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famous battlefield.

1. it was a major defeat for that country

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Stalingrad

good guess but no

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famous battlefield.

1. it was a major defeat for that country

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Stalingrad

good guess but no

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Singapore

Manila

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famous battlefield.

1. it was a major defeat for that country

2. most of the defending units were destroyed.
3. and the city was captured

Kiev.

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famous battlefield.

1. it was a major defeat for that country

2. most of the defending units were destroyed.
3. and the city was captured

4. it was defended by commonwealth units

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famous battlefield.

1. it was a major defeat for that country

2. most of the defending units were destroyed.
3. and the city was captured

4. it was defended by commonwealth units

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Tobruk (though not sure about city status if it is)

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2. most of the defending units were destroyed.
3. and the city was captured

4. it was defended by commonwealth units

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Tobruk (though not sure about city status if it is)

correct..

what is a city then ..

Wikipedia describes it as a port city...so it must be true!

In the England you need a city charter - normally associated with a cathedral but Cambridge is a city and doesn't have a cathedral.

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4. it was defended by commonwealth units

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Tobruk (though not sure about city status if it is)

correct..

what is a city then ..

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Good question. Even now, apparently, Tobruk has a population of only about 120,000. It just seems strange calling such a small place like that a city and not a town.

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Tobruk (though not sure about city status if it is)

correct..

what is a city then ..

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Good question. Even now, apparently, Tobruk has a population of only about 120,000. It just seems strange calling such a small place like that a city and not a town.

The concept of city versus town can be very confusing. City means different things in different countries. Just check out US on this wiki page...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City#United_States

A lot of cities in USA with rather modest population. In those terms 120,000 people seem like a huge metropolitan city.

Hardly a city

A big white (painted) town, with a peacetime population of about 5,000 people, Tobruk lies at the end of a bay about one mile wide and two miles long. It was planned and built as a garrison town, for there can be no other reason for its existence in arid, treeless country supporting only a few camels, goats, and gazelles. Through the town runs the single bitumen road that crosses Cyrenaica.

Written January 1942 by the Minister for Information, Senator the Hon. W P Ashley, as a tribute to the men who again honoured the name of ANZAC

http://www.anzacday.org.au/history/ww2/ ... obruk.html

battle field.

1. small town/village
2. in 1944

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battle field.

1. small town/village
2. in 1944

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Imphal-Kohima

Thats 2 towns, pick one only[:'(]

Bastogne

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battle field.

1. small town/village
2. in 1944

3. among the defenders there were paratroopers (not bastogne)

Sorry to be so late responding...

See comments...

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Language: one of the Native American languages Navajo so YES

Commando raid: was it Telemark? No sorry pretty tricky involves swimming...

Defence Plant: Oak Ridge or Los Alamos? No and No this was the MAIN nuclear facility not as famous but perhaps more secret... LOTS of Pu made here (essentially all of it).

Code breaking - Bletchley Park YES!

For still unanswered ones...Hint involves 'swimming'

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What commando unit was based 'within sight' of its principal target for an extended period? And what was the 'Name' of its base of operations which remained undetected in plain sight?

For still unanswered ones...Hint nearly all US 'Poo' made here near a river and worlds largest (at the time) dam.

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One more...

What was the huge (500+ square miles) defense plant established in 1943 where less than 1% of the 50,000 workforce knew what they were working on?

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For still unanswered ones...Hint involves 'swimming'

ORIGINAL: JLPOWELL

What commando unit was based 'within sight' of its principal target for an extended period? And what was the 'Name' of its base of operations which remained undetected in plain sight?

The Italian Frogmen assaults on Gibraltar, from Tangier?