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Quiz Monkey |
| History |
| World War II |
| Operations |
| Evacuation of British, French and Polish troops from Norway, on 24 May 1940 |
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Alphabet |
| Allied invasion of Italy |
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Avalanche |
| Hitler's invasion of Russia |
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Barbarossa |
| German plan to ruin the British economy by flooding it with forged banknotes |
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Bernhard |
| "the Channel Dash" (see below) |
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Cerberus |
| British amphibious raid on the dry dock at St. Nazaire (28 March 1942) |
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Chariot |
| Dam Busters raid |
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Chastise |
| Rescue of Mussolini by German paratroops |
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Condor |
| Joint US–British attempt to destroy the Nazis' test site for the V–2 rockets (1943 – made famous by a 1965 film starring George Peppard and Sophia Loren) |
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Crossbow |
| German bombardment of Sheffield (name refers to the steel–making process) |
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Crucible |
| British and Indian attack on Rangoon, 1945 |
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Dracula |
| Dunkirk (evacuation of British and French troops) |
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Dynamo |
| The Luftwaffe's offensive against RAF Fighter Command, leading to the Battle of Britain; began on 13 August 1940 with what the Germans called Adlertag (Eagle Day) |
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Eagle Attack |
| Allied invasion of Sicily (July–August 1943) |
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Husky |
| The Dieppe Raid (the Allied attack on German–occupied Dieppe – 19 August 1942) |
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Jubilee |
| Battle of El Alamein |
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Lightfoot |
| Arnhem landings (unsuccessful Allied attempt to force a crossing of the Rhine and encircle the Ruhr valley) |
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Market Garden |
| German invasion of Crete (1941) |
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Mercury |
| D–Day landings (see also below) |
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Neptune |
| Battle of Normandy (a.k.a. the Normandy Invasion – the Allies' re–entry into Europe in 1944 – beginning with D–Day) |
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Overlord |
| British operation carrying fuel and other supplies to Malta (under Axis siege) in August 1942 |
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Pedestal |
| Evacuation of civilians (especially children) from urban to rural areas |
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Pied Piper |
The construction of a pipeline under the English Channel, to supply fuel to support the D–Day landings
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Pluto |
| Hitler's planned invasion of Britain |
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Sealion |
| Planned invasion of Switzerland to follow an Axis victory in the war |
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Tannenbaum |
| Allied landings in North–West Africa, November 1942 |
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Torch |
| US Guadalcanal Campaign (August 1942 – February 1943) |
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Watchtower |
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