Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers...
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Look up Pluto or pluto in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Solar System. Pluto may also refer to: Pluto (mythology), god...
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Petroleum Warfare Department (section Pluto Minor)
returning from bombing raids over Germany in poor visibility, and Operation Pluto, which installed prefabricated fuel pipelines between England and France...
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pipeline used in Operation Pluto of World War II P-3 radar, NATO reporting name "Dumbo" Search for "dumbo" on Wikipedia. Dumbo's Circus Operation Dumbo Drop...
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New Horizons (redirect from Pluto probe)
Pluto in hibernation mode. Redundant components as well as guidance and control systems were shut down to extend their life cycle, decrease operation...
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225 Hastings, p. 256 Wilmot, p. 389 Clymer, Samuel (August 2011). "Operation Pluto: The Red Ball Express" (PDF). The Intercom. 34 (8): 8. Archived from...
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States and Cuba. Peter Pan (1960s) — transfer of Cubans to the US Operation Pluto (1961) — plan to invade Cuba and overthrow its government using a CIA-trained...
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Huddell, a ship converted in 1944 into a pipe transport to support Operation Pluto, was transferred to Greece and converted to a floating museum dedicated...
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involvement in the Second World War, when it was used to carry one of the Operation Pluto pipelines and as training area for the 40 Royal Marine Commando battalion...
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Amphibious warfare (redirect from Amphibious operation)
re-supply. Many innovative elements were included in the operation to ensure its success. Operation Pluto was a scheme developed by Arthur Hartley, chief engineer...
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submarine oil pipeline was conducted with one laid across the Medway in Operation Pluto. The Medway's 'marriage' to the Thames is given extensive treatment...
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War oil pipeline systems built under the English Channel as part of Operation Pluto to supply Allied forces in Europe Project BAMBI (Ballistic Missile...
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Bay of Pigs Invasion (redirect from Operation Zapata)
together with all the major departments, on the latest plan (code-named Operation Pluto), which involved 1,000 men landed in a ship-borne invasion at Trinidad...
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D-Day. Operation Pluto – construction of petroleum pipelines underneath the English Channel after D-Day. Operation Roast (1–8 April 1945) – operation at Comacchio...
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its significance as an existing Liberty ship example, its role in Operation PLUTO (pipeline-under-the-sea), its later work as a cable transport for the...
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submarines. The island was the starting point for one of the earlier Operation Pluto pipelines to feed fuel to Europe after the Normandy landings. The Needles...
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cable technology to create the world's first submarine oil pipeline in Operation Pluto during World War II. Active fiber-optic cables may be useful in detecting...
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Free France (section Operation Torch)
construction of artificial ports (Operation Mulberry) and an underwater pipeline across the English Channel (Operation Pluto), intensive bombardment of railways...
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underwater oil pipelines were laid between Dungeness and France in Operation Pluto. The lines from Dungeness were part of a network called "Dumbo" and...
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Tilbury Douglas (section Operation Pluto)
V took part in pipelaying activities during July 1944, as part of Operation Pluto, which brought together British scientists, oil companies and the armed...
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ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Pluto, after Pluto, a God of Roman mythology: HMS Pluto (1745) was an 8-gun fire ship purchased from civilian...
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involved in the development of the bombsight which sank the Tirpitz, the Operation Pluto pipeline project and the FIDO fog dispersion system. Following the...
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(23 km) long. During the Second World War the service transported the Operation Pluto pipeline. Folkestone and Hythe are represented in Parliament by the...
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Air Resupply And Communications Service (category Special operations units of the United States Air Force)
equipping and organizing a Cuban exile force. The Cubans executed "Operation Pluto", an amphibious paratroop invasion of Cuba at Bahia de Conchinos, in...
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local French Resistance and conducting a reconnaissance of the area. Operation Pluto: The world's first undersea oil pipeline was laid between England and...
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Mulberry harbours (redirect from Operation Mulberry)
many of whom were children in the same area as US military personnel. Operation Pluto Lily: a floating airstrip using components developed for the Mulberry...
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were mainly supplied by rail. Fuels were brought by tankers and the Operation Pluto pipeline from the UK, and delivered by barge and pipeline to the army...
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PLUTO was a materials testing nuclear reactor housed at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, a former Royal Air Force airfield at Harwell, Oxfordshire...
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in the First and Second World Wars. During the latter, he commanded Operation Pluto, the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English...
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contribution to the war effort by manufacturing the steel tubes used in Operation Pluto (Pipe Line Under the Ocean) to supply fuel to Allied forces on the...
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