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- proper noun A town in the Scottish Borders region.
- proper noun Code name for teams of three parachuted into Occupied
Europe (primarilyFrance , but alsoHolland andBelgium ) beginning onD-Day (June 6, 1944) to aid local Resistance groups. The men consisted of a British or American officer, a native of the country, and anon-commissioned radio operator.
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Examples
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A tool-works in Jedburgh, glass made in Wick, clothing in Campbeltown, fine foods in Fochabers.
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My aunt -- maternal aunt -- Eliza is married to a highly respectable Scotsman named Kierley, who runs a flour-mill in the ancient town of Jedburgh, which is in the county of Roxburgh, just over the
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He grew up in a small medieval market town called Jedburgh in Scotland’s Borders region, south of Edinburgh.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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I thought, "This reminds me of my father as an OSS Jedburgh fighting the Nazis in occupied France and Norway in World War II."
Carl Colby: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Carl Colby 2011
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I thought, "This reminds me of my father as an OSS Jedburgh fighting the Nazis in occupied France and Norway in World War II."
Carl Colby: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Carl Colby 2011
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Another 276 OSS, British, and French commandos, called Jedburghs for their training site near Jedburgh, Scotland, would be air-dropped in three-man teams the next four months to organize more than twenty thousand French guerrillas cutting tracks, derailing trains, and ambushing German truck convoys.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Another 276 OSS, British, and French commandos, called Jedburghs for their training site near Jedburgh, Scotland, would be air-dropped in three-man teams the next four months to organize more than twenty thousand French guerrillas cutting tracks, derailing trains, and ambushing German truck convoys.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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His investigation leads him into a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder-and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence.
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I thought, "This reminds me of my father as an OSS Jedburgh fighting the Nazis in occupied France and Norway in World War II."
Carl Colby: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Carl Colby 2011
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I thought, "This reminds me of my father as an OSS Jedburgh fighting the Nazis in occupied France and Norway in World War II."
Carl Colby: The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby Carl Colby 2011
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