Twelfth Army (United Kingdom)
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title:
Twelfth Army (United Kingdom)
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The Twelfth Army was a British Army formation during the Second World War. The Twelfth Army denotation was actually used twice; firstly, in 1943, for a fictional formation and secondly, in 1944/45, in Burma. The Twelfth Army moniker was originally used by Advanced Headquarters 'A' Force, a Cairo-based deception department created by Dudley Clarke, for a formation used in Operation Barclay and Operation Zeppelin. It was later used for a real formation in Burma, which took over operations from the
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Military unit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Army_(United_Kingdom)
date created:
2004-02-03T10:54:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T20:04:46Z
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