The Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (abbreviated LTDF; Lithuanian: Lietuvos vietinė rinktinė, LVR)[a] was a short-lived Lithuanian volunteer military...
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Defence Forces (redirect from Defense force)
Force: (1917-1920) Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force: (1944) Lofa Defense Force: Liberian Rebel Group (1993-1996) Panama Defense Forces: (1968-1989)...
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Povilas Plechavičius (category Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force officers)
d'état and creating and leading the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force during the German occupation of Lithuania. Povilas Plechavičius was born on 1...
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The Territorial Defence Force – TDF (Polish: Wojska Obrony Terytorialnej – WOT) is the fifth military branch of the Polish Armed Forces, following Land...
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Battle of Murowana Oszmianka (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
Army (Armia Krajowa, AK) and the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (LTDF); a Lithuanian volunteer security force subordinated to Nazi Germany occupational...
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The Lithuanian Air Force or LAF (Lithuanian: Lietuvos karinės oro pajėgos, abbreviated as LK KOP) is the military aviation branch of the Lithuanian armed...
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field for new collaboration. The recruitment success of the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force was precisely the fruit of cooperation on this front. It...
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Jonas Misiūnas (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
railway security and volunteered for the short-lived Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. After the force was disbanded in May 1944, he went into hiding and...
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The Lithuanian Navy (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Karinės jūrų pajėgos) is the naval arm of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. Though formally established on 1 August...
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Jonas Žemaitis (category Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force officers)
extraction. In 1944, he joined the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force, organized by Povilas Plechavičius. After the force was disbanded by the Nazis, Žemaitis...
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The Lithuanian Riflemen's Union (LRU, Lithuanian: Lietuvos šaulių sąjunga), also referred to as Šauliai (the Riflemen; from Lithuanian: šaulys for rifleman)...
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Antanas Bakšys (category CS1 Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
joined the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. After being detained and sent to work in the coal mines of Tula, he escaped to Lithuania and became a...
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Battle of Graużyszki (category Battles involving Lithuania)
units of the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force under the command of Antanas Andriunas. The battle ended with a Polish victory. Lithuanian–Polish relations...
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by Lithuanian collaborators working with Nazis (like the German subordinated Lithuanian Security Police or the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force under...
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The Fatherland Defense Force (Lithuanian: Tėvynės apsaugos rinktinė or TAR) or Kampfgruppe Mäder (German: Kampfgruppe Mäder) was a short-lived military...
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resistance in Lithuania was fractured into the Lithuanian anti-Nazi resistance (the Lithuanian Front, the Lithuanian Liberty Army, the Union of Lithuanian Freedom...
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Lithuanian partisans. Former members of the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force, the Lithuanian Liberty Army, Lithuanian Armed Forces and Lithuanian...
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Antanas Impulevičius (category Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force officers)
particularly in Minsk and Kletsk. He also joined the short-lived Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. In 1944, he moved to Germany, and in 1949 he relocated to...
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The International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, formed by foreign volunteers, is part of the Territorial Defense Forces. In 2014 the Armed Forces...
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general Povilas Plechavičius formed the short-lived Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (LTDF). Lithuanians did not organize armed resistance, still considering...
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Lithuania (/ˌlɪθjuˈeɪniə/ LITH-ew-AY-nee-ə; Lithuanian: Lietuva [lʲiətʊˈvɐ]), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika [lʲiətʊˈvoːs...
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anti-Nazi Armia Krajowa and the Nazi Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force a Lithuanian volunteer security force subordinated to Nazi Germany. The battle...
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Antanas Rėklaitis (category Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force officers)
a Lithuanian Legion of the Waffen-SS. In 1944, Rėklaitis was appointed Chief of Division of the Staff of the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force. In...
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NDVF (Lithuanian: Krašto apsaugos savanorių pajėgos [KASP], previously Savanoriškoji krašto apsaugos tarnyba [SKAT]) is a branch of the Lithuanian Armed...
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The Lithuanian People's Army (Lithuanian: Lietuvos liaudies kariuomenė) were short-lived armed forces of Lithuania and the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist...
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with 12,000–13,000 men Lithuanian Construction Battalions – 5 battalions with 2,500 men Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force – 10,000–12,000 men Self-Defence...
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List of militaries by country (section Lithuania)
Air Force Libyan Navy Libyan National Army - (House of Representatives) Libyan Air Force Libyan Navy Lithuanian Armed Forces Lithuanian Land Force Lithuanian...
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Vladas Rėklaitis (category Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force officers)
the June Uprising in Lithuania in June 1941. In 1944, Rėklaitis was appointed Commandant of the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force in Ukmergė. In 1944...
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Home Army (category Articles with Lithuanian-language sources (lt))
Nazis' Lithuanian supporters, mainly the Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft battalions, the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force, and the Lithuanian Secret Police...
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Lithuanian Land Forces, the Lithuanian Naval Force, the Lithuanian Air Force and the Lithuanian Special Operations Force. In wartime, the Lithuanian State...
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