Operation Moonlight: A compelling and emotionally moving historical fiction novel

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The RAF meanwhile were engaged in the Battle of the Beams, a desperate attempt to intercept the radio beams.

Operation Moonlight: A compelling and emotionally moving

A pattern of radio ‘beams’, transmitted from stations along the French channel coast, met just before and over the target. Counterinsurgency: Was conducted in farmland and palm groves on the Diyala River, resulted in the discovery of 11 al Qaeda in Iraq weapons caches. By the time of this air raid, some 1,236people had been killed by air raids on Coventry; of these, 808 rest in the mass grave in London Road Cemetery. Dozens of enemy munitions, homemade explosives (HME) and rigged-to-blow Bombs were also uncovered and destroyed in place.Counterinsurgency: The operation netted four weapons caches and several detainees and also two command initiated rocket systems designed to ambush passing convoys in central Ramadi. Operation Moonlight goes beyond just another historical fiction tale of a woman in WWII to a real page-turning literary account which was a pleasure to read. A charming novel full of fascinating detail about the Second World War, AND a heart-warming love story. For those wondering why this city based in the Midlands was the target, the answer was based on the fact that it was an industrial epicentre, that when targeted, would deal a devastating blow to the war effort and munition levels.

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These raids seem to have been in response to an ambush that killed seven Spanish intelligence officers in November. Countermeasures were, in fact, undertaken, including air attacks on the X-Gerät transmitters, whose locations were known to the British. Coventry’s great medieval church of St Michael was amongst the casualties, the only cathedral in England to suffer that fate during the war. Counterinsurgency: Numerous weapons caches, one of which consisted of 11 tons of ammonium nitrate, are among operational highlights. Verbal communication had to be confined to the mere few seconds’ silence between one crash and another.

The operation was successful and resulted in the capture of 12 personnel and the confiscation of various weapons.

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A Luftwaffe briefing recommended incendiary bombs for such areas, stating: “The effects on industry [in Coventry] would be especially amplified due to the fact that the work force, which lives in immediate proximity to the factories, would suffer along with them. Once the neighborhood was secured, the holding force began quick-impact projects to employ Iraqis and spur economic development and reconstruction. This Operation was taken over by the 141st Engineer Combat Battalion (C)(W), a North Dakota National Guard unit.Counterinsurgency: Seven targets classified as high-value were captured by the 4th Infantry Division and the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in the Sunni Triangle. One of the most graphic accounts was by an unnamed Warwick Advertiser reporter who described the raid as “organised mass murder”, claiming that if the people of Coventry ever got hold of Hitler, they would tear him limb from limb.