Operation Glory was an American effort to repatriate the remains of United Nations Command casualties from North Korea at the end of the Korean War. The...
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Battle of Chosin Reservoir (redirect from Operation Chosin)
battle, UN dead were buried at temporary grave sites along the road. Operation Glory took place from July to November 1954, during which the dead of each...
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an unknown USAF pilot from Operation Glory were identified from the "Punchbowl Cemetery"; POW remains from "Operation Glory" were also identified in 2011...
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buried at a temporary gravesite near Hungnam, North Korea. During "Operation Glory" which occurred from July to November 1954 the dead of each side were...
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operations of the Iraq War, undertaken by Multi-National Force – Iraq. The list covers operations from 2003 until December 2011. For later operations...
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returned the remains of more than 3,000 Americans in what was termed Operation Glory. At the same time, US Graves Registration teams recovered remains from...
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Korean War (category United Nations operations in Asia)
the KPA and the ROKA, with the US still operating as the UN Command. Operation Glory was conducted from July to November 1954, to allow combatants to exchange...
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Attrition. The Yom Kippur War. Operation Entebbe. The visit of Anwar Sadat to Israel. Families whose history is chronicled in The Glory: Barak-Berkowe-Berkowitz...
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Glory! Glory! is a 1989 televangelism comedy film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Ellen Greene that originally aired on HBO in two parts. In...
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of Korean War MIAS/remains not recovered was 8,154. In 1954 during Operation Glory, the remains of 4,023 UN personnel were received from North Korea,...
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A glory hole (also spelled gloryhole and glory-hole) is a hole in a wall or partition, often between public lavatory cubicles or sex video arcade booths...
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Circus, 1953 Flight Nurse, 1953 Combat Squad, 1953 Sabre Jet, 1953 The Glory Brigade, 1953 Mission Over Korea, 1953 Sky Commando, 1953 Take the High...
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Parachute Regiment (India) (section Operation Pawan)
was parachuted into Burma at Elephant Point on 1 May 1945, as part of Operation Dracula. The battalion performed well earning the respect of all, including...
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Perth Glory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Perth, Western Australia. It competes in the country's premier men's competition...
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Task Force Faith (section Operation Chromite)
twenty-first ship in the convoy. While in transit, RCT-31 was briefed on Operation Chromite. After capturing the beach at Incheon, they were tasked with...
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nationalists wanted independence immediately. Meanwhile, the wartime co-operation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. deteriorated as the Cold War took...
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Battle of Heartbreak Ridge (category Battles and operations of the Korean War in 1951)
Since Talons would be on a much larger scale, Van Fleet decided that the operation was not worth the probable cost in lives and material. Instead he informed...
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returning the bodies of battlefield casualties as soon as possible. During Operation Glory, which followed the Korean Armistice Agreement, thousands of remains...
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one aircraft carrier on station during the war. Five British carriers: Glory, Ocean, Theseus, Triumph, and Unicorn (a maintenance and aircraft transport...
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37°45′N 126°11′E / 37.750°N 126.183°E / 37.750; 126.183 (Han River) Operation Thunderbolt, also known in China as the Defensive Battle of the Han River...
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1899, and remained in operation until being discontinued in 1910. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Glory, Georgia "Berrien County"...
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Carnival Glory is a Conquest-class cruise ship operated by Carnival Cruise Line. She is the second of five Conquest-class cruise ships. As of March 2023...
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fighters. Recognising the importance of the MiG, the UN command devised Operation Moolah to encourage a MiG pilot to defect to South Korea with a functional...
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Battle of Pork Chop Hill (category Battles and operations of the Korean War in 1953)
negotiations since early 1952. The first battle on Pork Chop Hill occurred near Operation Little Switch, the exchange of ill and injured prisoners-of-war scheduled...
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flying was performed and the aircrew also performed air-to-air refuelling operations with the Boeing 707 aircraft of 60 Squadron, until these were retired...
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the western Pacific. On her last return voyage she participated in Operation "Glory", the return to Hawaii of fifty unidentified American dead from the...
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Command "at its discretion to use the United Nations flag in the course of operations against North Korean forces..." Sixteen nations responded by sending combat...
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Air-to-air combat losses between the Soviet Union and the United States (category Air-to-air combat operations and battles)
North Vietnam from their countries. Due to the urgency brought on by Operation Rolling Thunder, and until North Vietnamese missilemen could be trained...
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The Mound of Glory (Belarusian: Курган Славы, romanized: Kurgan Slavy, lit. 'Kurgan of Glory') is a memorial complex honouring Soviet soldiers who fought...
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Battle of Inchon (redirect from Operation Chromite)
capital of Seoul two weeks later. The code name for the Inchon operation was Operation Chromite. The battle began on 15 September 1950 and ended on 19...
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