Operations
Among the projects undertaken by Combined Operations was the surveying of landing sites for invasions, including those of Sicily and Normandy. These were carried out by Combined Operations Pilotage Parties made up of members of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Corps of Royal Engineers and Special Boat Service.
- Operation Frankton (the "Cockleshell heroes") – attack by canoe on shipping in France.
- Mulberry harbours – portable harbours for D-Day.
- Project Habakkuk – the development and construction of giant ice ships.
- Exercise Tiger – D-Day training with tragic results.
- Operation Biting – captured a Würzburg radar.
- Operation Starkey – a staged invasion of Europe in 1943.
- Operation Pluto – construction of petroleum pipelines underneath the English Channel.
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Famous quotes containing the word operations:
“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)