Sharon personally led the raid, codenamed Operation Black Arrow.

The raid, codenamed " Purple Iron " was the third operation in Khan Yunis in response to constant mortars shelling on Israeli settlements.

* 2008 Colombian raid into Ecuador, codenamed Operación Fénix ( Operation Phoenix )

The Chindits were a special force 3, 000 which in February 1942 launched a deep penetration raid, ( codenamed Operation Longcloth ) into Japanese occupied Burma.

She was on the scene in Drvar in the summer of 1944 during the German raid codenamed Operation Rösselsprung, where she greatly helped out in the evacuation of the wounded.

* 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.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

In 1970, Portuguese forces, from neighboring Portuguese Guinea, staged Operation Green Sea, a raid into Guinea with the support of exiled Guinean opposition forces.

The raid is often thought to have been related to Operation Sundevil, a nationwide investigation of computer crime ; however, Sundevil was based in Arizona and the Steve Jackson Raid was coordinated out of Chicago.

* March 28 – WWII: Operation Chariot-British Commandos raid St. Nazaire on the coast of Western France.

* December 7 – WWII: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.

* March 4 – WWII: Operation Claymore-British Commandos carry out a successful raid on the Lofoten Islands off the north coast of Norway.

** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there ( no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp ; all U. S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid ).

* Operation Jubilee, the allied raid on Dieppe in WW-2 ( 1942 )

* Operation Transom, a major bombing raid

After the North Cape raid, Raeder blamed Marschall for the damage that Scnarnorst and Gneisenau had endured, claimed that Marschall had failed to understand his orders for Operation Juno properly, and sacked him.

In January 1941, Raeder launched the successful Operation Berlin, where the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst were sent out on a raid into the North Atlantic.

In April 1941, Raeder planned to follow up that success with Operation Rheinübung, where the Gneisenau, the Bismarck, the Admiral Hipper and the Prinz Eugen would be sent out on an extended raid into the North Atlantic under the command of Admiral Günther Lütjens.

In December 1942, Raeder enforced the Commando Order by having captured British Royal Marines shot after the Operation Frankton raid on a German naval base in Bordeaux.

Britain's first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941 when, what was then known as II Special Air Service ( some 37 men of 500 trained in No. 2 Commando plus three Italian interpreters ), parachuted into Italy to blow up an aqueduct in a daring raid named Operation Colossus.

Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

The Operation Meetinghouse air raid of 9 – 10 March 1945 was later estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history.

The next month, 334 B-29s took off to raid on the night of 9 – 10 March ( Operation Meetinghouse ), with 279 of them dropping around 1, 700 tons of bombs.

The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9 / 10 March 1945 was the single deadliest air raid of World War II ; greater than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki as single events.

The survivors of Operation Frankton, notable for their daring raid by canoe on the German U-boat base at Bordeaux, made their escape across country to a safe house at Ruffec just north of Angoulême.

The wing provided photographic intelligence for the Son Tay prison camp raid named Operation Ivory Coast, in North Vietnam, November 1970.

In September 1942 they carried out Operation Anglo, a raid on two airfields on the island of Rhodes, from which only two men returned.

Together with No. 3 Commando they were to conduct Operation Claymore, a raid on the Lofoten Islands.

Operation Claymore was the codename for a British Commandos raid on the Lofoten Islands in Norway during the Second World War.

The first, Operation Claymore, had taken place in March 1941, and the third raid, Operation Archery, would take place at the same time as Operation Anklet.

During 1941, the islands were raided by British Combined Operations commandos during Operation Claymore in March and a subsequent diversionary attack to support the Vaagso raid in December.

They had a mass of around 44 kg ( 96 lb ), making the wearer a spectacular sight yet proved too unwieldy during a police raid at Glenrowan.

As the raid proved profitable, it attracted more participants.

Initial defences against the system were deployed in a similar fashion to Knickebein in an attempt to disrupt the Coventry raid, but proved to be a total failure.

Mary Jemison, known as The White Woman of the Genesee, who had been captured in a raid and married her Seneca captor, proved to be an able negotiator for the tribe and helped win more favorable terms for them.

This 10-minute delay proved critical, and the first group of Hellcats met the raid, still at, at 10: 36.

As a result of a number of mishaps and hurried planning, the raid proved to be unsuccessful.

The raid was postponed for several days after the end of the exercise on 23 February due to weather conditions, but on 27 February the weather proved to be ideal, with clear skies and good visibility for the aircraft of 51 Squadron, and a full moon scheduled which would provide illumination for the evacuation of the raiding force.

No. 9 fought with RAF Bomber Command in Europe all the way through the Second World War, took part in all the major raids and big battles, pioneered and proved new tactics and equipment, produced several of the leading figures in The Great Escape, as well as Colditz inmates-including the legendary ' Medium Sized Man ' Flight Lieutenant Dominic Bruce OBE MC AFM originator of the famous ' tea chest ' escape ; they became one of the two specialised squadrons attacking precision targets with the Tallboy bomb, and led the final mainforce raid, on Berchtesgaden, 25 April 1945.

The worry proved true on 29 March 1953, when a futile raid against the Army garrison at Salamá, in central Guatemala, was launched by a rebel group associated with Col. Castillo — one of three men whom CIA considered installing as President of Guatemala.

It proved to be the last airship raid over Great Britain.

Despite some damage to the airfield and the surrounding buildings and homes, this bombing raid proved unsuccessful.

In August, it was tasked with carrying out a raid for prisoners and Baker took personal responsibility for reconnoitering the route and objective for the raid, which proved to be a success.

The raid proved to be unsuccessful as the small Union garrison used topography to its advantage, emplacing fortified artillery atop the mountains that surrounded the New Creek Valley.

Poirot, whose suspicions about Valerie Hobhouse ’ s role in the smuggling operation have been proved correct by a police raid on her beauty shop, now closes the case.

In Buenos Aires, Vernet was effectively bankrupt and attempts to obtain compensation from the US Government for losses from the Lexington raid proved fruitless.