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    Operation Mikado was the code name of a military plan by the United Kingdom to use Special Air Service troops to attack the home base of Argentina's five...
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  • Look up Mikado, mikado, or mikádó in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mikado may refer to: Emperor of Japan or Mikado The Mikado, an 1885 comic opera by...
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    The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic...
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  • the victim of a bird strike. Of the 22 killed, 18 were from the SAS. Operation Mikado was the code name for the planned landing of B Squadron SAS at the...
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  • airbase in West Falkland. Operation Sutton, 21–23 May 1982, landings in East Falkland. Operation Mikado, May 1982, abortive operation to destroy the three...
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    2-8-2 (redirect from Mikado (locomotive))
    referred to as a Mikado, frequently shortened to Mike. It was also at times referred to on some railroads in the United States as the McAdoo Mikado and, during...
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    intelligence agency Operation Mikado – a proposed SAS operation during the Falklands War inspired by Operation Entebbe Operation Niki – a clandestine...
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  • Suicide mission (category Military operations by type)
    even special forces groups refuse to participate in some missions. Operation Mikado, a plan for a Special Air Service raid on Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego...
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    British Special Air Service launches Operation Plum Duff, a reconnaissance mission preliminary to Operation Mikado, which is planned to destroy three Argentinean...
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    aerial mission]. Opération Harmattan (in French). French Ministry of Defense. Retrieved 2011-03-27. "Libye : point de situation opération Harmattan n°6"...
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    Mikado Station (三門駅, Mikado-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Isumi, Chiba Prefecture Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway...
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    five Étendards at Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego. The operation was codenamed "Mikado". The operation was later scrapped, after acknowledging that its chances...
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  • 1980. He was also responsible during the Falklands War for planning Operation Mikado. In 1982, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British...
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    The East Broad Top Railroad owns six three-foot gauge Mikado locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. These engines original to the railroad...
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  • Falklands War, and took part in Operation Mikado. In late 1984 Bruce was involved with British Army counter-terrorist operations against Provisional Irish Republican...
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  • Afghanistan: opération " Septentrion ", la stratégie des Mikados (vidéo)" [18/12/09 – Afghanistan: Operation 'Septentrion', the Mikado Strategy] (in...
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    Southern Railway 4501 is a preserved Ms class 2-8-2 "Mikado" type steam locomotive built in October 1911 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia...
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    Operation Mikado before it was subsequently cancelled while D and G squadrons were deployed and participated in the raid on Pebble Island. Operation Flavius...
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  • Newsboy Legion and was later released from prison. He went to one of his operations to realign himself with Granny Goodness and Virman Vundabar. Discovering...
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    fly elements of the Special Air Service to Argentina for the aborted Operation Mikado. The Hercules C.1/C.3s were withdrawn from service on 28 October 2013...
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    trackage just south of Rockhill Furnace. During this era of operations, four of the six Mikados were in service: #12, #14, #15 and #17. The heavier locomotives...
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    Elliot's pheasant (S. ellioti) Mrs. Hume's pheasant (S. humiae) Mikado pheasant (S. mikado) Copper pheasant (S. soemmerringi) Ruffed pheasants (genus Chrysolophus)...
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    Coach/Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers Matt Fontenot – Director of Football Operations Mikado Hinson – Director of Player Development Larry Jackson – Director of...
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  • helicopters. Contrary to some reports, after the British cancelled Operation Mikado, there was never a plan to use Onyx to land the SAS in order to destroy...
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    coach/defensive coordinator/linebackers Matt Fontenot – Director of football operations Mikado Hinson – Director of player development Larry Jackson – Director of...
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    had been launched by the British from HMS Invincible as a prelude to Operation Mikado, but after detecting the Argentine radar signal, the crew of the Sea...
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    LNER Class P2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales is a 2-8-2 "Mikado" steam locomotive being built at Darlington Locomotive Works, England, and managed by the A1...
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    Operation Algeciras was a foiled Argentine plan to sabotage a Royal Navy warship in Gibraltar during the Falklands War. The Argentine reasoning was that...
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    clothing. Even the performing arts were affected; Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado is perhaps the best example. From the 1860s, ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock...
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    Bizen-Mikado Station (備前三門駅, Bizen-Mikado-eki) is a passenger railway station located in Kita-ku of the city of Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. It...
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