British Navy
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Operation Postmaster: A Daring Special Operations Executive Mission in World War II Introduction Operation Postmaster was a covert military operation conducted during World War II by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). It was a meticulously planned and highly successful mission that took place in January 1942, targeting enemy-controlled shipping in Spanish-controlled Fernando Po (now
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Operation Source, executed on September 22, 1943, was one of the most daring and innovative operations conducted by the British Royal Navy during World War II. The objective of the operation was to neutralize the German battleship Tirpitz, one of the most significant threats to Allied naval operations in the North Atlantic and Arctic waters.
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I was reminiscing on TV shows I watched as a kid in the Netherlands. One of my favourite shows was a series called “Q&Q”. It was about 2 teenage detectives. The boys named Aristides Quarles and Wilbur Quant accidentally snap a photo of a dead body in the woods. After finding the place where the
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I have to confess the title is a bit deceptive. When I refer to Shakespeare I am not talking about the famous bard William Shakespeare but rather HMS Shakespeare, an S-class submarine built for the Royal Navy during WWII. During her service in the Mediterranean, she sank the Italian sailing vessels Sant’ Anna M. and
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The naval Battle of Texel or Battle of Kijkduin took place on 21 August 1673 between the Dutch and the combined English and French fleets and was the last major battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, which was itself part of the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678), during which Louis XIV of France invaded the Republic and sought to establish control over the Spanish Netherlands. English involvement came about because of the Treaty of Dover,
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