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North Sea isle under British control: 1945-52
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heligoland
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Heligoland ( German : Helgoland ; Heligolandic Frisian : deät Lun ["the Land"]) is a small German archipelago in the North Sea . The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions. The islands (population 1,127) are located in the Heligoland ...
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When the sharp outlines of the red cliffs of Heligoland appeared, the German cruiser Seeadler came from the island to meet the squadron and reported that the coast ironclads Aegir and Odin, the cruisers Hansa, Vineta, Freya, and Hertha, together with the torpedo-boats, had set out from Wilhelmshaven during the night and had seen nothing of the enemy.
But the German fighter controllers covering the Heligoland Bight area did not commit their main force of fighters too early and, when the combat wings of B-17s bound for both Hamburg and Hannover later approached the German coast, they were met by strong fighter opposition.
He was a veteran of the battles of Heligoland, Dogger Bank, and Jutland, and a recipient of the Grand Cross, the Order of Orange-Nassau of Holland, and the Russian Order of St.