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Operation Hardtack was the name of a series of British Commando raids during the Second World War. The operation was conducted by No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando, No. 12 Commando and the Special Boat Service, and took place on the Channel Islands and the northern coast of France in December 1943. Most of the raids consisted of ten men of various ...
Operation Hardtack I was a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the United States from April 28 to August 18 in 1958 at the Pacific Proving Grounds. [1] [2]: 212 At the time of testing, the Operation Hardtack I test series included more nuclear detonations than the total of prior nuclear explosions in the Pacific Ocean.
Operation Hardtack 28 No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando: 10 men: Jersey Channel islands Capture prisoners [18] After climbing the cliffs the commandos spoke to some locals, but running out of time, returning a mine was set off wounding two men. All men evacuated. [57] 48 26/27 December 1943 Operation Hardtack 4 No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando: 10 ...
Killen as a target ship moored off Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, 2 February 1970. Hulk of Killen tied up at Roosevelt Roads, 1975. The veteran destroyer served as a target ship during the atom bomb tests in 1958 ( Operation Hardtack I , shots WAHOO and UMBRELLA), [ 1 ] and in 1962 engaged in high explosive tests in the Chesapeake Bay to assess ...
USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is the third of four South Dakota-class fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1930s. The first American battleships designed after the Washington treaty system began to break down in the mid-1930s, they took advantage of an escalator clause that allowed increasing the main battery to 16-inch (406 mm) guns, but refusal to authorize larger ...
90–100 aircraft. USS Boxer (CV/CVA/CVS-21, LPH-4) was one of 24 Essex -class aircraft carriers of the United States Navy, and the fifth ship to be named for HMS Boxer. She was launched on 14 December 1944 and christened by the daughter of a US Senator from Louisiana. Commissioned too late to see any combat in World War II, Boxer spent much of ...
Hardtack II Sanford, 4.9 kilotons. Operation Hardtack II[1] was a series of 37 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1958 at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed the Operation Argus series and preceded the Operation Nougat series. With test moratoriums on the horizon, American weapons labs rushed out many new designs.
USS Renville (APA-227) was a Haskell -class attack transport that saw service with the United States Navy in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Renville was named after counties in Minnesota and North Dakota. She was laid down 19 August 1944 as MCV hull 673 by Kaiser Shipbuilding of Vancouver, Washington, launched 25 October 1944 ...