Operation Bolero was the commonly used reference for the code name of the United States military troop buildup in the United Kingdom during World War II...
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B-17 bombers of a bombardment squadron were forced to return to Greenland en route to Great Britain during Operation Bolero and made emergency landings...
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pilots of the newly designated 1st Fighter Group to England as part of Operation Bolero, with the first aircraft departing on 27 June. Flights of P-38s were...
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pilots. 56th Operations Support Squadron, a non-flying squadron, the 56 OSS controls all airfield activities at Luke. 56th Training Squadron, a non-flying...
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England as part of Operation Bolero and became the first operationally-ready Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress group. Combat operations by the group began...
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Connecticut in late June. The squadron ferried its Flying Fortresses via the North Atlantic ferry route as part of Operation Bolero, the build up of American...
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facility the US military wanted a base from which the warplanes of Operation Bolero that were forced to land on the Greenland ice sheet could be rescued...
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51st Troop Carrier Wing (section Squadrons)
expressly organized for service overseas, initially for support of Operation Bolero, the planned cross-Channel invasion of Europe. When the wing was activated...
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Connecticut in late June. The squadron ferried its Flying Fortresses via the North Atlantic ferry route as part of Operation Bolero, the build up of American...
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Lockheed P-38 Lightnings and Douglas C-47 Skytrains, were part of Operation Bolero as the Eighth Air Force relocated to Britain. By 7 December 1941, the...
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning (section Postwar operations)
drop tanks were used to fly Lightnings to the UK, the plan called Operation Bolero. Led by two Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, the first seven P-38s, each...
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minor injuries and shock, the air base said." 27 June 1942 During Operation Bolero, the ferrying of combat aircraft from the U.S. to England by air, B-17E-BO...
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Ernest J. King (category Chiefs of Naval Operations)
build up a force of 48 divisions in the UK (Operation Bolero) for a landing in France in 1943 (Operation Roundup). The U.S. Army planners realized that...
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clearly visible, over 70 years after the accident. 15 July During Operation Bolero, the ferrying of combat aircraft from the U.S. to the U.K. by air,...
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beginning in May 1942. His logistics command was responsible for the Operation Bolero buildup of over 3 million men and women, and 37,000,000 tons of materiel...
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the U.S. Airmen Killed In Action During World War II Operation Bolero Operation Matterhorn Operation Tidal Wave Project Alberta Silverplate Strategic bombing...
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neutral Switzerland hoping to find asylum by posing as family 1981 France Bolero: Dance of Life Les uns et les autres Claude Lelouch Musical drama. Four...
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would serve as an inspiration for the compositions of two Puerto Ricans Boleros; "En mi viejo San Juan" (In my Old San Juan) by Noel Estrada and "Despedida"...
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still closely related to, the pan-Latin American romantic style called bolero. Over time, it has been influenced by merengue and by a variety of Latin...
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the US. The cha-cha-cha is another dance of Cuban origin, while the Cuban bolero originated in Santiago de Cuba in the last quarter of the 19th century....
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(2004) 3 John Derek Bo Derek Fantasies (1981), Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), Bolero (1984), Ghosts Can't Do It (1989) 4 Brian De Palma William Finley 10 different...
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for the first time would serve as an inspiration for compositions of two Bolero's; "En mi viejo San Juan" by Noel Estrada and "Despedida" (My Good-bye),...
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British epic war film telling the true story of Operation Chastise when in 1943 the RAF's 617 Squadron attacked the Möhne, Eder, and Sorpe dams in Nazi...
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and the successful Loch Longs in 1949. In September 1956 a Royal Yacht Squadron syndicate was formed to build a 12-metre for the 1958 America's Cup. The...
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Benny Moré, Cuban singer, promoter of popular Cuban music genres such as bolero and mambo, band leader of "Banda Gigante", in Lajas, Cuba (d. 1963) Voters...
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Liability Company Укртелефільм, ВТО «Либідь», «Унівекс» Bolero, or Provincial Melodrama Bolero, abo provintsiyna melodrama Болеро, або провінційна мелодрама...
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scientist, educator. First Puerto Rican astronaut Johnny Albino, U.S. Army - bolero singer Pedro Albizu Campos, U.S. Army - President and principal leader of...
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Daniel Santos, Puerto Rican-American singer, credited for popularizing the bolero style of singing in the United States, in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico...
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Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican musician and politician, noted promoter of bolero music, member of the Senate of Puerto Rico from 1973 to 1981, in Ponce,...
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witnessed a rise of composers and singers of typical Puerto Rican music and the Bolero genre. Women such as Ruth Fernández, Carmita Jiménez, Sylvia Rexach and...
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