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  • formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was a political group (527 group) of United States Swift boat veterans and former prisoners...
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  • This is a list of World War II U-boat commanders. Only sunk merchant ships are counted in the totals; warships and damaged ships are not. Submariners...
    51 KB (1,300 words) - 11:24, 18 April 2024
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    By the start of the Second World War, Dönitz was supreme commander of the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm (Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote (BdU)). In January 1943...
    124 KB (16,444 words) - 04:57, 2 August 2024
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    and Jenks under Commander Frederick S. Hall. The group sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, on 15 May 1944 and began searching for U-boats in the area in late...
    42 KB (4,564 words) - 22:12, 17 July 2024
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    PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president,...
    67 KB (8,905 words) - 12:35, 21 July 2024
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    islands. Commander-in-Chief – The President of the Republic is ex officio Commander-in-Chief of the Military Forces. Commander RFMF – The Commander RFMF is...
    29 KB (2,681 words) - 18:55, 24 February 2024
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    Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. As an amphibious boat group commander in the U.S. Navy, he served to the rank of Lieutenant. Before joining...
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    Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action while serving as Boat Group Commander of the Assault Craft attached to Samuel Chase during the amphibious...
    23 KB (3,026 words) - 20:07, 6 June 2024
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    patented the company's namesake duck call the Duck Commander. He began his business in a dilapidated boat, where he spent 25 years making duck calls from...
    35 KB (2,600 words) - 14:24, 15 July 2024
  • developed; each commander present was left to move against the convoy as he saw fit. The escort groups developed group tactics against U-boat attack, gaining...
    13 KB (1,967 words) - 00:29, 3 August 2024
  • rebuilt "Rose," whose own boat, the "Thorn", could be used only in the Brazilian scene.[citation needed] Master and Commander was the first non-documentary...
    58 KB (5,762 words) - 05:56, 14 July 2024
  • Wing commander is immediately senior to squadron leader and immediately below group captain. It is usually equivalent to the rank of commander in the...
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    (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War. The Swift Boat was conceived in a Naval Advisory Group, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (NAVADGRP MACV)...
    37 KB (4,443 words) - 17:43, 12 July 2024
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    rowboats 5x 6-meter RHIBs 2x 6-meter harbour patrol boats 2x 8-meter boarding boats 2x 8-meter swamp boats 1x 11-meter landing craft 2x 14-meter interceptors...
    21 KB (1,366 words) - 03:07, 5 June 2024
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    E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat"; plural Schnellboote) of the...
    93 KB (7,257 words) - 18:33, 31 July 2024
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    55°00′N 166°24′E / 55.00°N 166.40°E / 55.00; 166.40 The Commander Islands, Komandorski Islands, or Komandorskie Islands (Russian: Командо́рские острова́...
    16 KB (1,680 words) - 14:36, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Special Boat Service
    The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the special forces unit of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. The SBS can trace its origins back to the Second World War...
    75 KB (8,344 words) - 02:46, 30 July 2024
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    Gretton, Peter. Convoy Escort Commander (London). Autobiography of a former escort group commander Macintyre, Donald. U-boat Killer (London). Autobiography...
    141 KB (18,499 words) - 01:02, 31 July 2024
  • Swiftboating (redirect from Smear boat)
    fire as a Swift Boat commander in Vietnam was a centerpiece of his campaign. A number of Vietnam veterans who had served on Swift Boats formed a 527 organization...
    14 KB (1,426 words) - 23:55, 15 June 2024
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    Missile Boats". Yaakov Lappin; Jeremy Binnie (28 October 2021). "Israeli Navy's Reshef class to carry C-Dome air-defence system". Jane's Information Group. Retrieved...
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