* Video games: Secret of Mana and its successor Secret of Evermore ( where the menu was used to accelerate the pacing of combat ), Seiken Densetsu 3, America's Army 3, Habitat, Beyond Good & Evil, Full Throttle, The Curse of Monkey Island, Neverwinter Nights, Normality, The Sims, Perfect Dark, Planescape: Torment, Sacrifice, Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Second Life, Battlefield 2, Freedom Fighters, Ratchet & Clank, Silver, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Crysis, Mass Effect, Warzone 2100, Halo Wars, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth, Max Payne 3, Trauma Center, Brütal Legend, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, Dragon Age: Origins, Prototype, Cortex Command, Imperium Romanum

The objective of Operation Dragon Rouge was to capture Stanleyville and save several hundred civilians ( mostly Europeans and missionaries ) who were hostages of the Simba rebels.

A game titled Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was released in October 2009 by Codemasters.

A sequel, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising was released by Codemasters in October 6, 2009.

** Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, the sequel to the first game

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Renamed " Skira ", the island was used as the setting for the Codemasters video game Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.

It was one of four Navy duties begun after the Tonkin Gulf Incident, along with Operation Sea Dragon, Operation Sealords and naval gunfire support.

During the Congo Crisis, the Simbas took over 1, 600 Belgian and other European hostages and after 111 days of negotiating, Operation Dragon Rouge was launched by the United States, Belgium, and the Congolese Army which included a mercenary force called " L ' Ommegang " under the command of Colonel Frederic Vandewalle to free the hostages.

The airborne assault phase of the hostage rescue operation was referred to as Operation Dragon Rouge, and " Mad " Mike Hoare and his mercenary unit, 5 Commando ANC, also were part of Vandewalle's assault column.

In two sting operations, dubbed " Operation Smoking Dragon " and " Operation Royal Charm ", United States agents arrested at least 87 people on charges that included smuggling superdollars.

A combined force of 6000 Marines and 700 sailors took control of the grounds and buildings of the defunct Oak Knoll Naval Hospital invaded the defunct Naval Air Station Alameda on the second day as part of a national effort called Operation Sea Dragon.

In 1994, some employees of Norinco came under federal investigation from both the FBI as well as the ATF after a successful sting dubbed " Operation Dragon Fire.

They currently own the rights to use the title Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, but have parted with the original developer Bohemia Interactive Studio.

* Operation Sea Dragon ( Vietnam War ), a military operation

A US C-130 flies in low over Stanleyville before returning to Leopoldville during Operation Dragon Rouge.

Operation Red Dragon was a civil defense readiness exercise conducted in Wisconsin in June, 2009.

* Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

Warbots # 5: Operation High Dragon, Pinnacle Science Fiction, January 1989 ISBN 1-55817-159-2

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a first person tactical military game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 developed by British game developer Codemasters.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising has a scalable HUD.

From summer 2011, Operation Licorne, the French force, previously over 5, 000 strong, is roughly 700, and consists of Licorne headquarters, Battalion Licorne ( BATLIC ), seemingly made up of elements of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment and the Régiment d ' infanterie-chars de marine, and a helicopter detachment.

A production line was nearly ready at Peenemünde when the Operation Hydra attack caused the Germans to move production to the Mittelwerk in the Kohnstein where 5, 200 V-2 rockets were built.

* June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

* April 5 – 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: Haganah launches Operation Nahshon ; beginning of the 1948 Palestinian exodus.

* May 5 – WWII – Operation Ironclad: United Kingdom forces invade the French colony of Madagascar.

* September 5 – Vietnam War – Operation Jefferson Glenn: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province ( the operation ends in October 1971 ).

* August 18 – Vietnam War – Operation Starlite: 5, 500 United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province, in the first major American ground battle of the war.

* August 5 – Operation Big Switch: Prisoners of war are repatriated after the Korean War.

After the brief success of the Kerensky Offensive 1 – 19 July and its disastrous sequel, when Ludendorff's general reserve of six divisions captured Riga, 1 – 5 September 1917 and then in Operation Albion September – October 1917 took the islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, British and French commanders on the Western Front had to reckon on the German western army being strengthened by reinforcements from the Eastern Front in late 1917.

Operation Dingson ( 5 – 18 June 1944 ) was conducted by about 178 Free French paratroops of the 4th Special Air Service ( SAS ), commanded by Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, who jumped into German occupied France near Vannes, Morbihan, southern Brittany, in Plumelec, at 1130 on the night of 5 June and Saint-Marcel ( 8 – 18 June ).

In Operation Dingson 35A, on 5 August 1944, 10 Waco CG-4A gliders towed by aircraft of 298 Squadron and 644 Squadron transported Free French SAS men and armed jeeps to Brittany near Vannes ( Locoal-Mendon ), each glider carrying three Free French troopers and a jeep.

Nearly 400 aircraft delivered 5, 600 paratroopers and 150 guns to three drops zones surrounding Le Muy, between Frejus and Cannes, in phase 1, Operation Albatross.

In Operation Thursday, most of the units were flown into landing grounds which had been seized by glider infantry transported by the American First Air Commando Group, commencing on March 5.

* Hagerman, Bart, Operation Varsity: Allied Airborne Assault Over the Rhine River World War II History Magazine, ( 1998 ), pp. 1 – 5

* Taylor, John M., 101st Airborne Division Participate in Operation Overlord Military History Quarterly, ( 2004 ), pp. 1 – 5

The British government has traditionally been wary of large banknotes since the counterfeiting Operation Bernhard in World War II which caused the Bank of England to withdraw all notes larger than £ 5 from circulation, and not reintroduce other denominations until the early 1960s (£ 10 ), 1970 (£ 20 ) and March 20, 1981 (£ 50 ).

In line with the 2007 edition, the 2011 edition consists of 5 core publications – Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, and Continual Service Improvement.

For example, the city of Chicago, IL recently used a $ 5. 1 million Homeland Security grant to install an additional 250 surveillance cameras, and connect them to a centralized monitoring center, along with its preexisting network of over 2000 cameras, in a program known as Operation Virtual Shield.

* Pokhran-II ( Operation Shakti ): On 11 May 1998 India detonated another 5 nuclear devices at Pokhran Test Range.

Five atmospheric tests were detonated, starting on 27 January 1951 at Area 5 as part of Operation Ranger.

In Area 9, the " Hood " test on 5 July 1957, part of Operation Plumbbob, was the largest atmospheric test ever conducted within the continental United States ; nearly five times larger in yield than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Area 30 was the site of a single nuclear test, the Crosstie Buggy row charge experiment, part of Operation Plowshare, which involved 5 simultaneous detonations.

The band also handed a check of $ 5, 000 to Globe Santa and another check of $ 5, 000 to Operation Christmas in Fall River.