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January 13, 2021 (Google Translation) – On January 12th, minehunter Datteln left her homeport of Kiel to become part of NATO’s SNMCMG1. One crewmember is also a US exchange sailor providing support in the field of sonar. The first part of the roughly three-month mission will take Datteln to the North Sea, before heading back to the Baltic Sea at…
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By Mark Karau Seaforth Publishing Pages: 276 ISBN: 9781848322318 Published: 10th February 2015 In 1914, Germany occupied the Belgian ports of Ostend, Zeebrugge and Brugges as part of the Schlieffen Plan, the invasion of France through Belgium. With these ports closer to England than Germany, Marinekorps Flanders was formed. This would eventually include a naval air station, flotillas of naval…
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