From La Spezia U-303 moved to Toulon in occupied France, from where she was to operate against British shipping aiding in operations following the evacuation of Tunisia.
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Rimless cartridge, is an approximately 7mm bullet diameter rifle round developed in Canada by F.W. Jones as a consultant to Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet, and his Ross Rifle Company of Quebec, Canada for use as a Canadian military cartridge as a replacement for the .303
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.
Saint Alexander of Bergamo (died c. 303) is the patron saint of Bergamo, as well as Capriate San Gervasio and Cervignano d'Adda.
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.
It was considered by BSA and the Ministry of Supply that the industrial, technical, and logistical handicap of converting the design to the .303 round was more onerous than retaining the original calibre, especially given that the chain of supply for the Royal Armoured Corps was already separate from the other fighting arms of the British Army.
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.
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.
Departing Lorient with an armed escort known as a Sperrbrecher and three anti-submarine vessels, U-175 proceeded independently after passing Ile de Groix.
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Upon completion of the U-boat captain's course, Bruns served briefly on U-75, where he was confirmed as suitable for command.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In addition, she was reported as sunk on 30 January 1944 by a British Vickers Wellington of 172 Squadron in the Bay of Biscay.
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.
U-418 was sunk on 1 June 1943 by rockets from a British Bristol Beaufighter of 236 Squadron in the western Bay of Biscay.
The submarine was scuttled in the Nordsee/Ostsee canal (Kiel canal) near Audorf on 3 May 1945.
Ten of her 37 crew died in the attack, the survivors were picked up by the Norwegian merchantman Lysaker IV and landed at Reykjavík.
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.
She was sunk on 28 November 1943 north of Madeira by depth charges dropped from a British Vickers Wellington of No. 179 Squadron RAF.
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.
U-558 torpedoed and sank her approximately 90 miles southeast of Port Morant, Jamaica.
The Spanish authorities granted U-573 a three-month period for repairs, which prompted several strong protests from the British Embassy in Madrid.
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.
Friedrich Steinhoff was born in Küllstedt on 14 July 1909 and was a merchant marine officer prior to joining Kriegsmarine crew 34.
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.
On Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, in what was later called the Goliad Massacre, 303 were marched out of the fort to be executed, 39 were executed inside the presidio (20 prisoners were spared because they were either physicians or medical attendants); 342 men were killed and 28 escaped.
Among its passengers was Carlos P. Romulo (diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author) who recounted the flight in his 1942 best-selling book "I Saw the Fall of the Philippines" (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1943, pp. 288–303) for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence.
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.
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.
The proposed alignment of Route 303 was to begin at an intersection with New Jersey Route 4, a major highway in northern New Jersey, north of the community of Fort Lee.
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At the state line, Route 303 was to intertwine and become the current-day New York State Route 303.
New York State Route 303 (NY 303) is a north–south state highway in eastern Rockland County, New York, in the United States.
At the center of Pittsfield Township is located the intersection of State Routes 58 and 303.
La Malagueta hosts top-class events during the Spanish-style bullfighting season, and its festivities include two bullfights in Holy Week which are include the Corrida Picassiana" (named in honour of Pablo Picasso). In June, "La Corrida de la Prensa" (captivity) is held in June for the feast of Málaga town's duo of patron saints Ciriaco and Paula (who were martyred in Málaga in 303 AD).
Mike Baker (ex Beacon Radio 303, WABC Wolverhampton, Chiltern Radio, Supergold, 100.7 Heart FM, Saga 105.7 FM, Smooth Radio 105.7, Oak FM, Radio Veronica Holland, Radio Kaleidoscope, UBN, Swansea Sound, Lantern FM, Sunshine 855, Radio 210) - Mike has also been involved with Rado Caroline, was an launch engineer at Capital Radio London and was on morethan40.co.uk - sadly Mike passed away aged 65 on Monday, 23rd December 2013 RIP
The West Campus is located at 713 West Palm Drive, Florida City; the East Campus is located at 303 West Palm Drive, Florida City.
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.
Fraser continued his relationship with Invisible Records, releasing two more albums as 'Bagman' and was briefly a member of Atkins' bands Pigface and The Damage Manual, usually under the moniker "Lee 303".
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.
In a December 31, 1960 letter published in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, (p. 303), Tolkien wrote: 'The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains.
There were 303 students (13.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 72 (3.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
The first of three German U-boats sunk during the battle for Torpedo Alley was U-85, sunk at midnight on April 13, 1942.
Authorized on 21 March 1898 and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dixon Byron Evans of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, the force consisted of 5 Staff, 16 Royal Canadian Dragoons, 49 men of the Royal Canadian Artillery and 133 men of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Infantry armed with Lee-Enfield .303 rifles, two Maxim guns and two bronze seven-pounder cannons.