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    Operation Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941, during the Second World War. Canadian, British and the Norwegian...
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    year, roughly evenly divided between Norway and Russia. Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941 during the Second...
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    archipelago were evacuated in Operation Gauntlet (25 August – 3 September 1941) and Dervish was followed by Operation Strength (30 August – 14 September...
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    As Operation Dervish, the first Arctic convoy, was assembling in Iceland, Vian sailed with Force A for Svalbard on 19 August in Operation Gauntlet. Norwegian...
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    effort in the covert war in the Kingdom of Laos was floundering. Operation Gauntlet, a multi-battalion Royal Lao Army offensive intended to protect Paksong...
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    settlements on Svalbard were evacuated, and facilities there destroyed, in Operation Gauntlet. However, the Norwegian government in exile decided it would be important...
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    Empress of Canada and the auxiliary tanker Oligarch to Spitsbergen in Operation Gauntlet. Canadian troops landed to destroy mining equipment and two radio...
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    and set up camp in Barentsburg (deserted since the Operation Gauntlet evacuation and sabotage operation in August–September 1941) and sent out reconnaissance...
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    several military operations. In August 1941, British, Canadian and Free Norwegian Forces landed on Spitzbergen during Operation Gauntlet to destroy the...
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    Gauntlet track or interlaced track, also gantlet track (AE) is an arrangement in which railway tracks run parallel on a single track bed and are interlaced...
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    see Operation Jupiter (Norway). Notable military operations in Norway include: Operation Claymore Operation Gauntlet Operation Anklet Operation Archery...
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    the raids were scheduled to only last overnight although some, like Operation Gauntlet, were conducted over a number of days. In north west Europe there...
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    Operation Dervish, the first Arctic convoy, was assembling in Iceland, Vian sailed with Force A for Svalbard on 19 August 1942 in Operation Gauntlet....
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  • 1941, when all employees were evacuated to the mainland as part of Operation Gauntlet. Mining resumed in 1947 and commenced in Pyramiden in 1955. Declining...
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    The Gloster Gauntlet was a single-seat biplane fighter designed and produced by the British aeroplane manufacturer Gloster Aircraft in the 1930s. It was...
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    Soviet–British occupation;: 74  instead the British Army started Operation Gauntlet to evacuate Spitsbergen. On 29 August 1941, the entire population...
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  • Operation Honorable Dragon (also known as Operation Gauntlet) was an offensive of the Second Indochina War. The Central Intelligence Agency, which equipped...
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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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    the Caucasus, Kokoda Track campaign, Battle of Attu, Operation Rentier, Operation Gauntlet, Operation Encore, and the British defence at the Battle of Hong...
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    provided by the British Commandos, but the two largest raids, Operation Gauntlet and Operation Jubilee, drew heavily on Canadian troops. The size of the raiding...
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  • in one or more of the following operations in the Second World War: Operation Claymore Operation Gauntlet Operation Archery T.F. Mills Norway 1940-41...
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  • (Supplement). 10 November 1944. p. 5214. "Operation Infatuate – Walcheren 1–8 November 1944". Combined Operations. Retrieved 17 March 2012. "No. 37380"....
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  • Operation Rentier ('Reindeer') was a German operation during World War II intended to secure the nickel mines around Petsamo in Finland, against a Soviet...
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  • Operation Devon was the code name of an amphibious landing by British Commandos in 1943 at Termoli, on the Adriatic coast of Italy, during the Italian...
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    reporting name, SA-15 "Gauntlet". A navalized variant was developed under the name 3K95 "Kinzhal", also known as the SA-N-9 "Gauntlet". Tor was designed to...
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    from Finnish and Norwegian territory. Spitsbergen – Operation Gauntlet was a Combined Operations raid by Canadian troops, with British Army logistics...
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  • During World War II, Operation Begonia was the airborne counterpart to the amphibious Operation Jonquil, conducted by British SAS and Eighth Army Airborne...
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    Norwegian residents following destruction of Spitsbergen coal mines by Operation Gauntlet. The warships encountered a German troop convoy off Porsangerfjorden...
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  • Operation Maple was a series of World War II operations in Italy in support of the Anzio landings. It comprised operations by the British Special Air Service...
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  • responsible for the end of the world. Nate was also continually hunted by Operation: Gauntlet, a special task force of the United Nations, who had been especially...
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