What the records say
- When
- 1941
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 67.00° N, 36.00° E
- Description
- WW2 RAF operation supplying Hurricanes & training Soviet pilots (1941)
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Operation Benedict
WW2 RAF operation supplying Hurricanes & training Soviet pilots (1941)
Operation Benedict was the establishment of Force Benedict with units of the Soviet Air Forces in north Russia, during the Second World War. The force comprised 151 Wing, Royal Air Force (RAF), with two squadrons of Hurricane fighters.
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- Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “операция «Бенедикт» британских ВВС по обеспечению обороны советских северных морских портов, в которых должны были разгружаться арктические конвои западных…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page