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folding kayaks,
called '
folboats', for the
Australian military from the
Hoehn design.
Hoehn supplied the
first 2
folboats for the
highly secret 'Operation...
- Unit,
during World War II
using Australian built Hoehn military MKIII folboats. It was a follow-up to the
successful Operation Jaywick which had taken...
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harbour in a
vessel disguised as an
Asian fishing boat. They
would then use
folboats (collapsible canoes) to
attach limpet mines to ****anese ships. Initial...
- As a
training exercise, one
group led by
Samuel Warren Carey paddled folboats between Fraser Island and Cairns.
Another training school was the Special...
- One
folboat,
crewed by
Sergeants Bruce Dooland (Australian Army) and Bill
Horrocks (New
Zealand Army),
managed to
reach the s****. The
other folboat, carrying...
- unit, on the s****s of Sannox, Isle of Arran, was
initially named the
Folboat Troop,
after the type of
folding canoe emplo**** in
raiding operations and...
-
deploy ‘Z’ unit
commando operatives with
folboats; namely, HMAS
River Snake landed a
group with the aid of
folboats in
Portuguese Timor on 23
April 1945 for...
-
conceived of in an
attempt to
create an
improved version of the
simplistic folboat. It was
created by the
Allied Inter-Services
Research Bureau and designed...
- from Leipzig, Germany,
invented the "Faltboot", a
folding kayak called Folboat in the US.
Heurich went on to
paddle over 100,000 km (62,000 mi) on rivers...
- this time No. 8
Commando formed an
experimental section,
known as the
Folboat Section,
under Lieutenant Roger Courtney, who had
convinced Lay**** of...
