The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff officially established Operation Overcast (operations "Overcast" and "Paperclip" were related, and the terms are often...
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relations quickly deteriorated after the victory over the common enemy. Operation Overcast was a secret US intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German...
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capture of scientists, technical and German rocketry. Originally Operation Overcast sometimes called Project Paperclip. Surgeon (1945–) – Similar to Paperclip;...
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Look up overcast in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Overcast is the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds; a type of weather. Overcast may also...
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safehouse and intend to transport him to the U.S. as part of their Operation Overcast/Paperclip to have him work on their own rocket program (cf. Wernher...
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Wernher von Braun (category Operation Paperclip)
was recruited to the U.S. under a program called Operation Overcast, subsequently known as Operation Paperclip. There is evidence, however, that British...
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Operation Spring Awakening (German: Unternehmen Frühlingserwachen) was the last major German offensive of World War II. The operation was referred to...
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to send him to the USA with Wernher von Braun's group as part of Operation Overcast. In Argentina, among other things, he constructed a factory for guitars...
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II. The game starts with Fairburne discussing Operation Paperclip and its predecessor, Operation Overcast, as the United States makes an effort to recruit...
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Battle of the Bulge (redirect from Operation Währung)
inexperienced replacement units. The Germans also took advantage of heavily overcast weather conditions that grounded the Allies' superior air forces for an...
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beginning of the operation, pilots in the first wave reported the weather as 2,000 feet (610 m) scattered, 20,000 feet (6,100 m) overcast with 15 miles (24 km)...
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Arthur Rudolph (category Operation Paperclip)
Army and the Rudolphs were reunited at Camp Overcast near Landshut.: 101 In November 1945, Operation Overcast brought Rudolph, von Braun and the rest of...
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Operation Masher, also known as Operation White Wing, (24 January—6 March 1966) was the largest search and destroy mission that had been carried out in...
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Occupation Zone as part of the Operation Overcast. In August 1945, Chertok successfully completed his most important covert operation when he retrieved Helmut...
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controllers had delayed takeoffs by approximately 15 minutes because of the overcast. He reversed course and flew to the northwest. When three minutes had passed...
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Battle of Khe Sanh (redirect from Operation Scotland)
for such operations." Additionally, Shore argued that the "weather was another critical factor because the poor visibility and low overcasts attendant...
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Aluminum Overcast, B-17G-105-VE, s/n 44-85740, civil registration N5017N, as of August 2024 Aluminum Overcast is not flying. It is in the Eagle Hanger...
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1945. Brill accepted this invitation and arrived in the USA with Operation Overcast in 1947. He initially advised the United States Army Signal Corps...
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Operation Most III (Polish for Bridge III) or Operation Wildhorn III (in British documents) was a World War II operation in which Poland's Armia Krajowa...
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Starfish Prime (redirect from Operation starfish prime)
Kwajalein, 1,400 [nautical] miles [2,600 km; 1,600 mi] to the west, a dense overcast extended the length of the eastern horizon to a height of 5 or 8 degrees...
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Operation Matterhorn was a military operation of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II for strategic bombing by Boeing B-29 Superfortress...
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Fedden Mission (category Operation Surgeon)
scientists, which both the Soviets (under Operation Osoaviakhim) and Americans (Operation Overcast, later called Operation Paperclip) were doing. In the event...
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Battle of Huế (redirect from Operation Hue City)
from the Tây Lộc Airfield to look for the enemy force. Flying through overcast skies, the aircraft returned two hours later, its pilot having seen nothing...
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Operation Benedict (29 July – 6 December 1941) was the establishment of Force Benedict with units of the Soviet Air Forces (VVS, Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily)...
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24 hours regrouping. Unaware that the British had ended their operation and with overcast weather interfering with Allied air support, Bittrich believed...
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Admiralty Islands campaign (redirect from Operation Brewer)
on the other side of the island. The weather on 29 February 1944 was overcast with a low cloud ceiling that prevented most of the planned air strike...
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Big Week (redirect from Operation Big Week)
Operation Argument, after the war dubbed Big Week, was a sequence of raids by the United States Army Air Forces and RAF Bomber Command from 20 to 25 February...
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hours at 6:10 a.m., about two hours before zero hour. The next day was overcast, with a strong wind and the bombardment increased at 5:30 a.m. The British...
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Modern United States Navy aircraft carrier air operations include the operation of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft on and around an aircraft carrier for...
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German bombing of Britain, 1914–1918 (redirect from Operation Türkenkreuz)
air was clear, with patches of mist and cloud, Essex being noticeably overcast. South of the Thames, the cloud was broken and the air was clear over south-east...
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