X-Nico

unusual facts about Operation ''Tungsten''



44th Infantry Division Cremona

When Italy and Germany occupied Vichy France in Operation "Anton" after the Allied landings in French North Africa the division was ferried to Southern Corsica on 8 November 1942 to occupy the island, while the 20th Infantry Division Friuli occupied Northern Corsica.

804 Naval Air Squadron

The squadron participated in the successful attack on 3 April 1944 on the German battleship Tirpitz (Operation Tungsten) in Altafjord, northern Norway.

Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi

He commanded Operation Chavinda in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 and was ordered to command the Pakistan Armed Forces in East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Carrock Fell

The mine was opened in 1854 but has only been worked in periods when the price of Tungsten has been high, for example during war time, the mine was worked extensively during both World Wars and the Korean War when supplies of Tungsten were threatened.

Churchill tank

Churchills saw widespread action in Normandy as well as subsequent operations in the Low Countries and into Germany such as the fighting in the Reichswald during Operation Veritable.

Drake Tungsten

Drake Tungsten was the pseudonym that singer/songwriter Britt Daniel performed under from 1994 to 1996 as a solo artist.

The pseudonym "Drake Tungsten" appears to be an homage to Episode 410 (first airing in 1992) of the comic television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Electron beam tomography

As in standard X-ray tubes, part of the electron current energy when hitting the tungsten target is converted into photons.

Ernest J. Dawley

The VI Corps took part in the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno on September 9, 1943, with the British X Corps under Fifth Army as part of Operation Avalanche.

Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb

Franjo Hanaman, inventor of contemporary classic light bulb with tungsten-tantalum alloy

The first professor of metallurgy and chemical technology was Franjo Hanaman, a co-inventor of the tungsten filament for electric lamps.

Frank Kasper phases

While addition of refractory elements like W, Mo or Re to FK phases helps to enhance the thermal properties in such alloys as steels or nickel-based super alloys, it increases the risk of unwanted precipitation in intermetallic compounds.

Garaj Baras

The video released, which featured for the Indian movie Paap, was directed by Tungsten and produced by Music Mushroom/Fish Eye in India.

Gotha G.IV

In March 1917, the G.IV entered service with Kagohl 1, which was redesignated Kagohl 3 upon receipt of the new machines, and the G.IVs were soon to be put to use in Operation Türkenkreuz - the strategic bombing of London.

Juan José Elhuyar

Juan José Elhuyar Lubize (15 June 1754 – 20 September 1796) was a Spanish chemist and mineralogist, the joint discoverer of tungsten with his brother Fausto Elhuyar in 1783.

Kayah State

In the 1930s, the Mawchi Mine in Bawlake was the most important source of tungsten in the world.

Latin America during World War II

Operation Bolivar, as it was called, was centered on clandestine radio communications from their base in Argentina to Berlin in Germany, but it also utilized Spanish merchant vessels for the shipment of paper-form intelligence back to Europe.

Manuela Sáenz

She was forced to leave the convent at the age of seventeen, when she was discovered to have been a victim of seduction by army officer Fausto D'Elhuyar, the nephew and son of Juan José and Fausto de Elhuyar y de Suvisa, who was one of the co-discoverers of tungsten.

Olefin metathesis

Giulio Natta in 1964 also observed the formation of an unsaturated polymer when polymerizing cyclopentene with tungsten and molybdenum halides.

Operation Falcon

Operation Falcon, a naval operation of the Pakistan Navy during the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971 (See also: Sinking of PNS Ghazi and PNS Hangor).

Otto Kretschmer

In 1943, the German command tried to rescue him (in Operation Kiebitz) but that daring plan failed.

P. R. Mallory and Co Inc

The company was founded in 1934 by Philip Rogers Mallory, and initially manufactured tungsten wire for lamp filaments and bearings.

Rupert Thorneloe

Thorneloe was killed by the Taliban in Operation Panther's Claw during a resupply mission when an improvised explosive device exploded under his BvS 10 Viking armoured vehicle.

SureFire

These weapon-mounted lights use a shock-absorbing assembly to protect the tungsten filament bulb from recoil, alternatively shock-resistant LEDs are used.

Target for Tonight

Squadron Leader Dickson, the captain of 'F for Freddie', was played by Percy Pickard, who went on to lead Operation Biting and Operation Jericho, a raid on Amiens Prison.

Teleforce

Tesla's records indicate that the device is based on a narrow stream of small tungsten pellets that are accelerated via high voltage (by means akin to his magnifying transformer).

The Man Who Never Was

Operation Mincemeat involved the acquisition and dressing up of a human cadaver as a "Major William Martin, R.M." and putting it into the sea near Huelva, Spain.

Trewhiddle

Raspe, best known as the author or translator of the Baron Münchhausen stories, was also a chemist with a particular interest in tungsten.

Tungstate

Wolframite is manganese and iron tungstate, and all these are valuable sources of tungsten.

Tungsten carbide

A criticality accident occurred at Los Alamos National Laboratory on 21 August 1945 when Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium sphere, causing the subcritical mass to go supercritical with the reflected neutrons.

English guitarist Martin Simpson is known to use a custom made tungsten carbide guitar slide.

Tungsten hexafluoride

In his book Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks describes how his uncle—an avid fan of tungsten and tungsten chemistry—told him about the very high-density of gaseous WF6.

Tungsten trioxide

2010- AIST reports a quantum yield of 19% in photocatalytic water splitting with a caesium-enhanced tungsten oxide photocatalyst.

WC2

Tungsten semicarbide WC2, a chemical compound of tungsten and carbon

Żywkowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

After World War II the place of German displaced residents, replaced by Ukrainian displaced from the operation "Vistula" and today their descendants inhabit the village.


see also