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The U.S. Navy warships that escorted the tankers, part of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, were the operations' most visible part. U.S. Air Force AWACS radar planes provided surveillance and U.S. Army special-operations helicopters hunted for possible attackers. Other U.S. Navy vessels participated in Operation Earnest Will.
USN Task Force 52: USN Task Group 52.3 – Air Support Group: USN CVE CarDiv24: USS Liscome Bay (CVE-56) Air Squadron VC-39; Sunk by aircraft 24 Nov; USS Coral Sea (CVE-57) Air Squadron VC-33; USS Corregidor (CVE-58) Air Squadron VC-41; USN Task Group 52.13 CarDiv24- Northern Attack Force (created 23 Nov): USS Nassau (CVE-16) attached from TG 53.6
In late November 1940, while Force H was escorting a convoy carrying tanks and military stores from Gibraltar to Alexandria, a reconnaissance patrol from Ark Royal spotted an Italian fleet south of Sardinia that included two battleships and six cruisers . Torpedo bombers were launched and repeated attacks resulted in damage to an Italian cruiser.
Bad weather over the next few days reduced operations and on 14 July, Kesselring sent the IV.(St)/LG 1 Ju 87s against convoys, when the escorts from III./JG 3 and II./JG 51 shot down a Hurricane from 615 Squadron but only one Ju 87 and one Bf 109 were destroyed and another force-landed. The air battle took place over a convoy which was recorded ...
Rasheed Air Base Camp: Sather: Baghdad: April 2003: December 2011: Baghdad International Air Base Camp: Scania (Nippur) Hashimiya: Babil: March 2003: July 15, 2010: Transferred to Iraqi Army: Convoy Support Center (CSC) Scania, on MSR Tampa about 4 miles west of Al Shomali. Last unit: 389th Combat Service Support Battalion. [20] Camp Schwedler ...
A chalk loading onto a helicopter. In military terminology, a chalk is a group of paratroopers or other soldiers that deploy from a single aircraft. [1] A chalk often corresponds to a platoon-sized unit for air assault operations, or a company-minus-sized organization for airborne operations.
In October 1941, after Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR, which had begun on 22 June, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, made a commitment to send a convoy to the Arctic ports of the USSR every ten days and to deliver 1,200 tanks a month from July 1942 to January 1943, followed by 2,000 tanks and another 3,600 aircraft more than those already promised.
II Field Force operation to support the deployment of the 196th Infantry Brigade to its base in Tây Ninh; the 25th Infantry Division was the sponsor, along with direct air force airlift from the port of Vũng Tàu to Tây Ninh, along with road convoys: Jul 31 – Aug 25: Operation Paul Revere II [1]