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

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Operations

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World War I

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World War II

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Africa

Excluding Mediterranean

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Atlantic Ocean

Includes North Sea, Arctic convoys and actions against naval vessels in harbour

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China

  • Alpha (1944) — improvement of the defences of Kunming against Japanese threats
  • August Storm (1945) — Soviet invasion of Manchuria and other Japanese occupied territories
  • Ichigo (1944) — Japanese campaign in eastern China to secure overland routes to Indo-China and airfields
  • Matterhorn — establishment of bases for US B-29 bomber aircraft
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Eastern Front

European operations involving the Soviet Union.

  • Aster (1944) — German withdrawal from Estonia
  • Bagration (1944) — Large-scale Russian offensive against German forces in Belorussia
  • Barbarossa (1941) — German invasion of the Soviet Union
    • Haifisch ("Shark") (1941) — deception operation for Barbarossa, feinting an attack on Scotland and north-east England from Norway
    • Harpune ("Harpoon") (1941) — deception operation for Barbarossa, feinting an attack on southern England from France
    • Taifun ("Typhoon") (1941) — German autumn offensive to capture Moscow before winter.
  • Beowulf I & II (1941) — two separate German plans to assault the Estonian islands of Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Muhu
    • Nordwind (1941) — Diversionary plan for Beowulf II
      • Lel (1941) — sub-plan of Nordwind
      • Nau (1941) — sub-plan of Nordwind
      • Stimmung (1941) — sub-plan of Nordwind
    • Siegfried (1941) — German assault on Hiiumaa
      • Ost (1941) — sub-plan of Siegfried
      • Mitte (1941) — sub-plan of Siegfried
      • West (1941) — sub-plan of Siegfried
    • Sodwind (1941) — Diversionary plan for Beowulf II
    • Weststurm (1941) — German naval bombardment in support of Beowulf II
    • Westwind (1941) — Diversionary plan for Beowulf II
  • Blau ("Case Blue") (1942) — German offensive in the southern Soviet Union
  • Braunschweig 1 ("Brunswick") (1942) — German offensive towards Stalingrad and the Caucasus
  • Delphin ("Dolphin") (1944) — German withdrawal from Saaremaa, Estonia
  • Donnerschlag ("Thunderclap") (1942) — planned breakout of the German 6th Army from Stalingrad
  • Eisenhammer (1943) — plan to destroy Soviet power generators in Moscow and Gorky (not the same as Iron Hammer)
  • Eisstoss (1942) — Luftwaffe operation against Soviet warships near Leningrad
  • Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") (1942) — planned German capture of Leningrad
  • Frühlingserwachen ("Spring Awakening") (1945) — German counterattack against Soviet forces in Hungary
  • Hubertus (1942) — German attack in Stalingrad
  • Keelhaul (1945) — forced repatriation to the Soviet Union, by the western Allies, of Soviet prisoners of war
  • Kutuzov (1943) — Russian attack on German 2nd Panzer Army, north of the Kursk salient
  • Laura (1944) — proposed German evacuation of Courland
  • Lyuban (1942) — failed Soviet attempt to relieve Leningrad.
  • Margarethe (1944) — German operation to keep Hungary from defecting
  • Mars (1942) — failed major Soviet offensive against Rzhev salient
    • Jupiter (1942) — second phase of failed major Soviet offensive against Rzhev salient
  • Nordlicht [1] ("Northern Lights") (1942) — planned German assault on Leningrad
  • Polkovodets Rumyantsev (1943) — Russian attack on German positions south of the Kursk salient.
  • Saturn (1942) — Proposed major Soviet attack following the Stalingrad enciclement; adapted to become Operation Little Saturn.
  • Prague Offensive (1945) the last major battle of the Eastern Front. During the operation Prague was liberated.
  • Sinyavino (1941) & (1942) — separate failed Soviet attempts to relieve Leningrad
  • Sonnenwende ("Winter Solstice") (1945) — German offensive to relieve Pomerania from Russian forces and halt advance on Berlin
  • Spark (1943) — successful Soviet counter-offensive around Leningrad
  • Uranus (1942) — successful Russian encirclement of German 6th Army in Stalingrad.
  • Wintergewitter ("Winter Storm") (1942) — German attempt to relieve encircled 6th Army at Stalingrad.
  • Zitadelle ("Citadel") (1943) — German counteroffensive at Kursk
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Mediterranean Sea

Naval operations and land operations in bordering regions.

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Pacific Ocean

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Resistance Movements

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South and South East Asia

Iran, India, Burma, Malaya and Indo-China, and the Indian Ocean

  • Canned (1944) — search and destroy operation for German supply tanker
  • Cockpit (1945) — Allied naval airstrike on Sabang, Sumatra
  • Culverin (1943) — Proposed allied invasion of northern Sumatra
  • Countenance (1941) — Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran
  • Crimson (1945) — British naval airstrike and bombardment of Sabang, Sumatra
  • Dracula (1945) — British amphibious assault on Rangoon, Burma.
    • Bishop (1945) — covering operation for Dracula
  • Diplomat (1944) — Allied exercise in preparation for joint operations against the Japanese
  • Dukedom (1945) — British search and destroy operation for Japanese cruiser Haguro
  • Ha-Go (1944) — Japanese action to isolate and destroy Anglo-Indian forces in Burma
  • Jaywick (1943) — Anglo-Australian attack on Japanese shipping in Singapore harbour
  • Krohcol (1942) — British move into Thailand to pre-empt expected Japanese action
  • Matador (1941) — Planned British pre-emptive move into Siam from Malaya
  • Sleuth (1944) — pursuit of German commerce raider in Indian Ocean
  • Struggle (1945) — destruction of IJN cruiser Takao in Singapore harbour, using midget submarines
  • Talon (1945) — British capture of Akyab island and construction of supply airbase in support of Burma campaign.
  • Transom (1944) — Allied naval air raid on Surabaya, Java
  • U-Go (1944) — Japanese assault on Imphal and Kohima
  • Zipper (1945) Planned British seaborne landing in Malaya.
    • Slippery (1945) deception operation for Zipper
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Scandinavia

Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

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Western Front

Western Europe, by year

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1939
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1940
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1941
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1942
  • Anton (1942) — Nazi-German occupation of Vichy France during World War II: Attila renamed, with Italian support.
  • Basalt (1942) — British raid on Sark
  • Biting (1942) — Commando raid on radar site in France
  • Cerberus (1942) — escape of German capital ships from Brest to home ports in Germany (Channel Dash)
  • Chariot (1942) — British raid on Saint Nazaire
  • Clawhammer (1942) — planned commando raid on a radar site in France
  • Frankton (1942) — commando raid on shipping port in France
  • Jubilee (1942) — unsuccessful large scale British and Canadian raid on Dieppe (northern France) starting on August 19, 1942. Successor to Operation Rutter.
  • Millennium (1942) — British 1000 bomber raid on Cologne.
  • Rutter (1942) — planned British and Canadian raid on Dieppe, northern France, in July 1942. Abandoned due to unfavourable weather conditions and revived as Jubilee.
  • Sledgehammer (1942) — Allied contingency plan for capture of Cherbourg or Brest in 1943 (shelved)
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1943
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1944
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1945
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Diplomatic

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Technology

  • Most III (1944) — transfer of captured V-2 components from occupied Poland to Britain
  • Alsos (1940–1945) — Allied efforts to gather information about German nuclear fission developments
    • Harborage (1945) — US sweep up of German atomic assets ahead of French occupation
  • Aphrodite (1944) The use of B-17 bombers as radio-controlled missiles.
  • Backfire (1945) — British launches of captured V-2 rockets
  • Beethoven (1941–1945) — German programme to develop composite aircraft (Mistel)
  • Hawkeye (1944) — US Naval radar research
  • Lusty (1945) — US actions to capture German scientific documents, facilities and aircraft
  • Magic — US operation to break Japanese codes
  • Manhattan Project (1941–1945) — American program to build an atomic bomb
  • Prüfstand XII (194?) — German programme to develop submarine launched V-2
  • Paperclip (1945) — part-military, part-scientific operation to scoop up Nazi scientists, engineers, experiments, prototypes, data, etc., after WWII
  • Ultra — Intelligence gained by the British from cracking German Enigma coded messages.
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Miscellaneous and Unclassified

  • 25 (1941) — Axis invasion of Yugoslavia
  • Bernhard (194?) — German plan to destroy British economy using forged British banknotes
  • Catapult (1940) — Royal Navy actions to seize, disable or destroy the French fleet after France's surrender.
  • Cornflakes (1945) — American clandestine insertion of propaganda into the German mail system
  • Eiche ("Oak") (1943) — German rescue from custody of Benito Mussolini
  • Eskimo (1944) — Canadian American joint winter exercise to develop winter warfare tactics, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  • Fall Grün ("Case Green") (1938) — the German invasion of Czechoslovakia
  • Fall Weiss ("Case White") (1939) — German invasion of Poland
  • Foxley (1944) — a plan to kill Adolf Hitler that was never carried out
  • Frantic (1943) — The use of Soviet airfields by western Allied bombers.
  • Gaff (1944) — attempt to kill Erwin Rommel
  • Grün [1] ("Green") (1938) — the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
  • Magpie (1944) — landings of German agents on the US east coast
  • Magic Carpet (1945–1946) — American post-war operation to transport US military personnel home
  • Pastorious (1942) — separate landings of German agents on the US east coast
  • Peking (1939) — removal of Polish warships to Britain, in advance of German invasion
  • Pied Piper (1939) — evacuation of children from British cities
  • Regenbogen (1945) — rescinded order to scuttle Kriegsmarine
  • Reinhard (1943) — German actions against Polish Jews in the "General Government"
  • Tabarin (1943) — British Antarctic expedition
  • Tannenbaum — The planned German invasion of Switzerland.
  • Tannenberg (1939) — German actions to exterminate influential and leading Poles
  • Valkyrie (1944) — bomb plot to kill Hitler
  • Venona (1943) — US efforts to break Soviet diplomatic codes
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See also

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Cold War Era

  • Agatha (1946) — British attack on Hagana and Irgun in Palestine
  • Ajax (1953) — Anglo-American plan for coup in Iran
  • Anadyr — Soviet plan to base nuclear weapons in Cuba; the cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Arc Light — US B-52 bombing campaign in Vietnam
  • Operation Anvil (1954) — British counter-insurgency operation in Nairobi during the Mau Mau Uprising
  • Argus (1959) — test of nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphere.
  • Askari (1983) — South African attack on SWAPO and FAPLA forces in Angola.
  • Attila (1974) — Turkish invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus
  • Babylift (1975) — mass evacuation/airlift of orphans from South Vietnam to the US and other countries
  • Balak (1948) — smuggling of arms to Israel
  • Blowdown (1963) — Australia/US/UK simulated nuclear explosion in a rain forest.
  • Carnation (1981) — South African skirmishes with SWAPO forces along the Angolan border.
  • Carlota (1977) — Cuban Deployment to counter South African attacks to Angola.
  • Chromite (1950) — US invasion of Inchon during the Korean War.
  • Claret (1964) — British patrols into Indonesia
  • Dingo (1977) — Rhodesian attack on camps in Mozambique.
  • El Dorado Canyon (1986) — US strikes against Libya
  • Earnest Will (1987-88) — American protection of Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War
    • Nimble Archer (1987) — U.S. retaliates for Iranian missile attack on reflagged Kuwaiti tanker.
    • Praying Mantis (1988) — U.S. retaliates against Iran for mining frigate.
    • Prime Chance (1987-88) — Special operations to protect Kuwaiti tankers, run largely from barges in the northern Persian Gulf.
  • Entebbe (1976) — Israeli rescue operation at Entebbe, Uganda. Later renamed Jonathan
  • Evening Light (1980) — US attempt to rescue embassy hostages in Tehran
  • Fortune — 1951 CIA plan for a coup in Guatemala. Executed as Success
  • Gold (1954) — covert American tunnel under the Berlin Wall
  • Golden Pheasant (1988) — US deployment in Honduras
  • Homecoming (1973) — repatriation of US prisoners of war from Vietnam
  • Horev (1948) — Israeli attack in northern Israel
  • Jonathan (1976) — Israeli rescue of hostages at Entebbe, Uganda
  • Jock Scott (1952) — British rounding up of suspected insurgents at the beginning of the Mau Mau Uprising
  • Just Cause (1989) — US invasion of Panama
  • Klipklop (1980) — South African disruption of SWAPO logistics in Angola.
  • Litani (1978) — Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
  • Meebos (1982) — South African destruction of SWAPO's "East Front" HQ at Mupa, Angola.
  • Mongoose (1962) — plan for information gathering, sabotage, civil insurrection and the overthrown of the Cuban government.
  • Mount Hope III (1988) — covert recovery of a crashed Soviet-made helicopter from Africa.
  • Neptune (1964) Soviet-led counterintelligence operation.
  • Nimrod (1980) — rescue of hostages in the Iranian embassy, London
  • Northwoods (1960s) — plan to incite war between the United States and Cuba.
  • Nuclear testing List of all known named nuclear tests.
  • Orion (1960) — DARPA project to design a nuclear pulse propulsion system
  • Paul Bunyan (1976) UN removal of a tree in the Korean DMZ
  • Peter Pan (1960s) — transfer of Cubans to the US
  • Phoenix (1983) — South African response to mass SWAPO infiltration of South-West Africa
  • Power Pack (1965) — US deployment in the Dominican Republic
  • Protea (1981) — South African attack on SWAPO bases near Ongiva and Xangongo, Angola.
  • Provide Comfort (1991) — relief effort in northern Iraq.
  • Reforger Annual American exercise to "return forces to Germany".
  • Rekstok (1979) — South African attack on SWAPO bases in Angola.
  • Restore Hope (1992) — American name for UNITAF, humanitarian intervention in Somalia
  • Reindeer (1978) — South African airborne attack on SWAPO base at Cassinga, Angola.
  • Safed Sager (1971) Indian Air Force operations in Indo-Pakistani War.
  • Savannah (1975-76) — South African intervention in Angola in support of the FNLA.
  • Safraan (1979) — South African attack on SWAPO bases in Zambia.
  • Sealords (1968) — Mekong River delta and inland waterways campaign by the US Navy in Vietnam
  • Sceptic (1980) — South African attack on SWAPO bases in Angola.
  • Silver (1949) — covert British communications tap in Austria
  • Success — 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala.
  • Suzannah (1954) — Israeli plan to bomb American interests in Egypt
  • Urgent Fury (1983) — US invasion of Grenada
  • Berlin Airlift of 1948:
    • Vittles — US part of the Berlin Airlift
    • Planefare — British part of the Berlin Airlift
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Post-Cold War

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Afghanistan

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Africa

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Arab/Israeli Conflict

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Croatian War of Independence 1991-1995

  • Operation Otkos 10 (end Oct-Nov 1991) — Croatian liberating actions against rebel Serbs and regular Serbian forces on area from mountain Bilogora to mountain Papuk (on west of Slavonia)
  • 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
  • Operation Tigar (July 1992) — Croatian liberating actions in occupied Dubrovnik hinterland, held by Serbomontenegrian regulars
  • Medački džep (September 1993) Croatian liberating offensive against rebel Serbs with aim of relieving the city of Gospić from Serb shelling attacks (rebel Serb artillery forces shifted shelling actions from military to terrotistic)
  • Bljesak ("Flash") (March 1995) — Croatian offensive against rebel Serbs, with aim of liberating occupied western Slavonia
  • Oluja ("Storm") (August 1995) — Croatian major liberating offensive against areas under control of rebel Serbs.
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War in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992-1995

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Kosovo War 1999

  • Megaphone — Canada's return of equipment used in Kosovo
  • Potkova ("Horseshoe") (1999) — Yugoslav army offensive against the KLA
  • Quadrant — Canada's mission in Kosovo
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War in Macedonia

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Falklands War

  • Rosario — Argentine invasion
    • Algeciras — Planned Argentine sabotage raid.
  • 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
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Haiti

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Humanitarian Operations

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Iraq

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Persian Gulf War
  • Desert Shield (1990) — American buildup prior to Gulf War
    • Granby — British codename for operations during Gulf War
  • Desert Storm (1991) — Gulf War
  • Ace Guard (1991) — The (NATO) Allied Command Europe Mobile Force for Turkey South Border Reinforcement (based at Diyarbakir AFB)
  • Determination (early 1998) — Canadian deployment in the Persian Gulf to force Iraq to comply with United Nations inspection agreements
  • Northern Watch (1990s) — northern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
  • Record (1991) — Canadian mission to secure Iraqi-Kuwaiti border
  • Southern Watch (1990s) — southern No-Fly Zone over Iraq
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Second Invasion of Iraq
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Other/Unknown

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Law Enforcement

illegal computer hacking activities.

  • Auxin (2004) — Australian anti-pedophilia effort.
  • Avalanche (1999) — American anti-pedophilia effort.
  • Buccaneer (2001) — International raid on software pirates.
  • Crevice (2004) — British counterterrorism action.
  • D-Elite (2005) — US raid on software pirates.
  • Fast Forward (2005) Mock evacuation of downtown Washington.
  • Falcon (2004) — anti-pedophilia raid against companies handling credit card payments.
  • Falcon (2005) — Widespread dragnet Led by the U.S. Marshal's Service.
  • Fastlink (2004) — Interntional operation against pirated computer software.
  • Ivy Tryp (2004) — American sting operation against sellers of psychedelics online.
  • Ore (2003) — American led anti-pedophilia effort.
  • Pin (2003) — British-led anti-pedophilia effort.
  • Perseus (1998) — British Transit Police.
  • Purana (2003) — Investigation of Melbourne, Victoria's underworld.
  • Site Down (2005) — International crackdown on pirated movies.
  • Sundevil (1999) — Nation-wide United States Secret Service crackdown on illegal computer hacking activities.
  • THERMCON (1987) — FBI operation that targeted environmental activists.
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Other

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Non-military operations

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External links

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