World War II: A British <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Operations_Headquarters" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Combined Operations Headquarters">combined force</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St Nazaire Raid">permanently disables</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Joubert_Lock" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis Joubert Lock">Louis Joubert Lock</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Nazaire" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Saint-Nazaire">Saint-Nazaire</a> in order to keep the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Tirpitz" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="German battleship Tirpitz">German battleship <i id="mw3Q">Tirpitz</i></a> away from the mid-ocean convoy lanes.<sup about="#mwt138" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-26"}}' id="cite_ref-26" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_28#cite_note-26" id="mw3g" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 26;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw3w">[26]</span></a></sup>
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