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  • Thumbnail for Unexploded ordnance
    Unexploded ordnance (UXO, sometimes abbreviated as UO), unexploded bombs (UXBs), and explosive remnants of war (ERW or ERoW) are explosive weapons (bombs...
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  • The 46th Guards Rifle Division was formed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in October 1942, based on the 2nd formation of the 174th Rifle...
    27 KB (3,907 words) - 08:06, 28 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Vickers Valetta
    The Vickers Valetta is a twin-engine military transport aircraft developed and produced by the British manufacturing company Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. Developed...
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  • Thumbnail for USS General M. M. Patrick
    USS General M. M. Patrick (AP-150) was a General G. O. Squier-class transport ship built for the US Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of US...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Fort William
    The siege of Fort William took place in the Scottish Highlands during the 1745 Jacobite Rising, from 20 March to 3 April 1746. On 1 February 1746, the...
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  • Thumbnail for 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery
    The 1st Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery is a close support regiment attached to the 7th Brigade at Enoggera Barracks in Queensland. The unit was formed...
    13 KB (1,511 words) - 01:43, 27 March 2023
  • HMS Leopard was a Vickers three funnel - 30 knot destroyer ordered by the Royal Navy under the 1895 – 1896 Naval Estimates. She was the ninth ship to carry...
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  • Thumbnail for Siege of Rhodes (305–304 BC)
    The siege of Rhodes in 305–304 BC was one of the most notable sieges of antiquity, when Demetrius Poliorcetes, son of Antigonus I, besieged Rhodes in an...
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  • Thumbnail for Nuoli-class gunboat
    The Nuoli-class motor gunboats (English: Arrow) was a series of thirteen fast attack craft of the Finnish Navy. The ships were constructed in 1961 by Oy...
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  • Thumbnail for VB-3 Razon
    The VB-3 Razon was a high-angle freefall guided bomb developed by the United States Army Air Force during the 1940s. Razon (for Range and AZimuth Only)...
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  • Thumbnail for Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement
    The Central Headquarters of the Partisan Movement (Russian: Центральный штаб партизанского движения (ЦШПД), romanized: Tsentral'nyj shtab partizanskovo...
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  • Joseph Milton Bernstein (September 30, 1908 – July 1975) was an American accused of spying for the Soviet Union and later confirmed as a Soviet agent by...
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  • The Freedom of the City, in military terms, is an honour conferred by a city council upon a military unit, which grants that unit the privilege of marching...
    401 KB (28,706 words) - 06:30, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 146th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
    146th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment was an air defence unit of Britain's Royal Artillery during World War II. After defending the UK against air attack...
    13 KB (1,746 words) - 10:27, 17 February 2022
  • The STABO (STAbilized BOdy) extraction harness was a device which allowed military personnel to be rescued (by helicopter) from field locations which prevented...
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  • John Bennett Nichols III (September 28, 1931 – June 17, 2004) was a United States Navy aviator and author. Raised in Hialeah, Florida, Nichols enlisted...
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  • Thumbnail for Giuseppe de Giorgi
    Giuseppe de Giorgi (born 21 June 1953) is an Italian admiral and naval aviator. He was Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy from 28 January 2013 to 22 June...
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  • John Cunningham was an Anglo-Irish soldier known for his command of an aborted attempt to relieve the city of Derry during the 1689 Siege. His failure...
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  • The Waffen Grenadier Regiment of the SS (1st Bulgarian) (German: Waffen-Grenadier Regiment der SS (Bulgarisches Nr. 1)) was formed in World War II when...
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  • Thumbnail for 66th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
    66th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, was an air defence unit of the British Army formed in Northern Ireland during World War II. It served...
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