Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Operation Jupiter was an offensive by VIII Corps of the British Second Army from 10 to 11 July 1944. The operation took place during the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War . The objective of the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (Major-General Ivor Thomas ) was to capture the villages of Baron-sur-Odon , Fontaine-Étoupefour , Château de ...
In modern times, numerous impact events on Jupiter have been observed, the most significant of which was the collision of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1994. Jupiter is the most massive planet in the Solar System and thus has a vast sphere of gravitational influence, the region of space where an asteroid capture can take place under favorable ...
Operation Jupiter was a plan originating in 1941 for an invasion of northern Norway and Finland by Allied forces during the Second World War.The first versions of the plan were code named Operation Dynamite, Operation Ajax and Operation Marrow.
Army veteran Chung Wong of Jupiter is among a group that will parachute onto Normandy, France, to mark the invasion that altered World War II. Remembering D-Day: Army vet to parachute into ...
Operation Jupiter may refer to: from 1941 to 1944, Operation Jupiter (Norway) was a British plan for an invasion of northern Norway in 1942, according to David Glantz , Operation Jupiter was a canceled Soviet plan for an attack towards Vyazma , as a part of failed Operation Mars
HMS Hussar was a Royal Navy Halcyon-class minesweeper of World War II.. As the Allied armies advanced following the invasion of Normandy, Hussar, Britomart, Jason and Salamander were assigned to the 1st Minesweeping Flotilla (1MF) clearing Axis minefields north of Normandy to open additional ports to supply the advance.
The 2009 Jupiter impact event, occasionally referred to as the Wesley impact, was a July 2009 impact event on Jupiter that caused a black spot in the planet's atmosphere. The impact area covered 190 million square kilometers, similar in area to the planet's Little Red Spot and approximately the size of the Pacific Ocean . [ 3 ]
Bradman served as an anti-submarine trawler with the Royal Navy. [2] In response to the German invasion of Norway, she was deployed to Norway as part of the 22nd Anti-Submarine Group, together with sister ships Hammond, Larwood and Jardine and the trawler Warwickshire, [3] arriving at Molde in support of the landings at Åndalsnes on 22 April 1940. [4]