• Operation Savanna (or Operation Savannah) was the first insertion of SOE trained Free French paratroops into German-occupied France during World War II...
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  • Jet Plane Operation Savanna, a World War II Operation Operation Savannah (Angola), a South African military operation into Angola Savanna, a UK jazz/funk...
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  • role in Operation Savanna and then in Operation Josephine B. He set up the Overcloud network in Brittany and carried out a number of operations. Le Tac...
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    services in the field", after taking part in an operation by boat and submarine to pick up two Operation Savanna agents on the coast of France and bring them...
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    Savanna is a city in Carroll County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,783 at the 2020 census. Savanna is located along the Mississippi River...
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    or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in Africa. It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mazda Savanna. The Mazda Savanna is a rotary-powered automobile sold by the Japanese manufacturer Mazda between...
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  • the RAF from its early days. In January 1941, an intended ambush (Operation Savanna) against the aircrew of a German "pathfinder" air group near Vannes...
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    Mathew Shaw (born July 26, 1980) and his daughter Savanna Shaw (born August 4, 2004) are an American musical duo from Utah. They began releasing music...
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    The Guinean forest-savanna, also known as the Guinean forest-savanna transition, is a distinctive ecological region located in West Africa. It stretches...
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    the Mazda Savanna (マツダ・サバンナ, Matsuda Sabanna) in Japan, with export markets taking this model as the Mazda RX-3. The Grand Familia/Savanna were originally...
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  • (aka Jacques Leblanc) were briefed for the operation. Forman had recently returned from Operation Savanna, the first attempt to insert SOE trained Free...
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    by Captain Georges Bergé. March 15, 1941: Operation Savanna, the first operation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France, an ambush in Brittany...
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    RX-7 was X605. In Japan, it was introduced in March 1978, replacing the Savanna RX-3, and joined Mazda's only other remaining rotary engine-powered products...
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    Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of...
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    surrounding the river for miles inland, and is derived from the English term "savanna", a kind of tropical grassland, which was borrowed by the English from...
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    started in October 1993, but on her 10th day at the station, the local news operation was closed. She then went to work at ABC affiliate KMIZ in Columbia, Missouri...
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  • for Psychology Today until his dismissal in 2011. Kanazawa uses the term Savanna principle to denote his hypothesis that societal difficulties exist because...
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    Operation Aquatint was the codename for a failed raid by British Commandos on the coast of occupied France during the Second World War. The raid was undertaken...
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    Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern...
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  • List of raids (category Lists of military operations)
    capture or kill specific personnel. This contrasts to regular military operations where the end goal is to capture territory and advance. Raids are a quick...
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    The Savanna Pastoral Neolithic (SPN; formerly known as the Stone Bowl Culture) is a collection of ancient societies that appeared in the Rift Valley of...
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  • depth charged and sunk in the North Atlantic by British warships. Operation Savanna ended with the main Allied objective having failed. German submarine...
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    Operation Frankton was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during World War II. The raid was carried...
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    Operation Archery, also known as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy...
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  • that these ivory samples likely originated from West African forests and savanna elephants, corroborating with the locations of Portuguese Ivory trading...
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  • Operation Bigamy a.k.a. Operation Snowdrop was a raid during the Second World War by the Special Air Service in September 1942 under the command of Lieutenant...
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    Dale Gardner (category People from Savanna, Illinois)
    1948, in Fairmont, Minnesota, Gardner grew up in Sherburn, Minnesota, and Savanna, Illinois. He considered his hometown to be Clinton, Iowa, where his mother...
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    The unsuccessful Operation Freshman was mounted the following month by British paratroopers, who were to rendezvous with the Operation Grouse Norwegians...
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    Mauritania is home to seven terrestrial ecoregions: Sahelian Acacia savanna, West Sudanian savanna, Saharan halophytics, Atlantic coastal desert, North Saharan...
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