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    Operation Stoneage or Operation Stone Age (16–20 November 1942) was an Allied convoy operation to the Mediterranean island of Malta in the Second World...
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    disguised merchant ship to Malta early in November failed and then Operation Stoneage (17–21 November), a convoy of four merchant ships from Alexandria...
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    Malta into range of Allied land-based aircraft. In Operation Stoneage, which began after Operation Torch (8–16 November), round the clock air cover was...
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    Said, which, for the merchantmen only, was amended to Alexandria. Operation Stoneage was part of the effort to re-supply Malta. Four merchantmen were to...
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    Squadron, operating mostly in support of the resupply of Malta. While on Operation Stoneage, a torpedo from an Italian aircraft struck Arethusa on 18 November...
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    Egypt during the Second World War. The convoy followed the success of Operation Stoneage (16–20 November) which had raised the Siege of Malta. Four merchant...
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    ship of the force was withdrawn. After a convoy was run to Malta in Operation Stoneage (16–20 November) Force K was re-established against Axis convoys....
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    Siege of Malta (World War II) (category Naval aviation operations and battles)
    success in North Africa benefited Malta was apparent when a convoy (Operation Stoneage) reached Malta from Alexandria on 20 November virtually unscathed...
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    Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War. Torch was a compromise operation that met...
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    Stone Age (redirect from Stoneage)
    of miles. These facts show that there were sufficient resources and co-operation to enable large groups to work on these projects. To what extent this...
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    Operation Albumen was the name given to British Commando raids in June 1942 on German airfields in the Axis-occupied Greek island of Crete, to prevent...
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    Operation Corkscrew was the code name for the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 11 June 1943, prior...
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    Operation Herkules (German: Unternehmen Herkules; Italian: Operazione C3) was the German code-name given to an abortive plan for the invasion of Malta...
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    Operation Vigorous (known in Italy as Battaglia di mezzo giugno 1942, "the Battle of mid-June 1942") was a British operation during the Second World War...
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  • Operation White (15–18 November 1940) was a British attempt to deliver fourteen aircraft, twelve Hawker Hurricane fighters and two Skua dive bombers,...
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    Operation Agreement was a ground and amphibious operation carried out by British, Rhodesian and New Zealand forces on Axis-held Tobruk from 13 to 14 September...
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    Operation Hurry (31 July – 4 August 1940) was the first British operation in a series that have come to be known as Club Runs. The goal of the operation...
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    Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (German: Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture...
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    The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces...
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    Battle of El Agheila (category Battles and operations of World War II involving Poland)
    and the RAF quickly occupied the airfield to provide air cover for Operation Stoneage, a Malta convoy, on 18 November. The Axis forces had withdrawn 400 mi...
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    French-German armistice), and ordered it scuttled. The Germans began Operation Anton but the French naval crews used subterfuge to delay them until the...
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    Operation MB8 was a British Royal Navy operation in the Mediterranean Sea from 4 to 11 November 1940. It was made up of six forces comprising two aircraft...
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    Operation Grog was the name assigned to the British naval and air bombardment of Genoa and La Spezia on 9 February 1941, by the Royal Navy's Force H,...
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    Operation Substance was a British naval operation in July 1941 during the Second World War to escort Convoy GM 1, the first of the series from Gibraltar...
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    uchicago.edu/studies/courses/archive/2001/es212/daily_notes/stoneage.doc) Phallocrypts from Papua New Guinea and Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia...
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  • and a Swordfish to Malta from HMS Ark Royal and Furious Stone Age (or: Stoneage) (1942) — Malta convoy from Alexandria Substance (1941) — Malta convoy...
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    Operation Bowery was an Anglo-American operation during the Second World War to deliver fighter aircraft to Malta, an operation known informally as a...
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    struggle to get supplies to Malta. On 18 November 1942, taking part in Operation Stoneage, the mission which effectively relieved the siege of Malta, Arethusa...
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    of Good Hope. She was immediately assigned to escort the ships of Operation Stoneage that relieved the siege of Malta. The ship remained in the Mediterranean...
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    Operation Scylla (Italian: Operazione Scilla) was the transit of the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) Capitani Romani-class light cruiser Scipione Africano...
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