Air Force Derna or more simply RAFDerna is a former Royal Air Force station located near Derna, Libya. On 4 November 1943 No. 1586 Flight RAF was formed...
Vicariate of Derna, a Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction with see in that city RAFDerna, a former Royal Air Force station located near Derna, Libya, during...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Intelligence Summary No. 6 (23 Feb 41) WO 169/1258". The National Archives. Retrieved 26 July 2015. 113 Squadron RAF website the fall of Derna and Mechili, 1940...
"Sabratha" on a line from Derna along Wadi Derna, with the Babini Group concentrating at Mechili Fort inland and slightly south-west of Derna where several desert...
(Major-General Armando Pescatori). The Maletti Group had been formed at Derna on 8 July 1940 comprising seven Libyan motorised infantry battalions, a...
and even the Islamic State, the latter centered around the Libyan city of Derna. On 6 March 2016, Egypt and France began on Sunday a joint military exercise...
arrived at the air base in Ariana, Tunisia. When 60 Squadron was detached to Derna in Libya in August, it flew a mission to Ploiești, Romania to photograph...
on the northern coast of Libya. It lies about 40 miles (64 km) east of Derna (or Derne) at 32 degrees 38 minutes North Latitude, 23 degrees 07 minutes...
the operation, attacking through Cyrenaica to capture Bardia, Tobruk, and Derna. The British then pursued the 10th Army along the Via Balbia around the...
Second Libyan Civil War. In 2017, Ramzi al-Shaeri, Vice-President of the Derna city council and lawyers Ryan Goodman and Alex Whiting accused Haftar of...
The RAF Airfield Construction Branch constructed and repaired runways, hard-standings, buildings and other facilities as required by the Royal Air Force...
7 February An unidentified aircraft hit a medical technology college in Derna, Libya, killing four. A coalition of Islamic militant groups hold the area...
brigade was based at Martuba, ready to use its vehicles to move towards Derna, Barce or Mechili. On 24 March, Rommel advanced with the new Deutsches Afrikakorps...
and British casualties. The WDF continued its westwards advance towards Derna and Mechili. In September 1940 the Italian invasion of Egypt had begun but...
ISIL militants (50 in Derna). Warplanes acting under orders from the "official" Libyan government also struck targets in Derna, reportedly in coordination...
Army along the coast to Sollum and across the border to Bardia, Tobruk, Derna, Mechili, Beda Fomm and El Agheila on the Gulf of Sirte. The British suffered...
Tellera to continue the defence of Derna and to use the Babini Group to stop an advance westwards from Mechili–Derna. During 27 January, a column of Bren...
for travellers between the two countries as well as those from Bayda and Derna. Tobruk suffers a serious saltwater intrusion problem. A factory for the...
by Human Rights Watch in November 2014 accused ISIL groups in control of Derna, Libya of war crimes and human rights abuses and of terrorising residents...
April 1944 A Liberty ship that was torpedoed by U-407 17 miles (27 km) off Derna. 32°51′N 23°00′E / 32.850°N 23.000°E / 32.850; 23.000 (SS Meyer London)...
it was imperative that control be wrested in the area between Sollum and Derna and British air power be re-established there. On 12 May, the Tiger convoy...
created by the Italians in Italian Libya in the early 1930s. It was called RAF Castel Benito by the Allies after 1943. Originally, it was a small military...
evacuate the injured back to the UK. On 29 June an RAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster III flew from RAF Brize Norton to Tunisia to recover four British victims...
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