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The Battle of 73 Easting and the movement to contact south of the battle brought the regiment's covering force mission for VII Corps to its conclusion. During the operation the regiment covered the advance of three different U.S. divisions in turn, moved 120 miles in eighty-two hours and fought elements of five Iraqi Divisions. [ 42 ]
The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * ... Battle of Wadi al-Laban; Battle of Wolf Ravine
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) was a Casablanca-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. [1] During the Battle off Samar, part of the overall Battle of Leyte Gulf, during a successful effort to turn back a much larger attacking Japanese surface force, Gambier Bay was sunk by naval gunfire, primarily from the battleship Yamato, taking at least 15 hits between 8:10 and 8:50.
The Battle of Wadi, occurring on 13 January 1916, [2] was an unsuccessful attempt by British forces fighting in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) during World War I to relieve beleaguered forces under Sir Charles Townshend then under siege by the Ottoman Sixth Army at Kut-al-Amara. [3] [4]
Wadi as-Sulouqi originates in the area of Bint Jubeil and runs north several kilometers west of the Israel-Lebanon border until it turns west near the town of at-Tayyiba. The wadi is renamed Wadi al-Hujeir when it meets the western contributory and turns north before it joins the Litani River near the Qa'qa'iya bridge. The area was the obvious ...
The battle took place about 60 miles (97 km) east of and 18 hours after the Battle of Al Busayyah, and several kilometers east of the Battle of 73 Easting, which had ended just two hours earlier. The Battle of Norfolk is named for Objective Norfolk , an area that encompassed the intersection of the IPSA Pipeline Road and several desert trails ...
Battle of Wadi al-Khaznadar (1299), a Mongol victory over the Mamluks; Battle of Wadi (1916), a battle between the Allies and Turks during World War I; Battle of Wadi Akarit (1943), a World War II battle between the British and the Nazis in Tunisia; Battle of Wadi al-Batin (1991), a battle during the First Gulf War; Battle of Wadi Saluki (2006 ...
Convoy HG 73 (17 September – 1 October 1941) was a trade convoy of merchant ships during the Second World War. It was the 73rd of the numbered HG convoys H omeward bound to the British Isles from G ibraltar .