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German submarine U-275

Not long after D-Day (6 June 1944) on her fourth sortie, she was attacked by no less than 12 Hawker Typhoon strike attack aircraft of No. 263 Squadron RAF while leaving St. Peter Port, Guernsey on 14 June.


Abid Ali Nazish

According to Human Rights Watch over 275 Hazara and Shia people have been killed in Pakistan since 2008, and no one has been tried yet for any of the target killings.

Action of 9 February 1945

The Action of 9 February 1945 refers to the sinking of the German U-boat U-864 in the North Sea off the Norwegian coast during the Second World War by the Royal Navy submarine HMS Venturer.

Apurímac Region

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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley

The long-range Coastal Command Mk VII variants were among the last to see front line service, with the first kill attributed to them being the sinking of the German U-boat U-751, on 17 July 1942 in combination with a Lancaster heavy bomber.

Bonnie Ethel Cone

Instead they enrolled her at Coker College, a women's school in Hartsville, South Carolina, where she was one of 275 students, including her older sister, Louise, with whom Bonnie roomed her first year.

Braunshardt Airfield

Braunshardt Airfield is a former military airfield located in Germany about 1 mile east-southeast of Groß-Gerau (Hessen) into Worfelden district; approximately 275 miles southwest of Berlin.

Chinese pagoda

The highest Chinese pagoda from the pre-modern age is the Liaodi Pagoda of Kaiyuan Monastery, Dingxian, Hebei province, completed in the year 1055 AD under Emperor Renzong of Song and standing at a total height of 84 m (275 ft).

Churchill Barriers

On 14 October 1939, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk at her moorings within the natural harbour of Scapa Flow in a nighttime attack by the German U-boat U-47 under the command of Günther Prien.

Claude Bosi

Bosi sold the former Hibisicus site to Alan Murchison for £275,000 shortly after closing the Ludlow location.

Dean Kruse

Dean was responsible for negotiating the purchase of his auction company in 1999 by online auctioneer eBay which paid $275 million for Kruse International and Billpoint.

Ferrari 275

A 275 GTB/4 N.A.R.T. Spyder version was only available from a single American dealer, Luigi Chinetti.

Francisville, Kentucky

Interstate 275, the beltway around Cincinnati, forms the southern edge of the CDP, with the community of Hebron to the south of I-275.

German submarine U-1234

U-1234 is also featured as a fictional submarine in the anime series Black Lagoon where it plays a vital part as the site of a treasure.

German submarine U-175

Departing Lorient with an armed escort known as a Sperrbrecher and three anti-submarine vessels, U-175 proceeded independently after passing Ile de Groix.

Upon completion of the U-boat captain's course, Bruns served briefly on U-75, where he was confirmed as suitable for command.

German submarine U-190

A January 18, 2006 article in the Edmonton Journal reported that a team of divers planned to search for U-190 and another U-boat, U-520.

German submarine U-196

Oberleutnant Dr. Ing. Heinz Haake of U-196 is buried in a graveyard at Bogor, Java with members of the World War I German East Asia Squadron at Arca Domas, on the slopes of Mount Pangrango, Java.

German submarine U-209

Brno municipality received as a gift a model of the submarine (photos exist) but the model itself was probably lost after the end of WWII.

German submarine U-256

On 8 October, the outbound boat was attacked by a Leigh light-equipped British Wellington bomber of No. 612 Squadron RAF in the Bay of Biscay.

German submarine U-270

The submarine was returning to base after being attacked and badly damaged by a Vickers Wellington of No. 172 Squadron RAF, when she was attacked by a second Fortress, this time from 53 Squadron.

German submarine U-300

On 4 August the U-boat was attacked by a Canso flying boat of No. 162 Squadron RCAF with three depth charges, causing extensive damage.

German submarine U-325

By April 1945, nine different fields (Serial B1, part 1 to 4, Serial B2, part 1 to 4, and Serial B3, part 1), comprising 900 Mk XVII/XVII(8) mines were laid off Lizard Head.

German submarine U-364

In addition, she was reported as sunk on 30 January 1944 by a British Vickers Wellington of 172 Squadron in the Bay of Biscay.

German submarine U-415

Her third patrol, beginning on 27 October 1943, was marred by the attack of a Vickers Wellington equipped with a Leigh Light off Cape Ortegal in the Bay of Biscay on 30 October.

German submarine U-418

U-418 was sunk on 1 June 1943 by rockets from a British Bristol Beaufighter of 236 Squadron in the western Bay of Biscay.

German submarine U-428

The submarine was scuttled in the Nordsee/Ostsee canal (Kiel canal) near Audorf on 3 May 1945.

German submarine U-442

Ten of her 37 crew died in the attack, the survivors were picked up by the Norwegian merchantman Lysaker IV and landed at Reykjavík.

German submarine U-461

She had left Bordeaux on 27 July 1943, but was hardly out of the Bay of Biscay, northwest of Cape Ortegal, Spain, when she was sunk on 30 July by an Australian Sunderland flying boat from No. 461 Squadron RAAF piloted by Flight Lieutenant Dudley Marrows.

German submarine U-542

She was sunk on 28 November 1943 north of Madeira by depth charges dropped from a British Vickers Wellington of No. 179 Squadron RAF.

German submarine U-547

U-547 was damaged by a mine on 13 August 1944 in the Gironde (where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge), near Pauillac in western France; she then retraced part of the route of her first patrol, arriving at Marviken in Kristiansand on 29 September and moving on to Flensburg on 4 October.

German submarine U-558

U-558 torpedoed and sank her approximately 90 miles southeast of Port Morant, Jamaica.

German submarine U-573

The Spanish authorities granted U-573 a three-month period for repairs, which prompted several strong protests from the British Embassy in Madrid.

German submarine U-755

U-755 set out on her fourth patrol on 21 March, where she was to head to Morocco, and then head off to Toulon in Vichy France.

German submarine U-873

Friedrich Steinhoff was born in Küllstedt on 14 July 1909 and was a merchant marine officer prior to joining Kriegsmarine crew 34.

German submarine U-889

On the afternoon of 10 May, U-889 was spotted south of Newfoundland by a RCAF airplane, steaming at 10 knots and flying a black flag of surrender.

International Development Enterprises

With funding from more than 110 donors, including USAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, SDC, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CIDA, DFID, and the World Bank, iDE has implemented more than 275 projects worldwide.

Maryland Route 249

Lighthouse Road, which was formerly MD 498, leads to the Piney Point Light and the wreckage of German submarine U-1105 on the bottom of the Potomac River.

Melford Stevenson

He was subsequently Judge Advocate at the 1945 war crimes trial of former personnel of the German submarine U-852 for their actions in what became known as the Peleus affair.

Minnesota State Highway 275

Minnesota State Highway 275 is a highway in southwest Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with Lac qui Parle County Road 2 in Boyd and continues north to its northern terminus at its intersection with U.S. Highway 212 in Baxter Township, 6 miles east of Dawson.

Mugodzhar Hills

Mugodzhar Hills (Mugojar, Russian: Мугоджары, Мугоджарский хребет (Mugodzhar Range), Kazakh: Mughalzhar, Mugalzhar) is a series of mountain ranges in Aktobe Province (Northwestern Kazakhstan) 275 miles (440 km) long.

New Boston, Michigan

New Boston's assets include open land, proximity to Detroit Metro Airport, and easy access to I-275, and I-94.

Nottoway people

Several additional words, for a total of about 275, were collected by James Trezvant after 1831, and published by Albert Gallatin in 1836.

Robert Byron

Robert died aged 35 in 1941 after his ship, the SS Jonathan Holt, was torpedoed by U-97 a Type VIIC submarine in the North Atlantic.

SS Stalingrad

At 09.52 hours on 13 September, with the convoy 100 miles south west of Spitsbergen, it was sighted by U-408, which fired a spread of three torpedoes at it.

Sunset Transit Center

The bicycle parking cage was built at a cost of $275,000, using federal economic-stimulus funding, and has a capacity of 74 bicycles.

The World Triathlon

The World Triathlon consists of a 275 mile (about 442.6 kilometers) swim along the length of the River Thames and across the English Channel, then a 8,875 mile bike ride from Calais, France to Calcutta, India.

Torpedo Alley

The first of three German U-boats sunk during the battle for Torpedo Alley was U-85, sunk at midnight on April 13, 1942.


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