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Operation Buccaneer

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1943Date range
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Chronological records

1943

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill24 November 1943

Cairo · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Operation Buccaner is agreed at the Cairo Conference. An attack on the Andaman Islands to coincide with a Chinese attack on Burma is agreed

Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillDecember 1943

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Gets some LCTs from Burma against the Japanese for use in Operation Overlord

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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