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Operation Castle became the highest-yield nuclear test series ever conducted by the United States.
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.
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.

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Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.
Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations ( such as Operation Foxley, though this plan was never put into practice ).
In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.
HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.
The occupation of these facilities in October 1943 was codenamed Operation Alacrity by the British.
The most recent overseas operation of the Navy was along the coast of Libya as part of Operation Unified Protector.
He was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord from the initial landings until after the Battle of Normandy.
After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.
The conquest of Libya was essential for airfields to support Malta and to threaten the rear of Axis forces opposing Operation Torch.
The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.
In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).
After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.
For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.
Indeed, the final German blitzkrieg operation in the west, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was planned to take place during poor weather which grounded Allied aircraft.
By the summer of 1944 the reversal of fortune was complete and Operation Bagration saw Soviet forces inflict crushing defeats on Germany through the aggressive use of armour, infantry and air power in combined strategic assault, known as deep operations.
Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.
Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.
It was only after the Battle of France German thinking reverted to the possibility of a blitzkrieg method for the Balkan Campaign and Operation Barbarossa.

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Operation Leech is considered as a success but has been criticised on principle by many Human Rights group.
Fishbone formed in 1979 in Los Angeles and is widely considered a pioneer of the genre, followed by Operation Ivy formed in 1987 in the East Bay area of San Francisco.
In some more realistic games, such as Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and Operation Flashpoint, camping is sometimes considered to be a part of the game itself.
Tacitus knew it as Insula Batavorum (" Island of the Batavians ," the Germanic tribe from which the modern name is derived ) and indeed it could be considered a large river island, but nowadays it hardly ever is viewed as such ( with the exception of the last months of World War II ( October 1944-June 1945 ) when it became known as " Men's Island " or " Manneneiland " due to the evacuation of all civilian population during Operation Market Garden, leaving only soldiers behind ).
At the time Operation Anvil was first considered, the Allied landing at Anzio had gone badly and planning was put on ice.
Initially, the chief operational objective of Operation Dragoon was the capture of the important French ports of Marseilles and Toulon, which were considered as essential to supply the growing Allied forces in France.
Operation Yated, as it was later known, is considered one of the most successful deceptions in Israeli intelligence history, on a par with Britain's Operation Mincemeat during World War II.
In total, Operation Defensive Shield was considered an Israeli victory and a turning-point in the Second Intifada.
This is considered by much of the family to be the ' home area ' although parts of the family have also moved to ( Biloxi, Mississippi ), Minnesota, York, South Carolina and to both Wolfe Island, Ontario and Winnipeg, Canada ; Chiemsee, Alaska ; the Dakotas ; Heerlen, Netherlands ; and even Baghdad, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Later, in 1941, Japan, as a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, considered denouncing the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, especially after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ), but made the crucial decision to keep it and to expand southwards invading the European colonies in Southeast Asia instead.
Along with the Mulberry Harbours that were constructed immediately after D-Day, Operation Pluto is considered one of history's greatest feats of military engineering.
Ben-Eliezer is considered a hawk on foreign policy and was one of the main architects of the invasion of Lebanon as well as a strong proponent for Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin.
The 1920 Kiev Offensive ( or Kiev Operation ), sometimes considered to have started the Soviet-Polish War, was an attempt by the newly re-emerged Poland, led by Józef Piłsudski, to seize central and eastern Ukraine, torn in the warring among various factions, both domestic and foreign, from Soviet control.
This area was considered to be the most suitable, not only because of the " Operation Backfire " launches, but also because to the north and west of Cuxhaven was open sea, an ideal firing range.
A German plan to occupy Vichy France had originally been drawn up in December 1940 under the codename of Operation Attila, and soon came to be considered as a single operation with Operation Camellia, the plan to occupy Corsica.
While the German Naval War Staff were disappointed, Adolf Hitler considered that the elimination of the French fleet sealed the success of Operation Anton.
Some of the earliest evidence of advanced tool use includes remnants of an early type of dart, which can be considered the ancestor of arrows as well as bows ( see Operation ).
The presence of British-Soviet naval forces at the Barents Sea hampered German efforts to adequately supply his forces and the general unwillingness of the German High Command to reinforce something which they considered as a secondary theater paved the way for the only successful Soviet resistance in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa.
Since BI severed its connection with Codemasters and no longer has the legal right to use the Operation Flashpoint name, Armed Assault is considered to be the direct descendant of Operation Flashpoint.
The sudden and violent attack by strong Soviet reserves and the need to break off the assault by the German 9th Army on the northern shoulder of the Kursk salient due to Operation Kutuzov contributed to the decision of Adolf Hitler to discontinue the attack, the implications of which made him ' sick to his stomach ' when he considered it.
In 1971 – 1972 the Indonesian government launched " Operasi Koteka " (" Operation Penis Gourd ") which consisted primarily of trying to encourage the people to wear shorts and shirts because such clothes were considered more " modern.

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