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    A submarine pen (U-Boot-Bunker in German) is a type of submarine base that acts as a bunker to protect submarines from air attack. The term is generally...
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    The Valentin submarine factory is a protective shelter on the Weser River at the Bremen suburb of Rekum [de; nds], built to protect German U-boats during...
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    Navy claims Naval Submarine Base New London was the Navy's first submarine base, having been so designated in 1916. Submarine pen List of countries operating...
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    The submarine base of Saint-Nazaire is one of five large fortified U-boat pens built by Germany during the Second World War in occupied Saint-Nazaire,...
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  • Command. It is located 9.8 km (6.1 mi) west by north-west of Bartın. The submarine pen, adjacent to the Port of Bartın, was built between 1960 and 1965 by...
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  • drug Insulin pen Olympus Pen, a camera Submarine pen, a type of submarine base T-Mobile Park#The 'Pen, a spectator area in Seattle Pen, a character who...
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  • Bishop reports his success to Crain, directing him to the submarine pen to find the body. At the pen, Bishop decimates Crain's mercenaries then makes for Crain's...
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    Dora I (category German Navy submarine bases)
    Dora I (Dora 1) is a former German submarine base and submarine pen or bunker built in Trondheim, Norway. Construction of the bunker (designated by the...
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    to the end of the war. Since they could not destroy the base and its submarine pens, the Allies had decided to flatten the city and port of Lorient to cut...
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    permanent and temporary submarine bases around the world to maintain its fleet of submarines and serve the needs of the crews. Submarine bases are military...
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    out in the Valentin submarine pens, a massive, bomb–hardened concrete bunker built at the small port of Farge, near Bremen. The pens were constructed between...
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    Grand Slams, the remainder carrying Tallboys, attacked the Valentin submarine pens in clear visibility escorted by 90 Mustang Mk IIIs of 11 Group. Since...
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    bomber against an enemy submarine pen. The W89 200 kiloton (0.2 MT) warhead armed both the tactical Sea Lance area effect anti-submarine weapon for use far...
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    Kriegsmarine used fortified dry docks to protect its submarines from Allied air raids (see submarine pen). An advantage of covered dry docks is that work...
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    Guide to the Design, Construction and Use of Concrete Pill Boxes, 1914–1918. Pen & Sword. ISBN 9781473817227. Oldham, Peter (2018). "'Pill box', 'pillbox'...
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    A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
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    in the Gaza Strip Air raid shelter Bomb shelter Underground hangar Submarine pen Fallout shelter Pillbox (military) Regelbau Continuity of government...
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  • France. The museum is found inside the former German World War II submarine pen in the harbour of the city port. It tells the history of the ocean liner...
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    British Royal Navy to penetrate hardened concrete targets, such as submarine pens, which could resist conventional free-fall bombs. Devised by Royal Navy...
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    The Grand Synagogue Facades of the Art déco district Darwin district Submarine Pen Cité Frugès, district of Pessac, built by Le Corbusier, 1924–1926, listed...
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    increase the effect of the weapon's blast on built-up targets such as submarine pens, or to transmit a shock wave through the ground to attack deeply-buried...
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    resistance Missile launch facility Pillbox Revetment Sentry gun Spider hole Submarine pen Underground hangar Weapon storage area Weapons Storage and Security...
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  • weakness is at sea; their only offensive naval unit is the submarine (produced in the submarine pen), which only exists to counter Allied warships and gain...
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    Russian ships in Sevastopol, 2015. Naval museum complex Balaklava, former submarine pen 10 km south of Sevastopol in Balaklava Bay Sevastopol Radar Station...
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    Dora II (category German Navy submarine bases)
    Dora II (Dora 2) is an unfinished German submarine base and submarine pen or bunker in Trondheim, Norway, which is next to Dora I (Dora 1). Construction...
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  • end of World War II on massively reinforced installations, such as submarine pens with concrete walls several meters thick, caverns, tunnels, and bridges...
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    previous two years. He also planned and led the famous raids on the German submarine pens in the Belgian ports of Zeebrugge and Ostend. Between the wars Keyes...
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  • scene showed a fictional rocket bomb destroying a fortified German submarine pen. According to anecdote, this directly inspired the British to develop...
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    freight version of the Airbus A380. The foundations of the Fink II submarine pen are extant, just east of the north end of the runway. The Airbus site...
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    resistance Missile launch facility Pillbox Revetment Sentry gun Spider hole Submarine pen Underground hangar Weapon storage area Weapons Storage and Security...
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