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Operation Ratweek

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

4Records
1944Date range
2Named people
0Places

Chronological records

1944

Edwin Hardy AmiesJanuary 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

In 2000 it is revealed that the operation had been supervised by Edwin Hardy Amies, at the time head of SOEs Belgian Section. Assassination offensive against Nazi security forces in Occupied Europe by the SOE, to create confusion and trepidation at the same time as the Allies increase preparations for the Resistances contribution to the Normandy Landings

Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillJanuary 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

In 2000 it is revealed that the operation had been supervised by Edwin Hardy Amies, at the time head of SOEs Belgian Section

Winston Leonard Spencer ChurchillJanuary 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Assassination offensive against Nazi security forces in Occupied Europe by the SOE, to create confusion and trepidation at the same time as the Allies increase preparations for the Resistances contribution to the Normandy Landings

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill1 September 1944

Warfare / World War, 2nd

RAF & Yugoslav partisans attack roads & railways to prevent Germans escape Yugoslavia. A series of coordinated attacks launched on by Yugoslav partisans and the Balkan Air Force against German forces retreating from the Soviets

Names involved

Edwin Hardy AmiesWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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