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Operation Colossus

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 Churchill10 February 1941

Trignano · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Britains 1st airborne attack of the war, 38 paratroopers are dropped on a railway viaduct at Trignano, Italy

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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