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The library was restored after the original and its collection was destroyed in Operation Blue Star. Its collection has been refilled due to community, institutional, and individual-based donations of literary works. The revived library continues in operation to the present. [13] It has amassed a collection of 24,540 books according to a 2017 ...
Ruppelt was the director of Project Grudge in 1949 and then Project Blue Book in March 1952; he remained with Blue Book until late 1953. UFO researcher Jerome Clark writes, "Most observers of Blue Book agree that the Ruppelt years comprised the project's golden age, when investigations were most capably directed and conducted. Ruppelt was open ...
Operation Blue Star was a military operation by the Indian Armed Forces conducted between 1 and 10 June 1984 to remove Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and other Sikh militants from the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), a holy site of Sikhism, and its adjacent buildings.
On 1 June, Operation Blue Star was launched to remove Bhindranwale and armed militants from the Golden Temple complex. [45] On 6 June Bhindranwale died in the operation. Casualty figures for the Army were 83 dead and 249 injured. [ 46 ]
Operation Blue Star was militarily successful, but it is criticized by many for being badly planned. It is considered to be a political disaster and an unprecedented act in modern Indian history, [ 33 ] and was followed by events like the assassination of Indira Gandhi , the assassination of A. S. Vaidya (the-then Army Chief), the subsequent ...
Project Blue Book, complete status reports (1 to 12 and 14), including Project Grudge data, and up to May 1955 Captain Edward J. Ruppelt (left), head of Project Blue Book, at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base project office in March 1953 Hector Quintanilla became chief of Project Blue Book in August 1963
The operation was named Operation Blue and Brown (Hebrew: מבצע כחול וחום, romanized: Mivtza Kachol ve-Chum) and consisted of a night-time coastal landing and a difficult 3-kilometre (1.9 mi) march across very rough terrain to the heavily fortified Palestinian base, located near the coastal Lebanese town of Naameh (Arabic ...
Operation plans directed against Panama had evolved from plans designed to defend the Panama Canal. They became more aggressive as the situation between the two nations deteriorated. The Prayer Book series of plans included rehearsals for a possible clash (Operation Purple Storm) and missions to secure U.S. sites (Operation Bushmaster). The ...