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'''LONGBOW''' was an early 20th century counterpart of the [[UNIT|Unified Intelligence Taskforce]]. This world security organisation was set up by the UN precursor, the [[League of Nations]]. LONGBOW dealt with the occasional extraterrestrial incident, but was disbanded after it, and the League, failed to prevent [[World War II]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'') | '''LONGBOW''' was an early 20th century counterpart of the [[UNIT|Unified Intelligence Taskforce]]. This world security organisation was set up by the UN precursor, the [[League of Nations]]. LONGBOW dealt with the occasional extraterrestrial incident, but was disbanded after it, and the League, failed to prevent [[World War II]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'') | ||
[[ | In [[1939]], LONGBOW's [[Operation George]] saw them fighting a [[dragon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Moon Blink (novel)|Moon Blink]]'') | ||
Circa the early [[1940s]], LONGBOW built [[Dolerite Base]] underneath [[Edinburgh Castle]] to use as a secret base. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Moon Blink (novel)|Moon Blink]]'') | |||
When giving his [[companion]]s fake identities for living in [[1941]], the [[Seventh Doctor]] made [[Roz Forrester]] a military officer with LONGBOW clearance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'') At a later point, Roz remembered LONGBOW as an organisation that was familiar with [[the Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'') | |||
In [[1969]], after the [[London Event]], [[Oliver Hamilton]] secured [[Dolerite Base]], which had been out of use since LONGBOW's disbandment, for the [[Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps]] to use as a base. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mutually Assured Domination (novel)|Mutually Assured Domination]]'') The base was refurbished a few months later, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Moon Blink (novel)|Moon Blink]]'', ''[[The Grandfather Infestation (novel)|The Grandfather Infestation]]'') and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] gained access to some of the old LONGBOW files in storage there, including a report from [[Winston Churchill]] that mentioned [[Ironside Project|Project Ironside]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Moon Blink (novel)|Moon Blink]]'') | |||
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