Commons has media related to Viven-Bessières rifle grenade. References Dictionnaire de la Grande Guerre 1914-1918, F. Cochet & R. Porte (dir.), pages 1062-1063...
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The GLI-F4 instant tear gas grenade (or SAE 810 instant tear gas grenade) is an explosive tear gas grenade, manufactured by the company Alsetex. The GLI-F4...
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Morel-Fatio, "Quelques remarques sur La Guerre de Grenade de D. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza," in Annuaire de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 1914-15 (Paris...
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Charles Piroth (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
Commander of the Legion of Honor Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 with bronze palm and two citations Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures Morgan...
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Commerce raiding (redirect from Guerre de course)
Napoleonic France, the Royal Navy dominated the seas. France adopted a guerre de course strategy by licensing civilian privateers to seize British shipping...
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Phoney War (redirect from Drole de guerre)
The Phoney War (French: Drôle de guerre; German: Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the outset of World War II during which there were virtually...
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Appendix A, table A-11. Rottman, The Rocket-propelled Grenade (2010), p. 63. Naud, La Guerre Civile Libanaise - 2e partie: Les combats israélo-Syriens...
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grenade Mk 2 "Pineapple" fragmentation hand/rifle grenade S13 hand grenade RG-42 fragmentation-type hand grenade F-1 hand grenade Type 1 hand grenade...
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militia was first headed by the Greek Orthodox George Hawi (whose nom de guerre was Abu Anis), but in 1979 PG command was passed on to Elias Atallah,...
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Secrets de la guerre du Liban (2004), pp. 53–54. Menargues, Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban (2004), p. 51. Menargues, Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban...
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as offensive and defensive hand grenades. Counterinsurgency Commandos (Portugal) "commandos algerie guerre commando de chasse renseignement choc". Commandos-algerie...
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Secrets de la guerre du Liban (2004), p. 54. Menargues, Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban (2004), p. 55. Menargues, Les Secrets de la guerre du Liban...
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Raoul Magrin-Vernerey (category Recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
June 1943) Military Medal Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (11 citations) Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (3 citations) Croix de guerre des théâtres d'opérations extérieures...
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Jan Kubiš (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
France during the early stage of World War II and received his Croix de Guerre there. A month after the German victory in the Battle of France, Kubiš...
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William Henry Grimbaldeston (category British recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
machine-guns and one trench mortar. He was also awarded the French Croix de Guerre. His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Regimental Museum of The Kings...
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Roger Faulques (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
War II in the French First Army. As a Corporal, he received the Croix de Guerre at the age of 20. Noted for his fighting spirit and sense of command,...
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Anton Fransch (c. 1969 – 17 November 1989), nom de guerre Mahomad, was a commander in uMkhonto we Sizwe. He was killed on 17 November 1989 in Cape Town...
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Vladimir Perić (category Deaths by hand grenade)
Владимир Перић; 28 December 1919 – 5/6 April 1945), best known by the nom de guerre Valter, was a Yugoslav-Serb Partisan commander in German-occupied Sarajevo...
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Albert Severin Roche (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
order of the Army: Officier de la Légion d'honneur. Médaille Militaire. Croix du combattant volontaire. Croix de Guerre. In 1920, with seven of his comrades...
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212 pages Bonnard Jean-Yves, La reconstitution des terres de l'Oise après la Grande Guerre: les bases d'une nouvelle géographie du foncier, in Annales...
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Jean Lartéguy (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
military awards, including the Légion d'honneur, the Croix de guerre 1939-1945, and the Croix de guerre T.O.E. After his military service, Lartéguy worked as...
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Charles Denner (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1939–1945 (France))
mountains and destroyed a Nazi SS truck with a grenade; he was wounded and later received the Croix de Guerre for this operation. Passionate about theatre...
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Histoire de la guerre du Liban, Presses Universitaires de France - PUF, Paris 1993. ISBN 978-2-13-045801-2 (in French) Samir Kassir, La Guerre du Liban: De la...
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James Earl Rudder (category American recipients of the Croix de guerre (Belgium))
Cluster, French Legion of Honor with Croix de Guerre and Palm, and Order of Leopold (Belgium) with Croix de Guerre and Palm. He was a full colonel by the...
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Alfred Victor Smith (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
within the cemetery is not known. He was also awarded a French Croix de Guerre. Alfred Victor Smith’s father was a Police officer and although Alfred...
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they retained a large number of officers issued from the Ministère de la Guerre, which would reproduce and compensate for the losses endured assisting...
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Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
the vice-president of the Conseil supérieur de la guerre, visited Dinant with his aide-de-camp, Captain de Gaulle. Together, they inaugurated the L'Assaut...
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1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (redirect from 1er Régiment de Parachutistes d'Infanterie de Marine)
général Charles de Gaulle, under the Arc de Triomphe at Paris to the 2nd Parachute Chasseur Regiment 2e R.C.P of the Air Force. Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with...
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Edward B. Cole (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
leading an attack on enemy machine guns a German hand grenade wounded him in the foot. When a second grenade landed in front of him, he grabbed it to throw it...
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