A section of 31st Light AA Battery, Royal Artillery 75mm mountain Howitzers pound the German garrison at Risan from a distance of 1,200 yards.
Location
Yugoslavia
Commanded by
'Floydforce'
Brigadier J P O'Brien-Twohig
'Finneyforce'
Major Pat Turner
Objective
Supporting Yugoslav Partisans during Axis withdrawal from Greece and Albania
Date
30 October – 22 December 1944
Executed by
United Kingdom
Outcome
Operational success
Casualties
German - 300-400
British/Partisan - unknown
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World War II in Yugoslavia
1941
Axis invasion
Bombing of Belgrade
Bombing of Sarajevo
Uprisings
Uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sanski Most
Eastern Herzegovina
Drvar uprising
Rogatica
Olovo
Uprising in Croatia
Srb uprising
Uprising in Serbia
Bela Crkva
Loznica
Banja Koviljača
Šabac
Kruševac
Mačva
Uzice
Kraljevo
Trešnjica
Novi Pazar
Mihailovic
Sjenica
Uprising in Montenegro
Bullseye
Pljevlja
1942
Dražgoše
Southeast Croatia
Hydra
Prijedor
Nanos
Trio
Chetnik sabotage of Axis communication lines
Montenegro
Kozara
Partisan Long March
Kupres
Livno
Alfa
Kopaonik
Bihać
1943
Case White
Greenwood–Rootham
Otto
Fungus
Hoathley 1
Case Black
Typical
Zvornik
Davidson
Grčarice
Turjak Castle
Maclean
Višegrad
Bombing of Podgorica
Bombing of Zadar
Delphin
Rogers
Kugelblitz
Kočevje
1944
Maibaum
Bombing of Belgrade
Raid on Šolta
Dafoe
Lindsay
Rösselsprung
Andrijevica
Halyard
Ožbalt
Ratweek
Serbia
Belgrade
Niš
Stracin–Kumanovo
Vukov Klanac
Bregalnitsa–Strumica
Kosovo
Syrmian Front
Floxo
Niš airspace incident
Batina
Knin
1945
Trnovo
Mostar
Bombing of Zagreb
Spring Awakening
Transdanubian Hills
Lika-Primorje
Nagykanizsa-Körmend
Sarajevo
Lijevče Field
Trieste
Zelengora
Poljana
Odžak
Axis occupation of Serbia
Hungarian occupation
Kosovo during World War II
World War II in the Slovene Lands
World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia
Air warfare in Yugoslavia
Allied bombing campaign
Operation Floxo was an intervention by the British army in Yugoslavia in October 1944, during the Second World War.[1] The operation's main objective was to aid Yugoslav Partisans, led by Marshal Tito, in preventing the German withdrawal from Greece and Albania via Montenegro, and "to give the greatest possible artillery support to the Yugoslav National Army of Liberation".[2]
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