The Raid on Cuxhaven (German: Weihnachtsangriff, Christmas Raid) was a British ship-based air-raid on the Imperial German Navy at Cuxhaven mounted on Christmas...
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Zeppelin LZ 31 (section Raid on Cuxhaven)
minefields and one raid on the United Kingdom, dropping 700 kg (1,500 lb) of bombs. The Raid on Cuxhaven was a British ship-based air-raid on the Imperial German...
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Cuxhaven (German: [kʊksˈhaːfn̩]; Low German: Cuxhoben) is a town and seat of the Cuxhaven district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The town includes the northernmost...
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North Sea, although they did attack British ships participating in the Raid on Cuxhaven at the end of the year. The German Naval Air Service was impressed...
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North Sea and the English Channel, and played a small role in the Raid on Cuxhaven the following month. A FF.29 became the first aircraft to be transported...
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Black Sea raids – Series of raids conducted by the Soviet Navy along Romanian and Bulgarian coasts, fails to disrupt Axis shipping 26 June Raid on Constanța...
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It was from these ships that a raid on Zeppelin bases at Cuxhaven, Nordholz Airbase and Wilhelmshaven was launched on Christmas Day of 1914. This was...
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The Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914 was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool...
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and on 17 October 1914 took part in the defeat of four German torpedo boats at the Battle off Texel. He was also involved in the Raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas...
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The Zeebrugge Raid (Dutch: Aanval op de haven van Zeebrugge; French: Raid sur Zeebruges) on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the...
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bombings usually refers to Operation Linebacker II. It may also refer to: Raid on Cuxhaven by Germany in 1914 Christmas Blitz, another name for the 1940–1942...
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Russian and Ottoman Empire. Raid on Cuxhaven — British aircraft launched from warships attacked the German port of Cuxhaven with submarine support, although...
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Zeppelin (redirect from Zeppelin Raids)
raids were followed by the Cuxhaven Raid on Christmas Day 1914, one of the first operations carried out by ship-launched aeroplanes. Airship raids on...
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Italian seaplane carrier Europa (category Ships built on the River Clyde)
maintenance facilities or magazines for the aircraft. The British raid on Cuxhaven, launched from seaplane carries in December 1914, impressed upon the...
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Strategic bombing during World War II (redirect from Allied bombing raid)
Wilhelmshaven – the war's first casualties from British bombs; attacks on ships at Cuxhaven and Heligoland followed. The 1939 Battle of the Heligoland Bight...
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performed in Germany at Cuxhaven, in the USSR at Kapustin Yar, in the USA at White Sands Proving Grounds, Cape Canaveral, and on the USS Midway during Operation...
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WWII-Adriatic Sea (updated2021)". Soviet-Empire. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022. "Explosive Motorboats based...
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Bombing of Hamburg in World War II (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
storm which forced many aircraft to abort or to bomb alternative targets. Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, Heligoland and other towns as far...
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SS Inger Skou (redirect from SS Cuxhaven (1943))
September. Her port of registry was Hamburg. On 9 October, Cuxhaven was severely damaged in an air raid at Gotenhafen. She was towed to the Isselfjord...
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The Raid on Yarmouth, on 3 November 1914, was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British North Sea port and town of Great Yarmouth. German shells...
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German bombing of Britain, 1914–1918 (redirect from Gotha Raids)
lightning, caught fire off Cuxhaven and was lost with all hands. Two Army Zeppelins bombed London on 7/8 September, SL2 dropped bombs on the Isle of Dogs, Deptford...
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The Tondern raid or Operation F.7, was a British bombing raid by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force against the Imperial German Navy airship base at Tønder...
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The First Ostend Raid (part of Operation ZO) was the first of two attacks by the Royal Navy on the German-held port of Ostend during the late spring of...
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The Second Ostend Raid (officially known as Operation VS) was the later of two failed attempts made during the spring of 1918 by the United Kingdom's Royal...
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Operation Big Bang (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
fire and tons of rock shot into the sky. The tremors could be felt in Cuxhaven, 70 kilometres away. The mushroom cloud rose about nine kilometres (according...
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Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft (redirect from Lowestoft Raid)
Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft, often referred to as the Lowestoft Raid, was a naval battle fought during the First World War between the German...
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Hamburg America Line (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
terminal at Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1900. Connected directly to Hamburg by a dedicated railway line and station, the HAPAG Terminal at Cuxhaven served as...
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Nordholz Naval Airbase (category Buildings and structures in Cuxhaven (district))
four days later on 18 October. On 25 December the base was one of the targets of the Cuxhaven Raid. German airships started bombing raids on Britain in 1915...
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Heligoland (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
mainland. They lie approximately 69 kilometres (43 miles) by sea from Cuxhaven at the mouth of the River Elbe. During a visit to the islands, August Heinrich...
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20 October 1925) was an early English aviator and pilot in the 1914 Cuxhaven Raid. He was awarded two Distinguished Service Orders during service with...
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