role in Operation Pedestal during August 1942. Pedestal was a Royal Navy operation to escort a convoy of 14 merchant ships...
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HMS Manchester (15) (section Operation Pedestal)
months working up and escorting convoys. Manchester participated in Operation Pedestal, another Malta convoy, in mid-1942; she was torpedoed by two Italian...
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Malta during the Second World War. The tanker played a key role in Operation Pedestal, which was one of the fiercest and most heavily contested of the Malta...
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MV Brisbane Star (section Operation Pedestal)
served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her rôle in Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in August 1942. She was owned by a succession...
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HMS Victorious (R38) (section Pedestal)
actions against the battleship Bismarck, several Arctic convoys, and Operation Pedestal. She was loaned to the United States Navy in 1943 and served in the...
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HMS Charybdis (88) (section Operation Pedestal)
to provide an escort for HMS Eagle in the Malta convoy Operation Pedestal. Operation Pedestal was built around a 15-ship convoy of merchantmen, escorted...
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MV Melbourne Star (1936) (section Operation Pedestal)
served in the Second World War and is distinguished for her role in Operation Pedestal to relieve the siege of Malta in August 1942. She was sunk by torpedo...
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MV Waimarama (section Operation Pedestal)
meat, from New Zealand to the United Kingdom. Waimarama took part in Operation Pedestal in August 1942. A German aircraft bombed her before the convoy reached...
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commanded the tanker during Operation Pedestal, a convoy to relieve Malta. He was awarded the George Cross for this operation. Dudley Mason was born into...
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(1994) The Pedestal, a novel by George Lanning (1966) "The Pedestal", a poem by Patti Smith from her book The Coral Sea (1996) Operation Pedestal, British...
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HMS Lookout (G32) (section Operation Pedestal)
Indomitable after she had been hit by dive bombers. Shortly after Operation Pedestal, Lt.Cdr. Cecil Powis Frobisher Brown relinquished command of Lookout...
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Malta convoys (redirect from Operation Style)
campaign Codenames: Operations of World War 2: Pinpoint access-date 6 March 2019 Operation Harpoon Photos of Operation Pedestal Documentary film: Convoy...
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MV Deucalion (section Operation Pedestal)
during the first of these, Operation Substance, in July 1941 but was lost on her second Malta Convoy, Operation Pedestal, in August 1942. This was the...
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Operation Julius and Operation Pedestal, convoy operations which revictualled Malta, easing the siege and allowing offensive air and naval operations...
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on 11 August 1942 as Eagle was escorting a convoy to Malta during Operation Pedestal. In 1911, the Chilean Navy ordered one 28,000-long-ton (28,450 t)...
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HMS Ledbury (L90) (section Pedestal and Ledbury)
The action of Ledbury during Operation Pedestal was the pinnacle of an otherwise uneventful career. After Operation Pedestal Ledbury was involved in several...
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forces of British convoys to Malta, Operation Vigorous (known in Italy as the Battle of Mid June) and Operation Pedestal (known in Italy as the Battle of...
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Battle of the Mediterranean (category Mediterranean Sea operations of World War II)
the British sent a very heavily defended convoy under the codename Operation Pedestal. Malta's air defence was repeatedly reinforced by Hawker Hurricane...
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Hawker Hurricane (section Operation Dynamo)
28 Sea Hurricane victories against eight losses during Operation Harpoon and Operation Pedestal. "Hawker Hurricane". BAE Systems Heritage. BAE Systems...
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freighter SS Santa Elisa, and subsequently the tanker SS Ohio, during Operation Pedestal, a convoy to the besieged island of Malta in the Second World War...
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who saw service in both World Wars. He was knighted for his part in Operation Pedestal, the critical Malta convoy, in the Second World War. Born the son...
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the United Kingdom. She was soon back in action, participating in Operation Pedestal, the largest convoy to supply the besieged island of Malta. This convoy...
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HMS Lightning (G55) (section Operation Pedestal)
lost during their first year of operational service. Operation Substance was the first real operation Lightning was part of. She formed part of the Home...
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awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his work on Malta convoy operations. He retired from the Navy in 1948. He subsequently joined The Castaways'...
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(Supplement). 10 November 1944. p. 5214. "Operation Infatuate – Walcheren 1–8 November 1944". Combined Operations. Retrieved 17 March 2012. "No. 37380"....
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reduce the tempo of operations. A limited return to offensive operations was made against Axis convoys to Libya and Operation Pedestal in August delivered...
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and returned to the Mediterranean. He took part in Operation Pedestal, the Malta convoy operation in August 1942, and sank the Italian submarine Dagabur...
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Gibraltar, and served as escort oiler on several Malta Convoys. During Operation Pedestal, together with RFA Brown Ranger, she fuelled one cruiser and 24 destroyers...
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heavy attacks on the 14 merchant ships and 44 major warships of the Operation Pedestal convoy, the second Allied attempt to resupply Malta past Axis bombers...
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