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    The action of 8 May 1941 was a single ship action fought during the Second World War by the British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall and the Kriegsmarine (German...
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  • Japan Died: James George Frazer, 87, Scottish social anthropologist Action of 8 May 1941: The German commerce raider Pinguin was sunk by the British heavy...
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    Battle of Ushant Battle of Pierres Noires Action of 9 February 1945 Battle of Point Judith Soviet Winter counter-offensive: December 1941May 1942 Battles...
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    merchant cruiser HMS Voltaire in the Action of 4 April 1941 1,200 km (650 nmi; 750 mi) off the Cape Verde islands. 1941, May 8 – The British heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall...
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    318 was a west-bound convoy of 38 ships, either in ballast or carrying trade goods, and sailed from Liverpool on 2 May 1941 bound for ports in North America...
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    Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country...
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  • The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a 2024 spy action comedy film directed, co-written and co-produced by Guy Ritchie, and starring Henry Cavill...
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  • Combat Action Ribbon on 17 February 1969. The Navy ribbon was originally retroactive to March 1961; in 1999 it was made retroactive to 7 December 1941. The...
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  • runaway success of Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He also regretted not ceding control of 1941's action and miniature sequences (such as the Ferris...
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  • Action principles lie at the heart of fundamental physics, from classical mechanics through quantum mechanics, particle physics, and general relativity...
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