During the Invasion of Normandy, French Airborne forces fought in Britanny, ( Operation Dingson, Operation Samwest ).

The Dingson team was joined by the men who had just completed Operation Cooney.

Dingson was conducted alongside Operation Samwest and Operation Lost as part of Overlord.

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.

Operation Dingson ( 5 – 18 June 1944 ) was an operation in the Second World War, 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, on the night of 5 June 1944 ( 11 h 30 ), ( Captain Pierre Marienne with 17 men ), and Saint-Marcel ( 8 – 18 June ).

The Dingson team was joined by the men who had just completed Operation Cooney.

Dingson was conducted alongside Operation Samwest and Operation Lost.

During World War II, Operation Lost was a reactive seven-man Special Air Service operation inserted into Brittany alongside Operation Dingson on 22-23 June 1944.

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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.

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 Operation Dragon Rouge " 5 Commando " worked in close cooperation with Belgian paratroopers, Cuban exile pilots, and CIA hired mercenaries.

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.

* 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 ( the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) and Operation Marita ( the invasion of Greece ).

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine surfaces in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius.

* 1945 – World War II: Start of Operation Manna.

* 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U. S. begins to evacuate U. S. citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover.

* 1969 – Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal – The reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.

* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.

* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

* 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.

* 1976 – Operation Paul Bunyan at Panmunjom, South Korea.

* 1944 – World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated – Allied forces land in the Hollandia ( currently known as Jayapura ) area of New Guinea.

* 1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung – Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

* 1995 – NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.