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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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)