Code name for a possible Allied seizure of Azores during WWII
Operation Alacrity was the code name for a possible Allied seizure of Azores during World War II. It never took place because Portugal agreed to an Allied request for use of air bases. The islands were of enormous strategic value in the defeat of the German U-boats. Portugal, too weak to defend the Azores, or its large colonial empire, or even its homeland, tried to stay neutral in the war. Dictator Salazar was especially worried about a possible German invasion through Spain and did not want to provoke Hitler nor did he want to give Spain an excuse to side with the Axis and invade Portugal due to the strategic importance of the Canary Islands. Great Britain and the United States devised plans to set up air bases regardless of Portugal's disapproval. The plans were never put into operation. Instead in 1943 Britain requested, and Portugal agreed, to allow Britain to set up bases there. Operation Alacrity was preceded by War Plan Gray.
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OperationAlacrity was the code name for a possible Allied seizure of Azores during World War II. It never took place because Portugal agreed to an Allied...
never put into operation. Instead in 1943 Britain requested, and Portugal agreed, to allow Britain to set up bases there. OperationAlacrity was preceded...
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invasion of Denmark and Norway History of Iceland Herz, Norman (2004). OperationAlacrity : The Azores and the War in the Atlantic (1. print. ed.). Annapolis...
Atlantic islands belonging to Portugal was planned and code named OperationAlacrity. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt also wanted to include an invasion...
The occupation of these facilities in October 1943 was codenamed OperationAlacrity by the British. This was a key turning point in the Battle of the...
islands in the Atlantic, and Britain and the US made plans called OperationAlacrity to invade them if necessary. Portugal although it had an alliance...
Santa Maria (in Portuguese) (2 ed.), pp. 23–24 Herz, Norman (2004), OperationAlacrity: the Azores and the war in the Atlantic, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval...
Ashgate Publishing Co., ISBN 978-0-7546-7342-2 Herz, Norman (2004), OperationAlacrity: the Azores and the war in the Atlantic, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval...
Madagascar Includes North Sea and Arctic Ocean operations and actions against naval vessels in harbour Alacrity (1943) – Allied naval patrols around Azores...
accompanied by the nuclear submarine HMS Dreadnought, the frigate HMS Alacrity, and two auxiliaries, RFA Resurgent and RFA Olwen in support. The Argentines...
Suboficial Castillo. ARA Isla de los Estados – transport ship sunk by HMS Alacrity in Falkland Sound. (†22) ARA Bahía Buen Suceso – a transport ship, Bahía...
(2000) ISBN 1-55125-033-0 (Canada). ISBN 1-86176-147-3 (UK) CODENAMES: Operations of World War 2. * codenames.info listing on Convoyweb listing on U-Boat...
who were reluctant to pay the hafta to Budesh's enforcers, paid up with alacrity after the Desai killing. After this incident, no other killing by the Budesh...
to provide air cover. In October 1943, Whitehall participated in OperationAlacrity, the establishment of air and refuelling bases in the Azores, escorting...
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was sunk by HMS Alacrity during the first hours of 11 May 1982 in a surface action north of the Swan Islands in Falkland Sound. Alacrity engaged Isla de...
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