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4 days ago · After entry of the United States into the war the ship was operated by Dutch agents of the U.S. War Shipping Administration (WSA) from February 1942 to February 1946 as a troopship from the U.S. West Coast to Pacific war zones.
3 days ago · In quick time Middleton found himself aboard a troopship destined for Egypt, and latterly ANZAC Cove. Two days after arriving at Gallipoli the 19th Battalion took part in an attack on Hill 60, which was to be the last major offensive of the Gallipoli campaign.
2 days ago · Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean (modern Kiribati) as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme.
4 days ago · World War II - Invasion, Norway, Allies: On April 9, 1940, the major Norwegian ports from Oslo northward to Narvik (1,200 miles away from Germany's naval bases) were occupied by advance detachments of German troops.
3 days ago · She was a former luxury liner, built on the Clyde in 1911, which became a troopship in the First World War. As a hospital ship in WW2 she could carry 365 patients and 100 medical and nursing staff. 47 She sailed on 12 September for Manila in the Philippines and then on to Wellington, New Zealand, where she arrived on 9 October. Four patients ...
1 day ago · Administrative (all arms) Access control. Cantonment: a temporary or semi-permanent military quarters; in South Asia, the term cantonment also describes permanent military stations. Chief of defence. Cloak and Dagger. Combat information center. Command (military formation) Command center. Command and control.
4 days ago · Above we see the brand new Essex-class fleet carrier USS Bennington (CV-20), decked out in Measure 32, Design 17A camouflage, photographed in the busy shipping lanes off New York on 25 September 1944 by Navy Blimp ZP-12 with the troopship SS Nievw Amsterdam in the foreground. She would go on to become one of the last of her class in Navy ...
