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    Operation Amherst was a Free French and British attack designed to capture intact Dutch canals, bridges and airfields during World War II. It was led...
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    à 144. In Histoire des parachutistes français, pages 23 à 27. In Opération Amherst, de Franck Segrétain, page 63. In Histoire des parachutistes français...
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    The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts. It is the flagship campus...
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    Liberation Day (Netherlands) (category Battles and operations of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    American and Polish airborne forces (see Operation Market Garden) and French airbornes (see Operation Amherst). On 5 May 1945, at Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen...
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  • March 1945, reconnaissance in support of the crossing of the Rhine. Operation Amherst, In the night of 7 April 1945, more than 700 Free French SAS of the...
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  • team was parachuted into the Northern Netherlands as part of SAS operation "Amherst". Despite the fact that operating in the flat and densely populated...
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    team was parachuted into the Northern Netherlands as part of SAS operation "Amherst". Despite the fact that operating clandestinely in the flat and densely...
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    commandos parachutistes S.A.S., Éditions Arthaud, 1952. Franck Segrétain, Opération Amherst, avril 1945 le raid des 2e et 3e RCP sur les pays bas. Revue Ligne...
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    William Archer Amherst, 3rd Earl Amherst (26 March 1836 – 14 August 1910), styled Viscount Holmesdale from 1857 to 1886, was a British peer, politician...
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  • Hague. 6 Apr: Start of the Georgian uprising on Texel. 7 to 8 April – Operation Amherst 9 Apr: Consultation between the Trusted Men and members of Koot's...
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    brigade containing Special Air Service units, and organised Operation Amherst and Operation Howard. He held this appointment until the brigade disbanded...
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    revenge : the next 9-11 : what the media and the government haven't told you. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. pp. 68. ISBN 1591022525. OCLC 54823028. Dower, John...
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    Amherst Island is located in Lake Ontario, 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Amherst Island, being wholly in Lake Ontario, is upstream...
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  • Japanese warships were sunk by American aircraft. The Allies began Operation Amherst, a Free French and British Special Air Service attack with the goal...
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    squadron of the SAS. He fought in Brittany and in the Netherlands during Operation Amherst. In 1949 Sicaud was sent to the Kerguelen Islands in order to reinforce...
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    Operation Varsity Ruhr Pocket Battle of Kassel Battle of Heilbronn Operation Amherst Battle of Nuremberg Battle of Hamburg Battle of Castle Itter Liberation...
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  • in mid-September, near Dijon. Operation Dragoon included a glider landing (Operation Dove) and a deception (Operation Span). A planned benefit of Dragoon...
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    Ardennes. February 1945: regrouped in England. Night of April 7–8, 1945: Operation Amherst, parachuted into the Netherlands. Fighting until the 18th. On August...
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    airdrop food over the German-occupied territories in Operation Manna. During Operation Amherst, Allied troops advanced to the North Netherlands. To support...
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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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    with a vast manufacturing network composed of: Amherst Laboratories, Inc. Amherst Parenterals, Inc. Amherst Nutraceuticals, Inc. Asian Antibiotics, Inc....
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    Ben Cherington (category Amherst College alumni)
    the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was originally hired by the Red Sox in 1999 by Dan Duquette, an Amherst College alumnus who was then the...
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  • Amherst Internment Camp was an internment camp that existed from 1914 to 1919 in Amherst, Nova Scotia. It was the largest internment camp in Canada during...
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  • Amherst Airport (TC LID: CCQ4) is an abandoned airport that was located 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) west of Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was a small turf...
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  • of the brigade. The 3rd and 4th SAS were involved in Operation Amherst in April. The operation began with the drop of 700 men on the night of 7 April...
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    Native Americans, alarmed by policies imposed by British General Jeffrey Amherst, attacked a number of British forts and settlements. Nine forts were destroyed...
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    system began operation on September 24, 1884, consolidated with the Amherst and Sunderland Street Railway in 1907, and ceased operations as a streetcar...
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    Amherst Boston Dartmouth Lowell Chan Medical School School of Law The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the...
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    Bill Casey (category People from Amherst, Nova Scotia)
    "Surgery a success: Bill Casey recovering at home following prostate operation". Amherst Daily News. February 4, 2008. Archived from the original on August...
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    and the Free French, combined with the Canadian forces, as part of Operation Amherst. Appelscha’s inhabitants consists about 50% men and 50% women. The...
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