The plan continued to undergo revision until October, when 12th Army submitted its fourth draft, now called Operation Tannenbaum.

* " Operation Tannenbaum.

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In the course of the war, detailed invasion plans were drawn up by the German military command, such as Operation Tannenbaum, but Switzerland was never attacked.

* Operation Tannenbaum ( invasion plan for Switzerland )

* February 11 – Operation Cerberus A flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships dash from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports ; the British fail to sink any one of them.

* May – Operation Pluto: The plan to construct oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France is tested in the River Medway.

That day, U-123 under Kapitänleutnant Reinhard Hardegen, torpedoed and sank the British steamship Cyclops, inaugurating Paukenschlag ( literally, " a strike on the kettledrum " and sometimes referred to in English as " Operation Drumbeat ").

Goldstein later observed that he broke news of Operation TIPS on March 10 in Spain's second largest daily, El Mundo, but that he struggled until July before finding a major English language paper which would print the story.

The British evacuation of Dunkirk through the English Channel was codenamed Operation Dynamo.

Elaborate masquerades were undertaken in the English Channel by small ships and aircraft ( Operation Glimmer and Operation Taxable ) to simulate invasion fleets lying off Pas de Calais.

During World War II, Operation Fall Rot ( Case Red in English ) was the second phase of the conquest of France by the German Army, begun on 5 June 1940.

Operation Fall Rot would not be able to be reversed without a major landing from across the English Channel which would come on June 6, 1944 with the D-Day landings of Operation Overlord at Normandy.

During the Second World War, on 8 and 9 September 1943, Le Portel suffered as part of Operation Fortitude, a diversionary manoeuvre by the Allies to fool the Germans into believing the possibility of a landing on the English Channel.

* February 11 – 13 – 250 Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighters and 30 Messerschmitt Bf 110 night fighters participate in Operation Thunderbolt, the German Luftwaffes defense of the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as they make the " Channel Dash " ( Operation Cerberus ) from Brest, France, to Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbüttel, Germany, via the English Channel and Strait of Dover.

The Channel Dash, ( codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans ), was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of both Scharnhorst class battleships, and heavy cruiser along with escorts, ran a British blockade and successfully sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel.

Operation Tempest (; sometimes referred in English as Operation Storm ) was a series of uprisings conducted during World War II by the Polish Home Army ( Armia Krajowathe Home Army, abbreviated " AK "), the dominant force in the Polish resistance.

* In 1991, Dimension Films acquired the US rights, but it wouldn't be released theatrically until 1997 under the title Operation Condor, with a newly commissioned English dub / score and removing 15 minutes of footage.

Operation Pluto ( Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean ) was a World War II operation by British scientists, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France.

Glantz has also translated the Soviet General Staff Study on the Korsun Operation into English as The Battle for the Ukraine: the Red Army's Korsun '- Shevchenkovkii Operation, 1944.

One of her later films was Operation Kid Brother ( also known as OK Connery and Operation Double 007 ), which was a James Bond spoof filmed in English ( though Bianchi was again dubbed ) and starring Sean Connery's brother, Neil Connery.

Operation Tanne Ost (" Fir East ") was a German operation during World War II to capture the island Suursaari ( Swedish Hogland, Russian Gogland ) in the Gulf of Finland before it could fall into Soviet hands.

The sensor system was not sophisticated enough to detect enemy personnel, so the effort was given up until " Operation Island Tree " in late 1971.

On 21 August, following the deaths, the 2nd Infantry Division supported the United Nations Command in " Operation Paul Bunyan " to cut down the " Panmunjeom Tree ".

Operation Palm Tree ), was the largest offensive by Israeli forces in the north of Israel after the first truce of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

The Weiss brothers and former guitarist Christopher Kleinberg were playing together in another band called The Operation with current bassist Greg Jehanian ( who released one album and one EP, 2001's There Is Hope for a Tree Cut Down & 1999's Invisible Man EP, on Takehold Records ), but Aaron wanted to start another band to experiment with new sounds.

* March 3 – The United States begins Operation Blue Tree, medium-altitude photographic reconnaissance and bomb damage assessment flights over North Vietnam.

* January 14 – A U. S. Navy F-4B Phantom II of Fighter Squadron 161 ( VF-161 ) off flown by Lieutenant V. T. Kovaleski ( pilot ) and Ensign D. H. Plautz ( radar intercept officer ) becomes the last American aircraft lost over North Vietnam when it is shot down by antiaircraft artillery near Thanh Hoa while escorting an Operation Blue Tree reconnaissance mission.

Schnucks has supported charitable causes, including the United Way, The Salvation Army Tree of Lights, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, St. Louis Variety-The Children's Charity, and Operation Food Search.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.

In late 1981, the CIA conspiracy " Operation Red Christmas " was exposed to separate the Atlantic region from the rest of Nicaragua.

* Operation Christmas Drop

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

Bob Hope and Ann Jillian perform at the USO Christmas Tour during Operation Desert Shield

His final Christmas show was during Operation Desert Shield in 1990.

* Operation Christmas Child-an outreach programme run by Samaritan's Purse

" Graham now also serves as the organization ’ s CEO, and heads efforts on behalf of the organization in more than 100 countries, including programs such as " Operation Christmas Child " and the " Children ’ s Heart Project ," among others.

• Operation Christmas Child is a ' global Christmas gift exchange ' project operated by Samaritan's Purse.

The Samaritan's Purse project, Operation Christmas Child, has also been criticized in several countries, most notably in the UK, but also in Canada, the United States, Ireland, and others.

Also in 2003, Mercer went to Afghanistan to visit the Canadian troops stationed there ( See: Operation Athena ), resulting in the television special Christmas in Kabul.

The preparations for Operation Grapple, including building the necessary structures on Christmas Island, began at the end of May 1956.

While Christmas Island was the main base, three other islands supported Operation Grapple.

The British Royal Navy built a seawater processing plant on Christmas Island early during Operation Grapple, and this which provided freshwater for drinking and cooking, and semisaline water for bathing.

With a nuclear testing moratorium quickly approaching, Operation Grapple Z was carried out at Christmas Island during mid-1958.

* Operation Christmas Drop

On December 23, 1969, as part of the ' Operación Navidad ' ( Christmas Operation ), Argentina launched Juan ( a cai monkey, native to Argentina's Misiones Province ) using a two-stage Rigel 04 rocket.

On the night of December 26, 1972, during Operation Linebacker II ( also referred to as the Christmas Bombings ), then Major Pham engaged a USAF Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber with air to air missiles.

* Shoebox Special ( For Operation Christmas Child Charity )

As commander of SAC from 1972 to 1974, he directed Operation Linebacker II, the ' Christmas Bombing ' of North Vietnam.

* Dave Cooke ( businessman ), founder of charities Operation Christmas Child and Teams4U