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Lot 11609-3: Operation Gauntlet, August-September 1941. Allied Landing on Spitzbergen: Canadian and British and Norwegians stop enemy fuel source, bringing rescued Norwegians to Britain. Shown: Demolition by Royal Canadian Engineers of wireless station. The wireless stations were kept going to the last, sending messages to Germany.
Operation Gauntlet was an Allied Combined Operation from 25 August until 3 September 1941, during the Second World War. Canadian, British and the Norwegian armed forces in exile ( Utefronten , Outside Front) landed on the Norwegian island of Spitzbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago , 650 mi (1,050 km) south of the North Pole .
Modern pentathlon (fencing) Not listed. [16] 1964 Tokyo: Waseda Memorial Hall: Modern pentathlon (fencing) 2,200 [17] [18] 1968 Mexico City: Fernando Montes de Oca Fencing Hall: Modern pentathlon (fencing) 3,000 [19] 1972 Munich: Messegelände, Fechthalle 1 (final) None: 978 [20] Messegelände Fechthalle 2: Modern pentathlon (fencing) Same as ...
The Squadron emblem was also changed to a green background, white cloud, and silver gauntlet with silver mace. In November 1992, while deployed aboard USS Kitty Hawk , VFA-27 operated off the coast of Somalia in support of Operation Restore Hope and augmented United States Central Command ’s multi-national coalition Air Forces supporting ...
Operation Honorable Dragon (also known as Operation Gauntlet) was an offensive of the Second Indochina War. The Central Intelligence Agency , which equipped and trained the needed troops, aimed at disruption of the North Vietnamese communist supply line, the Ho Chi Minh Trail .
The United States Fencing Hall of Fame (or "U.S. Fencing Association Hall of Fame") is a hall of fame for fencers. It is located in the Museum of American Fencing in Shreveport, Louisiana . It was founded as the National Fencing Coaches Association Hall of Fame on February 15, 1963, and was previously located at Helms Sports Hall of Fame ...
Fencing practice and techniques of modern competitive fencing are governed by the International Fencing Federation (FIE), though they developed from conventions developed in 18th- and 19th-century Europe to govern fencing as a martial art and a gentlemanly pursuit. The modern weapons for sport fencing are the foil, épée, and sabre. [1] [2]
Fencing, ranking round: In the first round of the fencing, every athlete faces every other athlete in one-on-one fencing bouts. Bouts use an electric épée with the target being the whole body, and end after one hit, though if neither athlete scores a hit within one minute the bout ends with both registering a defeat.