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Coastal and Command
* U-Tube footage of Coastal Command Mosquito XVIIIs Retrieved: 3 January 2012.
Similarly, a bomber wing was a Kampfgeschwader ( KG ), a night fighter wing was a Nachtjagdgeschwader ( NJG ), a dive-bomber wing was a Stukageschwader ( StG ), and units equivalent to those in RAF Coastal Command, with specific responsibilities for coastal patrols and search and rescue duties, were Küstenfliegergruppen ( Kü. Fl.
RAF Predannack Down ( see Predannack Airfield ) was a Second World War airbase, from which Coastal Command squadrons flew anti-submarine sorties into the Bay of Biscay as well as convoy support in the western English Channel.
The capture, rather than sinking, of U-570 – the only ship to be captured by an aircraft – on 27 August 1941 by a Lockheed Hudson from RAF Coastal Command was important for determining the fighting capacity of U-boats, although her crew destroyed the Enigma and cipher information.
In the waters around the British Isles and out into the Atlantic Ocean, operations against enemy shipping and submarines in support of the RN were mounted by RAF Coastal Command with large partol bombers and flying boats and land-based fighter-bombers.
Fires Were Started, Listen to Britain, Coastal Command and Western Approaches were all filmed there during this period.
Douglas returned to England in 1944 to head Coastal Command during the invasion of Normandy.
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* Trondenes fort, Harstad ( Coastal Ranger Command )
* Coastal Ranger Command
The Royal Air Force took over the site in 1939 for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made use of Eastbury house and also created a network of underground bunkers and operations blocks.
The ASV radar introduced by RAF Coastal Command was designed to track down submarines and ships by displaying the signal from two antennas side by side and allowing the operator to compare their relative strength.
RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force ( RAF ).
But owing to the Air Ministry's concentration on RAF Fighter Command and RAF Bomber Command, Coastal Command was often referred to as the " Cinderella Service ", a phrase first used by the First Lord of the Admiralty at the time A V Alexander.
The main operations of Coastal Command were defensive, defending supply lines in the various theatres of war, most notably the Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres and the battle of the Atlantic.
By 1943 Coastal Command finally received the recognition it needed and its operations proved decisive in the victory over the U-Boats.
From 1940 to 1945 Coastal Command sank 366 German transport vessels and damaged 134.
Prior to the formation of Coastal Command in 1936, the role of the maritime naval operations fell to the RNAS.
This resulted in a lack of development of a maritime strike force and lost another early opportunity to garner support for Coastal Area / Coastal Command.
Philip Joubert de la Ferté, Coastal Command's second AOC-in-C. de la Ferté continually complained about the neglect of Coastal Command
Fighter and Bomber Areas became Fighter and Bomber Command and Coastal Area was renamed Coastal Command.

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The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.
It was nominated for " Best Coastal Resort " in Scotland along with St Andrews in Fife, North Berwick in East Lothian, and Rothesay in Argyll and Bute.
During the Second World War, Fort William was the home of HMS St Christopher which was a training base for Royal Navy Coastal Forces.
The potential for expansion was revealed when Minister of Transport Leslie Goonewardena opened an extension of the Coastal Line from Puttalam to Aruvakalu in 1974, to service the cement factory there.
This was divided into several local government districts: Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St. Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal, and Waveney.
Following the building of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 the Grenzbrigade Küste der Grenzpolizei ( GBK ) ( Coastal Border Brigade of the Border Police ) was incorporated into the People's Navy.
When the road system was laid out in the 1920s, U. S. 1 was mostly assigned to the existing Atlantic Highway, which followed the Fall Line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain north of Augusta.
It was established in 2003, it is an inter-university The institute focus on Estuarine Ecology and Human Health, Coastal Processes and Engineering, Public Policy and Coastal Sustainability, and Maritime Heritage.
The first modern Tomol was built and launched in 1976 as a result of a joint venture between Quabajai Chumash of The Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
The new planned town, modeled after Savannah and Washington, D. C., was located on the edge of the frontier, where the Upper Coastal Plain merges into the Piedmont.
The city was also at one time the headquarters of the former Derby Oil Company, which was purchased by Coastal Corporation in 1988.
These include: Potter's Tavern, said to have been built in the 1750s, but restored to its appearance in 1776 when it was home to The Plain Dealer, considered New Jersey's first newspaper ; Brearley ( Masonic ) Lodge, founded by General James Giles in 1795, and still active ; the so-called " Nail House " ( c. 1815 ; second build c. 1855 ), administrative home of the Cumberland Nail & Iron Works that established Bridgeton's industrial prowess in the early nineteenth century ; the first Cumberland National Bank building ( 1816 ), only the second bank chartered in New Jersey ( now part of the Bridgeton Library ); and the David Sheppard House ( 1791 ), recently restored with assistance from the Garden State Historic Trust and home to the Cousteau Coastal Center of Rutgers University since 2008.
( Poster was later to found Coastal Federal Savings and Loan Association and use connections developed during his military service as a Dutch national in the US Army during World War II to help convince the US Government to declare that the damage done by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 should be covered by insurance.
Conway was home to the developing YRT2 Arena, which would've housed both the future Myrtle Beach Thunderboltz hockey team and Coastal Carolina University's basketball teams, replacing Kimbel Arena.
Historic Duncan Park Stadium was once home to the Spartanburg Stingers in the Coastal Plain League and the Spartanburg Crickets in the Southern Collegiate Baseball League and is the oldest minor league baseball stadium in the country.

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The trees only grow on the coastal limestone that undelies the area and the park is home to the tallest and largest specimens of the trees on the Swan Coastal Plain.
Coastal Command aircraft were involved as flying boats were the only aircraft with internal anti-corrosion treatment allowing bulk salt to be transported.
Of the 116 ‘ Emergency Coastal Defence Batteries ’ set up in the UK in 1940, only seven remain intact.
Coastal Experimental ( e. g. Royal Aircraft Factory C. E. 1 – prototype only )
The Augusta-Syracuse Naval Fortress Area, which included the Coastal Division, was protected by six medium and six heavy coastal artillery batteries, with eleven additional dual-purpose coastal and anti-aircraft batteries, with six batteries only of anti-aircraft guns.
School systems and businesses as far west as Asheville shut down for the day landfall was predicted, but, as it turned out, only the Coastal Plain sustained significant damage ; much of the state west of Raleigh escaped unscathed.
ODU is the only university in the US to offer MBA concentrations in Maritime, Transportation, and Port Logistics Management and has well-respected programs in Marine Science and Coastal Engineering.
In 1989 genetic studies showed D. copei to be a distinct subspecies, and the D. ensatus populations to consist of three subspecies: the Idaho Giant Salamander ( Dicamptodon aterrimus ) in Idaho, and two highly divergent species with a narrow hybrid zone in California, the Coastal Giant Salamander ( Dicamptodon tenebrosus ) ( ranging from northern California to Washington ) and the California Giant Salamander ( Dicamptodon ensatus ) ( limited only from Santa Cruz County to Mendocino County in California ).
People in Coastal Andhra do not eat any meat or fish during the first three days of the festival, and do so only on the day of Mukkanuma, whereas people in Telangana region observe only the first two days as part of the festival.
After only one year at Cambridge, he joined the RAF in 1941, becoming a Flight Lieutenant in Coastal Command, flying Atlantic patrols in Short Sunderland flying boats and then in the Far East in Catalinas.
The Western Swamp Tortoise has only been recorded at scattered localities in a narrow, three-to-five kilometre strip of the Swan Coastal Plain.
Today only a single specimen of Coastal Teatree ( Leptospermum laevigatum ) remains.
The major shortcomings of the Coastal Warning Display program were that the displays reached only the small portion of the marine public within sight of them ; it cannot convey specific information on movement, intensity, and duration ; and the time required to notify the sites by individual telephone calls takes the forecaster away from critical tasks associated with the weather.
120 Squadron remained the only Coastal Command squadron flying VLR ( Very Long Range ) Liberators in February 1943 with five Mark I and twelve Mark III.
Today now there are only four long-distance routes: the Northern Explorer between Auckland and Wellington, the Capital Connection between Wellington and Palmerston North, the Coastal Pacific between Picton and Christchurch, and the TranzAlpine between Christchurch and Greymouth.
It was only in existence until 1 December 1941 when it was redesignated Durham and North Riding Coastal Area.
The village is one of many villages on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain, most of the village is only slightly above sea-level just like the nearby village of Banks which means the village can be susceptible to flooding during heavy rainfall.
British torpedo boats of the First World War were small at only around 15 tons and were known as Coastal Motor Boats.
The counties shown in red are wholly located within Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain, while only portions of the salmon-colored counties are within the subregion.
It was the only scientific instrument on GeoEye's OrbView-2 ( AKA SeaStar ) satellite, and was a follow-on experiment to the Coastal Zone Color Scanner on Nimbus 7.

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