During the Second World War, Operation Clipper was an Allied offensive by the British XXX Corps (which included the American 84th Infantry Division) to...
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also refer to: Clipper Logistics, a British logistics company Clipper Teas, branded as "Clipper", a British fairtrade tea company Clipper Windpower, a wind...
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reduce the Geilenkirchen salient in the north in a different operation named Operation Clipper. The long term target after the Rur was crossed was to reach...
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enemies. Operation Squatter, 16/17 November 1941, unsuccessful raid on forward Axis airfields in North Africa, in support of Operation Crusader Operation Green...
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cooperate with the US Ninth Army by capturing the Geilenkirchen salient (Operation Clipper). XXX Corps had 43rd Wessex and 84th US Divisions under command for...
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of Heerlen and 20 km (12.4 mi) north of Aachen. It was the site of Operation Clipper in November 1944. The town gives its name to nearby NATO Air Base...
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with the Ninth US Army by capturing the Geilenkirchen salient in Operation Clipper. This entailed breaching the Siegfried Line defences and capturing...
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with the Ninth US Army by capturing the Geilenkirchen salient in Operation Clipper. This entailed breaching the Siegfried Line defences and capturing...
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conclusion of the battle, the brigade now became Corps mobile reserve. Operation Clipper was the code name for an assault on the Siegfried line. It was conducted...
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Clipper Magazine Stadium is a baseball park located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood. It is the home of the Lancaster...
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A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper...
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for Arnhem (Operation Market Garden) in the Low Countries, and then Operations Clipper, Blackcock, Veritable and Plunder across Germany. Its short-lived...
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The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941. One of the largest aircraft of its time, it had the...
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In electronics, a clipper is a circuit designed to prevent a signal from exceeding a predetermined reference voltage level. A clipper does not distort...
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Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
identified by its blue globe logo ("The Blue Meatball"), the use of the word "Clipper" in its aircraft names and call signs, and the white uniform caps of its...
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Army in the Normandy bocage, at the Battle for Brest, and during Operation Clipper, the Anglo-American assault on Geilenkirchen. C Squadron also supported...
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the Scheldt estuary (Operation Infatuate), the battle for the Roer Triangle (Operation Blackcock), the Rhine crossings (Operation Plunder) and the Elbe...
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port and has been in operation since 1991 daily from mid-May through September. As Clipper Navigation grew, it launched Clipper Vacations.[citation needed]...
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List of World War II battles (redirect from Raiding operations during World War II)
September–October 1944 Battle of Hürtgen Forest: September–December 1944 Operation Queen Operation Clipper: November 1944 Battle of Vianden: November 1944 Battle of...
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light for the mine-clearing flail tanks supporting the infantry in Operation Clipper. Some British tanks were sent to India in 1945. The US Tenth Army...
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Saarland by France during the Phoney War The Siegfried Line Offensive Operation Clipper Battle of Aachen Battle of the Hurtgen Forest Battle of Crucifix Hill...
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The Clipper architecture is a 32-bit RISC-like instruction set architecture designed by Fairchild Semiconductor. The architecture never enjoyed much market...
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21st Army Group (section Operation Market Garden)
December 1944. During Operation Pheasant, the British I Corps was reinforced by the US 104th Infantry Division. During Operation Clipper, the US 84th Infantry...
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The Clipper card is a reloadable contactless smart card used for automated fare collection in the San Francisco Bay Area. First introduced as TransLink...
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Brian Horrocks (section Operation Market Garden)
first battle, took its first German town, Geilenkirchen, as part of Operation Clipper. During the Battle of the Bulge, Horrocks was temporarily relieved...
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The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is a biennial sailing race that takes paying amateur crews on one or more legs of a circumnavigation of the globe...
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A Baltimore clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States, especially at the port of Baltimore,...
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Golden Horizon (redirect from Flying Clipper)
portal Malta portal Royal Clipper Star Clipper Star Flyer List of cruise ships List of large sailing vessels Flying Clipper, the world’s largest sailing...
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Hobart's Funnies (category Operation Neptune)
This was not used on D-Day, but was used during the November 1944 Operation Clipper attack on the Geilenkirchen salient to create indirect artificial...
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combat on 18 November with an attack on Geilenkirchen, Germany, (Operation Clipper) as part of the larger offensive in the Roer Valley, north of Aachen...
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