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    Operation Jupiter was a plan originating in 1941 for an invasion of northern Norway and Finland by Allied forces during the Second World War. The first...
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  • Operation Jupiter may refer to: from 1941 to 1944, Operation Jupiter (Norway) was a British plan for an invasion of northern Norway in 1942, according...
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    The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to...
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    Operation Jupiter was an offensive by VIII Corps of the British Second Army from 10 to 11 July 1944. The operation took place during the Battle of Normandy...
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  • Naval operation that led to the action of 28 January 1945 Jupiter (1942) – suggested invasion of Norway Musketoon (1942) – British/ Norwegian destruction...
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  • The following is a list of military operations conducted in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Greenland during World War II. Birke ("Birch")...
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    Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken...
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    Fjord Line (category Ferry companies of Norway)
    streamlining operations. On return of the MS Bergen from charter, the MS Fjord Norway and the Norway - UK route were sold to DFDS. The MS Jupiter was laid...
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    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...
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    were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during...
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  • in Norway was to split Norway in half around Nord-Trøndelag and southern Nordland, and thus isolate the German troops in the north (Operation Jupiter)....
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  • deception operation for Barbarossa, feint on Scotland and north-east England from Norway. Harpune ("Harpoon") (1941) — deception operation for Barbarossa...
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    defer the invasion, Operation Overlord, until 1944, the Allies conducted a series of deceptions intended to threaten invasion in Norway and France. Bodyguard...
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  • military operations - Atlantic Ocean) operations in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), Iceland and Greenland (see: Military operations in Scandinavia...
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    southern England), which threatened Norway (Fortitude North) and Pas de Calais (Fortitude South). The operation was intended to divert Axis attention...
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    Operation Lüttich (7–13 August 1944) was the codename of the Nazi German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which occurred near U.S. positions...
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    Operation Goodwood was a British offensive during the Second World War, which took place between 18 and 20 July 1944 as part of the larger battle for...
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    Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings,...
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    route from the Jupiter. Fjord Norway was purchased by Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways and renamed Princess of Norway; she joined the DFDS Seaways...
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  • Greece Io, Norway, a village in Alver, Norway Mount Iō (disambiguation), name of several mountains in Japan Indian Ocean Io (moon), a moon of Jupiter 85 Io...
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    First Special Service Force (category Special operations units and formations of the United States Army)
    requested that a tracked vehicle be developed especially for the Norwegian operations, capable of carrying men and their equipment at high speed across...
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    Operation Totalize (also spelled Operation Totalise in recent British sources) was an offensive launched by Allied troops in the First Canadian Army during...
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    Allies maintained the initiative and began Operation Jupiter the next day and Operation Goodwood and Operation Atlantic a week later, in which the rest...
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    week of July. Fighting in the Odon Valley continued and on 10 July Operation Jupiter was launched by VIII Corps to push back the German forces near the...
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    Scandinavian countries, lying south-west and south of Sweden, south of Norway, and north of Germany, with which it shares a short border, Denmark's only...
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    came running out of their houses with glasses and bottles of wine." Operation Jupiter, a VIII Corps attack by the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division and the...
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  • Communications 3 December On Jupiter, about the large gravitational effect that Jupiter has on the solar system; if the mass of Jupiter was thirty times bigger...
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    plutonium for an atomic bomb. Ultimately it led to the Allied operation called the "Norwegian heavy water sabotage", the purpose of which was to destroy...
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  • Jupiter Garrett – Joint Special Operations Command operation against high value targets in Somalia. Included Task Force 4-84 in 2011-2012. Operation Just...
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    Operation Bluecoat was a British offensive in the Battle of Normandy, from 30 July until 7 August 1944, during the Second World War. The geographical...
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