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Operation Claymore

Name: Operation Claymore – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

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

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Chronological records

1941

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill4 March 1941

Lofoten Island · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Churchill launches Operation Claymore, a naval raid against the Lofoten Islands

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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