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** Operation Whitebait, a Royal Air Force Fighter Command countermeasure against German fighter aircraft during World War II, is a notable example of intruder operations
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** Axis & Allies: while playing as the Axis powers in campaign mode ( which has the Axis powers winning the war ), Operation Sea Lion is the mission following the failed invasion of Normandy.
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** Empire Earth: the last mission of the German campaign is to carry out Operation Sea Lion
** Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain and Operation Sea Lion, GDW ( 1982 ), boardgame: part of GDW's Europa system.
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** Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
** Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper.
** Operation Grapple: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb, which fails to detonate properly.
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** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.
** British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen.
** Operation Pluto: The world's first undersea oil pipeline is laid between England and France.
** Liberation of Paris: The Allies enter Paris, successfully completing Operation Overlord.
** Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.
** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.
** Operation Manna: British Lancaster bombers drop food into the Netherlands to prevent the starvation of the civilian population.
** Operation Torch: United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
** WWII: Operation Chastise by RAF 617 Sqdn are carried out on German dams.
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** Royal Thai Marine Corps ( นาว ิ กโยธ ิ นไทย )
** Order of Vasa, one of the Royal Swedish orders of knighthood
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** King George VI opens London's Royal Festival Hall as a patron.
** Judy Garland opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.
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** The Royal Air Force drops 2, 300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
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** Royal Air Force bombing of Dresden, Germany.
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