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Combined Operations Headquarters

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Combined Operations Headquarters was a department of the British War Office set up during Second World War to harass the Germans on the European continent by means of raids carried out by use of combined naval and army forces. [1]

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  1. 70 relations: Admiral of the fleet, Allied invasion of Sicily, Amphibious reconnaissance, Amphibious warfare, Amphibious warfare ship, Anchor, Attack on the Iron Coast, British Army, Casquets lighthouses, Channel Islands, Comacchio, Commando, Commandos (United Kingdom), Dieppe Raid, Dunkirk evacuation, English Channel, Exercise Tiger, Folding kayak, Government of the United Kingdom, Juno Beach, Landing craft, Lofoten, Logan Scott-Bowden, London, Lord Mountbatten, Louis Joubert Lock, Mulberry harbours, Nazi Germany, No. 62 Commando, Normandy landings, Operation Anklet, Operation Aquatint, Operation Archery, Operation Barricade, Operation Biting, Operation Claymore, Operation Collar (commando raid), Operation Dryad, Operation Frankton, Operation Freshman, Operation Gambit, Operation Pluto, Operation Postage Able, Operation Postmaster, Operation Roast, Pas-de-Calais, Petroleum, Pipeline, Project Habakkuk, Pykrete, ... Expand index (20 more) »

  2. 1947 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
  3. Joint military units and formations of the United Kingdom
  4. Lord Mountbatten
  5. Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in World War II

Admiral of the fleet

An admiral of the fleet or shortened to fleet admiral is a senior naval flag officer rank, usually equivalent to Field marshal and Marshal of the air force.

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Allied invasion of Sicily

The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).

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Amphibious reconnaissance

Amphibious reconnaissance consists of ground and naval reconnaissance in the littoral area bordering coastal or ocean areas.

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Amphibious warfare

Amphibious warfare is a type of offensive military operation that today uses naval ships to project ground and air power onto a hostile or potentially hostile shore at a designated landing beach.

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Amphibious warfare ship

An amphibious warfare ship (or amphib) is an amphibious vehicle warship employed to land and support ground forces, such as marines, on enemy territory during an amphibious assault.

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Anchor

An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.

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Attack on the Iron Coast

Attack on the Iron Coast is a 1967 DeLuxe Color Anglo-American Oakmont Productions international co-production war film directed by Paul Wendkos in the first of his five-picture contract with Mirisch Productions, and starring Lloyd Bridges, Andrew Keir, Sue Lloyd, Mark Eden and Maurice Denham.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Casquets lighthouses

Casquets Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the rocky Les Casquets, Alderney, Channel Islands.

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Channel Islands

The Channel Islands are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.

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Comacchio

Comacchio (Cmâc') is a town and comune of Emilia Romagna, Italy, in the province of Ferrara, from the provincial capital Ferrara.

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Commando

Royal Marines from 40 Commando on patrol in the Sangin area of Afghanistan are picturedA commando is a combatant, or operative of an elite light infantry or special operations force, specially trained for carrying out raids and operating in small teams behind enemy lines.

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Commandos (United Kingdom)

The Commandos, also known as the British Commandos, were formed during the Second World War in June 1940, following a request from Winston Churchill, for special forces that could carry out raids against German-occupied Europe. Combined Operations Headquarters and Commandos (United Kingdom) are 1940 establishments in the United Kingdom and military units and formations established in 1940.

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Dieppe Raid

Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Combined Operations Headquarters and Dieppe Raid are Lord Mountbatten.

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Dunkirk evacuation

The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, or just Dunkirk, was the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied soldiers during the Second World War from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Exercise Tiger

Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was one of a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon.

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Folding kayak

A folding kayak is a direct descendant of the original Inuit kayak made of animal skins stretched over frames made from wood and bones.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Juno Beach

Juno and or Juno Beach was one of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War.

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Landing craft

Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault.

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Lofoten

(Norwegian,; English pronunciation),, or is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway.

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Logan Scott-Bowden

Major General Logan Scott-Bowden, (21 February 1920 – 9 February 2014) was a British army officer.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lord Mountbatten

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.

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Louis Joubert Lock

The Louis Joubert Lock (Forme Ecluse Louis Joubert), also known as the Normandie Dockafter the large ocean liner that provided the impetus for the facility to be built, is a lock and major dry dock located in the port of Saint-Nazaire in Loire-Atlantique, northwestern France.

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Mulberry harbours

The Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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No. 62 Commando

No. Combined Operations Headquarters and No. 62 Commando are 1940 establishments in the United Kingdom and military units and formations established in 1940.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Operation Anklet

Operation Anklet was the codename given to a British Commando raid during the Second World War.

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Operation Aquatint

Operation Aquatint was the codename for a failed raid by British Commandos on the coast of occupied France during the Second World War.

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Operation Archery

Operation Archery, also known as the Måløy Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid during World War II against German positions on the island of Vågsøy, Norway, on 27 December 1941.

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Operation Barricade

Operation Barricade was a British Commando raid during the Second World War.

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Operation Biting

Operation Biting, also known as the Bruneval Raid, was a British Combined Operations raid on a German coastal radar installation at Bruneval in northern France, during the Second World War, on the night.

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Operation Claymore

Operation Claymore was a British/Norwegian commando raid on the Lofoten Islands of northern Norway during the Second World War.

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Operation Collar (commando raid)

Operation Collar was the codeword for the first commando raid conducted by the British forces during the Second World War.

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Operation Dryad

Operation Dryad was a raid on the Casquets lighthouse in the Channel Islands by British Commandos during World War II.

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Operation Frankton

Operation Frankton was a commando raid on ships in the German occupied French port of Bordeaux in southwest France during World War II.

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Operation Freshman

Operation Freshman was the codename given to a British airborne operation conducted in November 1942 during World War II.

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Operation Gambit

Operation Gambit was a part of Operation Neptune, the landing phase of the invasion of northern France (Operation Overlord) during the Second World War.

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Operation Pluto

Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to build submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel to support Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War. Combined Operations Headquarters and operation Pluto are Lord Mountbatten.

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Operation Postage Able

Operation Postage Able was an X-class submarine-based Royal Navy operation in preparation for Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe.

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Operation Postmaster

Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea, during the Second World War.

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Operation Roast

Operation Roast was a military operation undertaken by British Commandos, at Comacchio lagoon in north-east Italy, during the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, part of the Italian Campaign, during the final stages of Second World War.

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Pas-de-Calais

The Pas-de-Calais ("strait of Calais"; Pas-Calés; also Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.

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Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil, also referred to as simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations.

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Pipeline

A pipeline is a system of pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption.

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Project Habakkuk

Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.

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Pykrete

Pykrete is a frozen ice composite, originally made of approximately 14% sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86% ice by weight (6 to 1 by weight).

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Raid (military)

Raiding, also known as depredation, is a military tactic or operational warfare "smash and grab" mission which has a specific purpose.

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Robert Laycock

Major-General Sir Robert Edward Laycock, (18 April 1907 – 10 March 1968) was a senior British Army officer best known for his influential role in the establishment and command of British Commandos during the Second World War.

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Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes

Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, (4 October 1872 – 26 December 1945) was a British naval officer. As a junior officer he served in a corvette operating from Zanzibar on slavery suppression missions. Early in the Boxer Rebellion, he led a mission to capture a flotilla of four Chinese destroyers moored to a wharf on the Peiho River.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army.

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Royal Marines

The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG).

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Saint-Saire

Saint-Saire is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-western France.

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Spanish Guinea

Spanish Guinea (Guinea Española) was a set of insular and continental territories controlled by Spain from 1778 in the Gulf of Guinea and on the Bight of Bonny, in Central Africa.

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Special Boat Service

The Special Boat Service (SBS) is the special forces unit of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. Combined Operations Headquarters and special Boat Service are 1940 establishments in the United Kingdom and military units and formations established in 1940.

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Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British organisation formed in 1940 to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in German-occupied Europe and to aid local resistance movements during World War II. Combined Operations Headquarters and Special Operations Executive are 1940 establishments in the United Kingdom and military units and formations of the United Kingdom in World War II.

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St Nazaire Raid

The St Nazaire Raid or Operation Chariot was a British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War.

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Sword Beach

Sword, commonly known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the initial assault phase, Operation Neptune, of Operation Overlord.

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Thompson submachine gun

The Thompson submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy gun", "Chicago typewriter", or "trench broom") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed by Brigadier General John T. Thompson, a United States Army officer, in 1918.

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Vågsøy (island)

Vågsøy is an island in Kinn Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.

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War Office

The War Office has referred to several British government organisations in history, all relating to the army.

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Würzburg radar

The low-UHF band Würzburg radar was the primary ground-based tracking radar for the Wehrmacht's Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine (German Navy) during World War II.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road and area in the City of Westminster, Central London, England.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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X-class submarine

The X class was a World War II midget submarine class built for the Royal Navy during 1943–44.

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See also

1947 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

Joint military units and formations of the United Kingdom

Lord Mountbatten

Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in World War II

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_Operations_Headquarters

Also known as Adviser Combined Operations, Chief of Combined Operations, Combined Operations (United Kingdom), Combined Operations Headquarters (United Kingdom), Combined Operations Pilotage Parties, Director of Combined Operations.

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