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    Operation Bowery was an Anglo-American operation during the Second World War to deliver fighter aircraft to Malta, an operation known informally as a...
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  • pergola. The Houston Bowery Wall, a famous mural wall located on Bowery in New York City Operation Bowery, an Anglo-American naval operation of World War II...
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    Spitfires delivered to Malta led to Wasp making another Club Run in May (Operation Bowery). In the autumn of 1941 Axis intelligence agencies had established...
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    Joe Alwyn (redirect from William Bowery)
    was also co-writer of "Exile" and "Betty", under the pseudonym William Bowery. "Exile" reached the top 10 of the charts in various countries, including...
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    bombing. In Operation Bowery, 64 Spitfires were flown off Wasp and Eagle. A second batch of 16 fighters were flown off Eagle in Operation LB. On 20 May...
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    George V Dock Glasgow and sailed for the Mediterranean on 3 May in Operation Bowery. On this occasion, the group included the British carrier HMS Eagle...
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    and HMS Eagle deliver a second contingent of Spitfires to Malta in Operation Bowery. A few days later, a grateful Churchill will signal Wasp "Who says...
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    Royal Navy as HMS Georgetown. As Georgetown, she participated in operation "Bowery", escorting the aircraft carrier Wasp in May 1942 on her second reinforcement...
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  • Bowery Farming is a New York-based vertical farming and digital agriculture company with farms in New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. It grows and...
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  • Gibraltar for Operation Bowery, and later Operation LB, both air reinforcement missions ("Club Runs") for Malta. In June she took part In Operation Harpoon...
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    The Bowery Mission is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides hot meals, overnight shelter, and faith-based residential programs for New Yorkers experiencing...
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    of the Philippine Sea. During the more than 20,000 hours of air combat operations before it returned to the United States for a rest period, Air Group 15...
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    Club Run (redirect from Operation Pinpoint)
    States Navy carrier USS Wasp in Operation Calendar were destroyed on the ground but in the following operation Operation Bowery the Axis air forces were outwitted...
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    HMS Eagle for Operation Bowery in early May, and Eagle and HMS Argus at the end of the month in Operation LB. Aircraft carrier operations continued into...
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    required extensive repairs that lasted until the end of April. As part of Operation Bowery, Eagle rendezvoused on the night of 7/8 May with the American carrier...
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    closed.) In "Operation Calendar" on 20 April 1942, 47 Spitfires and pilots of 601 and 603 Squadrons flew from Wasp to Malta. In "Operation Bowery" on 9 May...
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    Siege of Malta (World War II) (category Naval aviation operations and battles)
    island. On 9 May, Wasp and Eagle delivered 64 more Spitfires (Operation Bowery). Malta now had five full Spitfire squadrons; 126 Squadron, 185 Squadron...
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    Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. Torch was a compromise operation that met...
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  • British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny). May 9 – WWII: Operation Bowery: Aircraft carriers USS Wasp and HMS Eagle bring 61 Spitfires to Malta...
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    Spitfire Vc launching from Wasp during Operation Bowery. This was part of the first contingent of Spitfires which were supplied to the RAF on Malta. A...
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    The Bowery Savings Bank was a bank in New York City, chartered in May 1834. In 1930, it was the largest bank in the USA based on total deposits. By 1980...
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  • Operation BOWERY (a "Club Run") RN Force W: USS Wasp (CV-7) HMS Eagle (CV, 94) IJN Invasion of Aleutian Islands (3–7 June 1942) Alaska; IJN Operation...
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  • Wasp and HMS Eagle delivered 47 Spitfires and 17 Spitfires as part of Operation Bowery. Careful coordination for the arrival at Malta enabled British aircraft...
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    latest group of reinforcement Spitfires, which landed on 9 May in Operation Bowery. To avoid the newly arrived Spitfires getting caught in Luftwaffe bombing...
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    Operation Bowery, when carriers Eagle and USS Wasp delivered 61 Spitfires and Operation LB when Eagle delivered a further 17 during May, and Operations Style...
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    minelayer HMS Welshman ran in ammunition supplies on 10 May (part of Operation Bowery), the most intense AA barrage yet fired was provided to protect her...
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    Operation Herkules (German: Unternehmen Herkules; Italian: Operazione C3) was the German code-name given to an abortive plan for the invasion of Malta...
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    experimental stage company Theater Genesis, housed at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in Manhattan. Two of Shepard's earliest one-act plays, The Rock Garden and...
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    Operation Pedestal (Italian: Battaglia di Mezzo Agosto, Battle of mid-August), known in Malta as Il-Konvoj ta' Santa Marija (Santa Maria Convoy), was...
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    The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces...
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