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  2. Jamaica Defence Force - Wikipedia

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    The Jamaica Regiment - The Jamaica Regiment is the operationalization of a terrestrial and combat focused Regular Force formation with an overarching operational headquarters in command of five battalions; the First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Battalions the Jamaica Regiment (1, 2, 4, 5 JR) and the Combat Support Battalion (Cbt Sp Bn).

  3. Alford Gardner - Wikipedia

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    Alford Gardner was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 12 January 1926. [1] [2] He first came to the United Kingdom during World War II, returning to Jamaica after the war ended.. After experiencing the lack of employment opportunities in his home country, Gardner secured a ticket for the HMT Empire Windrush, which brought him back to England.

  4. Vernam Field - Wikipedia

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    Vernam Field (locally spelled Vernamfield) is a former World War II United States Army Air Forces airfield located in Clarendon Parish, 34.3 miles (55.2 km) west-southwest of Kingston, Jamaica. The airfield was renamed Vernam Air Force Base by the newly formed United States Air Force in 1948, but was closed in 1949.

  5. Caribbean Regiment - Wikipedia

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    In order of the number of strength, the regiment was made up of draughts from Trinidad (22%), Jamaica (at the time including the Turks and Caicos Islands), Barbados, British Guiana, Bermuda, the Windward Islands, and the Leeward Islands. Newly recruited men were tested in Virginia for fitness, with those not found fit returned to their colonies.

  6. Military history of the Cayman Islands - Wikipedia

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    During World War II, the United States Government made agreements with the United Kingdom Government to establish a United States Naval Station in Grand Cayman. As German U-Boat activity decreased during the war, the naval base was handed over to the United States Coast Guard in 1945. The United States Coast Guard Station in Cayman was also ...

  7. List of wars involving Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Colony of Jamaica; British government offers peace treaties. Cudjoe agrees to stop attacks, not take part in new escapees and help captured slaves; British give Leeward Maroons their freedom, own land, the right to hunt wild pigs and have their own government; Tacky's Revolt (1760–1761) Coromantee rebels: Great Britain. Colony of Jamaica ...

  8. That said, not all of Hollywood's vets served in World War II and Korea. Several, in fact, served in just the last few years, including 34-year-old Adam Driver ("Star Wars") and 48-year-old Rob ...

  9. West India Regiments - Wikipedia

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    During the final post-war period only the regimental band served outside Jamaica, attending ceremonial functions in Toronto and London. [25] The actual disbandment of the reduced West India Regiment took place at the Up Park military camp in Jamaica on 31 January 1927, in a ceremony attended by the Governor and a large crowd.