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Operation A B

Steven Terjeson | June 9, 2009

Operation A.B.
A.B. – Designation (together with a numeral) of Allied convoys plying the route across the Indian Ocean from Aden to Bombay; the start date of the A.B. convoys was November 1942.

HMS Warspite in Indian Ocean 1942

World War II History for October 2

Steven Terjeson | October 2, 2008

World War II History for October 2
1940 – During World War II, the HMS Empress was sunk while carrying child refugees from Britain to Canada.
1941 – Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.
The plan was to send the Wehrmacht into the Soviet capital of Moscow.
With most of [...]

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