Details, Explanation and Meaning About List of operations and projects (military and non-military)

List of operations and projects (military and non-military) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This is a list of missions, operations, and projects. Missions in support of other missions are not listed independently.

Table of contents
1 Operations
2 Law Enforcement
3 Other
4 Non-military operations
5 External links

Operations

World War II

  • Agreement (1942) — British landing in North Africa
  • Alphabet (1940) evacuation of British troops from Norway
  • Ambassador (1940) — British commando raid on Guernsey
  • Amherst (1945) — British airborne raid in the Netherlands
  • Anvil (1944) — invasion of Southern France. Name later changed to Dragoon
  • Anthropoid (1942) British assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
  • Archery (1941) — British commando raid on Maaloy, Norway
  • Artur ("Arthur") (1941) — German plan to support IRA activities
  • Attila (1940) — German seizure and occupation of Vichy France
  • Avalanche (1943) — Allied landings near Salerno, Italy
  • Barbarossa (1941) — German invasion of the Soviet Union
  • Basalt (1942) — British raid on Sark
  • Baytown — Allied landings in Calabria, Italy
  • Bertram — part of the Second Battle of El Alamein
  • Begonia (1943) — British POW rescue in Italy
  • Birke ("Birch") (1944) — German plan to withdraw from northern Finland prior to the Lapland War
  • Birkhahn ("Black Cock") (1945) — German withdrawal from Norway
  • Biting (1942) — Commando raid on radar site in France
  • Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) — German offensive in the southern USSR
  • Blücher (1942) — German campaign in the Caucasus
  • Bodenplatte ("Baseplate") (1945) — German aerial attack on 27 Allied airbases
  • Büffel (1940) — German operation to relieve troops in Narvik, Norway.
  • Burza ("Plan Burza", "Operation Tempest") (1944) — a series of local uprisings prepared by the Polish Home Army
  • Candytuft (1943) — British raid on the Italian east coast
  • Canuck (1945) — SAS operation near Turin
  • Cerberus (1942) — escape of German capital ships from Brest to home ports in Germany
  • Chariot (1942) — British raid on Saint Nazaire
  • Chastise (1943) — attack on German dams
  • Clawhammer (1942) — planned commando raid on a radar site in France
  • Claymore (1941) — British raid on Norwegian islands
  • Cobra (1944) — American breakout from Normandy
    • Dunhill (1944) — SAS operations in Normandy to support Cobra
  • Cold Comfort (1945) — British raid on rail lines in Italy
  • Colossus (1941) — airborne raid against rail targets in Italy
  • Compass (1940) — British counteroffensive in North Africa
  • Cooney — French commando raid
  • Crusader (1941) — British attempt to relieve Tobruk
  • Deadlight (1945) — postwar scuttling of U-boats
  • Defoe (1944) — SAS patrols in Normandy
  • Donnerschlag ("Thunderclap") (1942) — planned breakout of the German 6th Army from Stalingrad
  • Downfall (1945) — planned invasion of Japan
    • Olympic (planned for 1945, not executed) — first of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
    • Coronet (planned for 1945, not executed) — second of two prongs of the invasion of Japan
  • Dragoon (1944) — Allied landing in southern France
  • Driftwood (1944) — failed raid on rail targets north of Rome
  • Drumbeat (1942) — German U-boat attack on east coast shipping of the United States
  • Dynamo (1940) — British evacuation from Dunkirk
  • Edelweiss (1942) — proposed German capture of the oil fields of Baku
  • Eisenhammer (1943) — plan to destroy Soviet power generators in Moscow and Gorky (not the same as Iron Hammer)
  • Epsom (1944) — British assault west of Caen, Normandy
  • Fall Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) — German offensive in the southern USSR
  • Fall Gelb ("Case Yellow") (1940) — German offensive against western Europe
  • Fall Grün ("Case Green") (1938) — the German invasion of Czechoslovakia
  • Fall Rot ("Case Red") (1935) — German defense plan in case of an incursion by France when Czechoslovakia is invaded
  • Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1939) — German invasion of Poland
  • Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1942) — German counter-partisan operation in Croatia
  • Felix (1940–41) — planned German invasion of Gibraltar
  • Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") (1942) — planned German capture of Leningrad
  • Fischereiher ("Heron") (1942) — German offensive to capture Stalingrad
  • Fortitude (1944) — Allied deception in Europe
  • Foxley (year?) — a plan to kill Adolf Hitler that was never carried out
  • Frankton (1942) — commando raid on shipping port in France
  • Frantic (1943) — The use of soviet airfields by western Allied bombers.
  • Frühlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") (1945) — German counterattack against Russian forces in Hungary
  • Gaff (1944) — attempt to kill Erwin Rommel
  • Gauntlet (1941) — raid on Spitzbergen
  • Goodwood (1944) — British breakout attempt from Normandy
  • Greif ("Grab") (1944) — German troops disguised as Allied soldiers during Battle of the Bulge
  • Grenade (1945) — US Ninth Army crossing of the Roer (see also Veritable)
  • Grün [1] ("Green") (1938) — the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
  • Grün [2] ("Green") (1940) — decoy invasion of Ireland in conjunction with Seelöwe
  • Gunnerside (1943) — raid on a Norwegian heavy water plant
  • Habakkuk (year?) — project to construct an aircraft carrier out of ice
  • Operation Herbstnebel
  • Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") (1940) — decoy invasion of Scotland
  • Herkules (1942) — planned Axis airborne invasion of Malta
  • Wacht am Rhein ("Watch on the Rhine") (1944) — German counteroffensive in the Ardennes (in Belgium, Luxembourg and France); the Battle of the Bulge
  • Husky (1943) — Allied invasion of Sicily
  • Ikarus (1940) — planned German invasion of Iceland
  • Juno (1940) — German naval operation to disturb allied supplies to Norway.
  • Lachsfang (1942) — Proposed combined German and Finnish attack against against Kandalaksha and Belomorsk.
  • Lightfoot (1942) — first attack by the British at El Alamein
  • Lost (1944) — British raid on Brittany
  • Loyton (1944) — large SAS patrol in French mountains
  • Marita (1941) — German invasion of Greece
  • Margarethe (1944) — German operation to keep Hungary from defecting
  • Manhattan Project (1941–1945) — American program to build an atomic bomb
  • Market Garden (1944) — Allied airborne attempt to cross the lower Rhine
  • Matador (1941) — Planned British pre-emptive move into Siam from Malaya
  • Merkur ("Mercury") (1941) — German invasion of Crete
  • Mondscheinsonate ("Moonlight Sonata") (1940) — German aerial raid on Coventry
  • Morgenrote ("Dawn") (1944) — German counterattack against Anzio landings
  • Narcissus (1943) — British commando raid
  • Nelson (1944) — cancelled SAS patrol in France
  • Newton (1944) — SAS raid in France
  • Nordlicht [1] ("Northern Lights") (1942) — planned German assault on Leningrad
  • Nordlicht [2] ("Northern Lights") (1944) — German withdrawal from the Kola Peninsula into Norway
  • Nordwind ("North Wind") (1945) — German offensive in the Alsace
  • Overlord (1944) — Allied landings in Normandy
  • Pegasus (1944) — Allied rescue of troops after failure of Market Garden
  • Paperclip (1945) — part-military, part-scientific operation to scoop up Nazi scientists, engineers, experiments, prototypes, data, etc., after WWII
  • Paukenschlag ("Beat of the Kettle Drum") (1942) — German U-boat offensive on the east coast of the United States
  • Pedestal Allied convoy to Malta.
  • Plunder (1945) — British crossing of the Rhine
  • Pluto (1944) — construction of undersea oil pipelines between England and France
  • Reinhard (1943) — German reprisals for Anthropoid
  • Renntier ("Reindeer") (1941) — German occupation of Finnish Petsamo
  • Rheinübung ("Exercise Rhine") (1941) — German attacks on Allied shipping conducted by Bismarck and Prinz Eugen
  • Rösselsprung [1] ("Knights Move") (1942) — German naval campaign to sink Arctic convoys
  • Rösselsprung [2] ("Knights Move") (1944) — German attempt to capture Josip Broz Tito
  • Roundup (1942) — planned Allied landings in France
  • Seelöwe ("Sea Lion") (1940) — planned German invasion of Britain
    • Adler ("Eagle") — German air offensive
    • Grün [2] ("Green") (1940) — decoy invasion of Ireland in conjunction with Seelöwe
    • Herbstreise ("Autumn Journey") — decoy invasion of Scotland in conjunction with Seelöwe.
  • Shingle (1944) — Allied landings at Anzio
    • Baobab — commando raid in support of Shingle
    • Chettyford — deception plan to support Shingle
    • Pomegranate (1944) — Raid in support of Shingle
  • Sledgehammer (1942) — planned Allied landings in France
  • Sonneblume — movement of German troops to north Africa as a result of the British Compass
  • Sonnenwende ("Winter Solstice") (1945) — German offensive to relieve Pomerania from Russian forces and halt advance on Berlin
  • Supercharge (1942) — second attack by British at El Alamein
  • Tabarin (1943) — British Antarctic expedition
  • Taifun ("Typhoon") (1941) — German autumn offensive to capture Moscow
  • Tanne Ost (1944 ) — failed German attempt to capture Suursaari from Finland
  • Tanne West (1944) — planned German attempt to capture the Åland Islands from Finland
  • Tannenbaum — The planned German invasion of Switzerland.
  • Theseus (1942) — German offensive to drive Allies out of Cyrenaica and Egypt
  • Ten-Go (1945) Japanese naval sortie.
  • Tiger (1944) — Allied training prior D-Day, near Slapton, England
  • Tombola (1945) — SAS raid in Italy
  • Torch (1942) — Allied landings in North Africa
  • Totalize (1944) — Allied effort to trap German armor in Normandy
  • Veritable (1945) — Canadian First Army crossing of the Roer (see also Grenade)
  • Watchtower (1942) — U.S. invasion of Guadalcanal
  • Weserübung ("Weser Exercise") (1940) — German invasion of Denmark and Norway
  • Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") (1942) — German attempt to relieve encircled 6th Army at Stalingrad
  • Zitadelle ("Citadel") (1943) — German counteroffensive at Kursk
  • Zitronella (1943) — German raid against a Norwegian/British station on Svalbard.
  • Zombie (1941) — airborne raid against rail targets in Italy

Cold War Era

Post-Cold War

  • Addition (2000) — Canada's contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE)
  • Anaconda (2002) — U.S. sweep in Afghanistan
  • Apollo (2002) — the Canadian Navy's operations in support of United States forces in Afghanistan
  • Assistance (1997) — Canadian assistance to Manitoba after major flooding
  • Athena (2003) — Canadian Forces contribution to ISAF in Kabul.
  • Bljesak ("Flash") (1995) — Croatian offensive against western Slavonian parts of Krajina
  • Boleas (1998) — South African military intervention in Lesotho
  • Bramble Bush (1992) — Israeli plan to kill Saddam Hussein
  • Caravan (year?) — Canadian contribution to the French-led Interim Emergency Multinational Force in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Central (1998) — Canada's assistance to Central America after the devastation of Hurricane Mitch
  • ChaperonCanada's contribution to the United Nations of one military observer (UNMO)
  • Constable (1997) — Canada's contribution to the United Nations Mission in Haiti
  • Deliverance (1993) — Canadian mission to Somalia
  • Desert Shield (1990) — American buildup prior to Gulf War
    • Granby — British codename for operations during Gulf War
  • Desert Storm (1991) — Gulf War
    • Desert Saber — Gulf War ground campaign
  • Determination (early 1998) — Canadian deployment in the Persian Gulf to force Iraq to comply with United Nations inspection agreements
  • Enduring Freedom (2001-2004) — U.S. and UK invasion of Afghanistan
  • Essential Harvest (2001) — month-long NATO mission of disarming ethnic Albanians in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
  • Falklands War:
    • Rosario — Argentine invasion
    • Corporate — British liberation
      • Black Buck — British long-range bombing raid
      • Canbelow — British antiaircraft naval ambush
      • Keyhole — British commando raid
      • Purple Warrior — British training exercise incorporating lessons from the Falklands War
      • Sutton — British amphibious landings
  • ''Flavius (1988) — SAS action against the IRA in Gibraltar
  • Forage — Canadian contribution to NATO's Essential Harvest
  • Granby (1991) — British codename for operations during the Gulf War
  • Harmony — Canada's contribution to the United Nation Protection Force (UNPROFOR), which was created in February 1992 to ensure the protection and demilitarization of three UN Protected Areas in Croatia
  • Infinite Justice — original name for Enduring Freedom
  • Iraqi Freedom (2003-04) — U.S. invasion/occupation of Iraq
  • Kinetic — Canada's contribution to NATO's mission KFOR to secure Kosovo and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to provide humanitarian needs to displaced persons
  • Megaphone — Canada's return of equipment used in Kosovo
  • Oluja ("Storm") (1995) — Croatian offensive against Krajina
  • Northern Watch (1990s) — northern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
  • Peace for Galilee — Israeli invasion of Lebanon
  • PeregrineBritish Columbia forest fire fighting assitance by soldiers
  • Persistence (1998) — Canadian operation at Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia to recover bodies after crash of SwissAir Flight 111
  • Potkova ("Horseshoe") (1999) — Yugoslav army offensive against the KLA
  • Provide Comfort (1991) — security and humanitarian aid to Kurds in northern Iraq
  • Quadrant — Canada's mission in Kosovo
  • Rainbow — Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip in 2004.
  • Record (1991) — Canadian mission to secure Iraqi-Kuwaiti border
  • Recuperation (1998) — Canadian assistance after major snowstorms in eastern Canada
  • Sharp Edge (1990-91) — evacuation of Americans from Liberia
  • Shining Express (2003) — evacuation of Americans from Liberia
  • Southern Watch (1990s) — southern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
  • Slipper — the Royal Australian Navy's contribution to the invasion of Afghanistan
  • Support (Sept. 11-14, 2001) — Canadian Forces operations after terrorist Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
  • Telic (2003) — British codename for operations against Iraq
  • Torrent (1999) — Canadian assistance after earthquake in Turkey
  • Toucan — Canada's contribution to the United Nations' Internatonal Force in East Timor (INTERFET) and the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET)
  • Unified Spirite — large NATO exercise held every two years to train the armed forces of member nations in joint and combined operations.
  • Veritas (2001) — British codename for operations in Afghanistan

Other/Unknown

Law Enforcement

  • Avalanche (1999) — American anti-pedophilia effort
  • Falcon (2004) — anti-pedophilia raid against companies handling credit card payments
  • Ore (2003) — American led anti-pedophilia effort
  • Pin (2003) — British-led anti-pedophilia effort

Other

Non-military operations

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