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Black Friday (1945)
On 9 February 1945, near the end of the Second World War, a force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffered many losses during an attack on the Germa…
Black Prince's chevauchée of 1355
The Black Prince's chevauchée, also known as the grande chevauchée, was a large-scale mounted raid carried out by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edw…
Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356
The Black Prince's chevauchée of 1356 was a large-scale mounted raid by an Anglo-Gascon force under the command of Edward, the Black Prince, between 4 August an…
Blackbeard
Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the easter…
Blockhaus d'Éperlecques
The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques (English: Bunker of Éperlecques, also referred to as "the Watten bunker" or simply "Watten") is a Second World War bunker, now part …
Bob Feller
Baseball player
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Bobby Gibbes
Robert Henry Maxwell Gibbes, DSO, DFC & Bar, OAM (6 May 1916 – 11 April 2007) was an Australian fighter ace of World War II, …
Boeing CH-47 Chinook in Australian service
The Australian Defence Force has operated Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters for most of the period since 1974. Thirty four of the type have entered Au…
Boot Monument
Monument in Saratoga National Historical Park
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Borodino-class battlecruiser
The Borodino-class battlecruisers (Russian: Линейные крейсера типа «Измаил») were a group of four battlecruisers ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy before Wor…
Boshin War
The Boshin War (戊辰戦争, Boshin Sensō), sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between…
Bougainville counterattack
The Bougainville counterattack, also known as the Second Battle of Torokina, was an unsuccessful Japanese offensive against the Allied base at Cape Torokina on …
Brandenburg-class battleship
The Brandenburg class consisted of four pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy), the first modern battleships of the…
Braunschweig-class battleship
The Braunschweig-class battleships were a group of five pre-dreadnought battleships of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) built in the early 1900s. T…
Brazilian cruiser Bahia
Bahia was the lead ship of a two-vessel class of cruisers built for Brazil by the British company Armstrong Whitworth. Crewmen mutinied in November 1910 aboard …
Brian Eaton
Air Vice-Marshal Brian Alexander Eaton, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, DFC (15 December 1916 – 17 October 1992) was a senior com…
Brighton War Memorial
Memorial in Brighton, England
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British contribution to the Manhattan Project
James Chadwick (left), the head of the British Mission, confers with Major General Leslie R. Groves Jr. (right), the director of the Manhattan Project.
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British hydrogen bomb programme
The British hydrogen bomb programme was the ultimately successful British effort to develop hydrogen bombs between 1952 and 1958.
During the early part of the S…
British logistics in the Falklands War
A Westland Wessex helicopter delivering supplies at Ascension Island in May 1982
The 1982 British military campaign to recapture the Falkland Islands
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British logistics in the Normandy campaign
Supplies being unloaded from a ship at the Mulberry B artificial harbour in July 1944
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British logistics in the Siegfried Line campaign
Royal Army Service Corps troops stack ration boxes in the harbour at Dieppe on 14 October 1944
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British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany
A Diamond T tank transporter tows a trailer loaded with a Churchill tank during the preparations for crossing the Rhine.
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British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War
The United Kingdom began a military intervention in Sierra Leone on 7 May 2000 under the codename Operation Palliser. Although small numbers of British personne…