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    Allied Forces Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) was a Principal Subordinate Command (PSC) of the NATO Military Command Structure, with responsibility for the...
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    Denmark Allied Air Forces Baltic Approaches (COMAIRBALTAP) in Karup Allied Naval Forces Baltic Approaches (COMNAVBALTAP) in Karup * The sub-commands of NON...
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    Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the military headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO)...
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  • the Central Powers Allied Forces Baltic Approaches, a command of NATO active from 1962 to 2002 Allied Forces North Norway, a command of NATO active from...
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    German-Danish Allied Naval Forces Baltic Approaches Command (COMNAVBALTAP) kept the Soviet Baltic Fleet bottled up in the Baltic Sea, the main risk for allied shipping...
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    establishment of Commander Allied Forces Baltic Approaches (COMBALTAP), German naval forces were shifted into that command. Thereafter there was no longer...
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  • Denmark Allied Air Forces Baltic Approaches (AIRBALTAP), in Karup, Denmark Allied Naval Forces Baltic Approaches (NAVBALTAP), in Karup, Denmark Allied Forces...
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    Europe). From 1962 LANDJUT had been responsible for the defence of the Baltic Approaches from a headquarters at Rendsburg, Germany. It comprised the 6th Panzergrenadier...
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    The British also intervened in the Baltic theatre (1918–1919) and in the Caucasus (1917–1919). French-led Allied forces participated in the Southern...
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  • as branch chief of "Planning" at the Allied Command Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) in Denmark (1984–1987). He commanded the 2nd Fast Attack Craft Squadron based...
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    Denmark Allied Air Forces Baltic Approaches (AIRBALTAP), in Karup, Denmark Allied Naval Forces Baltic Approaches (NAVBALTAP), in Karup, Denmark Allied Forces...
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    The Baltic Fleet (Russian: Балтийский флот, romanized: Baltiyskiy flot) is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under...
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    November 11, 1918, armistice the Inter-Allied Commission of Control insisted that the German troops remain in the Baltic countries to prevent the region from...
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  • NATO command Allied Forces Baltic Approaches (BALTAP). BALTAP was a principal subordinate command under the Allied Forces Northern Europe Command (AFNORTH)...
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    and equipment to the local allied commanders or officers designated by the Representatives of the Allied Supreme Command"; which had the effect of requiring...
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    9 January 1941, Horton was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches Command on 17 November 1942. Here he instituted a series of tactical changes...
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  • Norway's coastal waters were under the command of NATO's Allied Command Channel and Allied Forces Baltic Approaches.[citation needed] Therefore, most major...
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    Soviets organised a press campaign against the allegedly pro-Allied sympathies of the Baltic governments. In May 1940, the Germans invaded France, which...
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    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...
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  • were rescued by the Command, comprising 5,721 Allied crew members, 277 enemy personnel and 4,665 non-aircrews. 5,866 Coastal Command personnel were killed...
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  • Allied Forces South Norway (SONOR) and Allied Forces Baltic Approaches. Unlike most other NATO commands NON was a staffed entirely by members of the Norwegian...
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    significant role in the Allied effort to halt the Japanese advance as part of the American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command. The ABDA fleet finally...
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    Bomarsund fortress on Åland Islands. In the August 1855, the Western Allied Baltic Fleet tried to destroy heavily defended Russian dockyards at Sveaborg...
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    Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) of all the Allied forces in North Africa. British General Sir Harold Alexander acted as his second-in-command and as the 15th Army Group...
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt placed Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Allied forces. The invasion began shortly after midnight on the morning of...
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    The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of...
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    under the command of Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), it was assigned to Operation Overlord, the Western Allied invasion of...
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    June 1944. On 5 July 1944, the Allied Operation Dredger permitted hunter-killer groups to roam the Western Approaches and Biscay making it a "no-go area"...
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    response to Allied amphibious landings in the eastern Solomon Islands, mobilized a task force of seven cruisers and one destroyer under the command of Vice...
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    Philip M. Breedlove (category NATO Supreme Allied Commanders)
    the commander of U.S. European Command, as well as the 17th Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) of NATO Allied Command Operations, from May 2013 until...
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