On 19 February 1954, the CIA began Operation WASHTUB, the planting of a false Soviet arms-cache in Nicaragua, to publicly demonstrate Guatemalan Government ties to the Soviet Union.

* Operation WASHTUB

* Operation WASHTUB

Operation Petticoat proved to be a breakout role for MacLeod, and he was soon cast in another Edwards comedy, High Time, with Bing Crosby.

A generation of Soviet commanders ( notably Georgy Zhukov ) learned from the defeats, and Soviet victories in the Battle of Moscow, at Stalingrad, Kursk and later in Operation Bagration proved decisive.

Called Operation Highjump, the historic trek proved the worth of the Siberian Husky due to its compact size and greater speeds.

In May 1951, during Operation Greenhouse, the explosions of devices " George " and " Item " proved that a fission explosion could trigger non-sustaining fusion reactions in a mixture of deuterium and tritium.

According to a Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Personnel Office ( DPMO ) white paper, 1, 394 names were also transmitted during " Operation Glory " from the Chinese and North Koreans, of which 858 proved to be correct.

Extensive successful drops were made during the Normandy Landings ( see Operation Tonga ), under the command of General Richard Gale, but Operation Market Garden against Arnhem under General Frederick Browning were less successful, and proved, in the famous phrase, to be A Bridge too far.

The amphibious assault ( Operation Infatuate ) proved a success and by 8 November, all German resistance on the island had been overrun.

In 1988, Queensrÿche released Operation: Mindcrime, a narrative concept album that proved a massive critical and commercial success.

Some who gave evidence to the Royal Commission into the Operation of the Poor Laws suggested that the existing system had proved adequate and was more adaptable to local needs.

However, none of these systems proved usable in practice, and the one major US effort, Operation Aphrodite, proved to be far more dangerous to its users than to the target.

An investigation by the Metropolitan Police — named Operation Oxborough — proved fruitless for over a year.

The raid, codenamed Operation Claymore, proved to be a considerable success, resulting in the capture of a number of wheels of the German Enigma encoding machine which helped the Allies to decode German radio traffic later in the war, as well as the destruction of a considerable amount of petrol and oil and the capture of several hundred Germans.

On 3 July 1940, the British opened fire after an agreement proved impossible ( Operation Catapult ).

However, implementation of the legislation proved to be extremely difficult, particularly as the primary focus of the War Office and General Headquarters Home Forces was on Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk between 27 May to 4 June.

He was proved correct ; after Operation Baytown the Eighth Army marched 300 miles north to the Salerno area against no opposition other than engineer obstacles.

Army Group Centre had previously proved tough to counter as the Soviet defeat in Operation Mars had shown.

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

After the Srebrenica and Markale massacres, NATO intervened during the 1995 Operation Deliberate Force against the positions of the Army of Republika Srpska, which proved key in ending the war.

Nevertheless, Operation Lindbergh proved that the technology exists today to enable delivery of expert care to remote areas of the globe.

Afterwards, to justify the US intervention to the internal politics of the Republic of Guatemala, the CIA launched Operation PBHISTORY, which unsuccessfully sought Árbenz Government and Communist party ( PGT ) documents that would have proved that Guatemala was a puppet state of the USSR in the Western Hemisphere.

Experience in Afghanistan lead to the realisation that TIALD was outdated, as described by an RAF Wing Commander: " was designed in the 1980s, to allow pilots to drop laser guided bombs on targets like bridges, big buildings and aircraft hangars ... TIALD as an air interdiction targeting pod is very good and has done this reasonably well over the last decade, as was proved in Deliberate Force ( 1995 ), Allied Force ( 1999 ), and Operation Telic ( 2003 ).

This included developing a new version of the Rebecca-Eureka homing device system, the Mk II, which was ready by 1943 and proved to be very successful when used in later airborne operations ; during Operation Market Garden and Operation Varsity, aircraft that used the system reported a 95 % success rate.

The British historian Max Hastings has labelled the operation both costly and unnecessary, writing that " Operation Varsity was a folly for which more than a thousand men paid for with their lives ..."

* part of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan, made unnecessary by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

* French forces: troops sent within the framework of Operation Unicorn and under UN mandate ( United Nations Operation in Côte d ' Ivoire ), 3000 men in February 2003 and 4600 in November 2004 ;

The BANSHEE design was similar to Operation Aphrodite ; like Aphrodite it failed, and was canceled in April 1949.

He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II, and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe ; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942 – 43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944 – 45, from the Western Front.

The campaign in North Africa was designated Operation Torch ; French cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign, and Eisenhower encountered a " preposterous situation ' with the multiple rival factions in France.

Operation Torch also served as a valuable training ground for Eisenhower's combat command skills ; during the initial phase of Erwin Rommel's move into the Kasserine Pass, Eisenhower created some confusion in the ranks by some interference with the execution of battle plans by his subordinates.

" With Eisenhower's leadership and Dulles ' direction, CIA activities increased, to resist the spread of communism in poorer countries ; the CIA in part deposed the leaders of Iran in Operation Ajax, of Guatemala through Operation Pbsuccess, and possibly the newly independent Republic of the Congo ( Léopoldville ).

Eisenhower openly threatened the Chinese with use of nuclear weapons, authorizing a series of bomb tests labeled Operation Teapot ; nevertheless, he left the Chinese communists guessing as to the exact nature of his nuclear response.

The raids, codenamed Operation Gomorrah by the RAF, killed at least 42, 600 civilians ; the precise number is not known.

Among the notable films were Clan Phantasm's Devil's Covenant, the first feature-length Quake movie ; Avatar and Wendigo's Blahbalicious, which the QML awarded seven Quake Movie Oscars ; and Clan Undead's Operation Bayshield, which introduced simulated lip synchronization and featured customized digital assets.

The M16A4 rifle was standard issue for the United States Marine Corps in Operation Iraqi Freedom since 2004 ; it replaced the M16A2 in front line units.

In Operation Desert Shield during the buildup phase of the 1st Gulf War, the U. S. Army were concerned about the lack of mobility, protection and firepower offered by existing rapid deployment ( i. e. airborne ) formations ; and also about the slowness of deploying regular armored units.

On 7 October 2001, early combat operations including a mix of strikes from land-based B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit and B-52 Stratofortress bombers ; carrier-based F-14 Tomcat and F / A-18 Hornet fighters ; and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from both U. S. and British ships and submarines signaled the start of Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan ( OEF-A ).

... 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.

The Barrett M82 is credited with a maximum effective range of ; and it was with a. 50BMG caliber McMillan TAC-50 rifle that Canadian Master Corporal Rob Furlong made the longest recorded ( until 2010 ) confirmed sniper kill in history, when he shot a Taliban fighter at a range of in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in 2002.

The raid is often thought to have been related to Operation Sundevil, a nationwide investigation of computer crime ; however, Sundevil was based in Arizona and the Steve Jackson Raid was coordinated out of Chicago.

Operation is fully determined by a finite set of elementary instructions such as " in state 42, if the symbol seen is 0, write a 1 ; if the symbol seen is 1, change into state 17 ; in state 17, if the symbol seen is 0, write a 1 and change to state 6 ;" etc.

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