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Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917.
[2] [3] In August 1940, Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming of the NID was assigned the responsibility for drawing up the plan. [2] Of particular concern to Fleming was the possible installation of Axis radar equipment and infrared cameras in the Strait of Gibraltar , which would have been a threat to the Navy's Mediterranean strategy [ 4 ] and to ...
He was also involved in the planning and oversight of two active service units-- "active service" sounds an odd qualifier here, suggest another common denominator e.g. "intelligence". Birth and family: Ian Fleming was born in 1908-- I'd expect to see the full date here, and of course that one or both of the citations for this sentence support that.
The captured Heinkel He 111, AW177, painted in RAF markings at RAF Duxford after Operation Ruthless had been abandoned (Sept-Oct 1941). Operation Ruthless was the name of a deception operation devised by Ian Fleming in the British Admiralty during World War II, in an attempt to gain access to German Naval Enigma codebooks.
[citation needed] The unit is known to have targeted military scientists, [11] [12] sometimes far behind enemy lines. But this is described in detail in Nicholas Rankin's book "Ian Fleming's Commandos", published 2011 (See Further reading below).
President Joe Biden on Monday recognized the United States Military Academy with the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy for besting other service academies in football. Army beat both the U.S. Naval ...
Students at the U.S. Naval Academy reported 47 assaults, a slight dip from 49 the previous year. The other two saw significant decreases: Students at the Air Force Academy in Colorado reported 34, compared with 45 last year, and those at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York reported 25, compared with 43.
The film is based on the real-life events of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit during World War II. The film was released in the United Kingdom in 2011. Plot