Edinburgh Castle, headquarters of the fictional British Fourth Army during Operation Fortitude

During a similar operation in 1943, Operation Cockade, a fictional field army ( British Fourth Army ) had been created, head-quartered in Edinburgh Castle.

No single-stage U. S. version was tested, but the Union shot of Operation Castle, April 26, 1954, was a two-stage thermonuclear code-named Alarm Clock.

On March 1, 1954, the largest-ever U. S. nuclear test explosion, the 15-megaton Bravo shot of Operation Castle at Bikini, delivered a promptly lethal dose of fission-product fallout to more than of Pacific Ocean surface.

The effects of a moderate rain storm during an Operation Castle nuclear explosion was found to dampen, or reduce, peak pressure levels by approximately 15 % at all ranges.

Operation Dynamo took its name from the dynamo room in the naval headquarters below Dover Castle, which contained the dynamo that provided the building with electricity during the war.

Probably some talks took place at Wewelsburg Castle ; the only documented " Gruppenführer "( generals ')- meeting was held from 12 to 15 June 1941-one week before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa.

The division also gained its fourth Medal of Honor in the days following Operation Varsity, when Technical Sergeant Clinton M. Hedrick of the 194th Glider Infantry Regiment received the award posthumously after aiding in the capture of Lembeck Castle, which had been turned into a fortified position by the Germans.

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Operation Castle was a United States series of high-energy ( high-yield ) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force SEVEN ( JTF-7 ) at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954.

Operation Castle was considered by government officials to be a success as it proved the feasibility of deployable " dry fuel " designs for thermonuclear weapons.

AEC Authorization for Operation Castle

Operation Castle was charted to test four dry fuel designs, two wet bombs, and one smaller device.

Approval for Operation Castle was communicated to JTF-7 by Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, General Manager of the AEC, on 21 January 1954.

Operation Castle was organized into seven experiments, all but one of which were to take place at Bikini Atoll.

Operation Upshot-Knothole followed Operation Ivy and preceded Operation Castle.

The test series was notable as containing the first time an atomic artillery shell was fired ( Shot Grable ), the first two shots ( both fizzles ) by University of California Radiation Laboratory — Livermore ( now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ), and for testing out some of the thermonuclear components that would be used for the massive thermonuclear series of Operation Castle.

It was preceded by Operation Castle, and followed by Operation Wigwam.

Eisenhower and Strauss discuss Operation Castle, 1954.

Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle.

In 2002, fighting Abu Sayyaf became a mission of the American military's Operation Enduring Freedom and part of the U. S. War on Terror .< ref >

The Israeli mission later became known as Operation Wrath of God or Mivtza Za ' am Ha ' El.

Following the lead of Boston's Mighty Mighty Bosstones and two California bands, Berkeley's Operation Ivy and Long Beach's Sublime, ska punk and ska-core became widely popular in the mid-1990s.

... And Out Come the Wolves, the 1995 album by Rancid — which had evolved out of Operation Ivy — became the first record in this ska revival to be certified gold ; Sublime's self-titled 1996 album was certified platinum early in 1997.

As part of a UN Peacekeeping Operation, Philippine Army General Jaime de los Santos became the first commander of troops responsible for maintaining order in East Timor.

Soon after Romania joined the Axis in Operation Barbarossa, recovering Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Antonescu also became Marshal of Romania.

German troops promptly invaded northern Italy and the provinces of Trento, Belluno and South Tyrol became part of the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills, annexed to Greater Germany.

Operation Felix, the plan for taking Gibraltar, became stillborn as Spain remained neutral, a situation in large part caused by the German demand that Spain provide Germany with naval bases in Canary Islands as the price for Gibraltar.

After it became clear that Spain would not enter the war, on 18 December 1940 Hitler approved Operation Barbarossa, declaring that henceforth the Wehrmacht's number one priority would be the defeat of the Soviet Union " even before the conclusion of the war against England ".

The CEP would see major action at Battle of La Lys, as it became known in Portugal or Operation Georgette / Battle of Estaires to the British.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

While Britain and the United States did not yet possess the resources to mount a full invasion, invasion plans that came to be known as Operation Sledgehammer were drawn up, in case the German position in Western Europe weakened or the USSR's situation became dire.

By 1979, during what became known as Operation Wrath of God, at least one Mossad unit had assassinated eight PLO members.

On 25 June 1948 " Operation Vittles ," the strategic airlift of supplies to Berlin's 2, 000, 000 inhabitants, was initiated, beginning what became known as the Berlin Airlift.

Operation of the Shamokin station ( located at the current Independence Street site of Jones Hardware Company ) on September 22, 1883, at which time St. Edward's Catholic Church became the first church in the world to have electric lighting.

Fairchild tanker crews became actively involved in Operation YOUNG TIGER, refueling combat aircraft in Southeast Asia.

900 Free French paratroopers landed as part of the British Special Air Service ( SAS ) Brigade ; the Free French 2nd Armored Division — under General Leclerc — landed at Utah Beach in Normandy on 1 August 1944, and eventually led the drive toward Paris, while the divisions which had been fighting in Italy became part of the French First Army — under General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny — and joined the U. S. 7th Army in Operation Dragoon.

When NATO initiated Operation NOBLE ANVIL air operations directed at Serbian targets to prevent genocide against Kosovo Moslems, it became immediately apparent that the coalition's message was not reaching audiences in the region that were being bombarded by Slobodan Milosevic's information ministry's propaganda.

On 17 July 1962, the test shot " Little Feller I " of Operation Sunbeam became the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site.

After the German attempt to split the US armies at Mortain ( Operation Lüttich ), Bradley's Army Group and XV Corps became the southern pincer in forming the Falaise Pocket, trapping the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army in Normandy.

It has more recently been used in the film adaptation ( Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker ) of Anthony Horowitz's novel Stormbreaker, The Bourne Identity and it was reproduced with Korean lyrics for the movie Collateral, the song has also been used during the performances of extreme freestyle water ski jumpers, the song later became the theme song for the TV Show TRL Italy since 2003 until 2005.

With the end of the Cold War in 1989 and the success of Operation Desert Storm, Global Reach-Global Power became the blueprint to organize, train, and equip the Air Force to confront the challenges of a fast-changing world.

After returning to Alaska, Stevens practiced law in Anchorage and became a member of Operation Rampart, a group in favor of building the Rampart Dam, a hydroelectric project on the Yukon River.

According to currently released documentation, none of the operations became active under the auspices of the Operation Northwoods proposals.