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The operation was carried out by members of the elite Long Range Desert Group in September 1942 It was carried out to distract attention from the preparation for the Battle of El Alamein a month later The elite forces destroyed or damaged 23 Italian planes being used to drop bombs on Allied troops Incredibly, whilst ten members of the force were captured and 11 were injured, no one was killed 

SUMMARY Harpers Ferry, in what is now West Virginia, lies at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers and serves as the gateway to the Shenandoah Valley. Before and during the American Civil War (1861–1865), this small, isolated town was an economically thriving community with great strategic importance because of its location along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and its firearms industry—including the United States Arsenal and Armory and Hall...

Contributions in war come in all shapes and sizes.

Heralds of Destruction: Five Killer Submarines of the Cold War The United States and the Soviet Union were the main players in the Cold War submarine campaign, but were hardly the only entrants. Heres What You Need To Remember: Large, fast, and quiet, the Permit class set that standard for American and British submarines for the rest of the Cold War. Developed with a series of innovations that set them apart from their predecessors, the Skipjack class, the Permits immediately became state of ...

German and French archaeologists believe that they have found a tunnel containing the remains of 200 German soldiers who died after becoming trapped during the First World War.The Volksbund, the

Opinion: Texas, as blackout ends, wake up from your dreams of secession Robert Zaretsky FacebookTwitterEmail While freezing in the dark, the author says Monty Python’s movie “The Life of Brian” flashed through his mind, with John Cleese, left, and Graham Chapman.Python Pictures, LTD. Early Wednesday morning, hours after our house went dark, the faucets went empty and my hands went mauve, a scene from Monty Python’s movie “The Life of Brian” flashed through my mind. At a meeting of t...

We’ve heard a lot of comments about Six Days in Fallujah from creator Peter Tamte, comments that have invited a lot of criticism over the direction the game is taking, but how does this whole ordeal look to a US veteran of the Iraq War? The Gamer’s Cian Maher sat down with John Phipps, a US veteran who took part in the Iraq War, and was actually fighting during the very event the game portrays. Phipps was critical of Tamte’s comments and direction, but also provided some insight into w...

Mary E. Baker  If youre a Brockton resident you might be familiar with the Mary E. Baker school. The Baker school is named after Mary E. Baker, the first African-American to work at Brockton City Hall. She was an advocate for affordable housing and racial integration in education. She helped establish two affordable housing complexes in Brockton and assisted with the integration of Brockton High School. Baker herself graduated from Brockton High school in 1941, going on to get her undergradu...

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Having been effectively cancelled under a cloud of controversy and public pushback in 2010, the recent re-announcement of Six Days in Fallujah has revived the various talking points that surrounded th