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Operation Sonnenblume (Unternehmen Sonnenblume, "Operation Sunflower") was the name given to the dispatch of German and Italian troops to North Africa in February 1941, during the Second World War. The Italian 10th Army ( 10ª Armata ) had been destroyed by the British, Commonwealth, Empire and Allied Western Desert Force attacks during ...
The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant was a smokeless powder and propellant manufacturing facility in De Soto within Johnson County, Kansas. Constructed after the attack on Pearl Harbor pushed the United States into World War II , it was the largest ammunition plant in the world during operation.
Operation Kansas [5]: 132 III MAF operation which involved inserting a series of 13-man reconnaissance teams to observe and bring fire on the NVA and VC: Que Son Valley, Quang Tin and Quảng Nam Provinces: 85: 9 Jul 14 – 22: Operation Mokuliea [1] 2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division search and destroy operation: Bình Dương and Hậu ...
The Battle of Hill 488 was a military engagement of the Vietnam War that took place on the night of 15–16 June 1966. A small United States Marine Corps (USMC) reconnaissance platoon inflicted large casualties on regular People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) fighters before withdrawing with only a few dead.
Bleeding Kansas Border Ruffians [12] vs Free-Staters [13] Battle of Fort Titus: August 16, 1856 Douglas County, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas 3 Free-Staters vs Border Ruffians Battle of Osawatomie: August 30, 1856 Osawatomie, Kansas: Bleeding Kansas 25+ [14] Border Ruffians [15] vs Free-Staters [16] Battle of Solomon's Fork [17] July 29, 1857 near ...
February 5–7: Battle of Beda Fomm; Operation Sunflower. March 21–23: Battle of the Oasis; March 24: First Battle of El Agheila; April 6–8: Second Battle of Mechili; April 10 – November 27: Siege of Tobruk; April 12: Second Battle of Bardia [3] April 12: First Battle of Sollum [3] April 12: Fourth Battle of Fort Capuzzo [3]
The best-equipped units in XIII Corps went to Greece as part of Operation Lustre in the Battle of Greece. Adolf Hitler responded to the Italian disaster with Directive 22 (11 January) ordering Unternehmen Sonnenblume (Operation Sunflower), the deployment of a new Afrika Korps (DAK) to Libya, as a Sperrverband (barrier detachment).
In February 1963 2nd Battle Group, 26th Infantry was activated (with assets of 1st Battle Group, 5th Infantry) & assigned to 1st Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, Kansas. 2nd Battle Group, 26th Infantry participated in Operation Long Thrust VII, reinforcing U.S. Berlin Brigade summer & autumn 1963 before redeploying to Ft. Riley where it was ...