Operation Mandibles
During World War II, Operation Mandibles was a planned 1940/1941 British amphibious assault on Rhodes, Leros and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea. Planned by Roger Keyes of the Special Operation branch, it was never executed."[1] A disastrous invasion of the islands, the Dodecanese campaign, was conducted in 1943.
See also[edit]
- Operation Abstention
- Operation Accolade
- Operation Hercules
- List of naval and land-based operations in Mediterranean Sea area during World War II
References[edit]
- ^ Chant, Christopher (1 January 1986). The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II. Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 123–. ISBN 9780710207180.